Last updated 5.20.25.
(As of May 2025, we are currently in the middle of our second five-year upgrade of all content on our website. Until this upgrade is complete, our new editors may still be correcting minor grammatical or spelling errors as they go through the hundreds of pages on our website.)
Before reading this page, be sure to read this critical summary of the current climate change emergency facts. You will then understand the major reasons why you should seriously consider joining the Universe One Eco community version of ClimateSafe Villages (CSV) or another version of a CSV.
Prologue
The following is a key page in the original Universe One and ClimateSafe Village (CSV) guide and model for everything you need to know about this unique climate change-prepared and resilient community of the future. The Universe One "survive and thrive" eco community, model, and vision were initially developed by Job One for Humanity over several decades. (Job One is a nonprofit climate change think tank and risk assessment organization founded in 2008. It is 100% publicly funded and uncensored by any government or corporation.)
"If you think of the Universe One CSV as a place where you can live a safe, ethical, and sustainable lifestyle in a dysfunctional, unsustainable, and unjust society about to go through major self-inflicted climate and other catastrophes and widespread system collapses, you would have a good starting idea about what the Universe One CSV is about."
Specifically, Universe One was designed to be:
1. A climate change emergency prepared, adapted, and resilient eco community that was carefully and intentionally planned and engineered using multiple, layered strategies to allow sustainable and ethical survival for generations despite accelerating climate change consequences.
2. A leading sustainable housing, building, and eco community example in the climate change resilience movement,
3. A climate-prepared eco community that can assist in the creation of other new climate change-prepared communities worldwide,
4. An eco community developing and testing the needed ecological, economic, social, and even political changes and improvements so humanity can learn from its climate change and other mistakes, so that it never faces another climate change extinction emergency again.
5. To create a computer archive to preserve the best of humanity's science, knowledge, and arts during the climate change-driven period of widespread disaster and collapse.
As you will find out while reading this page, Universe One does have other aligned and facilitating purposes, but for now, all you need to know are the five purposes listed above. If you are not interested in or value the five purposes listed above for yourself, your family, or your grandchildren, Universe One is probably not a good fit for you, but there are many other CSVs that would be glad to have you as a community member.
A bit of Universe One history is also helpful...
To help spread the ideas of the original Universe One climate change-safer and resilient community eco-community model, in 2023, Job One for Humanity helped to establish a new nonprofit called ClimateSafe Villages. This new non-profit organization is exclusively committed to creating climate change-resilient "survive and thrive "eco-communities worldwide using much of our Universe One research and materials. While the Universe One CSV community maintains many unique features and rigorous membership criteria not found in other CSVs, it also continuously supports the creation and operations of the many other CSV eco-communities being guided into existence at the new ClimateSafe Villages nonprofit organization that we helped to create.
If you are just browsing and the idea of an intentional climate-safe eco community is new to you, and you want to get a general sense of what this movement is all about, we strongly recommend you also explore the new ClimateSafe Villages website. Please click here to go to the far less complex ClimateSafe Village (CSV) website and start exploring the many positive possibilities.
Some of the sections below may have some remaining repetition due to the continual pre-launch upgrading of this document.
The following are the main sections on this Universe One Eco community Design page
The following are section titles found on this page. Within the section titles are many relevant and interesting subtitles. Please feel free to scan through the sections and interesting section subtitles, and then start to read what interests you most. You can then return to the other sections and subtitles later.
Introduction to the unique Universe One "survive and thrive" community. (This section includes member qualities, legal and financial issues, security issues, and the essential philosophy and worldview of Universe One. If you align with most of our mission, values, philosophy, and worldview and have the general qualifications we are looking for, you will be a good fit for the Universe One community.)
More about the Universe Evolutionary Worldview used at Universe One and our Vision for a More Sustainable and Equitable Future for ALL.
At Universe One, We See Ourselves as Universe Citizens, Global Citizens, and Evolutioneers.
Qualities and Values at Universe One include the Spiritual for those members of a Spiritual Nature
The following sections are optional and far less important:
The Universe Institute at Universe One
The Principles of Progressive Evolution held at Universe One.
Universe College Online at Universe One
Universe One and ClimateSafe Villages Community Contributors
Other Pages in ClimateSafe Villages Community MasterModel Materials
Updates to our vision and recent news
Detailed Step-by-Step Launch Actions for Universe One
Quick Overview of Why the New Universe One Eco Community
Welcome to the unique Universe One version of a CSV. It may be no accident that you are reading about this new community at this challenging moment in your life's personal evolution.
At the Universe One CSV, we see that most of the critical economic, political, social, and environmental systems of our globalized society are in peril. Many of them are highly dysfunctional, often irrational, and severely distorted by greed and selfishness. This toxic combination produces all kinds of social inequalities, injustices, environmental and health damage (the accelerating climate change emergency with all its conflicts), conflicts, and human misery.
These weakening and falling systems and their problems are growing more unsustainable. Worse yet, there is no credible national or international leadership with the power to change Earth's and humanity's accelerating climate change-driven global system collapse.
Accordingly, Universe One's primary focus, well beyond building the maximum survival time into our rural community during the climate change-driven Great Collapse also must be to create an education-based "survive and thrive" sanctuary to:
"plan out, design, test, and become successful living examples of the new systems that will be needed to evolve politically, economically, environmentally, and socially for a sustainable, equitable, and just post-collapse Great Rebirth for ALL of humanity (not just the privileged few, the elite, or the billionaires.)"
If both parts of our goals above are not highly valuable to you and you do not want to help create the above two goals, then there is no need to continue reading.
Please do keep reading if you want to increase your probability of surviving what is coming AND you see yourself also helping to create a better life and future that holds the potential of revitalizing and rebalancing society after the climate change emergency-driven Great Collapse has occurred.
Being part of a group that is intentionally working toward creating a Great Rebirth for humanity is a way for individuals, families, and businesses not just to survive, but to thrive, make the best of a horrific situation during the phases of the Great Collapse, and have a meaningful hope and purpose.
As you can imagine, Universe One is where individuals will gather together to use their 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 individuals will 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.
Universe One may be the most difficult CSV to join because of its many unique functions. At the minimum, in its leading positions, it will require many brilliant, rational individuals who are also socially and emotionally well-developed and have a history of ethical behavior.
And finally, the land and location we occupy will also be unique. Universe One will be from 100-500 acres or more. It will be zoned to allow for residences, community buildings, community gardens, etc. It will also have a commercial zoning section that will allow for an RV, trailer, and tiny home park for those individuals wanting to try out the community or those individuals with less financial capabilities.
This land will also offer secure storage of emergency supplies for individuals who cannot directly live at the Universe One campus. Our location will be in a generally affordable area where affordable land and housing will also be readily available near the Universe One campus for those individuals who would prefer to live in the approximate area of the Universe One rather than within the community itself.
1. Introduction to the Universe One Eco community
"Mere planning to survive is not enough alone to survive what is coming. One must also be a part of a resilient and unified community that has a meaningful and relevant purpose, coupled with a practical hope of first surviving and then improving the post-collapse future to have one's best chances of surviving the Great Collapse and thriving into the Great Rebirth. The new philosophy and worldview of the Universe One community will provide that critical and essential layer of meaning and purpose," Lawrence Wollersheim
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 Universe One CSV Master Model Overview, it will also have many activities, values, goals, and a unique culture not 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 a new science-grounded philosophy that will provide the unity of values and practices necessary to survive what is coming.
After years of searching and researching at Job One, we decided that the global warming-safe and academically friendly areas of Marquette, Michigan, Bellingham, Washington, or the area 60 miles north of San Francisco near the coast, are the best current US areas for Universe One. (Currently, Marquette, Michigan, is the choice for the area to establish a highly isolated Universe One rural CSV. The area 60 miles north of San Francisco near the coast is the location of our first urban/rural Universe One.)
When the Universe One urban/rural village is fully established, it promises to survive and thrive for many decades in an uncertain climate change 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 and practiced by its members will be among the most important factors allowing it to survive the many unimaginable hardships coming with the climate change-driven Great Collapse.
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.
What the Universe One Eco Community 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 and thrivable,
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 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.
More about the physical qualities and values of the Universe One Eco community
Many of the physical qualities and many of the cultural values of the Universe One Eco community that are not described are found on this page. If you are serious about joining Universe One, be sure to read this page. In some ways, this new eco community is a bit like a monastery for philosophy and education, and finding and testing the many new practices humanity must adopt to never repeat the many causes of the Great Collapse and to genuinely create the Great Rebirth.
Don't think of Universe One like a traditional monastery with male monks running around alone. Think about a monastic like peace and tranquility, full of individuals and families of all generations, races, ethnicities, and backgrounds.
Medical Services at Universe One Eco Community
Universe One plans to be at least a 45-minute maximum distance from a level one medical trauma center. Eventually, we also plan on recruiting a qualified doctor and nurse to create an on-site medical facility for our Universe One community and the surrounding communities.
This medical center will have to be well-stocked to manage the upcoming consequences. It will need multiple backup systems to safely purchase and store every type of vaccine, antibiotic, and medicine the community will need for emergency services on-site, and services over time it's outside medical services become more difficult to obtain.
We do not envision difficulty in recruiting a qualified doctor and nurse to relocate to our community due to its many positive, healthy, and secure features that any doctor or nurse would want for themselves and their families. This doctor, nurse, and on-site clinic would also avail their medical services to outside local community members to help build alliances with these local communities.
Eventually, the community will also have to establish a working laboratory where someone with a chemistry background would create medical and other chemical compounds that we will need as the manufacturing and distribution of traditional vaccines, antibiotics, and medicines slows or is completely interrupted.
Please help fund the acquisition of rural land and the cost of constructing climate change resilient community buildings at Universe One by making a tax-deductible donation to our organization here.
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 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 to ensure 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 an increasing number 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.
If you doubt the concept of "survival of the most cooperative, " 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 Eco community future security and its emergency bug-out location design
Like every other wisely planned CSV, the isolated Universe One rural CSV will also provide a carefully planned number of secure and hidden emergency container-sized storage options and RV or trailer storage facilities, and possibly even additional vacant housing facilities for:
a. remote CSV members from other locations in case they need to bug out,
b. members of the local Universe One or CSV community who are not living on the Universe One campus and have chosen to create bug-out emergency backup storage containers within the Universe One rural community campus. These backup storage containers and RV or trailer storage facilities filled with all the necessary emergency supplies for members outside the Universe One rural community will also bring in extra income to the community.
Universe One will also have emergency backup locations. 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 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 backup locations will most likely be in other isolated, massive-acreage CSVs with whom they 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 unless they had fully pre-prepared for this with all the necessary emergency supplies already stored at the second location.
Therefore, any additional bug-out backup rural location for an existing rural CSV must be carefully pre-planned and fully pre-stocked with multiple, very isolated other rural CSVs. This will ensure that the more isolated CSVs will remain sustainable in an emergency if a group of known, well-prepared members from another CSV relocates there. This advance pre-planning and pre-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 initially will be looking for a large piece of land from 100 to 500 acres. This large piece of land will be necessary to allow other CSVs to have Universe One as a backup location and to provide emergency storage facilities for CSV and Universal One members living close to Universe One but not on campus.
This book will help you understand how an individual's values and actions change and quickly evolve as the conditions on the ground change and evolve. Unfortunately, all CSV communities can be assured that they will continually be dealing with constantly changing and worsening local conditions, directly or indirectly affecting their internal and external relationships and dynamics.
It will help every community member realize what will happen to people emotionally and psychologically and what they will do physically as conditions worsen. This knowledge of human values and actions also challenges how we, as a community, must adapt and evolve to changing local conditions while still maintaining our humanity.
As conditions worsen, each CSV community must develop similar level-by-level adaptation strategies. No one strategy will work for all of the changing conditions described in the Spiral Dynamics book.
Even if you're not concerned about climate change or future security issues, this is a must-read book for everyone trying to live the best life they can right now.
The only other thing we recommend to help you get a truly realistic sense of what we'll be dealing with in the Great Collapse is to read Olivia Butler's two "Talents of..." books, which are described elsewhere on the Job One for Humanity website.

The Universe One Eco community 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 climate change's primary and secondary consequences, they will do this to make better solutions and proven examples 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 sustainable 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.
"We are thrivists! We are not what you normally consider to be survivalists. We are fortunately forced by deteriorating climate change and other conditions to prepare, adapt, and become more resilient. As we become more prepared, adaptable, and more resilient, it does not mean we also have to adopt the doomsday mentality or philosophy of the survivalist preppers." Lawrence Wollersheim
The Location of the First Universe One Rural Eco Community, and Future Universe Ones Worldwide
The location possibilities and the current favorite location are discussed in the members-only section of the Job One website. There are many reasons we are currently keeping our top choices confidential. One reason is that we are not ready for people who are not directly involved in that community to show up at any location at this time.
If you are serious about joining Universe One or learning more, please become a member of the Job One nonprofit organization. There are many benefits beyond what you will learn about Universe One and its location(s). Click here to learn about those member benefits.
The Universe One Eco community 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 all of the CSV community design pages found on this guide and index. 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 strives to create 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 prove the workability new success models like the Universe Principles 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 Universe One and some in 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.)
Please help fund the acquisition of rural land and the cost of constructing climate change resilient community buildings at Universe One by making a tax-deductible donation to our organization here.
Here are some of the qualities and types of individuals we are seeking to join us at the urban/rural Universe One Eco community
The Universe One community members must be a good fit for our many values and goals. In addition to the regular members of the Universe One community maintaining all of the different aspects of the community, 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 rational, intelligent, 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 and testing of 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 financially stable or have a valuable trade or skill to exchange with the community if they are financially challenged at this time. Please note that if you have critical medical or tradesperson (construction, plumbing, electrical, etc.) skills that the community needs n its building phase needs we will waive some qualifications described below in the membership area.
Universe One members 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. If you align with most of our mission, values, philosophy, and worldview and have the general qualifications we are looking for, you will be a good fit for the Universe One community.
Universe One Eco community Members and staffing
Universe One will quickly come into being when someone with solid project management qualifications comes forward and says I am willing to manage the creation of the first Universe One location and community. If the wisdom and importance of this project are calling to you, you may be this person. It is that simple, and Universe One will surge into reality.
Some good news is that several members have surfaced who are senior citizens and said they would be able to help buy the Universe One community land within the existing design model and be able to build their own climate-resilient homes. Once our project manager appears, purchasing the land should not be a difficult or time-consuming task, as we have been looking at land for the last five years in these areas. With over 7,000 members at Job One and other connections, we will be able to raise the additional funds needed for any land purchase of 100 to as many as 500 acres for this unique and essential community.
Ideally, the first people we are looking for are this senior project manager/leader and, hopefully, a deputy project manager/leader to help them out. The next most critical Universe One rural members we are looking for are energy-efficient general contractors, construction tradespersons, plumbing and electrical tradespersons, permaculture and aquaponics experts, non-profit administrative and financial managers, recruiting, human resources, all types of medical and dental services people, therapeutic psychological counseling, internet security, software design, public relations people and trained think tank analysts. (Please note that critically needed phase 1 launch staff will not need to meet the strictest application requirements described below. This is particularly true for tradespeople and medical staff.
As time goes on, we will also need a chemist for a laboratory, and we will need a librarian and archivist to help us preserve the best of our civilizations, knowledge, literature, etc., for the Great Rebirth
In collaboration with the CSV headquarters organization, we will get most of our final community layout, and home, building, and garden design information from CSV's current work on eco-friendly community architecture, home and building 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 you want to join the Universe One community. Let us know about your skills and experience. (More about the Universe One formal application process is further down this page. 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 Universe One CSV model before we begin the rural model, please email me at [email protected] with your skills and experience.
Special Software Team Building and Project Management Available Soon Online for only the Universe One CSV Launch
We have 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 Lawrence at [email protected] and tell him you want access to this Universe One team coordination tool. 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 the Basecamp team management software and large groups of people in the various CSV topic-specific advisory groups making it all happen.
The Universe One Eco community 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.
"True cultural change occurs when a small group of people finds a better way to live and the rest of us imitate them." Robert Brooks
Universe One is about finding, testing, and living that new and better way of life right now. But, even more importantly, it is indispensable for facilitating the Great Rebirth.
Please help fund the acquisition of rural land and the cost of constructing climate change resilient community buildings at Universe One by making a tax-deductible donation to our organization here.
The Worldview of Universe One Eco community
The new 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.
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 additional 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 Universe Evolutionary Worldview and teaches its leading members how to rationally analyze the complex adaptive problems and systems they will need to deal with using logic, systems thinking, and the new methodology of Dialectical Metasystemic Thinking.
The Current Slogan of the Universe One Eco community
"One Humanity, Global Country, and Universe Union." (If you have suggestions for a better slogan, please let us know.)
Self-Funding vs Community Funding and Other Founding Member Financial Issues
Suppose you are applying for a founding membership in the Universe One CSV community. In that case, in general, 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.
Initially, it appears that older individuals who are better financed will play a significantly larger role in acquiring the needed land for Universe One. We also suspect that it will be the better-financed, older individuals who will also contribute more financially to the original construction and equipment needs (Solar and wind, septic, water capture, etc.) of Universe One. Older individuals participating in Universe One have many reasons and advantages for making these financial contributions to the community. (These advantages are described elsewhere on this page in the section called The Universe One Launch Phases in Phase Two.)
That being said, younger, less well-financed individuals will not be excluded from joining the community if they are willing to contribute their labor to help build the community and have the needed skill sets. The financing of older community members will help the younger community members get established and build, and the younger community members will take over the physical work that older community members can no longer physically do. It is a multi-generational win-win. But this does not mean that the older community members will not have community work responsibilities, and all they have to do is bring start-up money by any means.
Universe One initial founding members will need adequate 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 has been built, 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.
To be clear, here are the exceptions to the above founding member self-funding requirements:
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., and you generally align well with the gold values and mission of Universe One, 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.
Once we are fully ready to go public to our 7,000 members and to the outside public, in addition to any self-funding that many members will bring to Universe One, our nonprofit organization will organize other forms of fundraising, grants, and GoFundMe-like programs to help cover more of the costs of launching Universe One.
Please note: Universe One will not accept funds from billionaires, ultra-wealthy individuals, or corporations which are directly contributing to the climate change emergency or other major social or ecological problems and dysfunctionality. Large donors will be carefully screened to ensure only those individuals and corporations with clean hands can be involved in the Universe One community and vision.
We have written extensively about the responsibilities of billionaires and ultra-wealthy individuals and corporations relating to the climate change emergency and the 11 other major crises facing humanity. (Click here to read those materials and the horrible fate the billionaires, ultra-wealthy, and corporations will eventuallysuffer if they fail to change their polluting and other dysfunctional behaviors.)
Please help fund the acquisition of rural land and the cost of constructing climate change resilient community buildings at Universe One by making a tax-deductible donation to our organization here.
The Legal Structure of the Universe One Eco community
Each ClimateSafe Village may have its own unique legal structure for how the community land is purchased and used. At Universe One, a 32-year-old, IRS-approved 501(c)3 nonprofit educational organization that will purchase and set up Universe One community-shared land, gardens, buildings, and equipment. The nonprofit will always own 100% of the community land in perpetual trust for the Universe One campus and all common buildings and equipment necessary for running the community. This will ensure that the campus land will always remain legally safe, secure, and undivided or lost.
This nonprofit ownership of all land, common equipment, and community buildings also makes it easy for the community management to expedite the process of building and expanding the community.
Individuals can also either buy land near the community land and build their own homes and participate in community activities on the community campus, or they can apply for a 99-year lease for parcels held by the non-profit community trust structure that will be available to rent and build a home, garden, pond, etc. on the common community land.
Only approved individuals who have attained permanent membership status 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. In a specially designated commercially zoned area, Universe One will also rent out temporary housing to owners of tiny houses, RVs, or travel trailers for individuals who have obtained provisional living on-campus membership and or who are trying out Universe One to see if they want to call me a long-term or permanent member of the community. This commercial area will also offer emergency secure storage for people near the community and other local communities who want to have everything in place for when the emergency worsens, but yet remain where they currently live to the last moment.
The Universe One community is managed by the nonprofit organization's board of directors, officers, and designated executives, subject to US and Colorado laws governing the management of nonprofit organizations. At all times, the permanent community members living on campus will be able to present their needs and desires to the nonprofit officers, executives, and board. The nonprofit's board, officers, and executives will do everything possible to meet the essential needs and wishes of the Universe One community collective will of the majority of permanent community members to the extent that the US and Colorado laws allow such accommodations.
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.
Our Unique "Bless and Release: Attitude
Becoming a permanent member of the Universe One community can be challenging. The good news is that if it does not work out for you as a good fit or for the community, leaving the community or being asked by the community to find a better fit in another CSV or elsewhere is quick and easy.
Part of that process will include what we call a "bless and release" recognition and gratitude event, where we personally thank you for every contribution you have made to the community while you were here. We will also expedite any other actions needed to make your transition out of the community as smooth, kind, and respectful as possible. Living together in a community might not work out for everyone despite their good efforts and intentions, especially during these times of heightened stress and dysfunctionality.
The Way of the Universe Philosophy and the Universe Evolutionary Worldview are Intrinsically Interwoven and a Part of the Universe One CSV
(Please Note: The Way of the Universe philosophy is still being finished, and a new website is being created for it. While it is not complete yet, it will be complete before the Universe One community buildings and permaculture community gardens are functional. The basics of this new philosophy, found within its Universe Principles, are ready to start practicing today. The basics of this new Way Of the Universe philosophy are currently found within the science-grounded Universe Principles.)
What is the Way of the Universe Philosophy embraced at Universe One?
Click here to read the most current version of the Way of the Universe philosophy.
Why is it especially critical to adopt and align with the time-proven Universe Principles of successful evolution at Universe One and in other CSV network communities?
Whenever a family, group, larger group, corporation, or nation adopts and practices the Universe Principles, that group has created many "survive and thrive" advantages beyond groups that do not operate on these principles. The Universe Principles, when practiced as an integrated whole system, act to both balance and maintain the correct correlation of rights and responsibilities within and between the community and the individual. Their deep Science and reality-grounding also help to hold the group together in positive and rational ways when the group is subjected to high stress and multiple crises over extended periods of time. This benefit is particularly important with humanity's climate change emergency and many other accelerating global crises moving many of humanity's systems towards collapse.
How to learn the Way of the Universe's, Universe Principles?
Most of us do not need to know everything about the science behind why something is true and works. For those who want an easy, fast start without lots of science reading, start by exploring and testing the Universe Principles. They are designed from the science-grounded principles of Progressive Evolution to help you create the optimal decisions, actions, and attitudes for a meaningful, sustainable, and successful life. They are practical daily action and attitude guides that you can begin immediately and are the easiest way to get started for most people.
The Universe Principles are essential to a good life because, directly or indirectly, the evolutionary processes of the master universe condition and control ALL actions within the universe. Therefore, your understanding of the evolutionary processes controlling and conditioning everything in the universe, simplified in the form of the Universe Principles, will help you make the right decisions and take the right actions for the right reasons, at the right time, and in the right way.
In practical terms, the more your life aligns with the Universe Principles of Right Action and Right Attitude, the better your life will become. Once you start practicing the Universe Principles, you will prove the above claim to yourself.
Click here to start using and testing the beginner's short form of the Universe Principles of Right Action and Right Attitude to improve your life's success dramatically. In their simplicity, the short form of Universe Principles will guide you to a rational and kind life. They will show you how to powerfully unite your rational mind and kind heart and live successfully!
2. Universe One Eco community Launch Phases
Phase One, The local urban/rural community involves continuing to raise funds for the project and a few people in the area or moving to the Universe One chosen area and working with other locals to create a local urban/rural climate change-resilient community. Currently, the area we have chosen to set up our first local urban/rural community is an area about 40 miles north of San Francisco near the coast and Sevastopol, California. Lawrence Wollersheim will be personally coordinating the creation of this first local urban/rural Universe One community.
Phase Two, building the rural community is where our nonprofit organization purchases a large tract of land in a progressive area, 100 to several hundred acres, where many community members (ideally and eventually about 150+) 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.
It is important that if you are progressive, you build a community in a progressive area because the common values will assist you and the community to survive when things get really tough. If you have any doubt about the importance of this advice, be sure you read the book Spiral Dynamics so that you understand what will happen to human behavior and values level by level as things start get worse and worse.
In phase two, we will allow individuals to live temporarily or even long-term in tiny homes, RVs, travel trailers, or other forms of inexpensive housing like those modular homes that come from China or Boxable for about 25,000 to 50,000 dollars. We will also provide secure emergency supplies storage areas and empty RV, trailer, or tiny home spaces with solar, water, and septic for those who would want to move later to Universe One to those pre-prepared spaces once it becomes too difficult to live where they currently live.
This quick start-up option would allow for the following:
1. Creating multiple spaces for affordable 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 Universe One and more permanent community structures. These may include the community center, secure storage, and other essential community or staff housing buildings.
Permitting these "temporary" structures for individuals in transition or trial also gives us a significant advantage. 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.
2. This more affordable housing entry-level option in the community would provide a more feasible financial choice for many individuals with limited assets.
3. Individuals who wish to explore living in the community and have received provisional living status on the Universe One campus could see if the community works for them, and the community can see if they work for the community. (The membership section below outlines the provisional living status on campus.)
Phase 2 will most likely be led by and financed by individuals near or at retirement with more financial assets than younger families. These older financial co-founding members will probably look at helping to finance Universe One in several ways:
1. It is a smart place to eventually retire in troubling times to live out their remaining years in relative security and comfort. (At some point, Universe One will become a full multigenerational community; even providing assisted living and hospice care for older adults will eventually be available.)
2. Even if these older individuals want to stay where they are for a while longer, it is a smart investment and a place that can be pre-stocked with all the emergency supplies they need to move later, once climate change and other factors make it too difficult to live where we are currently.
3. It can be left to our children after they pass on so that their children and their families can survive longer and safer, and hopefully make it through to the Great Rebirth.
In the beginning, it would look a little bit like a retirement village, but that would quickly change over time. In the beginning, we would also recruit medical staff on-site members if the largest part of our initial membership was elderly.
Phase Two will take at least 3 to 7 years to complete once the community land is purchased. Phase 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 Phase Two vision:
a. The Universe One vision described on this page will most likely become a reality in the Phase Two vision of the larger CSV Rural community of about 150+ 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; even providing assisted living and hospice care for older adults will eventually be available.
e. Once the Phase Two Universe One rural community is finally established, it will connect with other local-area Phase Two rural CSV communities to create ever-larger circles of cooperation and safety. It will also actively reach out to the non-CSV community surrounding Universe One.
The last step, step E above, may be the most important of all for long-term survival. After extensive re-evaluation of the many crises coming at humanity in the near future, including the climate change emergency, we have changed our position on the importance of isolation versus cooperation.
Because of the increasing severity and scale of the many crises hitting humanity nearly at the same time, it is more important to cooperate both within and outside the community than to be isolated. If the Universe One CSV community is not helping outside communities build their crisis resilience and is making larger and larger areas into Universe One/CSV allies, it will not be able to withstand the increasing scale of security issues it will face as conditions worsen.
Only the largest possible collaborative, cooperative alliances will survive. Isolation alone is no longer enough. Please don't get these priorities backward.
Please help fund the acquisition of rural land and the cost of constructing climate change resilient community buildings at Universe One by making a tax-deductible donation to our organization here.
Initial Staffing at the Universe One Eco community
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. Lawrence is temporarily coordinating the Phase 1 Universe One urban/ rural community launch until a project manager comes on. He will keep you informed of progress and developments. (For detailed information on the membership application process, please see this section title further below, Universe One Membership and Application Process.)
Individuals who have medical skills or are tradespersons (construction, plumbing, electrical, etc.) and who are willing to exchange their skills for membership in the community and do not have the adequate finances to become members or build their own homes will be given special consideration and waivers for different levels of membership. This labor exchange method of obtaining community membership and the ability to live within our community does not waive all requirements or evidence of alignment with our general values, principles, and goals or the requirements of the more advanced membership level requirements.
Who will be the temporary lead coordinator helping launch Universe One rural community land purchase
Lawrence Wollersheim is a board member of the non-profit organizations listed above and will initially coordinate and facilitate the creation of the Universe One community project. Because of aging issues, Lawrence will not be directly involved in the initial Universe One rural construction or the day-to-day management of the Universe One community. He will move there as an advisor should the Way of the Universe community provide an adequate living space.
Finding Our New Universe One Project Manager
The most important new staff member will be the individual who decides to show up and become the Universe One project manager and their deputy and, eventually, its Executive Director. The project manager would begin the process of overseeing the physical building, population, and staffing of this new community. This person would have a very comprehensive set of people and management skills.
Lawrence Wollersheim, who is one of the visionaries behind the Universe One Community design, is too old (currently 76) and not fully qualified with the needed management skills to be the day-to-day project manager and eventually its operating executive Director.
If you think you might be the project manager or their deputy and you are highly aligned with the goals of Universe One, don't hesitate to get in touch with Lawrence directly at ([email protected]).
3. More detailed Universe One Launch Steps have been moved to the end of this page.
4. Universe One Eco community Membership and Application Process
Please note that the critically needed Universe One phase 1 launch staff will not need to meet all of the strictest application requirements described below. This is particularly true for tradespeople and medical staff.
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 physically 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 or physically.
Individuals who have medical skills or are tradespersons (construction, plumbing, electrical, etc.) and who are willing to exchange their skills for membership in the community and do not have the adequate finances to become members or build their own homes will be given special consideration and waivers for different levels of membership. This labor exchange method of obtaining community membership and the ability to live within our community does not waive all requirements or evidence of alignment with our general values, principles, and goals or the requirements of the more advanced membership level requirements.
Local members will pay a small (yet to be determined) annual membership fee to support Universe One's educational and other mission activities, such as educational classes, organic community gardens, etc. For a reasonable additional fee, they can also 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, goals, philosophy, and worldview 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. They must also pay the reasonable first year's annual membership fee at once or month by month. Membership fees are nonrefundable.
If an individual comes to the community with a pre-existing religious background and seeks membership at this level, or they are of a spiritual nature, they must demonstrate that they are at least at stage four, five, or six of Fowler's 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 highly tolerant community.
Reading 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
(Please note that critically needed phase 1 launch staff will not need to meet the strictest application requirements described in this section. This is particularly true for tradespeople and medical staff.)
2. The Living on the Universe One physical 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 or other staff housing, 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.
To become a living on-campus 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 reasonable first year's annual membership fee. Membership fees are nonrefundable.
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.
(Please note that critically needed phase 1 launch staff will not need to meet the strictest application requirements described in this section. This is particularly true for tradespeople and medical staff.)
3. Senior organizational membership is the most challenging membership to obtain.
This membership is only essential to the few individuals working as senior staff at the Universe One community management team and the Way of the Universe management team. 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 Universe One's leaderships rational and balanced decision-making skills are 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 willing to learn how to do systems thinking and Dialectical Metasystemic Thinking.
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 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 is 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.
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Eventually, the Universe One CSV might also 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. It may also become the headquarters for the Way of the Universe organization, Universe Spirit, and the Universe Day organization.
Please consider making a tax-deductible donation to help us fund the Universe One Eco community
Every donation helps us build Universe One and expand and assist everyone coming to us for climate change resilience-building information and support. Job One for Humanity is taking the lead in funding Universe One.
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5. More about the Universe Evolutionary Worldview used at the Universe One Eco community 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 the Universe One Eco community
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 Universe Evolutionary Worldview or the ideas in the other links below, which is their choice. Please note that The New Universe Evolutionary Worldview is a foundation for the principles of the Way of the Universe organization.
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 Evolutionary 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 about the Universe Evolutionary 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 Eco Community Name
The Universe One name was chosen to reflect some of the biggest 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. Members of Universe One can legitimately call themselves Evolutioneers. They are the leaders helping to create the Great Rebirth. (Click the following link for more information on what Evolutioneers are and do.)
A significant goal of Universe One is to educate and create many more Evolutioneers and 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 Universe One. In that case, you should also hold the following 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 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 are the Four Basic Attitudes/Actions of Evolutioneers
What do individuals who call themselves Evolutioneers do?
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?
7. The Spiritual Values at Universe One Eco community
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 Universe 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, Universe 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. And, any religious or spiritual behaviors springing from those opinions or beliefs are always subject to community examination and limitation particularly if they have negative effects on the community.
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 practices.
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.
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 Universe 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 many goals of the new Universe Spirituality is to help evolve a new rational and universal form of a healthy and personal science-grounded meta-spirituality that does not separate people from each other and foment religious conflicts between different religious peoples. That has also been a 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. (Reading the book Spiral Dynamics (mentioned elsewhere in this document) will help individuals understand what happens to a society on its way up in a society on its way down,
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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 may be located at Universe One
Universe One 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 Which are Behind the Universe Evolutionary Worldview 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 May also be at Universe One at a Later Date
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. The Universe One Eco community 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.
3. Universe One Eco community Rural Version Launch Steps
(Please Note:
1. The creation of the Universe One Phase One local urban community is described above in the Universe One Launch Phases section elsewhere on this page.
2. The following section is in the process of being updated as of three 3.27.25.)
The Universe One rural CSV version could 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 Universe One CSV Urban Villages is being launched, special CSV online advisory committees will work on the following with our Basecamp 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 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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