Making a Positive Difference – One Community Weekly Progress Update #99

If making a positive difference is presented as easy enough, affordable enough, and attractive enough, it will predictably gain mainstream support and spread on its own. One Community is creating open source food, energy, housing, education, economic, fulfilled living, and earth stewardship components and combining them as a replicable Highest Good society model for people interested in making a positive difference with how they live. We are designing these to be built as a complete and globally-replicable Highest Good of All teacher/demonstration hubs.

• 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

Click on each icon to be taken to the corresponding Highest Good hub page.

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 January 23th, 2015 edition (#99) of our weekly progress update detailing the previous week’s development and accomplishments:

Making a Positive Difference
One Community Weekly Progress Update #99

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

MAKING A POSITIVE DIFFERENCE INTRO @1:00

HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION @1:58

• Finished image research and first 50% of the “Human Body” lesson plan (see below)
• Behind the scenes completed another 30% of the “Human Body” lesson plan itself (now 60% complete)
• Added the complete explanations for the Lesson Plans How-to tutorial page sections (see below)

HIGHEST GOOD FOOD: @3:19

• Researched and added two resources sections to the open source beans hub (see below)
• Researched and added two resources sections to the open source beets hub (see below)
• Researched and added two resources sections to the open source celery hub (see below)
• Researched and added two resources sections to the open source lettuce hub (see below)
• Researched and added two resources sections to the open source corn hub (see below)
• Benjamin Sessions helped us begin adding images to the Food Self-sufficiency Transition Plan page (now about 20% done – see below)

HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING: @4:17

• Finished another 5% of the Open Source Murphy bed furniture assembly details behind the scenes (10% done – see below)
• Behind the scenes: finished the first 10% of the earthdome window and door framing reformatting
• Completed website addition of video outline specifics for the Site Clearing, Preparation, and Maintenance (see below)
• Samuel Soroaster created the initial draft of our updated bathroom design (see below)

DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER: @5:51

• Jennifer Engelmeier helped us add another 50% to hardware components of the open source eco-pool design page (see below)

HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY: @6:54

• Created new social media imagery and updated and featured our Lesson Plans for Life page (see below)
• Created new social media imagery and updated and featured our our Honesty and Integrity page (see below)
• Added new icon links to our website making it easier to volunteer, donate, shop, and find these updates (see below)

MAKING A POSITIVE DIFFERENCE SUMMARY: @7:40

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HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

One Community is making a positive difference 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 last week the core team finished all the image research and initial design work for the first 50% of the “Human Body” lesson plan mindmap you see here:

Human Body Mindmap – 50% Complete – Click for Page

Behind the scenes we also completed another 30% of the “Human Body” lesson plan design itself – bringing us to 60% complete there.

This last week we also added the complete explanations you see here for the Lesson Plans How-to tutorial page. These descriptions go with the image we created the week before to teach people all the components of the lesson plan pages. This brings the Lesson Plans How-to page to about 50% complete. Next will be providing several complete and detailed lesson plan examples and an FAQ.

Explanations Added to How-to Lesson Plan Tutorial Page – Click to Visit

HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

One Community is making a positive difference 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 last week the core team researched and added two resources sections to the open source beans hub, the open source beets hub, the open source celery hub, the open source lettuce hub, and the open source corn hub:

Click for Beans Page

Click for Beets Page

Click for Celery Page

Click for Lettuce Page

Click for Corn Page

We also began adding images to the excellent work Benjamin Sessions has been doing for the Food Self-sufficiency Transition Plan that is now about 20% done on the website:

Images Added to Food Self-sufficiency Transition Plan Page – Click to Visit

HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

One Community is making a positive difference 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 last week the core team continued laying out the specifics for the Open Source Murphy bed furniture assembly details. You can see a behind-the-scenes image of this work in progress here. We estimate we are now 10% complete with what is needed for the website:

Open Source Murphy Bed Furniture Assembly Details Developing Behind-the-scenes – Click to Visit Furniture Page

Also behind the scenes, we finished the first 10% of the earthdome window and door framing reformatting details needed before moving these specifics to the website. Both the Murphy bed furniture and earthdome window and door framing details are part of the upcoming crowdfunding campaign.

Also for that campaign, we completed website addition of the total video outline specifics for the Site Clearing, Preparation, and Maintenance section of the site:

Dome Home Site Clearing Preparation – Click to Visit Page

In addition to this, Samuel Soroaster (Permaculturalist and sustainable designer from Green New World), created this initial draft of our updated bathroom design for 2 of the 4 toilet domes in the Earthbag Village. This design will incorporate increased water collection, reuse of greywater to flush the toilets, and provide an alternative to the vermiculture design we’ll use for the other two bathrooms:

Toilet Dome Updated Draft Design – Click to Visit Page

DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

One Community is making a positive difference 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 last week the core team added another 50% to hardware components of the open source eco-pool design page thanks to the information and specifics provided by Jennifer Engelmeier, our Eco-pool and Spa Specialist and founder of www.LoveYourNaturalPool.com

Eco-Pool Hardware Components Added to Page – Click to Visit

HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS

One Community is making a positive difference 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 last week the core team created new social media imagery and updated and featured our Lesson Plans for Life page that shares the 12 lesson plans we’ve completed and the additional 30 we’re still working on. We also added social media imagery for our Honesty and Integrity core values page sharing how we use this value in our decision making process and strategy for global change.

Click for Lesson Plans for Life Page

Click for Honesty and Integrity Page

We also added new icon links to our website making it easier to volunteer, donate, shop, and find these updates. Here’s what these new icons look like:

New Icon Links Added to Website – Click to Visit Homepage

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