Bio-Social Progress – One Community Weekly Progress Update #262

Bio-social progress is sustainable progress built on a foundation of cooperative social and ecological consciousness. If enough of us participate, humanity can pass the tipping point necessary to establish ourselves as a sustainable civilization. This will benefit all life on our shared planet and One Community is open sourcing the resources we feel are most needed and helpful in achieving this.

• 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 April 1st, 2018 edition (#262) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments:

Bio-Social Progress
One Community Progress Update #262

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

BIO-SOCIAL PROGRESS INTRO: @0:34

HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING: @5:37

DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER: @7:12

• Jin Yu continued behind-the-scenes development of the City Center excavation and construction of the footer and foundation tutorial (see below)
• Yun Lin began helping with the beam design and calculation aspects of the City Center structural engineering (see below)
• David Olivero completed his 16th week helping with the HVAC Designs for the Duplicable City Center (see below)
• Dipti Dhondarkar continued with her 68th week of work on the lighting specifics for the City Center (see below)

HIGHEST GOOD FOOD: @8:28

• Continued work on the complete Highest Good food rollout plan and cost analysis (see below)
• Continued working on the Garden Tools list (see below)
• Continued research and development of the open source Permaculture Design for the property (see below)

HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION: @9:40

• Continued developing the Lesson Plans How-to tutorial page (see below)

HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY: @9:53

• Ashwin Patil finished updating our search engine usability on mobile devices (see below)
• Sowmya Manohar, Shubhra Mittal, Priyanka Singh, Asha Tadimari, and Swathy Jayaseelan continued work on the Highest Good Network software (see below)

BIO-SOCIAL PROGRESS SUMMARY: @10:50

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HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

One Community is facilitating bio-social progress 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 Shadi Kennedy (Artist and Graphic Designer) rejoined the team and took over development of the Murphy bed instructions. What you see here is his first week helping with this and focusing on developing the parts and component overview pages.

Bio-Social Progress – Development of the Murphy Bed Instructions – Click for Page

Dean Scholz (Architectural Designer) continued with the Cob Village (Pod 3) AutoCAD layout updates. Here is update 107 of Dean’s work. This week he finished development of the landscaping and other details for the floor plan you see here that is also now on the website.

Bio-Social Progress – Continued with Cob Village AutoCAD Layout Updates – Click for Page

Dan Alleck (Designer and Illustrator) completed his 17th week working on the Compressed Earth Block Village render additions. This week he focused on adding people and additional door and window details and edits to the two renders shown here.

Bio-Social Progress – Continued Work – Earth Block Village Render Additions – Click for Page

Michael Hagler (Senior Graphic Designer and Artist) also completed these three layouts for the Shipping Container Village layout within the 7-villages book we’re developing.

Bio-Social Progress – Layouts – Shipping Container Village layout Within 7Villages Book – Click for Page

Mihaela “Michelle” Pinzaru (Interior Designer and Architectural Drafter) also completed her 11th week working on the Tree House Village (Pod 7) residential renders. This week she created the 8 final renders you see here covering all aspects of the main living spaces, upstairs loft area, central shared space, and central loft area.

Bio-Social Progress – Resident’s Downstairs Render – Click for Tree House Village Page

Bio-Social Progress – New Resident’s Main Floor Render – Click for Tree House Village Page

Bio-Social Progress – Resident’s Upstairs 1 Render – Click for Tree House Village Page

Bio-Social Progress – Resident’s Upstairs 2 Render – Click for Tree House Village Page

Bio-Social Progress – Resident’s Central Detail – Click for Tree House Village Page

DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

One Community is facilitating bio-social progress 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

Jin Yu (Structural Engineering Designer) continued with her work with the behind-the-scenes development of the City Center excavation and construction of the footer and foundation tutorial. This week’s focus was the retaining wall details shown here.

Bio-Social Progress – City Center Excavation – Construction Footer, Foundation Tutorial – Click for Page

Yun Lin (Bridge Design Engineer) also began helping with the beam design and calculation aspects of the City Center structural engineering. The spreadsheet shown here is some of this work.

Bio-Social Progress – Beam Design,Calculation Aspects City Center Structural Engineering – Click to Visit

David Olivero (Mechanical Engineer & Data Scientist) completed his 16th week helping with the HVAC Designs for the Duplicable City Center. This week’s focus was running new calculations for the kitchen HVAC loads using a conservative approach and an ultra-sustainable approach, both of which can be seen here.

Bio-Social Progress – Continued Help HVAC Designs for Duplicable City Center – Click for Page

Dipti Dhondarkar, (Electrical Engineer) continued with her 68th week of work on the lighting specifics for the City Center. This week’s focus was testing more approaches and finalizing the lighting strategy for the basement, which you can see here.

Bio-Social Progress – Continued Working on Lighting Specifics for the City Center – Click for Page

HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

One Community is facilitating bio-social progress 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 work on the complete Highest Good food rollout plan and cost analysis. We continued adding items and links to the details list for 20-50 people, as shown here.

Bio-Social Progress – Complete Highest Good Food Rollout Plan and Cost Analysis – Click for Page

The core team also continued working on the Garden Tools list, adding descriptions and images to the Excel chart, as shown here.

Bio-Social Progress – Continued Working on the Garden Tools List – Click for Page

In addition, the core team continued research and development of the open source Permaculture Design for the property. This week we finished the graphics for the Section Analysis, Zone Overview, Water-Structure-Access Overview, and the Detailed Design – all shown here.

Bio-Social Progress – Design of the Open Source Permaculture Design for the Property – Click to Visit

HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

One Community is facilitating bio-social progress 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 continued developing the Lesson Plans How-to tutorial page. This week we finished the first 30% of the section giving examples of how to use each other component with the lesson plans component.

Bio-Social Progress – Continued Developing the Lesson Plans How-to tutorial Page – Click to Visit

HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS

One Community is facilitating bio-social progress 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 Ashwin Patil (Web Developer) finished updating our search engine usability on mobile devices. What you see here are the new mobile layouts.

Bio-Social Progress – Finished Search Engine Usability on Mobile Devices – Click for Home Page

The Highest Good Network software team consisting of Sowmya Manohar (Software Engineer, Web Developer & Net Application Developer), Shubhra Mittal (Software Delivery Manager), Priyanka Singh (Software Developer), Asha Tadimari (Software Engineer), and Swathy Jayaseelan (Software Developer). This week the team updated the timer to round to minutes, increased the size of the leaderboard, created a new api method to handle deletion of project related tasks, implemented project name validation, and added a toggle function for displayed teams.

Bio-Social Progress – Continued Working on 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, change the world together and facilitating Human Eco-Synthesis . 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 growth on creating a golden Age for Humanity.

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.

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. 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.

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. 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 facilitate facilitating Human Eco-Synthesis and 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.