Sustainable Eco-Community Replication – One Community Weekly Progress Update #130

Global sustainable eco-community replication will happen the moment it is demonstrated as easy enough, affordable enough, and attractive enough to gain mainstream support. Open source solutions combining sustainable models for food, energy, and housing that allow for new models of fulfilled living, education, sustainable economics and earth stewardship could be the key. Putting these together as self-replicating teacher/demonstration hubs is what One Community calls living and creating for The Highest Good of All:

• • Here’s our project overview
  • Here’s our world-change methodology
  • Here’s how this becomes self-replicating
  • Here’s how we are open source and free-sharing all the do-it-yourself designs

  

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One Community’s physical location will forward the movement of sustainable eco-community replication as the first of many self-replicating teacher/demonstration communities, villages, and cities to be built around the world. This is the September 20th, 2015 edition (#130) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments:

Sustainable Eco-Community Replication
One Community Progress Update #130

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

SUSTAINABLE ECO-COMMUNITY REPLICATION INTRO @1:03

SUSTAINABLE ECO-COMMUNITY REPLICATION HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION @1:56

• Transferred final 25% of written content for the Social Relationships Lesson Plan to the website (see below)
• Behind the scenes: wrote final 25% of the Recreation and Relaxation Lesson Plan
• Completed and added an additional 25% of the mindmap for the Social Relationships Lesson Plan to the webpage (see below)

SUSTAINABLE ECO-COMMUNITY REPLICATION HIGHEST GOOD FOOD: @3:14

• Finished the final social media imagery and featured our open source mashua hub (see below)
• Added three new delicious recipes from Sandra Sellani to the Food Self-sufficiency Transition Plan (see below)

SUSTAINABLE ECO-COMMUNITY REPLICATION HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING: @4:09

• Continued final revision of the Footers, Foundations and Flooring page for the upcoming crowdfunding campaign (see below)
• Updated the earthbag village eco-toilet and shower page with the 3-D interactives from Gilberto Martini de Oliveira and other edits (see below)
• Continued working on the Straw Bale Village (Pod 2) presentation pages (see below)
• updated the AutoCAD file for the Earthbag Village 3-dome cluster for the upcoming crowdfunding campaign (see below)

SUSTAINABLE ECO-COMMUNITY REPLICATION DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER: @5:41

• Continued updating the Sketchup 3-D for the Duplicable City Center (see below)
• Behind the scenes: worked with Diogo Rozada to complete a final review and series of edits to the Duplicable City Center sprinkler and emergency fire system designs and tutorial (see below)

SUSTAINABLE ECO-COMMUNITY REPLICATION HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY: @6:37

• Began updating all our help wanted pages and our online marketing campaigns. The initial focus has been for web and graphic design help and we finished updating all our ads for Graphic Designers and 50% of redesigning the Seeking Graphic Designers Page (see below)

SUSTAINABLE ECO-COMMUNITY REPLICATION SUMMARY: @7:17

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SUSTAINABLE ECO-COMMUNITY REPLICATION HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

One Community is facilitating sustainable eco-community replication 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 Social Relationships Lesson Plan to the website bringing that to 100% complete, as you see here:

Final 25% of Social Relationships Lesson Plan Added – Click to Visit Page

We also wrote the final 25% of the Recreation and Relaxation Lesson Plan behind the scenes, bringing the written portions to 100% complete.

And finally, we completed and added an additional 25% of the mindmap for the Social Relationships Lesson Plan to the webpage, bringing that to 75% complete. You can see that mindmap here:

Social Relationships Lesson Plan MIndmap – 75% Complete – Click to Visit Page

SUSTAINABLE ECO-COMMUNITY REPLICATION HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

One Community is facilitating sustainable eco-community replication through Highest Good food that is more diverse, more nutritious, locally grown and sustainable, and part of our open source botanical garden model to support and share bio-diversity:

• • • Learn about the structures: Hoop House Hub | Aquapini & Walipini Open Source Hub
    • See what we’ll be growing: Gardens & Hoop Houses | Large-scale Structures | Food Forest | TA

This last week the core team finished the final social media imagery and featured our open source mashua hub:

Featured Mashua Hub with New Social Imagery – Click to Visit

And we added three new delicious recipes from Sandra Sellani (Vegan Chef and author of What’s Your BQ?) to the Food Self-sufficiency Transition Plan – These recipes are: Banana Breakfast Muffins, Asian Style Salad with Tamarind Dressing, and Spaghetti Pie:

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

SUSTAINABLE ECO-COMMUNITY REPLICATION HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

One Community is facilitating sustainable eco-community replication 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 continued what we hope will be the final revision of the Footers, Foundations and Flooring page for the upcoming crowdfunding campaign. This week included adding geotextile fabric and perforated corrugated pipe descriptions, re-calculating lengths of geotextile and polyethylene, altering the water collection gutter with additional stucco and dropping the polyethylene barrier down one more bag on the interior wall, plus rewriting the sequence of steps for foundation and stem buttress and earthbag walls. We’d say we’re now 25% complete with this behind-the-scenes revision.

Continued Revision of the Footers, Foundations and Flooring Info – Click to Visit Page

We also updated the earthbag village eco-toilet and shower page with the 3-D interactives from Gilberto Martini de Oliveira (3D Animation Designer) and other edits… all part of a much larger update that we’d say we’re now about 15% done with.

Updated Earthbag Village Eco-Toilet and Shower Page with 3-D Interactives – Click to Visit Page

And we continued working on the Straw Bale Village (Pod 2) presentation pages adding in picture labels, making format changes and updating the text. We’d say we’re now about 20% done with this layout.

Continued Work on Straw Bale Village Presentation Pages – Click to Visit Page

Last but not least, we updated the AutoCAD file for the Earthbag Village 3-dome cluster for the upcoming crowdfunding campaign. These updates added more details and make the drawing easier to read.

Updated AutoCAD File for Earthbag Village 3-dome Cluster – Click to Visit Page

SUSTAINABLE ECO-COMMUNITY REPLICATION DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

One Community is facilitating sustainable eco-community replication 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 its function: Duplicable City Center Open Source Hub

This week the core team continued updating the Sketchup 3-D for the Duplicable City Center. This week we worked on the bathrooms next to the elevator, redid the stairs and rails for the elevator area, and made corrections to the 1st and 4th floor structure around the stairs area. We’d say we’re now 50% complete with the total 3-D update.

Continued Updating the Sketchup 3-D for the Duplicable City Center – Click to Visit Page

We also worked behind the scenes with Diogo Rozada (Civil Engineering Student specializing in Hydraulics) to complete a final review and series of edits to the Duplicable City Center sprinkler and emergency fire system designs and tutorial. The work you see here is from Diogo and the rest of the Hydraulics Intern Team as it is being finalized in preparation for adding it to the website.

Worked to Complete a Final Review of the Duplicable City Center Sprinkler and Emergency Fire System Designs and Tutorial – Click to Visit Page

SUSTAINABLE ECO-COMMUNITY REPLICATION HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS

One Community is facilitating sustainable eco-community replication through a Highest Good society approach to living that is founded on fulfilled living, the study of meeting human needs, Community, and making a difference in the world:

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

This last week the core team began updating all our help wanted pages and our online marketing campaigns. The initial focus has been for web and graphic design help and we finished updating all our ads for Graphic Designers and 50% of redesigning the Seeking Graphic Designers Page that you can see here. What’s new with these page updates is the addition of complete and detailed job descriptions that include work examples.

Redesigned the Seeking Graphic Designers Page – 50% Complete – Click to Visit Page

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WHAT ONE COMMUNITY IS CREATING

One Community is creating a place to grow together and change the world together. We are creating a space that helps each other live in integrity with each other and the planet as we strive to be the greatest versions of ourselves. We do this by harmoniously respecting each other, nature, and the rest of our one shared planet.

Our goal is to demonstrate what we feel is the most sustainable, healthy, and fun environment we can create. A place based on compassion, kindness, and collaboration. This replicable community will serve as an example 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 for sustainable eco-community replication that can be trusted as the donation point for distribution of monies to help others to establish this model also.