Let’s build sustainable communities as a solution to unemployment. Automation, artificial intelligence, and self-driving cars are replacing manufacturing jobs, customer service jobs, and transportation jobs. One Community is open sourcing the foundations for teacher/demonstration hubs that will provide sustainable alternatives for the people no longer needed in these jobs. These alternatives will be more rewarding, more fun, and require less time and energy so people can work less and spend more time doing other things instead.

• 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

CLICK IMAGES BELOW FOR 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 September 15th, 2019 edition (#338) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments:

Communities as a Solution to Unemployment
One Community Progress Update #338

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

COMMUNITIES AS A SOLUTION TO UNEMPLOYMENT  INTRO: @0:34

HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING: @8:04

• Ran energy-usage calculations and researched the costs of running our top five hand dryers for 1000 cycles, then updated the most sustainable hand dryer options page to reflect what we learned (see below)
• Brianna Olsen finished the written content additions for the most sustainable faucet options updates (see below)
• Shadi Kennedy continued developing the Murphy bed instructions; focus was redoing the parts numbers and adding new page numbers for the Clothing and Storage area (see below)

DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER: @9:07

• Returned to creating the Most Sustainable Adhesives page; created the resources section, AFM Safecoat section, and Bona^® sections (see below)
• Ron Huang continued working on the Energy Modeling for our LEED Platinum certification and City Center open source HVAC design tutorial; tested various air-to-water and central heat pump systems in EneryPlus (see below)
• Sneha Dongre continued helping with the Duplicable City Center structural details; started working with SAP 2000 by continuing the work of creating poly-areas for the floors and roofs (see below)
• Kimya Azadmard focused on creating individual Architectural floor plan reference files based on the latest Mater floor plan and setting each one with a new 0,0 coordinate for proper overlapping (see below)

HIGHEST GOOD FOOD: @10:43

HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION: @11:38

• With over 8 years of development invested in the Education for Life component, this part of One Community is now complete enough to no longer focus and report on it with weekly updates. That is, of course, until we move onto the property and continue the development and open sourcing process with teachers and students. Visit the Education section below for links to all the completed elements of this component and details on the final remaining action items for this area of One Community before moving onto the property and fully launching it.

HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY: @12:43

• Core team working with Brian Gilb created the Work Breakdown Structure analysis charts shown here for the The Highest Good Network and also edited and simplified our Policies and Procedures and Tangible Contribution pages (see below)
• Emilio Nájera finished research and creation of the campaign for the new Most Sustainable Hand Dryers page (see below)

COMMUNITIES AS A SOLUTION TO UNEMPLOYMENT SUMMARY: @13:32

• • • How you can most help us right now and how anyone can help

CLICK HERE IF YOU’D LIKE TO RECEIVE AN EMAIL EACH WEEK WHEN WE RELEASE A NEW UPDATE

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ONE COMMUNITY WEEKLY UPDATE DETAILS

HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

One Community is creating a foundation for communities as a solution to unemployment using 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 ran energy-usage calculations and researched the costs of running our top five hand dryers for 1000 cycles. We then updated the most sustainable hand dryer options page to reflect what we learned. This led to updated text and changing the order of our top 3 recommendations, which you can see here.

Updated the Most Sustainable Hand Dryer Options Page – Click to Visit

Brianna Olsen (Sustainability Researcher) also completed her 13th week as a member of the team. This week she finished the written content additions for the most sustainable faucet options updates. You can see some of this work here.

Finished the Written Content Additions for Most Sustainable Faucet Options Updates – Click to Visit

Shadi Kennedy (Artist and Graphic Designer) completed his 66th week developing the Murphy bed instructions. This week’s focus was redoing the parts numbers and adding new page numbers for the Clothing and Storage area shown here.

Worked on the Murphy Bed Clothing and Storage Area – Click for Furniture Page

DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

One Community is creating a foundation for communities as a solution to unemployment using 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 returned to creating the Most Sustainable Adhesives page. This week we created the resources section, AFM Safecoat section, and Bona^® sections shown here. We’d say this brings this page to 90% complete.

Created the Resources, AFM Safecoat, and Bona® Sections – Click to Visit Adhesives Page

Ron Huang (Mechanical Engineer) continued with his 19th week working on the Energy Modeling for our LEED Platinum certification and City Center open source HVAC design tutorial. This week he tested various air-to-water and central heat pump systems in EneryPlus. The former looks more promising than the later in terms of energy performance. You can see some of this work here.

Tested Various Air-to-water and Central Heat Pump Systems in EnergyPlus – Click for HVAC Page

Sneha Dongre (Structural Engineer) also continued with her 24th week helping with the Duplicable City Center structural details. This week she started working with SAP 2000 by continuing the work of creating poly-areas for the floors and roofs. She also identified and continued fixing areas that are still missing in AutoCAD.

Continued Helping With the Duplicable City Center Structural Details – Click for Engineering Page

Kimya Azadmard (Senior Plumbing Engineer) additionally continued with his 5th week as a member of the team. Kimya’s focus this week was creating individual Architectural floor plan reference files based on the latest Mater floor plan and setting each one with a new 0,0 coordinate for proper overlapping.

Created Individual Architectural Floor Plan Reference Files – Click for City Center

HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

One Community is creating a foundation for communities as a solution to unemployment using 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

Researched and Designed the Goat Feeding and Water Stations in SketchUp 3D – Click for Page

The core team also began research and designs for his and her rabbit hutches, as shown here.

Began Research and Designs for His and Her Rabbit Hutches – Click for Page

And the core team completed the Site Analysis and Assessment sections for the Open Source Permaculture Design page. These new sections include fences, soil conditions, planting, animals and economy. You can see some of this behind-the-scenes work here.

Completed the Site Analysis and Assessment Sections for the Open Source Permaculture Design Page – Click to Visit

HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

One Community is creating a foundation for communities as a solution to unemployment using 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. This component of One Community is about 95% complete with only the Open Source School Licensing and Ultimate Classroom construction and assembly details remaining to be finished. We’ll report on the final two elements to be finished as we develop them.

With over 8 years of work invested in the process, the sections below are all complete until we move onto the property and continue the development and open sourcing process with teachers and students – a development process that is built directly into the structure of the education program and everything else we’re creating too:

• Program Overview: Education Open Source Hub
• How the components work together: How to use the Education for Life Program
  
• Lesson Plans for Life – Lesson Plans How-to
• Foundations of Outstanding Leaders, Teachers, and Communicators
• Curriculum for Life
• Teaching Strategies for Life
• Learning Tools and Toys for Life
• Evaluation and Evolution

Highest Good Education: All Subjects | All Learning Levels | Any Age – Click image for the open source hub

HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS

One Community is creating a foundation for communities as a solution to unemployment using 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 Brian Gilb (Project Management Professional – PMP) created the Work Breakdown Structure analysis charts shown here for the The Highest Good Network and also edited and simplified our Policies and Procedures and Tangible Contribution pages.

Created the Work Breakdown Structure Analysis Charts – Click for Highest Good Network

Emilio Nájera (Digital Marketer) also continued with his 45th week as part of the marketing team. This week he finished research and creation of the campaign for the new Most Sustainable Hand Dryers page.

Finished Research and Creation of Campaign for New Most Sustainable Hand Dryers Page – Click to Visit

AND WE PRODUCED THIS WEEKLY UPDATES BLOG – CLICK HERE TO SUBSCRIBE

FOLLOW ONE COMMUNITY’S PROGRESS (click icons for our pages)

 

INVESTOR PAGES

OVERVIEW       ●       LOCATION       ●       FUNDING

GET INVOLVED

CONSULTANTS     ●     WAYS ANYONE CAN HELP     ●     MEMBERSHIP

CLICK HERE FOR ALL PAST UPDATES

One Community is connecting world change with having more fun. We are doing this by designing open source and free-shared sustainability components (food, energy, housing, education, for-profit and non-profit economic design, and global stewardship practices) that will provide more time, money, and access to fulfilled living practices and an enriching social architecture.

• 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 September 8th, 2019 edition (#337) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments:

Connecting World Change with Having More Fun
One Community Progress Update #337

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

CONNECTING WORLD CHANGE WITH HAVING MORE FUN INTRO: @0:30

HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING: @6:14

• Finished creating most sustainable hand dryer options page which included finishing all the descriptions, adding links to purchase, finishing the resources section, and sharing it on social media (see below)
• Brianna Olsen began taking her research on the most sustainable faucet options and organizing and formatting it for publication on the website (see below)
• Shadi Kennedy continued developing the Murphy bed instructions; focus was final standardization of the numbers and labels for the Bench and Table parts (see below)
• Bahy Ahmed continued helping with the Earthbag Village 4-dome cluster roof designs; created version 2.0 with optional colored lighting over the main window area, loft access to the rooftop patio, stairway access to the patio, door access to the spa, and other details (see below)

DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER: @7:33

• Yuqiao Zhang continued helping update the City Center AutoCAD and SketchUp files and designing the rainwater harvesting system; finished updates to the ADA bathrooms and sunrise patio and chose and modeled all the gutter attachments (see below)
• Ron Huang continued working on the Energy Modeling for our LEED Platinum certification and City Center open source HVAC design tutorial; further revised the air loop and hydronic configuration and reassessed the energy usage to see if we meet Platinum standards yet (see below)
• Sneha Dongre continued helping with the Duplicable City Center structural details; completed development of entryway sliding door design in AutoCAD (see below)
• Kimya Azadmard continued to build the new Title Block that will function for the City Center plumbing sheets and then all the sheets for other disciplines too (see below)

HIGHEST GOOD FOOD: @9:16

• Worked on designing the goat playground in SketchUp 3D using all natural and recycled materials (see below)

HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION: @9:41

• With over 8 years of development invested in the Education for Life component, this part of One Community is now complete enough to no longer focus and report on it with weekly updates. That is, of course, until we move onto the property and continue the development and open sourcing process with teachers and students. Visit the Education section below for links to all the completed elements of this component and details on the final remaining action items for this area of One Community before moving onto the property and fully launching it.

HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY: @10:51

• Emilio Nájera launched the campaign for Dam and Lake Construction and began research and creation of the campaign for the new Most Sustainable Hand Dryers page (see below)

CONNECTING WORLD CHANGE WITH HAVING MORE FUN SUMMARY: @11:36

• • • How you can most help us right now and how anyone can help

CLICK HERE IF YOU’D LIKE TO RECEIVE AN EMAIL EACH WEEK WHEN WE RELEASE A NEW UPDATE

YOU CAN ALSO JOIN US THROUGH SOCIAL MEDIA

 

ONE COMMUNITY WEEKLY UPDATE DETAILS

HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

One Community is connecting world change with having more fun 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 finished creating the most sustainable hand dryer options page shown here. This included finishing all the descriptions, adding links to purchase, finishing the resources section, and sharing it on social media.

Finished Creating the Most Sustainable Hand Dryer Options Page – Click to Visit

Brianna Olsen (Sustainability Researcher) also completed her 12th week as a member of the team. This week she began taking her research on the most sustainable faucet options and organizing and formatting it for publication on the website. You can see some of this work here.

Began Taking Faucet Options Research and Formatting It for Publication on Website – Click for Page

Shadi Kennedy (Artist and Graphic Designer) completed his 65th week developing the Murphy bed instructions. This week’s focus was final standardization of the numbers and labels for the Bench and Table parts shown here.

Standardized the Numbers and Labels for the Bench and Table Parts – Click for Earthbag Village Furniture Page

And Bahy Ahmed (Architect) completed his 2nd week helping with the Earthbag Village 4-dome cluster roof designs. This week Bahy created version 2.0 shown here with optional colored lighting over the main window area, loft access to the rooftop patio, stairway access to the patio, door access to the spa, and other details you can see here.

Continued Helping with the Earthbag Village 4-Dome Cluster Roof Designs – Click for Page

DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

One Community is connecting world change with having more fun 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 Yuqiao Zhang (Architectural Designer/Drafter) completed his 14th week helping update the City Center AutoCAD and SketchUp files and designing the rainwater harvesting system. This week he finished updates to the ADA bathrooms and sunrise patio and chose and modeled all the gutter attachments. He also updated the catchment zones and related spreadsheet details.

Continued Updating the City Center AutoCAD and SketchUp Files – Click for Duplicable City Center

Ron Huang (Mechanical Engineer) continued with his 18th week working on the Energy Modeling for our LEED Platinum certification and City Center open source HVAC design tutorial. This week he further revised the air loop and hydronic configuration and reassessed the energy usage to see if we meet Platinum standards yet.

Continued Working on the Energy Modeling for Our LEED Platinum Certification – Click for Page

Sneha Dongre (Structural Engineer) also continued with her 23rd week helping with the Duplicable City Center structural details. This week she completed development of entryway sliding door design in AutoCAD.

Completed Development of Entryway Sliding Door Design in AutoCAD – Click for City Center Engineering Page

Kimya Azadmard (Senior Plumbing Engineer) additionally continued with his 4th week as a member of the team. Kimya’s focus this week was continuing to build the new Title Block that will function for the City Center plumbing sheets and then all the sheets for other disciplines too. This week he changed the Background color of the Paper space to black, set up the specific Plot Style Table, and began isolating the individual floor plans to reduce the file size for each sheet and all reference files.

Continued to Build the New Title Block That Will Function for the City Center Plumbing Sheets – Click for Page

HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

One Community is connecting world change with having more fun 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 worked on designing the goat playground in SketchUp 3D. We’re doing this using all natural and recycled materials. What you see here is our work on this so far.

Worked on Designing the Goat Playground in SketchUp 3D Using All Natural and Recycled Materials – Click for Page

HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

One Community is connecting world change with having more fun 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. This component of One Community is about 95% complete with only the Open Source School Licensing and Ultimate Classroom construction and assembly details remaining to be finished. We’ll report on the final two elements to be finished as we develop them.

With over 8 years of work invested in the process, the sections below are all complete until we move onto the property and continue the development and open sourcing process with teachers and students – a development process that is built directly into the structure of the education program and everything else we’re creating too:

• Program Overview: Education Open Source Hub
• How the components work together: How to use the Education for Life Program
  
• Lesson Plans for Life – Lesson Plans How-to
• Foundations of Outstanding Leaders, Teachers, and Communicators
• Curriculum for Life
• Teaching Strategies for Life
• Learning Tools and Toys for Life
• Evaluation and Evolution

Highest Good Education: All Subjects | All Learning Levels | Any Age – Click image for the open source hub

HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS

One Community is connecting world change with having more fun 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, Emilio Nájera (Digital Marketer) continued with his 44th week as part of the marketing team. This week he launched the campaign for Dam and Lake Construction and began research and creation of the campaign for the new Most Sustainable Hand Dryers page.

Began Research and Creation of Campaign for the New Most Sustainable Hand Dryers Page – Click to Visit

AND WE PRODUCED THIS WEEKLY UPDATES BLOG – CLICK HERE TO SUBSCRIBE

FOLLOW ONE COMMUNITY’S PROGRESS (click icons for our pages)

 

INVESTOR PAGES

OVERVIEW       ●       LOCATION       ●       FUNDING

GET INVOLVED

CONSULTANTS     ●     WAYS ANYONE CAN HELP     ●     MEMBERSHIP

CLICK HERE FOR ALL PAST UPDATES

It’s time for a sustainability model that supports and rewards people helping people. We have the ability and knowledge necessary to create a sustainable world that benefits everyone, now let’s create the motivation so it actually happens. One Community’s path to doing this is open source plans and a replicable prototype that demonstrates such a model as easy enough, affordable enough, and attractive enough so that it will spread on its own.

• 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 September 1st, 2019 edition (#336) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments:

People Helping People
One Community Progress Update #336

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

PEOPLE HELPING PEOPLE INTRO: @0:34

HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING: @5:06

• Finished creating the Murphy bed and Earthbag Village dome home electrical layouts in SketchUp 3D (see below)
• Created the initial page setup and social media imagery for the upcoming most sustainable hand dryer options page shown here (see below)
• Brianna Olsen finished research for the most sustainable faucet options by finalizing the rankings of the products and product descriptions for each company (see below)
• Shadi Kennedy completed his 64th week developing the Murphy bed instructions; focus was returning to standardization of the icons, page layouts, parts and labels for the storage and changing area instructions (see below)

DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER: @6:14

• Yuqiao Zhang continued helping update the City Center AutoCAD and SketchUp files and designing the rainwater harvesting system; continued updating the section drawings related to the living dome patio slab change and updated the living dome restrooms with the new ADA bathroom designs (see below)
• Ron Huang continued working on the Energy Modeling for our LEED Platinum certification and City Center open source HVAC design tutorial; reduced the cooling unmet hours to acceptable levels and continued to fine tune HVAC system controls and design to reduce energy usage (see below)
• Sneha Dongre continued helping with the Duplicable City Center structural details; focus was working on the entryway designs to fix a connection issue by correcting the angles the members make with the dome (see below)
• Mateus Barretto continued helping with the City Center plumbing designs; updated all the plumbing AutoCAD files so the layers match those of the master file plan (see below)
• Kimya Azadmar focused on building a new 36”x48” Title Block we’re using to create a new template sheet that will be used to build all the City Center plumbing sheets and then all the sheets for other disciplines too (see below)

HIGHEST GOOD FOOD: @8:11

• Continued developing the behind-the-scenes content for the Open Source Permaculture Design page; focus was adding content and links to the sections covering Principles and Domains (see below)
• Used online DIY instructions to design the 3D goat-milking stand (see below)

HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION: @8:50

• With over 8 years of development invested in the Education for Life component, this part of One Community is now complete enough to no longer focus and report on it with weekly updates. That is, of course, until we move onto the property and continue the development and open sourcing process with teachers and students. Visit the Education section below for links to all the completed elements of this component and details on the final remaining action items for this area of One Community before moving onto the property and fully launching it.

HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY: @9:56

• Continued editing our business plan and the related pages of the site; finalized the Prioritization Document, updated our Rental Revenue and Residency projections and pages, and created tables and spreadsheet-updates covering Food, Energy, and Roadways (see below)
• Emilio Nájera researched new ways to improve our campaign performance and created campaigns for Dam and Lake Construction, Meeting Human Needs, Open Source Lighting Design, and Taxes for Community Building (see below)

PEOPLE HELPING PEOPLE SUMMARY: @10:55

• • • How you can most help us right now and how anyone can help

CLICK HERE IF YOU’D LIKE TO RECEIVE AN EMAIL EACH WEEK WHEN WE RELEASE A NEW UPDATE

YOU CAN ALSO JOIN US THROUGH SOCIAL MEDIA

 

ONE COMMUNITY WEEKLY UPDATE DETAILS

HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

One Community is building a platform for people helping people 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 finished creating the Murphy bed and Earthbag Village dome home electrical layouts in SketchUp 3D. You can see the finished designs here.

Finished Creating the Murphy Bed and Earthbag Village Dome Home Electrical Layouts in SketchUp 3D – Click for Earthbag Village Furniture Page

The core team also created the initial page setup and social media imagery for the upcoming most sustainable hand dryer options page shown here.

Created the Initial Page Setup and Social Media Imagery for Most Sustainable Hand Dryer Options Page – Click to Visit

Brianna Olsen (Sustainability Researcher) also completed her 11th week as a member of the team. This week she finished research for the most sustainable faucet options by finalizing the rankings of the products and product descriptions for each company. You can see some of this work here.

Finalized the Rankings of the Products and Product Descriptions for Each Company – Click for Page

And Shadi Kennedy (Artist and Graphic Designer) completed his 64th week developing the Murphy bed instructions. This week’s focus was returning to standardization of the icons, page layouts, parts and labels for the storage and changing area instructions shown here.

Continued Developing the Murphy Bed Instructions – Click for Earthbag Village Furniture

DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

One Community is building a platform for people helping people 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 Yuqiao Zhang (Architectural Designer/Drafter) completed his 13th week helping update the City Center AutoCAD and SketchUp files and designing the rainwater harvesting system. This week he continued updating the section drawings related to the living dome patio slab change and updated the living dome restrooms with the new ADA bathroom designs.

Continued Updating the City Center AutoCAD and SketchUp Files – Click for Duplicable City Center

Ron Huang (Mechanical Engineer) continued with his 17th week working on the Energy Modeling for our LEED Platinum certification and City Center open source HVAC design tutorial. This week he reduced the cooling unmet hours to acceptable levels and continued to fine tune HVAC system controls and design to reduce energy usage.

Continued Working on the Energy Modeling for Our LEED Platinum Certification – Click for Page

Sneha Dongre (Structural Engineer) also continued with her 22nd week helping with the Duplicable City Center structural details. This week’s focus was working on the entryway designs to fix a connection issue by correcting the angles the members make with the dome.

Continued Helping With the Duplicable City Center Structural Details – Click for Engineering Page

Mateus Barretto (Civil Engineer) continued with his 4th week helping with the City Center plumbing designs. This week Mateus updated all the plumbing AutoCAD files so the layers match those of the master file plan. You can see some of this work here.

Updated All Plumbing AutoCAD Files so the Layers Match the Master File Plan – Click for Page

Kimya Azadmard (Senior Plumbing Engineer) additionally continued with his 3rd week as a member of the team. Kimya’s focus this week was building a new 36”x48” Title Block we’re using to create a new template sheet that will be used to build all the City Center plumbing sheets and then all the sheets for other disciplines too. Text Fields were used on the Template sheet but older versions of AutoCad do not work with this feature, so we are re-building it again using Attributes instead.

Focused on Building a New 36”x 48” Title Block We’re Using to Create a New Template Sheet – Click for Page

HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

One Community is building a platform for people helping people 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 developing the behind-the-scenes content for the Open Source Permaculture Design page. This week’s focus was adding content and links to the sections covering Principles and Domains. You can see some of this work here.

Added Content and Links to the Sections Covering Principles and Domains – Click for Permaculture Design Page

The core team also used online DIY instructions to design the 3D goat-milking stand shown here.

Used Online DIY Instructions to Design the 3D Goat-milking Stand – Click for Goat Page

HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

One Community is building a platform for people helping people 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. This component of One Community is about 95% complete with only the Open Source School Licensing and Ultimate Classroom construction and assembly details remaining to be finished. We’ll report on the final two elements to be finished as we develop them.

With over 8 years of work invested in the process, the sections below are all complete until we move onto the property and continue the development and open sourcing process with teachers and students – a development process that is built directly into the structure of the education program and everything else we’re creating too:

• Program Overview: Education Open Source Hub
• How the components work together: How to use the Education for Life Program
  
• Lesson Plans for Life – Lesson Plans How-to
• Foundations of Outstanding Leaders, Teachers, and Communicators
• Curriculum for Life
• Teaching Strategies for Life
• Learning Tools and Toys for Life
• Evaluation and Evolution

Highest Good Education: All Subjects | All Learning Levels | Any Age – Click image for the open source hub

HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS

One Community is building a platform for people helping people 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 editing our business plan and the related pages of the site. This week we finalized the Prioritization Document, updated our Rental Revenue and Residency projections and pages, and created tables and spreadsheet-updates covering Food, Energy, and Roadways. You can see some of this work here.

Continued Editing Our Business Plan and the Related Pages of the Site – Click for Executive Summary Page

Emilio Nájera (Digital Marketer) also continued with his 43rd week as part of the marketing team. This week he researched new ways to improve our campaign performance and created campaigns for Dam and Lake Construction, Meeting Human Needs, Open Source Lighting Design, and Taxes for Community Building.

Researched New Ways to Improve Our Campaign Performance and Created Several Campaigns – Click for Site Map

AND WE PRODUCED THIS WEEKLY UPDATES BLOG – CLICK HERE TO SUBSCRIBE

FOLLOW ONE COMMUNITY’S PROGRESS (click icons for our pages)

 

INVESTOR PAGES

OVERVIEW       ●       LOCATION       ●       FUNDING

GET INVOLVED

CONSULTANTS     ●     WAYS ANYONE CAN HELP     ●     MEMBERSHIP

CLICK HERE FOR ALL PAST UPDATES

One Community is forwarding the conscious eco-uprising through open source and free-shared DIY models for radically sustainable living and self-replicating teacher/demonstration communities, villages, and cities. It’s The Highest Good of All, peaceful, collaborative, cooperative, and designed to create a sustainable world within our lifetime.

• 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 August 25th, 2019 edition (#335) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments:

 Forwarding the Conscious Eco-uprising
One Community Progress Update #335

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

FORWARDING THE CONSCIOUS ECO-UPRISING INTRO: @0:34

HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING: @6:40

• Consulted with an electrician and worked on creating the Murphy bed and Earthbag Village dome home electrical layouts in SketchUp 3D (see below)
• Michael Hagler created new icons that we’ve incorporated into the website (see below)
• Shadi Kennedy completed his 63rd week developing the Murphy bed instructions; focus was standardization of page layouts, part colors, labels, and other details for the table and benches instructions (see below)
• Bahy Ahmed completed his first week helping with the Earthbag Village 4-dome cluster roof designs; created a presentation outlining why he’d suggest adding colored polycarbonate entry points for natural light (see below)
• Bahy Ahmed incorporated version 1.0 of his ideas into the 4-dome cluster roof. These designs incorporate colorful natural lighting, an additional central dome ceiling option, and additional roofing around the entire perimeter to help with shading the windows and protecting the walls (see below)

DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER: @8:12

• Yuqiao Zhang continued helping update the City Center AutoCAD and SketchUp files and designing the rainwater harvesting system; redesigned the Living Dome patio to maximize space and minimize the need for unique dome pieces, found a new pivot door for the cupola, and started working on fixing a mistake in the Living Dome floor height (see below)
• Ron Huang continued working on the Energy Modeling for our LEED Platinum certification and City Center open source HVAC design tutorial; continued fine tuning the new hydronic HVAC to reduce unmet hours by ramping up loads and running simulations to see how the thermal zones responded. Basement, Kitchen, & Dining still shown high unmet hours (see below)
• Sneha Dongre continued with her 21st week helping with the Duplicable City Center structural details; continued work on the sliding door entryway frames and correcting more AutoCAD irregularities found on the domes (see below)
• Mateus Barretto continued helping with the City Center plumbing designs; standardized the plumbing files as per the One Community AutoCAD Template (see below)

HIGHEST GOOD FOOD: @9:50

• Continued development of the open source dams, lakes, and water-retention landscape design tutorial; did a final editing review that included fixing spelling and grammar errors, adding US customary units to the metric units listed, updating imagery, adding some additional videos, and changing the order of some of the content (see below)
• Continued the cost analysis details for the 100-chicken coop; started standardizing the formatting of our past work and adding pictures and purchasing links for all the materials (see below)

HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION: @10:44

• With over 8 years of development invested in the Education for Life component, this part of One Community is now complete enough to no longer focus and report on it with weekly updates. That is, of course, until we move onto the property and continue the development and open sourcing process with teachers and students. Visit the Education section below for links to all the completed elements of this component and details on the final remaining action items for this area of One Community before moving onto the property and fully launching it.

HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY: @11:49

• Updated our Executive Summary page to match our updated business plan (see below)
• Core team working with Brian Gilb again updated our promotion and win-win pages to make them more streamlined and user-friendly (see below)
• Emilio Nájera continued with marketing team; worked on keyword research for “DIY Dam Design and Construction” landing page, explored options for the Google Accelerator Program to improve the overall performance of the current and future campaigns, and fixed a “non-compliance” issue with our Google Ads account (see below)
• Jin Hua helped fix several website errors Google identified, reviewed all of Emilio’s work, and helped create reports to demonstrate the positive results our campaign fine-tuning has produced (see below)

FORWARDING THE CONSCIOUS ECO-UPRISING SUMMARY: @13:08

• • • How you can most help us right now and how anyone can help

CLICK HERE IF YOU’D LIKE TO RECEIVE AN EMAIL EACH WEEK WHEN WE RELEASE A NEW UPDATE

YOU CAN ALSO JOIN US THROUGH SOCIAL MEDIA

 

ONE COMMUNITY WEEKLY UPDATE DETAILS

HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

One Community is forwarding the conscious Eco-uprising 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 consulted with an electrician and worked on creating the Murphy bed and Earthbag Village dome home electrical layouts in SketchUp 3D. You can see some of this work here and we’d say we’re about 50% done with these layout details.

Began Creating the Murphy Bed and Earthbag Village Dome Home Electrical Layouts in SketchUp 3D- Click for Earthbag Village

Michael Hagler (Senior Graphic Designer and Artist) created all these new icons that we’ve incorporated into the website.

Created New Icons That We’ve Incorporated Into the Website – Click for Site Map

Shadi Kennedy (Artist and Graphic Designer) also completed his 63rd week developing the Murphy bed instructions. This week’s focus was standardization of the page layouts, part colors, labels, and other details for the table and benches instructions. Every one of these images has been edited in some way during the last week.

Continued Developing the Murphy Bed Instructions – Click for Earthbag Village Furniture

And Bahy Ahmed (Architect) joined the team and completed his first week helping with the Earthbag Village 4-dome cluster roof designs. This week Bahy created this presentation outlining why he’d suggest adding colored polycarbonate entry points for natural light.

Began Helping With the Earthbag Village 4-dome Cluster Roof Designs – Click for Earthbag Village

And this version 1.0 incorporation of these ideas into the 4-dome cluster roof. These designs incorporate colorful natural lighting, an additional central dome ceiling option, and additional roofing around the entire perimeter to help with shading the windows and protecting the walls.

Incorporated Ideas Into the 4-dome Cluster Roof – Click for Earthbag Village

DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

One Community is forwarding the conscious Eco-uprising 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 Yuqiao Zhang (Architectural Designer/Drafter) completed his 12th week helping update the City Center AutoCAD and SketchUp files and designing the rainwater harvesting system. This week he redesigned the Living Dome patio to maximize space and minimize the need for unique dome pieces, found a new pivot door for the cupola, and started working on fixing a mistake in the Living Dome floor height.

Continued Updating the City Center AutoCAD and SketchUp Files – Click for Duplicable City Center

Ron Huang (Mechanical Engineer) continued with his 16th week working on the Energy Modeling for our LEED Platinum certification and City Center open source HVAC design tutorial. This week he continued fine tuning the new hydronic HVAC to reduce unmet hours by ramping up loads and running simulations to see how the thermal zones responded. Basement, Kitchen, & Dining still shown high unmet hours.

Continued Fine Tuning the New Hydronic HVAC to Reduce Unmet Hours – Click for Page

Sneha Dongre (Structural Engineer) also continued with her 21st week helping with the Duplicable City Center structural details. This week’s focus was continued work on the sliding door entryway frames and correcting more AutoCAD irregularities found on the domes.

Continued Helping With the Duplicable City Center Structural Details – Click for Engineering Page

Mateus Barretto (Civil Engineer) continued with his 3rd week helping with the City Center plumbing designs. This week Mateus standardized the plumbing files as per the One Community AutoCAD Template. You can see some of this work here.

Standardized the Plumbing Files as Per the One Community AutoCAD Template – Click for Page

HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

One Community is forwarding the conscious Eco-uprising 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 with week 22 of our development of the open source dams, lakes, and water-retention landscape design tutorial.  This week we did a final editing review that included fixing spelling and grammar errors, adding US customary units to the metric units listed, updating imagery, adding some additional videos, and changing the order of some of the content.

Continued Development of the Open Source Dams, Lakes, and Water-retention Landscape Design Tutorial – Click for Page

The core team also continued the cost analysis details for the 100-chicken coop. This week we started standardizing the formatting of our past work and adding pictures and purchasing links for all the materials.

Continued the Cost Analysis Details for the 100-chicken Coop – Click for Page

HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

One Community is forwarding the conscious Eco-uprising 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. This component of One Community is about 95% complete with only the Open Source School Licensing and Ultimate Classroom construction and assembly details remaining to be finished. We’ll report on the final two elements to be finished as we develop them.

With over 8 years of work invested in the process, the sections below are all complete until we move onto the property and continue the development and open sourcing process with teachers and students – a development process that is built directly into the structure of the education program and everything else we’re creating too:

• Program Overview: Education Open Source Hub
• How the components work together: How to use the Education for Life Program
  
• Lesson Plans for Life – Lesson Plans How-to
• Foundations of Outstanding Leaders, Teachers, and Communicators
• Curriculum for Life
• Teaching Strategies for Life
• Learning Tools and Toys for Life
• Evaluation and Evolution

Highest Good Education: All Subjects | All Learning Levels | Any Age – Click image for the open source hub

HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS

One Community is forwarding the conscious Eco-uprising 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 updated our Executive Summary page to match our updated business plan, you can see the new page here.

Updated Our Executive Summary Page to Match Our Updated Business Plan – Click to Visit

The core team working with Brian Gilb (Project Management Professional – PMP) also again updated our promotion and win-win pages to make them more streamlined and user-friendly. You can see some of the updates here.

Updated Promotion and Win-win Pages to Make Them More Streamlined and User-friendly – Click for Promotion Page

Emilio Nájera (Digital Marketer) also continued with his 42nd week as part of the marketing team. This week he worked on keyword research for “DIY Dam Design and Construction” landing page, explored options for the Google Accelerator Program to improve the overall performance of the current and future campaigns, and fixed a “non-compliance” issue with our Google Ads account.

Worked on Keyword Research for “dIY Dam Design and Construction” Landing Page – Click to Visit

Jin Hua (Web Marketer and Graphic Designer) also helped fix several website errors Google identified, reviewed all of Emilio’s work, and helped create the reports shown here to demonstrate the positive results our campaign fine-tuning has produced.

Helped Create the Reports to Demonstrate the Positive Results Our Campaign Has Produced – Click for Site Map

AND WE PRODUCED THIS WEEKLY UPDATES BLOG – CLICK HERE TO SUBSCRIBE

FOLLOW ONE COMMUNITY’S PROGRESS (click icons for our pages)

 

INVESTOR PAGES

OVERVIEW       ●       LOCATION       ●       FUNDING

GET INVOLVED

CONSULTANTS     ●     WAYS ANYONE CAN HELP     ●     MEMBERSHIP

CLICK HERE FOR ALL PAST UPDATES

Sustainable global energy access is possible through an open source network of sustainable teacher/demonstration communities, villages, and cities. One Community is designing the foundations for this and including open source and free-shared tutorials covering 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

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 August 18th, 2019 edition (#334) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments:

Sustainable Global Energy Access
One Community Progress Update #334

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

SUSTAINABLE GLOBAL ENERGY ACCESS INTRO: @0:30

HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING: @6:01

• Finished the rest of the content for the most sustainable insulation options page; added the Resources, Summary, and FAQ sections (see below)
• Brianna Olsen continued research for the most sustainable faucet options by formatting her past work into the existing table and continuing the research and refinement process on the remaining company products (see below)

DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER: @6:50

• Yuqiao Zhang continued helping update the City Center AutoCAD and SketchUp files and designing the rainwater harvesting system (see below)
• Ron Huang continued working on the Energy Modeling for our LEED Platinum certification and City Center open source HVAC design tutorial; continued revising and testing the new hydronic HVAC system (see below)
• Sneha Dongre continued helping with the Duplicable City Center structural details; continued work creating the sliding door entryway frames and correcting and cross-checking angles and lengths of columns and beams in AutoCAD (see below)
• Kimya Azadmard worked on initial standardization-planning for the City Center plumbing AutoCAD files (see below)

HIGHEST GOOD FOOD: @8:26

• Continued development of the open source dams, lakes, and water-retention landscape design tutorial; created all the separate SketchUp files and added download links for each of them (see below)
• Continued formatting everything written so far on the Open Source Permaculture Design page and adding in the SWOT analysis details (see below)
• Continued cost analysis details for the 100-chicken coop; researched all the materials and created the spreadsheet (see below)
• Created the initial page design and social media imagery for what will be the open source sheep hub (see below)
• Continued researching sheep and incorporating what we learned into the behind-the-scenes sheep-tutorial Google Doc (see below)

HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION: @9:41

• With over 8 years of development invested in the Education for Life component, this part of One Community is now complete enough to no longer focus and report on it with weekly updates. That is, of course, until we move onto the property and continue the development and open sourcing process with teachers and students. Visit the Education section below for links to all the completed elements of this component and details on the final remaining action items for this area of One Community before moving onto the property and fully launching it.
• Guy Grossfeld continued adding people and object additions to the redesigned and re-rendered sections of the Ultimate Classroom (see below)
• Dan Alleck continued development of the Ultimate Classroom Orange room (see below)

HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY: @11:08

• Created our new Privacy Page and cookies compliance footer which now brings us into compliance with the EU Users’ Rights under the new General Data Protection Regulation (see below)
• Updated our entire volunteer on-boarding and information page set which included the collaboration page and application, promotion page, win-win page, and compensation page (see below)
• Emilio Nájera continued with the marketing team by launching all the Highest Good of All sub-group campaigns, creating and adding extensions for all our campaigns, and researching a new “Accelerator program” Google is offering (see below)

SUSTAINABLE GLOBAL ENERGY ACCESS SUMMARY: @12:13

• • • How you can most help us right now and how anyone can help

CLICK HERE IF YOU’D LIKE TO RECEIVE AN EMAIL EACH WEEK WHEN WE RELEASE A NEW UPDATE

YOU CAN ALSO JOIN US THROUGH SOCIAL MEDIA

 

ONE COMMUNITY WEEKLY UPDATE DETAILS

HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

One Community is facilitating sustainable global energy access 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 finished the rest of the content for the most sustainable insulation options page. This week we added the Resources, Summary, and FAQ sections. You can see all of these additions here and this brings this page to 100% complete!

Added the Resources, Summary, and FAQ Sections to Finalize Most Sustainable Insulation Page – Click to Visit

Brianna Olsen (Sustainability Researcher) also completed her 10th week as a member of the team. This week she continued research for the most sustainable faucet options by formatting her past work into the existing table and continuing the research and refinement process on the remaining company products. You can see some of this work here.

Continued Research for the Most Sustainable Faucet Options – Click for Page

DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

One Community is facilitating sustainable global energy access 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 Yuqiao Zhang (Architectural Designer/Drafter) completed his 11th week helping update the City Center AutoCAD and SketchUp files and designing the rainwater harvesting system. This week he finished the 3D gutter system design, updated the calculation for the new rainwater harvesting system, picked proper products with sufficient capacity, and updated the Living Dome restroom designs to provide ADA bathrooms and shower enclosures.

Continued Updating the City Center AutoCAD and SketchUp Files – Click for Duplicable City Center

Ron Huang (Mechanical Engineer) continued with his 15th week working on the Energy Modeling for our LEED Platinum certification and City Center open source HVAC design tutorial. This week he continued revising and testing the new hydronic HVAC system. You can see some of this work here.

Continued Revising and Testing the New Hydronic HVAC System – Click for Page

Sneha Dongre (Structural Engineer) also continued with her 20th week helping with the Duplicable City Center structural details. This week’s focus was continued work creating the sliding door entryway frames and correcting and cross-checking angles and lengths of columns and beams in AutoCAD.

Continued Helping With the Duplicable City Center Structural Details – Click for Engineering Page

Kimya Azadmard (Senior Plumbing Engineer) additionally continued with his 2nd week as a member of the team. Kimya’s focus this week was initial standardization-planning for the City Center plumbing AutoCAD files.

Began Initial Standardization-planning for City Center Plumbing AutoCAD File – Click for Page

HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

One Community is facilitating sustainable global energy access 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 with week 21 of our development of the open source dams, lakes, and water-retention landscape design tutorial.  This week we created all the separate SketchUp files and added download links for each of them.

Created All the Separate SketchUp Files and Added Download Links for Each of Them – Click for Open Source Dam Page

The core team also continued developing the behind-the-scenes content for the Open Source Permaculture Design page. This week’s focus was formatting everything written so far and adding in the SWOT analysis details. You can see some of this work here.

Continued Work on Open Source Permaculture Design Page – Click to Visit

And the core team continued cost analysis details for the 100-chicken coop. This week we researched all the materials and created the spreadsheet shown here.

Researched All Materials for the 100-chicken Coop and Created the Spreadsheet – Click for Page

The core team also created the initial page design and social media imagery for what will be the open source sheep hub.

Created Initial Page Design and Social Media Imagery for Open Source Sheep Hub – Click to Visit

And, last but not least, the core team continued researching sheep and incorporating what we learned into the behind-the-scenes sheep-tutorial Google Doc shown here.

Continued Researching Sheep and Incorporated Data Into Google Doc – Click for Sheep Page

HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

One Community is facilitating sustainable global energy access 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. This component of One Community is about 95% complete with only the Open Source School Licensing and Ultimate Classroom construction and assembly details remaining to be finished. With over 8 years of work invested in the process, the sections below are all complete until we move onto the property and continue the development and open sourcing process with teachers and students – a development process that is built directly into the structure of the education program and everything else we’re creating too:

• Program Overview: Education Open Source Hub
• How the components work together: How to use the Education for Life Program
  
• Lesson Plans for Life – Lesson Plans How-to
• Foundations of Outstanding Leaders, Teachers, and Communicators
• Curriculum for Life
• Teaching Strategies for Life
• Learning Tools and Toys for Life
• Evaluation and Evolution

Guy Grossfeld (Graphic Designer) continued with week 5 of his work adding people and object additions to the redesigned and re-rendered sections of the Ultimate Classroom. Here are the last two drafts from guy, they show two more main-room perspectives.

Produced Two More Main-room Perspectives of the Ultimate Classroom – Click for Page

Dan Alleck (Designer and Illustrator) also completed his 51st week helping with the Ultimate Classroom. Here you can see his continued development of the Orange room.

Continued Development of the Ultimate Classroom Orange Room – Click for Page

HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS

One Community is facilitating sustainable global energy access 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 created our new Privacy Page and cookies compliance footer shown here. This brings us into compliance with the EU Users’ Rights under the new General Data Protection Regulation.

Created Our New Privacy Page and Cookies Compliance Footer – Click for Page

The core team also updated our entire volunteer on-boarding and information page set. This included the collaboration page and application, promotion page, win-win page, and compensation page. You can see some of the updates here.

Updated our Entire Volunteer On-boarding and Information Page Set – Click for Collaboration Page

Emilio Nájera (Digital Marketer) also continued with his 41st week as part of the marketing team by launching all the Highest Good of All sub-group campaigns, creating and adding extensions for all our campaigns, and researching a new “Accelerator program” Google is offering. You can see some of this work here.

Launched All the Highest Good of All Sub-group Campaigns, etc. – Click for Highest Good of All Page

AND WE PRODUCED THIS WEEKLY UPDATES BLOG – CLICK HERE TO SUBSCRIBE

FOLLOW ONE COMMUNITY’S PROGRESS (click icons for our pages)

 

INVESTOR PAGES

OVERVIEW       ●       LOCATION       ●       FUNDING

GET INVOLVED

CONSULTANTS     ●     WAYS ANYONE CAN HELP     ●     MEMBERSHIP

CLICK HERE FOR ALL PAST UPDATES

One Community thinks open source sustainability may be this generation’s single most impactful contribution to humanity’s future. Through open source and sustainable approaches to food, energy, housing, education, for-profit and non-profit economic design, social architecture, fulfilled living, global stewardship practices, and more, we can help people create a better world by demonstrating a more sustainable and enriching way of living and free-share everything needed for replication. Making this easy enough, affordable enough, and demonstrating it as attractive enough can lead to self-replicating example capable of improving the quality and standard of living globally.

• 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 August 11th, 2019 edition (#333) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments:

Open Source Sustainability
One Community Progress Update #333

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

OPEN SOURCE SUSTAINABILITY INTRO: @0:34

HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING: @7:12

• Continued adding the content to the most sustainable insulation options page; finished the final six insulation sections (see below)
• Brianna Olsen continued research for the most sustainable faucet options by researching and creating lists of the best faucet products for Kohler, Grohe, and Toto (see below)
• Dean Scholz continued working on the Earthbag Village; rebuilding the domes by adding in the larger windows that are fire code compliant (see below)
• Shadi Kennedy continued developing the Murphy bed instructions; focused on standardization of the page layouts, part colors, labels, and other details for the nightstands (see below)

DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER: @8:36

• Yuqiao Zhang continued helping update the City Center AutoCAD and SketchUp files and designing the rainwater harvesting system; researched the related codes for plumbing design and updated the drain locations in the AutoCAD drawings (see below)
• Ron Huang continued Energy Modeling for our LEED Platinum certification and City Center open source HVAC design tutorial; continued working on the revised hydronic HVAC system (see below)
• Sneha Dongre continued helping with the Duplicable City Center structural details; more design and placement work on the structure of the sliding glass door entryways (see below)
• Mateus Barretto continued helping with the City Center plumbing designs; standardizing the plumbing files as per the One Community AutoCAD Template and started research on roadways design in US (see below)

HIGHEST GOOD FOOD: @10:08

• Continued development of the open source dams, lakes, and water-retention landscape design tutorial; finished the dam construction notes, Resources, Summary, and FAQ sections (see below)
• Continued developing content for the Open Source Permaculture Design page; focusing on design criteria, sector analysis details, and zonal planning (see below)
• Continued research for the 100-chicken coop, finished using the 3D construction file to create the materials list (see below)
• Continued developing the sheep/goat barn in SketchUp 3D; designed the goat resting area, goat feeder, sheep feeding area, and the mother and kids areas (see below)

HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION: @11:25

• With over 8 years of development invested in the Education for Life component, this part of One Community is now complete enough to no longer focus and report on it with weekly updates. That is, of course, until we move onto the property and continue the development and open sourcing process with teachers and students. Visit the Education section below for links to all the completed elements of this component and details on the final remaining action items for this area of One Community before moving onto the property and fully launching it.
• Guy Grossfeld continued adding people and object additions to the redesigned and re-rendered sections of the Ultimate Classroom (see below)

HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY: @12:46

• Updated our Who We Are and Who We Seek page to better reflect the current team and what we seek in those joining the team (see below)
• Jin Hua helped us create a better CSS heading 2, further fine tune our ad campaigns, and started outlining a strategy for a new donations campaign we’re developing (see below)
• Emilio Nájera continued with the marketing team by evaluating last months’ results, changing the Highest Good of All sub-group keyword qualifiers from Exact to Broad and working on the site links’ descriptions (see below)

OPEN SOURCE SUSTAINABILITY SUMMARY: @13:48

• • • How you can most help us right now and how anyone can help

CLICK HERE IF YOU’D LIKE TO RECEIVE AN EMAIL EACH WEEK WHEN WE RELEASE A NEW UPDATE

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ONE COMMUNITY WEEKLY UPDATE DETAILS

HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

One Community is expanding open source sustainability with 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 continued adding the content to the most sustainable insulation options page. This week we finished the final six insulation sections. You can see all these new sections here. We’d say this brings the page to 80% complete. 

Finished the Final Six Insulation Sections on Most Sustainable Insulation Options Page – Click to Visit

Brianna Olsen (Sustainability Researcher) completed her 9th week as a member of the team. This week she continued research for the most sustainable faucet options by researching and creating lists of the best faucet products for Kohler, Grohe, and Toto. You can see some of this work here. 

Researched and Created Lists of the Best Faucet Products for Kohler, Grohe, and Toto – Click for Page

Dean Scholz (Architectural Designer) finished week #168 working on the Earthbag Village (Pod 1). This week he continued rebuilding the domes by adding in the larger windows that are fire code compliant. You can see some of this work here.

Continued Rebuilding the Domes by Adding in Larger, Fire Code Compliant Windows – Click for Earthbag Village

Shadi Kennedy (Artist and Graphic Designer) also completed his 62nd week developing the Murphy bed instructions. This week’s focus was standardization of the page layouts, part colors, labels, and other details for the nightstands. Every one of these images has been edited in some way during the last week.

Continued Developing the Murphy Bed Instructions – Click for Earthbag Village Furniture Page

DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

One Community is expanding open source sustainability with 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 Yuqiao Zhang (Architectural Designer/Drafter) completed his 10th week helping update the City Center AutoCAD and SketchUp files and designing the rainwater harvesting system. This week he researched the related codes for plumbing design and updated the drain locations in the AutoCAD drawings. He also updated the gutter and downspout system strictly adhering to code to make sure the design has the best capacity.

Continued Updating the City Center AutoCAD and SketchUp Files – Click for Duplicable City Center

Ron Huang (Mechanical Engineer) continued with his 14th week working on the Energy Modeling for our LEED Platinum certification and City Center open source HVAC design tutorial. This week he continued working on the revised hydronic HVAC system. You can see some of this work here.

Continued Working on Energy Modeling for Our LEED Platinum Certification – Click for City Center HVAC Page

Sneha Dongre (Structural Engineer) also continued with her 19th week helping with the Duplicable City Center structural details. This week’s focus was more design and placement work on the structure of the sliding glass door entryways.

Continued Helping With the Duplicable City Center Structural Details – Click for Engineering Page

Mateus Barretto (Civil Engineer) continued with his 2nd week helping with the City Center plumbing designs. This week Mateus worked on standardizing the plumbing files as per the One Community AutoCAD Template and started research on roadways design in the US. You can see some of this work here.

Began Standardizing Plumbing Files and Started Research on Roadways Design in US – Click for Page

HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

One Community is expanding open source sustainability with 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 with week 20 of our development of the open source dams, lakes, and water-retention landscape design tutorial.  This week we finished the dam construction notes, Resources, Summary, and FAQ sections.

Finished the Dam Construction Notes, Resources, Summary, and FAQ Sections – Click for Page

The core team also continued developing the behind-the-scenes content for the Open Source Permaculture Design page. This week’s focus was design criteria, sector analysis details, and zonal planning, plus starting to format previous sections for addition to the website. You can see some of this work here.

Continued Work on Open Source Permaculture Design Page – Click to Visit

And the core team continued research for the 100-chicken coop. This week we finished using the 3D construction file to create the materials list, some of which you can see here.

Finished Using the 3D Construction File to Create the 100-chicken Coop Materials List – Click for Page

Last but not least, the core team continued developing the sheep/goat barn in SketchUp 3D. We designed the goat resting area, goat feeder, sheep feeding area, and the mother and kids areas, as shown here.

Continued Developing the Sheep/Goat Barn in SketchUp 3D – Click for Sheep Page

HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

One Community is expanding open source sustainability with 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. This component of One Community is about 95% complete with only the Open Source School Licensing and Ultimate Classroom construction and assembly details remaining to be finished. With over 8 years of work invested in the process, the sections below are all complete until we move onto the property and continue the development and open sourcing process with teachers and students – a development process that is built directly into the structure of the education program and everything else we’re creating too:

• Program Overview: Education Open Source Hub
• How the components work together: How to use the Education for Life Program
  
• Lesson Plans for Life – Lesson Plans How-to
• Foundations of Outstanding Leaders, Teachers, and Communicators
• Curriculum for Life
• Teaching Strategies for Life
• Learning Tools and Toys for Life
• Evaluation and Evolution

Guy Grossfeld (Graphic Designer) continued with week 4 of his work adding people and object additions to the redesigned and re-rendered sections of the Ultimate Classroom. Here are the latests drafts of the red, green, and 2 main-room perspectives. 

Continued Adding People and Object Additions to the Redesigned Sections of the Ultimate Classroom – Click for Page

HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS

One Community is expanding open source sustainability with 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 updated our Who We Are and Who We Seek page to better reflect the current team and what we seek in those joining the team. You can see the new page here.

Updated Our Who We Are and Who We Seek Page to Better Reflect the Current Team – Click for Page

Jin Hua (Web Marketer and Graphic Designer) also helped us create a better CSS heading 2, further fine tune our ad campaigns, and started outlining a strategy for a new donations campaign we’re developing.

Continued Helping with Our Ad Campaigns and Started a New Donations Campaign – Click for Overview Page

Emilio Nájera (Digital Marketer) also continued with his 40th week as part of the marketing team by evaluating last months’ results, changing the Highest Good of All sub-group keyword qualifiers from Exact to Broad, and worked on the site links’ descriptions. You can see some of this work here.

Continued Working on the Marketing Team by Evaluating Last Months’ Results, etc. – Click for Highest Good of All Page

AND WE PRODUCED THIS WEEKLY UPDATES BLOG – CLICK HERE TO SUBSCRIBE

FOLLOW ONE COMMUNITY’S PROGRESS (click icons for our pages)

 

INVESTOR PAGES

OVERVIEW       ●       LOCATION       ●       FUNDING

GET INVOLVED

CONSULTANTS     ●     WAYS ANYONE CAN HELP     ●     MEMBERSHIP

CLICK HERE FOR ALL PAST UPDATES

Sustainably addressing global poverty is possible with a comprehensive approach. We think this approach should include complete sustainability practices and bringing resources to the places they are needed most, then teaching people how to use and replicate them so they can support themselves and help teach others how to support themselves too. Providing an example, training platform, and launch-point for a global cooperative of teacher/demonstration hubs working together for the Highest Good of all people and life on this planet.

• 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 August 4th, 2019 edition (#332) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments:

Sustainably Addressing Global Poverty
One Community Progress Update #332

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

SUSTAINABLY ADDRESSING GLOBAL POVERTY INTRO: @0:34

HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING: @8:41

• Finished Denim, Hemp, and Wool sections on the most sustainable insulation options page (see below)
• Working on the most sustainable insulation options page and transitioning to the most sustainable faucet options research, Brianna Olsen continued finalizing the insulation research and began researching Sloan, Toto, Kohler, and Grohe faucet products (see below)
• Dean Scholz continued working on the Earthbag Village; continued modeling the larger windows that are fire code compliant and replacing throughout the 3-bedroom home designs (see below)

DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER: @9:40

• Added all the final Duplicable City Center library renders to the open source hub and also updated the pipe furniture page to clarify this as the new direction that room is taking (see below)
• Ron Huang continued on the Energy Modeling for our LEED Platinum certification and City Center open source HVAC design tutorial; continued revising the proposed HVAC system to use a more sustainable hydronic cooling and heat recovery system (see below)
• Sneha Dongre continued helping with the Duplicable City Center structural details; creating columns and beams in AutoCAD for the sliding glass door entryways (see below)
• Mateus Barretto rejoined the team and reviewed and made minor updates to the City Center plumbing designs he helped create several years ago (see below)
• Kimya Azadmard joined the team and focused on writing the City Center plumbing basis of design details shown here (see below)

HIGHEST GOOD FOOD: @11:07

• Continued with week 19 of our development of the open source dams, lakes, and water-retention landscape design tutorial; finished the descriptions for all the different dam types (see below)
• Continued research for the 100-chicken coop; started using the 3D construction file to create the materials list (see below)
• Continued researching sheep; reviewed several videos regarding getting started with sheep, toxic free hoses and soakers, sheep shelters, and raising grass fed lamb and incorporated what we learned into the behind-the-scenes sheep-tutorial Google Doc (see below)

HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION: @12:09

• With over 8 years of development invested in the Education for Life component, this part of One Community is now complete enough to no longer focus and report on it with weekly updates. That is, of course, until we move onto the property and continue the development and open sourcing process with teachers and students. Visit the Education section below for links to all the completed elements of this component and details on the final remaining action items for this area of One Community before moving onto the property and fully launching it.
• Dan Alleck is now focused on final edits to the Ultimate Classroom renders; started work on the Orange room where he added in new elements, replaced some items, and resized the people (see below)

HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY: @13:32

• Created the new collage format we’re using for these blogs (see below)
• Created the new page based off of a magazine article we were asked to write and called “10 Community Problems and 10 Solutions” (see below)
• Updated our Internet Participation page and tutorial for people looking to help with anywhere from 1 minute to 30 minutes only and using just the internet (see below)
• Core team working with Brian Gilb started the final review and edits of our Business Plan and all the related attachments (see below)
• Shubhra Mittal helped write all the hours estimates for the complete Highest Good Network work breakdown structure (see below)
• Emilio Nájera continued with the marketing team by implementing requested changes to the Highest Good of All sub-campaigns and creating all the shareable site links for the One Community branding campaign (see below)

SUSTAINABLY ADDRESSING GLOBAL POVERTY SUMMARY: @14:56

• • • How you can most help us right now and how anyone can help

CLICK HERE IF YOU’D LIKE TO RECEIVE AN EMAIL EACH WEEK WHEN WE RELEASE A NEW UPDATE

YOU CAN ALSO JOIN US THROUGH SOCIAL MEDIA

 

ONE COMMUNITY WEEKLY UPDATE DETAILS

HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

One Community is sustainably addressing global poverty 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 continued adding the content to the most sustainable insulation options page. This week we finished the sections shown here for Denim, Hemp, and Wool.

Finished Denim, Hemp, and Wool Sections of Most Sustainable Insulation Options Page – Click to Visit

Also working on the most sustainable insulation options page and transitioning to the most sustainable faucet options research, Brianna Olsen (Sustainability Researcher) completed her 9th week to finalize the insulation research and began researching Sloan, Toto, Kohler, and Grohe faucet products.

Finalized Insulation Research and Began Researching Sloan, Toto, Kohler, and Grohe Faucet Products – Click for Page

Dean Scholz (Architectural Designer) finished week #167 working on the Earthbag Village (Pod 1). This week he continued modeling the larger windows that are fire code compliant and replacing throughout the 3-bedroom home designs.

Continued Modeling Larger Windows and Replacing Throughout 3-bedroom Home Designs – Click for Earthbag Village

DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

One Community is sustainably addressing global poverty 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 added all the final Duplicable City Center library renders to the open source hub and also updated the pipe furniture page to clarify this as the new direction that room is taking.

Added Final Duplicable City Center Library Renders to the Open Source Hub – Click for City Center

Ron Huang (Mechanical Engineer) also continued with his 13th week working on the Energy Modeling for our LEED Platinum certification and City Center open source HVAC design tutorial. This week he continued revising the proposed HVAC system to use a more sustainable hydronic cooling and heat recovery system.

Continued Working on Energy Modeling for Our LEED Platinum Certification – Click for City Center HVAC Page

Sneha Dongre (Structural Engineer) additionally continued with her 18th week helping with the Duplicable City Center structural details. This week’s focus was creating columns and beams in AutoCAD for the sliding glass door entryways.

Continued Helping With the Duplicable City Center Structural Details – Click for Page

Mateus Barretto (Civil Engineer) also rejoined the team and reviewed and made minor updates to the City Center plumbing designs he helped create several years ago. You can see some of this work here.

Reviewed and Made Minor Updates to the City Center Plumbing Designs He Helped Create Several Years Ago – Click for Plumbing Page

This was in preparation for a redesign Kimya Azadmard (Senior Plumbing Engineer) has joined the team to help with. Kimya’s focus this week was writing the City Center plumbing basis of design details shown here.

Began Writing the City Center Plumbing Basis of Design Details – Click for Page

HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

One Community is sustainably addressing global poverty 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 with week 19 of our development of the open source dams, lakes, and water-retention landscape design tutorial.  This week we finished the descriptions for all the different dam types.

Finished the Descriptions for All the Different Dam Types – Click for Dam Design Page

The core team also continued research for the 100-chicken coop. This week we started using the 3D construction file to create the materials list, some of which you can see here.

Started Using the 3D Construction File to Create the Materials List – Click for Chickens Page

And, last but not least, the core team continued researching sheep. We reviewed several videos regarding getting started with sheep, toxic free hoses and soakers, sheep shelters, and raising grass fed lamb and incorporated what we learned into the behind-the-scenes sheep-tutorial Google Doc shown here.

Reviewed Several Sheep Videos and Added Info to our Google Doc – Click for Food Page

HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

One Community is sustainably addressing global poverty 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. This component of One Community is about 95% complete with only the Open Source School Licensing and Ultimate Classroom construction and assembly details remaining to be finished. With over 8 years of work invested in the process, the sections below are all complete until we move onto the property and continue the development and open sourcing process with teachers and students – a development process that is built directly into the structure of the education program and everything else we’re creating too:

• Program Overview: Education Open Source Hub
• How the components work together: How to use the Education for Life Program
  
• Lesson Plans for Life – Lesson Plans How-to
• Foundations of Outstanding Leaders, Teachers, and Communicators
• Curriculum for Life
• Teaching Strategies for Life
• Learning Tools and Toys for Life
• Evaluation and Evolution

This week Dan Alleck (Designer and Illustrator) completed his 50th week helping. His work now is focused on final edits to the Ultimate Classroom renders. This week he started work on this Orange room where he added in new elements, replaced some items, and resized the people.

Added in New Elements, Replaced Some Items, and Resized the People in Orange Room – Click to Visit Ultimate Classroom

HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS

One Community is sustainably addressing global poverty 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 created the new collage format we’re using for these blogs.

Created the New Collage Format We’re Using for These Blogs – Click for Page

We also created the new page shown here and based off of a magazine article we were asked to write and called “10 Community Problems and 10 Solutions.”

Created Page Called “10 Community Problems and 10 Solutions” – Click to Visit

We also updated our Internet Participation page and tutorial for people looking to help with anywhere from 1 minute to 30 minutes only and using just the internet.

Updated Our Internet Participation Page and Tutorial for People Looking to Help – Click for Page

In addition to this, the core team working with Brian Gilb (Project Management Professional – PMP) also started the final review and edits of our Business Plan and all the related attachments. We finished the first 5 enclosures and would say we are now 30% done.

Started Final Review and Edits of Our Business Plan and All the Related Attachments – Click for Executive Summary Page

Shubhra Mittal (Software Delivery Manager) helped write all the hours estimates for the complete Highest Good Network work breakdown structure.

Wrote Hours Estimates for Complete Highest Good Network Work Breakdown Structure – Click for Page

And Emilio Nájera (Digital Marketer) also continued with his 39th week as part of the marketing team by implementing requested changes to the Highest Good of All sub-campaigns and creating all the shareable site links for the One Community branding campaign. You can see some of this work here.

Implemented Requested Changes to the Highest Good of All Sub-campaigns – Click for Page

AND WE PRODUCED THIS WEEKLY UPDATES BLOG – CLICK HERE TO SUBSCRIBE

FOLLOW ONE COMMUNITY’S PROGRESS (click icons for our pages)

 

INVESTOR PAGES

OVERVIEW       ●       LOCATION       ●       FUNDING

GET INVOLVED

CONSULTANTS     ●     WAYS ANYONE CAN HELP     ●     MEMBERSHIP

CLICK HERE FOR ALL PAST UPDATES

The need and potential for conscious and conscientious global stewardship has never been greater. We can regenerate our planet and help ourselves at the same time. One Community is creating models for teacher/demonstration hubs that will demonstrate and free-share how to do this. They include “Highest Good” approaches for all the necessary foundations: 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

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 July 28th, 2019 edition (#331) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments:

Global Stewardship
One Community Progress Update #331

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

GLOBAL STEWARDSHIP INTRO: @0:34

HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING: @6:36

• Continued adding the content to the most sustainable insulation options page; created and added the new insulation icons, header and social media images, and finished the sections shown here and covering Air Krete and Straw Bale insulation (see below)
• Brianna Olsen continued final research on the most sustainable insulation options page; wrote the FAQ section and did more research and writing to discuss the products not included in the article (see below)
• Dean Scholz continued working on the Earthbag Village; worked on creating the new and larger windows that are fire code compliant and necessary for the 3-bedroom home designs (see below)
• Shadi Kennedy continued developing the Murphy bed instructions; continued standardization of the page layouts, part colors, labels, and other details (see below)

DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER: @8:06

• Created final Duplicable City Center library renders that show the final plans for the furniture layouts, custom bench and table designs, shelving, lighting, polished concrete floors, and aesthetic details added to make the columns look like trees (see below)
• Anvita Kumari Pandey continued research to find the right outdoor patio lights for installation along the City Center patio areas (see below)
• Ron Huang continued working on the Energy Modeling for our LEED Platinum certification and City Center open source HVAC design tutorial; finished the Baseline Model (see below)
• Sneha Dongre continued helping with the Duplicable City Center structural details; worked on deleting extra members in 3D and testing and retesting the model in SAP and researching about entryway designs to determine the best way to integrate our sliding glass door entries into the domes (see below)

HIGHEST GOOD FOOD: @9:35

• Continued developing the behind-the-scenes content for the Open Source Permaculture Design page; focused on completing the ethics, principles and domains section and began work on the initial Design Considerations section (see below)
• Continued developing the goat barn in SketchUp 3D (see below)
• Researched various articles on breeds of sheep and incorporated what we learned into the behind-the-scenes sheep-tutorial Google Doc (see below)

HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION: @10:28

• With over 8 years of development invested in the Education for Life component, this part of One Community is now complete enough to no longer focus and report on it with weekly updates. That is, of course, until we move onto the property and continue the development and open sourcing process with teachers and students. Visit the Education section below for links to all the completed elements of this component and details on the final remaining action items for this area of One Community before moving onto the property and fully launching it.
• Continued working on the redesign of the Ultimate Classroom; replaced the straw bales with solid walls (see below)
• Guy Grossfeld continued with week 3 of his work adding people and object additions to the redesigned and re-rendered sections of the Ultimate Classroom (see below)

HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY: @11:58

• Edited and reformatted our complete volunteer agreement as a Google Form that can now be completed online (see below)
• Core team working with Brian Gilb rewrote our new volunteer Welcome Page and policies again (see below)
• Core team and Brian finished creation of our new internal communications procedures structure and document and a final revision of our new onboarding procedure (see below)
• Emilio Nájera continued with the marketing team by creating and launching all the sub-groups ad campaigns of the Highest Good of All campaign (see below)

GLOBAL STEWARDSHIP SUMMARY: @13:08

• • • How you can most help us right now and how anyone can help

CLICK HERE IF YOU’D LIKE TO RECEIVE AN EMAIL EACH WEEK WHEN WE RELEASE A NEW UPDATE

YOU CAN ALSO JOIN US THROUGH SOCIAL MEDIA

 

ONE COMMUNITY WEEKLY UPDATE DETAILS

HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

One Community is facilitating global stewardship 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 continued adding the content to the most sustainable insulation options page. This week we created and added the new insulation icons, header and social media images, and finished the sections shown here and covering Air Krete and Straw Bale insulation. 

Continued Adding Content to the Most Sustainable Insulation Options Page – Click to Visit

Also working on the most sustainable insulation options page, Brianna Olsen (Sustainability Researcher) completed her 8th week to finalize this research. This week she wrote the FAQ section and did more research and writing to discuss the products not included in the article. This brings the behind-the-scenes work on this to 99% complete.

Continued Researching the Most Sustainable Insulation Options – Click for Page

Dean Scholz (Architectural Designer) finished week #166 working on the Earthbag Village (Pod 1). This week he worked on creating the new and larger windows that are fire code compliant and necessary for these 3-bedroom home designs.

Worked on Creating Larger Fire Code Compliant Windows – Click for Earthbag Village

Shadi Kennedy (Artist and Graphic Designer) also completed his 61st week developing the Murphy bed instructions. This week’s focus was continued standardization of the page layouts, part colors, labels, and other details. Almost every one of these images has been edited in some way during the last week.

Continued Standardization of the Murphy Bed Page Layouts, Part Colors, and Labels – Click for Earthbag Furniture Page

DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

One Community is facilitating global stewardship 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 created these final Duplicable City Center library renders. These new renders show the final plans for the furniture layouts, custom bench and table designs, shelving, lighting, polished concrete floors, and aesthetic details added to make the columns look like trees.

Created Final Duplicable City Center Library Renders – Click for Page

Anvita Kumari Pandey (Civil Engineer) continued research to find the right outdoor patio lights for installation along the City Center patio areas.

Continued Researching Outdoor Patio Lights for Installation Along the City Center Patio Areas – Click for Page

Ron Huang (Mechanical Engineer) continued with his 12th week working on the Energy Modeling for our LEED Platinum certification and City Center open source HVAC design tutorial. This week he finished the Baseline Model. You can see some of the baseline calculations here.

Continued Working on Energy Modeling for Our LEED Platinum Certification – Click for City Center HVAC Page

Sneha Dongre (Structural Engineer) additionally continued with her 17th week helping with the Duplicable City Center structural details. This week’s focus was continued work deleting extra members in 3D and testing and retesting the model in SAP, and researching about entryway designs to determine the best way to integrate our sliding glass door entries into the domes. You can see some of this work here.

Continued Helping With the Duplicable City Center Structural Details – Click for Page

HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

One Community is facilitating global stewardship 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 developing the behind-the-scenes content for the Open Source Permaculture Design page. This week’s focus was completing the ethics, principles and domains section. We also began work on the initial Design Considerations section. You can see some of this work here.

Completed the Ethics, Principles and Domains Section of the Permaculture Design Page – Click to Visit

The core team also continued developing the goat barn in SketchUp 3D. Here you can see the designs evolving.

Continued Developing the Goat Barn in SketchUP 3D – Click for Page

And, last but not least, the core team researched various articles on breeds of sheep and incorporated what we learned into the behind-the-scenes sheep-tutorial Google Doc shown here.

Researched Various Articles on Breeds of Sheep and Incorporated into Google Doc – Click for Highest Good Food

HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

One Community is facilitating global stewardship 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. This component of One Community is about 95% complete with only the Open Source School Licensing and Ultimate Classroom construction and assembly details remaining to be finished. With over 8 years of work invested in the process, the sections below are all complete until we move onto the property and continue the development and open sourcing process with teachers and students – a development process that is built directly into the structure of the education program and everything else we’re creating too:

• Program Overview: Education Open Source Hub
• How the components work together: How to use the Education for Life Program
  
• Lesson Plans for Life – Lesson Plans How-to
• Foundations of Outstanding Leaders, Teachers, and Communicators
• Curriculum for Life
• Teaching Strategies for Life
• Learning Tools and Toys for Life
• Evaluation and Evolution

This week the core team continued working on the redesign of the Ultimate Classroom. This week we replaced the straw bales with solid walls so we could produce these outdoor renders.

Replaced the Straw Bales With Solid Walls on the Ultimate Classroom – Click to Visit

Guy Grossfeld (Graphic Designer) continued with week 3 of his work adding people and object additions to the redesigned and re-rendered sections of the Ultimate Classroom. Here are the latest drafts of the red and green rooms and a view looking South.

Continued Adding People and Object Additions to the Redesigned Sections of the Ultimate Classroom – Click to Visit Page

HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS

One Community is facilitating global stewardship 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 edited and reformatted our complete volunteer agreement as a Google Form that can now be completed online.

Edited and Reformatted Complete Volunteer Agreement as a Google Form – Click to Visit Helping Page

The core team working with Brian Gilb (Project Management Professional – PMP) also rewrote our new volunteer Welcome Page and policies again. We added more details and made it easier to understand.

Rewrote Our New Volunteer Welcome Page and Policies Again – Click for Page

The core team and Brian additionally finished creation of our new internal communications procedures structure and document and a final revision of our new onboarding procedure. We also officially launched the new onboarding process with two new volunteers.

Finished Creation of Our New Internal Communications Procedures Structure – Click for Welcome Page

Emilio Nájera (Digital Marketer) also continued with his 38th week as part of the marketing team by creating and launching all the sub-groups ad campaigns of the Highest Good of All campaign. You can see some of this work here.

Created and Launched All the Sub-groups Ad Campaigns of the Highest Good of All Campaign – Click for Page

AND WE PRODUCED THIS WEEKLY UPDATES BLOG – CLICK HERE TO SUBSCRIBE

FOLLOW ONE COMMUNITY’S PROGRESS (click icons for our pages)

 

INVESTOR PAGES

OVERVIEW       ●       LOCATION       ●       FUNDING

GET INVOLVED

CONSULTANTS     ●     WAYS ANYONE CAN HELP     ●     MEMBERSHIP

CLICK HERE FOR ALL PAST UPDATES

Creating a sustainable civilization is possible if enough people want it. One Community is working to make this happen by open-source developing resources for sustainable food, energy, housing, education, for-profit and non-profit economic design, social architecture, fulfilled living, and global stewardship practices. We’ll then use and refine these resources as we build the prototype city that will demonstrate the kind of sustainability that could accomplish this as easy, enough, affordable enough, and attractive enough to spread on its own.

• 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 July 21st, 2019 edition (#330) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments:

Creating a Sustainable Civilization
One Community Progress Update #330

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

CREATING A SUSTAINABLE CIVILIZATION INTRO: @0:34

HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING: @6:49

• Began adding the content to the most sustainable insulation options page; finished the initial formatting and completed the Why and Understanding R-Values sections (see below)
• Brianna Olsen completed her 7th week researching the insulation details and finished her second round of revisions on the most sustainable insulation options page (see below)
• Shadi Kennedy continued developing the Murphy bed instructions; continued standardization of the page layouts, parts colors, labels, and other details (see below)

DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER: @8:01

• This week Yuqiao Zhang continued helping update the City Center AutoCAD and SketchUp files and designing the rainwater harvesting system (see below)
• Ron Huang continued working on the Energy Modeling for our LEED Platinum certification and City Center open source HVAC design tutorial (see below)
• Sneha Dongre continued helping with the Duplicable City Center structural details; solving more missing 3D face (area) issues in AutoCAD, deleting extra members, and testing and retesting the model in SAP (see below)

HIGHEST GOOD FOOD: @9:30

• Continued our development of the open source lake and water-retention landscape design tutorial; created all the missing and behind-the-scenes construction, lake-sealing, individual dam description, and FAQ details (see below)
• Continued developing the behind-the-scenes content for the Open Source Permaculture Design page; focused on What and Why sections, history of permaculture details, and beginning describing Holmgren’s 12 principles of design (see below)
• Started developing the goat barn in Sketchup 3D (see below)
• Continued researching sheep (see below)

HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION: @10:43

• With over 8 years of development invested in the Education for Life component, this part of One Community is now complete enough to no longer focus and report on it with weekly updates. That is, of course, until we move onto the property and continue the development and open sourcing process with teachers and students. Visit the Education section below for links to all the completed elements of this component and details on the final remaining action items for this area of One Community before moving onto the property and fully launching it.
• Continued working on the redesign of the Ultimate Classroom; added a temporary roof so we could create external renders and created a new render of the interior looking Southeast (see below0
• Guy Grossfeld continued adding people and object additions to the redesigned and re-rendered sections of the Ultimate Classroom (see below)

HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY: @12:17

• Rewrote our new volunteer Welcome Page and policies (see below)
• Core team working with Brian Gilb completed the Highest Good Network information flow graphics and version 2 of the work breakdown structure shown here (see below)
• Emilio Nájera continued with his 37th week as part of the marketing team by creating the first versions of the Foundation for World Change and Nonprofit Organization sub-groups of the Highest Good of All ad campaign (see below)

CREATING A SUSTAINABLE CIVILIZATION SUMMARY: @13:12

• • • How you can most help us right now and how anyone can help

CLICK HERE IF YOU’D LIKE TO RECEIVE AN EMAIL EACH WEEK WHEN WE RELEASE A NEW UPDATE

YOU CAN ALSO JOIN US THROUGH SOCIAL MEDIA

 

ONE COMMUNITY WEEKLY UPDATE DETAILS

HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

One Community is creating a sustainable civilization 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 began adding the content to the most sustainable insulation options page. This week we finished the initial formatting and completed the Why and Understanding R-Values sections.

Began Adding Content to the Most Sustainable Insulation Options Page – Click to Visit

Also working on the most sustainable insulation options page, Brianna Olsen (Sustainability Researcher) completed her 7th week researching the details and finished her second round of revisions. She added a more high-level overview of the different types of insulations vs. specific products/brands and included insulations we didn’t add in the spreadsheet because the health consequences invalidated them. We’d say this behind-the-scenes work is now 95% complete.

Continued Researching the Most Sustainable Insulation Options – Click for Page

Continued Standardization of the Murphy Bed Page Layouts, Part Colors, and Labels – Click for Earthbag Furniture Page

DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

One Community is creating a sustainable civilization 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 Yuqiao Zhang (Architectural Designer/Drafter) completed his 9th week helping update the City Center AutoCAD and SketchUp files and designing the rainwater harvesting system. This week he added the ground trench system and the basement drainage systems, researched and applied design codes, color-coded all the sections of the system, and revised the AutoCAD basement entryway and several other areas. You can see some of this work here.

Continued Updating the AutoCAD and SketchUp Files and Designing the Rainwater Harvesting System – Click for City Center

Ron Huang (Mechanical Engineer) continued with his 11th week working on the Energy Modeling for our LEED Platinum certification and City Center open source HVAC design tutorial. This week he continued to create the baseline model by modeling the building with a window-to-wall ratio of 40% and calculating baseline equipment performance and plug loads. You can see some of this work here.

Continued Working on Energy Modeling for Our LEED Platinum Certification – Click for City Center HVAC Page

Sneha Dongre (Structural Engineer) additionally continued with her 17th week helping with the Duplicable City Center structural details. This week’s focus was solving more missing 3D face (area) issues in AutoCAD, deleting extra members, and testing and retesting the model in SAP. You can see some of this work here.

Continued Helping With the Duplicable City Center Structural Details – Click for Page

HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

One Community is creating a sustainable civilization 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 with week 18 of our development of the open source lake and water-retention landscape design tutorial. This week we created all the missing and behind-the-scenes construction, lake-sealing, individual dam description, and FAQ details. Most of which you can see here.

Continued on Lake and Water-retention Landscape Design Tutorial – Click for Page

The core team also continued developing the behind-the-scenes content for the Open Source Permaculture Design page. This week’s focus was the What and Why sections, history of permaculture details, and beginning describing Holmgren’s 12 principles of design.

Continued Developing Content for the Open Source Permaculture Design Page – Click to Visit

The core team additionally started developing the goat barn in SketchUp 3D. What you see here are our initial layout tests.

Started Developing the Goat Barn in SketchUP 3D – Click for Page

And, last but not least, the core team continued researching sheep. We reviewed and extracted information from Sheep 101 and Wikipedia Sheep and added all we learned to our new behind-the-scenes sheep-tutorial Google Doc, as shown here.

Reviewed and Extracted Information From Sheep 101 and Wikipedia Sheep – Click for Highest Good Food

HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

One Community is creating a sustainable civilization 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. This component of One Community is about 95% complete with only the Open Source School Licensing and Ultimate Classroom construction and assembly details remaining to be finished. With over 8 years of work invested in the process, the sections below are all complete until we move onto the property and continue the development and open sourcing process with teachers and students – a development process that is built directly into the structure of the education program and everything else we’re creating too:

• Program Overview: Education Open Source Hub
• How the components work together: How to use the Education for Life Program
  
• Lesson Plans for Life – Lesson Plans How-to
• Foundations of Outstanding Leaders, Teachers, and Communicators
• Curriculum for Life
• Teaching Strategies for Life
• Learning Tools and Toys for Life
• Evaluation and Evolution

This week the core team continued working on the redesign of the Ultimate Classroom. This week we added a temporary roof so we could create external renders and created this new render of the interior looking Southeast.

Continued Working on the Redesign of the Ultimate Classroom, Adding a Temporary Roof – Click for Page

Guy Grossfeld (Graphic Designer) continued with week 2 of his work adding people and object additions to the redesigned and re-rendered sections of the Ultimate Classroom. Here are the second drafts of the orange, red, blue and indigo classroom spaces.

Continued Adding People and Object Additions to the Redesigned Sections of the Ultimate Classroom – Click to Visit Page

HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS

One Community is creating a sustainable civilization 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 rewrote our new volunteer Welcome Page and policies. You can see some of this new page here.

Rewrote Our New Volunteer Welcome Page and Policies – Click to Visit Page

The core team working with Brian Gilb (Project Management Professional – PMP) also completed the Highest Good Network information flow graphics and version 2 of the work breakdown structure shown here.

Completed Highest Good Network Information Flow Graphics and Version 2 of WBS – Click to Visit Page

And Emilio Nájera (Digital Marketer) continued with his 37th week as part of the marketing team by creating the first versions of the Foundation for World Change and Nonprofit Organization sub-groups of the Highest Good of All ad campaign. You can see some of this work here.

Continued Working on the Highest Good of All Ad Campaign – Click to Visit Page

AND WE PRODUCED THIS WEEKLY UPDATES BLOG – CLICK HERE TO SUBSCRIBE

FOLLOW ONE COMMUNITY’S PROGRESS (click icons for our pages)

 

INVESTOR PAGES

OVERVIEW       ●       LOCATION       ●       FUNDING

GET INVOLVED

CONSULTANTS     ●     WAYS ANYONE CAN HELP     ●     MEMBERSHIP

CLICK HERE FOR ALL PAST UPDATES

Let’s make replicable sustainability the new Occupy Movement and let’s do it globally. We can work together and create a planet that works for everyone by building and open sourcing self-replicating teacher/demonstration hubs that empower people to become sustainable and self-sufficient. We can simultaneously address the greatest challenges of this generation and generations to come while also providing a better way of life for ourselves and our families. We can help ourselves while helping others. One Community calls this living and creating for “The Highest Good of All” and we are developing all necessary tools, tutorials, and resources for implementation and duplication.

• 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 July 14th, 2019 edition (#329) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments:

Replicable Sustainability – The New Occupy Movement
One Community Progress Update #329

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

REPLICABLE SUSTAINABILITY – THE NEW OCCUPY MOVEMENT INTRO: @0:34

HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING: @6:23

DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER: @7:40

• Added all the sustainability-benchmarking details for all the major faucet-providing companies to the most sustainable faucets page (see below)
• Yuqiao Zhang continued helping update the City Center AutoCAD and SketchUp files and designing and calculating the needs for the rainwater harvesting system (see below)
• Ron Huang continued working on the Energy Modeling for our LEED Platinum certification and City Center open source HVAC design tutorial (see below)
• Sneha Dongre continued with her 16th week helping with the Duplicable City Center structural details; adding 3D surfaces to the remaining dome and patio areas and testing them in SAP 2000 (see below)

HIGHEST GOOD FOOD: @9:08

• Continued development of the open source lake and water-retention landscape design tutorial (see below)
• Added all the researched fencing content to the open source Goats page (see below)

HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION: @9:46

• With over 8 years of development invested in the Education for Life component, this part of One Community is now complete enough to no longer focus and report on it with weekly updates. That is, of course, until we move onto the property and continue the development and open sourcing process with teachers and students. Visit the Education section below for links to all the completed elements of this component and details on the final remaining action items for this area of One Community before moving onto the property and fully launching it.
• Guy Grossfeld rejoined the team and started helping with people and object additions to the redesigned and re-rendered sections of the Ultimate Classroom (see below)

HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY: @11:05

• Updated our healthy living policy and page to clarify we’ll be demonstrating a smoke-free property (see below)
• Core team working with Brian Gilb completed the Project Charter and initial Work Breakdown Structure for the Highest Good Network Software and created charts and graphs for interpreting data in the Work Breakdown Structure for the complete project (see below)
• Emilio Nájera continued researching how subgrouping works and creating the sub-groups for the Highest Good of All landing page covering “Foundations for world change and nonprofit organizations” and “Sustainable Food and Sustainable Housing” (see below)

REPLICABLE SUSTAINABILITY – THE NEW OCCUPY MOVEMENT SUMMARY: @12:10

• • • How you can most help us right now and how anyone can help

CLICK HERE IF YOU’D LIKE TO RECEIVE AN EMAIL EACH WEEK WHEN WE RELEASE A NEW UPDATE

YOU CAN ALSO JOIN US THROUGH SOCIAL MEDIA

 

ONE COMMUNITY WEEKLY UPDATE DETAILS

HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

One Community is free sharing replicable sustainability – the new Occupy Movement 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 did another round of testing last week’s Murphy bed assembly instruction updates. What you see here are the errors we found.

Did Another Round of Testing the Murphy Bed Assembly Instructions – Click for Page

Brianna Olsen (Sustainability Researcher) completed her 6th week researching the most sustainable insulation options. This week she finished the first draft of the summary of the products, their key features, and their pros and cons. You can see some of this work here and we’d say this behind-the-scenes work is now 90% complete.

Continued Researching the Most Sustainable Insulation Options – Click for Page

Dan Alleck (Designer and Illustrator) also completed his 49th week helping with Earthbag Village renders. This week he did one additional round of edits to finish this Earthbag Village looking South image. You can now find this updated on the website also.

Completed One Additional Round of Edits to Finish this Earthbag Village Looking South Render – Click for Page

Shadi Kennedy (Artist and Graphic Designer) also completed his 59th week developing the Murphy bed instructions. This week’s focus was continued updates and revisions to the Bed Box section. Almost every page shown here has had changes made to it and several are new.

Continued Updates and Revisions to the Murphy Bed Box Section – Click for Earthbag Furniture Page

DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

One Community is free sharing replicable sustainability – the new Occupy Movement 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 added all the sustainability-benchmarking details for all the major faucet-providing companies to the most sustainable faucets page.

Added Sustainability-Benchmarking Details for All the Major Faucet-providing Companies to the Most Sustainable Faucets Page – Click to Visit

This week Yuqiao Zhang (Architectural Designer/Drafter) completed his 8th week helping update the City Center AutoCAD and SketchUp files and designing and calculating the needs for the rainwater harvesting system. This week he made updates to the window and door plan and created the second draft of the new zoning and harvesting strategy. You can see some of this work here.

Continued Finalizing City Center AutoCAD and SketchUp Files – Click for Duplicable City Center

Ron Huang (Mechanical Engineer) continued with his 10th week working on the Energy Modeling for our LEED Platinum certification and City Center open source HVAC design tutorial. This week he calculated heating and cooling coefficients to assess performance and fine-tuned the proposed building model to confirm it met ASHRAE requirements for unmet hours. You can see some of this work here.

Calculated Heating and Cooling Coefficients to Assess Performance – Click for City Center HVAC Page

Sneha Dongre (Structural Engineer) additionally continued with her 16th week helping with the Duplicable City Center structural details. This week’s focus was adding 3D surfaces to the remaining dome and patio areas and testing them in SAP 2000. You can see some of this work here.

Added 3D Surfaces to Remaining Dome and Patio Areas and Tested them in SAP 2000 – Click for Page

HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

One Community is free sharing replicable sustainability – the new Occupy Movement 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 with week 17 of our development of the open source lake and water-retention landscape design tutorial. This week we created all the imagery shown here.

Created All the Imagery for our Lake and Water-Retention Landscape Design Tutorial – Click for Page

The core team also added all the researched fencing content to the open source Goats page. You can see some of this new content here.

Added All the Researched Fencing Content to the Open Source Goats Page – Click for Page

HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

One Community is free sharing replicable sustainability – the new Occupy Movement 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. This component of One Community is about 95% complete with only the Open Source School Licensing and Ultimate Classroom construction and assembly details remaining to be finished. With over 8 years of work invested in the process, the sections below are all complete until we move onto the property and continue the development and open sourcing process with teachers and students – a development process that is built directly into the structure of the education program and everything else we’re creating too:

• Program Overview: Education Open Source Hub
• How the components work together: How to use the Education for Life Program
  
• Lesson Plans for Life – Lesson Plans How-to
• Foundations of Outstanding Leaders, Teachers, and Communicators
• Curriculum for Life
• Teaching Strategies for Life
• Learning Tools and Toys for Life
• Evaluation and Evolution

This week Guy Grossfeld (Graphic Designer) rejoined the team and started helping with people and object additions to the redesigned and re-rendered sections of the Ultimate Classroom. Here are the first-drafts of four of these new classroom spaces.

Started Helping with People and Object Additions to the Redesigned Sections of the Ultimate Classroom – Click to Visit Page

HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS

One Community is free sharing replicable sustainability – the new Occupy Movement 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 updated our healthy living policy and page to clarify we’ll be demonstrating a smoke-free property.

Updated Our Healthy Living Policy and Page – Click to Visit

The core team working with Brian Gilb (Project Management Professional – PMP) also completed the Project Charter and initial Work Breakdown Structure for the Highest Good Network Software.

Completed Project Charter and Initial Work Breakdown Structure for HGN Software – Click for Page

…Also these charts and graphs for interpreting data in the Work Breakdown Structure for the complete project.

Created Charts and Graphs for Interpreting Data in Work Breakdown Structure for the Complete Project – Click for Overview Page

And Emilio Nájera (Digital Marketer) continued with his 36th week as part of the marketing team by researching how subgrouping works and creating the sub-groups for the Highest Good of All landing page covering “Foundations for world change and nonprofit organizations” and “Sustainable Food and Sustainable Housing.” You can see some of this work here.

Researched and Created Sub-groups for the Highest Good of All Landing Page – Click to Visit

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