A Complete Sustainability Approach – One Community Weekly Progress Update #138

Shouldn’t a complete sustainability approach include more than just food, energy, and housing? What if sustainable living also included fulfilled living, education, sustainable economics and earth stewardship? One Community is creating open source and sustainable models for all of these areas and as what we call 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

WHAT ONE COMMUNITY IS CREATING

One Community is creating a place to grow together and change the world together by embracing a complete sustainability approach. 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 of a complete sustainability approach and showcase 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 that supports a complete sustainability approach. 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. One Community is dedicated to the mission of supporting a complete sustainability approach, striving to create a more sustainable, healthy, and fulfilling way of life for all.

Even if we don’t achieve our ultimate goal of global transformation, a self-replicating teacher/demonstration model like this will contribute to the act of moving towards a complete sustainability approach, positively affecting 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 BY APPLYING A COMPLETE SUSTAINABILITY APPROACH 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.

OUR MAIN OPEN SOURCE HUBS

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

This is the November 15th, 2015 edition (#138) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments, creating a complete sustainability approach:

A Complete Sustainability Approach
One Community Progress Update #138

Here is the bullet-point list of this last week’s design and progress, representing a complete sustainability approach, discussed in detail in the video above:

A COMPLETE SUSTAINABLY APPROACH – INTRO: @1:00

A COMPLETE SUSTAINABILITY APPROACH – HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION: @1:57

• Transferred the final 50% of the written content for the Energy Lesson Plan to the website (see below)
• Completed and added the first 50% of the mindmap for the Energy Lesson Plan to the webpage (see below)
• Behind the scenes: Wrote the second 1/3 of the Sustainability Lesson Plan

A COMPLETE SUSTAINABILITY APPROACH – HIGHEST GOOD FOOD: @3:08

• Completed an additional 10% on the streamlined version of our Food Self-sufficiency Transition Plan page. This week we added breakout pages for the detailed calculations by Naturopathic Doctor Matt Marturano (see below)
• Added three additional recipes from Sandra Sellani to the Food Self-sufficiency Transition Plan (see below)

A COMPLETE SUSTAINABILITY APPROACH – HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING: @4:15

• Behind the scenes: continued working on the revision for the Footers, Foundations and Flooring page for the upcoming crowdfunding campaign (see below)
• Sized and added door access to the kitchen loft for the crowdfunding campaign dome (see below)
• Shilcy Augustine started updating the Compressed Earth Block Village (Pod 4) classroom and other shared community spaces (see below)

A COMPLETE SUSTAINABILITY APPROACH – DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER: @5:18

• Continued updating the Sketchup 3-D for the Duplicable City Center (see below)
• Iris Hsu continued developing and evolving the Pipe Furniture designs (see below)
• Jarvis Zhao began designing the pipe shelving in 3-D for the library (see below)
• Behind the scenes: Mike Hogan and Lucas Tsutsui da Silva continued work on the the Control Systems design (see below)

A COMPLETE SUSTAINABILITY APPROACH – HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY: @6:50

• Began building another new page called Copyrights, Trademarks, Patents and Using them to Support Open Source and Free-sharing with the help of Oz Czerski (see below)

A COMPLETE SUSTAINABLY APPROACH – SUMMARY: @7:27

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A COMPLETE SUSTAINABILITY APPROACH – HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

One Community is developing a complete sustainability approach 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 50% of the written content for the Energy 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 “Energy” is now 100% complete on our website.

Energy Lesson Plan Complete – Click to Visit Page

We additionally completed and added the first 50% of the mindmap for the Energy Lesson Plan to the webpage. You can see that mindmap here:

Energy Mindmap 50% Complete – Click to Visit Page

Behind the scenes, we also wrote the second 1/3 of the Sustainability Lesson Plan, bringing the behind-the-scenes written part for that to about 65% complete.

A COMPLETE SUSTAINABILITY APPROACH – HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

One Community is developing a complete sustainability approach 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 completed an additional 10% on the streamlined version of our Food Self-sufficiency Transition Plan page, bring that to approximately 30% complete. This week we added breakout pages for the detailed calculations by Naturopathic Doctor Matt Marturano (creator of the COHERENT model for comprehensive digestive health).

Added Breakout Pages from the Food Self Sufficiency Transition Plan Page – Click to Visit Main food Page

We also added three additional recipes from Sandra Sellani (Vegan Chef and author of  What’s Your BQ?) to the Food Self-sufficiency Transition Plan – These recipes are: Pumpkin Fennel Breakfast Muffins, Stuffed Pasta Shells, and 7-Layer Slaw.

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

A COMPLETE SUSTAINABILITY APPROACH – HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

One Community is developing a complete sustainability approach 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 working on the behind-the-scenes revision for the Footers, Foundations and Flooring page for the upcoming crowdfunding campaign. This week included another french drain drawing update incorporating the corbeling and floor changes, you can see this here, plus we did more geotextile and polyethylene dimension updates to the narrative. We’d say this brings us to 52% complete with this total rewrite and update.

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

Additionally, we sized and added door access to the kitchen loft for the crowdfunding campaign dome.

Sized and Added Door Access to the Kitchen Loft for the Crowdfunding Campaign Dome – Click to Visit Page

Shilcy Augustine (Architect) also started updating the Compressed Earth Block Village (Pod 4) classroom and other shared community spaces, which you can see here:

Started Updating the Compressed Earth Block Village Classroom – Click to Visit Page

A COMPLETE SUSTAINABILITY APPROACH – DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

One Community is developing a complete sustainability approach 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 integrated a new shelving design and updated shelving curve that you can see here. We’d say we are now 72% done with the complete 3-D update:

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

Iris Hsu (Industrial Designer), continued developing and evolving the Pipe Furniture designs. What you see here are renders for the final structural design for the chairs for the Duplicable City Center library. Some minor dimension changes are still needed but the designs you see here are the final designs for these chairs that will be built from recycled pipe and be usable as both chairs and as a table, as demonstrated in the bottom right image:

Continued Developing and Evolving Pipe Furniture Designs – Click to Visit Duplicable City Center

Jarvis Zhao (Industrial Designer) also began designing the pipe shelving in 3-D for the library. Here are the initial 3-D images of this work in progress.

Began Designing the Pipe Shelving in 3-D for the Library – Click to Visit the City Center

Behind the scenes Mike Hogan (Automation Systems Developer and Business Systems Consultant) and Lucas Tsutsui da Silva (4th-year Computer Engineering Student), continued work on the the Control Systems design. These are pictures of Mike describing layout changes with relation to power supply….

Mike Describing Layout Changes with Relation to Power Supply – Click to Visit Control Systems Page

And these pictures are Mike using some of the hardware he’s working on now to explain the process he and Lucas will be going through to build the first control board:

Continued Work on the Control Systems Design Behind the Scenes – Click to Visit Page

A COMPLETE SUSTAINABILITY APPROACH – HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS

One Community is developing a complete sustainability approach 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 building another new page called Copyrights, Trademarks, Patents and Using them to Support Open Source and Free-sharing.We’re creating this new page with the help of Oz Czersk, a Lawyer Specializing in Trademark and Copyright Law, and it teaches why copyrights, trademarks, and patents are important to maintaining open source creations as open source. We’d say we are about 50% done with this new page.

Began Building the Copyrights, Trademarks, Patents and Using them to Support Open Source and Free-sharing Page – Click to Visit

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 – A COMPLETE SUSTAINABILITY APPROACH

One Community sees the issues of the world as interdependent and interconnected. To address them simultaneously and present a complete sustainability approach, 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.

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