Helping People Build Communities – One Community Weekly Progress Update #190

One Community is an all-volunteer nonprofit purposed for helping people build communities and all aspects of community and sustainable living. This includes open source and free-shared tools, tutorials and resources for food, energy, housing, education, for-profit and non-profit economic design, social architecture, fulfilled living, global stewardship practices, and more.

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• 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 November 13th, 2016 edition (#190) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments:

Helping People Build Communities
One Community Progress Update #190

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

HELPING PEOPLE BUILD COMMUNITIES INTRO: @1:03

HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION: @1:56

• Transferred first 25% of the written content for the Consciousness Lesson Plan to the website (see below)
• Behind the scenes: wrote the second 25% of the written part of the Consciousness Lesson Plan
• Completed the final 25% of the mindmap for the Personal Growth Lesson Plan (see below)

HIGHEST GOOD FOOD: @2:50

• Worked on renaming our recipe pages and adding SEO descriptions on our Transition Kitchen pages (see below)

HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING: @3:17

• Continued with layers of revisions for the upcoming 7 villages online book (see below)
• Updated all the icons for the Straw Bale Village open source hub and all the pages connected to that hub (see below)
• Dean Scholz further developed what’s necessary for us to create quality Cob Village (Pod 3) renders (see below)
• Hamilton Mateca finished his 16th week helping evolve the Compressed Earth Block Village (see below)
• Guy Grossfeld continued with 3D earth block outdoor furniture construction for the Compressed Earth Block Village (see below)
• Aparna Tandon continued her work on the Compressed Earth Block Village external elements (see below)
• Jiming Chen continued helping develop the Tree House Village (see below)
• Yee-Cheng Ho finished her 8th week of helping with the Shipping Container Village renders for the living units (see below)
• Zachary Melin continued developing the Tree House Village book (see below)

DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER: @6:06

• Continued render creation for the central pool area (see below)
• Iris Hsu continued her work on the recycled pipe shelving for the Duplicable City Center library (see below)
• Haoxuan “Hayes” Lei and Shuna Ni continued their work on the City Center structural engineering (see below)
• Jinxi Feng continued her research helping us create an in-depth laundry and dryer machine sustainability analysis (see below)
• Jennifer Zhou outlined the layout for the open source pipe furniture page (see below)
• Ramya Vudi continued her work on the solar sizing plan as well as her collaboration with Mike Hogan designing the Control and Automation systems (see below)

HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY: @8:20

• Ashwin Patil completed his 6th week of helping with the new site-design details (see below)
• Luke Williamson helped create the second Highest Good education rough-video intro (see below)
• Yuri Witte completed his 1st week of helping create the music that will accompany the new overview video we are exploring (see below)

HELPING PEOPLE BUILD COMMUNITIES SUMMARY: @9:19

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HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

One Community is helping people build communities 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:

• • • 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 first 25% of the written content for the Consciousness Lesson Plan to the website, as you see here. This lesson plan is purposed to teach all subjects, to all learning levels, in any learning environment, using the central theme of “Consciousness”.

Transferred First 25% of Consciousness Lesson Plan to Site – Click to Visit Page

Behind the scenes, we wrote the second 25% of the written part of the Consciousness Lesson Plan.

We also completed the final 25% of the mindmap for the Personal Growth Lesson Plan, bringing it to 100% complete, which you see here:

Personal Growth Mindmap – Complete – Click to Visit Page

HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

One Community is helping people build communities 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 week, the core team worked on renaming our recipe pages and adding SEO descriptions on our Transition Kitchen pages. You can see that work here:

Worked on Renaming our Recipe Pages and Adding SEO Descriptions – Click to Visit Transition Kitchen

HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

One Community is helping people build communities 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 week the core team continued with layers of revisions for the upcoming 7 villages online book. This week’s focus was page 1 of the Straw Bale Village (Pod 2) layout focusing on more updates to the renders and the new floor plan presentation shown here.

Continued Revisions of Upcoming 7 Villages Online Book – Click to Visit Page

The core team also updated all the icons for the Straw Bale Village (Pod 2) open source hub and all the pages connected to that hub. You can see all the new icons here:

Updated Icons for the Straw Bale Village Open Source Hub and Connected Pages – Click to Visit

Dean Scholz (Architectural Designer), further developed what’s necessary for us to create quality Cob Village (Pod 3) renders. Here is update 43 of his work continuing to evolve the external details…

Continued to Evolve the Cob Village External Details – Click to Visit Page

…and finishing with this final render of the Back View Looking Southeast:

Finished Final Render of the Back View Looking Southeast – Click to Visit Page

Hamilton Mateca (AutoCAD and Revit Drafter and Designer) also finished his 16th week helping evolve the Compressed Earth Block Village (Pod 4). This week’s focus was adding a North exit and patio area to the North living-space layouts and beginning modeling the large-scale bathroom details in Revit:

Continued Evolving the Compressed Earth Block Village – Click to Visit Page

Guy Grossfeld (Graphic Designer) continued with 3D earth block outdoor furniture construction for the Compressed Earth Block Village (Pod 4). What you see here is his 11th week of this work that focused on clarifying all the measurements for the compressed earth brick bench and beginning the layout of the earth brick labyrinth.

Continued w/ 3D Earth Block Outdoor Furniture Construction – Click for Compressed Earth Block Village

Continued Work on Compressed Earth Block Village External Elements – Click to Visit Page

Jiming Chen (Designer with his Master’s in Architecture and BA in Engineering) also continued helping develop the Tree House Village (Pod 7). What you see here is his 5th week of this work focusing on adding laundry facilities, doorway and floor plan updates, seating, and other revisions to the stand-alone bathroom and shower structure.

Continued Helping Develop the Tree House Village – Click to Visit Page

Yee-Cheng Ho (Interior Designer) also finished her 8th week of helping with the Shipping Container Village (Pod 5) renders for the living units. This week’s focus was on creating this first iteration of a maximally space efficient design that we hope to adapt to fit into 1 container.

Continued Working on the Shipping Container Village Concept Renders – Click to Visit Page

Zachary Melin (Graphic Designer) also continued developing the Tree House Village (Pod 7) book. What you see here is week 14 of this work that continued with updates to the pages that will feature Jiming’s new floor plans and designs once they are complete.

Continued Developing the Tree House Village Book – Click to Visit Page

DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

One Community is helping people build communities 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 week the core team continued render creation for the Duplicable City Center. This included rendering this image for the central pool area (north view) where we updated the waterfall texture and water shape, added more plants to the living wall around the waterfall, and placed additional lights.

Continued Render Creation for the Duplicable City Center – Click to Visit Page

Iris Hsu, (Industrial Designer), also continued her work on the recycled pipe shelving for the Duplicable City Center library. This week’s focus was these 2nd generation renders of the complete room and furniture, including multiple examples of different applied lighting options.

Continued Working on Recycled Pipe Shelving for Duplicable City Center Library – Click to Visit Page

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 focused on continuing to standardize the steel frame pieces of the dome and researching the best approach for attaching the secondary timber beams to the steel truss girders.

Continued Work on the City Center Structural Engineering – Click to Visit Page

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 10th week of behind-the-scenes work on this area. This week’s focus was continuing the research and writing process for the “What” and “Why” sections. You can see some pictures of this work-in-progress here:

Continued Research for in-Depth Laundry and Dryer Machine Sustainability Analysis – Click to Visit Page

Also, Jennifer Zhou (Web Designer), finished her 13th week of volunteering with us. Through her help, we were able to learn how we could avoid building a completely new site and now Jennifer is helping us with individual pages. You can see the beginning of this work here as she has outlined the layout for the open source pipe furniture page.

Outlined Layout for Open Source Pipe Furniture Page – Click to Visit

Ramya Vudi (Electrical Engineer) also continued her work on the solar sizing plan as well as her collaboration with Mike Hogan (Automation Systems Developer and Business Systems Consultant) designing the Control and Automation systems. What you see here is her 3rd week of work on both of these tasks.

Continued Working on Solar Sizing Plan and Control and Automation Systems – Click to Visit Page

HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS

One Community is helping people build communities 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

Ashwin Patil (Web Developer) completed his 6th week of helping with the new site-design details. This week’s focus was additional adjustments to the Highest Good food links and icons, researching and testing a new slider plugin we’ll be adding to the tops of our open source tutorial pages and creating a tutorial for how to edit, add to, and update the search engine he’s helped build for us:

Continued Helping with the New Web Design – Click to Visit Home Page

Created a Tutorial for How to Edit, Add to, and Update the Search Engine – Click to Visit Home Page

Luke Williamson (Graphic Designer) also helped create this second Highest Good education rough-video intro. This helped us decide that icons probably aren’t going to work like we’d hoped in our videos.

And Yuri Witte (pronounced “Veetay” (Music Composer and Sound Designer)” completed his 1st week of helping create the music that will accompany the new overview video we are exploring too. You can hear a clip of the 5th iteration of this music here:

….and visit Yuri’s SoundCloud for all the previous versions:

Creating Music that Will Accompany the New Overview Video – Click for Yuri’s Soundcloud

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HELPING PEOPLE BUILD COMMUNITIES – 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 for 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.

HELPING PEOPLE BUILD COMMUNITIES – 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.

HELPING PEOPLE BUILD COMMUNITIES – 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, 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 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 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 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.

HELPING PEOPLE BUILD COMMUNITIES – 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.

HELPING PEOPLE BUILD COMMUNITIES – 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.

HELPING PEOPLE BUILD COMMUNITIES – 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 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 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 distribution of monies to help others to establish this model also.

HELPING PEOPLE BUILD COMMUNITIES – ONE COMMUNITY’S 4-PHASE STRATEGY

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 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.

HELPING PEOPLE BUILD COMMUNITIES – WHY OPEN SOURCE

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.

Every aspect of this 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 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:

• We have the team to produce an extensive quality and diversity of tools and resources
• It gives us the opportunity to broaden the concept of sustainability and make it more desirable
• Areas we open source expand our ability to evolve even faster through global collaboration
• Each new area open sourced expands our target audience, advancing our world changing goals
• The more we show our ability to share what we are creating, the more others will benefit and want to join this movement and mimic the part we are playing in it

HELPING PEOPLE BUILD COMMUNITIES – OPEN SOURCE SHARING STRATEGY SPECIFICS

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. This includes the following mediums of sharing that are being developed to function as standalone resources or in combination with each other:

• Video tutorials
• Audio tutorials
• Live streaming video
• Direct/live interaction
• Written content and downloadable PDFs

Maximum exposure is accomplished through simultaneous implementation of the following strategies:

• Free-shared audio, visual, and PDF downloads
• Scholarship and intern programs for direct learning
• Videoing or live-streaming almost all classes and activities
• Tourism option for involvement in almost all aspects of One Community
• Dedicated and search engine optimized sections of our website for each key area
• Our established infrastructure that simultaneously posts to over 20 social networks

HELPING PEOPLE BUILD COMMUNITIES – SUMMARY

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.