One Community is an all-volunteer nonprofit creating plans for building global sustainability hubs to teach all aspects of community and sustainable living. These plans include open source and free-shared tools, tutorials and resources for food, energy, housing, education, Highest Good economic design, social architecture, fulfilled living, global stewardship practices, and more. We see this as a path to a truly sustainable planet.
Click on each icon to be taken to the corresponding Highest Good hub page.
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 December 18th, 2016 edition (#195) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments:
Here is the bullet-point list of this last week’s design and progress discussed in detail in the video above:
BUILDING GLOBAL SUSTAINABILITY HUBS INTRO: @1:03
HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION: @2:04
HIGHEST GOOD FOOD: @3:19
HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING: @3:56
DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER: @7:00
HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY: @10:16
BUILDING GLOBAL SUSTAINABILITY HUBS SUMMARY: @10:52
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One Community is creating plans for building global sustainability hubs through Highest Good education that is for all ages, applicable in any environment, adaptable to individual needs, far exceeds traditional education standards, and more fun for both the teachers and the students:
This last week the core team transferred the second 25% of the written content for the Cognition Lesson Plan to the website, as you see here. This lesson plan purposed to teach all subjects, to all learning levels, in any learning environment, using the central theme of “Cognition” is now 50% completed on our website.
Behind the scenes, we wrote the final 25% section of the written part of the Cognition Lesson Plan.
We also completed the first 25% of the mindmap for the Consciousness Lesson Plan, bringing it to 25% complete, which you see here:
And we finished updating the icons across another 40% of the Education pages, bringing us to 80% complete there. What you see here is the Core Curriculum page, one of the most dramatically different looking pages after this update.
We also added a new resource section to all the education pages. Here’s an example of what this looks like from our Ultimate Classroom page.
One Community is creating plans for building global sustainability hubs through 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:
This week, the core team finished reformatting and adding sections to the Vegan Rice Recipes & Omnivore Rice Recipes. You can see a sample of that work here, on the vegan rice recipe page.
The core team also created the new recipes shortcode which can be seen at the bottom of every recipes page. You can see a picture of those icons here:
One Community is creating plans for building global sustainability hubs through Highest Good housing that is artistic and beautiful, more affordable, more space efficient, lasts longer, DIY buildable, and constructed with healthy and sustainable materials:
The core team working with Ashwini Ramesh (Civil Engineer and Project Manager) put another combined total of 20 hours into the crowdfunding campaign we are developing. This week’s focus was more AutoCAD image creation and creating the first 50% of the Earthbag Municipal/County Involvement and Permitting page you see here.
The core team also reorganized all the images for the Shipping Container Village (Pod 5) into their respective floors and added detailed descriptions for each one. You can see some of this work here:
We also created 30 housing icons each for Villages 3 thru 6, with the new icons from the Recycled Materials Village (Pod 6) shown here:
…and we updated the color of the Highest Good food icons, which you can see here.
Shadi Kennedy (Artist and Graphic Designer) created these 3 renders of the Tropical Atrium with people in them. These now go to the core team for final review and edits.
Dean Scholz (Architectural Designer), continued helping us create quality Cob Village (Pod 3) renders. Here is update 47 of his work that is now focusing on internal home views. What you are seeing is a sample of the series of 23 renders testing and developing the lighting in one of these units:
Hamilton Mateca (AutoCAD and Revit Drafter and Designer) also finished his 22nd week helping with the Compressed Earth Block Village (Pod 4) design details. This week’s focus was on kitchen visualizations as shown here:
Working off of Aparna’s work, Guy Grossfeld (Graphic Designer) began 3D creation of the same area of the Compressed Earth Block Village (Pod 4) using 3DSMax. This is so he can help with development of what this area will look like:
One Community is creating plans for building global sustainability hubs 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:
This week the core team continued render creation for the Duplicable City Center. This included working on the natural pool area, where we placed sitting rocks around the walkway, added water lilies to the pond, and upgraded the compass for the circular walkway with a new stone/brick texture design.
Also in the natural pool area, we added people and other aesthetic finishing touches to create this final render of the central view looking northwest.
Iris Hsu, (Industrial Designer), also continued her work on the recycled pipe shelving for the Duplicable City Center library. This week’s focus was further development of the instructions by adding more renders, details for the tee joints, and details for the coupling fittings that will house the light socket.
Haoxuan “Hayes” Lei (Structural Engineer) and Shuna Ni (Masters of Mechanical Engineering and Civil Engineering PhD) also continued their work on the City Center structural engineering. This week’s work was additional calculations for the beams in the 2nd, 3rd, and 4th floor…
….and column loads for the entire structure:
Neha Verma (Construction Project Manager and Bachelor’s of Architecture) researched the most sustainable options for the exterior of the City Center so we can start developing a water proofing page for this structure.
And Dipti Dhondarkar, (Electrical Engineer) continued with her 22nd week of work on the lighting specifics for the City Center. This week’s focus was finalizing the final four bulbs for inside and around the structure.
Jinxi Feng (Environmental Consultant) also continued her research helping us create an in-depth laundry and dryer machine sustainability analysis. What you see here is her 15th week of behind-the-scenes work on this area of the project. This week’s focus was further clarification of what a “household is” and calculating residential and commercial washer efficiency and comparing the two using laundry projections for 1, 5, 50, 100, and 500 households, as shown here.
Ramya Vudi (Electrical Engineer), Shubham Agrawal (Electrical Engineer), and Mike Hogan (Automation Systems Developer and Business Systems Consultant) continued working on the electrical design for the Control and Automation systems. This week’s focus was research and selection of the conduit and discussions about panel design. What you see here are notes and photos from the weekly collaborative call.
Lucas Tsutsui da Silva (4th-year Computer Engineering Student) also finished this first update of the Control and Automation systems layout to reflect the most recent design changes for the building. You can see this work here:
And Renan Dantas (Mechanical Engineer) continued with his 4th week working on creating our next generation of Duplicable City Center section drawings. This week’s focus was reorganizing the complete Master File and further updates to layer organization, colors, and details for all the sections shown here.
One Community is creating plans for building global sustainability hubs 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:
This week the core team created the new icons you see here and updated them on the Copyrights, Trademarks, Patents and Using them to Support Open Source and Free-sharing page and the 3 pages associated with this page.
Yuri Witte (Music Composer and Sound Designer)” completed his 7th week of helping create the music that will accompany the new overview video we are planning. What you hear in the background are versions 7.7 a, b, and c testing different instrument groups for the intro. You can visit Yuri’s SoundCloud to hear all previous versions.
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One Community is creating a place to grow together and change the world together by building global sustainability hubs. 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. A place based on compassion, kindness, and collaboration. This replicable community will serve as an example for what is possible for building global sustainability hubs.
Throughout our design process for building global sustainability hubs, 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 growth on building global sustainability hubs.
One Community will be the first teacher/demonstration hub. 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.
The One Community self-replicating model is capable of creating a sustainable planet within 30 years. We will achieve this by establishing successful teacher/demonstration hubs on every continent that will educate people on building global sustainability hubs. 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, resources, and work together as a network to heal the planet. They will also transform the global lifestyle to a more enjoyable, fulfilling, healthy, and sustainable one.
The specifics of how One Community is accomplishing building global sustainability hubs 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 on our Research and Resources Articles Archive.
Even if we don’t achieve our ultimate goal of global transformation, a self-replicating teacher/demonstration model like building global sustainability hubs 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.
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.
Our open source model and blueprints engage and inspire people 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 of building global sustainability hubs will predictably expand on its own.
It is through this approach of building global sustainability hubs that we see uniting the world and leading to a new Golden Age for humanity. 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.
One Community is open source sharing an evolution of sustainable living that addresses the complete human experience through building global sustainability hubs. 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. We will also provide hands-on experience and training on building global sustainability hubs. 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.
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. 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 meet the increasing demand for sustainability that we are contributing to, we are coordinating with manufacturers, education institutions, individuals, and vendors. This is also part of the building global sustainability hubs 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, we also address the underlying roadblocks to a sustainable planet by decreasing the cost and simultaneously increasing the demand and generating financial support for global sustainability, philanthropy, and humanitarian movements and organizations.
As the demand of building global sustainability hubs 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 distribution of monies to help others to establish this model also.
One Community is building solution-creating models designed to create additional solution-creating models to specifically facilitate exponential and sustainable global teacher/demonstration village growth. The following four phases of the strategy we are applying are designed to support each other and accelerate the process of building global sustainability hubs globally:
Phase I: Demonstrating a Better Way
We are designing One Community to demonstrate an experience of living that we believe most people will consider to be better because it will be more enjoyable and fulfilling. We also think most people will consider it better because it is made possible specifically through a foundation of sustainable sustainability and a philosophy that is for The Highest Good of All.
Phase II: Open Source Project-Launch Blueprinting
Everything we do we are open source project-launch blueprinting and free-sharing to make it as easy and affordable as possible to duplicate, adapt, and evolve in the manner that suits each individual and/or group’s needs. Free-sharing information like this is our aggressive-exposure engine and an aspect of One Community that will accelerate indefinitely as we continue to build our team, move onto the property, and continuously build and evolve everything that is One Community.
Phase III: Inviting the World to Participate
Everything we are open source project-launch blueprinting is designed to invite the world to participate by duplicating it as either individual components or complete teacher/demonstration communities, villages, and cities that will be able to be built almost anywhere in the world. Additionally, people can join One Community as members, consultants and/or partners, or use the suggestions links on our open source project-launch blueprinting hubs to help with the design, implementation, and evolution process. Scholarships, weekend learning and work crews, and tourism will be foundations of One Community once we have sufficient infrastructure in place to support these options.
Phase IV: Universal Appeal and Global Expansion
As One Community continues evolving and establishing ourselves, everything we create and promote will serve as the engine to inspire people to align with the concept of open source and sustainable living for The Highest Good of All. We are doing this to create mainstream appeal and our path to achieving this appeal is demonstrating a happier, more affordable, and ecologically friendly model of living that can be built anywhere in the world.
Open source project-launch blueprinting it all is how we believe the model will spread and, possibly most importantly, that it will predictably spread even faster in the areas where it is needed most because building restrictions, the cost of land, and materials costs are in most cases lower in these areas.
We are creating everything One Community does as open source and free-shared blueprints because we see this as the path to a new Golden Age of creativity, innovation, cooperation, and collaboration for all of humanity. Our model is a solution model that creates additional solution creating models enabling people to live and collaborate globally for The Highest Good of All. The easier we make everything we do, the faster we see the world transitioning towards building global sustainability hubs.
Every aspect of the building global sustainability hubs model supports itself and contributes to its success, from the sustainable food, energy, and homes, to the social architecture, One Community Education Program, and open source sharing model itself. Each piece can be accessed, evolved, and even re-birthed as something completely new. It can be duplicated by itself or with other modules, with applications as diverse as the people who want and need them. The constantly expanding total model will additionally be able to be used in its entirety as the open source project-launch blueprint for a variety of duplicate teacher/demonstration communities, villages, and cities capable of being built virtually anywhere.
The most profound part about building global sustainability hubs is: the more we open source share, the more we help move everyone forward, the more people know about what we are doing and can participate, and the more successful and capable we are of project-launch blueprinting and sharing even more still. This is all supported and made possible because:
One Community’s open source strategy will evolve 5 primary types of open source content purposed to reach and service as broad an audience as possible with the goal of creating awareness about building global sustainability hubs. This includes the following mediums of sharing that are being developed to function as standalone resources or in combination with each other:
Maximum exposure of building global sustainability hubs model is accomplished through simultaneous implementation of the following strategies:
One Community sees the issues of the world as interdependent and interconnected. To address them simultaneously, we are open-source blueprinting a more advanced standard of living by designing holistic, environmentally-regenerative, self-sustaining, adaptable solutions for all areas of sustainability. We will model these within a comprehensive “village/city” which will be built in the southwestern U.S. This teacher/demonstration hub will be a place people can experience a new way of living and then replicate it with our open source blueprints: creating a model solution that creates additional solution-creating models.
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