Global Sustainability Methodology – One Community Weekly Progress Update #285

One Community is creating a global sustainability methodology built on open source DIY designs for sustainable food, energy, housing, education, for-profit and non-profit economic design, social architecture, fulfilled living, global stewardship practices, and more. We are doing this as a path to global sustainability through a global network of self-replicating teacher/demonstration hubs that will cooperatively create even more open source plans and resources.

• 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 September 9, 2018 edition (#285) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments:

Global Sustainability Methodology
One Community Progress Update #285

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

GLOBAL SUSTAINABILITY METHODOLOGY: INTRO: @0:34

GLOBAL SUSTAINABILITY METHODOLOGY: HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING: @6:24

GLOBAL SUSTAINABILITY METHODOLOGY: DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER: @8:41

• Added the 7-villages book into the Duplicable City Center open source hub (see below)
• Core team working with Dipti Dhondarkar continued developing the lighting specifics for the City Center (see below)
• Anvita Kumari Pandey completed her 21st week helping with the Duplicable City Center Materials and Costs (see below)
• Dehua Feng completed his 19th week working on the fire suppression and safety systems designs for the Duplicable City Center Sprinkler and Emergency Systems open source hub (see below)

GLOBAL SUSTAINABILITY METHODOLOGY: HIGHEST GOOD FOOD: @10:14

• Continued writing the behind-the-scenes narrative and detailed food rollout plan for the various stages of development (see below)

GLOBAL SUSTAINABILITY METHODOLOGY: HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION: @10:52

• Finished adding all the graphics and final formatting updates for the Information Maintenance and Sharing – Taking Your Learning With You page (see below)

GLOBAL SUSTAINABILITY METHODOLOGY: HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY: @11:32

• Reviewed and updated all the videos for the Conscious and Uplifting Music Project and added the list to Spotify (see below)
• Our Executive Director attended the Climate Reality training and became a trained member of the Climate Reality Corps (see below)

GLOBAL SUSTAINABILITY METHODOLOGY SUMMARY: @11:

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GLOBAL SUSTAINABILITY METHODOLOGY: HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

One Community is supporting our global sustainability methodology 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 week the core team integrated the finished 7-villages book into the website and updated all the village pages with the new graphics and downloadable PDFs. You can see some of this work here.

Integrated Finished 7-Villages Book into the Website – Click for Page

This week the core team also continued testing the open source Murphy bed furniture assembly instructions. We removed parts that will not be in the new design, designed all the new parts, and made corrections for the floating shelf. In addition, we created the first render with the new table and bed in the ‘up’ position, table down, and the bed down. You can see some of this work-in-progress here.

Shadi Kennedy (Artist and Graphic Designer) also completed his 20th week leading the development of the Murphy bed instructions. This week he integrated changes needed from our 3D testing of the storage section instructions and worked on the parts list and initial layout for the bed frame, some of which you can see here.

Continued Development of Murphy Bed Furniture Assembly Instructions – Click for Furniture Page

Mike Kowalski (Game Developer) finished his 19th week helping update our renders that are too big for anything but a gaming computer. This week Mike created the 3 additional Earthbag Village (Pod 1) renders you see here.

Created 3 Earthbag Village Renders – Click for Page

Hemanth Kotaru (Structural Engineer) completed his 20th week helping with the structural engineering research and calculations for the Earthbag Village (Pod 1). This week’s focus was finishing the research on the engineering details of the different kinds of earth that can be used to fill the bags. You can see some of the results of this research here.

Continued Helping with Structural Engineering Research and Calculations for Earthbag Village – Click for Page

 

 

Dean Scholz (Architectural Designer) also continued working on the Earthbag Village (Pod 1). Here is weekly update #129 from Dean, his focus this week was working on the group table and spa component details and beginning work on the 6-dome cluster options that include the bathrooms. You can see some of this work here.

 

Continued Working on the Earthbag Village – Click for Page

 

Dan Alleck (Designer and Illustrator) additionally completed his 26th week working on the Compressed Earth Block Village render additions. This week he finished this final Earth Block Village 2nd-floor Outdoor Perspective looking East render. This is the final render for this village, which is now on the website too.

 

Finished this Final Earth Block Village 2nd-Floor Outdoor Perspective Looking East Render – Click to Visit

 

 

GLOBAL SUSTAINABILITY METHODOLOGY: DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

 

One Community is supporting our global sustainability methodology 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 added the 7-villages book into the Duplicable City Center open source hub and updated all the related imagery and downloadable PDFs.

Added 7-Villages Book into Duplicable City Center Open Source Hub – Click to Visit

The core team working with Dipti Dhondarkar (Electrical Engineer) also continued developing the lighting specifics for the City Center. This is Dipti’s 93rd week volunteering on this task and the focus this week was final lighting selection, placement and testing for the Central Pool and Spa Area to produce and add to the website the graphic shown here.

[caption id="attachment_76526" align="aligncenter" width="640"] Continued Developing the Lighting Specifics for the City Center – Click for Page

Anvita Kumari Pandey (Civil Engineer) completed her 21st week helping with the Duplicable City Center Materials and Costs. This week she made corrections to the drywall cost analysis and updated the related images, added electrical lighting into the final cost analysis sheet, and corrected formatting issues throughout the document – some of which you can see here.

Continued Working on Duplicable City Center Materials and Costs – Click for Page

Dehua Feng (Civil Engineer) also completed his 19th week working on the fire suppression and safety systems designs for the Duplicable City Center Sprinkler and Emergency Systems open source hub. This week he added labels to all the elevation drops in AutoCAD and updated the spreadsheet with these elevation drops and checked all the related calculations for Zones A, B, C, D, E, F, and H. You can see some of this work here.

Continued Work on Fire Suppression and Safety Systems Design for the City Center – Click for Page

GLOBAL SUSTAINABILITY METHODOLOGY: HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

One Community is supporting our global sustainability methodology 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 writing the behind-the-scenes narrative and detailed food rollout plan for the various stages of development. We continued reviewing and editing of the compost set up and hoop house sections, and then began a comprehensive review of the complete 20-person food rollout and implementation details. You can see some of this work here.

Continued Writing the Behind-the-Scenes Narrative and Detailed Food Rollout Plan – Click for Page

GLOBAL SUSTAINABILITY METHODOLOGY: HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

One Community is supporting our global sustainability methodology 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 finished adding all the graphics and final formatting updates for the Information Maintenance and Sharing – Taking Your Learning With You page. Brining this page to 100% complete finishes all of the education program design details until we’re ready to implement it on the property. Now only the final Ultimate Classroom design details remain.

Finished all Graphics and Formatting of the Information Maintenance and Sharing – Taking Your Learning With You page – Click to Visit

GLOBAL SUSTAINABILITY METHODOLOGY: HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS

One Community is supporting our global sustainability methodology 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 reviewed and updated all the videos for the Conscious and Uplifting Music Project, and added the list to Spotify. You can see some of this work here.

Reviewed and Updated all Videos for the Conscious and Uplifting Music Project – Click to Visit Page

Our Executive Director also attended the Climate Reality training and became a trained member of the Climate Reality Corps. You can see some of the pictures from this 2200-person event here.

Attended the Climate Reality Training and Became a Trained Member of the Climate Reality Corps – Click for Climate Reality Website

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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, guided by global sustainability methodology.

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 of what is possible, guided by global sustainability methodology.

Throughout our design process, we are open sourcing and free-sharing everything needed for construction and replication, following a global sustainability methodology. 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, operating in alignment with a global sustainability methodology. 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, guided by a global sustainability methodology. 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, and resources, and work together as a network to heal the planet. They will also transform the global lifestyle into 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, all within the framework of a global sustainability methodology. Research supporting and showing the benefits of a model like this can be found in 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, all guided by a global sustainability methodology.  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.), within the framework of a global sustainability methodology. 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, all within the framework of a global sustainability methodology. 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, rooted in a global sustainability methodology, that 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 through a global sustainability methodology. 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 guided by a global sustainability methodology. 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, guided by a global sustainability methodology. 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, in alignment with a global sustainability methodology. This is also part of this model to help the world. Its purpose is to facilitate more engagement in 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, but 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.