One Community
SEGO Center Integration of Natural Pond Pool, Eco Hot Tub, and Changing Rooms
The newly named SEGO Center continues to move forward extremely fast. 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 Harris Design & Technology Services), and Meg West (Landscape Architect, Permaculturalist, and founder of Meg West Design) have worked together to finalize the placement of the natural pond pool, eco hot tub, changing rooms, and rinse stations for maximum aesthetic beauty, sustainable re-use of water, and ease of use.
SEGO CENTER NATURAL SWIMMING POOL AND HOT TUB LAYOUT
Here are Meg’s concept drawings if the eco hot tub and natural swimming pool:
All Natural Pool Design – Click to Enlarge
NATURAL POND POOL INCORPORATED INTO THE SEGO CENTER CAD
Here are the most recent and updated CAD drawings showing these natural pond pool and hot tub elements integrated with the changing rooms:
SEGO Center CAD – Click to Enlarge
MORE INFORMATION ON THE SEGO CENTER
Birth of the SEGO Center City Hub
The “Center of Peace” has evolved into the SEGO Center City Hub to represent the importance and function of this building in relation to our global change strategy, its relation to the 7 different sustainable village prototypes, and its intended purpose as a “launch point” for additional self-replicating sustainable teacher/demonstration communities, villages, and cities like One Community.
S.E.G.O. Center Origin
The name “sego” originated because one of our team was looking at 3-petaled flowers as we were searching for a new name and came across the sego lily and its likeness to the layout of the building:
The lily also represents “rebirth” and the sego lily is edible.
Building off of the “sego” name we came up with the SEGO acronym and attached it to “Center”:
S – Sustainably: Sustainability is one of the key foundations of what we are creating
E – Engaging: Our purpose is to engage the public and life itself with this model
G – Global: Affirming that our vision and purpose are global
O – Oneness: Affirming that our vision includes everyone and this building is about our “Oneness” as a foundation of living and creating for The Highest Good of All
Center: This building being the center of One Community and duplicable villages to be built around the world, and more specifically a “SEGO Center” specifically represents all of the above and we think these centers will be the first step for many duplicates to come after us that use our open source designs and may choose to keep the SEGO Center name.
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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 Harris Design & Technology Services), and Meg West (Landscape Architect, Permaculturalist, and founder of Meg West Design).
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:
Building Earth Homes: Earthbag Home Furniture Layout Possibilities for Pod 1
Pod one is the first of the seven different sustainable village models to be built because it is designed to demonstrate and teach building earth homes as one of the most affordable construction and living models available. It consists of sixty-four 150-200 square foot semi-subterranean earthbag hotel room styled cabanas built in pairs with a central sitting area designed for relaxation and growing a small shared garden. Like a hotel or dorm room, each dome will consist of a bed, dresser(s), and a small sitting area and desk. Communal use bathrooms and showers will be within a short walk and will integrate recycling of all water and a combination vermiculture and traditional septic eco-friendly bathroom. These earth home bungalows will be heated by rocket mass heaters and kept cool via the semi-subterranean construction and passive cooling. Electricity and heat for all homes and the central tropical dome will be provided by solar (see energy infrastructure page).
Here are the layout drawings we just finished to demonstrate what building earth homes like this will look like with built-in furniture.
Click Image to be Taken to the Earth Bag Village and Pod 1 Details Page
RELATED KEY SUSTAINABLE INFRASTRUCTURE DETAILS
Application Form Updates are Complete!
We are happy to say that we just finished the complete update of our One Community Application Form! We hope what we have created from our two years of interviewing experience is helpful as a usable template for other forming communities and we invite anyone interested in joining One Community to apply!
We also just completed this outline page of our application, review, and interview process: https://onecommunityglobal.org/review-and-interview-process/
On other notes, we also just started to put together the first iteration of a framework for an open source collaboration space. We should launch it in the next few weeks with our vermiculture septic design, education program development details, and tropical dome greywater processing designs (part of Pod 1) simultaneously.
This open source collaborative space will feature:
- A copyable and modifiable archive of our component designs and research to this point
- Links to our ongoing research and development project overview pages and work spaces
- Links to the development templates and finished documents for projects and project componenets
New image updates on Pod 1 floor plans and the SEGO Center natural pool and eco hot tub are coming today or tomorrow as well.
Open Sourcing More of Our Internal Process: 2 New Pages Related to Internal Review and Productivity
What One Community is working on right now is arguably some of the most important developmental aspects of the entire project. We are a dedicated, organized, and professional team contributing weekly to an ever-evolving action list and seeking others excited to create this with us. The minimum anyone on this team can expect to contribute is about 10 hours a week and we have spent the last two years fine tuning how to work together for maximum effectiveness and developing a results based monitoring and evaluation process and Performance Management Template into what they now are: productive, efficient, and ongoing foundations for collaborative team leadership skills development.
TWO NEW PAGES WE’VE CREATED TO OPEN SOURCE SHARE OUR INTERNAL PROCESS
The first is our Results Based Monitoring and Evaluation Process page created to share:
- How this system is foundational to the phase of creation we are in no
- What makes up the minimum time investment expectations for being a Pioneer
- How we use “tangible contribution” to maintain focus and productivity on our priorities
The Second is our Performance Management Template for conducting 2-directional monthly performance management reviews. There are three primary team building objectives for this template and the monthly performance reviews we conduct:
1) Individual gives feedback to the Review Facilitator regarding community performance/experience
2) Review Facilitator(s) give feedback regarding individual’s performance
3) Facilitator and Individual co-create strategy for improvement of both #1 and #2
