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

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”

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)

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

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)

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

• • • How you can most help us right now and how anyone can help

CLICK HERE IF YOU’D LIKE TO RECEIVE AN EMAIL EACH WEEK WHEN WE RELEASE A NEW UPDATE

YOU CAN ALSO JOIN US THROUGH SOCIAL MEDIA

 

ONE COMMUNITY WEEKLY UPDATE DETAILS

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”:

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:

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:

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.

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:

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:

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:

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:

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:

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

AND WE PRODUCED THIS WEEKLY UPDATES BLOG – CLICK HERE TO SUBSCRIBE

FOLLOW ONE COMMUNITY’S PROGRESS (click icons for our pages)

 

INVESTOR PAGES

OVERVIEW       ●       LOCATION       ●       FUNDING

GET INVOLVED

CONSULTANTS     ●     WAYS ANYONE CAN HELP     ●     MEMBERSHIP

CLICK HERE FOR ALL PAST UPDATES