Living Simply as a Key to Happiness – One Community Weekly Progress Update #260

Living simply as a key to happiness, it it possible? We think it is worth finding out and we’re creating open source and free-shared designs to help others who agree. They are DIY replicable, sustainable, and cover 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

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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 and living simply as a key to happiness. This is the March 18th, 2018 edition (#260) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments:

Living Simply as A Key to Happiness
One Community Progress Update #260

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

LIVING SIMPLY – A KEY TO HAPPINESS INTRO: @0:34

HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING: @8:24

• Created the first 30% of the Cob Village Cost Analysis Page (see below)
• Finished the rest of the Tree House Village Cost Analysis page (see below)
• Mike Kowalski finished his second week helping update our Recycled Materials Village renders that are too big for anything but a gaming computer (see below)
• Dean Scholz continued with the Cob Village AutoCAD layout updates (see below)
• Dan Alleck completed his 16th week working on the Compressed Earth Block Village render additions (see below)
• Mihaela “Michelle” Pinzaru completed her 9th week working on the Tree House Village residential designs and renders (see below)

DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER: @9:32

• Haoxuan “Hayes” Lei continued work on the City Center structural engineering (see below)
• David Olivero completed his 14th week helping with the HVAC Designs for the Duplicable City Center (see below)
• Dipti Dhondarkar continued with her 66th week of work on the lighting specifics for the City Center (see below)

HIGHEST GOOD FOOD: @10:30

HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION: @11:20

• Continued developing the Lesson Plans How-to tutorial page (see below)

HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY: @11:57

• Vivian Rodrigues finished translating the Methodology page in Portuguese (see below)
• Sowmya Manohar, Shubhra Mittal, Priyanka Singh, and Asha Tadimari continued work on the Highest Good Network software (see below)

LIVING SIMPLY – A KEY TO HAPPINESS SUMMARY: @12:59

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HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

One Community is creating open source blueprints for living simply as a key to happiness 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 created the first 30% of the Cob Village Cost Analysis Page, some of which you can see here.

Living Simply as a Key to Happiness – First 30% of the Cob Village Cost Analysis Page – Click to Visit

The core team also finished the rest of the Tree House Village (Pod 7) Cost Analysis page, some of which you can see here.

Living Simply as a Key to Happiness – Tree House Village Cost Analysis Page – Click to Visit

Mike Kowalski (Game Developer) finished his second week helping update our Recycled Materials Village (Pod 6) renders that are too big for anything but a gaming computer. What you see here are some of Mike’s second round of corrections within the model.

Living Simply as a Key to Happiness – Recycled Materials Village Renders – Click for Page

Dean Scholz(Architectural Designer) continued with the Cob Village (Pod 3) AutoCAD layout updates. Here is update 105 of Dean’s work. This week he created the rooftop plan to match his 3D designs and continued development of the landscaping details.  

Living Simply as a Key to Happiness – Cob Village AutoCAD Layout Updates – Click for Page

Dan Alleck (Designer and Illustrator) completed his 16th week working on the Compressed Earth Block Village render additions. This week he focused on adding water details to the two renders shown here.

Living Simply as a Key to Happiness – Compressed Earth Block Village Render Additions – Click to Visit

Mihaela “Michelle” Pinzaru (Interior Designer and Architectural Drafter) also completed her 9th week working on the Tree House Village (Pod 7) residential designs and renders. This week she continued finalizing the final texturing and lighting details for the complete interior, as shown here.

Living Simply as a Key to Happiness – Tree House Village Residential Designs – Click to Visit

DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

One Community is creating open source blueprints for living simply as a key to happiness 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 Haoxuan “Hayes” Lei(Structural Engineer) continued work on the City Center structural engineering by addressing the areas identified by the core team. You can see some of this work here.

Living Simply as a Key to Happiness – City Center Structural Engineering – Click for Page

David Olivero (Mechanical Engineer & Data Scientist) completed his 14th week helping with the HVAC Designs for the Duplicable City Center. This week’s focus was more research, starting to create the HVAC zonal details, and initial HVAC layout sketches.

Living Simply as a Key to Happiness – HVAC Designs for the Duplicable City Center – Click to Visit

Dipti Dhondarkar, (Electrical Engineer) continued with her 66th week of work on the lighting specifics for the City Center. This week’s focus was correcting errors and doing additional calculations on the lighting spreadsheet shown here.

Living Simply as a Key to Happiness – Lighting Specifics for the City Center – Click for Page

HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

One Community is creating open source blueprints for living simply as a key to happiness 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 work on the complete Highest Good food rollout plan and cost analysis. We created the initial 2-3 person due-diligence food rollout plan and action list and continued to develop the implementation details for 10-20 people, as shown here.

Living Simply as a Key to Happiness – Highest Good Food Rollout Plan, Cost Analysis – Click for Page

The, the core team also researched soil lab equipment needs and costs, as shown here, determining that the costs make external testing a better option for food rollout plans like ours.

Living Simply as a Key to Happiness – Researched Soil Lab Equipment Needs and Costs – Click for Page

In addition, the core team continued research and design of the open source Permaculture Design for the property. What you see here is our first sharing of some of the data we are gathering for the design.

Living Simply as a Key to Happiness – Research, Design of Open Source Permaculture – Click to Visit

HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

One Community is creating open source blueprints for living simply as a key to happiness 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 continued developing the Lesson Plans How-to tutorial page. We created new imagery explaining the most complex steps of the design process and finished the second 50% of the “Intermediate Learners” example and all of the “Advanced Learners – Accelerated” example.

Living Simply as a Key to Happiness – Lesson Plans How-to tutorial Page – Click to Visit

HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS

One Community is creating open source blueprints for living simply as a key to happiness 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

Vivian Rodrigues (Translator) continued helping translate our overview pages. This week she finished the Methodology page, as shown here in Portuguese.

Living Simply as a Key to Happiness – Translating the Methodology Page in Portuguese – Click to Visit

The Highest Good Network software team consisting of Sowmya Manohar (Software Engineer, Web Developer & Net Application Developer), Shubhra Mittal (Software Delivery Manager), Priyanka Singh (Software Developer), and Asha Tadimari (Software Engineer). This week the team made changes to the user profile to support read-only mode when a non-administrator user views a colleague’s profile, made Timelog changes to remove the ability to edit action items and notifications when not viewing own profile, updated the code to bring up bigger badge images with new description details, and completed the leaderboard development and presentation – which you can see here.

Living Simply as a Key to Happiness – Highest Good Network Software – Click for Page

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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 and living simply as a key to happiness. 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, leading to a new Golden Age for humanity and living simply as a key to happiness. 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.

WHY OPEN SOURCE

We are creating everything One Community does as open source and free-shared blueprints because we see this as the path for living simply as a key to happiness, innovation, cooperation, and collaboration for all of humanity. Our model is a solution model that creates additional solution creating models enabling people to live and collaborate globally for The Highest Good of All. The easier we make everything we do, the faster we see the world transitioning.

Every aspect of this model supports itself and contributes to its success, from the sustainable food, energy, and homes, to the social architecture, One Community Education Program, and open source sharing model itself. Each piece can be accessed, evolved, and even re-birthed as something completely new. It can be duplicated by itself or with other modules, with applications as diverse as the people who want and need them. The constantly expanding total model will additionally be able to be used in its entirety as the open source project-launch blueprint for a variety of duplicate teacher/demonstration communities, villages, and cities capable of being built virtually anywhere.

The most profound part is: the more we open source share, the more we help move everyone forward, the more people know about what we are doing and can participate, and the more successful and capable we are of project-launch blueprinting and sharing even more still. This is all supported and made possible because:

• We have the team to produce an extensive quality and diversity of tools and resources
• It gives us the opportunity to broaden the concept of sustainability and make it more desirable
• Areas we open source expand our ability to evolve even faster through global collaboration
• Each new area open sourced expands our target audience, advancing our world changing goals
• The more we show our ability to share what we are creating, the more others will benefit and want to join this movement and mimic the part we are playing in it

SUMMARY

One Community sees the issues of the world as interdependent and interconnected. To facilitate earth-care teacher demonstration Hubs and 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 living simply as a key to happiness. 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.