Game-Changing Solutions For The World – One Community Weekly Progress Update #202

The time has come for game-changing solutions for the world. This means whole-systems approaches covering all aspects of sustainable and ecologically intelligent approaches to food, energy, housing, education, for-profit and non-profit economic design, social architecture, fulfilled living, and global stewardship practices. One Community is working to design, open source and free-share, and build these solutions.

• 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 February 5th, 2017 edition (#2o2) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments:

Game-Changing Solutions for the World
One Community Progress Update #202

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

GAME-CHANGING SOLUTIONS FOR THE WORLD INTRO: @1:03

GAME-CHANGING SOLUTIONS FOR THE WORLD HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION: @1:59

• Transferred all of the written content for the Diversity Lesson Plan to the website (see below)
• Behind the scenes: completed 100% of written part of the “Form & Our Outer World” Lesson Plan
• Completed the first 50% of the mindmap for the Cosmos Lesson Plan (see below)

GAME-CHANGING SOLUTIONS FOR THE WORLD HIGHEST GOOD FOOD: @2:48

• Added anchor links and created / added a new image to the “What Is” section of the Food Bars page (see below)
• Working with Jennifer Zhou, completed edits and reorganization of the Food Self-sufficiency Transition Plan page (see below)

GAME-CHANGING SOLUTIONS FOR THE WORLD HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING: @3:31

• Built the initial test heat exchanger for the Communal Eco-shower Structure (see below)
• Merged two renders to create the final section view of the Communal Eco-shower Structure for the Earthbag Village (see below)
• Guy Grossfeld added people and nature elements to create two new Final renders of Earthbag Village Tropical Atrium (see below)
• Christian Ojeda joined the team and completed his 1st week helping with the heat recycling Communal Eco-shower designs (see below)
• Adrienne Gould-Choquette finished her 7th week helping create the standardized AutoCAD layers and line-weights template (see below)
• Fernando Remolina continued with his 12th week of managing the Vermiculture Bathroom development with help from Lin Xu and Jianyu “Lucas” Liang (see below)
• Dean Scholz continued helping us create quality Cob Village renders (see below)

GAME-CHANGING SOLUTIONS FOR THE WORLD DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER: @5:39

• Made final edits to render for natural pool area inside the Duplicable City Center Social Dome (see below)
• Continued working on 3D-visualizing the structural support updates for the Cupola (see below)
• Dipti Dhondarkar continued with her 26th week of work on the lighting specifics for the City Center (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)
• Ramya Vudi and Shubham Agrawal continued their work on the energy infrastructure for the City Center (see below)
• Jin Yu completed her 3rd week working on the concrete foundation design and tutorial details for the Duplicable City Center (see below)
• Renan Dantas continued with his 7th week working on the Duplicable City Center AutoCAD updates (see below)

GAME-CHANGING SOLUTIONS FOR THE WORLD HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY: @8:15

• Finished a complete rewrite and update of the Highest Good Network software page and launched a new campaign to help build the team (see below)
• Hannah Gibbs completed her 4th week of helping develop the Taxes and Sustainable Community Building page (see below)
• Ashwin Patil continued with his 16th week developing the new Search Engines for our site (see below)

GAME-CHANGING SOLUTIONS FOR THE WORLD SUMMARY: @8:55

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GAME-CHANGING SOLUTIONS FOR THE WORLD HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

One Community is helping create game-changing solutions for the world 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 Diversity 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 “Diversity”.

Transferred 100% of Diversity Lesson Plan to Site – Click to Visit Page

Behind the scenes, we completed 100% of the written part of the “Form & Our Outer World” Lesson Plan.

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

Cosmos Mindmap – 50% Complete – Click to Visit Page

GAME-CHANGING SOLUTIONS FOR THE WORLD HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

One Community is helping create game-changing solutions for the world 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 added anchor links and created / added a new image to the “What Is” section of the Food Bars page, as you see here, bringing the page to ~20% completion.

Added Anchor Links & Created New Image for the “What Is” Section of the Food Bars Page

Working with Jennifer Zhou (Web Designer), we also completed edits and reorganization of the Food Self-sufficiency Transition Plan page, bringing that page to 90% completion, which you can see here.

Completed Edits and Reorganization of the Food Self-Sufficiency Transition Plan Page – Click to Visit

GAME-CHANGING SOLUTIONS FOR THE WORLD HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

One Community is helping create game-changing solutions for the world 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 built the initial test heat exchanger for the Communal Eco-shower Structure:

Heat Exchanger Test Parts Before Assembly – Click for Communal Eco-Shower Structure Page

… assembled and sealed it:

Assembled and Sealed Heat Exchanger – Click for Communal Eco-Shower Structure Page

… and produced this final construction ready for testing:

Heat Exchanger Final Construction – Click for Communal Eco-Shower Structure Page

We also merged two renders to create this final section view of the Communal Eco-shower Structure for the Earthbag Village (Pod 1):

Merged Two Renders to Create this Final Section View of Communal Eco-Shower Structure – Click for Page

In addition to this, Guy Grossfeld (Graphic Designer) added people and nature elements to create these two new Final renders of the Earthbag Village Tropical Atrium, then we added them to the site.

Created New Final Render of Earthbag Village Tropical Atrium – Click for Page

Created New Final Render of Earthbag Village Tropical Atrium – View Looking South – Click for Page

Christian Ojeda (Mechatronic Engineer) joined the team and completed his 1st week helping with the heat recycling Communal Eco-shower designs. What you see here is version 1.0 of 3D modeling the pipes, point-of-use heater, thermostatic mixing valve, and heat exchanger.

Worked on Heat Recycling Communal Eco-Shower Designs – Click to Visit Page

Adrienne Gould-Choquette (Mechanical Engineer) also finished her 7th week helping create the standardized AutoCAD layers and line-weights template. This week’s focus was another round of integrating feedback and further simplifying the template to produce what you see here.

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

Fernando Remolina (Industrial Engineer specializing in Project Management) continued with his 12th week of managing the Vermiculture Bathroom development with the 7th week of help from Lin Xu (Mechanical Engineering Student) and Jianyu “Lucas” Liang (Mechanical Engineer). This week’s focus, as shown here, was on the toilet connections to the main unit and drainage details.

Continued Managing the Vermiculture Bathroom Development – Click to Visit Page

And Dean Scholz (Architectural Designer), continued helping us create quality Cob Village (Pod 3) renders. Here is update 54 of Dean’s work developing renders for the living spaces. This week’s focus was a new perspective and section including the 2nd-floor sleeping areas of the Southwest wing.

Continued Creating Quality Cob Village Renders – Click to Visit Page

GAME-CHANGING SOLUTIONS FOR THE WORLD DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

One Community is helping create game-changing solutions for the world 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 made final edits to this render for the natural pool area inside the Duplicable City Center Social Dome:

Made Final Edits to Render for Natural Pool Indoor Render – Click for Page

The core team also continued working on 3D-visualizing the structural support updates for the Cupola that tops the Duplicable City Center. We added structural metal beam support for the South and North columns of the central area, and continued working on the structural support columns around the staircase area of the Dining Dome. You can see this work in both of these areas here:

Continued Working on 3D-Visualizing the Structural Support Updates for the Cupola

Dipti Dhondarkar, (Electrical Engineer) continued with her 26th week of work on the lighting specifics for the City Center. This week’s focus was creation of a simplified zone drawing and beginning initial light placement.

Continued Working on the Lighting Specifics for the City Center – Click to Visit Page

And Jinxi Feng (Environmental Consultant) continued her research helping us create an in-depth washing machine sustainability analysis. What you see here is her 20th week of behind-the-scenes work on this area of the project. This week’s focus was finalizing writing the content and creating the graphics for the first half of the Research and Application section of the tutorial.

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 continued roof engineering calculations and finishing the process of updating the structural calculations based on commonly available steel members.

Continued Working on City Center Structural Engineering – Click for Page

Ramya Vudi (Electrical Engineer) and Shubham Agrawal (Electrical Engineer) continued their work on the energy infrastructure for the City Center. This week’s work focused on researching multiconductors, conduit types, and saltwater batteries and doing a comparative analysis for saltwater versus lead acid batteries.

Continued Working on Energy Infrastructure for the City Center – Click for Page

Jin Yu (Structural Engineering Designer) also completed her 3rd week working on the concrete foundation design and tutorial details for the Duplicable City Center. This week’s focus was on writing the beginning of the foundation design detail tutorial, as seen here.

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

And Renan Dantas (Mechanical Engineer) continued with his 7th week working on the Duplicable City Center AutoCAD updates. This week’s focus was adjusting the windows and doors to fit the new dome geometry and identifying possible problem areas.

Continued Creating Our Duplicable City Center AutoCAD Updates – Click to Visit Page

GAME-CHANGING SOLUTIONS FOR THE WORLD HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS

One Community is helping create game-changing solutions for the world 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 a complete rewrite and update of the Highest Good Network software page and launched a new campaign to help build the team necessary to complete this software.

Finished a Complete Rewrite and Update of the Highest Good Network Software Page – Click to Visit

Hannah Gibbs (Web Developer) also completed her 4th week of helping develop the Taxes and Sustainable Community Building page. This week’s focus was final edits to the state images and adding these images to the site along with their links to their states’ tax pages.

Continued Developing Taxes & Sustainable Community Building Page – Click to Visit

Ashwin Patil (Web Developer) continued with his 16th week developing the new Search Engines for our site. This week’s work included integration of the first round of edits to the Straw Bale Village search engine and creation and testing of version 1.0 of the Highest Good Food search engine.

Continued Developing the New Search Engine for Our Site – Click for Straw Bale Village

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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.

GAME-CHANGING SOLUTIONS FOR THE WORLD 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.

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