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Prologue

CCPARM means the "Climate Change Preparation, Adaptation, Resilience Building, and Migration Movement (CCPARM)." The CCPARM section of our website contains the original CCPARM Model (also known as CCPAR). It covers everything you need to know to create a climate-prepared future and build climate-prepared communities that can withstand much of the accelerating polycrisis. 

Here is a simple statement for the reason why the CCPARM vision, particularly as it is projected in the Universe One model, exists:

Currently, people worldwide are becoming consciously (and subconsciously) aware of the accelerating polycrisis and the accelerating likelihood of a widespread global collapse. They are also witnessing increasing political economic, and social dysfunction worldwide. They see rising environmental unsustainability; high-level and overt public-sector dishonesty; widespread social and economic injustice; the black-and-white thinking of rising religious fundamentalism filtering into many governments; anti-science, anti-rational thinking and policies taking increasing control of more and more power structures around the world, and the rising greed, privilege and control of poorly educated, poorly socially-emotionally developed billionaires.

From these trends, it doesn't take a genius to either know (or feel intuitively) that widespread parts of human society and our global civilization are on a direct and accelerating path to collapse. Based on what we and many others are seeing and sensing, we were compelled to develop the CCPARM model and vision. It is designed to create physical survival islands of factual reality and balanced philosophical wisdom that respect science, rationality, justice, and a sustainable environment.

Because of the above, several years ago, we helped cofound ClimateSafe Villages (CSV). It was also designed to advance and use many parts of the CCPARM model found on these pages. (CSV does differ from the general CCPARM vision and model in that it provides more one-on-one support and community-building interactions.)

If you see the phrase "Universe One," note that it is a very special variation of the CCPARM model. We continually upgrade our CCPARM pages. 

After reading the introductory page below, to learn more about the CCPARM vision and model, please review our CCPARM Guide here.

Quick Overview 

Currently, the CCPARM unique Universe One Project is on hold as we explore the new location of the Sebastopol, California area.

The Universe One rural eco-community is founded on a new philosophy and worldview, as well as a profound understanding of the current global challenges humanity faces.

Universe One is preparing for these challenges, such as building resilience to climate change and establishing ecological and food sustainability, while also envisioning the new social, economic, and political practices and policies that will be necessary to build a better future (once humanity has successfully navigated its upcoming challenges).

If you are a thoughtful and positive person who recognizes that challenging times lie ahead, you don't want to suffer needlessly, and that by wisely planning ahead and cooperating, you can minimize your suffering and loss while still thriving, then exploring everything below about the Universe One eco-community would be worthwhile.

The Universe One "survive and thrive" eco-community vision was originally developed by Job One for Humanity over several decades. The new Universe One community was designed to be a:

1. Climate change emergency prepared, adapted, and resilient community,

2. A lead example in the climate change resilience movement, 

3. A climate-prepared community that can assist other new climate change-prepared communities to come into being worldwide and

4. A lead community working out the needed changes so humanity never faces another similar climate change crisis again.

Universe One does have other purposes, as you will discover in reading through its guide, but for now, all you need to know is the four purposes above. 

While the Universe One community maintains many unique features and rigorous membership criteria, it also continuously supports the creation of other eco-communities, guided into existence through the ClimateSafe Villages organization we helped create.

Top 5 Reasons to Join or Support Universe One

1. A Visionary Sanctuary for Humanity’s Future

Universe One is more than a safe haven — it’s a bold response to climate and global crisis. Founded by the nonprofit Job One for Humanity, Universe One is building a resilient, self-sustaining eco-community designed to survive the worsening climate emergency and become a beacon of hope for generations to come. By joining or supporting us, you are investing in a better future beyond collapse — a future where humanity learns from its mistakes and rebuilds with wisdom.

2. A Living Lab for the Great Rebirth

Universe One is pioneering the "survive and thrive" model — combining climate-safe housing, sustainable agriculture, and new systems for justice, economy, governance, and community. We're creating real-world, tested solutions that can be replicated in other communities worldwide. Your involvement helps accelerate this transformation and spread resilience where it's needed most.

3. Membership That Prioritizes Integrity, Skill, and Purpose

We’re building a community of extraordinary people — intelligent, ethical, emotionally mature, and committed to creating a better world. While financial contributions are helpful, needed skills and trades (such as construction, medicine, or permaculture) may qualify you for membership through work exchange. We value cooperation over credentials and character over capital.

4. Strength Through Unity, Not Isolation

Unlike traditional prepper models, Universe One believes in collaboration as the key to long-term survival. We aim to integrate with surrounding communities, sharing resilience knowledge and building regional safety nets. Your support helps us scale this vision — from a single sanctuary to a statewide network of climate-ready communities.

5. Powered by a Transformative Worldview

At the heart of Universe One is the Universe Evolutionary Worldview — a powerful philosophy grounded in science, systems thinking, and progressive values. It unites purpose, ethics, and action into a common framework for navigating crisis and co-creating a just, sustainable, and thriving future. Supporting Universe One means supporting a new blueprint for humanity.

Some sections below may contain remaining repetition due to ongoing pre-launch upgrades to 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 the sections and their interesting subtitles, then start reading 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.)

Launch Phases

Membership Process

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 not be an accident that you are reading about this new community at this challenging moment in your personal life's 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 intentionally working to create 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 find meaningful hope and purpose.

As you can imagine, Universe One is where individuals will gather to use their abilities first to survive what is coming and to complete the process of learning from the mistakes that created the problems of the Great Collapse. Once they have learned from those mistakes, the same individuals will begin implementing the necessary economic, political, and social reforms 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 a 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 include a commercial zoning section that allows for an RV, trailer, and tiny home park for individuals who want to try out the community or have limited financial means.

This land will also provide secure storage for emergency supplies for individuals who cannot live on the Universe One campus. Our location will be in a generally affordable area, with affordable land and housing readily available near the Universe One campus for 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 part of a resilient and unified community with a meaningful and relevant purpose, coupled with a practical hope of first surviving and then improving the post-collapse future, to have the best chance of surviving the Great Collapse and thriving in the Great Rebirth. The new 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 outlined in our six-page Universe One CSV Master Model Overview, it will also include 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 serve as the new headquarters for a science-grounded philosophy that will provide the unity of values and practices necessary to survive what is coming. 

After years of searching and research at Job One, we decided that the global-warming-safe, 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 future of climate change.

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 grounded in rationality, science, and a balanced relationship 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 in allowing it to survive the many unimaginable hardships of 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 as it rapidly transitions toward widespread ecological, economic, political, and social collapse. It will become a sanctuary and refuge, preserving peace and stability for a healthy body, mind, and spirit. Not unlike the monasteries of the Dark Ages, it will strive to preserve the best of our art, science, and civilization to seed the next Renaissance and Enlightenment. 

While doing all this, it will also be the place to create, test, refine, and prove new and better economic, social, political, and even religious models for the post-collapse world that will finally advance true justice, sustainability, and equality for ALL of humanity.  

Universe One will actively work toward the many benefits of justice, equality, and sustainability 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 to the growth of CSVs, in addition to their mission work.

If you do not feel strongly aligned with the missions of the organizations linked above, 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 occurring 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, best-of-civilization, preservationist 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 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 for finding and testing the many new practices humanity must adopt to never repeat the 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 of a monastery of peace and tranquility, full of individuals and families from all generations, races, ethnicities, and backgrounds.

Medical Services at Universe One Eco Community

Universe One plans to be at least 45 minutes from a level one medical trauma center. Eventually, we also plan to recruit a qualified doctor and nurse to establish 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 on-site emergency services and for long-term use as its access to outside medical services becomes more difficult to obtain. 

We do not anticipate difficulty recruiting a qualified doctor and nurse to relocate to our community, given 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 provide medical services to local community members outside the clinic to help build alliances with these 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 slow or are completely interrupted.

Please help fund the acquisition of rural land and the construction of climate-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 limited applicability to the widespread global climate change catastrophe and the eventual global collapse that the CSV communities will face.

At Job One For Humanity, we recently had to do our annual update and forecast for future climate change conditions. Again, we faced a climate change emergency that our governments had not honestly addressed or fixed. We had to face the fact that once humanity crossed the 425 ppm carbon 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 about the projected community locations (about 150 to 500 people) having 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 communities to help 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 deeply involved in helping local communities build the necessary levels of climate resilience, including managing climate refugees and creating surpluses. (Click here to see what the building of local community climate change resilience 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 foster collaboration and partnerships on climate resilience across all the states where 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 and collaborating with more and more communities outside our local area could we build something that would last 30-50 years and beyond.

To address the many survival challenges we will face, cooperation, defensibility, and reciprocity are possible within many communities or even a whole state. Thus, the probability of a single CSV surviving is exponentially greater when it collaborates 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 within that community, dedicated to expanding cooperation, collaboration, and reciprocity with nearby outside 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, whether to your second bug-out location or elsewhere.

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 mean wise cooperation, which includes, at some point, some form of reciprocity. 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 for 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 advanced 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 will initially look for a large piece of land ranging 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.

The Universe One Eco community is 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 experimental visionaries, aka Evolutioneers.

In addition to our goals of building climate resilience through preparation and adaptation and of ending the climate emergency by promoting immediate government climate action, CCPARMs and CSVs may also have other potential goals beyond promoting their members' long-term safety, security, and overall well-being.  

Some CCPARMs and 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 future generations will be more open to new solutions for sustainable living together.

The preceding means that individuals participating in CCPARMs and CSVs are far more than survivalists or progressive preppers with a detailed knowledge of climate change consequences and 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 would normally consider 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 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 reflect the highest application of the ideas, values, and principles described on all CCPARMs and CSV community design pages in 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 taken depend on the ideas 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, prove the workability of 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. In line with 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 construction of climate-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 external environment worsens due to the climate emergency and our 12 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 steps 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 senior members have surfaced and said they would be able to help buy the Universe One community land within the existing design model and build their own climate-resilient homes. Once our project manager arrives, purchasing the land should not be difficult or time-consuming, as we have been looking at land in these areas for the last five years. With over 7,000 members at Job One and other connections, we will be able to raise the additional funds needed for land purchases ranging from 100 to 500 acres for this unique and essential community.

Ideally, the first people we are looking for are the senior project manager/leader and, hopefully, a deputy project manager/leader to support them. 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 civilization, knowledge, literature, etc., for the Great Rebirth

In collaboration with the CSV headquarters organization, we will get most of our final community layout, 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 CCPARMs and CSV. If you want to be involved in this urban/rural online collaboration and launch, email Lawrence at [email protected] and ask for access to this Universe One team coordination tool. As soon as our final location is set, we will initiate a Universe One online collaboration using this excellent Basecamp 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 that 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 construction of climate-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 a new, transcending, and inclusive 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 entirety of an individual's or society's knowledge and perspective. 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 marks a significant transition, advances human history, and transcends its predecessors. 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, 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 moving toward 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 CCPARMs and 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 better-financed older individuals will play a significantly larger role in acquiring the land needed 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 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 it and have the necessary 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 older community members will not have community work responsibilities; all they have to do is bring start-up money by any means.

Universe One's initial founding members will need adequate funding to contribute a fair share of the startup eco-community's 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, 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 with our 7,000 members and the public at large, in addition to any self-funding that many members will bring to Universe One, our nonprofit organization will organize other fundraising efforts, 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 that 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 individuals and corporations with clean hands are involved in the Universe One community and vision.

We have written extensively about the responsibilities of billionaires, ultra-wealthy individuals, and corporations regarding 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 eventually suffer if they fail to change their polluting and other dysfunctional behaviors.)

Please help fund the acquisition of rural land and the construction of climate-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 purchasing and using community land. 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 a perpetual trust, for the Universe One campus and all common buildings and equipment necessary to run the community. This will ensure that the campus land remains 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, in accordance with the 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 beyond serving as the master model for other ClimatesSafe Villages locations, such as CSV Upper Peninsula, Michigan, CSV British Columbia, Canada, CSV Inverness, Scotland, ClimatesSafe Villages Berlin, etc.

In an open-access manner, we will continue to share the Universe One community's climate-resilient architectural layout, net-zero home and building designs, legal structure, land-leasing contracts, member contracts, and 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 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, completed, and easily transferable to other locations will significantly expedite their building and growth processes and prevent costly, 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 humanity and the world for 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 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 community will be considerably more demanding than those of other CCPARMs and CSV communities, given its additional focus on CCPARM model building, experimentation, model testing, and education to create a better future. 

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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 CCPARMs and CSV or elsewhere is quick and easy.

Part of that process will include a "bless and release" recognition and gratitude event, where we personally thank you for every contribution you 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

(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 creates many "survive and thrive" advantages compared to 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 Grounding in Science and reality also helps hold the group together in positive, rational ways when it 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 that control and condition everything in the universe, simplified into 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's Principles of Right Action and Right Attitude to dramatically improve your life's success. 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

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3. More detailed Universe One Launch Steps have been moved to the end of this page.

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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 and organic community gardens. 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 closely align with the principles, values, goals, philosophy, and worldview of Universe One described on this page, as well as the CSV principles, values, and goals described on the CSV design and vision pages 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 better understand our values and why they change under different conditions. 

In addition to all the values described on this page and on the ClimateSafe Villages social and cultural characteristics master model page, new members of the Universe One seeking 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 the 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 on-campus housing, 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 essential only to the few individuals serving as senior staff on 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 leadership has the highest-quality rational and balanced decision-making skills possible.

To obtain a senior organizational membership, one must be a general member in good standing and, if living on campus, have obtained 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 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 the values described on this page and on the 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 on-campus housing, 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.

Other Universe One Eco Community Future Partners

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 our capacity to assist everyone who comes to us for climate change resilience-building information and support.  Job One for Humanity is leading the funding for Universe One.

With every donation of any amount, you will also get amazing gifts from Job One! Click the donate image below to see what these gifts are.

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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 yet opportunity-filled point 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?

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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 Evolutioneers?

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?  

How does an Evolutioneer and Universe Citizen see the creation of a global government for the Benefit of ALL of Earth's People?

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7. The Spiritual Values at Universe One Eco community

Anyone at Universe One can choose and practice any form of personal spirituality they value, or choose to have and practice no 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 present in Universe One, rationality and the facts of science will always override personal 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 in the similarly titled section on this page, the ClimateSafe Villages community model will not be for you.

Furthermore, while the CCPARMs and ClimateSafe Village models will protect an individual's right to hold opinions and beliefs, 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 serve as a rational 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 Bhaskar, particularly his view that science (and the social sciences) must always operate within an open system. This new scientific open systems concept would allow for undiscovered or yet-to-be-proven possibilities beyond science's standard methodology and falsification processes. Neo-scientism aligns with Baskar's view that current science is an ongoing, incomplete 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 other great existential questions of 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, is that it helps 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 by members or community managers that could harm individuals or the community, and ensure 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 Spirit 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, science-grounded meta-spirituality that does not separate people from each other and does not 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, tested vision of universal meta-spirituality or philosophy that would greatly 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 worldwide collapse (2035-2050), conditions will become unbearable for billions of people unprepared for the endless stream of accelerating, severe climate-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. 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 of the Integral Philosophy Movement without its less desirable qualities.

At Universe, we may also sell our climate change think tank consulting services to large corporations and expand the think tank to research new models of economics, global governance, and other solutions needed in the post-mass-extinction, post-collapse world.            

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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 advanced members, leadership training, Universe Institute think tank training, or individuals starting independent new eco-communities that wish to loosely align with the Universe One.

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 up-to-date 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.                       

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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 Universe One rural community.)

10. Universe College Online May also be at Universe One at a Later Date

We will restart Universe College (UniverseCollege.org) to do much of the work outlined above. 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 information from Universe College.

Universe College's online educational courses and services will be invaluable to the effective educational efforts and processes underway within other CCPARMs and 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 think 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.

(Click here to learn more about the major thinking analysis and problem-solving breakthrough of dialectical meta-systemic thinking.)

When it reopens, the new Universe College will educate people online about many topics 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 12 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 12 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 the painful lessons we have learned, helping us create a more sustainable, equitable, and just future for ALL.

In addition to the above, it will teach the critical 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 advanced dialectical thinking systems to those aged 25-27 and older to 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.

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11. The Universe One Eco community CSV Contributors

The Job One for Humanity and, to a significantly lesser extent, 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 processes of global collapse. Its primary mission is to help individuals and society prepare for and 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 safer locations from the impacts of 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 a new website here and may even change its name to 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 already had a 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.

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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 12.3.25.)

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, a coordinator, and a volunteer team. (They will use our new project management and team-building software, Basecamp.) As more competent, climate-crisis-aware individuals step 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 not already 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 long-term implementation.

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 effectively maintains the community's land purchase integrity in 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 contract 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 include an equitable, 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 whether local zoning regulations 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 in to 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 require the owners or their heirs to comply with common community regulations and standards and to 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 serve as housing for the community infrastructure building team during construction. These RV and tiny home sites can later be used by visiting members for retreats or by new members who want 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 defensibility to protect against coming emergencies.

c. Initiate outreach to help other new CCPARM and 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 of this page.

e. Initiate outreach to more isolated CCPARM and 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 CCPARM and CSVs for shelter in a temporary or extended emergency that is facing their current CSV.

f. As needed, recruit and expand CCPARM and 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 they have reached their growth limit by buying adjacent land (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, CCPARM and ClimateSafe Village Master Model 

Page 1: Introduction, Overview, and Goals

Page 2: CCPARM and Climate Safe Village Qualities, Processes, Income Sources, and Safeguards

Page 3: The Four CCPARM and ClimateSafe Village Models and Their Operations

Page 4: Our New Personal Democracy CCPARM andClimateSafer Village Management Model

Page 5: About CCPARM and ClimateSafe Villages, a Unique Rural ClimateSafe Village

Page 6: Our CCPARM and 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 fish from our aquaponics facility when they reach maturity.

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 many of the purposes and directions of Universe One.

Appendix Materials

The CCPARM and ClimateSafe Village Social Contract Page

Online Rules for Our Virtual CCPARM and ClimateSafe Village

Procedures and Policies for Exiting Our CCPARM and ClimateSafe Villages or Applying for Membership 

Personal Democracy White Paper

The CCPARM andClimateSafe Villages Issues FAQ of frequently asked questions for issues directly relating to CCPARM and ClimateSafe Villages issues

The CCPARM and ClimateSafe Villages Climate FAQ of frequently asked questions for every question you have about climate change

Click here for our CCPARM and ClimateSafe Village online guide master table of contents

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