One Community Welcomes Yulia Nakonechna to the One Community Pioneer Team
One Community is excited to welcome Yulia Nakonechna to the Pioneer Team. Yulia is a PhD Professor of Linguistics, Private Language Tutor, Children’s Supervisor, Facilitator, and Teacher joining the team working on our transformational education program. Yulia has spent nine years intensively studying languages and foreign literature and is fluent in Ukrainian, Russian, and English, with a basic knowledge of French and German as well. She holds a PhD in linguistics and has been teaching for Kyiv National Taras Shevchenko University since 2008. She has extensive experience with young children (aged from infancy to seven years old and more) that she has combined with her participation in a Children’s Early Development Education Program (based on Rudolph Steiner’s Waldorf School and Helen Doron’s teaching principles) helping her become an even more well-qualified children’s supervisor, facilitator, inspirer, and teacher.
Learn more about Yulia, her qualifications, and her journey to One Community on Yulia’s Pioneer Bio Page.
Learn more about the rest of the Pioneer Team, on the Pioneer Team Page.
One Community Featured on The Bridge with Jim Hamell to Discuss Open Source Sustainability
The Bridge – Jae Sabol & Lee Camp from Jim Hamell on Vimeo.
Open Source Sustainability
Jae Sabol, the Executive Director of the One Community Non-profit Organization, was interviewed by Jim Hamell for The Bridge last week to discuss open source sustainability and One Community’s part in the global open source and free-sharing movement. Topics of discussion included some of the things we are working on right now, converting the whole planet over to a collaboration of sustainable and open source communities, villages, and cities working together, solution based thinking and how it relates to both evolution and the scientific method, and how open source transcends political ideology.
Jae’s interview is the first of the two interviews and is about 25 minutes long.
Two Completed Interviews
In the past week One Community founder Jae Sabol completed two interviews about One Community and this swiftly developing open source model for self-propagating teacher/demonstration communities, villages, and eventually cities. The first was a radio show interview that is expected to play on PBPK 90.1 FM in Southern California on Friday the 15th of February and then again two weeks later on KKMJ 95.5 FM and KJCE 1370 AM out of Austin, Texas. The second was a Skype Video interview with Jim Hamell of The Bridge. Both interviews went great and we’ll be posting links here as soon as they are available.
One Community Welcomes Amber Berg to the Pioneer Team
One Community is excited to welcome our newest Pioneer, Amber Berg, to the team. Amber has dedicated her life to healthy living and the environment and has had a similar vision to One Community for over 10 years. Her diverse background of education and experience in the health and sustainability industries include a PhD of Eco-Applied Psychology, Masters of Science in Oriental Medicine, Bachelor of Arts in Animal Behavioral Psychology degree, and she is also Licensed Acupuncturist. In addition, she minored in Business and has over 6 years experience as a property manager and 5 years experience as the Chief Operations Manager of an eco-adventure activity provider in Hawaii. She has been published in the “American Acupuncturist” journal and is a Certified EMT as well.
CLICK HERE TO LEARN MORE ABOUT AMBER ON HER COMPLETE PIONEER BIO PAGE
SEGO Center Natural Pool and CAD Updated Images from This Week
The SEGO Center City Hub continues to move forward with huge help from our partners Andrew Sadera (Architect Drafter and Designer), Jennifer Engelmeier (Eco-pool and Spa Specialist and founder of www.LoveYourPool.com), Karl Harris (Architect Drafter, Designer, and founder of KH Designs), and Meg West (Landscape Architect, Permaculturalist, and founder of Leaf Landscape).
Here is the newest designs from Meg for the natural pool and eco hot tub:
Click to Visit the SEGO Center Details Page
Here are all 4 floors of the SEGO Center in CAD. We’re now working on adding the eco-hot tub and natural swimming pool shown above.
Most Recent CAD Export 1/22/2013 – Click to Enlarge
To simplify our details page we’ve also moved all the older images to a newly created page outlining this building from its very first sketches to where it is now:
THE SEGO CENTER EVOLUTION DETAILS PAGE
Ecological Sustainable Design Tool: The Sustainable Development Matrix Ethosolution
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We just finished our ethosolution feature on a great ecological sustainable design tool called the Sustainable Development Matrix. What the Sustainable Development Matrix is is a comprehensive green development strategy proposed by Sustainable Land Development International (SLDI) for ecological sustainable design for business and land development best practices implementation. We have featured this system as an ethosolution idea because the Sustainable Development Matrix provides a structure for a triple-bottom-line (people, planet and profit) ecological sustainable design tool that is:
- Both sustainable and holistic in its approach
- Simple and applicable to virtually any project, product, or development
- Designed with a “Pass it Forward” philosophy that is cohesive with our own open source foundation
ECOLOGICAL SUSTAINABLE DESIGN
The Sustainable Development Matrix ecological sustainable design tool is founded on a belief that for anything to sustain itself over time, it must optimize or balance each of the following human needs:
- Utility – the “satisfaction,” “incentive,” “desire,” or “pure state” that is to be attained.
- Effectiveness – doing the “right” things with accuracy and completeness.
- Efficiency – achieving the lowest possible input/output ratio.
At its most basic level, sustainable development incorporates these instructions through the broad concepts of People, Planet and Profit. Profit represents the utility to be attained; Planet represents efficiency and the understanding of limited resources; People represents the opportunity for effectiveness. To embody these instructions visually, the Sustainable Development Matrix is represented as a three-sided fractal geometric figure called Sierpinski’s (equilateral) Triangle. Beginning with “The Whole” being “Sustainable Development,” the matrix visually represents green development strategy penetration deeper and deeper into all aspects of project decision-making.
As the matrix goes deeper, the basic instruction of optimizing/balancing utility, efficiency and effectiveness continues to replicate itself. Within the Profit triad for example, utility is manifested through the Create Value principle, efficiency through the Eliminate Waste principle, and effectiveness through the Recognize Interdependence principle. Similarly, the Planet triad is comprised of a Model Nature principle to represent utility, an Energy Flows principle for efficiency, and a Humans and Nature Co-Exist principle for the effectiveness requirement. The People triad includes a Quality of Life principle for utility, a Share Knowledge principle for efficiency, and an Accept Responsibility principle for effectiveness.
Click Image to Visit the Sustainable Development Matrix Ethosolution Page
- Read a complete summary of this tool in our ethosolution feature of the Sustainable Development Matrix
- Here is the link to the complete Fractal Frontier – Sustainable Development Trilogy along with their request to share your reflections and experiences with the original authors, so they may in turn also share them with others to help achieve a sustainable future for us all even faster.
