Advancing the Standard of Living – One Community Weekly Progress Update #74

One Community is advancing the standard of living by providing a path for people to do-it-yourself create the standard of living that they want. We are developing this through an evolution of sustainability that is open sourcing all the necessary DIY plans and steps for living and collaboratively 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

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 August 1st, 2014 edition (#74) of our weekly progress update detailing the previous week’s development and accomplishments:

Advancing the Standard of Living
One Community Weekly Progress Update #74

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

ADVANCING THE STANDARD OF LIVING INTRO @1:00

ADVANCING THE STANDARD OF LIVING – HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION @1:36

• • • Finished 50% of the Spring-themed lesson plan webpage (see below)
    • Added another 20% to our open source online education resources page
    • Completed the first 60% of the images and descriptions for the English Subject page (see below)
    • Behind the scenes we finished the final 10% of the lesson plan with the core them of  “Harmony”

ADVANCING THE STANDARD OF LIVING – HIGHEST GOOD FOOD: @2:47

• • • Finished adding the diversity details to the Turnips section of the large-scale gardening page (see below)
    • Finished adding the diversity details to the Oca section of the large-scale gardening page (see below)

ADVANCING THE STANDARD OF LIVING – HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING: @3:42

• • • Finished first 25% of the Murphy bed furniture measurements and plans for instructions (see below)
    • Added lodging and camping option details to our crowdfunding campaign webpage (see below)
    • Amira Kessem finished traditional plaster research for the open source plaster page (details below)
    • Scott Howard also began contributing eco-plaster information for this new open source plaster page

ADVANCING THE STANDARD OF LIVING – DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER: @5:01

• • • Added another 30 seconds of scenes to the Duplicable City Center construction in 3-D video (see below)
    • More heat pump analysis done and added to our open source sustainable water heating page (see below)

ADVANCING THE STANDARD OF LIVING – HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY: @7:01

• • • Completed a new win-win page about our definition of creating win-win partnerships (see below)
    • Updated our core value of Spirituality page (see below)

ADVANCING THE STANDARD OF LIVING SUMMARY: @7:43

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HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

One Community is advancing the standard of living 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 50% of the Spring-themed lesson plan webpage that teaches all subjects to all learning levels in the context of the central theme of “Spring”:

Advancing the Standard of Living  – Spring-themed Lesson Plan Webpage – 50% Complete – Click to Visit Page

And we completed the first 60% of the images and descriptions for the English Subject page:

Advancing the Standard of Living – English Subject Page – 60% Complete – Click to Visit Page

HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

One Community is advancing the standard of living 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 heirloom and organic Turnips section of the large-scale gardening page. We added 9 and featured the only two that had enough available online information to create feature details:

Advancing the Standard of Living – Turnip Diversity Details – Click to Visit Page

We also completed the details for Oca, an Andes root vegetable that looks like the 10 you see featured here. Click the image to visit the page with complete cultural considerations, planting guidelines, and sourcing and purchasing details.

Advancing the Standard of Living – Oca Diversity Details – Click to Visit Page

HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

One Community is advancing the standard of living 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 began measuring and inventorying all the components of the Murphy bed furniture design for the earthbag village domes. What you see here is the first 25% of this process for the end cabinets that will then prepare us to create detailed wood and parts purchasing lists, building instructions, and then, as part of our upcoming crowdfunding campaign, complete finished examples, timelapse videos, and video construction tutorials. Here is a collage of what we’ve completed so far:

Advancing the Standard of Living – Murphy Bed End Table Furniture Specifics – Click for Open Source Furniture Page

Related to the crowdfunding campaign, we also added lodging and camping option details to our crowdfunding campaign webpage:

Advancing the Standard of Living – Lodging and Camping Details Added to Crowdfunding Campaign – Click to Visit Page

Amira Kessem (Mechanical Engineering Student in Israel) also finished several weeks of research into traditional plasters that you can see posted in it’s raw form on our new open source plaster page. We’ve also added the beginnings of eco and natural plaster details compliments of Scott Howard (Sustainable Building Expert and Owner of Earthen Hand Natural Building). Click this image to be taken to the page being being created that already hosts much of this information:

Advancing the Standard of Living – Open Source Plaster Page – Click to Visit

DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

One Community is advancing the standard of living 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 added another 30 seconds of scenes to the Duplicable City Center construction in 3-D video that showcases over 2 years of 3-D design work. Here it is with a series of additional still images acting as fillers at the end of the video to show the earlier development of this structure while we continue to work on the rest of the 3-D video components:

We also continued our exploration and analysis of heat pump efficiency and benefits. What you see here is a chart of the benefits of a specific heat pump we are evaluating when used in combination with a solar water heater, heat exchanger re-capturing heat from used shower water, or other method. It is comparing this to a tankless water heater. The bottom of this chart is the incoming water temperature using one of the pre-mentioned methods and the Coefficient of Performance on the left is how many more times the energy efficiency is of the heat pump versus the tankless water heater. Visit our open source sustainable water heating page for more explanation of this image:

Advancing the Standard of Living – Heat Pump Efficiency – Click to Visit Page

HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS

One Community is advancing the standard of living 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 finished a new win-win page showing all the areas One Community is currently working on and sharing how we define creating win-win collaborative partnerships:

Advancing the Standard of Living – Win-Win Page – Click to Visit

We also updated our core value of Spirituality page that discusses One Community’s diversity focused and non-ideological approach to spirituality and how we use this value in our decision making process:

Updated the Core Value of Spirituality 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 be advancing the standard of living. 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 advancing the standard of living. 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 advancing the standard of living.

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: Advancing the standard of living, 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 advancing the standard of living. 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 advancing the standard of living.

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 advancing the standard of living.

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: Advancing the Standard of Living 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 advancing the standard of living.

Phase II: Advancing the Standard of Living 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: Advancing the Standard of Living 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 advancing the standard of living. 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: Advancing the Standard of Living 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 advancing the standard of living. 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 advancing the standard of living. 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, thereby contributing to advancing the standard of living.

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 advancing the standard of living. 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.