Global Game-Changing Solutions – One Community Weekly Progress Update #118

Global game-changing solutions can transform our planet and create a sustainable future. We believe open source and self-replicating and self-sustainable teacher/demonstration models are viable forms of these game-changing solutions. They can be implemented by small groups in almost any location around the world, making world change easy enough, affordable enough, and demonstrating an attractive enough lifestyle for others to want to participate too. One Community calls this 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 June 14th, 2015 edition (#118) of our weekly progress update detailing the previous week’s development and accomplishments:

Global Game-Changing Solutions
One Community Weekly Progress Update #118

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

GLOBAL GAME-CHANGING SOLUTIONS – INTRO @1:02

GLOBAL GAME-CHANGING SOLUTIONS – HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION @1:54

• Transferred third 25% of the content for the Communication lesson plan to website (see below)
• Finished next 25% of the image creation for the “Communication” lesson plan mind map (see below)
• Behind the scenes: wrote next part of lesson plan with the central theme of “Freedom” (see below)

GLOBAL GAME-CHANGING SOLUTIONS – HIGHEST GOOD FOOD: @3:05

• Finished the final social media imagery and featured our open source squash hub (see below)
• Researched and added two additional recipes to the open source parsnips hub and the open source melons hub (see below)
• Added three new recipes from Sandra Sellani to the Food Self-sufficiency Transition Plan (see below)

GLOBAL GAME-CHANGING SOLUTIONS – HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING: @4:16

• Moved the final 20% of Antonio Zambianco’s earth dome loft structural engineering calculations to the website (see below)
• Began updating the Earthbag Village (Pod 1) in 3-D with reciprocal roof designs originally created by Song Dong and then updated a new bathroom layout and more roof details from Matheus Manfredini (see below)
• Song also finished the second round of elevation and cross section modeling of the Earthbag Village (Pod 1) in AutoCAD (see below)
• Then Song ran the first set of structural calculations comparing the three most common earthbag construction mixtures and 4 different aircrete mixture (see below)
• Izadora Carvalho designed the rainwater catchment system of the earthbag village East side in Sketchup (see below)
• Adolpho Maia and Jorge Antonio Ricardo began structural analysis and evolution of the vermiculture bathroom designs (see below)
• Fernando Carvalho and Amauri Tavares began the heat recapture designs for the Earthbag Village communal showers (see below)
• Renata Maehara continued her second week of work on the Cob Village (Pod 3) (see below)

GLOBAL GAME-CHANGING SOLUTIONS – DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER: @6:48

• Diogo Rozada and the Hydraulics Intern Team researched, sized, and designed the complete rainwater catchment, transport and storage system for the Duplicable City Center (see below)
• Ricardo Carrillo, Antonio Zambianco, and the Structural Intern Team also began working together on the structural details for the City Center domes (see below)
• The Electrical Intern Team began working on and designing the electrical layout for this structure (see below)
• The Electrical Intern Team also outlined the different control and monitoring systems for each of the rooms working off the Control Systems recommendations by Mike Hogan (see below)

GLOBAL GAME-CHANGING SOLUTIONS – HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY: @8:14

• Continued the updating of our entire website to be mobile friendly in coordination with Jin Hua (see below)
• Behind the scenes: Binru Chen has continued to update the for-profit and nonprofit income and balance statement details that will soon be part of the tax considerations and strategy page (see below)
• Behind the scenes: Lucy Lu began creating a charities and other not-for-profit organization tax filing tutorial. This work and Binru’s work is all part of the Highest Good Economics component of building teacher/demonstration hubs (see below)
• Vassili Biserov completed translating our Methodology page into Italian (click here – see below)

GLOBAL GAME-CHANGING SOLUTIONS – SUMMARY: @9:29

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GLOBAL GAME-CHANGING SOLUTIONS – HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

One Community is creating global game-changing solutions through 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 third 25% of the content for the Communication lesson plan to the website. This means that this lesson plan, which teaches all subjects, to all learning levels, using the central theme of Communication, is now 75% complete on our website:

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

We also finished the next 25% of the image creation for the “Communication” lesson plan mind map, which brings this mindmap to 75% complete:

“Communication” Lesson Plan Mind Map – 75% Complete – Click to Visit Page

Behind the scenes, we wrote the next part of our lesson plan with the central theme of “Freedom” – which now brings that to 50% complete.

GLOBAL GAME-CHANGING SOLUTIONS – HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

One Community is creating global game-changing solutions 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:

• 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 squash hub:

Featured Squash Hub with New Social Imagery – Click to Visit

We researched and added two additional recipes to the open source parsnips hub:

Added 2 Parsnip Recipes – Click to Visit the Open Source Parsnips Hub

And we researched and added two additional recipes to the open source melons hub. More recipes from our Food Self-sufficiency Transition Plan will be added to each of the individual hubs in the future.

Added 2 Melon Recipes – Click to Visit the Open Source Melons Hub

Last but not least, we added three new recipes from Sandra Sellani  (Vegan Chef and author of What’s Your QB?) to the Food Self-sufficiency Transition Plan – These recipes are: Apple Pie Oatmeal, the ‘Caprese’ Sandwich, and Leek & Potato Soup:

3 New Vegan Recipes Added to Food Self-sufficiency Transition Plan Page – Click to Visit

GLOBAL GAME-CHANGING SOLUTIONS – HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

One Community is creating global game-changing solutions 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:

• 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 moved the final 20% of the earth dome loft structural engineering calculations to the website. This open source work was completed by Antonio Zambianco (Civil Engineering Student) and is now 100% complete on the site:

Loft Calculations for Earthbag Village and Upcoming Crowdfunding Campaign Domes Complete – Click to Visit Page

We also began updating the Earthbag Village (Pod 1) in 3-D with these reciprocal roof designs originally created by Song Dong (M.S. in Mechanical Engineering) and then updated this last week with a new bathroom layout and more roof details from Matheus Manfredini (Civil Engineering Student specializing in Urban Design).

Earthbag Village (Pod 1) Reciprocal Roof Designs in 3-D – Click to Visit Page

Song also finished the second round of elevation and cross section modeling of these 3-dome structures in AutoCAD – adding footer and foundation specifics plus elevations and cross sections plans for the 3-dome cluster with a student dome, a wheelchair accessible dome cluster, and a 6-dome cluster:

Second Round of Elevation and Cross Section Modeling of Earthbag Village in AutoCAD – Click to Visit Page

Then Song ran the first set of structural calculations comparing the three most common earthbag construction mixtures and 4 different aircrete mixtures. You can see all these comparisons here. We’re now completing more research to clarify some of our assumptions.

First Set of Structural Calculations – Click to Visit Earthbag Village Page

Izadora Carvalho (Civil Engineering Student) also designed the rainwater catchment system of the earthbag village East side in Sketchup, including pipes, connectors, trench drains, catch basins and the ponds:

Rainwater Catchment System of the Earthbag Village East Side – Click to Visit Page

Adolpho Maia (Mechanical Engineering Student) and Jorge Antonio Ricardo (Mechanical Engineering Student), both Mechanical Engineering students, began structural analysis and evolution of the vermiculture bathroom designs. You can see this work and these simulations here:

Structural Analysis and Evolution of Vermiculture Bathroom Designs – Click to Visit Page

Fernando Carvalho (Mechanical Engineering Student) and Amauri Tavares (BA Science and Technology and Aerospace Engineering Student) also began the heat recapture designs for the Earthbag Village communal showers. You can see the calculations and initial pipe-in-pipe design here:

Heat Recapture Designs for Earthbag Village Communal Showers in Progress – Click to Visit Page

Renata Maehara (Civil Engineering student) continued her second week of work on the Cob Village (Pod 3). This included designing the other two groups of units, including the building inspired by the orange cob house you see below and the music inspired building based on the architecture hand drawing by Nelli Levental (Graphic Designer and College Professor).

Cob Village (Pod 3) Progressions – Click to Visit Page

GLOBAL GAME-CHANGING SOLUTIONS – DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

One Community is creating global game-changing solutions 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 Diogo Rozada (Civil Engineering Student specializing in Hydraulics) and the Hydraulics Intern Team researched, sized, and designed the complete rainwater catchment, transport and storage system for the Duplicable City Center.

Researched and Designed Complete Rainwater Catchment System – Click to Visit Duplicable City Center

Ricardo Carrillo (Design Consultant and Principal of Acumen Industries) and Antonio Zambianco (Civil Engineering Student) and the Structural Intern Team also began working together on the structural details for the City Center domes. This included exploring a different structural design than a traditional geodesic. This different design creates a symmetrical ring that will line up better with the floors and allow for a uniform window design option that wouldn’t be possible with a traditional geodesic.

Structural Details for City Center Domes – Click to Visit Page

In addition to this, the Electrical Intern Team began working on and designing the electrical layout for this structure. This included researching the International Building Code, choosing the number and placing all the electrical outlets, switches, and breaker boxes:

Began Designing the Electrical Layout for the Duplicable City Center – Click to Visit Page

As you can see here, they also outlined the different control and monitoring systems for each of the rooms working off the Control Systems recommendations by Mike Hogan (Automation Systems Developer and Business Systems Consultant).

Outlined Control and Monitoring Systems for each Room – Click to Visit Control Systems Page

GLOBAL GAME-CHANGING SOLUTIONS – HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS

One Community is creating global game-changing solutions 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 last week the core team, working in coordination with Jin Hua (Internet Marketing Expert and Web Developer), continued the updating of our entire website to be mobile friendly. This week’s work included manually updating about 30 pages, and redoing our key lesson plan pages with new mobile friendly images. We’d say we are now about 25% done with this complete website overhaul:

Continued Updating Our Entire Website to be Mobile Friendly

Behind the scenes, Binru Chen (Accountant Specializing in Audit and Financial Reporting) has continued to update the for-profit and nonprofit income and balance statement details that will soon be part of the tax considerations and strategy page. This work is part of the Highest Good Economics component of building teacher/demonstration hubs. We’d say this work is now about 50% complete behind the scenes and 20% complete on the site.

Behind-the-Scenes For-Profit and Nonprofit Income and Balance Statement Details – Click to Visit Tax Page

Also behind the scenes, Lucy Lu (Accountant Specializing in Financial Reporting and Managerial Accounting) began creating a charities and other not-for-profit organization tax filing tutorial. This week’s work covered what still is taxed, how to report these taxes, and what forms are needed. This work and Binru’s work is all part of the Highest Good Economics component of building teacher/demonstration hubs:

Behind-the-Scenes Began Creating a Charities and Other Not-for-Profit Organization Tax Filing Tutorial – Click to Visit Tax Page

In addition to this, Vassili Biserov (Writer, Poet and Translator) also completed translating our Methodology page into Italian (click here).

Methodology Page Translated into Italian – Click to Visit Page

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WHAT ONE COMMUNITY IS CREATING

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. A place based on compassion, kindness, and collaboration. This replicable community will serve as an example of what is possible.

Throughout our design process, 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. 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. 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 this 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 global transformation, 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.

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 will predictably expand on its own.

It is this approach 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.

COMPREHENSIVE SOLUTION TO HUMANITY’S NEEDS

One Community is open source sharing an evolution of sustainable living that addresses the complete human experience. 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. 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. 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 this model to help the world. Its purpose is to facilitate more engagement in 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 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 to establish this model also.