We’ve Open Source Shared our Non-profit 501(c)(3) Application!
The Future of Our World is Open Source!
We’re happy to announce that we have finally made the time to open source share our non profit application and experience of filing it! On our “How to Start a Non Profit Organization: Open Source Sharing What One Community Filed for Ours” page you will find the details of our filing as well as links to PDFs of all of the documents required by the IRS for a 501(c)(3) non profit organization filing including: Articles of Incorporation, Bylaws, 1023 Application and Attachments, Residency Agreement, and more. When you visit that page you will also see that it links to this page as a source of additional valuable resources.
As a side note, it was quite a walk down memory lane re-reading all of that information before posting it here. A LOT has evolved and expanded in the past year with our mission and purpose.
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One Community’s Newest Ethosolution Feature: Wikipedia – Setting Knowledge Free!
One Community is happy to announce the feature of Wikipedia as our newest ethosolution idea.
The free information service Wikipedia offers is arguably the most incredible information access and sharing service the world has ever seen, all for free online, and provided for selfless and helpful reasons without advertising, open source so anyone can contribute, and so that with a computer has access. As one of the leaders for ideas like this, Wikipedia has already created huge positive changes in our world in its contribution to the amount, organization and ease of access, and collaborative interaction with the information we as a species have access to. On top of that, Wikipedia is a true demonstration of what happens when people work together for the good of the whole, creating an on-going, ever evolving and free online source to access all the information any of us could ever need.
CLICK HERE TO VISIT THE ETHOSOLUTION PAGE AND LEARN MORE
Open Source Sustainable Food Systems Update
We’ve been busy with infrastructure design details! Here are the initial layouts and aquaponics and walipini combination designs called aquapinis. The three walipini food production systems we will demonstrate as Phase I of the One Community self-sustainable food production plan are:
- Walipini Greenhouses: These will be used as traditional soil growing areas to grow things we can’t grow in the other greenhouses including trees for year-round production. In support of our open source goals these greenhouses will provide the most affordable and simple option for people to duplicate.
- Large-scale Production Aquapinis: These will be aquapinis purposed for maximum food volume production of the foods we need the most. In support of our open source goals these will demonstrate and share a model for commercial use and impoverished areas most in need of large-scale quality food production utilizing very little water.
- Diversity and Aesthetic Aquapinis: These aquapinis are designed to demonstrate maximum food diversity, space utilization through a combination of growing methods including aquaponics, and provide a small space for just enjoying the environment. In support of our open source goals these combination aquapinis are purposed to provide a food production system that will inspire a person to want to build it in their backyard as a way to produce a volume and diversity of food for all their family and friends (and several additional families) while also creating an aesthetically pleasing place to go and sit in nature and comfortably read a book during the coldest months of winter. As we continue to design these we are exploring a combination of water features, sitting area designs, and other options to make them both functional and beautiful. We are also building these with the long-term intent to demonstrate that we can convert them into walipini permaculture environments once the higher production levels of the aquaponics are no longer needed due to permaculture and the other sustainable food production facilities incorporated into each of the Pods.
For more information and details on our open source food systems integrating aquapini, aquaponics and walipini designs (including links to our complete design notes, food production details, etc.) visit:
CONSULTANTS ON OUR AQUAPONICS DESIGNS
Avery Ellis: Aquaponics Specialist and owner/operator of Integrated Aquaponics
The drawings below are now in the hands of one of our architect consultants:
Douglas Simms Stenhouse: Architect and Water Color Artist (see: transparentwatercolor.com)
This is the layout integrating initial layout drawings with Avery’s sketchup designs. Doug will now be looking at this with an architects eye to improve aesthetics, water catchment and flow, air flow and venting, heat retention and utilization, accessibility, space conservation, etc.
Integration of Initial Layout Drawings with Avery’s Sketchup Designs – Click Image to Enlarge
Aquapini and Walipini Above Grade Layout Drawings – Click Image to Enlarge
Aquapini and Walipini Below-Grade Layout Drawings – Click Image to Enlarge
For more information and details on our open source food systems integrating aquapini, aquaponics and walipini designs (including links to our complete design notes, food production details, etc.) visit:
Sustainability Non Profit Site Update
Along with all the infrastructure details that are moving forward (more updates coming here this week), One Community has been in the process of updating our sustainability non-profit site to create an overview site because this site is becoming increasingly difficult to navigate as we produce more and more open source content. Looking into the future we see this overview site as being our primary site that we refer people to that will help people understand what One Community is before they dig deeper into the much more comprehensive open source blueprint site (this one).
SUSTAINABILITYNONPROFIT.ORG
There are two reasons for creating and updating sustainabilitynonprofit.org. The first is that feedback we receive is consistently a combination of appreciation for the level of detail we present and overwhelm due to this same level of detail. Because of this we are adding the image below to the foundational pages of this website to help people who like less information while maintaining all the work we have invested for those who like more information.
TOO MUCH INFO LINK:
On the overview site we are adding a similar image and link to more quickly connect people seeking more information to the expanded pages of this site.
GIVE ME MORE INFO LINK:
THE OTHER REASON(S) FOR THESE UPDATES
The other reason for the new site updates is the application of hundreds of hours of SEO research that we have done for a $10,000 per month internet marketing grant (click here for details on our marketing engine) that we are benefitting from. Applying what has amounted to researching almost 500,000 keywords associated with sustainability, we have created massive adwords campaigns and also optimized the new site with the most relevant of these words. All current and future marketing efforts now point to this site so people can more easily understand One Community before diving into this site that will eventually grow to be 1,000’s of pages.
Sustainabilitynonprofit.org is also much more specifically communicating our message of global change and how we are working to usher in a new golden age of innovation, cooperation, collaboration, and global conscious focus on creating and living for The Highest Good of All.
COMPARING THE TWO SITES
If you’d like to compare a few of the pages, here are the ones we have completed thus far:
| SustainabilityNonProfit.org | …….. | OneCommunityRanch.org |
| About One Community | About One Community | |
| Physical Sustainability | Physical Sustainability | |
| Emotional Sustainability | Emotional Sustainability |
Center of Peace Eco-Hot Tub and Natural Pool Design Progress Update and Pictures
The SEGO Center City Hub will arguably be One Community’s most important buildings and is purposed to demonstrate cutting-edge sustainability, to function as the community recreation center, dining hall, and laundry facility, and to offer a green-luxury option to donors, major eco-investors, VIPs, or anyone else that might not feel like they are initially ready to stay in one of our earthbag or straw bale hand-constructed homes. It will also replace individual kitchens, laundry rooms, and living rooms for One Community residents.
Eco Hot Tub and Natural Pool Design
A key aspect of the SEGO Center that we are excited to develop and open source free-share are our designs for an eco hot tub and natural swimming pool. To make this possible we are working with Jennifer Engelmeier (Eco-pool and Spa Specialist and founder of www.LoveYourPool.com), Meg West (Landscape Architect, Permaculturalist, and founder of Leaf Landscape), and LEED AP Team Aravind Batra (Electrical Engineer, LEED AP, Principal of P2S Engineering) and James Del Monaco (Mechanical Engineer, LEED AP, Sustainability director of P2S Engineering).
With a desire for maximum diversity, duplicability, and open source content creation, we are working together to design the eco hot tub to commercial code and standards, and the natural swimming pool to residential code and standards. This will allow us to explore, demonstrate, and open source free-share the process for both an eco-pool and eco hot tub design, and both residential and commercial codes (designing to California Code standards for maximum duplicability), all assisting us in providing what we believe will evolve into the most comprehensive and detailed open source and free-shared plans available for both.
Here are a few initial concept pictures:
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The eco hot tub will occupy the central area of the SEGO Center and the natural swimming pool is being designed to function as an indoor and outdoor pool with an indoor waterfall and the ability to swim under the wall to transition from outside to inside. The picture below demonstrates this but we are now in the process of updating the designs such that the pool is also centrally located and close to the hot tub.
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SEGO Center Level 1 CAD Screenshot
For more information visit:
The Center of Peace Details Page
Foundational Natural Pool and Eco Hut Tub Designers:
Jennifer Engelmeier: Eco-pool and Spa Specialist and founder of www.LoveYourPool.com
Meg West: Landscape Architect, Permaculturalist, and founder of Leaf Landscape
Additional thanks to our overall design team:
Andrew Sadera: Architect Drafter and Designer
Douglas Simms Stenhouse: Architect and Water Color Artist (see: transparentwatercolor.com)
Karl Harris: Architect Drafter, Designer, and founder of KH Designs
Welcome Consultant Jennifer Engelmeier – Eco Spa and Pool Specialist
One Community is happy to welcome Jennifer Engelmeier, Eco-pool and Spa Specialist, to the One Community Consultant Team. Jennifer has 15 years of experience working with DEL Ozone, specializing in reducing chemicals by utilizing ozone technology and other natural water purifiers and clarifiers. In 2011 Jennifer started her own business to help people searching for better, healthier water and now operates LoveYourHotTub.com and LoveYourPool.com. Through her years of working in the industry, Jen combines a wealth of experience with an extensive community of pool, spa, and sanitation experts helping us design the Center of Peace natural pool, jacuzzi, and laundry facility to minimize environmental impact while maximizing water quality, health, and safety.
For more information on the Pool and Spa Designs Jennifer is helping us with, visit our Center of Peace Details Page.
