One CommunitySustainable Prosperity – One Community Weekly Progress Update #93
Sustainable prosperity means more of what people want in their lives on an ongoing basis. Sustainable infrastructure combined with a cooperative and collaborative living model can provide this. One Community is creating open source tools, tutorial, blueprints, and resources to help people create this 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 December 12th, 2014 edition (#93) of our weekly progress update detailing the previous week’s development and accomplishments:
Sustainable Prosperity
One Community Weekly Progress Update #93
Here is the bullet-point list of this last week’s design and progress discussed in detail in the video above:
SUSTAINABLE PROSPERITY INTRO @1:00
SUSTAINABLE PROSPERITY: HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION @2:00
- Completed the first 25% of “Movement and Development” lesson plan mindmap (see below)
- Completed the first half of the “Movement and Development webpage” (see below)
- Added a new resources section to the bottom of all the curriculum and subject pages (see below)
- Behind the scenes, we finished the first 15% of the lesson plan design for “Open Source”
SUSTAINABLE PROSPERITY: HIGHEST GOOD FOOD: @3:17
- Added another 10% to the new Food Self-sufficiency Transition Plan (see below)
SUSTAINABLE PROSPERITY: HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING: @4:10
- Added a Why and What section to the dome home electrical page (see below)
- Completed the first half of the materials and image updates for the custom murphy bed furniture (see below)
- Completed the initial assessment of thermal lag for the Earthbag Village domes (see below)
- Scott Thomas and his Shadow Ridge Signature Architecture Program team also produced these next steps of putting the complete Earthbag Village and the crowdfunding campaign wet dome into CAD (see below)
- Dave Walen contributed the first detailed section of the Straw Bale Village (Pod 2) in CAD (see below)
SUSTAINABLE PROSPERITY: DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER: @6:09
- Completed the first 20% of the Building Plans for All Components page for this structure (see below)
SUSTAINABLE PROSPERITY: HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY: @7:16
- Continued homepage redesign focusing on the Helping Us page (see below)
- Created new social media imagery and featured our Creating Utopia page and our Large-scale Gardening page (see below)
SUSTAINABLE PROSPERITY SUMMARY: @8:10
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HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS
One Community is facilitating sustainable prosperity 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 completed the first 25% of the lesson plan mindmap with the central theme of “Movement and Development.” Here it is:
Movement and Development Mindmap 25% Done – Click to Visit Page
We also completed the first half of the “Movement and Development webpage” that lists the specifics of how to use this lesson and mindmap to teach all subjects to all ages, in any environment, using the central “Movement and Development” theme for sustainable prosperity. Here is a picture of this completed work too:
Movement and Development Page 50% Done – Click to Visit
We also added a new resources section like this to the bottom of all the curriculum and subject pages:
New Resource Section Added to Education Pages – Click for Education Open Source Hub
And, behind the scenes, we finished the first 15% of the lesson plan design for “Open Source”
HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS
One Community is facilitating sustainable prosperity 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 added another 10% to the new Food Self-sufficiency Transition Plan for sustainable prosperity. This developing page shares the wonderful work of Benjamin Sessions and is about teaching people how to affordably and efficiently prepare food in both temporary and permanent kitchen situations until people can produce their own. This will be essential for initial remote village construction as well as the upcoming crowdfunding campaign:
Food Self-sufficiency Transition Plan – Click to Visit Page
HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS
One Community is facilitating sustainable prosperity 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 added a Why and What section to the dome home electrical page that is part of the preparation for the upcoming crowdfunding campaign for sustainable prosperity:
Dome Home Electrical Page in Progress – Click to Visit
We also created the first half of the materials and image updates for the custom murphy bed furniture for sustainable prosperity. These updates are fixing non-standard sized components uncovered in the materials breakdown we’ve been working on for the past few weeks.
Murphy Bed Image Updates – 50% Complete – Click to Visit Page
In addition to this, the core team completed this initial assessment of thermal lag testing and calculations through the earthdome walls. This is only the beginning of this work that nobody (to our knowledge) has ever done. The outermost layer you see is the wall, the next layer in is the air within the wall, and the central area is space we are not measuring because the first 16″ of air measurements will give us the information we need. These calculations are being completed as a precursor to more complex calculations we’ll also be doing on the Earthbag Village central Tropical Atrium.
Scott Thomas and his Shadow Ridge Signature Architecture Program team also produced these next steps of putting the complete Earthbag Village into CAD:
Earthbag Village Evolving in CAD – Click to Visit Page
And the crowdfunding campaign wet dome into CAD:
Crowdfunding Campaign Wet Dome in CAD – Click to Visit Page
Last but not least, here’s a previously unshared update from Dave Walen (Architectural Drafter & Designer and owner of Dave Philip Walen Design) showing the first detailed section of the Straw Bale Village (Pod 2) with straight walls instead of curved walls. What you see is two studios and a two-room unit, all designed for easy modification into different floor plans to meet different needs.
Strawbale Village Detailed Section – Click to Visit Page
DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS
One Community is facilitating sustainable prosperity 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 the first 20% of the Building plans for all components section for the Duplicable City Center. This developing page is where we are hosting downloads of all the CAD, Sketchup, and other files so that people will have free access to these files for duplication, modification, and adaptation.
Building Plans for all Components Section – Click to Visit Page
HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS
One Community is facilitating sustainable prosperity 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 continued the complete redesign of the homepage to streamline and simplify it to better help people understand what we are creating and how it is a viable strategy for global transformation to sustainability. The focus for this week was the Helping Us page updates you can see here. This page now shares clearly and easily all the ways someone can participate in One Community ranging from internet help and support to joining the Pioneer Team.
Updated Helping Us Page – Click to Visit
In addition to this, we also created new social media imagery and featured our Creating Utopia page and our Large-scale Gardening page:
 Click for the Creating Utopia Page |  Click for the Large-scale Gardening 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.
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