Sustainable, Modifiable, and Adaptable Community Building – One Community Weekly Progress Update #79

One Community is developing sustainable, modifiable, and adaptable community building models 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

OUR MAIN OPEN SOURCE HUBS

Click on each icon to be taken to the corresponding Highest Good hub page.

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 September 5th, 2014 edition (#79) of our weekly progress update detailing the previous week’s development and accomplishments:

Sustainable, Modifiable, and Adaptable Community Building
One Community Weekly Progress Update #79

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

SUSTAINABLE, MODIFIABLE, AND ADAPTABLE COMMUNITY BUILDING INTRO @1:00

SUSTAINABLE, MODIFIABLE, AND ADAPTABLE COMMUNITY BUILDING – HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION @1:48

• Finished another 30% of the Harmony Lesson Plan webpage (see below)
• Researched and added more resources to our open source and free-shared on-line education resources archive (see below)
• Created a web design tutorial for those interested in helping us with the Lesson Plans for Life

SUSTAINABLE, MODIFIABLE, AND ADAPTABLE COMMUNITY BUILDING – HIGHEST GOOD FOOD: @3:35

• Adding the diversity details to the Bitter melon section of the large-scale gardening page (see below)
• Added Achocha, also known as the “Bolivian Cucumber,” to the large-scale gardening page (see below)

SUSTAINABLE, MODIFIABLE, AND ADAPTABLE COMMUNITY BUILDING – HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING: @4:24

• Completed another 30% of the earthbag construction footers, foundation, and flooring tutorial page (see below)
• Behind the scenes, we finished the tools and initial outline of the electrical details page (now 10% done)
• Behind the scenes, we completed another 15% of the total energy infrastructure rollout details (now 75% done)
• Finished the measurements and parts details for the rest of the Murphy bed dome-home furniture design (see below)

SUSTAINABLE, MODIFIABLE, AND ADAPTABLE COMMUNITY BUILDING – DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER: @6:17

• Completed an additional 30 seconds of the Duplicable City Center 3-D video (see below)
• Updated the complete Duplicable City Center open source hub (see below)
• Behind the scenes: completing another 10% of the control systems research (90% total complete)

SUSTAINABLE, MODIFIABLE, AND ADAPTABLE COMMUNITY BUILDING – HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY: @8:20

• Rewrote our Welcome to the Team page (see below)

SUSTAINABLE, MODIFIABLE, AND ADAPTABLE COMMUNITY BUILDING SUMMARY: @9:28

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HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

One Community is developing sustainable, modifiable, and adaptable 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 finished another 30% of the Harmony Lesson Plan webpage, bringing us to 40% complete there:

Sustainable, Modifiable, and Adaptable Community Building – Harmony Lesson Plan Webpage – 30% Complete – Click to Visit

We also researched and added another huge group of resources to our open source and free-shared on-line education resources archive (now containing nearly 100 resources) and including the graphic below that we feel really does a beautiful job of describing why One Community is creating open source lesson plans and all the other all-ages all-subjects components of the Highest Good Education program:

Sustainable, Modifiable, and Adaptable Community Building – Why Homeschooling is a Good Idea – Click for Educational Resources

Behind the scenes we also created a web-design tutorial for those interested in helping us with the Lesson Plans for Life components.

HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

One Community is developing sustainable, modifiable, and adaptable 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 last week the core team finished adding the diversity details to the Bitter melon section of the large-scale gardening page where we featured the 4 you see here along with purchasing details, cultural considerations, and planting guidelines:

Sustainable, Modifiable, and Adaptable Community Building – Bitter Melon Diversity Details – Click to Visit Page

We also added the ah-cha-cha Achocha, also known as the “Bolivian Cucumber,” to the site:

Sustainable, Modifiable, and Adaptable Community Building – Achocha Diversity Details – Click to Visit Page

HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

One Community is developing sustainable, modifiable, and adaptable 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 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 completed another 30% of the earthbag construction footers, foundation, and flooring tutorial page you see below. This brings us to about 70% of the way complete with this page. The tool section is done, excavation section is done, the footer section is done, the foundation section is done, and now all that remains is final editing and picture and video additions to the flooring and FAQ sections. This is all part of our developing crowdfunding campaign and the world image you see repeating is where we’ll be adding extensive tutorial videos as part of that campaign:

Earthbag Construction Footers, Foundation, and Flooring Tutorial Page – Click to Visit

Related to this and behind the scenes, we’ve also finished the tools and initial outline of the electrical details page that will eventually look just like the one above. That page is now 10% done.

Also behind the scenes, we completed another 15% of the total energy infrastructure rollout details for off-grid community creation for 50-400+ people, bringing us to 75% complete there.

And we finished the measurements and parts details for the rest of the Murphy bed dome-home furniture design. The picture here is from our GoogleDocs in-progress. It is truly just a tiny snapshot and fraction of the actual document which is HUGE… taking the custom furniture designs by Philip Gill  (Interior and Furniture Designer and Owner of Philip Gill Design) for the earthbag village domes and dome home crowdfunding campaign and preparing them all for complete do-it-yourself building and assembly instructions:

Details Complete for Murphy Bed Dome-Home Furniture Design – Click to Visit Page

DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

One Community is developing sustainable, modifiable, and adaptable 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 last week the core team completed another 30 seconds of the Duplicable City Center 3-D video. Now that we’re near the end of the video is it focusing on sharing the beautiful details of this structure to give people a perspective of what it will be like to walk around in it. Here is the video completed as far as we’ve gotten it done thus far:

We also updated the complete Duplicable City Center open source hub with the video, our newly completed CAD floor plan (updated compliments of Karl Harris of Harris Design & Technology Services), and a sizable bunch of additions to the page’s FAQ section:

Sustainable, Modifiable, and Adaptable Community Building – Duplicable City Center Open Source Hub – Click to Visit Page

Behind the scenes we completing another 10% of the control systems research bringing us to 90% total completion of the exploration of all the software and hardware options available for monitoring, management, and automation of everything from energy and water to internet usage. We’ve shown pictures of this action item in past weeks and hope to start creating the final and professional open source resource in the next couple of weeks.

HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS

One Community is developing sustainable, modifiable, and adaptable 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 last week the core team completely rewrote our Welcome to the Team page. The purpose of this page and rewrite being to even better clarify the expectations and desires of both One Community and all our collaborative partners so we can create massive win-win relationships as people join our team. This is all part of a major push our organization is completing to put in place the infrastructure necessary to more efficiently welcome and work with more and more people… a building process we are actively engaging like never before and expect to accelerate dramatically with our crowdfunding campaign. Here’s the new page:

Sustainable, Modifiable, and Adaptable Community Building – Welcome to the Team Page – Click to Visit

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WHAT ONE COMMUNITY IS CREATING

One Community is creating a place to grow together and change the world together, along with a goal to create sustainable, modifiable, and adaptable community building. 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, serving as an example for what is possible in terms of creating a sustainable, modifiable, and adaptable community building. 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, furthering the cause of creating a sustainable, modifiable, and adaptable 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: creating a sustainable, modifiable, and adaptable community building, 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, thus creating a sustainable, modifiable, and adaptable community building. 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, further reinforcing the importance of creating a sustainable, modifiable, and adaptable community building.

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, thus fostering a sense of community and commitment to creating a sustainable, modifiable, and adaptable community building.

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: Creating Sustainable, Modifiable, and Adaptable Community Building by 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, ultimately contributing to creating a sustainable, modifiable, and adaptable community building.

Phase II: Creating Sustainable, Modifiable, and Adaptable Community Building with 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: Creating Sustainable, Modifiable, and Adaptable Community Building by 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, thereby creating a sustainable, modifiable, and adaptable community building. 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: Creating Sustainable, Modifiable, and Adaptable Community Building with 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, further creating a sustainable, modifiable, and adaptable community building. 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, ultimately contributing to creating a sustainable, modifiable, and adaptable community building. 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, ultimately leading to creating a sustainable, modifiable, and adaptable community building. 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

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.