Active Ecological Reinvention of Our World – One Community Weekly Progress Update #113

Active ecological reinvention of our world is possible and happening. Through an open source approach to combining physical sustainability (food, energy, housing) with emotional sustainability (education, recreation, business creation, and Earth stewardship) we can create and involve people in a better quality of living that will benefit us all. One Community sees this as a path to living and creating for The Highest Good of All:

• Here’s our project overview
• Here’s our world-change methodology
• Here’s how this becomes self-replicating
• Here’s how we are open source and free-sharing all the do-it-yourself designs

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One Community’s physical location will forward this movement as the first of many self-replicating teacher/demonstration communities, villages, and cities to be built around the world. This is the May 3rd, 2015 edition (#113) of our weekly progress update detailing the previous week’s development and accomplishments:

Active Ecological Reinvention of Our World
One Community Weekly Progress Update #113

Here is the bullet-point list of last week’s design and progress discussed in detail in the video above:

ACTIVE ECOLOGICAL REINVENTION OF OUR WORLD – INTRO @1:00

ACTIVE ECOLOGICAL REINVENTION OF OUR WORLD – HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION @2:01

• Transferred the next 25% of the written section and images for the “Nature“ lesson plan to the website (see below)
• Behind the scenes: Wrote 25% of the lesson plan with the central theme of “Communication.”
• Behind the scenes: Worked on a comprehensive evaluation/assessment and mutual feedback model for students and their teachers (see below)
• Paige Allison Donatelli finished another 25% of the image creation for the Open Source lesson plan mind map (see below)
• Featured new “Signs and Symbols” lesson plan image across social media that Paige helped us create (see below)

ACTIVE ECOLOGICAL REINVENTION OF OUR WORLD – HIGHEST GOOD FOOD: @3:47

• Finished final social media imagery and featured open source alliums hub and food forest edge plantings hub (see below)
• Researched and added the recipes to the open source peas hub (see below)
• Behind the scenes: Benjamin Sessions is creating a month long buying list for the omnivore section of our Food Self-sufficiency Transition Plan
• Added two additional recipes from Sandra Sellani to the Food Self-sufficiency Transition Plan (see below)

ACTIVE ECOLOGICAL REINVENTION OF OUR WORLD – HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING: @5:02

• Behind the scenes: continued laying out the specifics for the Open Source Murphy bed furniture assembly details (77% complete – see below)
• Behind the scenes: finished the first 5% of the open source camp setup specifics for the upcoming crowdfunding campaign
• Beatriz Rocha finished first-generation AutoCAD drafts of the net-zero-water-use bathrooms (see below)
• Sheng Xu finished his 6th round of SolidWorks design specifics for the 3-dome cluster of the upcoming crowdfunding campaign (see below)
• Nelli Levental created an internal render for what one of the rooms in the Earthship Village (Pod 6) will look like. She also created initial concept designs for the Compressed Earth Block Village (Pod 4) (see below)
• Erika Yumi Tamashiro and the Design Team members from Team Brazil created these first design layouts for the Earthship Village (Pod 6) (see below)

ACTIVE ECOLOGICAL REINVENTION OF OUR WORLD – DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER: @7:17

• Ricardo Carrillo continued working on the structural engineering specifics for the Duplicable City Center cupola (see below)
• Mayke Balbino completed a thorough review of this structure in AutoCAD to find errors, improve materials efficiency, and make it easier to build (see below)

ACTIVE ECOLOGICAL REINVENTION OF OUR WORLD – HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY: @8:06

• Vassili Biserov finished the translation of the Highest Good for All page from English into Italian (see below)

ACTIVE ECOLOGICAL REINVENTION OF OUR WORLD SUMMARY: @8:49

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ACTIVE ECOLOGICAL REINVENTION OF OUR WORLD – HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

One Community is about the active ecological reinvention of our world through the Highest Good education that is for all ages, applicable in any environment, adaptable to individual needs, far exceeds traditional education standards, and is more fun for both the teachers and the students:

• Learn about the components: Education open source hub
• Learn how the components work together: How to use the Education for Life Program
  

This last week the core team transferred the next 25% of the written section and images for the “Nature“ lesson plan to the website – which includes the health, math, and science sections. That brings this page 75% complete:

Nature Lesson Plan – 75% Complete – Click to Visit Page

Behind the scenes, we wrote the first 25% of our lesson plan with the central theme of “Communication.” These theme-based lesson plans teach all subjects to all learning levels using the central themes:

Here you can also see the behind-the-scenes work we did on the comprehensive evaluation/assessment and mutual feedback model we are developing for students and their teachers. This week’s focus was on the preliminary outline of the components needed for immediate and periodic assessment:

Comprehensive Evaluation/Assessment & Mutual Feedback Model – Click to Visit Highest Good Education Page

Paige Allison Donatelli (Graphic Designer and Owner Operator of Namaste Living in a Material World) finished another 25% of the image creation for the Open Source lesson plan mind map, which you can see here. This brings this mindmap to 75% complete:

Mindmap for “Open Source” Lesson Plan – 75% Complete – Click to Visit Page

Paige also helped us create this new image for the “Signs and Symbols” lesson plan, which we featured this week across our social media channels:

“Signs and Symbols” Lesson Plan Featured – Click to Visit Page

ACTIVE ECOLOGICAL REINVENTION OF OUR WORLD – HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

One Community is about the active ecological reinvention of our world through the Highest Good food that is more diverse, more nutritious, locally grown, and sustainable, and part of our open source botanical garden model to support and share bio-diversity:

• Learn about the structures: Hoop House Hub | Aquapini & Walipini Open Source Hub
• See what we’ll be growing: Gardens & Hoop Houses | Large-scale Structures | Food Forest | TA

This last week the core team finished the final social media imagery and featured our open source alliums hub:

Featured our Alliums Page with New Social Media Imagery – Click to Visit

And we did this for our food forest edge plantings hub too:

Featured our Food Forest Edge Crop Plantings Page with New Social Media Imagery – Click to Visit

We researched and added additional recipes to the open source peas hub which you can see here. More recipes from our Food Self-sufficiency Transition Plan that feature peas will be added here in the future:

Added 2 Pea Recipes – Click to Visit the Open Source Peas Hub

Behind the scenes, Benjamin Sessions is working on creating a month-long buying list for recipes for the omnivore section of our Food Self-sufficiency Transition Plan

We also added two additional mouth-watering recipes from Sandra Sellani (Vegan Chef and author of What’s Your BQ?) to the Food Self-sufficiency Transition Plan– which are the Blueberry Coconut Smoothie and Hemp Oatmeal with Strawberry Puree & Pistachios:

Blueberry Coconut Smoothie Added to Food Self-sufficiency Transition Plan Page – Click to Visit

Hemp Oatmeal with Strawberry Puree & Pistachios Added to Food Self-sufficiency Transition Plan Page – Click to Visit

ACTIVE ECOLOGICAL REINVENTION OF OUR WORLD – HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

One Community is about active ecological reinvention of our world through the Highest Good housing that is artistic and beautiful, more affordable, more space efficient, lasts longer, DIY buildable, and constructed with healthy and sustainable materials:

• Learn about: Our Upcoming Crowdfunding Campaign
• Learn about the different village models: 7 Sustainable Village Models
• Visit the open source portals for the first two: Earthbag Village OS Hub | Straw Bale Village OS Hub

This last week the core team continued progress on the assembly specifics for the Open Source Murphy bed furniture. This work is happening behind the scenes and what you see here will be part of the Earthbag Village and the upcoming crowdfunding campaign. This week we finished the tutorial step #6.8: Cutting lumber and labeling pieces for the bed box. We’re now 77% done with the complete assembly instructions:

Open Source Murphy Bed Furniture Assembly Details Developing Behind-the-scenes – Click to Visit Furniture Page

Behind the scenes, we also finished the first 5% of the open source camp setup specifics for the upcoming crowdfunding campaign.

Beatriz Rocha (Mechanical Engineering Student) finished these first-generation AutoCAD drafts of the net-zero-water-use bathrooms:

First-Generation AutoCAD Drafts of Net-Zero-Water-Use Bathrooms – Click to Visit Eco-Toilet Page

Sheng Xu (Mechanical Design Engineer) also finished his 6th round of SolidWorks design specifics for the 3-dome cluster of the upcoming crowdfunding campaign. This work included exploring additional roof designs and functionally artistic roof accents. The pink lines show the final design we are shooting for:

3-Dome Cluster into Solidworks (6th Round) – Click for Upcoming Crowdfunding Campaign Page

Nelli Levental (Graphic Designer and College Professor) created this internal render for what one of the rooms in the Earthship Village (Pod 6) will look like:

Earthship (Pod 6) Internal Render – Click for the Highest Good Housing Page

Nelli also created initial concept designs for the Compressed Earth Block Village (Pod 4). The pyramid will function as a greenhouse on top and shared social and dining space:

Pod 4 Concept Drawings – Click to Visit the Highest Good Housing Page

Housing would be stacked (below left) and the housing and social space would be combined (below right):

Pod 4 Concept Drawings – Click to Visit Highest Good Housing Page

Erika Yumi Tamashiro (Architecture and Urban Design Student) and the Design Team members from Team Brazil also created these first design layouts for the Earthship Village (Pod 6). This collage shows the initial overview… side view… regular units… and ADA units:

Earthship Village (Pod 6) first design layouts – Click to Visit Highest Good Housing Page

ACTIVE ECOLOGICAL REINVENTION OF OUR WORLD – DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

One Community is about active ecological reinvention of our world through a Duplicable and Sustainable City Center that is LEED Platinum certified/Sustainable, can feed 200 people at a time, provide laundry for over 300 people, is beautiful, spacious, and saves resources, money, and space:

• Learn about this building and it’s function: Duplicable City Center Open Source Hub

This last week Ricardo Carrillo (Design Consultant and Principal of Acumen Industries) continued working on the structural engineering specifics for the Duplicable City Center cupola. You can see these details and plans taking shape here in 3D:

Structural Calculations for City Center Cupula – Click to Visit Page

Mayke Balbino (Architecture and Urban Design Student) also completed a thorough review of this structure in AutoCAD to find errors, improve materials efficiency, and make it easier to build. What you see here are Mayke’s extensive notes and improvement suggestions:

Thorough Review of City Center in AutoCAD – Click to Visit Page

ACTIVE ECOLOGICAL REINVENTION OF OUR WORLD – HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS

One Community is about the active ecological reinvention of our world through a Highest Good society approach to living that is founded on fulfilled living, the study of meeting human needs, Community, and making a difference in the world:

• Read the Highest Good Society overview: Highest Good Society
• Learn about the model for fulfilled living and sharing: A Day in the Life
• Learn about the 4 economic models: RBE | For-profit | Non-profit | Entrepreneurship
• Learn about our open source community collaboration and management software: The Highest Good Network

This week Vassili Biserov (Writer, Poet, and Translator) finished the translation of the Highest Good for All page from English into Italian. You can see the new Italian version of the For the Highest Good of All page here:

Translation of the Highest Good for All Page into Italian – Click to Visit Page

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WHAT ONE COMMUNITY IS CREATING

Active ecological reinvention of our world is possible and happening. One Community is creating a place to grow together and change the world together. We are creating a space that helps each other live in integrity with each other and the planet as we strive to be the greatest versions of ourselves. We do this by harmoniously respecting each other, nature, and the rest of our one shared planet.

Our goal is to demonstrate what we feel is the most sustainable, healthy, and fun environment we can create, an active Ecological reinvention of our world. A place based on compassion, kindness, and collaboration. This replicable community will serve as an example of what is possible.

Throughout our design process of active ecological reinvention of our world, we are open sourcing and free-sharing everything needed for construction and replication. This includes what we call “Highest Good” approaches to food, energy, housing, education, for-profit and non-profit economics design, social architecture, fulfilled living, stewardship practices, and more. We are creating these resources for implementation as individual components or complete developments called teacher/demonstration hubs. These hubs will help launch additional hubs as awareness and knowledge grow.

BUILDING THE FIRST OF MANY

One Community will be the first teacher/demonstration hub, an active ecological reinvention of our world. It will function as an experiential learning model that facilitates mass participation to address humanity’s most pressing challenges through: A replicable model for expansion, building seven self-sufficient village/city prototypes, becoming the world leader in open-source sustainability solutions, and evolving and expanding ALL aspects of sustainable living.

WHY ONE COMMUNITY IS CREATING THIS

The One Community self-replicating model is capable of creating a sustainable planet within 30 years and active ecological reinvention of our world. We will achieve this by establishing successful teacher/demonstration hubs on every continent. Villages include designs appropriate for each of the five main types of climates. They also include options for even the most challenged economies. These hubs will collaborate with one another, share ideas, and resources, and work together as a network to heal the planet. They will also transform the global lifestyle into a more enjoyable, fulfilling, healthy, and sustainable one.

The specifics of how One Community is accomplishing an active ecological reinvention of our world can be found on the One Community Solution Model to Create Solution-creating Models Page. Research supporting and showing the benefits of a model like this can be found in our Research and Resources Articles Archive.

Even if we don’t achieve our ultimate goal of active ecological reinvention of our world, a self-replicating teacher/demonstration model like this will take a relatively short period of time to positively affect millions while inspiring millions more.  For One Community residents (the Pioneer Team), the idea of creating and sharing the social and recreational experience with visitors is also fun, exciting, fulfilling, and an additional reason why we are creating this.

INSPIRING SUSTAINABILITY WITH OPEN SOURCE

One Community’s four-phase strategy for the creation of solution models that create solution creating models uses open source blueprints for duplication that simultaneously address all aspects of the human experience (food, energy, housing, education, social inequality and injustice, fulfilled living, etc.). We see these areas as interdependent and requiring a comprehensive solution if humanity is to move ecologically, socially, economically, and permanently towards a truly sustainable future for everyone and active ecological reinvention of our world.

Our open source model and blueprints engage and inspire people to active ecological reinvention of our world while simultaneously making sustainable living more affordable and easy to replicate. By free-sharing the step-by-step plans people need for duplication, inviting people to participate, and demonstrating sustainable teacher/demonstration hubs as a more desirable way of living, the model will predictably expand on its own.

It is this approach we see uniting the world and active ecological reinvention of our world. While we understand that not everyone believes this is even possible, we are nonetheless bringing together all those that do see this as possible as the non-profit think tank of forward-thinking individuals willing to design, build, and open source project-launch blueprint and free-share it for The Highest Good of All.

COMPREHENSIVE SOLUTION TO HUMANITY’S NEEDS

One Community is open source sharing an evolution of sustainable living that addresses the complete human experience and active ecological reinvention of our world. We are doing this because we see the solutions for global food, housing, energy, education, social inequality, ethical business practices, earth regenerative practices, and a desire for a more fulfilling living experience as inseparably interconnected. As a comprehensive solution, we are addressing all these areas simultaneously and open source free-sharing everything needed for individual duplication and/or duplication as complete self-replicating teacher/demonstration communities, villages, and cities to be built around the world.

As we address and open source share these areas we will establish a living example of the first teacher/demonstration village purposed to teach others. To maximally facilitate duplication, One Community will provide seven duplicable examples and function indefinitely as a place people can visit and a non-profit and open source think tank continuing to further evolve and share solutions in all of the above areas and more. To active ecological reinvention of our world, we will also provide hands-on experience and training. Most importantly, growing upon our sustainable foundation, we will endlessly make this comprehensive solution even more widely known and globally accessible, understandable and diversely duplicable, and inspiring and desirable as a model worth duplicating.

GLOBALLY IMPLEMENTABLE REPLICATION MODEL

The more people that are inspired and desiring for themselves what it is that One Community creates, the more demand there will be for spreading the One Community model, and the more active ecological reinvention of our world. This leads to the directing of financial resources and resourceful people where we believe they are needed most: the establishment of additional sustainable communities around the world. We also feel this duplication will specifically happen quickly internationally due to the affordability of overseas land, less restrictive building environments, and the spirit of adventure in many people who really desire to make a difference for those who need it most.

To active ecological reinvention of our world, we are coordinating with manufacturers, education institutions, individuals, and vendors. This is also part of this model to help the world. Its purpose is to facilitate more engagement of the sustainability industry, produce the absolute best possible consumer value, and the most convenient delivery of goods and methodologies for building sustainable living communities and sustainable living components.

This means we not only provide education and increase needed sustainability resources, but we also address the underlying roadblocks to a sustainable planet and active ecological reinvention of our world by decreasing the cost and simultaneously increasing the demand and generating financial support for global sustainability, philanthropy, and humanitarian movements and organizations.

As demand increases, so too will the ways to participate. Right now people are participating as consultants or partners donating time to our 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization, and others are more involved as Pioneers of the core team that will be moving to the property. We also have options for people to just follow our progress or participate through internet contribution.

Once the supportive physical infrastructure is about 30% developed, One Community will be ready to additionally expand what we offer to include scholarships, free weekend learning groups, core team members choosing to travel abroad to help others get established too, handling the marketing for all similar models operating for The Highest Good of All, and hosting classes and other sponsored events to promote and demonstrate additional methodologies.

We also imagine the high likelihood that our organization will become a foundation that can be trusted as the donation point for the distribution of monies to help others establish this model, thereby active ecological reinvention of our world.