Jump Starting Global Community Building – One Community Weekly Progress Update #189

Jump starting global community building is a process of making it easy enough, affordable enough, and demonstrating it as attractive enough. A community model that combines food, energy, housing, education, for-profit and non-profit economic design, social architecture, fulfilled living practices, and global stewardship practices is capable of doing this.

• 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 the movement of jump starting global community building as the first of many self-replicating teacher/demonstration communities, villages, and cities to be built around the world. This is the November 6th, 2016 edition (#189) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments:

Jump Starting Global Community Building
One Community Progress Update #189

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

JUMP STARTING GLOBAL COMMUNITY BUILDING INTRO: @1:03

JUMP STARTING GLOBAL COMMUNITY BUILDING HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION: @1:57

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

JUMP STARTING GLOBAL COMMUNITY BUILDING HIGHEST GOOD FOOD: @2:53

• Repaired the item description chart on our Transition Kitchen page, and finished resizing the remaining 50% of the images on it (see below)

JUMP STARTING GLOBAL COMMUNITY BUILDING HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING: @3:23

• Continued with layers of revisions for the upcoming 7 villages online book (see below)
• Fernando Remolina continued with his 4th week of managing the Vermiculture Bathroom development (see below)
• Dean Scholz further developed what’s necessary for us to create quality Cob Village renders (see below)
• Hamilton Mateca finished his 15th 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)
• Yee-Cheng Ho finished her 7th 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)

JUMP STARTING GLOBAL COMMUNITY BUILDING DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER: @6:09

• Continued with layers of revisions for the upcoming 7 villages online book (see below)
• Iris Hsu continued her work on the recycled pipe shelving for the Duplicable City Center library
• Haoxuan “Hayes” Lei and Shuna Ni continued their work on the City Center column placement and calculations
• Jinxi Feng continued her research helping us create an in-depth laundry and dryer machine sustainability analysis
• Ramya Vudi joined the team and began working on the solar sizing plan and joined Mike Hogan to continue the process of designing the Control and Automation systems

JUMP STARTING GLOBAL COMMUNITY BUILDING HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY: @8:18

• Ashwin Patil completed his 5th week of helping with the new site-design details (see below)
• Vassili Biserov finished translating our Solution Models to Create Additional Solution-creating Models page into Russian (see below)
• Luke Williamson joined the team to help create new video intros to each section of our project (see below)

JUMP STARTING GLOBAL COMMUNITY BUILDING SUMMARY: @8:55

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JUMP STARTING GLOBAL COMMUNITY BUILDING HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

One Community is jump starting global community building 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 final 25% of the written content for the Individuality 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 “Individuality” is now 100% completed on our website.

Transferred Final 25% of Individuality Lesson Plan to Site – Click to Visit Page

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

We also completed the third 25% of the mindmap for the Personal Growth Lesson Plan, bringing it to 75% complete, which you see here:

Personal Growth Mindmap – 75% Complete – Click to Visit Page

JUMP STARTING GLOBAL COMMUNITY BUILDING HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

One Community is jump starting global community building 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 repaired the item description chart on our Transition Kitchen page, and finished resizing the remaining 50% of the images on it. You can see that work here:

Continued Working on Our Transition Kitchen Page – Click to Visit

JUMP STARTING GLOBAL COMMUNITY BUILDING HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

One Community is jump starting global community building 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 this new Straw Bale Village (Pod 2) layout focused on the many social spaces within this village.

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

Fernando Remolina (Industrial Engineer specializing in Project Management) continued with his 4th week of managing the Vermiculture Bathroom development. This week’s focus was updating the Work Breakdown Structure for the complete project, interviewing two people for his team, and creating the structure you see here for what will be his bi-weekly team Project Status Report.

Continued Managing the Vermiculture Bathroom Development – Click to Visit Page

Dean Scholz (Architectural Designer), further developed what’s necessary for us to create quality Cob Village (Pod 3) renders. Here is update 42 of his work continuing to evolve the external details and providing this final render of  the Center View Looking Northwest:

Final Render of Center View Looking Northwest– Click to Visit Cob Village

… some more texture adjustments and then these test renders:

Adjusted Textures and Created Test Renders – Click for Cob Village

….which led up to this final render of the Back View Looking Southwest:

Final Render of Back View Looking Southwest – Click to Visit Cob Village

Hamilton Mateca (AutoCAD and Revit Drafter and Designer) also finished his 15th week helping evolve the Compressed Earth Block Village (Pod 4). This week’s focus was integrating last week’s updates so all living-space layouts matched each other and updating the East half of the building to allow for a 3′ width increase for the South roadway entry.

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 10th week of this work that focused on creating and testing different textures to fill in the empty spaces on top of the compressed earth bricks.

Continued with 3D Earth Block Outdoor Furniture Construction – Click to Visit the Page

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

Yee-Cheng Ho (Interior Designer) also finished her 7th week of helping with the Shipping Container Village (Pod 5) renders for the living units. These final renders show how we’ll open source how to convert the unit design from the complete village into two 2-bedroom designs for do-it-yourself home construction by individuals and families.

Shipping Container Village Concept Render – Unit 2 – Click for Page

Shipping Container Village Concept Render – Unit 2 Conversion – Click for Page

Shipping Container Village Concept Render – Unit 2 Converted – Click for Page

Zachary Melin (Graphic Designer) also continued developing the Tree House Village (Pod 7) book. What you see here is week 13 of this work that continued updating all the page colors to match the new color palette and creation of the color palette page itself.

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

JUMP STARTING GLOBAL COMMUNITY BUILDING DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

One Community is jump starting global community building 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 with layers of revisions for the upcoming 7 villages online book. This week’s focus was this new Straw Bale Village (Pod 2) layout focused on the many social spaces within this village:

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 finalizing the assembly instructions for the table/chair, couch, and large table, all of which we added to the website. What you see here are the results of a full year of volunteering with us.

Finalized Pipe Furniture Table/Chair Assembly Instructions – Click to Visit Page

Finalized Pipe Furniture Couch Assembly Instructions – Click to Visit Page

Finalized Pipe Furniture Table Assembly Instructions – 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 column placement and calculations. This week’s work focused on another round of review and revisions for column placement and further detailing the floor construction details.

Continued Work on the City Center Column Placement and Calculations – 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 9th week of behind-the-scenes research into this area. This week’s focus was continuing with model calculations and research and beginning the process of writing the tutorial for this component. You can see some pictures of this work here:

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

Ramya Vudi (Electrical Engineer) also joined the team and began working on the solar sizing plan and joined Mike Hogan (Automation Systems Developer and Business Systems Consultant) to continue the process of designing the Control and Automation systems. What you see here are notes from her first 2 weeks of work on both of these tasks.

Began working on Solar Sizing Plan & Continued Process of Designing Control & Automation Systems

JUMP STARTING GLOBAL COMMUNITY BUILDING HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS

One Community is jump starting global community building through a Highest Good society approach to living that is founded on fulfilled living, the study of meeting human needs, Community, and making a difference in the world:

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

This week, Ashwin Patil (Web Developer) completed his 5th week of helping with the new site-design details. This week’s focus was adding the rest of the Highest Good food links and icons and beginning to work on the Highest Good economics links and icons.

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

Vassili Biserov (Writer, Poet and Translator) also finished translating our Solution Models to Create Additional Solution-creating Models page into Russian.

Translated Our Solutions That Create Solutions Page into Russian – Click to Visit

Luke Williamson (Graphic Designer) also joined the team to help create new video intros to each section of our project. His focus for his first 3 weeks has been music research and creating this test video.

Working on Creating New Video Intros to Each Section of our Project – Click to Visit Home 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 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.

JUMP STARTING GLOBAL COMMUNITY BUILDING 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.