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Andrew Sadera – Architect Drafter and Student: Andrew is a student of architecture with 5 years architecture drafting experience. For the past two years Andrew has operated Sadera Designs with experience covering everything from room additions, T.I.’s, custom homes, to new buildings.  He is the president of the architecture club at his school and has his associates degree in architecture, architectural drafting, CAD and eco building.  With a passion for architecture, sustainable living, and building greener environments and buildings, Andrew is helping  One Community with the Center of Peace evolution.

Avery Ellis – Ecological Designer and Aquaponics Specialist: Avery has a Masters of Ecological Design through SFIA, a BS in Biology from Stockton College, and a Permaculture Design and Teaching Certificate from High Altitude Permaculture in Colorado where he runs an aquaponics business called Integrated Aquaponics. Avery has always dreamed of being a part of an ecovillage from its earliest roots to a productive community and has joined the One Community Consultant Team as a contributor to our aquaponics and greenhouse development with a pledge and desire to join us on the property for several weeks to help with building them too.

Biko Casini – Sustainable Building Expert, Permaculturalist, and Journeyman Mason: Biko was trained at a young age in masonry by his father Francesco Casini whom he worked with growing up and restoring plantation homes and churches in the South. Biko then spent years as a student and employee at the Ecovillage Training Center where he worked with many natural builders and permaculturalists to design and build the ETC campus. He also studied sustainable building and development in South Africa at the Thlolego Development Project and recently completed a 3-month internship at the Cal-Earth Institute of Art and Architecture in California. With 16 years of natural building experience, Biko  has built with Stone, Cob, Straw Bale, Adobe, Straw Clay Slip, and Cord Wood in the US,  South Africa, Italy, India, and Ghana and offers his expertise with the diversity of One Community Pod designs.

Bill Pike – Entrepreneur and Philanthropist: Bill has been an achiever all his life, starting with award winning and record breaking across 4 sports growing up including quarter-back in football, point guard in basketball, record setting pole vaulter, and second baseman in baseball. After graduating college on the GI Bill, he started working with Elba Systems Corporation as a salesman, rose to president, and then owner where he took Elba onto the NY Stock exchange where his leadership created more than 100 millionaires.

A family man with 40 years of marriage and 2 adopted children, Bill now heads The Pike Foundation to work with kids in the inner cities, is helping build over 100 homes in Haiti, a home for unwed mothers in Branson Missouri, water wells in Africa, a dorm for girls in Moldova to keep them from the sex trade, and more.

Bob Alexander – Sustainable Designer and Consultant: Bob has a long history of working with nature and natural building. With over 15 years of drafting experience he co-founded the Espanola/Los Alamos New Mexico Chapter of Habitat for Humanity and operates LX&R Design specializing in designs incorporating Passive Solar Adobe, Straw Bale, Pumice-crete, Paper-crete and Light-weight Concrete Block. As a consultant to the One Community team, Bob is helping us by sharing his knowledge and experience as we work towards an increasingly more diverse demonstration of sustainable building methods and models. To see some of Bob’s most recent designs through LX&R Design, click here.

Dr. Connie Stomper – Consensus Trainer, Team Building Facilitator, Curriculum Developer and Educator for Elementary Schools to Graduate Programs, Organizational Consultant, Counselor and Minister of Peace:  Dr. Connie has double masters and doctoral degrees in both Education and Psychology and Spiritual Science.  With her commitment to facilitating individual and world peace, she has worked with organizations such as Peace Theological Seminary, Insight University, A World Fit For Kids, United Youth International.  Her peace work has led her to visiting nearly 30 countries.  In her work with The Community Planet Foundation, she co-created and facilitates training in consciousness of Community and consensus decision-making. Dr. Connie has helped facilitate the consensus training process many of the One Community Pioneers have already completed and is committed to assisting us in our continued progress towards demonstrating a peaceful and consensus-based new way of living. To learn more about Connie and her work, visit her Soul Musings Website.

Joel Goings – Business Development and Implementation Expert: Joel has initiated and cultivated relationships with majority stock holders of over 350 privately held companies through his unique ability to identify and engage a target audience through the simplification of complicated concepts and a gift for creating and improving forward looking strategies. In his free time Joel has refined the process of drawing an online audience from inspiration to action, resulting in over 300+ events.Joel has also been, and continues to be, a foundational part of the creation, refinement, and evolution of One Community by applying his distinctive skills to help us better communicate our message and engage the people that One Community resonates with most.

John Chambers – Earth Builder Consulting with us on Pod 1: Born in Portsmouth, England. John is a nomadic green builder/designer committed to learning and applying the principles of living with a developed degree of responsibility and accountability for human impact. He has worked in South East Asia and Central America and now shares his knowledge and gifts in North America having completed his training in 2010 at the California Institute of Earthen Art and Architecture and then gaining considerable experience through 7 months of full-time building, designing, and living in Super-Adobe as a full crew/community member on the Bonita Domes Project in Joshua Tree, CA.

Josh Davis – Website Designer and Graphic Artist: Josh is a self taught web and graphic designer operating Digital Empathy Design, a website dedicated to integrated body-mind-spirit and technology solutions. He also founded and directs The Human Mandala Project, an initiative designed to help join people in communities of all kinds by creating sacred geometric forms with human bodies, capturing them digitally for reflection.  Josh provides invaluable support for One Community on the technology side and has been foundational in the creation of our internet presence.

JP Novak – Renewable Energy and Power Backup Systems Designer:  JP currently works at Native Construction and Renewables and has a four year degree from James Madison University in Business Finance (’03) and also holds certification by the National Association for Board Certified Energy Practitioners (NABCEP) for designing and installing solar photovoltaic (PV) systems. With a passion for sustainability, community and family, JP (email him) sees reducing electric bills and our reliance on central electric utilities as essential and most easily accomplished by focusing on practical, reliable, and productive renewable energy and backup power systems. In his free time, JP likes spending time with family, organizing community building events, studying energy architecture, writing educational pieces on renewables for both the novice and expert readers, and helping One Community with our energy infrastructure and the Center of Peace evolution.

Kyle Rodgers– Direct and Face to Face Marketing Expert – Kyle started his sales and marketing experience when he was 14 and has been in sales ever since including success and leadership in what is arguably the most difficult sales environment available: door to door sales. With a true gift and love of relationship building and sales, Kyle is now a Telecommunications Regional Sales Manager and shares the vision and goals of One Community. A solid proponent of resource based economy development and open source sharing, Kyle has spent countless hours on the phone with Jae learning the details of One Community and our world changing vision and now operates in a supportive sales and marketing role as we continue to grow and spread our shared vision and values.

Lorenzo Zjalarre – Physicist and Energy Efficiency Expert: After having completed 4-years of education at the USAF Academy in Colorado Springs, Lorenzo first started as a physicist in support of NASA Space Shuttle missions at Johnson Space Center in Houston, TX; later continuing his government work as a nuclear remediation consultant for the Environmental Protection Agency at Rocky Flats, CO. Taking this experience to the next level, Lorenzo has spent the last 4 years studying all forms of alternative energy with specific interest in the more exotic technologies where he knows the potential exists to completely eliminate the use of fossil fuels. For over a year, Lorenzo has been foundational to leading the alternative energy development aspect of One Community with the shared vision of creating a complete city that pioneers and showcases the most cutting edge sustainable energy technologies of our time.

Dr. Mark Sabol – Transformational Educator: After years as a joyous father and co-founder and operator of a preschool daycare, Mark realized at age 38 that his purpose in life was to include children, teaching, and learning at an even more significant level. He completed his B.A. in Early Childhood and Elementary Education in 1991 and began teaching in public schools. He now also holds a M.Ed. in Curriculum and Instruction and a PhD in Educational Leadership and Policy Studies from University of Washington. Although he spent 7 years coordinating a family-literacy program for his school district, the classroom is Mark’s first love and he happily brings his decades of experience as a consultant to the developing One Community education program.

Matt Richards – Permaculture Expert, Community Veteran, and Online Media Professional: Matthew graduated from UCSB with a degree in anthropology in 1991. He then went into the online media world to assist building a number of companies that helped to fuel the explosion of the internet. After spending 8 years in silicon valley, he left to take on a new challenge: Sustainability. He spent the next three years immersing himself in everything related to sustainable economics, communities and permaculture. Matthew received his permaculture design certificate in the UK in 2009 and went on to practice permaculture at many locations around the world including a Sepp Holzer project (Tamera, Portugal), in Sadhana forest (Auroville, India), and most recently under Geoff Lawton and the Permaculture Research Institute in Australia. Matthew’s has been foundational in helping design and plan both One Community’s aquaponics designs as well as our watercatchment and conservation plans.

Meg West – Landscape Architect, LEED AP, Permaculturalist, and Green Building Instructor:  Meg is a licensed Landscape Architect whose work is dedicated to merging aesthetics and function. Her genuine passion for sustainable design informs every aspect of her work. In 2009, she founded Leaf Landscape, a division of Arcadia Studio. She hosts “Garden Wise Television Santa Barbara County,” a public access TV show about sustainable gardening. Meg is also an instructor at UCSB extension, where she teaches Fire Smart Landscaping, Native and Edible Plants, and Sustainable Landscape Design.  Meg’s dream is to live in an eco-village community near her home in Santa Barbara and sees helping One Community create the open source blueprints for such a community as supportive of this dream and her commitment to a sustainable planet for all. To this end, Meg is sharing her expertise and helping One Community with our site planning and has pledged to join us for a couple weeks to further share her experience once we are on the property.

Michael Doll – Eco-Architect, Artisan and Virtual Design Expert: Michael operates Studio M Doll where he works to demonstrate that carbon neutrality architecture has a significant role in providing enclosure that is in tune with nature. With an amazing list of architectural accomplishments, Michael shares One Community’s values of sustainability, dedication to unique architecture that breaks away from traditional values, people over profit, and helping to make the world a better place; bringing his years of experience as a consultant to our project with a willingness to help us by answering questions and providing guidance as needed for development and implementation of our open source eco-building strategy for world change.

Michael Harbin – Mechanical Engineer: Michael graduated Cum Laude from the University of Florida with his Mechanical Engineering degree and is currently WWOOFing as his chosen form of sustainability immersion and continued education. Michael has always been mechanically inclined and has a history of home building helping his father build homes as part of his grandfather’s business and gaining further experience with the mechanics of designing a house, how to analyze a design and quickly ascertain whether the house is structurally sound, and how to improve a design to incorporate eco-friendly elements. With a shared vision for global change and a sustainable future for humanity, Michael has pledged to help where needed now (Pod 1, aquaponics design, etc.) and may also be joining us as a Pioneer at a later date.

Mike Devloo – Licensed P.E./Civil Engineer: Mike lives in Colorado, USA, and has enjoyed a diverse career path exploring since 2007 a broad spectrum of opportunities from construction writing, to sustainable building design and construction, to teaching, to raft guiding in India. Mike enjoys an outdoor lifestyle and is an avid cyclist, kayaker, snowboarder, and traveler, always ready for a new adventure. Professional interests include: English Spanish Construction communication (click here for Mike’s website), Engineering, and outdoor film. Mike has joined the One Community Consulting Team assisting us with the engineering requirements for the Center of Peace and Pod 1.