A new way of living for the highest good of all

“In order to change an existing paradigm, you do not struggle to try and change the problematic model. You create a new model and make the old one obsolete. That, in essence, is the higher service to which we are all being called.”

– Buckminster Fuller

There are many challenges that we are facing in the world today. Humanity’s home, planet earth, is in jeopardy.  And as time goes on, the issues continue to rise at a rapid rate, even accelerating to the point that many of us may have lost hope.

There are people in this country who are struggling to keep their homes, their jobs, pay their power bills, and feed their families. Millions around the world are homeless, without power, and starving to death at a rate of over 40,000 people a day.

But instead of echoing what a growing number have been saying for years, we want to focus on a solution and believe that the future we want tomorrow is not only possible, but that we already have all the resources necessary to make it happen. Now it’s up to us to join hands, lock arms, and collaborate on a new way of living, one that strives for the highest good of all.

To help facilitate the shift from where we are now to what we know is possible, One Community (a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization) was formed after 15 years of planning, with the mission to provide what is necessary for the re-creation of this world as a cooperative of self-sufficient and sustainable communities. Their path to accomplishing such a lofty goal? To demonstrate and inspire.

Firmly believing in the possibility of sustainable world development, One Community sees a working model as resource efficient, zero waste, and holistic living, with widespread appeal as the key to launching global change like never before.

What makes One Community truly different from existing intentional communities is a commitment to inviting the world to participate and creating what they feel is essential to widespread appeal: It should be affordable, applicable across a diversity of cultures, easily accessible, created so that normal people with average knowledge and little or no experience can duplicate it, be packaged with an transformative education program for all ages, and it must have a marketing engine capable of exposing enough people to build the necessary momentum for it to continue on its own.

With a 4-point strategy for accomplishment, this is what One Community is creating, and they are open source sharing (free sharing) everything they do so others can follow in their footsteps and evolve it all even further.

Swiftly moving forward now, they spent two years to find the perfect property, a year building the necessary relationships with the county, are 2 years into architectural planning and development details, and are now focusing on completing their think tank of world-change-dedicated people, with the hope to move onto the property and immediately break ground in 2013.

Keeping to their open-source sharing purpose and communicating with as many like-minded and forward-thinking groups, communities, and organizations as possible, they have been partnering, expanding their network, and free-sharing and giving away everything they create throughout their process of being the change they want to see. As a demonstration of early success, they are happy to say that this has already led to the formation of a “first wave” of communities with shared ideas of living for The Highest Good of All Concerned, launching websites and beginning the creation process with the help of what One Community has already accomplished and is providing.

One Community is not just another community for sustainability, it is a new way of living For The Highest Good of All and open source think tank of demonstrating solutions that will be able to be duplicated and evolved collaboratively with the rest of the world as we collectively usher in a new Golden Age of civilization.

For more information and on-going updates visit: www.sustainabilitynonprofit.org or just google “One Community.”

(Tony Hua and Jae Sabol are two of the founding members of One Community. Tony manages and operates the marketing and open source web optimization and Jae is the Executive Director and overall coordinator of the One Community project. Combined they have over 18 years invested in this vision for an open source blueprint and modeling of a better world for everyone. The best way to reach them is through the www.sustainabilitynonprofit.org website.)

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5 responses to “A new way of living for the highest good of all”

  1. mewabe Avatar
    mewabe

    This is the way!…Not “tweaking” the existing paradigm, but creating a new one and leading from the ground up!
    Thank you for publishing this very important information.

  2. mewabe Avatar
    mewabe

    On second thought, after having read the info on your website, I have some problems with your approach, which is by no mean unique among intentional communities, unfortunately.

    Here is the list of your requirements to become a member:

    -Please be drug and smoking free
    -Please have above average health
    -Please no pets (click here for our pets page)
    -Please be financially stable and self-sufficient
    -Please read and complete our One Community Agreement of Understanding
    -Please be ready and willing to invest about 10 hours a week into this project if accepted
    -Please only apply if you consider yourself accountable, responsible and possessing applicable skills
    -Please be a US Citizen because we have discovered we are unable to assist with immigration barriers
    -In the initial team, we would prefer people with one child or less, and over the age of 2 or 3

    As with most communities, it seems rather easy to create the ideal world with ideal, perfect people…

    But how do you transform the REAL world while including ALL REAL PEOPLE?
    (people who may not be in perfect health, who may not be financially stable, who may not have applicable skills, etc etc)

    Your approach is not all-inclusive towards people, it is very exclusive, and meant to create an exclusive community of somewhat privileged individuals. This is not the way to change the real world, because you skip around the real problems of the world (which all have to do with REAL people and their shortcomings and yes, their problems and their imperfect humanity.)

  3. Michael L Avatar
    Michael L

    I just had one question, but mewabe answered it.

    The only way to come to this community is to have something the community needs.

    But with a strong core base, in the future, I believe they can be more inclusive.

  4. mewabe Avatar
    mewabe

    This community, as many others, may work extremely well to demonstrate what ecologically-minded and cooperative living could be…and it could be duplicated at that level, at the technological and organizational level.

    But creating cohesive new tribes of like-minded people is not new (the Mennonites and others did it in the 19th century), and does not solve the problems humanity has with getting along in the natural context of diversity.

    I would like to see an intentional community including people who in their vast differences (and imperfections) reflect the world at large…another kind of experiment, focused on solving human, social problems…to see if it can be done, if extremely different people can get along and live in peace and harmony.

  5. Buzz Avatar
    Buzz

    All brand new designs and solutions are created by people who live in the world, know our history, see what’s working and what isn’t, then alter the paradigm to improve it. The old paradigm may not be perfect, and neither will the new one, but you shouldn’t throw out the parts that work. The opening phrase about this is misleading.
    I support them for the work they are doing, despite the imperfections in the plan. I also think Mewabe expects too much from them. They are open source distributing how they have created the community, so if a group of people who like to smoke, drink, fight, and get into BDSM want to mimic their efforts they can, and create their own little paradise on Earth.
    Tribal systems work because the members treat each other like family. A group of people who are radically different from each other would very unlikely to accept each other to this degree. It is through exclusivity that everyone finds their niche, just like in the employment sector. Those who don’t find their niche can do a menial labouring or secretarial work, and live in a boarding house, hostel, lodge or barn. This will motivate them to keep looking for their niche. Or they may be happy living like Cinderella. I don’t know. Do you?

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