Jump Starting Global Eco-Communities – One Community Weekly Progress Update #198

Open source and free-shared designs are one approach for jump starting global eco-communities. Designs like this can cover all aspects of eco-community establishment and maintenance while also providing templates for stand-alone implementation by individuals too. Comprehensively providing models like this has the potential to influence and stimulate the entire sustainability industry, moving us closer to global sustainability and Highest Good living models for 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 January 8th, 2017 edition (#198) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments:

Jump Starting Global Eco-Communities
One Community Progress Update #198

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

JUMP STARTING GLOBAL ECO-COMMUNITIES INTRO: @1:03

HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION: @2:01

• Transferred all the written content for the Cosmos Lesson Plan to the website (see below)
• Behind the scenes: completed 100% of the written part of the Play Lesson Plan (see below)
• Completed the final 25% of the mindmap for the Consciousness Lesson Plan (see below)

HIGHEST GOOD FOOD: @2:57

• Finished updating the anchor links on all of the new food pages (see below)

HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING: @3:38

• Put another combined total of 20 hours into the crowdfunding campaign we are developing along with Ashwini Ramesh (see below)
• Created 20 new pages of the web infrastructure for sustainable villages #’s 3-7 (see below)
• Created 5 new layout outlines for the 7 villages online book (see below)
• Created and added to the book and website two final renders of the Recycled Materials Village Dance Studio and Music Room (see below)
• Continued working on the renders for the Communal Eco-shower Structures that are part of the Earthbag Village (see below)
• Adrienne Gould-Choquette continued working on standardized AutoCAD layers and line weights template (see below)
• Lianyi Zhao continued working on Net-zero Communal Bathroom modeling (see below)
• Dean Scholz continued helping us create quality Cob Village renders  (see below)
• Hamilton Mateca continued helping with Compressed Earth Block Village design details (see below)
• Aparna Tandon continued working on Compressed Earth Block Village external elements (see below)
• Guy Grossfeld created the new and final main Shipping Container Village render (see below)
• Zachary Melin continued developing the Tree House Village book (see below)

DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER: @7:06

• Continued render and book layout creation for the Duplicable City Center (see below)
• Created a new render for the natural pool area inside the Duplicable City Center Social Dome (see below)
• Guy Grossfeld began working on adding food and people to render of City Center root cellar (see below)
• Haoxuan “Hayes” Lei and Shuna Ni continued their work on City Center structural engineering (see below)
• Ramya Vudi and Shubham Agrawal continued their work on the electrical and Control and Automation systems designs for the City Center with Mike Hogan (see below)

HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY: @8:35

• Dakota Kaiser began developing a new open source and replicable annual social media strategy (see below)
• Ashwin Patil completed the search engine functionality for the Highest Good education component (see below)
• Jennifer Zhou continued working on setting up the search engine icons and code for Highest Good housing village #3-7 (see below)

JUMP STARTING GLOBAL ECO-COMMUNITIES SUMMARY: @9:10

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HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

One Community is jump starting global eco-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 all of the written content for the Cosmos 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 “Cosmos” is now 100% completely written on our website.

Transferred 100% of Cosmos Lesson Plan to Site – Click to Visit Page

Behind the scenes, we completed 100% of the written part of the Play Lesson Plan.

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

Consciousness Mindmap – 100% Complete – Click to Visit Page

HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

One Community is jump starting global eco-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 finished updating the anchor links on all of the new food pages; Vegan Rice Recipes & Omnivore Rice Recipes, Vegan Potato Recipes & Omnivore Potato Recipes, Vegan Sweet Potato Recipes & Omnivore Sweet Potato Recipes, and the Vegan Pasta Recipes & Omnivore Pasta Recipes pages, bringing all of the pages to ~60% completion:

Finished Updating the Anchor Links on All of New Food Pages – Click for Vegan Rice Recipes Page

HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

One Community is jump starting global eco-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 last week 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 behind-the-scenes writing and editing of the Sustainable Site Selection, Planning and Preparation GoogleDoc that also contains the Site Clearing, Preparation, and Maintenance details. You can see some of this work here:

Worked Behind-the-Scenes Writing and Editing the Site Planning and Preparation Google Doc – Click for Related Page

The core team also created 20 new pages of the web infrastructure for sustainable villages #’s 3-7. You can see a collage of this work here and access them all through the site map.

Created 20 New Pages of the Web Infrastructure for Sustainable Village #’s 3-7 – Click for Housing Page

And we created these 5 new layout outlines for the 7 villages online book:

Created 5 New Layout Outlines for 7 Villages Online Book – Click for Housing Page

The core team also created, and added to the book and website these two final renders of the Recycled Materials Village (Pod 6) Dance Studio and Music Room.

Recycled Materials Village Dance Studio Final Render – Click for Page

Recycled Materials Village Music Room Final Render – Click for Page

In addition to this, the core team continued working on the renders for the Communal Eco-shower Structures that are part of the Earthbag Village (Pod 1). This week we updated the texture of the walls, adjusted the lighting, and added internal details.

Continued Working on Renders for Communal Eco-shower Structures in the Earthbag Village – Click for Page

Earthbag Village Communal Shower and Net-Zero Bathroom Concept Render – Click for Page

Adrienne Gould-Choquette (Mechanical Engineer) also finished her 3rd week with the team, helping work on the standardized AutoCAD layers and line weights template we are creating. This week’s focus was adding a line weight index and updating and testing the tutorial by beginning to apply it to the Shipping Container Village (Pod 5), as shown here.

Continued Creation of Standardized AutoCAD Layers and Line Weights Template – Click for Page

Lianyi Zhao (Mechanical Engineer) completed his 3rd week of working on the Net-zero Communal Bathroom modeling. This week’s focus was continued modeling of the structure and internal details for the shower structure and Net-zero bathrooms in the Earthbag Village (Pod 1).

Continued Working on the Net-zero Communal Bathroom Designs – Click to Visit Page

Dean Scholz (Architectural Designer), continued helping us create quality Cob Village (Pod 3) renders. Here is update 50 of his work that continues focusing on internal home views. What you are seeing is a series of 66 renders (the final 7 are new) showing the testing and development of the lighting in one of these units.

Continued Creating Quality Cob Village Renders – Click to Visit Page

Hamilton Mateca (AutoCAD and Revit Drafter and Designer) also finished his 25th week helping with the Compressed Earth Block Village (Pod 4) design details. This week’s focus was window and front entryway design and updates, as shown here.

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

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

Guy Grossfeld (Graphic Designer) also created this new and final main Shipping Container Village (Pod 5) render, fixing several alignment issues and external elements.

Created Main Shipping Container Village Final Render – Click to Visit Page

Zachary Melin (Graphic Designer) also continued developing the Tree House Village (Pod 7) book. What you see here is week 19 of this work that produced new versions of pages 54 and 55, as shown here!

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

DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

One Community is jump starting global eco-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 and book layout creation for the Duplicable City Center. This included adding people to this render of the outside portion of the natural pool and this new layout for the page of the book that will feature the pool and the library.

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

The core team also created a new render for the natural pool area inside the Duplicable City Center Social Dome. We removed a few plants to open up the area and added additional lighting and other aesthetic details.

Created New Render for Natural Pool Area Inside the City Center Social Dome – Click for Page

Guy Grossfeld (Graphic Designer) began working on adding food and people to this render of the City Center root cellar.

Added Food and People to City Center Root Cellar Render – 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 was initial section drawings for the braces, as show here.

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

Ramya Vudi (Electrical Engineer) and Shubham Agrawal (Electrical Engineer) continued their work on the electrical and Control and Automation systems designs for the City Center with Mike Hogan (Automation Systems Developer and Business Systems Consultant). Here are pictures of this week’s collaborative call and the results of last week’s work calculating the updated battery and solar panel array sizing.

Continued Working on Electrical and Control and Automation Systems Designs – Click for Page

HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS

One Community is jump starting global eco-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

This week the core team, working with Dakota Kaiser (Ambassador of The Tribe of Awakening Sovereignty), began developing a new open source and replicable annual social media strategy.

Began Developing a New Open Source and Replicable Annual Social Media Strategy – Click for Page

Ashwin Patil (Web Developer) also completed the search engine functionality for the Highest Good education component. You can see a collage of this new functionality here.

Completed Search Engine Functionality for Highest Good Education Component – Click for Page

And Jennifer Zhou (Web Designer) continued working on setting up the search engine icons and code for all the open source components of Highest Good housing village numbers three through seven.

Continued Working on the Icons for Insertion into the Search Engine – Click for 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.

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.

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 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.

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.

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

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

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.