Ecological Paradigm – One Community Weekly Progress Update #201

An ecological paradigm is possible if enough people want it. One nonprofit and non-governmental approach to achieving this is open source and free-shared approaches to sustainable food, energy, housing, education, for-profit and non-profit economic design, social architecture, fulfilled living, and global stewardship practices. 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 the movement to create an ecological paradigm as the first of many self-replicating teacher/demonstration communities, villages, and cities to be built around the world. This is the January 29th, 2017 edition (#201) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments:

Ecological Paradigm
One Community Progress Update #201

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

ECOLOGICAL PARADIGM INTRO: @1:03

ECOLOGICAL PARADIGM HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION: @2:00

• Transferred all written content for Caring and Kindness Lesson Plan to the website (see below)
• Behind the scenes: completed 100% of the written part of the Diversity Lesson Plan
• Completed second 50% of the mindmap for the Cognition Lesson Plan (see below)
• Recolored all the Highest Good education icons to match the master icon and for video use, and then updated the site (see below)

ECOLOGICAL PARADIGM HIGHEST GOOD FOOD: @2:59

• Edited and added information to the “What Is” and “Overview ” sections of the Food Bars page (see below)

ECOLOGICAL PARADIGM HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING: @3:28

• Ashwini Ramesh and core team put another combined total of 15 hours into the crowdfunding campaign we are developing (see below)
• Created/revised the structural engineering icons in 8 colors for Highest Good housing (see below)
• Created two new Communal Eco-shower Structure renders for the Earthbag Village (see below)
• Adrienne Gould-Choquette finished her 6th week helping create the standardized AutoCAD layers and line-weights template (see below)
• Dean Scholz continued helping us create quality Cob Village renders (see below)
• Adding details to Dean’s previous work, Guy Grossfeld added people and nature elements to create 4 new final renders of the Cob Village (see below)
• Jiming Chen also continued helping develop the Tree House Village (see below)
• Hamilton Mateca finished his 29th week helping with the Compressed Earth Block Village design details (see below)

ECOLOGICAL PARADIGM DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER: @6:06

• Started working on 3D-visualizing the structural support updates for the Cupola that tops the Duplicable City Center (see below)
• Made additional formatting and image changes to the Duplicable City Center component of the 7 villages online book (see below)
• Jinxi Feng continued her research helping us create an in-depth washing machine sustainability analysis (see below)
• Haoxuan “Hayes” Lei and Shuna Ni continued their work on the City Center structural engineering (see below)
• Shubham Agrawal continued his work on the electrical and Control and Automation systems designs for the City Center (see below)
• Jin Yu completed her 2nd week working on the concrete foundation design and tutorial details for the Duplicable City Center (see below)
• Renan Dantas continued with his 6th week working on creating our next generation of Duplicable City Center sections, layout organization, layer updates, and color updates (see below)

ECOLOGICAL PARADIGM HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY: @8:28

• Finished the One Community aspect of our open source and replicable annual social media strategy (see below)
• Hannah Gibbs completed her 3rd week of helping develop the Taxes and Sustainable Community Building page (see below)
• Ashwin Patil continued with his 15th week developing the new Search Engines for our site (see below)

ECOLOGICAL PARADIGM SUMMARY: @9:08

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ECOLOGICAL PARADIGM HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

One Community is facilitating a new ecological-paradigm 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 transferred all of the written content for the Caring and Kindness Lesson Plan to the website, as you see here. This lesson plan is purposed to teach all subjects, to all learning levels, in any learning environment, using the central theme of “Caring and Kindness”

Transferred 100% of Caring and Kindness Lesson Plan to Site – Click to Visit Page

Behind the scenes, we completed 100% of the written part of the Diversity Lesson Plan.

We also completed the second 50% of the mindmap for the Cognition Lesson Plan, bringing it to 100% complete, which you see here:

Cognition Mindmap – Complete – Click to Visit Page

And we recolored all the Highest Good education icons to match the master icon and for video use, and then updated the site with them.

Recolored Highest Good Education Icons and Updated on the Site – Click for Page

ECOLOGICAL PARADIGM HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

One Community is facilitating a new ecological-paradigm 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 edited and added information to the “What Is” and “Overview ” sections of the Food Bars page, as you see here, bringing the page to approximately 18% completion.

Worked on the “What Is” and “Overview ” Sections of the Food Bars Page – Click to Visit Page

ECOLOGICAL PARADIGM HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

One Community is facilitating a new ecological-paradigm 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 working with Ashwini Ramesh (Civil Engineer and Project Manager) put another combined total of 15 hours into the crowdfunding campaign we are developing. This week’s focus was behind-the-scenes review and continued writing and editing of the Sustainable Site Selection, Planning and Preparation GoogleDoc that also contains the Site Clearing, Preparation, and Maintenance details. You can see some of this work here.

Continued Writing & Editing the Sustainable Site Selection, Planning and Preparation GoogleDoc

The core team also created/revised the structural engineering icons in 8 colors for Highest Good housing.

Created/Revised Structural Engineering Icons in 8 colors for Highest Good Housing – Click to Visit

And we created two new Communal Eco-shower Structure renders for the Earthbag Village (Pod 1). Next, we will merge these to create the final render.

Created Two New Communal Eco-Shower Structure Renders – Click for Page

Adrienne Gould-Choquette (Mechanical Engineer) also finished her 6th week helping create the standardized AutoCAD layers and line-weights template. This week’s focus was several rounds of integrating the feedback and suggestions from all the other disciplines on our team.

Continued Creation of Standardized AutoCAD Layers and Line Weights Template – Click for Page

And Dean Scholz (Architectural Designer), continued helping us create quality Cob Village (Pod 3) renders. Here is update 53 of Dean’s work developing renders for the living spaces. This week’s focus was on sections and renders for the 2nd floor sleeping areas of the Southwest wing.

Continued Creating Quality Cob Village Renders – Click to Visit Page

Adding details to Dean’s previous work, Guy Grossfeld (Graphic Designer) added people and nature elements to create this new final render of the Cob Village Front View:

Cob Village Final Render of Front View – Click to Visit Page

… and this Front View Looking Northwest:

Cob Village Final Render of Front View Looking Northwest – Click to Visit Page

… this Back View Looking East:

Cob Village Final Render of Back View Looking East – Click to Visit Page

… and this Center View Looking Northeast:

Cob Village Final Render of Center View Looking Northeast- Click to Visit Page

Jiming Chen (Designer with his Master’s in Architecture and BA in Engineering) also continued helping develop the Tree House Village (Pod 7). What you see here is his 11th week of this work focusing on test rendering the entire village you see here with columns as tree placeholders:

Continued Helping Develop the Tree House Village -Click to Visit Page

…and finishing the plans and running test renders as seen here for the shower and bathroom stand-alone tower structures.

Shower and Bathroom Tower Structures – Click for Tree House Village

Hamilton Mateca (AutoCAD and Revit Drafter and Designer) also finished his 29th week helping with the Compressed Earth Block Village (Pod 4) design details. This week’s focus was updates to the kitchen renders, creation of accurate outdoor earth block benches, and simplifying the AutoCAD colors and layers.

Continued Evolving the Compressed Earth Block Village – Click to Visit Page

ECOLOGICAL PARADIGM DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

One Community is facilitating a new ecological-paradigm 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 week the core team started working on 3D-visualizing the structural support updates for the Cupola that tops the Duplicable City Center. You can see the beginnings of this work here.

Worked on 3D-Visualizing Structural Support Updates for Cupola – Click for Duplicable City Center

We also made additional formatting and image changes to the Duplicable City Center component of the 7 villages online book.

Made Changes to DCC Component of the 7 Villages Online Book – Click to Visit Page

And Jinxi Feng (Environmental Consultant) continued her research helping us create an in-depth washing machine sustainability analysis in route of creating an ecological paradigm. What you see here is her 19th week of behind-the-scenes work on this area of the project. This week’s focus was writing the data analysis content and creating info graphics explaining what’s possible when maximizing sustainability in this area.

Continued Research for in-Depth Laundry and Dryer Machine Sustainability Analysis – Click to Visit

Haoxuan “Hayes” Lei (Structural Engineer) and Shuna Ni (Masters of Mechanical Engineering and Civil Engineering PhD) also continued their work on the City Center structural engineering. This week’s focus was roof engineering, fixing stairway conflicts with existing beams, and beginning the process of updating the structural calculations based on commonly available steel members.

Continued Working on City Center Structural Engineering – Click for Page

Shubham Agrawal (Electrical Engineer) continued his work on the electrical and Control and Automation systems designs for the City Center. What you see here are a couple photos from the weekly collaborative call with Mike Hogan (Automation Systems Developer and Business Systems Consultant) and the new tool Shubham created for calculating solar and battery sizing and needs.

Continued Working on Electrical and Control and Automation Systems Designs – Click for Page

Jin Yu (Structural Engineering Designer) also completed her 2nd week working on the concrete foundation design and tutorial details for the Duplicable City Center. This week’s focus was on the wall footings and basement design details.

Continued Working on the Concrete Foundation Design and Tutorial Details – Click for Page

And Renan Dantas (Mechanical Engineer) continued with his 6th week working on creating our next generation of Duplicable City Center sections, layout organization, layer updates, and color updates. This week’s focus was modeling the the new dome geometry at each floor level and then applying this to the floor plans.

Continued Creating our Next Generation of Duplicable City Center Section Drawings – Click to Visit

ECOLOGICAL PARADIGM HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS

One Community is facilitating a new ecological-paradigm 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 finished the One Community aspect of our open source and replicable annual social media strategy. You can see a small snapshot of this work here.

Finished the One Community Aspect of Open Source Annual Social Media Strategy – Click to Visit

Hannah Gibbs (Web Developer) also completed her 3rd week of helping develop the Taxes and Sustainable Community Building page. What you see here are the second round of custom images she’s created that will link to the tax codes for each state.

Continued Helping Develop the Taxes and Sustainable Community Building Page – Click to Visit Page

Ashwin Patil (Web Developer) continued with his 15th week developing the new Search Engines for our site. This week’s work included another round of revisions and updates for the the Highest Good education component and completing version 1.0 of the complete Straw Bale Village search engine.

Continued Work on Search Engine for the Highest Good Education Component & Highest Good Housing – 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. 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 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.

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 through an ecological paradigm 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. 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 and create an ecological paradigm. 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 of creating an ecological paradigm. 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. This is also part of this model to help the world. Its purpose is to facilitate more engagement of 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, 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.

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 for ecological paradigm that can be trusted as the donation point for distribution of monies to help others to establish this model also.