One Community Partners

One Community seeks to create and strengthen win-win relationships with other ethosolutions throughout the world. Here are a list of our partners in demonstrating the solutions to the issues of our day so that we can create a better tomorrow. Additional gratitude goes out to our several partners that prefer to remain anonymous – thank you guys too!

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OUR PARTNERS ~ WORKING TOGETHER FOR WORLD CHANGE

Auroville Earth Institute (Richard) www.earth-auroville.com

Richard has been working to become a master builder using compressed stabilized earth blocks (CSEB) and is affiliated with the Auroville Earth Institute through his teacher Sat Prem (Auroville’s founder). Richard is also a part of the Instituto Tierra y Cal (ITyC), a group developing the technologies of aquifer replenishment and rainwater harvesting, permaculture, organic agriculture, and energy harvesting. Richard is going to India for four months to build with earth blocks and will be returning to share his extensive knowledge and experience to help us in the spring with creating the earth blocks and design details of the Pyramid Pod 6.

The Community Planet Foundation (Jack) www.communityplanet.org

From The Community Planet Foundation Website: “The new paradigm can only be created by a group of people who come from a loving place inside themselves, absolutely hold the consciousness of the Highest Good For All, and have the vision to bring that into manifestation. People need to see that there is another way, that we don’t have to continue doing the separation that has bred this everyone-for-themselves approach that has been in place unquestioned for thousands of years. People need to see a Community of people who adopt a way of living together and relating together in Community on the principle of the Highest Good For All. When people see the quality of life and the ecological balance that is possible, they will also want to learn the consciousness and the form it takes to do that, and this is what will ultimately transform the planet.” One Community is purposed to demonstrate exactly that and The Community Planet Foundation is helping us through information sharing, trainings, and any other support they can provide to help us all achieve our shared vision for the betterment of the entire human organism.

Creative Crafthouse (David) www.creativecrafthouse.com | www.puzzlecrafthouse.com

Creative Crafthouse is a family business and home of one of the largest selections of handcrafted wood brain teaser mind-bender puzzles in the world. We have partnered with Creative Crafthouse to incorporate their puzzles into our education program as fun ways to teach math, logic, creativity, problem solving, social skills and cooperation, and more. As part of their partnership with One Community, Creative Crafthouse has also pledged to work with us in bringing to market our own educational puzzles and toys as we develop them. They have also created a 10% discount code for anyone associated with One Community. (just enter coupon code: ONECOMMUNITY)

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NaturalBuildingBlog.com | EarthBagBuilding.com (Dr. Geiger & Kelly Hart)

Dr. Owen Geiger (Ph.D. in Social and Economic Development) is the former Director of Builders Without Borders and an author, engineer and licensed contractor specializing in sustainable construction. Kelly Hart is the host of www.greenbuilding.com and www.dreamgreenhomes.com and has built his own home using the earthbag technique and produced a video about it titled “Building with Bags: How We Made Our Experimental Earthbag/Papercrete House.” Together Dr. Geiger and Kelly operate the three amazing sites above dedicated to earthbag structures and the sharing of information about natural building. Partnering with these two amazing contributors to the forward movement of sustainable building to help each other share and promote its evolution is a natural and obvious win-win-win relationship that One Community is grateful to be a part of.

Dome Incorporated (Blair) www.domeincorporated.com

Dome Incorporated and Blair Wolfram have partnered with One Community to build the SEGO Center City Hub. Blair has been building geodesic domes since 1982 and will have completed over 500 domes by the end of this year. His company provides engineering, blueprints, site plans, and even the cut lines so people can make their own panels. He has the experience and infrastructure for shipping domes anywhere in the world and has completed engineering for his standard domes that meet the extreme 150 mph hurricane wind requirements in coastal Florida as well as the worst urban snow load conditions of 120 psf in Buffalo, NY.

Earth Builder – Natasha Clarke (click here for pictures of Natasha’s Earthdome Build)

Natasha is an experienced Earthbuilder, Herbalist, and Wild Crafter Artist of Bags and Benches who has spent her life assimilating and sharing a diversity of creative and artistic skills all over the world from interactive art in Amsterdam and Moscow with Raylab, to constructing a solar/pedal/sail 19′ trimaran through a partnership with Nomadic Research Labs, to building her own super adobe dome on her land on Camano Island. As a partner with One Community, Natasha has pledged to bring her earth bag building experience and knowledge to help us for the first few weeks of building Pod 1.

Earthen Hand Natural Building (Scott) www.earthenhand.com

Earthen Hand Natural Building was founded by Scott in 2002 with the goals to create amazing earthen structures and empower people by training them in natural building practices. Scott has an amazing portfolio and offers through his company educational courses in earthen architecture as well as services in sustainable building design, consultation, and construction. With a shared commitment to moving the sustainability industry forward and producing open source content, One Community and Scott will be collaborating to provide sustainable building classes on a diversity of sustainable building techniques and topics.

Eco Built Systems (Casey) www.ecobuiltsystems.com

Eco Built Systems is a manufacturer of modular green homes, domes, green building products and organic agricultural systems (aquaponics) that is partnered with One Community in collaboration and creation of our aquaponics systems and tropical dome that is the center piece of Pod 1. They specialize in producing modular green buildings designed for affordability, efficiency, and disaster resistance while building with non-toxic natural, renewable and recycled resources and materials. Casey is also the founder of the Green Society Association, a collaboration of persons, businesses, and organizations working together to create local and global support systems that develop sustainable resource based communities just like ours.

Grow Utah First (John) www.growutahfirst.com

Grow Utah First is a synthesis of sustainable building practices such as building with recycled materials like tires, glass, and earth-filled bags, and growing techniques including hydroponic, aeroponic, and aquaponic systems aiming to create the most efficient, sustainable, and nutritious food possible. John is currently building and testing an aquaponics model and other sustainable building methods in Salt Lake City.

Hestia Home Biogas (Warren) www.hestiahomebiogas.com

Hestia Home Biogas offers home biogas digesters, complete do-it-yourself plans for construction with classes on operation and setup, as well as biogas peripherals such as cooktops, pumps, heaters and electric generators. Biogas and anaerobic digestion is an important part of a sustainable future for generating 100% natural, clean-burning energy, improving human health through pathogen reduction and odor control and sustainable agriculture by producing high-quality nitrogen-rich fertilizer and soil amendment that can replace inorganic fertilizers. One Community will be working with Warren and Hestia Home Biogas to help spread correct information about biogas use and setup through our open source model while providing real-world examples through exploration of its application starting with Pod 1.

Imagine Wisdom Education – I WE (Anna) www.imaginewisdomeducation-iwe.org

The mission of IMAGINE WISDOM EDUCATION (IWE) is to offer a loving and enriching education that nurtures children to realize their greatest potential. Learners ask: “Who am I, what are my gifts and how can I contribute?” This discovery of the self serves as a transforming catalyst, turning play into the pursuit of wholeness and peaceful leadership, for children learn best when they are known, explore their passions and engage all their senses. Anna will be visiting the property and living with us for a couple weeks to help train our teachers in the I WE method as part of One Community’s collaboration with I WE. Visit the Education Infrastructure Page for more details on our partnership with I WE.

Integrated Aquaponics (Avery) www.integratedaquaponics.net

Integrated Aquaponics is operated by Avery, who also co-operates a company called Backyard Revolutions, designing large-scale aquaponics systems as well as designing and teaching people how to implement small-scale agriculture and community revival projects including backyard chickens and fish, composting and mulching, vermicomposting, gardens, etc. to help spread sustainable food systems. Integrated Aquaponics and One Community are happy to be working together and combining experience and talent as we share the same ecological values and world vision in collaboration on the One Community Food Infrastructure.

Open Source Ecology (Marcin) www.opensourceecology.org

Open Source Ecology is a network of farmers, engineers, and supporters creating The Global Village Construction Set (GVCS), an open technological platform that allows for the easy fabrication of the 50 different industrial machines that it takes to build a small civilization with modern comforts. They are without a doubt the #1 company in the world sharing our One Community open source values and goals and we are happy to partner with them in our mutual goal to teach and empower the evolving Do-it-yourself Maker Culture capable of transcending artificial scarcity. As we develop and share our open source blueprints for food, energy, and housing, we will also be building with their blueprints and guidance as many of the machines we need as possible, and are happily already helping to promote each others success as we work together facilitating the on-going global shift.

P2S Engineering (Aravind and James) www.p2seng.com

P2S Engineering is a full-service mechanical, electrical, plumbing, energy, commissioning and technology engineering firm. Excelling in sustainable building models P2S has demonstrated excellence in designing a number of green buildings that employ efficient systems, renewable power sources, minimize natural resources and offer reduced operation and maintenance costs. With 50% of their technical staff as Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) Accredited Professionals, P2S maintains a firm-wide passion to provide sustainable solutions and expertise in high-performance green building projects. P2S is helping One Community by applying their extensive sustainable experience to create a sustainable design for the proposed SEGO Center City Hub.

Paradigm Innovators (Scott) www.paradigminnovators.com

Paradigm Innovators is operated by Scott Balcom, a master builder, framer, and finisher with 30 years hands on experience including building with adobe, rammed earth, foam block and 5 years of straw bale homes. His construction has been featured in both The Straw Bale House and The Beauty of Straw Bale Homes and one of his homes was one of the very first permitted straw bale houses in the country. With a lifetime of experience thinking out of the box, Scott’s passion now is in addressing the issues of “the perpendicular paradigm” of architecture and building and he has spent the last several years in the development of “Non-linear Building Techniques” that mimic nature; partnering with One Community to help bring these revolutionary techniques and decades of experience in both traditional and sustainable building to help us incorporate the best of all three worlds into the design and evolution of One Community’s Pod 1, Pod 2, and beyond.

Pulau Macan Village and Eco Resort (Roderick) www.pulaumacan.com

Pulau Macan is an eco-village and resort founded and operated on the same principles as One Community: low impact living, eco-learning center, demonstration of natural health principles, harmonious living with nature, and functioning eco-village/resort. By combining forces with Pulau Macan we help each other with open source sharing and development of sustainability knowledge combined with collaborative eco-business building. One Community will be helping Pulau Macan and its partners to more effectively open source share information and “Best Practice” approaches to living and planetary stewardship through our established websites and internet marketing team and infrastructure while Pulau Macan will be helping One Community through their extensive experience running an already successful eco-village and eco-tourism destination.

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Rocky Mountain Enterprises, Inc. (Steven) www.thepersonalpowerplant.com

Steven and Rocky Mountain Enterprises, Inc. have created the Personal Power Plant, a hybrid renewable energy generator combining a double solar array with a wind turbine and battery pack to produce clean energy 24/7, 365. What makes Steven and his company even more special is his willingness to share his expertise on solar gained from years of research to create the best product possible, his integrity, and his dedication to providing quality and value. Steven eats, sleeps, and breathes green and is even willing to help with local production of his designs to eliminate shipping and reduce everyone’s carbon footprint.