Highest Good Living – One Community Weekly Progress Update #306

Highest Good living is living to the best of our ability for the Highest Good of all people and life on our shared planet. One Community is supporting this through Highest Good and open source designs, tools, tutorials, and sustainability resources covering food, energy, housing, education, for-profit and non-profit economic design, social architecture, fulfilled living, global stewardship practices, and more.

• 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

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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 3rd, 2019 edition (#306) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments:

Highest Good Living
One Community Progress Update #306

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

HIGHEST GOOD LIVING: INTRO: @0:34

HIGHEST GOOD LIVING: HOUSING: @8:10

• Continued design updates to the open source Murphy bed furniture assembly details (see below)
• Anvita Kumari Pandey completed her 31st week volunteering and now helping with the Earthbag Village Materials and Costs (see below)
• Shadi Kennedy completed his 38th week leading the development of the Murphy bed instructions (see below)
• Dan Alleck completed revisions and additions to render of complete Earthbag Village looking West (see below)
• Dean Scholz continued working on the Earthbag Village, building the urinal and shower elements (see below)
• Elizabeth Kahn finished researching the most sustainable urinal options and started researching feminine accessories and eco-alternatives to the chemical block that is usually used in urinals (see below)

HIGHEST GOOD LIVING: DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER: @9:57

HIGHEST GOOD LIVING: FOOD: @11:58

• Continued writing the behind-the-scenes narrative and detailed food rollout plan for the various stages of development (see below)
• Began research and design of the chicken coops needed for 100 chicks (see below)
• Guy Grossfeld (Graphic Designer) completed his 5th week working on creating an open source icon and symbol set for our permaculture designs (see below)

HIGHEST GOOD LIVING: EDUCATION: @12:50

• With over 8 years of development invested in the Education for Life component, this part of One Community is now complete enough to no longer focus and report on it with weekly updates. That is, of course, until we move onto the property and continue the development and open sourcing process with teachers and students. Visit the Education section below for links to all the completed elements of this component and details on the final remaining action items for this area of One Community before moving onto the property and fully launching it.
• Continued working on the structural aspects of the Ultimate Classroom (see below)

HIGHEST GOOD LIVING: SOCIETY: @14:11

• Fixed half of the broken and incorrect links throughout our entire 1200+ page website (see below)
• Emilio Nájera added additional keywords for the Consensus,Resource Based Economy, and Open Source pages and worked on new keyword lists for the Evolving Sustainability, Water-saving Shower Heads, Most Sustainable Toilets, Most Sustainable Paints, and Open Source Permaculture Design pages (see below)
• Jin Hua reviewed all of Emilio’s work and created two video tutorials to further assist him in improving and refining all the keyword lists he’s completed so far (see below)
• Highest Good Network software team consisting of Jordan Miller, Tyler Calvert and Justin Kunz continued developing the software (see below)

HIGHEST GOOD LIVING: SUMMARY: @15:48

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HIGHEST GOOD LIVING: HOUSING PROGRESS

One Community is developing highest good living 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 tested and confirmed the Murphy bed furniture designs will work with 8-foot ceilings and queen-size beds.

Continued Design Updates to the Open Source Murphy Bed Furniture Assembly Details – Click to Visit

Anvita Kumari Pandey (Civil Engineer) also completed her 31st week volunteering and now helping with the Earthbag Village Materials and Costs. This week she worked on earthbag tube-filling cement quantity and earthbag quantity calculations. You can see some of this work here.

Continued Helping w/Earthbag Village Materials and Costs – Click for Page

Shadi Kennedy (Artist and Graphic Designer) also completed his 38th week leading the development of the Murphy bed instructions. This week’s focus was more diagram updates illustrating the wall section assembly, creating new placeholder images, and beginning the electrical details. You can see some of this work-in-progress here.

Continued Leading the Development of the Murphy Bed Instructions – Click to Visit

Dan Alleck (Designer and Illustrator) completed his 35th week helping with Earthbag Village render additions. This week he completed revisions and additions to this view of the complete village looking West. This is on the website now too.

Completed Revisions and Additions to View of the Complete Village Looking West – Click for Page

Dean Scholz (Architectural Designer) continued working on the Earthbag Village (Pod 1). Here is weekly update #147 from Dean. This week’s focus, as shown in these images, was working on building the urinal and shower elements.

Continued Working on Earthbag Village; Building the Urinal and Shower Elements – Click for Page

And Elizabeth Kahn (Environmental Consultant) completed her 6th week as a researcher with our team. This week she finished researching the most sustainable urinal options and started researching feminine accessories and eco-alternatives to the chemical block that is usually used in urinals.  You can see some of this work-in-progress here.

Finished Researching Most Sustainable Urinal Options and Started Researching Feminine Accessories – Click for Page

HIGHEST GOOD LIVING: DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

One Community is developing highest good living 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 continued with week 4 of our research into lake and water retention landscape creation as an alternative source of water for the Duplicable City Center Sprinkler and Emergency Systems Designs, agriculture, greywater processing, and more. This week we re-viewed all the video content we have available to us, and added to and started reorganizing our notes into a tutorial type of format. You can see some of this work here.

Continued Research Into Lake and Water Retention Landscape Creation for the Duplicable City Center – Click to Visit

The core team also reviewed all the latest AutoCAD updates for the lighting specifics for the City Center. We made the layouts more uniform, removed unnecessary lights, and created a list of additional requested changes. We also wrote a tutorial for how to confirm sufficient outdoor views to meet LEED requirements. You can see some of this work here.

Reviewed the Latest AutoCAD Updates for the City Center Lighting Specifics – Click for Page

Tanya Griffin, Aubryanne Boyle, and Allie Marsh (Interior Designers from Lotus Designs) also completed their 6th week helping with the Duplicable City Center interior design details. This week they adjusted some of the custom-built bench details, finalized the overhead lighting plan, and selected the last remaining furniture. You can see some of this work here.

Continued with Duplicable City Center Interior Design Details – Click to Visit

David Olivero (Mechanical Engineer & Data Scientist) also continued helping finish the City Center HVAC Designs. This week he focused on the tutorial and added all the pool and calculation narrative details and graphics, some of which you can see here.

Continued Helping Finish the City Center HVAC Designs – Click to Visit Page

And James Herrigel (Student Researcher) also completed his 9th week researching the best, safest, and most sustainable paints. This week’s focus was finishing the process of integrating the LEED points details, identifying a new company and adding their products to the paints and stains recommendations, and creating a new resources list. You can see some of this behind-the-scenes work here.

Continued Researching the Safest and Most Sustainable Paints – Click to Visit Page

HIGHEST GOOD LIVING: FOOD PROGRESS

One Community is developing highest good living 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

Continued with Behind-the-scenes Narrative and Detailed Food Rollout Plan for Various Stages of Development – Click to Visit

The core team also began research and design of the chicken coops needed for 100 chicks. You can see some of this behind-the-scenes work here.

Began Research and Design of Chicken Coops Needed for 100 Chicks – Click for Page

And Guy Grossfeld (Graphic Designer) completed his 5th week working on creating an open source icon and symbol set for our permaculture designs. What you see here are the icons created so far.

Continued Creating an Open Source Icon and Symbol Set for Our Permaculture Designs – Click to Visit

HIGHEST GOOD LIVING: EDUCATION PROGRESS

One Community is building the foundations for how humanity creates a sustainable 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. This component of One Community is about 95% complete with only the Open Source School Licensing and Ultimate Classroom construction and assembly details remaining to be finished. With over 8 years of work invested in the process, the sections below are all complete until we move onto the property and continue the development and open sourcing process with teachers and students – a development process that is built directly into the structure of the education program and everything else we’re creating too:

• Program Overview: Education Open Source Hub
• How the components work together: How to use the Education for Life Program
  
• Lesson Plans for Life – Lesson Plans How-to
• Foundations of Outstanding Leaders, Teachers, and Communicators
• Curriculum for Life
• Teaching Strategies for Life
• Learning Tools and Toys for Life
• Evaluation and Evolution

This week the core team continued working on the structural aspects of the Ultimate Classroom. We checked dome specifications, found an existing Sketchup pentadecagon model, and scaled it to the dimensions of the side and height of the projection dome to assess if this is still the direction we want to go.

Continued Working on Structural Aspects of the Ultimate Classroom – Click for Page

HIGHEST GOOD LIVING: SOCIETY PROGRESS

One Community is developing highest good living 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 fixed half of the broken and incorrect links throughout our entire 1200+ page website. You can see some of this work and process here and we have about 200 more to go. 

Fixed Half the Broken and Incorrect Links Throughout Entire 1200+ Page Website – Click for Home Page

Emilio Nájera (Digital Marketer) also continued with his 17th week as part of the marketing team. This week he added additional keywords for the Consensus, Resource Based Economy, and Open Source pages and worked on new keyword lists for the Evolving Sustainability, Water-saving Shower Heads, Most Sustainable Toilets, Most Sustainable Paints, and Open Source Permaculture Design pages. You can see some of this work here.

Continued Researching Keywords for Several Pages – Click to Visit our Site Map

Jin Hua (Web and Graphic Designer) also reviewed all of Emilio’s work and created two video tutorials to further assist him in improving and refining all the keyword lists he’s completed so far. You can see some of this work here.

Reviewed All of Emilio’s Work and Created Two Video Tutorials – Click for Page

In addition to this, the Highest Good Network software team consisting of Jordan Miller (Web Developer), Tyler Calvert (Full-stack Software Engineer), and Justin Kunz (Software Engineer) continued developing the software. This week the team finished design of the Teams page, added a modal with links to users profiles, debugged issues with the API to be able to add new users to the development app, and continued the app integration with Redux. You can see some of this work here.

Continued Developing the Highest Good Network Software – Click to Visit

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WHAT ONE COMMUNITY IS CREATING

HIGHEST GOOD LIVING

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, in alignment with principles of highest good living.

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, embodying principles of the highest good living. This replicable community will serve as an example of 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, all aimed at promoting principles of highest good living. 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.

HIGHEST GOOD LIVING: 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, all grounded in principles of highest good 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, and resources, and work together as a network to heal the planet, promoting a lifestyle grounded in principles of the highest good living. 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. Research supporting and showing the benefits of a model like this can be found in our Research and Resources Articles Archive, emphasizing the principles and practices of highest good living.

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, and fulfilling, and an additional reason why we are creating this, is promoting the values of the highest good living.

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, promoting the principles of the highest good living.

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, fostering the principles of highest good living.

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, promoting the principles of highest good living.

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, promoting the principles of highest good living.

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, fostering the principles of highest good living.

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, thus promoting the principles of highest good living.

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 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, all aligned with the principles of highest good living.

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, all in alignment with the principles of highest good living.

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, all with the intention of fostering highest good living.

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, all in alignment with fostering highest good living.

We also imagine the high likelihood that our organization will become a foundation that can be trusted as the donation point for the distribution of monies to help others to establish this model, further advancing the principles of highest good living.