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Prologue
This is page 4 of our ClimateSafe Villages (CSV) master community vision online guide. This page is designed only for those seriously interested in CSV's unique Universe One community version.
If you are new to the climate change resilience concept or the vision of ClimateSafe Villages, please visit the easier and less complex ClimateSafe Village website. You can start exploring the many positive possibilities at the learning entry level. Once you understand what is happening, please come back and read about the very special and challenging-to-join Universe One evolutionary and civilization-preservational community.
"Universe One, forwarding One Humanity Family, One Global Country and, the Great Union of ALL of and Within the Universe."
The Universe One community is now accepting applications. We have included the details below.
The Universe One Overview
Welcome to the unique Universe One version of a CSV. It is the master model for everything you ever wanted to know about this unique ClimateSafe Village (CSV) and eco-community for the future. The following Universe One page contains advanced materials designed only for the most serious individuals or groups considering joining or starting the Universe One version of a ClimateSafe Village.
As you will soon discover, its membership requirements are considerably more demanding than other CSVs.
Universe One's primary focus, beyond building the maximum survival time for our community during the climate change-driven Great Collapse, is to plan out and design what will be needed politically, economically, and socially for the post-collapse Great Rebirth.
Universe One may be the most difficult CSV to join because of its many special functions. At the minimum, it will require many brilliant, rational individuals who are also socially and emotionally well-developed, financially stable, and have a history of ethical behavior.
If you have the qualities mentioned above, and you want to be a part of helping to create the Great Rebirth to revitalize humanity after the highly probable climate change emergency-driven Great Collapse, please keep reading. Being a part of the group that is consciously and intentionally working toward creating a Great Rebirth for humanity is a way for individuals, families, and businesses to survive and thrive and make the best of a horrific situation during the phases of the Great Collapse. It is a highly worthy and meaningful goal and purpose that provides reasonable hope for the future. Especially while we collectively endure and experience the increasing suffering and many consequences of the Great Collapse.
The Great Rebirth will need new economic, political, and social systems and laws that will finally establish a just, equitable, and sustainable world for ALL remaining survivors. The Great Rebirth will learn from all of the actions, policies, and systems that created the Great Collapse in order not to repeat them.
Members of Universe One will be Evolutioneers, leaders, and the ones creating the Great Rebirth, which will require new social, economic, and political systems.
Universe One is where exceptional individuals from all over the world will gather together to use their exceptional abilities first to survive what is coming and complete the process of learning from the mistakes creating the problems of the Great Collapse. Once they have learned from those mistakes, the same exceptional individuals would begin making the required new economic, political, and social improvements to ensure that the Great Collapse never happens again and that the Great Rebirth initiates and seeds a worldwide period of justice, equity, and sustainable prosperity for ALL of humanity.
Eventually, the Universe One CSV will likely become the new headquarters location for the Job One for Humanity climate change think tank, the Universe Institute, and a new online version of Universe College. At a later date, it will also be coming to headquarters for the Universe Spirit organization and the Universe Day organization.
Universe One will be exceptionally comfortable for practitioners of the Way of the Universe philosophy. More information about this philosophy is available on the page below.
The following are the section headings on this page
Please feel free to go ahead and skip directly to the section linked below that most interests you. You can go ahead and return to the other section titles later.
1. Important introduction to the unique Universe One intentional community. (Includes the section on the philosophy and worldview of Universe One.)
3. Launch Steps
5. More about the Universe Evolutionary Worldview used at Universe One and our Vision for a More Sustainable and Equitable Future for ALL.
6. At Universe One, We See Ourselves as Universe Citizens, Global Citizens, and Evolutioneers.
7. The Personal Spiritual Qualities and Values at Universe One
8. The Universe Institute is located at Universe One
9. Additional Reading on the Principles of Progressive Evolution held at Universe One.
10. Universe College Online at Universe One
11. Universe One and ClimateSafe Villages Community Contributors
12. Other Pages in ClimateSafe Villages Community MasterModel Materials
13. Updates to our vision and recent news
If you have not yet read this summary of the ten current climate change facts, please do so before reading the rest of this page. You will understand why many want to consider joining the unique Universe One version of the CSV community. Please also note that there may be a bit of repetition in some of the sections below due to the continual upgrading of the document.
1. Introduction to Universe One
Please do not consider the Universe One ClimateSafe Village like the other CSV models described elsewhere. While it embraces climate change resilience-building and many of the values and goals found on our six-page ClimateSafe Villages Master Model Overview, it also has many activities, values, goals, and a unique culture not typically found in the other ClimateSafe Villages models.
Part of what makes Universe One unique as an urban/rural community is that, unlike any other ClimateSafe Villages community, it will also be the new headquarters for the Job One for Humanity climate change think tank, the Universe Institute, Universe College, and, later, the Universe Spirit and Universe Day organizations.
After years of searching and researching at Job One, we decided that the global warming-safe and academically friendly areas of Bellingham, Washington; Marquette, Michigan; or Crestone, Colorado, were the best possible potential US areas for Universe One and these other organizations' new headquarters. When this Universe One urban/rural village is fully established, it promises to survive and thrive for many decades into an uncertain climate future.
As you read the following, we hope you will see the Universe One community as a new way of life and a philosophy for better living based on rationality, science, and living in balance with nature. At Universe One, the power of its core philosophy, values, and principles held firmly by its members will be one of the significant factors allowing it to survive the many unimaginable hardships coming with the climate change-driven Great Collapse. We are still developing the final philosophy of Universe One at Universe Spirit.
We call this new science-grounded philosophy The Way of the Universe. Even though the Way of the Universe philosophy is still in the near-final developmental state, there is still much that you can evaluate, learn, and begin practicing. To start exploring The Way of the Universe, you can find it on the Universe Spirit's new website. Click here.
Finally, if you want to live your future life like we describe in the Universe One and CSV materials and survive the greater social, economic, and political dysfunctionality you see around you, we welcome your help.
Quick Overview of What the Universe One Is and Does
The Universe ONE headquarters will strive to embody the highest possible level of the complete CSV vision. It will strive to be the most:
1. survivable,
2. sustainable and eco-friendly, and
3. healthy (physically, emotionally, and spiritually if you are also of a spiritual nature.)
To understand what we mean by the three qualities described above, please click this link and read the whole page.
Like other CSVs, the Universe One CSV will strive to be a necessary sanctuary and refuge from the world's escalating dangers and troubles during its rapid transition toward widespread ecological, economic, political, and social collapse. It will become a sanctuary and refuge to preserve peace and stability for a healthy body, mind, and spirit. Not unlike the monasteries of the Dark Ages, it will strive to maintain the best of our art, science, and civilization to seed the next Renaissance and Enlightenment eras.
While doing all this, it will also be the place for creating, testing, refining, and proving new and better economic, social, political, and even religious models for the post-collapse world that will finally forward true justice, sustainability, and equality for ALL of humanity.
Universe One will actively work toward the many justice, equality, and sustainability benefits as we create the post-collapse Great Rebirth described on this page. If you are serious about joining Universe One, read about the Great Rebirth described on this page to understand where we see our future going.
Universe One will also be unique because, if all goes as planned, it will have team members from the Job One for Humanity climate change think tank, the Universe Institute, Universe College, and, later, the Universe Spirit organization and the Universe Day organization living on-site. These members will contribute significantly to the Great Great Rebirth culture and growth of CSVs in addition to their mission work.
If you do not feel significantly aligned with the missions of the above-linked organizations, the Universe One CSV is not the right fit for you. However, other CSV locations could work well as they would not have the activities of all these organizations going on within the community.
Universe One will eventually establish a highly developed sanctuary and refuge function for its members, along with the many other functions CSVs perform. Universe One will also be where new master model improvements for all CSV models (urban, rural, hybrid, and virtual) will be continually developed, tested, and refined.
Think of Universe One as an evolutionary and best-of-civilization preservational community. How it does those two things is described on the page below.
Why is Bellingham, Washington, under consideration along with Marquette, Michigan, and Crestone, Colorado?
The Universe One community will be intentionally located in a predominantly progressive area where many climate safety and security factors converge. The area is also reasonably affordable to middle-class and lower-middle-class individuals. Its climate has colder winters and some snowfall alternating with warmer summers. It also has distinct rainy and growing seasons.
It is off the significant earthquake faults common to Vancouver Island, the San Juan Islands, and the Seattle and Portland areas. While imperfect, its negative climate consequences, such as heat domes, rain bombs, and fires, can be managed by climate-resilient building, drainage, and fire mitigation designs constructed from the ground up in this urban/rural village.
Additionally, purchasing land within 2 to 3 miles of the Pacific Ocean (or any vast body of water like in Marquette, Michigan) and at a level at least 25 feet above sea level or any flood plain is also wise. This land selection will allow village temperatures to be 10 to 15° warmer in the winter and 10 to 15° cooler in the summer and not be flooded by sea level rise or intense storms coming off the ocean.
Any possible rural location will also be far enough away from the major highways that will eventually transport hundreds of thousands of climate migrants. (Significantly smaller numbers of climate migrants will travel far north, especially in winter.)
Finally, Bellingham is a progressive area with a university branch (like Marquette, Michigan, and in a lesser way like Crestone, Colorado, with a branch of the Colorado Mountain College). It will be considerably easier to build a CSV urban/rural community. Most progressives know that the climate change emergency is accurate and that we must start preparing and adapting to survive and thrive. Some of the best locations to create a CSV are progressive areas of the country with a university or college in a nearby town near the 45th parallel north or south.
If we cannot secure adequate land for a large community at a reasonable cost and within a 25-30-minute drive from Downtown Bellingham, we will move to our second or third choices, Marquette, Michigan, or Crestone, Colorado. They are similar to Bellingham, Washington, in several ways, for example, the university, a college, a progressive environment, less expensive land, loose zoning and building regulations, etc., but they are much colder and have much more snow.
It is survival of the most cooperative and reciprocating vs survival of the fittest
The Universe One CSV must endure the primary and secondary climate change consequences described in great detail here.
One of the things that's least understood about the Universe One CSV vision is that the more accurate evolutionary concept for long-term survival is "survival of the most cooperative and the most reciprocating." Wise cooperation is one of the most fundamental values of CSV and Universe One.
Survival of the fittest is an old evolutionary perspective. While valid at a smaller scale, it has only limited applicability when facing widespread global climate change catastrophe and the eventual global collapse the CSV communities will face.
At Job One For Humanity, we recently had to do our annual update and forecast for future climate change conditions. Again, we faced a climate change emergency that our governments had not honestly addressed or fixed. We had to face the fact that once humanity crossed the carbon 425 ppm threshold (which occurred on February 3, 2024), climate consequences would worsen dramatically and continue worsening in a runaway fashion.
This update forced us to reexamine certain assumptions that the projected community locations (about 150 to 500 people) would have enough members to provide adequate security for at least 20 to 30 years. Based on Job One for Humanity's latest climate conditions and forecasts worsening faster than they had predicted, we no longer believe that 150 to 500 people is a large enough community to survive even the next 30 years, much less 50 or more.
We now firmly believe that we must eventually create a far larger climate-resilient community of thousands to establish a more adequate, secure, and safe zone during the worst phases of the climate change emergency occurring 20-40 years from now.
Our long-term, top recruiting goal is ensuring the final Universe One location expands into many nearby communities. We will first establish the local rural Universe One CSV and then contact the many residents in the surrounding areas to join our preparation and resilience efforts. From there, we will continue reaching out to other more distant surrounding communities, helping them become climate-resilient.
The urban/rural Universe One community will and must eventually be well integrated with other local communities. Over time, Universe One will become heavily involved in helping the local communities build all the necessary levels of climate resilience, including managing climate refugees and creating surpluses. (Click here to see what building local community climate change resilience-building process looks like.)
The leadership teams from the multiple organizations that will be headquartered there will focus on and provide a persistent driving force for expanding reciprocal cooperation and collaboration to increasing numbers of communities in the local area. We must never stop that process. Eventually, we must aim to encompass collaboration and partnership on climate resiliency issues within all the states in which we are located.
The reason why Universe One and other CSV communities must adopt this "survival of the most cooperative" procedure is that unless they create larger and larger circles of cooperation and reciprocality, no matter how well their smaller local CSV community is prepared, it will not likely survive long-term (30 to 50+ years or more.)
This detailed description of what's coming is so powerful and intense that only having a large number of cooperating and collaborating individuals and communities who are highly climate-resilient will give that area the highest probability of long-term survival. Single, small communities will be unable to survive the continual onslaught of the many consequences described on this page.
When we first looked at the various possible Universe One locations, we estimated that it could survive 20 or 30 years as a single, isolated, and well-prepared community. Afterward, we realized that only by taking our climate-resilient skill set out to cooperate and collaborate with more and more outside local communities could we build something that would last 30- 50 years and beyond.
To solve the many survival challenges we will face, cooperation, defensibility, and reciprocation are possible with many communities or even a whole state. Thus, the probability of a single CSV surviving is exponentially greater if it collaborates and works with the larger communities in which it is embedded.
For example, suppose you're joining or creating a CSV community and want your group to survive 50 years or longer. In that case, you must ensure that you have a group of persistent, dedicated people inside that community dedicated to expanding cooperation, collaboration, and reciprocality with outside nearby communities to build mutual climate resilience and prepare for what's coming. Otherwise, no matter how isolated you are, sooner or later, your small community will be overrun or robbed, and you too will become a migrant yourself, whether it's to your second bug-out location or something else.
With the leadership of the various organizations to be headquartered there, the Universe One CSV will have that survival-critical, complete dedication, understanding, and commitment to expanding climate resilience cooperation with more and more surrounding communities until, ideally, the whole state in which it is located becomes the US's first climate resilient state. That is the type of perspective and action plan it will take to survive the unprecedented intensity of the many accelerating problems we now face.
One last thing: when we talk about cooperation and collaboration, we are talking about wise cooperation, which includes, at some point, reciprocality in some form. If you cooperate unwisely, you will be drained of your resources and will not survive well.
Suppose you doubt the concept of "survival of the most cooperative." In that case, we recommend reading our emergency preparations and adaptations thoroughly, which begin on this page for emergency preparations and on this page for emergency adaptations.
Universe One has the potential to be one of the longest-surviving CSVs. One of its most important goals is to help turn its surrounding area into one of the world's most climate-resilient and climate-change-prepared areas. Within a large, northerly region well-prepared for any eventuality as climate change consequences and other global crises unfold, it should become one of the safest places in the world to ride out the Great Collapse and the Great Rebirth within Universe One or a similar CSV community.
Long-term survival is impossible without extensive collaboration and climate resilience-building support to the largest possible areas surrounding CSVs.
Universe One location future security and emergency bug-out location concerns
Like every other wisely planned CSV, the Universe One rural CSV will also provide a carefully planned number of secure emergency storage facilities and possibly even additional vacant housing facilities for members of the local urban community who have chosen to create bug-out emergency backups within the Universe One rural community.
Suppose all goes really bad and far beyond the local government's or state's capacity to manage the masses of desperate and starving climate migrants that make it that far north. The Universe One rural CSV (like every other CSV) will also create multiple backup locations that are fully stocked for member escape if and when needed. CSVs generally follow the emergency backup principle that one backup is none, two backups are one, and three backups are two emergency backups if you want to be safe.
These locations will most likely be in other isolated and massive acreage CSVs in which CSVs have built long-term relationships and have pre-stocked everything needed or required.
No individual isolated CSV could take in ALL the members of another CSV. Therefore, any additional bug-out backup rural location for an existing rural CSV must be carefully planned with multiple, very isolated rural CSVs. This will ensure that the more isolated CSV will remain sustainable in an emergency if a group of members from another CSV relocates there. This advance planning and stocking must ensure that the relocating CSV members do not create an internal population overshoot-related problem for the more isolated backup CSVs.

Universe One and CSVs are not trying to create a utopia, but we are doing something urgently needed.
While we do not see ourselves working to create a rigid utopia-like structure, nor do we use utopia language, many see ourselves as experimenting visionaries, aka Evolutioneers.
In addition to our goals of building climate resilience through preparation and adaptation and ending the climate emergency through promoting immediate government climate action, CSVs have other potential goals besides promoting their members' long-term safety, security, and overall well-being.
Some CSVs, like the new Universe One, will be better models of our social, economic, political, and religious systems and interactions. They will design, test, and prove new evolutionary iterations for those systems.
After the widespread global collapse driven by the primary and secondary consequences of climate change, they will do this so that better solutions and proven examples will be available for future generations. Because of the horrendous shared post-global collapse trauma, we believe that new generations will be more open to new solutions for sustainably living together.
The preceding means that individuals participating in CSVs are far more than survivalists or progressive preppers with a detailed knowledge of climate change consequence timeframes. They can also, by choice, be future activists and Evolutioneers working to create the great global rebirth—a more sustainable, just, and equitable future for ALL of humanity despite the worsening global crises we all now face.
The Universe One CSV is an evolving, climate-change-resilient, ecological, social, economic, and democratic new model created to be shared.
A key Universe One community goal is to strive to reflect the highest application of the ideas, values, and principles described on the other CSV community design pages. In addition to that goal, Universe One is also to become a model for preparing the future survivors of the chain of climate change and 11 other related global crises and catastrophes. This new model creates a more sustainable, just, and equitable post-catastrophe world for ALL surviving humanity.
Preparing for the post-catastrophe world means experimenting with and innovating new solutions for today's most prominent ecological, social, economic, and political problems, refining, testing, and adapting those solutions until our Universe One ClimateSafe Villages community becomes a model, a living successful example, and a "beacon of light" for the future we must create.
"Only a crisis—actual or perceived—produces real change. When that crisis occurs, the actions that are taken depend on the ideas that are lying around. That, I believe, is our basic function: to develop alternatives to existing policies, to keep them alive and available until the politically impossible becomes the politically inevitable." Surprisingly, a quote from Milton Friedman, the economist.
At Universe One, we will create better ideas and proven new success models and, more importantly, keep them alive, available, and "lying around" until the post-catastrophe, politically impossible becomes politically inevitable.
We will also use an evolutionary new form of Personal Democracy (PD). It will play a significant role in managing the ClimateSafe Villages community. Based on PD principles, ClimateSafe Villages will not have traditional leaders.
Instead, it will have a group of coordinators knowledgeable in different crucial areas the eco-community needs. These knowledgeable coordinators will direct essential activities based on current science and the continual input of every member who could be affected by those decisions or actions. (Click here for a quick overview of the new Personal Democracy and its many benefits. Also, see the expanded Personal Democracy White Paper here.)
Here are some of the qualities and types of individuals we are seeking to join us at the urban/rural Universe One
The Universe One community members must be a good fit for our many values and goals. Universe One is also a place for futurist thinkers, activists, artists, and educators who agree with most of our "we need to build and live the master models for a better future society now" ideas and new science-grounded evolutionary worldview, which are expressed further down this page.
Universe One is a near-ideal place to flourish for those who already see themselves as highly intelligent and socio-emotionally balanced, creative global citizens or universe citizens. (More about global and universe citizenship is found in the links further down this page.)
If you choose to join Universe One, you will also be a co-creative part of the ongoing evolutionary search for the optimal ecological, social, economic, political, and even spiritual models needed for the post-collapse future.
Initially, Universe One co-founding members must be generally healthy, emotionally and psychologically strong, and stable. They will face many challenges in creating and maintaining this community as the outside environment worsens because of the climate emergency and our 11 other major global crises.
We seek a senior project manager/leader and a deputy project manager/leader as the most critical individuals for establishing the Universe One rural community project.
The other critical Universe One rural members we are looking for are in fundraising, finance, online and offline education, sustainable and energy-efficient general contracting, construction, plumbing, electrical, administrative management, recruiting, human resources, medical services, wellness services, therapeutic psychological services, internet security, software design, interpersonal conflict resolution, peace facilitation, think tank analysts, and public relations.
In collaboration with CSV, we will get most of our information on the following subjects from CSV's current work on eco-friendly architecture, community design, permaculture, aquaponics, vertical hydroponics, and organic gardening.
If you want to be one of the above Universe One co-founding individuals, please email [email protected] and let us know:
a. you want to join either the Universe One community,
b. you want access to the private CSV group and urban/rural discussion forums, and
c. let us know about your skills and experience. (More about the Universe One formal application process is further down this page.)
d. If you already live in any of the above-mentioned areas for Universe One's new location and are interested in getting involved in an urban CSV model before we begin the rural model, please email us at [email protected] with your skills and experience.
Universe One is committed to living and creating Sustainable Prosperity within and eventually outside of the CSV community
Sustainable Prosperity is a set of principles everyone in the Universe One community must agree to follow. These principles also make any CSV community considerably more sustainable and survivable. Of course, implementing all of these vital sustainability principles in this new community will take time. Click here to read the principles of Sustainable Prosperity.
The Way of the Universe Philosophy and Worldview of Universe One
Universe One has its own definite and well-defined worldview and philosophy. The strength and reality-tested accuracy of the worldview and philosophy behind any CSV are the best indicators of how long that CSV will last as the stressors and chaos of the global collapse continue to increase as climate change accelerates.
No CSV will survive the Great Collapse for long unless it has a powerful, science-grounded, reality-reflecting philosophy and worldview its members value, adhere to, and can unite around. This philosophy and worldview must also embrace a set of clear behavioral guidelines.
Numerous times, we have emphasized that only a philosophy and worldview that reflects objective reality in the most accurate possible ways will provide us with the deep philosophical roots and worldview that will not be blown over or be pulled out as Universe One and other CSV's try to survive the escalating stressors of what's coming. The principle at work here is simple. The more accurately a philosophy and worldview reflect reality, the easier it is for the members and leadership of a community to make rational, well-informed decisions.
Below, please look at what has been designed as the core philosophy and worldview for the unique Universe One CSV version. While evolutionary advances will always be added to this philosophy and worldview, enough has been completed over the last decade to get a good sense of how deep these new communities' required reality-recognizing philosophic and worldview roots must go.
The Philosophy and Worldview of Universe One:
At this point, having a common and standard definition of what a philosophy and a worldview are and do is wise.
Philosophy is defined as:
1. The study of the foundational nature of reality and existence, and
2. The theory or attitude a person or organization holds that acts as a guiding principle for behavior.
Philosophy is not an academic pursuit only for professors and the rich. It is the most essential activity every individual must actively engage in to create a good life.
Henry David Thoreau wisely said, "Philosophy helps us solve life's problems, not only theoretically but practically." Therefore, it stands to reason that everyone should actively engage in a lifelong, intentional learning process about the nature of reality and existence. This ongoing process will then naturally and logically improve the effectiveness and results of their guiding principles of behavior.
The philosophy at Universe One is based on a robust new worldview and new evolutionary science, and it includes the best of humanity's past philosophy. We call this new worldview-embracing new transcending and including philosophy, the "Way of the Universe." But the new worldview itself is called the Universe Evolutionary Worldview.
A worldview is defined as the most fundamental cognitive orientation of an individual or society, encompassing the whole of the individual's or society's knowledge and point of view. There have been only about five new worldviews in the history of human evolution. Whenever a new worldview emerges, there is great potential for major personal and societal shifts and improvement.
Every new worldview creates a significant transition, advances human history, and transcends previous worldviews. The powerful new worldview (the Universe Evolutionary Worldview) embraced within the Way of the Universe has arrived just in time.
Few would disagree that our world is experiencing continuous, accelerating crises fueled by our growing technological capabilities. Over the next several decades, humanity could quickly destroy itself.
This new worldview and the other information embraced within the Way of the Universe offers Universe One, individuals, and humanity the desperately needed tools and a realistic new hope essential to fuel and sustain fixing humanity's 12 worsening global crises.
Click here for a quick overview of the new Way of the Universe on the Universe Spirit website. It will be fundamental to Universe One's survival.
Click here to learn more about the Universe Principles of right action and right attitude, a key Universe One behavioral guide. (The Universe Principles are part of the Way of the Universe materials.)
The Universe Evolutionary Worldview will provide critical and reality-tested support for this new philosophy's values, actions, and stability, which are needed to hold a group together under extreme stress and pressure from an outside world that is moving into chaos and collapse. It will also provide stability, values, and guidelines for the community's interactions, which will also be subjected to regular stresses and problems as it adapts to the chaos outside of itself.
The Universe Evolutionary Worldview will help you live a more prosperous and sustainable life and help humanity manage its 12 biggest global crises. This new worldview provides more new tools and realistic hope for the future than any other previous worldview.
Below are critical links for explaining the New Universe Evolutionary Worldview. This new worldview offers humanity new, more effective, and powerful tools and a needed realistic hope for solving the many problems humanity faces globally.
This new Universe Evolutionary Worldview emerged from two foundational new developments.
1. the principles of Progressive Evolution and
2. The new thinking methodology for analyzing complex adaptive systems is called Dialectical Metasystemic Thinking.
Anything that helps to create a new worldview for humanity is genuinely a powerful emergence.
Please come back after reading this Universe One page and read about the Universe Evolutionary Worldview. Suppose you do not align with the ideas, principles, and values forwarded in the Universe Evolutionary Worldview. In that case, you would unlikely be a good candidate for membership in Universe One.
We hope that every CSV eventually adopts the science-grounded ideas, principles, values, and guidelines found within the new Universe Evolutionary Worldview and teaches its leading members how to analyze the complex adaptive problems and systems they will need to deal with using the new methodology of Dialectical Metasystemic Thinking.
The Legal Structure of Universe One
A 32-year-old, IRS-approved 501(c)3 nonprofit educational organization will purchase and set up Universe One. The nonprofit will always own all the land on the Universe One campus and all common buildings and equipment necessary for running the community. This is to ensure the totality of the campus always remains safe and secure. This nonprofit ownership of all land, common equipment, and buildings also makes it for community management and can significantly expedite the process of building and expanding the community.
Approved individuals may lease small personal land parcels of the Universe One campus on a 99-year lease and build pre-approved climate-safe homes and home-based businesses on these leased parcels. Universe One will also rent out temporary housing to owners of tiny houses, RVs, or travel trailers in designated areas for individuals who have obtained provisional living on campus membership and who are trying out Universe One to see if they want to call me a long-term or permanent member of the community.
The community is managed by the nonprofit organization's board of directors and its designated executives, subject to US and Colorado law governing the management of nonprofit organizations. At all times, the permanent community members living on campus will have access to present their needs and desires to the nonprofit's executives and board. The nonprofit's board and executives will do everything possible to meet the everyday needs and desires of the collective of permanent community members to the extent that the US and Colorado allow such to occur.
Universe One will explore, refine, and test the master survive and thrive model and template with other ClimateSafe Villages
Our primary focus is building the Universe One ClimateSafe Village, and we also help support others in creating ClimateSafe Villages in other locations. The Universe One location is also designed to do many things besides being the master model for other ClimatesSafe Villages locations like CSV Upper Peninsula Michigan, CSV British Columbia, Canada, CSV Inverness Scotland, ClimatesSafe Villages Berlin, etc.
In an open-access manner, we will continue sharing the Universe One community's climate-resilient architectural layout, net-zero home and building designs, legal structure, land leasing contracts, and member contracts, as well as all other design information we have gathered over the years to create a thriving long-term climate-resilient community. Other ClimateSafe Village locations may choose to use as much of the Universe One master model or as little as they like.
Accordingly, Universe One will continuously gather additional information to create and demonstrate the best master model that can be rapidly duplicated worldwide. Having almost every piece of the master model together, done, and easily transferable to other locations will significantly expedite their building and growth processes and prevent costly and time-consuming delays or mistakes.
At some point, while reading about the Universe One CSV, we believe you will come to realize that Universe One has also been designed to do what our politicians, governments, and other environmental leaders are either denying or not doing regarding the climate change emergency and its escalating consequence interactions with our 11 other global crises.
Our politicians, governments, and nearly all environmental leaders are doing little to directly prepare and adapt humanity and the world to the cataclysmic climate change and other consequences we can no longer avoid.
Because of this gross and negligent inaction by our politicians, governments, and environmental leaders, ClimateSafe Villages, particularly the new Universe Onenvillage, are bypassing the inactive (or incompetent) and addressing the many dangers and solutions ourselves.
This critical action of bypassing inaction or incompetence is no different from what many other nonprofit organizations often do when their local politicians, governments, and related organizations fail to act or are incompetent in the face of real danger.
If you feel well-aligned with Universe One's CSV ideas, values, and principles and are interested in joining the Universe One ClimateSafe Villages community, please continue reading the rest of this page and then begin the application instructions found on this page. The requirements for joining the Universe One CSV community will be considerably more demanding than those of other CSV communities due to its additional focus on CSV model building, experimentation, model testing, and education to create a better future.
2. Universe One Launch Phases
Track One involves a few people simply moving to the Universe One chosen area and working with locals to create an urban/rural climate change-resilient community. In this vision, people also move independently to the Universe One area, buy or rent homes in the city, or buy non-adjacent or noncontiguous acreage outside the city.
Track two is where our nonprofit organization purchases a large tract of land, 100 to several hundred acres, where many community members (ideally about 150-500 max) will live in climate-resilient, self or community-purchased homes. There will be dormitories for singles and housing for individuals on work/share programs who do not have enough financing to build their own homes.
Zoning permitting, we are planning to allow individuals to live temporarily in tiny homes, RVs, travel trailers, or other forms of inexpensive housing like those modular homes that come from China or Boxable. These temporary homes would be for:
1. Individuals who wish to explore living in the community and have received provisional living status on the Universe One campus. (The membership section below outlines the provisional living status on campus.)
2. This more affordable entry-level option into the community would provide a more feasible financial choice for many individuals with limited assets.
3. Creating multiple spaces for tiny homes, RVs, travel trailers, and other forms of low-cost housing, such as modular homes from China or Boxable, enables residents to more swiftly and easily contribute to establishing more permanent community structures. These may include the community center, secure storage, and other essential community or staff housing buildings.
We also gain a significant advantage by permitting these "temporary" structures for individuals in transition or trial. These affordable structures have the potential to endure for many years, far beyond the slowly unfolding severe climate change impacts that may threaten them. Additionally, these "temporary" structures serve as a practical foundation, helping to provide the labor necessary for constructing the more permanent climate-resilient Earth ship-type homes and extensive underground facilities for safe emergency living, storage, and four-season growing that will be essential over the decades.
Track Two will take at least 3 to 7 years to complete once the land is purchased. Track Two will also take far more team members, organization, and funding than Track One, but it has considerably more social and other resilience advantages. In the Track Two vision:
a. The Universe One vision described on this page will most likely become a reality in the Track Two vision of the larger CSV Rural community of about 150 to 500 individuals/families.
b. The many physical, social, and cultural characteristics and qualities of a model CSV also have the highest probability of being realized.
c. The rural Universe One community will be able to achieve many of the goals of creating the new sustainable "survive and thrive" prosperity as described here.
d. At some point, Universe One will become a multigenerational community; assisted living and hospice care for older adults will eventually be available.
e. Once the Track Two Universe One rural community is finally established, it will connect with other local-area Track Two rural communities to create ever-larger circles of cooperation and safety.
Universe One will eventually become a multigenerational community, and assisted living and hospice care for older adults will also be possible and available.
Who will be the temporary lead coordinator helping to launch Universe One rural community?
Lawrence Wollersheim, a board member of the organizations listed above, will initially coordinate and facilitate the Universe One ClimateSafe Villages community project. Lawrence will move to the chosen location soon after he sells his home in Northern California.
The Job One for Humanity San Francisco office will move to the new Universe One area when Lawrence Wollersheim moves there or as soon as essential volunteer staff members complete the sale of their SF Bay area homes. Universe One will become the relocated home of other willing ClimateSafe Villages members, Job One for Humanity members, Universe Institute, Universe College, and Universe Spirit members, volunteers, and website subscribers, some of whom have been following our climate education and social advocacy work for decades.
Special Software Team Building and Project Management Tool Now Available Online for the Universe One CSV Launch
We are now using a fantastic project and team collaboration online software tool called Basecamp to launch the Universe One Urban/rural CSV. If you want to be involved in this urban/rural online collaboration and launch, email Leonora at ([email protected]). As soon as our final location has been set, we will initiate a Universe One online collaboration using this excellent Basecamp software tool.
There are now hundreds of people in the CSV master discussion forum in Basecamp and large groups of people in the various CSV advisory groups making it all happen.
3. More detailed Universe One Launch Steps have been moved to the end of this page.
The Universe One rural community is seeking new members and is now accepting applications!
If you want to become a Universe One CSV rural community member, email Lawrence Wollersheim at ([email protected]). Put Universe One in the subject line. He temporarily coordinates the Universe One rural community launch and will keep you informed of progress and developments. The following will tell you more about the challenging Universe One member requirements.
4. Universe One Membership and Application Process
At the Universe One rural location, there are three types of membership: local and supporting membership, living on campus membership, and senior organizational membership.
1. The Universe One local and supporting membership is the easiest to obtain. It is designed for people who will not live on the central Universe One campus but will either build or purchase homes or businesses in the local area surrounding our rural community. It is also for those who want to help support the creation and expansion of Universe One financially.
Local members pay a small annual membership fee to support Universe One's educational and other mission activities, such as educational classes and organic community gardens. For a reasonable additional fee, they can securely store accessible emergency supplies in designated private storage areas on the Universe One campus.
Local and supporting members will be allowed to attend events at the Universe One campus or visit during prescribed times.
To become a local and supporting member, one must submit an attestation that they agree closely with the principles, values, and goals of Universe One described on this page and with the CSV principles, values, and goals described on the CSV design and vision pages found on this website, beginning here. They must also pay the first year's annual membership fee.
If an individual comes to the community with a spiritual or religious background and seeks membership at this level, they are of a spiritual nature; they must demonstrate that they are at least at stage four, five, or six of Fowler's five stages of religious development. The reason for this is simple. Individuals at very low levels of spiritual or religious development are generally dogmatic and authoritarian, think in terms of black or white, and would not work well in this progressive and tolerant community.
The Spiral Dynamics book is also required for all potential new Universe One Members. It will help new members understand more about our values and why values and actions change under different conditions.
In addition to all of the values described on this page and found on this ClimateSafe Villages social and cultural characteristics master model page, new members of the Universe One seeking a local and supporting community membership should also hold at least the following Spiral Dynamics Green values. (You will better understand the values listed below once you have read the book.)
Promote a sense of community and unity.
Reach decisions through majority consensus.
Bring harmony
Share society's natural resources equitably among all (These natural resources are not the sharing of fruits of one's labors).
Liberate humans from greed and dogma.
Willing to explore the inner being of self and others
2. The living on the Universe One campus membership naturally is considerably more challenging to obtain for obvious reasons. Whether staff or general members living (on our 99-year lease parcels) or elsewhere on the Universe One campus in dorms, etc, must submit detailed background information, allow verification of their information, and go through a series of interviews before being about to move onto campus and be placed on a one-year provisional status. To live on campus, one must also be a general member in good standing.
After one year on campus or sooner if necessary, the applicant's actions are reviewed for alignment with community standards. The community then votes to either grant permanent residency under the rules of long-term or permanent residency or decides this individual's activities on campus do not align with the principles, values, and goals of Universe One, and that person is required to leave.
In addition to the values described on this page and found on this ClimateSafe Villages social and cultural characteristics master model page, new members of the Universe One community living on campus should also hold at least the following Spiral Dynamics Green values. (You will better understand the values listed below once you have read the book.)
You also hold the Spiral Dynamics Yellow values:
Focus on functionality, competence, flexibility, and spontaneity.
Find a natural mix of conflicting "truths" and "uncertainties."
Discovering personal freedom without harm to others or excesses of self-interest
Experience the fullness of living on an Earth of such diversity in multiple dimensions.
Demand integrative and open systems
Accept the inevitability of nature's flows and form.
To begin the application process for living on campus, please click here.
3. Senior organizational membership is the most challenging membership to obtain. It is only essential to individuals working as senior staff at Universe One, the Universe Institute, Job One for Humanity, Universe Spirit, Universe College, or Universe Day International. It is also required for all board members, advisory board members, and senior executive staff of the nonprofit organization that manages Universe One. These most challenging requirements are necessary so that the pre-mentioned organizations' leadership is of the highest quality possible.
To obtain a senior organizational membership, one must be a general member in good standing and, if they live on campus, must have obtained their permanent on-campus living status. They must also meet the following challenging requirements:
1. At least one of the adults in any family applying must have a Mensa level IQ of 140 or more and be at at least stage three or stage four of social-emotional development, as described in the work of Harvard professor Robert Keegan. (See Robert Keegan's five stages of social-emotional development in Wikipedia to see where you are.)
2. At least one of the adults in any family applying must also demonstrate that they understand the principles of logic, rational, analytical thinking, and scientific methodology, and hopefully also be learning how to do systems thinking and Dialectical Metasystemic Thinking.
3. We are looking for self-actualizing people who have a history of operating on their internal principles rather than by every cultural or social value held in our highly dysfunctional culture. Less than 5% of society is self-actualizing. We recommend reading about it on Wikipedia to see if you are self-actualizing.
In addition to all of the values described on this page and found on this ClimateSafe Villages social and cultural characteristics master model page, new Universe One community speaking senior organizational membership members should also hold at least the following Spiral Dynamics Green values. (You will better understand the values listed below once you have read the book.)
You should also hold the Spiral Dynamics Turquoise values:
Blending and harmonizing a strong collective of individuals
Focus on the good of all living entities as integrated systems.
Self is part of the larger, conscious whole that also serves self.
Global networking seen as routine
Acts for minimalist living, so less is more.
Expanded use of human brain/mind tools and competencies.
To begin the application process for living on campus, please click here.
Why such stringent requirements
The above are challenging member requirements for each membership level, and there is a very good reason for them. The hardship humanity will face in the Great Collapse, driven by climate change consequences interacting with its 11 other major crises, will be immense, unlike anything humanity has ever faced.
This means that any community trying to survive the coming nightmare must also be composed of a very high percentage of the best and brightest minds and the most stable personalities. Universe One makes no apologies for these very tough requirements, even though others may see them as elitist. If you look deeper into the many continuous challenges these communities will face, any rational individual would want these communities to have the highest percentage of brilliant, socially and emotionally well-developed, stable, and ethical individuals. Those who understand the depth of the challenge that's coming in the great global collapse will not see our very stringent requirements as elitist but as the epitome of extreme practicality.
Self and Community Funding Issues
Suppose you are applying for membership in the Universe One CSV community variation. In that case, initial members should be able to fully self-fund their own net-zero homes and personal startup living expenses. However, if you have the skills the community needs, we may waive all or part of the self-funding requirement in a work exchange arrangement.
Initial founding members will need additional funding to contribute a fair share of the startup eco-community legal costs, community-level land purchase, community center building, and other necessary shared community infrastructure. Once the community is functioning, there will be a reasonable monthly membership fee for group health and additional insurance and ongoing services that we must initially purchase from outside the community.
Here are the exceptions to the above self-funding requirements:
1. If you have a critical skill level needed to physically build, manage, or maintain the community, such as a skilled teacher, professional carpenter, plumber, electrician, master gardener, human resource administrator, emergency preparation expert, etc., you may be able to exchange your professional skills and time for almost everything you will need to live in the community, and you need not be fully self-funding.
2. If you are applying for membership to one of the other three CSV community models that do not require self-funding for their startup phase.
The volunteer staff and management team at Job One for Humanity and Universe Spirit will manage the Universe One rural community building project until construction is completed. The building will also be the headquarters for Universe Institute, Universe College, and Universe Day.
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5. More about the Universe Evolutionary Worldview used at Universe One and our Vision for a More Sustainable and Equitable Future for ALL.
Universe One works toward achieving all the above goals, but it is much more!
(Humanity's closest evolutionary relative, the chimpanzee, has 98% of our DNA. As evolved chimpanzees and maybe something more, but at the minimum, nothing less than evolved chimpanzees, humanity has evolved many different worldviews.)
Why the New Worldview at Universe One
In a twist of the famous Albert Einstein quote, "The consciousness that created the problem is not the consciousness that will solve the problem," the same can be said for worldviews. This means that "the current worldview that has created our 12 major global crises will not be the worldview that can and will solve our 12 major global crises."
It also means that the previous philosophies and worldviews that have created today's economic, ecological, political, and social global problems causing the Great Collapse will not be the philosophies and worldviews that will solve these problems. We need a new worldview and philosophy to make the many problem-solving system changes humanity needs to survive.
At Universe One, we are building a community incorporating the many highly adaptive elements and principles from the New Universe Evolutionary Worldview. Not every CSV community model variation or location will adopt and use the New Universe Evolutionary Worldview or the ideas in the other links below, which is their choice.
However, Universe One team members will use and teach it because they believe this new transcending worldview has the powerful potential to:
a. better solve many of the world's biggest crises,
b. bring the world together in many unique and transformative ways,
c. set the foundation of the needed solutions in the post-mass extinction and collapse world and
d. It offers many other practical advantages for building strong communities with the best possibility of surviving what is coming.
We are at a terrifying point and opportunity in humanity's collective evolution. Either we evolve into a new and more adaptable worldview that will help to evolve our global systems intentionally and create a great transition to a more equitable, just, and sustainable world for All, or we evolve the hard way through widespread to near-total system collapse and mass extinction. This does not even include the painful, slow rebuilding process using the immense collective trauma of the extinction and collapse to motivate and compel us to make the required changes so it never happens again.
Here are additional advanced links related to the rationality and science behind the Universe Evolutionary Worldview and its beneficial evolutionary aspects for our eco-community models:
Click here to read about the many advantages to communities incorporating New Universe Evolutionary Worldview ideas and principles.
What is the great news and evolutionary hope provided by the Universe Evolutionary Worldview?
What are the practical benefits of the Universe Evolutionary Worldview?
What is the summary overview of the Universe Worldview?
Why is the Universe Worldview so Important to Our Future?
What are the evolutionary and practical art-of-living skills taught within the Universe Evolutionary Worldview essential for a meaningful, successful, and sustainable life?
How Does Progressive Evolution Create a New Worldview: The Universe Worldview?
What is the Evolutionary Impulse and Evolution's Prime Directive?
In What Ways is the Universe Worldview Becoming a Second Enlightenment for Humanity?
Click here to see how the Universe Evolutionary Worldview can become a set of universal guiding principles for day-to-day activities and right action at the individual, community, and national levels.
Click here to see how the Universe Evolutionary Worldview can become a set of universal guiding principles for day-to-day activities and the right attitude at the individual, community, and national levels.
What is the Highest Evolutionary Life Purpose of the Individual and Humanity?
In addition to reading the above links, please understand. niverse's worldview, we highly recommend that you read as many of the foundational books and papers behind the creation of this new worldview as possible so that you understand that it is realmore about the u vital to resolving the current crisis humanity faces. Please see the following link.
Who are some Thinkers, Authors, and Leaders of the Universe Worldview?
About the Universe One Community Name
The Universe One name was chosen to reflect the additional goals of this new evolutionary community: to develop a universe-level awareness and citizenship that transcends yet still includes global awareness and citizenship. The Universe One name was also chosen to reflect and remind community members of the existential and inherent union and oneness within the universe of all beings and things found within the universe.
6. At Universe One, We See Ourselves as Universe Citizens, Global Citizens, and Evolutioneers
Individuals who are part of Universe One see themselves as Evolutioneers and global citizens but often also see themselves as universe citizens. A significant goal of Universe One is to educate and create many more universe citizens who have developed what the book Spiral Dynamics refers to as Turquoise consciousness.
Suppose you wish to work at and contribute to the missions at the Universe Institute, Universe College, Universe Spirit, or the Universe Day organizations. In that case, they should also hold the Spiral Dynamics Turquoise values:
- Blending and harmonizing a strong collective of individuals
- Focus on the good of all living entities as integrated systems
- Expanded use of human brain/mind tools and competencies
- Self is part of the larger, conscious, spiritual whole that also serves self
- Global networking seen as routine
- Acts for minimalist living, so less is more
(At Universe One, we also will explore and help create the yet undefined Coral values and consciousness of Spiral Dynamics, which we believe transcends and includes all essential global values but also embraces universal values, universe consciousness, and a sense of universe citizenship.)
What is a Universe Citizen, and what does universe citizenship entail?
What is the Universe Declaration of Responsibilities for Universe Citizens, Evolutioneers, Planetary Citizens, and Universe Community Members?
What is the Universe Declaration of Rights for Universe Citizens, Planetary Evolutioneers, Evolutionaries, Planetary Citizens, and Universe Community Members?
What is the Universe Charter for Universe Citizens, Planetary Evolutioneers, Evolutionaries, Planetary Citizens, and Universe Community Members?
What are the Four Basic Attitudes/Actions of Evolutioneers
What do individuals who call themselves Evolutioneers do?
7. The Spiritual Qualities and Values at Universe One
Anyone at Universe One can choose and practice any form of personal or personalized spirituality they value, or they can choose to have and practice no form of personal spirituality or religion.
Universe One holds or promotes no official religion. This is because of the many historical problems, abuses, and irrational, destructive, and conflict-generating behavior of many organized religions.
In general, you will be a good fit at Universe One, and you are of a spiritual nature. If your spiritual practices and beliefs are found on the third or fourth level, as defined in Fowler's Four Levels of Religious or Spiritual Faith. If your beliefs and practices are within Fowler's Six Levels of Religious or Spiritual Faith, you will most likely be comfortable within our eco-community models.
(Click here to learn about Fowler's third, fourth, and beyond religious and spiritual development levels.)
In all forms of personal spirituality potentially present at Universe One, rationality and the facts of science will always override personal individual beliefs and opinions, whether spiritual or not. In other words, healthy and balanced spiritual beliefs should always naturally align with the realities of science and rationality. Or, as Saint Thomas Aquinas famously said, "If a faith belief contradicts reality, then that faith belief is wrong."
Some members of Universe One have adopted the Evolution Spirituality philosophy, a new form of Neo-Scientism grounded in the new Universe Evolutionary Worldview. The philosophy includes many secular, traditional, modern, and evolutionary spiritual values. Universe One also supports the principles and practices of Eco-Spirituality because they apply to our rapidly deteriorating environment.
No one will be excluded from the Universe One community for not holding the Neo-Scientism, Evolution Spirituality philosophy, or Eco-Spirituality principles. But, if your current religious or spiritual behaviors and actions strongly conflict with the liberal and progressive values of the Universe One community model and our principles of healthy spiritual practices described here and on this page in a similarly titled section, the ClimateSafe Villages community model will not be for you.
Furthermore, while the ClimateSafe Village models will protect an individual's right to have opinions and beliefs about anything, spiritual or otherwise, without interference, behaviors springing from those opinions or beliefs are subject to community examination and limitation.
In some ways, Universe One supports the principles of a new and emerging Neo-Scientism as the basis for our philosophy of acceptable spiritual beliefs and practices within the community.
Neo-scientism holds that science and scientific methodology are the best ways to discover objective truth about the world and reality. They must also be used as a rational grounding basis for any self-chosen spiritual inquiry and personal spiritual development.
Science demonstrates, through an independently repeatable and verifiable methodology, the reality of reality, or what can be widely agreed upon by rational individuals as reality. History has repeatedly shown us that things go horribly wrong whenever a spiritual or religious practice or group loses touch with reality. Instead of healthy personal and personalized spiritual practices, we get destructive cults and crazy authoritarian cult leaders.
Neo-Scientism is far more than the closed classical definition of Scientism found here.
Neo-scientism includes the critical realism work of the philosopher Roy Baskar, particularly his critical realism concepts that science (and the social sciences) always need to function in an open system. This new scientific open systems concept would allow undiscovered or yet-to-be-proven possibilities outside of science's standard scientific methodology and falsification processes. Neo-scientism aligns with Baskar's view that current science is an incomplete and ongoing process of increasing probabilities rather than absolute certainties.
Neo-scientism's open-system science principles allow for individual exploration of the many numinous possibilities of contemplating the mysteries of the universe and its origin, understanding the unknown Great Mystery and all of the other great existential questions of existence and life while still using the best of science and rationality as grounding points.
Our Neo-scientific concepts are still being developed. This description of Meta-Spirituality will give you a sense of how Neo-Scientism can combine the best of Roy Baskar's work on Critical Realism with the new concepts of Meta-Spirituality. In a few months, we hope to have more details about the core concepts of Neo-Scientism.
The good news about Neo-Scientism is that Neo-Scientism and rationality, when applied to a personally chosen spiritual or religious setting, help prevent the group from being harmed by dangerous or harmful beliefs, faith revelations, and practices.
Here are some additional factors to consider on this religion and spirituality topic:
1. Unfortunately, many beliefs and practices in today's religions harm or impede the creation of a sustainable, just, and equitable world for ALL. Therefore, self-selecting spiritual members should continually explore how to include the safe and healthy values and ideas of existing religions for their spirituality while transcending the no longer applicable, unjust, or unworkable religious practices, values, and beliefs from humanity's vast spiritual heritage.
2. We allow any individual of any spiritual denomination to join our community. Likewise, any humanist, agnostic, or atheist may join the eco-community. However, if their current religious or spiritual behaviors and actions strongly conflict with the values of our community model, it will not work out well. For example, suppose a potential member's spirituality/religion is intolerant, authoritarian, or "is the only or requires them to recruit and preach to others aggressively. In that case, the four eco-community models will not be a good fit.
3. While there are many dangers to forming a community around a particular religious or spiritual belief system, there is one crucial benefit if the belief system is healthy and noncoercive. As things get worse in the outside macro-culture, members within the community will witness unthinkable suffering and death. A healthy faith can provide deep roots of value that will give additional psychological and emotional resilience, which is dearly needed to survive.
4. We always educate every community member about actions of members or community managers that could harm individuals or the community by introducing or using these manipulative and harmful religious or spiritual practices within the community. We also proactively educate our members about the long-established principles of healthy spiritual practices, which apply to all religions and spiritual practices.
5. Small communities with religious or spiritual affiliations frequently adopt one or more destructive cultish behaviors. To safeguard against this, educate every community member about actions of members or community managers that could harm individuals or the community by having all members understand these fundamental tactics of destructive cults.
6. Furthermore, while the Universe One and ClimateSafe Village models will protect an individual's right to have opinions and beliefs about anything, spiritual or otherwise, and without interference, behaviors springing from those opinions or beliefs are entirely subject to community examination and limitation.
Click here to learn what Eco-Spirituality means.
Click here to learn more about the concepts of Meta-Spirituality.
Click here for a detailed explanation of the Evolution Spirituality philosophy. (Please note that Universe Spirit is moving to a new, improved website here. The old Universe Spirit website is here. Universe Spirt may also change its name shortly to either Universe Community or something else.)
One of the most essential spiritual goals for the Universe One community is to help evolve a new rational and universal form of a healthy and personizable science grounded in meta-spirituality that does not separate people from each other and foment religious conflicts between different peoples. That has been the primary goal of the Universe Spirit organization for decades.
Much work must be done to fully refine a workable and tested vision of universal meta-spirituality that would hugely benefit our post-climate change collapse world. All Universe One members will be invited to volunteer to help create, test, and refine this new vision. (The Universe Spirit organization will have its headquarters at Universe One.)
The Biggest Problem ALL CSVs Have to Resolve to Be Fully Successful
In the later stages of widespread worldwide collapse (2035-2050), conditions will become unbearable for billions of people unprepared for the endless stream of accelerating severe climate and other related consequences. This means billions of desperate, hungry individuals will migrate to survive.
How will CSVs and their members react to these worsening conditions while remaining rational and maintaining human dignity? This ongoing discussion must be resolved before CSV communities face this new challenge.
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(Please note: Once the following non-profit organizations have been relocated, individuals can join them and work remotely with the headquarters of Universe Institute, Universe College, Job One for Humanity, or ClimateSafe Villages. They do not need to be on-site in the rural community.)
8. The Universe Institute is located at Universe One
ClimateSafe Villages is focused on education because lifelong education is one of our most essential values, along with honoring the critical role of teachers. Ongoing education for all will be vital to creating safe and sustainable villages and a secure and sustainable future once climate change and the other 11 major global crises have been resolved.
Two educational organizations will be at the center of Universe One CSV . One is the Universe Institute think tank, and the other is the online school we call Universe College, described below.
These two research and educational organizations exist for the following purposes:
1. To discover and educate individuals and groups on becoming more climate change-resilient so that more people will survive the worsening climate change emergency, multiplying and amplifying humanity's 11 other global crises. (This climate change resilience-building education includes every area that needs to be managed, particularly climate change-resilient small farm organic and sustainable food production necessary to counteract the coming food crises.)
2. To discover and educate about how and why our economic, social, religious, and political systems have created the worsening climate change emergency, multiplying and amplifying humanity's 11 other global crises.
3. To discover and educate about the new economic, social, religious, and political models that will be needed for the future survivors of the climate change emergency and humanity's 11 other global crises to prevent these 12 global crises from ever happening again. (We will share these new or upgraded models with all other ClimateSafe Villages and other outside groups and organizations that need and want them in an open access and Creative Commons manner.)
We actively engage in climate change resilience-building and the other actions described in 1, 2, and 3 above because they will reduce unnecessary suffering and death and save more lives. They will also support the evolution of our economic, social, religious, and political models based on painful lessons learned, which will help us create a more sustainable, equitable, and just future for ALL.
The Universe Institute information below is only for ClimateSafe Villages advanced members, advanced evaluator training, Universe Institute training, or individuals starting independent new eco-communities that wish to align closely with ClimateSafe Villages.
We will teach advanced students joining our Universe Institute think tank logic, scientific method, systems theory, and dialectical meta-systemic theory. We will also teach advanced students the new Universe Evolutionary Worldview, which incorporates many of the best elements from the Integral Philosophy Movement without this movement's less desirable qualities.
At the Universe One ClimateSafe Village, we may also sell our climate change think tank consulting services to large corporations and expand the think tank into researching new models of economics, global governance, and other solutions needed in the post-mass-extinction and post-collapse world.
9. Additional Reading on The Principles of Progressive Evolution Held at Universe One
The links below contain materials for ClimateSafe Villages' advanced members, leadership training, Universe Institute think tank training, or individuals starting independent new eco-communities that wish to align loosely with the Universe One ClimateSafe Village .
John Stewart is an Australian evolutionary scientist who is a member of the Evolution, Complexity, and Cognition (ECCO) Research Group at the Free Universityeer-reviewed papers in international science journals on the directionality of evolution and its implications for humanity of Brussels. He has published p.
Several of his recent papers have focused on psychological development, including the future evolution of consciousness.
He is the author of the internationally acclaimed book Evolution's Arrow: the Direction of Evolution and the Future of Humanity.' More recently, he has finalized The Evolutionary Manifesto, which outlines an evolutionary worldview and explores its relevance to humanity. It demonstrates the potential of a new evolutionary worldview to provide meaning and purpose for human existence.
His recent work also focuses on the evolutionary imperative for humanity to organize itself into a cooperative and evolvable planetary society underpinned by appropriate global governance.
His latest paper on these issues is The Self-Organizing Society: A Grower’s Guide, freely available at http://www.evolutionarymanifesto.com/SelfOrgSoc.pdf.
More about his work is at http://www.evolutionarymanifesto.com/about.html
Click here for the most updated and current evolutionary theory for organizing billionaires (and the 1%) to save us from the climate extinction emergency and other global existential threats. (This link also discusses the pros and cons of getting billionaires to work together from an evolutionary perspective. We do not hide the many negatives that can be anticipated when you try to get billionaires working together on a worthwhile project.)
If you want to see the original evolutionary theory behind the principles of how ‘The One Percent’ of Billionaires can be Organized to Fix Climate Change, click this link.<nbsp;
(Please note: Once the following non-profit organizations have been relocated, individuals can join them and work remotely with the headquarters of Universe Institute, Universe College, Job One for Humanity, or ClimateSafe Villages. They do not need to be on-site in the Universe One rural community.)
10. Universe College Online at Universe One
We will restart the Universe College (UniverseCollege.org) to do much of the preceding. It was online for almost eight years before we closed it. We plan to reopen it with new, far more effective online educational software. Here is the link to the original Universe College information.
Universe College's online educational courses and services will be invaluable to the effective educational efforts and processes underway within other ClimateSafe Villages.
One of the most important courses we will offer is on dialectical meta-systemic thinking, which creates very advanced dialectical multi-system-level thinking. This dialectical meta-systemic thinking is the critical new thinking needed for survival in the collapsing and post-collapse world. Suppose you want to work at the climate change thing tank Job One for Humanity, in addition to the usual climate research credentials. In that case, you will also need to develop the skills of dialectical meta-systemic thinking.
When it reopens, the new Universe College will educate people about many things online that are relevant to ClimateSafe Village life. Using the Information from the Universe Institute and other sources, Universe College will exist for the following additional purposes:
1. To educate about the reasons for how and why our economic, social, religious, and political systems have created the worsening climate change emergency, multiplying and amplifying humanity's 11 other global crises.
2. To educate about the new economic, social, religious, and political models that will be needed for the future survivors of the climate change emergency and humanity's 11 other global crises to prevent these 12 global crises from ever happening again. (We will share these new or upgraded models with all other ClimateSafe Villages and other outside groups and organizations that need and want them in an open access and Creative Commons manner.)
3. to continue to educate individuals and groups on how to become more climate change-resilient so that more people will survive the worsening change emergency, multiplying and amplifying humanity's 11 other global crises. (This climate change resilience-building education includes every area that needs to be managed, particularly climate change-resilient small farm organic and sustainable food production necessary to counteract the coming food crises.)
We actively engage in climate change resilience-building and the other actions described in 1, 2, and 3 above because they will reduce unnecessary suffering and death and save more lives. They will also support the evolution of our economic, social, religious, and political models based on painful lessons learned, which will help us create a more sustainable, equitable, and just future for ALL.
In addition to the above, it will teach the critical needed dialectical meta-systemic thinking and analysis, described in detail here. Dialectical meta-systemic thinking and analysis is currently the most advanced analysis system, far beyond systems thinking and logic alone. Unfortunately, worldwide, only a minimal number of people have mastered it, and that needs to be remedied.
The time is ripe for teaching the 28 forms of dialectical thinking. Here is just a tiny part of the reason why.
Organizations are fixated on currently applied capability (performance) alone and neglect or deny the existence of the current potential and the emergent potential capabilities of human agents, and since recent ‘breakthroughs’ such as chatbots are used mainly to strengthen instrumentalist thinking and de-agentify work, the teaching the new dialectical meta-systemic thinking and analysis processes could bring together what people COULD DO if given the right advanced dialectical thinking tools to address what is a slow or fast system breakdown our current economic, ecological, and political systems.
Teaching these new thinking skills could help remedy what Zachary Stein called the “cognitive fallacy.” This fallacy—the assumption that everybody operates at a peak level of cognitive maturity and has nothing more to learn about thinking except”— to be “critical" has become a fallacy about to engulf us. It is time to teach those at least 25-27 years old the advanced dialectical thinking systems that will help save the world.
When the teachers, staff, and funding are in place, we will reopen the Universe College to teach and share everything we have learned or offer at ClimateSafe Villages.
11. Universe One CSV Contributors
The Job One for Humanity and, to a significantly smaller part, the Universe Spirit organizations focus on educating individuals and businesses about what is avoidable and unavoidable in the face of many rapidly unfolding environmental and social global collapse processes. Its primary mission is to help individuals, as a society, prepare for and optimally adapt to survive the coming levels of extinction and collapse.
These nonprofit organizations will help individuals form groups and communities to evolve and create sustainable lifestyles and livelihoods in locations that are safer from global warming. Job One for Humanity will also continue to educate governments on climate-driven migration, infrastructure transfer, and emergency backup programs to support governments in the accelerating global warming extinction emergency.
Universe Spirit provides a broad science-based knowledge base, focusing on biological evolution, to explain what is developing in society and the physical world. This "fact-based" foundation is then used to create remedial "survive and thrive" strategies.
(Please note that at the Universe Institute, individuals will work on better solutions to many of the world's biggest problems. Universe College operated online for about eight years and will reopen at the new Universe One ClimateSafe Villages site. Universe Spirit is moving to an improved new website here and may even change its name to possibly the Universe Community or Neo-Scientism. The old Universe Spirit website is here. Many pages on the Universe Spirit website are decades old and a bit outdated in some areas. They are slowly being upgraded as they are transferred to the new Universe Spirit website.
The new and independent ClimateSafe Villages are vital to the Universe One project. The following history of their creation will help you understand CSV's ongoing and past contributions to Universe One.
The Job One for Humanity team spent many years anticipating the need to build climate-resilient communities. During those years, we designed a master plan for what we hoped would become such communities, which could simultaneously survive the climate change emergency and other global crises.
Initially, we called these climate-resilient communities eco-communities or the Universe One community.
In May 2023, under CSV's new leadership, we helped create a new nonprofit organization called ClimateSafe Villages. We sponsored it until December 31, 2023, just after the US government granted it nonprofit status.
We co-created ClimateSafe Villages so people would have the critical individual and community support needed to overcome the challenging tasks necessary to prepare for and adapt to the coming climate change emergency and other global crises. We also created it to collect and share all the information that anyone anywhere in the world would need to develop a climate-safe village in their location.
In March 2024, one of the lead Job One team members resigned from the ClimateSafe Villages board of directors because ClimateSafe Villages had the necessary skilled management team in place, and that Job One team member needed to return to their research and analysis work at Job One.
Today, Job One, Universe Spirit, Universe Institute, and Universe College team members are active ClimateSafe Villages members for their own survival and that of their families.
Much of everything on the Job One website describing the ClimateSafe Villages vision is based on our original master model research on creating individual and community climate resilience.
The current management of ClimateSafe Villages has full access to all Job One materials for their work. Job One for Humanity continues to collaborate with and regularly promotes ClimateSafe Villages' work.
Click here to visit the new and fully independent Climatesafe Villages organization and website.
(As of 2.13.2025 we are still in the process of updating the sections below.)
Here are the four major phases of developing the Universe One urban/rural community. (The four phases described below will eventually be incorporated into the detailed launch steps in the next section.)
Step 1: Lawrence Wollersheim moves the current Job One headquarters from San Francisco to the new long term Universe One final location. Some Job One and volunteers or members will probably join us either at the same time or shortly afterward. Until we have made the rural land purchase and have started infrastructure construction, everyone joining us will temporarily buy or rent homes in the area, start local organic gardens, and make other emergency-related preparations.
Step 2: Start an urban CSV model in the Universe One area with people already living there. When the time comes, urban CSV members can also help physically build the infrastructure needed for the new rural version.
If you are already in a climate-resilience area and interested in getting involved in the urban CSV model before joining a local rural model, please fill out this survey and email Leonora at [email protected]. She will then add you to the online CSV advisory group.
Step 3: After the local CSV urban community is hopefully established, the next activity will be to finalize a rural land purchase of the proper size 100-200+acres, soil quality, and other required factors on the land purchase checklist in the Job One members area here.
Next we will complete rural CSV infrastructure, buildings, and critical equipment funding.
We will use the best possible designs to complete the construction of our climate-resilient infrastructure, including the required community spaces, homes, dorms, gardens, four-season greenhouses, business, art, online educational production, and classroom areas.
Step 4: After the urban/rural Universe One CSV community and cooperative is nearly fully operational, we will promote widely and invite others to join us in the new area. Our first invitations will go to Job One, CSV, Universe Institute, Universe College, and Universe Spirit members to join us in rural or urban communities. They can temporarily buy or rent homes in the area or join the rural CSV version when the home is ready for occupancy.
3. Universe One Rural Version Launch Steps
The Universe One rural CSV should be considered a new type of optimized sustainable sanctuary designed to withstand the worst of the climate and the other 11 global crisis collapse processes while preparing for the needs of the post-collapse world.
Each step below will likely become a separate sub-project with a project manager coordinator and a volunteer team. (They will use our new project management and team-building software, Basecamp.) As more competent, climate crisis-aware individuals show up to help, the full rural ClimateSafe Village community will accelerate into existence.
Step 1.
Continue initial funding through donations, grant funding, government loan guarantee acquisition, large-scale "angel" fundraising, and CSV member land lease and personal building financial commitments or deposits to raise adequate rural launch finances for:
a. the salary for the full-time community coordinator/manager who will oversee all Universe One CSV growth activities. (This is a large-scale and time-consuming project. We can no longer rely exclusively on volunteers.)
b. the headquarters rural land purchase of 100 to 200 acres or more, depending on costs.
c. infrastructure costs, including the overall climate change-resilient architectural design for the community and all buildings. This infrastructure also includes roads, a net-zero community center, a community event kitchen, staff family homes, dorms for singles, independently owned homes of members on leased community land, gardening areas, greenhouses, agricultural areas, open areas, educational, business, and art buildings, and integrated water, septic, green power systems (solar/wind/hydro), and community-integrated high-speed internet.
d. costs for all net-zero climate change-resilient community buildings, dorms, sheds, greenhouses, etc.
Here is the new cost estimator we are continuing to develop for the Rural CSV. It can easily be adapted to other CSVs.
Step 2.
There is much to be done until the needed phased funding is in place. Individuals in various advisory groups must complete the many planning and research tasks listed below using the following principles of successful project execution.
1. Determine your in-house resources and obtainable out-of-house resources such as net-zero open-source architectural designs, volunteer knowledge contributions, etc.
2. Select the first most crucial sequential project that matches those resources.
3. Choose the project managers.
4. Draft a preliminary proposal and goals for a specific area, such as land acquisition quality, needed infrastructure, etc. (Proposal here means a substantial project PLAN - i.e., VILLAGE PLAN.)
5. Find a preliminary sponsor if funding is already not in place.
6. Begin critical development efforts.
7. Specify performance, time, and cost to achieve the goal.
8. Obtain additional funding commitments to complete.
9. Organize for the implementation long haul.
While the above-phased fundraising is being completed and the CSV Urban Villages is being launched, special CSV online advisory committees will work on the following with our new project management software:
a. Complete the best legal structure for the new community's land preservation (possibly a non-profit corporation, a social benefit corporation, a conservation land trust, etc.). Having a legal structure that wisely maintains the community's contagious land purchase integrity from all contingencies is critical and foundational. (Most past communities fail when their land is broken up or lost from various causes, like members failing to pay taxes on their individually owned and leased homes, inter-community disputes, lawsuits, etc.)
b. Complete all legal contracts for member involvement, including equitable contracts for leasing homes or business spaces on community land. This contracts area will also include any other contracts or community exit procedures so that all required community agreements are clear and fair to all parties. Community-related contracts will have an equitable but mandatory binding arbitration clause to prevent costly, time-consuming, or frivolous litigation that could harm the community.
c. Completing community rural land acquisition evaluation using our existing comprehensive soil, environmental, and water testing and quality standards checklists.
d. Complete all local zoning and building checks and approvals needed for a small educational climate change-resilient farm (an agrihood), a school, a community center for the school and staff, classrooms, dorms, private net-zero private homes, or tiny homes, greenhouses and related service and storage buildings, etc. This process will also include local zoning approval for temporary or permanent RV pads for construction workers, having educational retreats in the community using available housing and classroom and other spaces, septic systems, off-grid power systems, community roads, and drainage systems, and many other zoning and related checks as described in our six-page land purchase, home buying, and migration checklist found in the Members-only section of our website. We must also check to see if local zoning regulations will allow us to eventually build a sanctuary-like structure that would serve the community for interfaith services and individual or group meditations, reflections, etc. (To see this checklist, log into our website and join.)
e. Complete researching community-wide climate-resilience and safety design standards for individually-owned net-zero homes that would be on community land and leased to the owners who paid for their construction on something like a 99-year lease. This lease would specify that the owners or their heirs would be required to comply with common community regulations and standards and keep all related local tax assessments paid. These 99-year lease agreements would have equitable buy-back agreements for the community and homeowner/lessors if the owner/lessor had to leave the community for some reason.
f. Complete the initial community four-season food production organic garden, greenhouse, aquaponics, vertical hydroponics, and agricultural plan.
g. Complete the community member screening criteria (found here) and begin new member screenings.
h. Complete the all-community new Personal Democracy vision.
i. Complete potential ongoing income sources and plans for both the community and community members. (Please note that some community members already have income sources to sustain themselves that are eco-community compatible and can be continued within the eco-community.)
j. Recruit first volunteer educator teachers to help design and begin creating member educational materials and teach online courses.
K. Complete all funding requirements for the next phase.
l. Begin eco-community infrastructure construction. Our newly purchased land site will be prepared for numerous RV or tiny home sites to be used for the community infrastructure building team's housing during construction. These RV and tiny home sites can later be used by visiting members for retreats or new members wanting to experience the community before joining and building their own net-zero homes. (As we raise enough funding, as a community, we may pre-build all net-zero homes and long-term lease them to members or exchange their leasing fees for services rendered to the eco-community.)
m. Select which new or offline barter system might work best within the eco-community between members and the community and with other Universe model eco-communities.
n. While the macro-culture is still relatively stable, once the community infrastructure (community kitchen, meeting rooms, etc.) has been installed, those ready members could begin building their net-zero homes on our new land.
o. Recruit other key member positions needed at the rural village.
p. Help launch introductory online or offline community member education and training courses in the new fully online Universe College software.
Once the rural community has become fully operational, raise additional funds to:
a. Establish community food, water, and energy reserves and backup parts and systems.
b. Enhance community community defensibility to protect against coming emergencies.
c. Initiate outreach to help other new CSV communities form using our community model, tools, forms, contracts, architectural plans, etc.
d. Initiate outreach to help the greater local communities to build stronger climate change resilience in those communities as described in part on this page.
e. Initiate outreach to more isolated CSV communities to create an emergency backup and bug-out capacity for those members who have negotiated and established a special mutually beneficial prior relationship with those more isolated CSVs for shelter in a temporary or extended emergency that is facing their current CSV.
f. As needed, recruit and expand CSV, Universe Institute, Universe Spirit, and Universe Day team members. (Universe Institute, Universe Spirit, and Universe Day are described further down this page.)
Step 3.
Once we have successfully established ClimateSafe Villages and it has reached its growth limit by buying adjacent lands (of about 150-500 people), we will ask qualified members to help establish a network of other ClimateSafe Villages-like eco-communities in other safer locations worldwide. (These closely affiliated new eco-communities could be known as ClimateSafe Villages Berlin, ClimateSafe Villages Tokyo, etc., to distinguish them from the founding flagship Universe One, ClimateSafe Villages community.
Step 4. To be determined.
12. Other Pages in the Job One, ClimateSafe Village Master Model
Page 1: Introduction, Overview, and Goals
Page 2: Climate Safe Village Qualities, Processes, Income Sources, and Safeguards
Page 3: The Four ClimateSafe Village Models and Their Operations
Page 4: Our New Personal Democracy ClimateSafer Village Management Model
Page 5: About ClimateSafe Villages, a Unique Rural ClimateSafe Village
Page 6: Our ClimateSafe Villages ClimateSafe Village Application Process
13. Updates to our vision and other recent news
A. The Universe One CSV vision now includes partial veganism as a qualification for new members of the Universe One CSV vision. What we mean by this is that we will try to be mostly vegan, but may allow eating some of the fish when they reach maturity from our aquaponics facility.
The movement toward near- or complete veganism and away from large-scale animal consumption aligns well with rebalancing our world's ecosystems and away from the monocultures that have taken over much of it.
It is also our feeling that vegans or near-vegans will generally more easily align with manyals, purposes, and directions of the Universe. of the other go One version of a CSV.
Appendix Materials
The ClimateSafe Village Social Contract Page
Online Rules for Our Virtual ClimateSafe Village
Procedures and Policies for Exiting Our ClimateSafe Villages or Applying for Membership
Personal Democracy White Paper
The ClimateSafe Villages Issues FAQ of frequently asked questions for only issues directly relating to ClimateSafe Villages issues
The ClimateSafe Villages Climate FAQ of frequently asked questions for every question you have about climate change
Click here for our ClimateSafe Village online guide master table of contents
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