Ecologically Addressing Humanity’s Foundations – One Community Weekly Progress Update #86

One Community is ecologically addressing humanity’s foundations through self-sufficient and self-propagating teacher/demonstration communities, villages, and cities purposed to teach and share For The Highest Good of All approaches to all aspects of living:

• 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 October 24th, 2014 edition (#86) of our weekly progress update detailing the previous week’s development and accomplishments:

Ecologically Addressing Humanity’s Foundations
One Community Weekly Progress Update #86

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

ECOLOGICALLY ADDRESSING HUMANITY’S FOUNDATIONS INTRO @1:00

ECOLOGICALLY ADDRESSING HUMANITY’S FOUNDATIONS – HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION @1:57

• Finished the final 50% of the Love Lesson Plan mindmap (see below)
• Behind the scenes we finished the first half of image research for the Opposites Lesson Plan

ECOLOGICALLY ADDRESSING HUMANITY’S FOUNDATIONS – HIGHEST GOOD FOOD: @2:57

• Finished large-scale gardening breakout page for Peas (see below)
• Finished large-scale gardening breakout page for Tomatoes (see below)
• Finished large-scale gardening breakout page for Radishes (see below)

ECOLOGICALLY ADDRESSING HUMANITY’S FOUNDATIONS – HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING: @4:04

• Finished real-to-life 3-dome cluster layout and landscaping design and render (see below)
• Finished the final formatting and details for the dome home DIY electrical page (see below)
• Began lumber and parts organization for first dome home furniture design (see below)
• Added the Highest Good energy rollout discussion details for 400+ people (see below)
• Updated the two pairto images and details as we cut our energy costs by 30% (see below)
• Dave Walen made more Straw Bale Village (Pod 2) progress (see below)

ECOLOGICALLY ADDRESSING HUMANITY’S FOUNDATIONS = DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER: @6:20

• Added the cost analysis details to the hydronic setup details page (see below)
• Added a comprehensive FAQ section to the hydronic setup page (see below)
• Behind the scenes we finished lighting needs calculations and 1.0 design for LEED Platinum requirements

ECOLOGICALLY ADDRESSING HUMANITY’S FOUNDATIONS – HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY: @7:33

• We joined Goodshop and added them to our donations page (see below)
• Featured Goodshop as an Ethosolution
• Partnered with Goodshop as a Highest Good Collaborator

ECOLOGICALLY ADDRESSING HUMANITY’S FOUNDATIONS SUMMARY: @8:35

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ECOLOGICALLY ADDRESSING HUMANITY’S FOUNDATIONS – HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

One Community is ecologically addressing humanity’s foundations 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 the final 50% of the Love Lesson Plan mindmap that you can see here. This completes the Love Lesson Plan webpage and lesson that teaches all subjects to all ages in the context of the central theme of “Love”.

Completed Love Lesson Plan Mindmap – Click to Visit the Webpage

Behind the scenes we also finished the first half of image research for the Opposites Lesson Plan.

ECOLOGICALLY ADDRESSING HUMANITY’S FOUNDATIONS – HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

One Community is ecologically addressing humanity’s foundations 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 three more complete breakout pages from the large-scale gardening page. These included the Peas page, the Tomatoes page, and the Radishes page. Click below to visit the complete pages for all the detailed plant descriptions, planting guidelines, cultural considerations, and more. These new pages load faster and also give us the space we’ll need to add recipes, gardening tips, harvesting and canning tips, and videos. Contact us if you have any great resources related to any of these plant species.

CLICK IMAGES FOR COMPLETE PAGES
Peas Breakout Page – Click to Visit	Tomatoes Breakout Page – Click to Visit	Radishes Breakout Page – Click to Visit

ECOLOGICALLY ADDRESSING HUMANITY’S FOUNDATIONS – HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

One Community is ecologically addressing humanity’s foundations 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 the core team finished this real-to-life 3-dome cluster layout and landscaping render for the domes we’ll be building as part of the crowdfunding campaign. This is the first render showing the landscaping and placement of the 150 square foot dome between the two 200 square foot domes.

Real-to-Life 3 Dome Cluster Layout and Landscaping Render – Click to Visit Page

Related to this, we also finished the final formatting and additional details for the last 10% of the earthbag construction dome home energy infrastructure DIY instructional webpage! You can see that here and you can visit the link to this newly completed page for complete details and links to the crowdfunding campaign page with descriptions of all the other components we’ll be open sourcing too.

Earthbag Construction Dome-Home Electrical Systems Webpage – Click to Visit Full Page

We also started putting together the lumber and parts purchasing details for the first custom dome-home furniture design. You can see this here where we are sorting like pieces with like pieces to identify the most efficient lumber and parts purchasing plan. Details on this furniture are on the open source custom furniture page where you can see the other designs by Philip Gill that will also be for the complete earthbag village domes.

Lumber and Parts Purchasing Details for Custom Dome-Home Furniture Design – Click to Visit Page

In addition to this, we added the Highest Good energy rollout and phasing-in discussion details for off-grid sustaining of 400+ people in off-grid eco-villages.

Energy Rollout and Phasing-in Details for 400+ People – Click to Visit Page

And we updated the two pairto images and details with additional energy efficiency changes we made that have made it possible for us to cut our energy costs by 30%! This is the updated chart showing how much specific components of One Community will contribute to peak wattage needs:

Emergency Power PEAK Wattage Needs Assessment

This is the updated chart that shows how much specific components of One Community will contribute to total energy needs:

Emergency Power TOTAL Wattage Needs Assessment

The point of these two charts is to show that components like the heat pump and boiler draw the most power from the perspective of total daily needs because they are running consistently. Individual heaters and water heaters are the top two contributors to peak wattage (energy spikes) though because they draw a lot of power at one time. The general trend is still that those items high on one chart are also high on the other chart, but the details will vary and this can be extremely helpful to understand and consider in emergency power situations.

Dave Walen (Architectural Drafter & Designer and owner of Dave Philip Walen Design) also made significant progress on the next generation of the Straw Bale Village (Pod 2) designs. What you see here is his video of this progress:

Here is an updated CAD cross-section also:

Straw Bale Village CAD Cross-Section – Click to Visit Page

ECOLOGICALLY ADDRESSING HUMANITY’S FOUNDATIONS – DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

One Community is ecologically addressing humanity’s foundations 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 the cost analysis details to the property-wide hydronic setup details page. You can see that here:

Hydronic Cost Analysis Chart – Click to Visit Page

We also added a comprehensive FAQ section to the hydronic setup page:

FAQ Section of Hydronic Setup Page – Click to Visit

Behind the scenes we finished calculating the specifics for our lighting needs so we can meet LEED Platinum requirements and laid out the first version of the complete lighting plan.

ECOLOGICALLY ADDRESSING HUMANITY’S FOUNDATIONS – HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS

One Community is ecologically addressing humanity’s foundations 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 joined Goodshop and Goodsearch. Now people can help us raise money just by surfing the web or shopping at your favorite stores when you signup and click through Goodshop. You will see they are now added to our donations page where clicking the link gives a person access to the 5000+ stores working with Goodshop, Goodshop discounts and coupons, and learning how Goodshop has raised over 11 million dollars for non-profits around the world.

In addition to joining Goodshop and search, we also featured Goodshop as an Ethosolution. You can visit the Goodshop Ethosolution page to learn the history of the program, other ways they are raising money for non-profits, and more. On top of all this, we’ve also partnered with Goodshop  and now list them on our Highest Good Collaborator’s page.

Here they are added to our donations page:

GoodSearch Added to our Website – Click to Visit 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. 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 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 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.