Highest Good Living Models – One Community Weekly Progress Update #284

Highest Good living models are living models that are sustainable, ecological, and supportive and regenerative for our planet and all life on it. One Community is a 100% volunteer team developing open source and free-shared tools, tutorials, and DIY resources for replicable teacher/demonstration hubs designed to teach, share, and evolve these models.

• 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 2, 2018 edition (#284) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments:

Highest Good Living Models
One Community Progress Update #284

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

HIGHEST GOOD LIVING MODELS INTRO: @0:34

HIGHEST GOOD LIVING MODELS: HOUSING: @6:30

HIGHEST GOOD LIVING MODELS: DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER: @8:11

• Core team working with Dipti Dhondarkar continued developing the lighting specifics for the City Center (see below)
• Anvita Kumari Pandey completed her 20th week helping with the Duplicable City Center Materials and Costs (see below)
• Dehua Feng completed his 18th week working on the fire suppression and safety systems designs for the Duplicable City Center Sprinkler and Emergency Systems open source hub (see below)

HIGHEST GOOD LIVING MODELS: FOOD: @9:40

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

HIGHEST GOOD LIVING MODELS: EDUCATION: @10:28

• Finished all work except for adding images to the Information Maintenance and Sharing – Taking Your Learning With You page (see below)

HIGHEST GOOD LIVING MODELS: SOCIETY: @11:03

• Core team working with Jin Hua continued collaboration on our new online marketing strategy, focusing on the Conscious Music Project,  open source free-education database, and the Sketchup Plant database (see below)
• Reviewed and updated the Highest Good Network software design details and next-steps action item lists in preparation for continuing with the development team (see below)

HIGHEST GOOD LIVING MODELS SUMMARY: @11:54

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HIGHEST GOOD LIVING MODELS: HOUSING PROGRESS

One Community is creating highest good living models 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 working with Michael Hagler (Senior Graphic Designer and Artist) finished the final round of edits and corrections for the 2nd printed copies of the 7-villages book we’ve been developing. This completes almost 2 years of work on this book and we now move on to full integration into the website.

Finished Final Round of Edits and Corrections for the 2nd Printed Copies of the 7-Villages Book – Click for Housing Page

This week the core team also continued testing the open source Murphy bed furniture assembly instructions for the back clothing and storage area. We do this by building it in Sketchup 3D and noting mistakes as we go. You can see some of this work-in-progress here.

Continued Testing the Murphy Bed Furniture Assembly Instructions for Back Clothing and Storage Area – Click for Page

Shadi Kennedy (Artist and Graphic Designer) also completed his 19th week leading the development of the Murphy bed instructions. This week he added details to the Clothing & Storage introduction graphic and created the first detailed drawings of the new bed, couch, and fold-out table designs.

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

Mike Kowalski (Game Developer) finished his 18th week helping update our renders that are too big for anything but a gaming computer. This week Mike created the 5 additional Earthbag Village (Pod 1) renders you see here. Next steps for these will be PhotoShop edits and then adding them to the appropriate pages of the site.

Created 5 Earthbag Village Renders – Click for Page

Dean Scholz (Architectural Designer) also continued working on the Earthbag Village (Pod 1). Here is weekly update #128 from Dean, his focus this week was finishing the AutoCAD elevations seen here for the alternate floor plans for the homes we’ll be building as part of this village.

Continued Working on the Earthbag Village – Click for Page

HIGHEST GOOD LIVING MODELS: DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

One Community is creating highest good living models 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 working with Dipti Dhondarkar (Electrical Engineer) continued developing the lighting specifics for the City Center. This is Dipti’s 92nd week volunteering on this task and the focus this week was final lighting selection, placement and testing for the Mezzanine level to produce and add to the website the graphic shown here.

Continued Developing the Lighting Specifics for the City Center – Click for Page

Anvita Kumari Pandey (Civil Engineer) completed her 20th week helping with the Duplicable City Center Materials and Costs. This week’s focus was restroom accessories, floor construction & miscellaneous items like bicycle stands, and final corrections and additions needed to produce the 2nd-generation summary for the total construction cost – 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 18th 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 piping-elevation changes to the master AutoCAD file, updated the spreadsheet and tutorial to include related details, and color coordinated the spreadsheet colors to match the AutoCAD piping colors. You can see some of this work here.

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

HIGHEST GOOD LIVING MODELS: FOOD PROGRESS

One Community is creating highest good living models 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 with a focus on worms and soil, clarifying specific research on carbon-to-nitrogen ratios, batch compost piles and “as you go” piles. We learned we’ll save a lot of manpower by switching over to worm composting and trench composting during the milder months of the year, rather than using traditional composting piles. You can see some of this work here.

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

HIGHEST GOOD LIVING MODELS: EDUCATION PROGRESS

One Community is creating highest good living models 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 all work except for adding images to the Information Maintenance and Sharing – Taking Your Learning With You page. We finished the formatting, adding content, and resources and we’d say this brings the page to 90% complete.

Finished all Work Except for Adding Images to the Information Maintenance and Sharing – Taking Your Learning With You page – Click to Visit

HIGHEST GOOD LIVING MODELS: SOCIETY PROGRESS

One Community is creating highest good living models 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 working with Jin Hua (Web and Graphic Designer) continued collaboration on our new online marketing strategy. This week’s focus was initial keyword organization and ad writing for the Conscious Music Project,  open source free-education database, and the Sketchup Plant database.

Continued Collaboration on our New Online Marketing Strategy

The core team also reviewed and updated the Highest Good Network software design details and next-steps action item lists in preparation for continuing with the development team.

Reviewed and Updated the Highest Good Network Software Design Details – Click for 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, with the highest good living models. 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, with the highest good living models. This replicable community will serve as an example of what is possible.

Throughout our design process of creating the highest good living models, 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.

HIGHEST GOOD LIVING MODELS: 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, with highest good living models.

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. They will also transform the global lifestyle into a more enjoyable, fulfilling, healthy, and sustainable one rooted in the highest good living models.

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, highlighting the effectiveness of the highest good living models.

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, rooted in the highest good living models.

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, guided by the highest good living models.

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, promoting the adoption of highest good living models.

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, grounded in highest good living models.

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, embodying the highest good living models.

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, guided by the highest good living models.

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, promoting the adoption of the highest good living models.

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, aligned with the highest good living models.

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.