Localized Ecology – One Community Weekly Progress Update #250

Localized ecology is sustainability practices and management on the local level. Putting the power of intelligently and sustainably managing our shared environments in the hands of those people who live in them. One Community calls this living and creating for The Highest Good of All and we’re open source and free-sharing tools, resources, and DIY instructions for all aspects of creating teacher/demonstration communities, villages, and cities capable of accomplishing this.

• 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 localized ecology movement as the first of many self-replicating teacher/demonstration communities, villages, and cities to be built around the world. This is the January 7th, 2018 edition (#250) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments:

Localized Ecology
One Community Progress Update #250

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

LOCALIZED ECOLOGY INTRO: @0:34

LOCALIZED ECOLOGY – HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING: @7:55

• Continued Sketchup design for the open source outdoor areas of the Recycled Materials Village (see below)
• Continued working on the Murphy bed instructions (see below)
• Finished the formatting, image updates, and text additions for the Vermiculture section of the Earthbag Village electrical design page (see below)
• Continued adding our final design content to the Water Recycling Net Zero Bathroom Design page (see below)
• Christian Ojeda further developed the Vermiculture toilet chamber connection details for securing the removable chamber to the main chamber (see below)
• Dean Scholz continued helping us create quality Cob Village renders (see below)
• Dan Alleck completed his 11th week working on the Compressed Earth Block Village render additions (see below)
• Aparna Tandon continued her work on the Compressed Earth Block Village external elements (see below)

LOCALIZED ECOLOGY – DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER: @10:10

• Renan Dantas continued with his 21st week working on the Duplicable City Center AutoCAD updates (see below)
• Dipti Dhondarkar continued with her 64th week of work on the lighting specifics for the City Center (see below)

LOCALIZED ECOLOGY – HIGHEST GOOD FOOD: @10:57

• Continued work on the formulas and data for the food calculations on the Food Self-sufficiency Transition Plan pages (see below)

LOCALIZED ECOLOGY – HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION: @11:29

• Added additional content to the Collaborative Team Roles and Training page (see below)

LOCALIZED ECOLOGY – HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY: @12:01

• Continued developing our Instagram page by adding new images with optimized descriptions (see below)
• Created a new Instagram icon and added that throughout our website (see below)

LOCALIZED ECOLOGY SUMMARY: @12:35

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HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

One Community is supporting Localized Ecology 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

The core team continued Sketchup design for the open source outdoor areas of the Recycled Materials Village (Pod 6), contributing to localized ecology. This week we finished designing the fitness stations, updated the benches in the yoga area, and continued working on the main equipment area.

Continued Working on Outdoor Areas of Recycled Materials Village – Click to Visit Page

The core team also continued working on the Murphy bed instructions. This week we finished page 7.1.1, as shown here.

Continued Murphy bed Design Page – Click to Visit

And core team finished the formatting, image updates, and text additions for the Vermiculture section of the Earthbag Village electrical design page.

Finished Vermiculture Section of Earthbag Village Electrical Design Page – Click to Visit

The core team also continued adding our final design content to the Water Recycling Net Zero Bathroom Design page. This week’s focus was new formatting, adding additional calculation details, and finishing the written content for the first 3rd of the tutorial. We’d say we’re now about 30% complete with the page.

Continued Adding Final Design Content to Water Recycling Net Zero Bathroom Design – Click to Visit

Christian Ojeda (Mechatronic Engineer) completed his 33rd week volunteering with our team. This week’s focus was further developing the Vermiculture toilet chamber connection details for securing the removable chamber to the main chamber.

Continued Developing the Vermiculture Toilet Chamber Designs – Click for Page

Dean Scholz (Architectural Designer) continued helping us create quality Cob Village (Pod 3) renders. Here is update 95 of Dean’s work, this week’s focus was designing the cabinet door and hinge details you see here.

Continued Helping Create Quality Cob Village Renders – Click for Page

Dan Alleck (Designer and Illustrator) completed his 11th week working on the Compressed Earth Block Village render additions. This week he added additional people to the East Rooftop View and created this new final render of the front access way. Both of these images are now live on the site also, showcasing his vision for localized ecology:

Added Additional People to East Rooftop View – Click to Visit Compressed Earth Block Village

Created New Final Render of Front Access Way – Click to Visit

Aparna Tandon (Architect) continued her work on the Compressed Earth Block Village external elements, contributing to building a more localized ecology. What you see here is her 43rd week of work that created this presentation for the Mediation Labyrinth and Amphitheater that make up Zones 1-5. These images are now on the website too.

Continued Work on Compressed Earth Block Village External Elements – Click for Page

DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

One Community is supporting Localized Ecology 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

Renan Dantas (Mechanical Engineer) continued with his 21st week working on the Duplicable City Center AutoCAD updates. This week’s focus was updating the 3D file to match the updated dome rotations completed in 2D.

Continued Work on City Center AutoCAD Updates – Click for Page

Dipti Dhondarkar, (Electrical Engineer) continued with her 64th week of work on the lighting specifics for the City Center. This week’s focus was continuing the modeling of the mezzanine area, 3rd floor sunrise patio, and 4th floor cupola, as shown here.

Continued Working on the Lighting Specifics for the City Center – Click for Page

HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

One Community is supporting Localized Ecology 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 formulas and data for the food calculations on the Food Self-sufficiency Transition Plan pages, and began creating updated images to match the new calculations, as you see here.

Continued Work on Data for Food Calculations on Food Self-Sufficiency Transition Plan Pages – Click to Visit

HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

One Community is supporting Localized Ecology 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 adding to the education Evaluation and Evolution process open source pages and tutorials. This week we added additional content to the Collaborative Team Roles and Training page, as you can see here.

Continued Working on the Collaborative Team Roles and Training Page – Click to Visit

HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS

One Community is supporting Localized Ecology 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 continued developing our Instagram page by adding new images with optimized descriptions. You can see some of these here.

Continued Developing our Instagram Page – Click to Visit

We also created a new Instagram icon and added that throughout our 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, committed to empowering localized ecology. 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 in terms of localized ecology.

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 in pursuit of localized ecology. 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 for localized ecology.

WHY ONE COMMUNITY IS CREATING THIS

The One Community self-replicating model is capable of creating a sustainable planet within 30 years through building localized ecology. 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 and t empower localized ecology. 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 localized ecology 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, contributing to create a localized ecology.  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, ultimately aiming for localized ecology.

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 and an achievable way for localized ecology, the model will predictably expand on its own.

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 to build a localized ecology and to achieve the goal of highest good of all, 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, all in pursuit of localized ecology. 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, all contributing to localized ecology.

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 the principles of localized ecology. 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, dedicating to empowering localized ecology. 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.

ONE COMMUNITY’S 4-PHASE STRATEGY

One Community is building solution-creating models designed to create additional solution-creating models to specifically facilitate exponential and sustainable global teacher/demonstration village growth. The following four phases of the strategy we are applying are designed to support each other and accelerate the process globally:

Phase I: Localized Ecology by Demonstrating a Better Way

We are designing One Community to demonstrate an experience of living that we believe most people will consider to be better because it will be more enjoyable and fulfilling. We also think most people will consider it better because it is made possible specifically through a foundation of sustainable sustainability and a philosophy that is for The Highest Good of All.

Phase II: Localized Ecology with Open Source Project-Launch Blueprinting

Everything we do we are open source project-launch blueprinting and free-sharing to make it as easy and affordable as possible to duplicate, adapt, and evolve in the manner that suits each individual and/or group’s needs. Free-sharing information like this is our aggressive-exposure engine and an aspect of One Community that will accelerate indefinitely as we continue to build our team, move onto the property, and continuously build and evolve everything that is One Community.

Phase III: Localized Ecology by Inviting the World to Participate

Everything we are open source project-launch blueprinting is designed to invite the world to participate by duplicating it as either individual components or complete teacher/demonstration communities, villages, and cities that will be able to be built almost anywhere in the world. Additionally, people can join One Community as members, consultants and/or partners, or use the suggestions links on our open source project-launch blueprinting hubs to help with the design, implementation, and evolution process. Scholarships, weekend learning and work crews, and tourism will be foundations of One Community once we have sufficient infrastructure in place to support these options.

Phase IV: Localized Ecology with Universal Appeal and Global Expansion

As One Community continues evolving and establishing ourselves, everything we create and promote will serve as the engine to inspire people to align with the concept of open source and sustainable living for The Highest Good of All. We are doing this to create mainstream appeal and our path to achieving this appeal is demonstrating a happier, more affordable, and ecologically friendly model of living that can be built anywhere in the world.

Open source project-launch blueprinting it all is how we believe the model will spread and, possibly most importantly, that it will predictably spread even faster in the areas where it is needed most because building restrictions, the cost of land, and materials costs are in most cases lower in these areas.

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. 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 all aimed at localized ecology.