Affordable Sustainability – One Community Weekly Progress Update #286

Affordable sustainability is necessary if mainstream implementation is going to happen. Such implementation has the benefit to positively impact the life of everything on our planet and One Community is supporting and forwarding this movement through open source and do-it-yourself plans for sustainable food, energy, housing, education, for-profit and non-profit economic design, social architecture, fulfilled living, global stewardship practices, and more. We call this 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

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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 16, 2018 edition (#286) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments:

Affordable Sustainability
One Community Progress Update #286

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

AFFORDABLE SUSTAINABILITY: INTRO: @0:34

AFFORDABLE SUSTAINABILITY: HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING: @7:44

AFFORDABLE SUSTAINABILITY: DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER: @9:52

• Core team working with Dipti Dhondarkar continued developing the lighting specifics for the City Center (see below)
• Dehua Feng completed his 20th week working on the fire suppression and safety systems designs for the Duplicable City Center Sprinkler and Emergency Systems open source hub (see below)
• Haoxuan “Hayes” Lei finished his last week working on the City Center structural engineering (see below)
• Anvita Kumari Pandey completed her 22nd week volunteering by working on final details for the Duplicable City Center Materials and Costs and beginning work updating the Earthbag Village Materials and Costs (see below)

AFFORDABLE SUSTAINABILITY: HIGHEST GOOD FOOD: @11:19:

• Continued writing the behind-the-scenes narrative and detailed food rollout plan for the various stages of development (see below)

AFFORDABLE SUSTAINABILITY: HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION: @12:07

• Wrote initial script and started creating the graphics for what will replace our regular Highest Good education updates in the videos and website now that this component is pretty much complete until we move onto the property and develop it further with teachers and students (see below)
• Added more resources, a new table of contents, and instructions for using the “Find Function” to the Free Online Education Resources page (see below)

AFFORDABLE SUSTAINABILITY: HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY: @12:50

• Jin Hua, working with the core team continued collaboration on our new online marketing strategy (see below)
• Highest Good Network software team consisting of Sowmya Manohar and Shubhra Mittal returned to development (see below)

AFFORDABLE SUSTAINABILITY: SUMMARY: @14:12

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AFFORDABLE SUSTAINABILITY: HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

One Community is facilitating affordable sustainability 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 week the core team continued testing the open source Murphy bed furniture assembly instructions. The focus this week was final testing of the back storage and changing area and we redesigned the fold-down bed and fold out tables and benches. You can see some of this work-in-progress here.

Continued Testing the Murphy Bed Furniture Assembly Instructions – Click for Page

The core team also made significant updates to the open source plaster page by adding more resources, updating the table of contents, and adding instructions for how to create wheat paste.

Made Significant Updates to Open Source Plaster Page – Click to Visit

Shadi Kennedy (Artist and Graphic Designer) also completed his 21st week leading the development of the Murphy bed instructions. This week he continued development of the initial bed box assembly instruction and started final revisions for the Clothing and Storage section now that the core team finished the final assembly testing of this area using Sketchup 3D. You can see some of this work-in-progress here.

Continued Development of Murphy Bed Furniture Assembly Instructions – Click for Furniture Page

Mike Kowalski (Game Developer) finished his 20th week helping update our renders that are too big for anything but a gaming computer. This week Mike redid these 3 Earthbag Village (Pod 1) renders with all closed doors and made fixes to the trees and lighting.

Redid 3 Renders with all Closed Doors and Fixes to Trees and Lighting – Click for Earthbag Village

Edited Images and Added to the Earthbag Village and Tropical Atrium – Click for Tropical Atrium

Hemanth Kotaru (Structural Engineer) completed his 21st week helping with the structural engineering research and calculations for the Earthbag Village (Pod 1). This week’s focus was interpreting the results of all his research on the engineering details of the different kinds of earth that can be used to fill the bags, finding more resources, and starting to create the calculations spreadsheet.

Continued Helping with Structural Engineering Research and Calculations for Earthbag Village – Click for Page

Continued Working on the Earthbag Village – Click for Page

AFFORDABLE SUSTAINABILITY: DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

One Community is facilitating affordable sustainability 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

The core team working with Dipti Dhondarkar (Electrical Engineer) also continued developing the lighting specifics for the City Center. This is Dipti’s 94th week volunteering on this task and the focus this week was these floor-by-floor overview lighting renders that are now on the website also.

Continued Developing the Lighting Specifics for the City Center – Click for Page

Dehua Feng (Civil Engineer) also completed his 20th week working on the fire suppression and safety systems designs for the Duplicable City Center Sprinkler and Emergency Systems open source hub. This week he finished the calculation updates for all the remaining zones, updated all the references for the tutorial, and calculated the reservoir size needed to support the system. You can see some of this work here.

Continued Work on Fire Suppression and Safety Systems Design for the City Center – Click for Page

Haoxuan “Hayes” Lei (Structural Engineer) also finished his last week working on the City Center structural engineering. What you see here are the wrapup documents sharing what has been completed and what still remains to be done by the next volunteer team.

Finished His Last Week Working on the City Center Structural Engineering – Click for Page

Last but not least, Anvita Kumari Pandey (Civil Engineer) completed her 22nd week volunteering by working on final details for the Duplicable City Center Materials and Costs and beginning work updating the Earthbag Village Materials and Costs with the same level of detail – some of which you can see here.

Continued Working on Duplicable City Center Materials and Costs – Click for Page

AFFORDABLE SUSTAINABILITY: HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

One Community is facilitating affordable sustainability 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 week, the core team continued writing the behind-the-scenes narrative and detailed food rollout plan for the various stages of development. We continued our comprehensive review of the complete 20-person food rollout and implementation details. This included further integration of our related webpages, information on “How to Stockpile Compost Material”, a very simple brown/green composting explanation for the novice gardener, and beginning edits for the Transition Kitchen page. You can see some of this work here.

Continued Writing the Behind-the-Scenes Narrative and Detailed Food Rollout Plan – Click for Page

HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

One Community is facilitating affordable sustainability 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 week, the core team wrote the initial script and started creating the graphics for what will replace our regular Highest Good education updates in the videos and website now that this component is pretty much complete until we move onto the property and develop it further with teachers and students.

Wrote Initial Script and Started Creating Graphics for what will Replace our Regular Highest Good Education Updates – Click for Education Page

We also added more resources, a new table of contents, and instructions for using the “Find Function” to the Free Online Education Resources page.

Added More Resources and Content to Free Online Education Resources Page – Click to Visit

AFFORDABLE SUSTAINABILITY: HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS

One Community is facilitating affordable sustainability 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 week Jin Hua (Web and Graphic Designer) working with the core team continued collaboration on our new online marketing strategy by updating our Adwords details, creating the sped-up tutorial you see running here in the background and teaching how to better do keyword research to improve it even more, and running reports to evaluate our updated marketing approach for these updates versus how we were doing it before.

Continued Collaboration on Our New Online Marketing Strategy – Click for Home Page

The Highest Good Network software team consisting of Sowmya Manohar (Software Engineer, Web Developer & Net Application Developer) and Shubhra Mittal (Software Delivery Manager) also returned to development. This week they upgraded the HGNApp from CircleCI 1.0 to 2.0 and enabled email deployment notifications, investigated the cause for the HGN timer counting two seconds at a time and disabled it for now, and added functionality for auto-refreshing when status changes are made to Active/Inactive in user management page. You can see some of this work here.

Returned to Working on the Highest Good Network Software – Click for Page

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WHAT ONE COMMUNITY IS CREATING

One Community is creating a place to grow together and change the world together, guided by principles of affordable sustainability. 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, rooted in principles of affordable sustainability. A place based on compassion, kindness, and collaboration. This replicable community will serve as an example of what is possible.

Throughout our design process, we are open sourcing and free-sharing everything needed for construction and replication, guided by principles of affordable sustainability. 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.

AFFORDABLE SUSTAINABILITY: 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, all rooted in principles of affordable sustainability.

WHY ONE COMMUNITY IS CREATING THIS

The One Community self-replicating model is capable of creating a sustainable planet within 30 years, driven by principles of affordable sustainability. 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, and resources, and work together as a network to heal the planet. They will also transform the global lifestyle into a more enjoyable, fulfilling, healthy, and sustainable one.

The specifics of how One Community is accomplishing affordable sustainability 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 in 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 affordable sustainability.

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.), rooted in principles of affordable sustainability. 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, driven by principles of affordable sustainability. 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, rooted in principles of affordable sustainability, 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 rooted in principles of affordable sustainability 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, rooted in principles of affordable sustainability. 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, driven by principles of affordable sustainability. 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.

To meet the increasing demand for sustainability that we are contributing to, we are coordinating with manufacturers, education institutions, individuals, and vendors, with a focus on affordable sustainability. This is also part of this model to help the world. Its purpose is to facilitate more engagement in the sustainability industry, produce the absolute best possible consumer value, and the most convenient delivery of goods and methodologies for building sustainable living communities and sustainable living components.

This means we not only provide education and increase needed sustainability resources, but we also address the underlying roadblocks to a sustainable planet by decreasing the cost and simultaneously increasing the demand and generating financial support for global sustainability, philanthropy, and humanitarian movements and organizations, all centered around principles of affordable sustainability.

As demand increases, so too will the ways to participate. Right now people are participating as consultants or partners donating time to our 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization, and others are more involved as Pioneers of the core team that will be moving to the property. We also have options for people to just follow our progress or participate through internet contribution.

Once the supportive physical infrastructure is about 30% developed, One Community will be ready to additionally expand what we offer to include scholarships, free weekend learning groups, core team members choosing to travel abroad to help others get established too, handling the marketing for all similar models operating for The Highest Good of All, and hosting classes and other sponsored events to promote and demonstrate additional methodologies.

We also imagine the high likelihood that our organization will become a foundation that can be trusted as the donation point for distribution of monies to help others to establish this model also.