Maximizing Sustainability Opportunity – One Community Weekly Progress Update #92

Maximizing sustainability opportunity can be refined to three core components: ease of implementation, affordability, and attractiveness. One Community is simultaneously addressing these three components to facilitate a self-propagating sustainability model for The Highest Good of All:

• 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 December 5th, 2014 edition (#92) of our weekly progress update detailing the previous week’s development and accomplishments:

Maximizing Sustainability Opportunity
One Community Weekly Progress Update #92

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

MAXIMIZING SUSTAINABILITY OPPORTUNITY INTRO @1:00

MAXIMIZING SUSTAINABILITY OPPORTUNITY: HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION @2:11

• Finished the final 70% of “Highest Good” mindmap (see below)
• Behind the scenes we finished the final 60% of the “Movement and Development” final edits
• Researched and outlined another 30 great thinkers and innovators for the Technology and Innovation Molecule

MAXIMIZING SUSTAINABILITY OPPORTUNITY: HIGHEST GOOD FOOD: @3:26

• Added all the large-scale gardening plant links and icons and a new resources section to the soil amendment page (see below)
• Created initial website infrastructure for the temporary kitchen setup and menu page beginning the integration of the content and research provided by Benjamin Sessions (see below)

MAXIMIZING SUSTAINABILITY OPPORTUNITY: HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING: @4:26

• More Tropical Atrium calculations (see below)
• Robert Seton of Solar Hybrid Design helping us with our energy infrastructure (see below)
• Scott Thomas and Shadow Ridge progressed with the Earthbag Village (see below)

MAXIMIZING SUSTAINABILITY OPPORTUNITY: DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER: @5:55

• Added the Resources and FAQ sections to the Control Systems page (see below)

MAXIMIZING SUSTAINABILITY OPPORTUNITY: HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY: @7:03

• Began redesign of our homepage with the updated pledge (see below)
• Created new social media imagery and featured our Evolving Sustainability page, Highest Good Society page, Resource Based Economy page, and our Duplicable City Center open source hub and page (see below)

MAXIMIZING SUSTAINABILITY OPPORTUNITY SUMMARY: @7:51

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HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

One Community is maximizing sustainability opportunity 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 the final 70% of the lesson plan mindmap with the central theme of “Highest Good.” You can see this below and on the finished webpage where you can now access the necessary details to use this lesson and mindmap to teach all subjects to all ages, in any environment, using the central “Highest Good” theme:

Highest Good Mindmap – Click to Visit Page

Behind the scenes we also finished the final 60% of the remaining content edits and revisions for the lesson plan with the central theme of “Movement and Development.”

We also researched and outlined another 30 great thinkers and innovators for the Technology and Innovation Molecule.

HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

One Community is maximizing sustainability opportunity 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 added all the large-scale gardening plant links and icons to the soil amendment page, plus a new resources section for maximizing sustainability opportunity. Click the image to be taken to the new section on the page.

New Plant Links and Icons on Soil Amendment Page – Click to Visit

We also created this new social media image and featured the page for maximizing sustainability opportunity.

Soil Amendment Social Media Image – Click to Visit Page

In addition to this, we began creating the website infrastructure to share the outstanding work of our newest partner Benjamin Sessions for maximizing sustainability opportunity. You can see this beginning to take shape here as the temporary kitchen setup and menu page for initial remote village construction as well as the upcoming crowdfunding campaign.

Food Self-sufficiency Transition Plan – Click to Visit Page

HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

One Community is maximizing sustainability opportunity 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 spent most of our time looking at how heat will move in and around the earth surrounding the Tropical Atrium hot water tank for maximizing sustainability opportunity. We’ve identified how much heat we can store it the thermal mass, now we’re focused on figuring out what the “sweet spot” is for insulation related to cost and labor along with where the insulation will be most effective. What you see here is that insulation directly below the tank is definitely beneficial, but these benefits decrease as you go deeper and nearer the perimeter. The question is how deep and wide is best when including the cost and labor associated with this too.

Tropical Atrium Heat Calcs – Click to Visit Page

Our core team also began work this week with Robert Seton of Solar Hybrid Design on working out what we hope will be the final details of our solar infrastructure for maximizing sustainability opportunity. Here is a screenshot showing what equipment we’re discussing and evaluating there.

Solar Hardware Being Evaluated – Click to Visit Page

Scott Thomas and his Shadow Ridge Signature Architecture Program team also progressed with their work putting the complete Earthbag Village into CAD. Here is a collage of screenshots of this work in progress showing some of the bathroom domes and Tropical Atrium central area.

Earthbag Village – CAD in Progress – Click to Visit Page

DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

One Community is maximizing sustainability opportunity 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 completed addition of the Resources and FAQ sections of the Control Systems page. This page is done for now but will continue to evolve and function as a constantly developing tutorial and information resource for the monitoring, setup, maintenance, evolution, and data gathering systems of the Duplicable City Center and the Earthbag Village (Pod 1). Here is a screenshot of the final additions:

Resources and FAQ Sections of Finished Control Systems Page – Click to Visit

HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS

One Community is maximizing sustainability opportunity 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 began a complete redesign of the homepage that now looks like this:

Complete Redesign of Homepage – Click to Visit

This redesign is to streamline and simplify this main page of our site to better help people understand what we are creating and how it is a viable strategy for global transformation to sustainability. Here is the newly updated pledge that is one of the three primary pages we are helping people start on so they better understand our project.

Updated One Community Pledge – Click to Visit Full Pledge

In addition to this we also created new social media imagery and featured our Evolving Sustainability page, Highest Good Society page, Resource Based Economy page, and our Duplicable City Center open source hub and page:

Click to Visit our Evolving Sustainability Page	Click to Visit our Highest Good Society Page
Click to Visit our Resource Based Economy Page	Click to Visit our Duplicable City Center OS Hub

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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. 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.

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. 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.

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, 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 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.

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.

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.

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.

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 of 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.