Global Conservation Plan – One Community Weekly Progress Update #234

A global conservation plan is needed if humanity is going to achieve sustainability. One Community is helping create this by open sourcing sustainable approaches to every area of civilization that we see as essential. These areas include food, energy, housing, education, for-profit and non-profit economic design, social architecture, fulfilled living, global stewardship practices, and more. 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

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. This is the September 17, 2017 edition (#234) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments:

Global Conservation Plan
One Community Progress Update #234

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

GLOBAL CONSERVATION PLAN INTRO: @0:34

HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING: @7:39

• Continued Sketchup design for the open source outdoor areas of the Recycled Materials Village (see below)
• Continued working on the complete Tree House Village (Pod 7) village render (see below)
• Jagannathan Shankar Mahadevan joined the team and completed his 1st week familiarizing himself with the Straw Bale Village and researching the details needed to compile a total-village cost analysis (see below)
• Hamilton Mateca finished his 55th week helping with the Compressed Earth Block Village design and render details (see below)
• Aparna Tandon continued her work on the Compressed Earth Block Village external elements (see below)
• Samantha Robinson completed her 7th week working on the interior design for the living structure of the Tree House Village (see below)

DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER: @9:40

• Falgun Patel completed his 3rd week continuing to review, run calculations, and update the specifics of the remote-energy setup plan so we can update the Highest Good energy page (see below)
• Dipti Dhondarkar continued with her 50th week of work on the lighting specifics for the City Center (see below)
• Renan Dantas continued with his 19th week working on the Duplicable City CenterAutoCAD updates (see below)
• Aravind Vasudevan continued his calculations and research for climate battery component of the City Center Heating and Cooling open source hub (see below)
• Vamsi Pulugurtha continued work on the thermal lag research and reports for the City Center Heating and Cooling open source hub (see below)

HIGHEST GOOD FOOD: @11:18

• Researched details for our food needs to review the details for the Food Self-sufficiency Transition Plan (see below)

HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION: @11:52

• Working with Sangam Stanczak, the core team added a What and Why section, updated formatting, and new table of contents to the Teaching Strategies for Life page (see below)

HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY: @12:30

• Continued developing the graphic showing where all our collaborators and volunteers are from (see below)
• Continued working on proofreading and updating the formatting for the taxes page (see below)
• Continued reviewing the Highest Good society search engine version 2.0 details, checking links, formatting, titles and other details so Ashwin Patil can continue the process of finishing this amazing tool (see below)
• Priti Kothari completed her 5th week helping with the Highest Good Network software (see below)

GLOBAL CONSERVATION PLAN SUMMARY: @14:13

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HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

One Community is designing a global conservation plan 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

Global Conservation Plan – Open Source Outdoor Areas of Recycled Materials Village – Click to Visit

The core team also continued working on the complete Tree House Village (Pod 7) village render, which is now approximately 80% complete and shown here.

Global Conservation Plan – Continued Work – Tree House Village Village Render – Click for Page

Jagannathan Shankar Mahadevan (Mechanical Engineer) also joined the team and completed his 1st week familiarizing himself with the Straw Bale Village and researching the details needed to compile a total-village cost analysis.

Global Conservation Plan – Research – Total-Village Cost Analysis of Straw Bale Village – Click for Page

Hamilton Mateca (AutoCAD and Revit Drafter and Designer) also finished his 55th week helping with the Compressed Earth Block Village design and render details. This week’s focus was finishing the final kitchen render looking North, as shown here and now live on the website too.

Global Conservation Plan – Earth Block Village Final Kitchen Render Looking North – Click for Page

Aparna Tandon (Architect) continued her work on the Compressed Earth Block Village external elements. What you see here is her 33rd week of work, focusing on the final presentation shown here (and live on the site) for the central area between the North and South residential wings.

Global Conservation Plan – Continued Work – Earth Block Village External Elements – Click for Page

Samantha Robinson (3D Designer) completed her 7th week working on the interior design for the living structure of the Tree House Village (Pod 7). This week’s focus, as shown here, was revisions for the drawers under the bed, adjustments to the floor plan, and working on the stairway railing details.

Global Conservation Plan – Tree House Village Interior Design for the Living Structure – Click for Page

DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

One Community is designing a global conservation plan 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

Falgun Patel (Mechanical Engineer) completed his 3rd week continuing to review, run calculations, and update the specifics of the remote-energy setup plan so we can update the Highest Good energy page. You can see some of this last week’s work here.

Global Conservation Plan – Reviewed & Updated Specifics of Remote-Energy Setup – Click for Page

Dipti Dhondarkar, (Electrical Engineer) continued with her 50th week of work on the lighting specifics for the City Center. This week’s focus was continuing to model the Dining Dome in preparation for applying and testing the best of the lighting designs from the Social Dome.

Global Conservation Plan – Continued Work – Lighting Specifics for the City Center – Click for Page

Renan Dantas (Mechanical Engineer) continued with his 19th week working on the Duplicable City Center AutoCAD updates. This week’s focus was reviewing the complete window and door plan to simplify and improve it.

Global Conservation Plan – Continued work – Duplicable City Center AutoCAD Updates – Click for Page

Aravind Vasudevan (Mechanical Engineer) continued his calculations and research for climate battery component of the City Center Heating and Cooling open source hub. You can see here his fan-use break-even cost analysis and some of his hand calculations related to this.

Global Conservation Plan – Calculations and Research for Climate Battery Component – Click to Visit

Vamsi Pulugurtha (Mechanical Engineer) also continued work on the thermal lag research and reports for the City Center Heating and Cooling open source hub. What you see here is Vamsi’s work comparing how heat transfers from the basement and boiler room to the outside when built in-ground versus above ground.

Global Conservation Plan – Thermal Lag Research and Reports Heating & Cooling Hub – Click for Page

HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

One Community is designing a global conservation plan 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 editing the food pages. We researched details for our food needs to review the details for the Food Self-sufficiency Transition Plan and found 38 resources for checking calculations on the Sustainable Food Nutrition Calculations page, as you see here.

Global Conservation Plan – Continued Edit the Food Pages – Click for Food Self-Sufficiency Page

HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

One Community is designing a global conservation plan 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 working with Sangam Stanczak (Ph.D. and P.E.), added a What and Why section, updated formatting, and new table of contents to the Teaching Strategies for Life page. This completes this page’s update to the newest formatting we’re using for all the other pages of the site.

Global Conservation Plan – Updated the Teaching Strategies for Life Page – Click to Visit

HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS

One Community is designing a global conservation plan 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 invested several more hours developing the graphic showing where all our collaborators and volunteers are from. The focus was adding three more volunteers into their respective locations in the master layer for the video map, and creating and adding an enhanced web version to the team page.

Global Conservation Plan – Graphic Showing All Our Collaborators and Volunteers – Click for Team

The core team also continued working on proofreading and updating the formatting for the taxes page. We checked for errors in spelling, punctuation, image placement and functionality, and checked all of the ~300 different hyperlinks. We also created the beginnings of a new and standalone state-by-state resource page for the US Departments of Taxation, which will be a useful page that anyone can find via a Google search.

Global Conservation Plan – Proofreading and Updating the Formatting for Taxes Page – Click to Visit

The core team also continued reviewing the Highest Good society search engine version 2.0 details, checking links, formatting, titles and other details so Ashwin Patil (Web Developer) can continue the process of finishing this amazing tool. You can see some of this work-in-progress here and we’d say this search engine is now 70% complete.

Global Conservation Plan – Review – Highest Good Society Search Engine Version 2.0 – Click for Page

In addition to this, Priti Kothari (Information Technology Enthusiast) also completed her 5th week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week’s focus was researching, testing, and debugging the “D3” software we’ll be using to create the Leaderboard charts of everyone’s hours. You can see some of this work here.

Global Conservation Plan – Continued Helping with Highest Good Network Software – 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 thereby Creating a Better World and setting up the Global Conservation Plan.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.

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 and Creating a Better World . 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.