How to Make a Change in the World – One Community Weekly Progress Update #49

One Community is here to help teach people how to make a change in the world while helping themselves and living for The Highest Good of All:

• Here’s our project overview
• Here’s our world-change methodology
• We are open source and free-sharing do-it-yourself designs for these areas first:
  

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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. Here is our weekly progress update (#49) covering our development and accomplishments for the week of January 27, 2014:

How to Make a Change in the World
One Community Weekly Progress Update #49

Here is the bullet-point list of this last week’s design and progress discussed in detail in the “how to make a change in the world” video above:

HOW TO MAKE A CHANGE IN THE WORLD INTRO @1:00

HOW TO MAKE A CHANGE IN THE WORLD – HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION @1:47

• Completed the Values image research
• Completed the Art/Music and Trade Skills content research
• Completed the Social Sciences Molecule (see below)
• Completed the open source Matter and Materials Lesson Plan page

HOW TO MAKE A CHANGE IN THE WORLD – HIGHEST GOOD FOOD: @3:22

• Finished the starter house research that we’ll be posting on the Hoop House Page
• Tested a 5th Large-scale Aquapini roof and wall design (see below)
• Updated the open source Sketchup Plant database page

HOW TO MAKE A CHANGE IN THE WORLD – HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING: @5:15

• Straw Bale Village open source portal redesign is now 70% done
• Earthbag Village central Tropical Atrium 3-D terrace specifics and pathways (see below)
• Completed the Earthbag Village central ring planting plan on paper (see below)
• Philip Gill has progressed the 2nd set of furniture designs for the Earthbag Village (see below)
• Victor Herber has progressed the vermiculture toilet engineering (see below)

HOW TO MAKE A CHANGE IN THE WORLD – DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER: @8:24

• Completed final 3-D window additions and 3-D Pool Details (see below)
• Karl Harris finished the resizing of all the dome wall thicknesses (see below)

OTHER ANNOUNCEMENTS: @9:24

• The Highest Good Business Open Source Portal redesign is now complete
• The Highest Good of All Comprehensive Stewardship Portal redesign is now complete

HOW TO MAKE A CHANGE IN THE WORLD SUMMARY: @10:08

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HOW TO MAKE A CHANGE IN THE WORLD – HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

We are teaching people how to make a change in the world 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 team finished the complete Social Sciences Molecule:

The Subjects of Social Sciences – Click for the page with an image you can enlarge

HOW TO MAKE A CHANGE IN THE WORLD – HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

We are teaching people how to make a change in the world 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: Aquapini & walipini open source hub
• See what we’ll be growing: Aquapini & walipini planting and harvesting | Food Forest | Tropical Atrium P&H

This last week the core team ran calculations on a 5th roof and wall design for the aquapinis & walipinis. All of these except the “full greenhouse” include shutters that we will build to cover all glazed areas at night:

Comparison of a 5th possible roof and wall design for the aquapinis – click for the Open Source Hub

HOW TO MAKE A CHANGE IN THE WORLD – HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

We are teaching people how to make a change in the world 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 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 took the 3-D work of Devin Porter (3D Graphics Design Specialist) for the hands in the Tropical Atrium center of the Earthbag Village and we began adding in the terraces, paths, and other details:

Tropical Atrium Terraced Growing Areas, Paths, Benches, and Stairs

This last week the core team completed the Earthbag Village central ring planting plan on paper. Details for each of these plants can be found on the Food Forest Page. The 3-D source for all of these plants is on the Sketchup Plants Page. Permaculture is definitely a key tool we’re applying for how to make a change in the world.  Here’s the planting plan for the central ring of the village:

Earthbag Village Planting Plan Completed on Paper – Click to Enlarge

Philip Gill (Interior and Furniture Designer and Owner of Philip Gill Design) continues to develop the 2nd furniture layout for the Earthbag Village homes. There are two similar designs with the first being for children or a summer camp type of situation. It features two single beds and storage drawers underneath, two desks, two desk chairs, a chifferobe and a ladder to the loft/storage above.

The second is for interns or colleges students and has all the same elements as the first, but with added storage, file drawers on wheels (to come), and work-space tops that fold out for working, eating, etc. This way students can also sit at their bed and work or they could roll these together to create one bigger worktable.

Earthbag Village Furniture Design 2 Developing – Click Image for the Open Source Hub

Here is Victor Herber’s (Mechanical Engineer) most recent progress on the vermiculture toilet designs, sustainably processing human waste as a path for how to make a change in the world:

Vermiculture Toilet Specifications 2/6/14 Progress – Click Image for the Open Source Page

HOW TO MAKE A CHANGE IN THE WORLD – DUPLICABLE CITY HUB PROGRESS

We are teaching people how to make a change in the world through a Duplicable and Sustainable City Center that is LEED Platinum certified/Sustainable, can feed 200 people at a time, can provide laundry for over 300 people, beautiful, spacious, saves resources, saves money, and saves space:

• Learn about this building and it’s function: Duplicable City Center open source hub

This last week the team finished adding the final two windows to the social dome (for natural lighting in the hallways) and also added in bench and stair details to the indoor and outdoor pool. Sustainably building as a path for how to make a change in the world:

One Community Duplicable City Center – 2/5/14 3-D Export – Click for the Open Source Hub

Karl Harris (Architect Drafter, Designer, and founder of Harris Design & Technology Services) also finished the resizing of all dome wall thicknesses in CAD to reflect the accurate thickness of just 5 and 5/16″!

Duplicable City Center CAD Export 2/6/2014 – Click for the Open Source Hub

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WHAT ONE COMMUNITY IS CREATING

One Community is creating a place to grow together and work together on how to make a change in the world. 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 basing how to make a change in the world  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.

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, 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.

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.

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 shares how to make a change in the world 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 (and in our case, desire for how to make a change in the world). 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. Here are the constantly expanding hubs for everything we are open sourcing and free-sharing:

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 of the process for how to make a change in the world.

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.

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 show how to make a change in the world.

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 and teaching others how to make a change in the world too.

The most profound part of this model for how to make a change in the world 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, the more we’ll be successful. 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

OPEN SOURCE SHARING STRATEGY SPECIFICS

One Community’s open source strategy for how to make a change in the world 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

SUMMARY

One Community sees how to make a change in the world by seeing the world’s challenges 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.