Eco-Communities Creating a Global Sustainability Cooperative – One Community Weekly Progress Update #252

Eco-communities creating a global sustainability cooperative could revolutionize how people live by demonstrating a more enjoyable and more sustainable way that prioritizes cooperation and collaboration over competition. One Community is calling this The Highest Good of All and we’re creating open source and free-shared tools, tutorials, and DIY resources to demonstrate and replicate all aspects of the eco-community process.

• 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, empowering eco-communities creating a global sustainability cooperative. This is the January 21st, 2018 edition (#252) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments:

Eco-Communities Creating a Global Sustainability Cooperative
One Community Progress Update #252

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

ECO-COMMUNITIES CREATING A GLOBAL SUSTAINABILITY COOPERATIVE INTRO: @0:34

ECO-COMMUNITIES CREATING A GLOBAL SUSTAINABILITY COOPERATIVE – HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING: @6:07

• Continued Sketchup design for the open source outdoor areas of the Recycled Materials Village (see below)
• Continued working on the Murphy bed instructions (see below)
• Continued working on the Water Recycling Net Zero Bathroom Design page (see below)
• Added the Labyrinth and Concert/Class Amphitheater description to the Compressed Earth Block Village page (see below)
• Christian Ojeda worked on creating the first versions of the Vermiculture toilet and septic tank parts and cost analysis lists (see below)
• Dean Scholz continued helping us create quality Cob Village renders (see below)
• Dan Alleck completed his 13th week working on the Compressed Earth Block Village render additions (see below)
• Jagannathan Shankar Mahadevan finished the first half of Shipping Container Village Materials Costs text and graphics updates (see below)

ECO-COMMUNITIES CREATING A GLOBAL SUSTAINABILITY COOPERATIVE – DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER: @8:24

• Finished another 30% of the LEED lighting tutorial details for the lighting design of the City Center and all other One Community structures (see below)
• David Olivero completed his 9th week helping with the HVAC Designs for the Duplicable City Center (see below)

ECO-COMMUNITIES CREATING A GLOBAL SUSTAINABILITY COOPERATIVE – HIGHEST GOOD FOOD: @9:12

• Continued work on the data for the food calculations on the Food Self-sufficiency Transition Plan pages (see below)

ECO-COMMUNITIES CREATING A GLOBAL SUSTAINABILITY COOPERATIVE – HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION: @9:41

• Continued researching images for the education Evaluation and Evolution process open source pages and tutorials (see below)

ECO-COMMUNITIES CREATING A GLOBAL SUSTAINABILITY COOPERATIVE – HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY: @10:16

• Working with Ashwin Patil, the core team finished the Stewardship search engine and added it to the Highest Good of All page (see below)
• Added new resources, a new Furniture section, and new formatting to the Highest Good lifestyles page (see below)
• Sowmya Manohar, Priti Kothari, Shubhra Mittal, and Priyanka Singh continued work on the Highest Good Network software (see below)

ECO-COMMUNITIES CREATING A GLOBAL SUSTAINABILITY COOPERATIVE SUMMARY: @11:24

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HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

One Community is facilitating eco-communities creating a global sustainability cooperative 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

The core team continued Sketchup design for the open source outdoor areas of the Recycled Materials Village (Pod 6), contributing to eco-communities creating a global sustainability cooperative. This week we selected the area for the skatepark, researched skate-park images and ideas for Sketchup models (top right image), and created the initial skatepark layout and designs.

Continued Working on Outdoor Areas of Recycled Materials Village – Click to Visit Page

The core team also continued working on the Murphy bed instructions. This week we set the auto numbering on the sections, added 20 new pages to the wireframe, and refined the section starts for consistent numbering.

Continued Working on Murphy bed Instructions – Click to Visit Page

And the core team continued working on the Water Recycling Net Zero Bathroom Design page. This week’s focus was aligning the images relative to the text and spacing. We also worked on adding more alt text to the images to improve the SEO rankings. Finally, the team began working on the table of contents for the page by adding all of the main sections to it and created the first 3rd of the anchor links. We’d say we’re now about 50% complete with the page.

Continued Working on Water Recycling Net Zero Bathroom Design Page – Click to Visit

We also added the Labyrinth and Concert/Class Amphitheater description to the Compressed Earth Block Village page.

Added Labyrinth and ConcertAmphitheater Description to the Compressed Earth Block Village Page

Christian Ojeda (Mechatronic Engineer) completed his 34th week volunteering with our team, dedicating his effort in eco-communities creating a global sustainability cooperative. This week’s focus was creating the first versions of the Vermiculture toilet and septic tank parts and cost analysis lists.

Began Work of Vermiculture Toilet and Septic Tank Parts and Cost Analysis Lists – Click to Visit Page

Dean Scholz (Architectural Designer) continued helping us create quality Cob Village (Pod 3) renders. Here is update 97 of Dean’s work, this week’s focus was finishing the design of the freezer door shown here.

Continued Helping Create Quality Cob Village Renders – Click for Page

Dan Alleck (Designer and Illustrator) completed his 13th week working on the Compressed Earth Block Village render additions, showcasing his vision for eco-communities creating a global sustainability cooperative. This week he began work on the front perspective shown here.

Continued Working on Compressed Earth Block Village Render Additions – Click for Page

And Jagannathan Shankar Mahadevan (Mechanical Engineer) completed his 13th week volunteering. This week’s focus was finishing the first half of the Shipping Container Village Materials Costs text and graphics updates.

Continued Work on Shipping Container Village Materials Costs – Click for Page

DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

One Community is facilitating eco-communities creating a global sustainability cooperative 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 finished another 30% of the LEED lighting tutorial details for the lighting design of the City Center and all other One Community structures, contributing to eco-communities creating a global sustainability cooperative. You can see some of this work here and the rest is on the site. This brings this page to 60% complete.

Continued LEED Lighting Tutorial Details for Lighting Design of City Center – Click to Visit Page

David Olivero (Mechanical Engineer & Data Scientist) completed his 9th week helping with the HVAC Designs for the Duplicable City Center, in pursit of facilitating eco-communities creating a global sustainability cooperative. This week’s focus was creating version 1.0 of the presentation comparing the HVAC efficiencies of square and dome structures.

Continued Working on HVAC Designs for Duplicable City Center – Click to Visit Page

HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

One Community is facilitating eco-communities creating a global sustainability cooperative 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 data for the food calculations on the Food Self-sufficiency Transition Plan pages, and created additional daily eating plans and meals, as you see here contributing to eco-communities creating a global sustainability cooperative.

Continued Work on Food Calculations on Food Self-Sufficiency Transition Plan Pages – Click to Visit

HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

One Community is facilitating eco-communities creating a global sustainability cooperative 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 researching images to add to the education Evaluation and Evolution process open source pages and tutorials. This week we found images for the Assessment Format and Assessment Forms pages, as you can see here.

Researched Images for Assessment Format and Assessment Forms Pages – Click to Visit

HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS

One Community is facilitating eco-communities creating a global sustainability cooperative 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, the core team working with Ashwin Patil (Web Developer) finished the Stewardship search engine and added it to the Highest Good of All page, some of which you can see here.

Finished the Stewardship Search Engine and Added it to Highest Good of All Page – Click to Visit

The core team also added new resources, a new Furniture section, and new formatting to the Highest Good lifestyles page.

Added Resources, a New Furniture Section, and new Formatting to Highest Good Lifestyles Page

The Highest Good Network software team consists of Sowmya Manohar (Software Engineer, Web Developer & Net Application Developer), Priti Kothari (Information Technology Enthusiast),  Shubhra Mittal (Software Delivery Manager), and Priyanka Singh (Software Developer), helping to faciliate eco-communities creating a global sustainability cooperative. This week the team resolved application launch errors, updated the node version to accommodate async/await functionalities, created a user management page, improved the formatting of the user profile, and implemented users seeing team names instead of team ids. They also implemented form validations and ability to add/remove personal and admin links as per authorization.

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 and change the world together. 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, committed to eco-communities creating a global sustainability cooperative. 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 in terms of eco-communities creating a global sustainability cooperative.

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, all aimed at eco-communities creating a global sustainability cooperative. 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 for the eco-communities creating a global sustainability cooperative.

WHY ONE COMMUNITY IS CREATING THIS

The One Community self-replicating model is capable of creating a sustainable planet within 30 years through the eco-communities creating a global sustainability cooperative. 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, further promoting the ideals of the eco-communities creating a global sustainability cooperative. 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, furthering the cause of the eco-communities creating a global sustainability cooperative.

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, contributing to the eco-communities creating a global sustainability cooperative.  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, ultimately aiming for eco-communities creating a global sustainability cooperative.

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 and an achievable way for eco-communities creating a global sustainability cooperative, 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.

COMPREHENSIVE SOLUTION TO HUMANITY’S NEEDS

One Community is open source sharing an evolution of sustainable living that addresses the complete human experience, all in pursuit of eco-communities creating a global sustainability cooperative. 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, all contributing to eco-communities creating a global sustainability cooperative.

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 the principles of eco-communities creating a global sustainability cooperative. 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.

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: Eco-Communities Creating a Global Sustainability Cooperative 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.

Phase II: Eco-Communities Creating a Global Sustainability Cooperative 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: Eco-Communities Creating a Global Sustainability Cooperative 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. 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: Eco-Communities Creating a Global Sustainability Cooperative 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. 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. 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 the faster we see the world transitioning towards eco-communities creating a global sustainability cooperative.

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 and contributing to eco-communities creating a global sustainability cooperative.
• 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

OPEN SOURCE SHARING STRATEGY SPECIFICS

One Community’s open source strategy for eco-communities creating a global sustainability cooperative 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

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 all aimed at eco-communities creating a global sustainability cooperative.