No-waste living is possible and can be implemented in ways that make life easier. Through collaborative and cooperative living we can reduce or eliminate waste in many parts of our lives while also providing more time and resources to do the things we want. One Community is designing a prototype community to demonstrate no-waste living as part of a more ethical, abundant, and fulfilling lifestyle. We are also open source sharing everything needed for replication. Our open source sustainability plans cover food, energy, housing, education, for-profit and non-profit economic design, social architecture, fulfilled living, global stewardship practices, and more.

• Here’s our project overview
• Here’s our world-change methodology
  
• Here’s how this becomes self-replicating
• Here’s how we are open source and free-sharing all the do-it-yourself designs

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 November 18, 2018 edition (#295) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments:

No-Waste Living
One Community Progress Update #295

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

NO-WASTE LIVING INTRO: @0:34

HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING: @8:06

DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER: @10:23

HIGHEST GOOD FOOD: @11:28

• Continued writing the behind-the-scenes narrative and detailed food rollout plan for the various stages of development (see below)

HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION: @12:06

• 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: @13:12

• Emilio Nájera continued with his 6th week helping the marketing team (see below)
• Highest Good Network software team consisting of Shubhra Mittal, Aishwarya Singh, Farhan Zaki, Jordan Miller, and Tyler Calvert continued developing the software (see below)

NO-WASTE LIVING SUMMARY: @14:35

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

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HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

One Community is helping develop no-waste living 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

Hemanth Kotaru (Structural Engineer) completed his 26th week helping with the structural engineering research and calculations for the Earthbag Village (Pod 1). This week’s focus was replacing the soil mix with soil mix springs around the nails to factor in the resistance of the soil mix to the movement of the nail within the bag. The Winkler model is what is being used to calculate the stiffness of these “soil springs” within the bags. You can see some of this work-in-progress here. 

Continued Helping with Structural Engineering Research and Calculations for the Earthbag Village – Click to Visit

Anvita Kumari Pandey (Civil Engineer) also completed her 24th week volunteering. Resuming her work on the Earthbag Village Materials and Costs, this week she continued work on the 3-dome cost analysis, cross checked the material lists and quantities, added missing materials, started on the Vermiculture Toilet cost analysis, and updated the complete village AutoCAD with new internal and external dimensions drawings. You can see some of this work here. 

Continued Working on the Earthbag Village 3-Dome Cluster Cost Analysis – Click for Page

Guy Grossfeld (Graphic Designer) also continued his work helping with render corrections and PhotoShop additions for the Earthbag Village (Pod 1). This week Guy completed these two 1st-generation views of the top of the Tropical Atrium and looking South from the Tropical Atrium entryway.

Continued with Render Corrections and Photoshop Additions for Earthbag Village – Click for Page

Dan Alleck (Designer and Illustrator) completed his 29th week helping with render additions. This week he finished this Earthbag Village (Pod 1) render showing a perspective from inside the village. This image is also now on the website.

Finished Earthbag Village Render Showing a Perspective Inside the Village – Click for Page

Shadi Kennedy (Artist and Graphic Designer) also completed his 30th week leading the development of the Murphy bed instructions. This week he completed a properly scaled parts Illustrator file and continued to simplify the existing parts labeling and cutting system. You can see some of this work here.

Continued Development of Murphy Bed Furniture Assembly Instructions – Click for Furniture Page

Dean Scholz (Architectural Designer) also continued working on the Earthbag Village (Pod 1). Here is weekly update #138 from Dean, his focus this week was finishing the 6-dome layouts, adding more section view details, and additional labeling of components. You can see some of this work here.

Continued Work on Earthbag Village Layout for Section Views and 6-dome Layouts – Click for Page

DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

One Community is helping develop no-waste living 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

Continued Updating the Duplicable City Center Dining Dome – Click for Page

The core team also continued developing the Duplicable City Center Sprinkler and Emergency Systems Design page. This week we finished the sections covering Sprinkler Head and Pipe Selection, Sprinkler Head Location and Number, and System Demand. You can see most of this work here.

Continued Developing Duplicable City Center Sprinkler and Emergency Systems Design Page – Click to Visit

And the core team continued developing the Duplicable City Center Materials and Costs. This week we added all the cost analysis overview imagery and text and the first details image. You can see some of this work here.

Continued Developing the Duplicable City Center Materials and Costs – Click for Page

HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

One Community is helping develop no-waste living 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 writing the behind-the-scenes narrative and detailed food rollout plan for the various stages of development. This week we completed (for now) working on chicken coops and began working on goats. We began by reviewing and editing our current goat page, and then began researching additional information. You can see some of this behind-the-scenes work here.

Continued with Behind-the-Scenes Narrative and Food Rollout Plan – Click for Food Page

HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

One Community is building the foundations for how humanity creates a sustainable world 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 helping develop no-waste living 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 6th week as part of the marketing team. This week he created a pre-marketing analysis of past efforts and researched keywords for several of our top-level branding pages including Highest Good, Fulfilled Living, Community, and Highest Good Society. You can see some of this work here.

Continued Researching Keywords for the Marketing Team – Click to Visit the Helping Page

In addition to this, the Highest Good Network software team consisting of Shubhra Mittal (Software Delivery Manager), Aishwarya Singh (Computer Science Engineer), Farhan Zaki (Software Engineer), Jordan Miller (Web Developer), and Tyler Calvert (Full-stack Software Engineer) continued developing the software. This week the team:

• Completed all the UI test cases for login page using Selenium.
• Integrated test cases with Sauce Labs.
• Configured nightly jobs on CircleCi to run automated tests
• Got the new header to display a profile picture and added the current user name on a toggle button
• Started creating the Timelog page in React
• Worked on getting data from the API on the timelog page
• Rebuilt the header for the timelog page using Reactstrap

You can see some of this work here:

Continued Developing the Highest Good Network Software – 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

It’s time for conscious global community creation. We can create a sustainable planet through conscious and conscientious communities working together. One Community is designing a prototype community to demonstrate what is possible while open source sharing everything needed for replication. Our open source sustainability plans include 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 November 11, 2018 edition (#294) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments:

Conscious Global Community Creation
One Community Progress Update #294

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

CONSCIOUS GLOBAL COMMUNITY CREATION INTRO: @0:34

HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING: @7:36

• Continued design updates to the open source Murphy bed furniture assembly instructions (see below)
• Hemanth Kotaru completed his 25th week helping with the structural engineering research and calculations for the Earthbag Village (see below)
• Anvita Kumari Pandey resumed her work on the Earthbag Village Materials and Costs (see below)
• Guy Grossfeld rejoined the team and started helping with render corrections and PhotoShop additions for the Earthbag Village (see below)
• Shadi Kennedy completed his 29th week leading the development of the Murphy bed instructions (see below)
• Dean Scholz continued development of the Earthbag Village section views and 6-dome layouts (see below)

DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER: @9:30

HIGHEST GOOD FOOD: @10:51

• Continued writing the behind-the-scenes narrative and detailed food rollout plan for the various stages of development (see below)

HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION: @11:28

• 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.

HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY: @12:33

• Emilio Nájera continued with his 5th week helping the marketing team (see below)
• Highest Good Network software team consisting of Shubhra Mittal and Aishwarya Singh continued developing the software (see below)

CONSCIOUS GLOBAL COMMUNITY CREATION SUMMARY: @13:53

• • • 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 supporting conscious global community creation 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 design updates to the open source Murphy bed furniture assembly instructions. The focus this week was designing the mounting brackets for the gas spring and setting the dimensions for the placement of these brackets. You can see some of this work-in-progress here.

Continued Design Updates to the Open Source Murphy Bed Furniture Assembly Instructions – Click to Visit

Hemanth Kotaru (Structural Engineer) completed his 25th week helping with the structural engineering research and calculations for the Earthbag Village (Pod 1). This week’s focus was completing the first two test models for forces acting on the nails that will be used between the different bag courses.

Continued Helping with Structural Engineering Research and Calculations for the Earthbag Village – Click to Visit

Anvita Kumari Pandey (Civil Engineer) also completed her 23rd week volunteering. Resuming her work on the Earthbag Village Materials and Costs, this week she started working on the 3-dome cluster cost analysis and helped make updates to the Earthbag Village Master Sheet and autoCAD files. You can see some of this work here.

Began Working on the Earthbag Village 3-Dome Cluster Cost Analysis – Click for Page

Guy Grossfeld (Graphic Designer) also rejoined the team and started helping with render corrections and PhotoShop additions for the Earthbag Village (Pod 1). This week Guy completed his part helping with the three renders shown here. 

Began Helping With Render Corrections and Photoshop Additions for Earthbag Village – Click for Page

Shadi Kennedy (Artist and Graphic Designer) also completed his 29th week leading the development of the Murphy bed instructions. This week he created a detailed list of the wall section parts and scouted potential build issues throughout the existing materials list and assembly instructions. You can see some of this work here.

Continued Development of Murphy Bed Furniture Assembly Instructions – Click for Furniture Page

Dean Scholz (Architectural Designer) also continued working on the Earthbag Village (Pod 1). Here is weekly update #137 from Dean, his focus this week was continued development of the section views and 6-dome layouts. You can see some of this work here.

Continued Work on Earthbag Village Layout for Section Views and 6-dome Layouts – Click for Page

DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

One Community is supporting conscious global community creation 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 continued working on the Sketchup Duplicable City Center updates for the Living Dome. We reshaped the first floor windows, made openings in the dome wall for the windows, and updated the window box. You can see some of this work here.

Continued Updating the Duplicable City Center Living Dome – Click for Page

The core team also continued developing the Duplicable City Center Sprinkler and Emergency Systems Design page. This week we finished the Conditions section content and graphics. Some of which you can see here.

Continued Developing Duplicable City Center Sprinkler and Emergency Systems Design Page – Click to Visit

And the core team started developing the Duplicable City Center Materials and Costs. This week we created the initial formatting, wrote the What and Why sections, and added the overview cost analysis graphic. You can see some of this work here.

Started Developing the Duplicable City Center Materials and Costs – Click for Page

Dipti Dhondarkar (Electrical Engineer) also continued developing the lighting specifics for the City Center. This is Dipti’s 103rd week volunteering on this task and the focus this week was creating new AutoCAD graphics for each type of light fixture, a legend explaining them all, and adding a missing zone to the master file. You can see examples of all of this here.

Continued Developing the Lighting Specifics for the City Center – Click for Page

HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

One Community is supporting conscious global community creation 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 writing the behind-the-scenes narrative and detailed food rollout plan for the various stages of development. This week we completed (for now) working on rabbits. We also revisited researching commercial chicken coops and created a list of chicken nesting box and deep litter/bedding features.

Continued with Behind-the-Scenes Narrative and Food Rollout Plan – Click for Rabbits Page

HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

One Community is building the foundations for how humanity creates a sustainable world 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 supporting conscious global community creation 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 5th week helping the marketing team. This week he researched keywords for “Surveyor,” our top-level One Community brand pages, and refined and added additional words to the previously researched areas of: Structural Engineer, Civil Engineering, Plumbing, Food Specialist and Electrical Engineer, Product Designer, Attorney, Graphic Designer, and Project Manager. 

Continued Researching Keywords for the Marketing Team – Click to Visit the Helping Page

In addition to this, the core team working with the Highest Good Network software team consisting of Shubhra Mittal (Software Delivery Manager) and Aishwarya Singh (Computer Science Engineer) continued developing the software. This week we added 4 new members to the design team, completed Ember UI and HGN REST code for handling delete, inactivate and archive user functionalities, created unit test cases for the LoginPage, and implemented Navigation Bar routing to timelog, dashboard, and reports in React. You can see some of this work here.

Continued Developing the Highest Good Network Software – 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

One Community is forwarding global sustainability and healing through open source and free-shared tools, tutorials, and resources covering all aspects of sustainability. We will use them to build One Community as the first of a global cooperative of self-replicating teacher/demonstration hubs working together and open sourcing everything we do for The Highest Good of all people and life on our 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 November 4, 2018 edition (#293) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments:

Global Sustainability and Healing
One Community Progress Update #293

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

GLOBAL SUSTAINABILITY AND HEALING INTRO: @0:34

HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING: @7:40

DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER: @9:31

HIGHEST GOOD FOOD: @11:12

• Continued writing the behind-the-scenes narrative and detailed food rollout plan for the various stages of development (see below)

HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION: @11:52

• 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: @12:57

• Emilio Nájera researched keywords for “Mechanical Engineering,” “Video Designer/Editor/Producer/Videographer,” “Software Developer,” and “General Contractor.” (see below)
• Highest Good Network software team consisting of Shubhra Mittal and Aishwarya Singh continued developing the software (see below)

GLOBAL SUSTAINABILITY AND HEALING SUMMARY: @14:08

• • • 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 sustainability and healing 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 researched, purchased, and downloaded a diversity of new isolated-people images to add to the new Earthbag Village (Pod 1) renders we’ve created.

Purchased New Isolated-People Images to add to New Earthbag Village Renders We’ve Created – Click for Page

The core team also continued updating the Vermiculture Bathrooms page by creating and adding 29 new engineering images to the page. You can see some of these additions here.

Continued Updating the Vermiculture Bathrooms Page – Click to Visit

And the core team continued design updates to the open source Murphy bed furniture assembly instructions. The focus this week was rebuilding the Murphy bed in SketchUp using the newest assembly instructions. In doing so we identified the swivel and gas pistons placement locations. You can see some of this work-in-progress here.

Continued Design Updates to the Open Source Murphy Bed Furniture Assembly Instructions – Click to Visit

Dan Alleck (Designer and Illustrator) completed his 28th week helping with render additions. This week he created this second-generation Earthbag Village (Pod 1) render by adding people, plants, and other details.

Created Second-Generation Earthbag Village Render by Adding People, Plants, etc. – Click to Visit

Shadi Kennedy (Artist and Graphic Designer) also completed his 28th week leading the development of the Murphy bed instructions. This week he selected more render perspectives, integrated the new bolt graphics where appropriate, added a callout section for the hinge on 6.6.12, updated the swivel measurements, and reassigned pieces to have consecutive values and consistent prefixes, relabeled all the pieces throughout, and redid the mini parts lists on all the pages.

Continued Development of Murphy Bed Furniture Assembly Instructions – Click for Furniture Page

Dean Scholz (Architectural Designer) also continued working on the Earthbag Village (Pod 1). Here is weekly update #136 from Dean, his focus this week was continued development of the section views for the final ADA designs. You can see some of this work here.

Continued Work on Earthbag Village Layout for ADA Structures – Click for Page

DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

One Community is facilitating global sustainability and healing 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 continued working on the Sketchup Duplicable City Center updates for the Living Dome. We finished all the windows on the second floor and began working with the first floor windows. You can see some of this work here.

Continued Updating the Duplicable City Center Living Dome – Click for Page

The core team also started developing the Duplicable City Center Sprinkler and Emergency Systems Design page. This week we finished the Table of Contents, References, What section, Details intro, and Classifications section and graphics. Some of which you can see here.

Started Developing Duplicable City Center Sprinkler and Emergency Systems Design Page – Click to Visit

Dipti Dhondarkar (Electrical Engineer) also continued developing the lighting specifics for the City Center. This is Dipti’s 102nd week volunteering on this task and the focus this week was creating DiaLUX exports of all the lighting layouts and creating a new zonal floor plan cleaned of all the textures so we can start moving the lights over to the Master File. You can see some of this work here.

Continued Developing the Lighting Specifics for the City Center – Click for Page

Aparna Tandon (Architect) also continued with her 4th week helping with the design and evaluation details for applying the WELL Building Standards™ to the Duplicable City Center. This week she researched the Materials and Resources category of LEED Version 4, summarized the guidelines for meeting the prerequisites, and explored how they will overlap with the WELL air feature, enhanced materials safety, toxic materials reduction, and mind feature regarding materials transparency. You can see some of this work here.

Continued with Design and Evaluation Details for Applying the Well Building Standards™ to Duplicable City Center – Click for Page

HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

One Community is facilitating global sustainability and healing 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 writing the behind-the-scenes narrative and detailed food rollout plan for the various stages of development. This week we wrapped up the research of chicken coops and began working on rabbits. We decided on nine rabbits to begin with and started outlining the implementation details. You can see some of this work-in-progress here and from our behind-the-scenes Google Doc.

Continued with Behind-the-Scenes Narrative and Food Rollout Plan – Click for Rabbits Page

HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

One Community is building the foundations for how humanity creates a sustainable world 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 facilitating global sustainability and healing 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 4th week helping the marketing team. This week he researched keywords for “Mechanical Engineering,” “Video Designer/Editor/Producer/Videographer,” “Software Developer,” and “General Contractor.”

Continued Researching Keywords for the Marketing Team – Click to Visit Helping Page

In addition to this, the core team working with the Highest Good Network software team consisting of Shubhra Mittal (Software Delivery Manager) and Aishwarya Singh (Computer Science Engineer) continued developing the software. This week we moved all our sensitive information to a new location so we could open source our development so far, added those open source details to the website, implemented logging and monitoring for the HGN middle tier in production and development, and started working on developing the new dashboard in React. You can see some of this work here.

Continued Developing the Highest Good Network Software – 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

One Community is developing open source and free-shared plans for a global network of self-replicating solution cooperatives in the form of teacher/demonstration hubs working together to achieve global sustainability. The open source and DIY plans we’re developing cover all aspects of construction, maintenance, and replication with sustainable approaches to 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 October 28, 2018 edition (#292) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments:

Solution Cooperatives
One Community Progress Update #292

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

SOLUTION COOPERATIVES INTRO: @0:34

HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING: @7:35

DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER: @8:39

• Continued working in Sketchup on the Duplicable City Center Dining Dome roof (see below)
• Continued adding the LEED heating and air conditioning details to the City Center HVAC Design page (see below)
• Core team working with Dipti Dhondarkar, continued developing the lighting specifics for the City Center (see below)
• Aparna Tandon continued with her 3rd week helping with the design and evaluation details for applying the WELL Building Standards™ to the Duplicable City Center (see below)
• Dehua Feng completed his 25th week working on the fire suppression and safety systems designs for the Duplicable City Center Sprinkler and Emergency Systems open source hub (see below)

HIGHEST GOOD FOOD: @10:47

• Did a final review of the Apiary hive setup parts and equipment and added both to the website (see below)
• Continued writing the behind-the-scenes narrative and detailed food rollout plan for the various stages of development (see below)

HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION: @11:31

• 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: @12:36

• Finished updating the final 7 of our help wanted pages for volunteers (see below)
• Jin Hua continued collaboration on our new online marketing strategy and our related grant by creating two more keyword tutorial videos (see below)
• Emilio Nájera researched keywords for “Industrial Designer,” “Graphic/Web Designer,” and “Project Manager.” (see below)
• Highest Good Network software team consisting of Sowmya Manohar and Shubhra Mittal continued developing the software (see below)

SOLUTION COOPERATIVES SUMMARY: @14:02

• • • 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 developing  solution cooperatives 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 worked on the One Community Home Shares page to improve its readability. We did this using Yoast and you can see the improvements and some of the process here. This page is now 100% complete.

Worked on the Home Shares Page Using Yoast to Improve Its Readability – Click to Visit

Shadi Kennedy (Artist and Graphic Designer) also completed his 27th week leading the development of the Murphy bed instructions. This week he finished adding in the rest of the table and bench details, added bolts and nuts for attaching the swivel, and more parts details.

Continued Development of Murphy Bed Furniture Assembly Instructions – Click for Furniture Page

Mike Kowalski (Game Developer) also finished his 22nd week helping update our renders that are too big for anything but a gaming computer. This week Mike did final touchups and rendered these four renders showing the complete Earthbag Village (Pod 1).

Worked on Final Touchups and Rendered Four Renders Showing the Complete Earthbag Village – Click for Page

Dean Scholz (Architectural Designer) also continued working on the Earthbag Village (Pod 1). Here is weekly update #135 from Dean, his focus this week was creating several more versions of our ADA compliant bathroom and kitchen layout and starting the section views. The final design we decided on is the largest one in the top right corner here.

Continued Work on Earthbag Village Layout for ADA Bathroom and Kitchen Structures – Click for Page

DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

One Community is developing solution cooperatives 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 continued working in Sketchup on the Duplicable City Center Dining Dome roof. We added triangle labels and measured all triangles sides, and determined the angles between the triangle and horizon for each row. We also worked on the structure for the Social Dome, and started working on the windows for the Living Dome. You can see some of this work here.

Continued Updating the Duplicable City Center Dining Dome Roof – Click for Page

The core team also continued adding the LEED heating and air conditioning details to the City Center HVAC Design page. This week we finished the second half of the “LEED HVAC-related Indoor Environmental Quality Credits Explained” section. You can see some of this work here and this brings the addition of these details to 100% complete.

Continued Adding Leed Heating and Air Conditioning Details to City Center HVAC Design Page – Click to Visit

And the core team working with Dipti Dhondarkar (Electrical Engineer) also continued developing the lighting specifics for the City Center. This is Dipti’s 101st week volunteering on this task and the focus this week was finishing the remaining 50% of the Social Dome lighting tests using different colored lights so we could create and add to the website the graphic shown here. This completes these tests for the entire structure.

Continued Developing the Lighting Specifics for the City Center – Click for Page

Aparna Tandon (Architect) also continued with her 3rd week helping with the design and evaluation details for applying the WELL Building Standards™ to the Duplicable City Center. This week she researched and identified the LEED features that contribute in achieving the WELL standards and identified the features applicable to Duplicable City Center. You can see some of this work here.

Continued with Design and Evaluation Details for Applying the WELL Building Standards™ to Duplicable City Center – Click for Page

Dehua Feng (Civil Engineer) also completed his 25th week working on the fire suppression and safety systems designs for the Duplicable City Center Sprinkler and Emergency Systems open source hub. This week he finished all the spreadsheet calculation updates for Zones C and D, created the parts list for the complete system, and resized the reservoir. You can see some of this work here.

Continued Work on Fire Suppression and Safety Systems Design for the City Center – Click for Page

HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

One Community is developing solution cooperatives 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 did a final review of the Apiary hive setup parts and equipment and added both to the website.

Did Final Review of Apiary Hive Setup Parts and Equipment and Added Both to Site – Click for Page

The core team also continued writing the behind-the-scenes narrative and detailed food rollout plan for the various stages of development. This week we continued the research of chicken coops and viewed step-by-step instruction videos for building hoop pens, simple, portable houses for small poultry flocks. You can see some of this work here.

Continued Research of Chicken Coops and Viewed Step-by-step Instruction Videos – Click for Page

HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

One Community is building the foundations for how humanity creates a sustainable world 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 developing solution cooperatives 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 finished updating the final 7 of our help wanted pages for volunteers. You can see some of this work here.

Finished Updating Final 7 of Our Help Wanted Pages for Volunteers – Click for Helping Page

Jin Hua (Marketing Specialist and Web and Graphic Designer) also continued collaboration on our new online marketing strategy and our related grant by creating two more keyword tutorial videos. You can see some screenshots of these here.

Continued Work on Online Marketing Strategy and Our Related Grant – Click for Overview Page

Emilio Nájera (Digital Marketer) also continued with his 3rd week helping the marketing team. This week’s Emilio researched keywords for “Industrial Designer,” “Graphic/Web Designer,” and “Project Manager.”

Researched Keywords for “Industrial Designer,” “Graphic/Web Designer,” and “Project Manager.” – Click for Helping Page

And the Highest Good Network software team consisting of Sowmya Manohar (Software Engineer, Web Developer & Net Application Developer), and Shubhra Mittal (Software Delivery Manager) continued developing the software. This week they completed adding the time-archive functionality, the delete time entries functionality, set up a parallel development environment, fixed a bug that made a user unable to update their email address, fixed an issue with names not appearing correctly in emails for blue badges, and an issue of auto-assignment of blue squares not triggering as per the schedule. You can see some of this work here.

Continued Developing the Highest Good Network Software – 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

One Community is creating open source and free-shared plans for a global network of eco-communities for world change. These DIY-replicable plans cover sustainable approaches to food, energy, housing, education, for-profit and non-profit economic design, social architecture, fulfilled living, global stewardship practices, and more. We call this living and creating for The Highest Good of All.

• Here’s our project overview
• Here’s our world-change methodology
  
• Here’s how this becomes self-replicating
• Here’s how we are open source and free-sharing all the do-it-yourself designs

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 October 21, 2018 edition (#291) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments:

Eco-Communities for World Change
One Community Progress Update #291

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

ECO-COMMUNITIES FOR WORLD CHANGE INTRO: @0:34

ECO-COMMUNITIES FOR WORLD CHANGE – HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING: @8:07

ECO-COMMUNITIES FOR WORLD CHANGE – DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER: @9:18

• Continued working in Sketchup on the Duplicable City Center Dining Dome roof (see below)
• Core team working with Dipti Dhondarkar continued developing the lighting specifics for the City Center (see below)
• Aparna Tandon continued with her 2nd week helping with the design and evaluation details for applying the WELL Building Standards™ to the Duplicable City Center (see below)
• Dehua Feng completed his 25th week working on the fire suppression and safety systems designs for the Duplicable City Center Sprinkler and Emergency Systems open source hub (see below)

ECO-COMMUNITIES FOR WORLD CHANGE – HIGHEST GOOD FOOD: @10:57

• Continued writing the behind-the-scenes narrative and detailed food rollout plan for the various stages of development (see below)

ECO-COMMUNITIES FOR WORLD CHANGE – HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION: @11:32

• 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.

ECO-COMMUNITIES FOR WORLD CHANGE – HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY: @12:37

• Started updating all our help wanted pages for volunteers (see below)
• Core team working with Jin Hua continued collaboration on our new online marketing strategy and our related grant (see below)
• Emilio Nájera focused on keyword research for Food Specialists, Electrical Engineers/Electrician Volunteers, Legal/Lawyers/Attorney Volunteers, and Industrial Designer Volunteers (see below)
• This week, the Highest Good Network software team consisting of Sowmya Manohar and Shubhra Mittal continued developing the software (see below)

ECO-COMMUNITIES FOR WORLD CHANGE SUMMARY: @14:17

• • • 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

ECO-COMMUNITIES FOR WORLD CHANGE – HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

One Community is helping create eco-communities for world change 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 developing the online details for the new One Community Home Shares page that shares our structure for individualized and expanded designs of the standard homes in the Earthbag Village (Pod 1) and beyond. This week we finished the page by adding the rollout details, Summary, and FAQ sections. You can see some of this work here.

Continued Developing the Online Details for the New Home Shares Page – Click to Visit

Hemanth Kotaru (Structural Engineer) completed his 24th week helping with the structural engineering research and calculations for the Earthbag Village (Pod 1). This week’s focus was 2nd-generation nail calculations and creating this initial open source nail evaluation tool, all with the aim of creating eco-communities for world change.

Created 2nd-generation Nail Calculations & Initial Open Source Nail Evaluation Tool – Click to Visit Earthbag Village

Shadi Kennedy (Artist and Graphic Designer) also completed his 26th week leading the development of the Murphy bed instructions. This week he added in the main swivel connector and further developed all the bed box attachment details. You can see some of this work-in-progress here.

Continued Development of Murphy Bed Furniture Assembly Instructions – Click for Furniture Page

Dean Scholz (Architectural Designer) also continued working on the Earthbag Village (Pod 1). Here is weekly update #134 from Dean, his focus this week was creating version 2 of our ADA compliant bathroom and kitchen layout, brainstorming version 3, and more updates to the integration of the latest regular bathroom and kitchen layout into the 3-dome cluster, all of which you can see here.

Continued Work on New Earthbag Village Layout for the Bathroom and Kitchen Structures – Click for Page

ECO-COMMUNITIES FOR WORLD CHANGE – DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

One Community is helping create eco-communities for world change 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 continued working in Sketchup on the Duplicable City Center Dining Dome roof. After determining further changes needed to be made to be sure the shell lines up correctly with the floor levels, we rebuilt the dome shell using each row level and side size and then updated the door and window openings, as shown here.

Continued Updating the Duplicable City Center Dining Dome Roof – Click for Page

And the core team working with Dipti Dhondarkar (Electrical Engineer) also continued developing the lighting specifics for the City Center. This is Dipti’s 100th week volunteering on this task and the focus this week was test rendering the Social Dome with different colored lights and organizing and providing all the final DiaLUX testing files.

Continued Developing the Lighting Specifics for the City Center – Click for Page

Aparna Tandon (Architect) also continued with her 2nd week helping with the design and evaluation details for applying the WELL Building Standards™ to the Duplicable City Center. This week’s focus was researching our best approach for integration and then creating a WELL spreadsheet and checklist that includes LEED standards, with a goal  of developing eco-communities for world change. You can see some of this work here.

Continued with Design and Evaluation Details for Applying the Well Building Standards™ to Duplicable City Center – Click for Page

Dehua Feng (Civil Engineer) also completed his 25th week working on the fire suppression and safety systems designs for the Duplicable City Center Sprinkler and Emergency Systems open source hub. This week he finished all the spreadsheet calculation updates for Zones C and D, created the parts list for the complete system, and resized the reservoir. You can see some of this work here.

Continued Work on Fire Suppression and Safety Systems Design for the City Center – Click for Page

ECO-COMMUNITIES FOR WORLD CHANGE – HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

One Community is helping create eco-communities for world change 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 writing the behind-the-scenes narrative and detailed food rollout plan for the various stages of development. This week we created details for the chicken coop on our Food Rollout Google doc, and researched and viewed coop construction videos. You can see some of this work here.

Continued Writing the Behind-the-Scenes Narrative and Detailed Food Rollout Plan – Click for Page

ECO-COMMUNITIES FOR WORLD CHANGE – HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

One Community is building the foundations for how humanity creates a sustainable world 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

ECO-COMMUNITIES FOR WORLD CHANGE – HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS

One Community is helping create eco-communities for world change 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 started updating all our help wanted pages for volunteers. We created 4 new pages and updated half of the existing pages.

Started Updating All Our Help Wanted Pages for Volunteers – Click for Page

This week the core team working with Jin Hua (Web and Graphic Designer) continued collaboration on our new online marketing strategy and our related grant. This week’s focus was analyzing results and exploring ways to improve our conversion strategy, aimed at establishing eco-communities for world change.

Continued Work on Online Marketing Strategy and Our Related Grant – Click for Overview Page

Emilio Nájera (Digital Marketer) also continued with his 2nd week helping the marketing team. This week’s focus for Emilio was keyword research for Food Specialists, Electrical Engineers/Electrician Volunteers, Legal/Lawyers/Attorney Volunteers, and Industrial Designer Volunteers, some of which you can see here.

Worked on Keyword Research for Food Specialists, Electrical Engineers, Legal Volunteers, and Industrial Designer Volunteers – Click for Helping Page

This week, the Highest Good Network software team consisting of Sowmya Manohar (Software Engineer, Web Developer & Net Application Developer), and Shubhra Mittal (Software Delivery Manager) continued developing the software. This week they worked on fixing bugs for the user interface for deleting users, fixed a bug that made a user unable to update their email address, fixed an issue of names not appearing correctly in emails for blue squares, fixed issues with auto assignment of blue squares, and added more text to all popup windows clarifying how to save new data, with our goal of creating eco-communities for world change in mind.

Continued Developing the Highest Good Network Software – 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

Open source global green living models have never been more needed. One Community is creating them and including open source and free-shared sustainability components for food, energy, housing, education, for-profit and non-profit economic design, social architecture, fulfilled living, and global stewardship practices. We call this living and collaboration for The Highest Good and our goal is to make these systems become self-replicating as a path to global sustainability 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 October 14, 2018 edition (#290) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments:

Global Green Living
One Community Progress Update #290

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

GLOBAL GREEN LIVING INTRO: @0:34

GLOBAL GREEN LIVING – HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING: @6:34

• Continued the webpage setup and formatting for the new One Community Home Shares page that shares our structure for individualized and expanded designs of the standard homes in the Earthbag Village and beyond (see below)
• Hemanth Kotaru completed his 23rd week helping with the structural engineering research and calculations for the Earthbag Village (see below)
• Shadi Kennedy completed his 25th week leading the development of the Murphy bed instructions (see below)
• Dean Scholz continued working on the Earthbag Village (see below)
• Dan Alleck created first-generation Earthbag Village render by adding people, plants, and other details (see below)

GLOBAL GREEN LIVING – DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER: @8:24

• Started updating the 3D Sketchup file to include the new Duplicable City Center Dining Dome roof (see below)
• Core team working with Dipti Dhondarkar continued developing the lighting specifics for the City Center (see below)
• Finished updating the Pallet Furniture open source hub by adding new 3D Closet/Wardrobe graphics, adding all the latest assembly instructions, and finalizing the Summary and FAQ sections (see below)
• Continued adding the LEED heating and air conditioning details to the City Center HVAC Design page (see below)
• Dehua Feng completed his 24th week working on the fire suppression and safety systems designs for the Duplicable City Center Sprinkler and Emergency Systems open source hub (see below)

GLOBAL GREEN LIVING – HIGHEST GOOD FOOD: @10:21

• Continued writing the behind-the-scenes narrative and detailed food rollout plan for the various stages of development (see below)
• Continued working on the Apiary hive setup instructions (see below)

GLOBAL GREEN LIVING – HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION: @11:29

• 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.

GLOBAL GREEN LIVING – HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY: @12:15

• Jin Hua continued collaboration on our evolving online marketing strategy and our related grant (see below)
• Emilio Nájera joined the marking team and began helping with the keyword research for the landing pages related to Structural Engineering Volunteers, Civil Engineers and Volunteer Plumbers (see below)
• Highest Good Network software team consisting of Sowmya Manohar, Shubhra Mittal, and Aishwarya Singh continued developing the software (see below)

GLOBAL GREEN LIVING SUMMARY: @13:29

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GLOBAL GREEN LIVING – HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

One Community is forwarding global green living 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 the webpage setup and formatting for the new One Community Home Shares page that shares our structure for individualized and expanded designs of the standard homes in the Earthbag Village (Pod 1) and beyond. This week we added more formatting and wrote and added the “Home Shares in Layman’s Terms” and “Home Shares and Housing Upgrades” sections, which you can see here. We’d say we’re now 90% complete with the creation of this page.

Continued the Webpage Setup and Formatting for the new One Community Home Shares Page – Click for Page

Hemanth Kotaru (Structural Engineer) completed his 23rd week helping with the structural engineering research and calculations for the Earthbag Village (Pod 1). This week’s focus was creating this open source soil identification and classification tool.

Created Open Source Soil Identification and Classification Tool – Click to Visit Earthbag Village

Shadi Kennedy (Artist and Graphic Designer) also completed his 25th week leading the development of the Murphy bed instructions. This week he further developed the 6.4 to 6.8 diagrams, tried different hinge strategies to attach the table and chairs, and added the leveling graphics and details throughout, aimed at global green living. You can see some of this work-in-progress here.

Continued Development of Murphy Bed Furniture Assembly Instructions – Click for Furniture Page

Dean Scholz (Architectural Designer) also continued working on the Earthbag Village (Pod 1). Here is weekly update #133 from Dean, his focus this week was creating version 1 of our ADA compliant bathroom and kitchen layout, integrating the latest regular bathroom and kitchen layout into the 3-dome cluster, and planned the next round of revisions, all of which you can see here.

Continued Work on New Earthbag Village Layout for the Bathroom and Kitchen Structures – Click for Page

Dan Alleck (Designer and Illustrator) additionally completed his 27th week helping with render additions. This week he created this first-generation Earthbag Village (Pod 1) render by adding people, plants, and other details, embodying the concept of global green living.

Created First-Generation Earthbag Village Render by Adding People, Plants, etc. – Click for Page

GLOBAL GREEN LIVING – DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

One Community is forwarding global green living 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 started updating the 3D Sketchup file to include the new dome designs. What you see here are this week’s structural updates to the Duplicable City Center Dining Dome roof.

Started Updating the Duplicable City Center Dining Dome Roof – Click for Page

And the core team working with Dipti Dhondarkar (Electrical Engineer) also continued developing the lighting specifics for the City Center. This is Dipti’s 98th week volunteering on this task and the focus this week was more additions and updates to the calculations spreadsheet, organizing all the DaiLUX files for sharing now that we’re done with them, and adding in the missing Sunrise Patio in AutoCAD, all of which you can see here.

Continued Developing the Lighting Specifics for the City Center – Click for Page

The core team also finished updating the Pallet Furniture open source hub by adding new 3D Closet/Wardrobe graphics and finalizing the Summary and FAQ sections. You can see some of this work here.

Finished Updating the Pallet Furniture Open Source Hub – Click for Page

And the core team continued adding the LEED heating and air conditioning details to the City Center HVAC Design page, focusing on global green living. This week we added more content to the “LEED HVAC-Related Energy & Atmosphere Credits Explained” section and developed the first half of the “LEED HVAC-related Indoor Environmental Quality Credits Explained” section. You can see some of this work here and we’d say this brings the addition of these details to 70% complete.

Continued Adding LEED Heating and Air Conditioning Details to the City Center HVAC Design Page – Click to Visit

Dehua Feng (Civil Engineer) also completed his 24th week working on the fire suppression and safety systems designs for the Duplicable City Center Sprinkler and Emergency Systems open source hub. This week he changed the stem pipe location in the Living Dome, extended the fire hydrant piping to supply a fire hydrant South of the Social Dome too, and updated all the spreadsheet calculations for Zones H, G, L, and I. You can see some of this work here.

Continued Work on Fire Suppression and Safety Systems Design for the City Center – Click for Page

GLOBAL GREEN LIVING – HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

One Community is forwarding global green living 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 writing the behind-the-scenes narrative and detailed food rollout plan for the various stages of development. This week we completed edits to the Food Forest page and the aquaculture section of the Food Rollout Google doc. You can see some of this work here.

Continued Writing the Behind-the-Scenes Narrative and Detailed Food Rollout Plan – Click for Page

In addition, the core team continued working on the Apiary hive setup instructions. This week we finalized the setup details for a 6-hive initial launch, all aimed at global green living. You can see some of this work shown here on our behind-the-scenes Google development doc.

Continued Working on the Apiary Hive Setup Instructions – Click for Page

GLOBAL GREEN LIVING – HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

One Community is building the foundations for how humanity creates a sustainable world 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

GLOBAL GREEN LIVING – HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS

One Community is forwarding global green living 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 Jin Hua (Web and Graphic Designer) continued collaboration on our evolving online marketing strategy and our related grant. This week’s focus was researching new ad formats, which you can see here.

Continued Work on Online Marketing Strategy and Our Related Grant by Researching New Ad Formats – Click for Overview Page

Emilio Nájera (Digital Marketer) also joined the marking team and began helping with the keyword research for the landing pages related to Structural Engineering Volunteers, Civil Engineers and Volunteer Plumbers, some of which you can see here.

Joined Marking Team and Began Helping With the Keyword Research for the Landing Pages – Click for Helping Page

This week, the Highest Good Network software team consisting of Sowmya Manohar (Software Engineer, Web Developer & Net Application Developer), Shubhra Mittal (Software Delivery Manager), and Aishwarya Singh (Computer Science Engineer) continued developing the software, all towards reaching global green living. This week they finished the setup documentation, connected the React App to projects, restructured the app to have the services layers separately, tried implementing the user deletion option, and started researching resources to support our transition of this software from Ember to React. You can see some of this work here.

Continued Developing the Highest Good Network Software – 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

WHAT ONE COMMUNITY IS CREATING

One Community is creating a place to grow together and change the world together. We are creating a space that helps each other live in integrity with each other and the planet as we strive to be the greatest versions of ourselves. We do this by harmoniously respecting each other, nature, and the rest of our one shared planet. Global green living is at the heart of our mission.

Our goal is to demonstrate what we feel is the most sustainable, healthy, and fun environment we can create. A place based on compassion, kindness, and collaboration. This replicable community will serve as an example for what is possible, promoting global green living at every step.

Throughout our design process we are open sourcing and free-sharing everything needed for construction and replication. This includes what we call “Highest Good” approaches to food, energy, housing, education, for-profit and non-profit economics design, social architecture, fulfilled living, stewardship practices and more. Global green living affects each of these facets. We are creating these resources for implementation as individual components or complete developments called teacher/demonstration hubs. Global green living guides the creation of these hubs will help launch additional hubs as awareness and knowledge grow.

Through open source sustainable world building tools, tutorials, resources, and living examples, we can create a sustainable world that will benefit us all. If we do this, we can make sustainability easy enough, affordable enough, and demonstrate it as attractive enough for it to spread on its own. One Community is open sourcing and free-sharing everything necessary to make this possible.

• 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 October 7, 2018 edition (#289) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments:

Open Source Sustainable World Building
One Community Progress Update #289

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

OPEN SOURCE SUSTAINABLE WORLD BUILDING: INTRO: @0:34

OPEN SOURCE SUSTAINABLE WORLD BUILDING: HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING: @7:48

OPEN SOURCE SUSTAINABLE WORLD BUILDING: DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER: @9:20

• Core team working with Dipti Dhondarkar continued developing the lighting specifics for the City Center (see below)
• Continued updating the Pallet Furniture open source hub by creating and adding new 3D Bed, Chair, and Table graphics as well as new AutoCAD graphics for the Table and Chairs (see below)
• Aparna Tandon rejoined the team and created an initial outline for applying the WELL Building Standard™ (WELL) to the Duplicable City Center (see below)
• Dehua Feng completed his 23rd week working on the fire suppression and safety systems designs for the Duplicable City Center Sprinkler and Emergency Systems open source hub (see below)

OPEN SOURCE SUSTAINABLE WORLD BUILDING: HIGHEST GOOD FOOD: @10:58

• Continued writing the behind-the-scenes narrative and detailed food rollout plan for the various stages of development (see below)

OPEN SOURCE SUSTAINABLE WORLD BUILDING: HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION: @11:51

• 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.

OPEN SOURCE SUSTAINABLE WORLD BUILDING: HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY: @12:58

• Updated all our welcome pages and on-boarding templates for new volunteers so that they reflect that we’re now testing inputting them so they can use the new time tracking software (see below)
• The core team working with Jin Hua continued collaboration on our new online marketing strategy and our related grant (see below)
• Highest Good Network software team consisting of Sowmya Manohar and Shubhra Mittal created the initial setup for moving our application to React, a more commonly used application (see below)

OPEN SOURCE SUSTAINABLE WORLD BUILDING: SUMMARY: @14:26

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

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OPEN SOURCE SUSTAINABLE WORLD BUILDING: HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

One Community is open source sustainable world building 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 the webpage setup and formatting for the new One Community Home Shares page that shares our structure for individualized and expanded designs of the standard homes in the Earthbag Village (Pod 1) and beyond. This week we wrote and added the “Home Shares and Phase 1 Construction” and “Home Shares Legal Structure” sections and updated all the pages related to this one, some of which you can see here. We’d say we’re now about 70% complete with the creation of this page. 

Continued the Webpage Setup and Formatting for the new One Community Home Shares Page

The core team also started updating the Vermiculture Bathrooms page by creating new table of Contents, What and Why sections, building the initial formatting for the new sections on the page, and updating the introduction to the Details section. This is all so we can then bring on the team to finish these designs. You can see some of this work-in-progress here and we’d say we’re about 30% complete with this round of necessary updates.

Started Updating the Vermiculture Bathrooms Page – Click to Visit

Shadi Kennedy (Artist and Graphic Designer) also completed his 24th week leading the development of the Murphy bed instructions. This week he further updated the assembly diagrams by adding in 2-inch board updates for the benches, redoing the parts page, and comparing measurements on part B8a against smaller pieces. You can see some of this work-in-progress here.

Continued Development of Murphy Bed Furniture Assembly Instructions – Click for Furniture Page

Dean Scholz (Architectural Designer) also continued working on the Earthbag Village (Pod 1). Here is weekly update #132 from Dean, his focus this week was creating the new layout shown here for the bathroom and kitchen structures. This layout separates the shower and bathrooms for easier use by multiple people and adds a urinal to help with saving water.

Continued Work on New Earthbag Village Layout for the Bathroom and Kitchen Structures

OPEN SOURCE SUSTAINABLE WORLD BUILDING: DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

One Community is open source sustainable world building 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

The core team working with Dipti Dhondarkar (Electrical Engineer) also continued developing the lighting specifics for the City Center. This is Dipti’s 97th week volunteering on this task and the focus this week was testing lighting options and finalizing the layouts and selections for the laundry room, which you can see here and now on the website too.

Continued Developing the Lighting Specifics for the City Center – Click for Page

The core team also continued updating the Pallet Furniture open source hub by creating and adding new 3D Bed, Chair, and Table graphics as well as new AutoCAD graphics for the Table and Chairs. You can see these here and we’d say this page update is now 90% complete.

Continued Updating the Pallet Furniture Open Source Hub – Click for Page

Aparna Tandon (Architect) rejoined the team and created this initial outline for applying the WELL Building Standard™ (WELL) to the Duplicable City Center. This standard focuses on features across the seven concepts that comprehensively address not only the design and operations of buildings, but also how they impact and influence human behaviors related to health and well-being.

Initial outline for applying the WELL Building Standard™ (WELL) to the Duplicable City Center

Dehua Feng (Civil Engineer) also completed his 23rd week working on the fire suppression and safety systems designs for the Duplicable City Center Sprinkler and Emergency Systems open source hub. This week he further revised Zone B with a new “L shape” in AutoCAD and put just under 40 hours into updated calculations for Zones F, H, G, K, and N. You can see some of this work here.

Continued Work on Fire Suppression and Safety Systems Design for the City Center – Click for Page

OPEN SOURCE SUSTAINABLE WORLD BUILDING: HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

One Community is open source sustainable world building 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 writing the behind-the-scenes narrative and detailed food rollout plan for the various stages of development. This week we completed the edits to the chicken, goat and rabbit section of the Food Rollout Google doc. We also began edits to the Food Forest page. You can see some of this work here.

Continued Writing the Behind-the-Scenes Narrative and Detailed Food Rollout Plan

In addition, the core team continued working on the Apiary hive setup instructions. This week we researched and added details covering local city codes and where to buy your bees and get your gear. We also started updating the spreadsheet with the Apiary items list. You can see some of this work here on the behind-the-scenes Google development doc.

Continued Working on the Apiary Hive Setup Instructions – Click for Page

OPEN SOURCE SUSTAINABLE WORLD BUILDING: HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

One Community is building the foundations for how humanity creates a sustainable world 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 to Visit

OPEN SOURCE SUSTAINABLE WORLD BUILDING: HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS

One Community is open source sustainable world building 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 all our welcome pages and on-boarding templates for new volunteers so that they reflect that we’re now testing inputting them so they can use the new time tracking software. You can see some of these updates here.

Updated all Our Welcome Pages and On-Boarding Templates for New Volunteers – Click for Page

This week the core team working with Jin Hua (Web and Graphic Designer) continued collaboration on our new online marketing strategy and our related grant. This week’s focus was bringing on a new person to help with keyword research and continued keyword strategy development and fine tuning of our Conscious Music Project promotion, some of which you can see here.

Continued Keyword Strategy Development and Fine Tuning of our Conscious Music Project Promotion

This week, the Highest Good Network software team consisting of Sowmya Manohar (Software Engineer, Web Developer & Net Application Developer) and Shubhra Mittal (Software Delivery Manager) created the initial setup for moving our application to React, a more commonly used application. As part of this, we connected the app to the api, created the Login Page, ForgotPassword, ForcePassword, Update password, and UserManagement setup. We also added auto-deleting of blue squares older than 1 year and weekly scheduled auto-assigning of blue squares if time commitment was not met.

Continued Working on the Highest Good Network Software – Click for Page

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

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INVESTOR PAGES

OVERVIEW       ●       LOCATION       ●       FUNDING

GET INVOLVED

CONSULTANTS     ●     WAYS ANYONE CAN HELP     ●     MEMBERSHIP

CLICK HERE FOR ALL PAST UPDATES

WHAT ONE COMMUNITY IS CREATING

One Community is creating a place to grow together and change the world together through open source sustainable world building. We are creating a space that helps each other live in integrity with each other and the planet as we strive to be the greatest versions of ourselves. We do this by harmoniously respecting each other, nature, and the rest of our one shared planet.

Our goal is to demonstrate what we feel is the most sustainable, healthy, and fun environment we can create through open source sustainable world building. A place based on compassion, kindness, and collaboration. This replicable community will serve as an example of what is possible.

Throughout our design process, we are open sourcing and free-sharing everything needed for construction and replication through open source sustainable world building. This includes what we call “Highest Good” approaches to food, energy, housing, education, for-profit and non-profit economics design, social architecture, fulfilled living, stewardship practices, and more. We are creating these resources for implementation as individual components or complete developments called teacher/demonstration hubs. These hubs will help launch additional hubs as awareness and knowledge grow.

OPEN SOURCE SUSTAINABLE WORLD BUILDING: BUILDING THE FIRST OF MANY

One Community will be the first teacher/demonstration hub, pioneering open source sustainable world building. It will function as an experiential-learning model that facilitates mass participation to address humanity’s most pressing challenges through: A replicable model for expansion, building seven self-sufficient village/city prototypes, becoming the world leader in open-source sustainability solutions, and evolving and expanding ALL aspects of sustainable living.

WHY ONE COMMUNITY IS CREATING THIS

The One Community self-replicating model is capable of creating a sustainable planet within 30 years through open source sustainable world building. We will achieve this by establishing successful teacher/demonstration hubs on every continent. Villages include designs appropriate for each of the five main types of climates. They also include options for even the most challenged economies. These hubs will collaborate with one another, share ideas, and resources, and work together as a network to heal the planet. They will also transform the global lifestyle into a more enjoyable, fulfilling, healthy, and sustainable one.

The specifics of how One Community is accomplishing this can be found on the One Community Solution Model to Create Solution-creating Models Page, open source sustainable world building. Research supporting and showing the benefits of a model like this can be found in our Research and Resources Articles Archive.

Even if we don’t achieve our ultimate goal of global transformation, a self-replicating teacher/demonstration model like this will take a relatively short period of time to positively affect millions while inspiring millions more, open source sustainable world building. For One Community residents (the Pioneer Team), the idea of creating and sharing the social and recreational experience with visitors is also fun, exciting, fulfilling, and an additional reason why we are creating this.

INSPIRING SUSTAINABILITY WITH OPEN SOURCE

One Community’s four-phase strategy for the creation of solution models that create solution creating models uses open source blueprints for duplication that simultaneously address all aspects of the human experience (food, energy, housing, education, social inequality, and injustice, fulfilled living, etc.), open source sustainable world building. We see these areas as interdependent and requiring a comprehensive solution if humanity is to move ecologically, socially, economically, and permanently towards a truly sustainable future for everyone.

Our open source model and blueprints engage and inspire people while simultaneously making sustainable living more affordable and easy to replicate, open source sustainable world building. By free-sharing the step-by-step plans people need for duplication, inviting people to participate, and demonstrating sustainable teacher/demonstration hubs as a more desirable way of living, the model will predictably expand on its own.

It is this approach we see uniting the world and leading to a new Golden Age for humanity through open source sustainable world building. While we understand that not everyone believes this is even possible, we are nonetheless bringing together all those that do see this as possible as the non-profit think tank of forward-thinking individuals willing to design, build, and open source project-launch blueprint and free-share it for The Highest Good of All.

COMPREHENSIVE SOLUTION TO HUMANITY’S NEEDS

One Community is open source sharing an evolution of sustainable living that addresses the complete human experience through open source sustainable world building. We are doing this because we see the solutions for global food, housing, energy, education, social inequality, ethical business practices, earth regenerative practices, and a desire for a more fulfilling living experience as inseparably interconnected. As a comprehensive solution, we are addressing all these areas simultaneously and open source free-sharing everything needed for individual duplication and/or duplication as complete self-replicating teacher/demonstration communities, villages, and cities to be built around the world.

As we address and open source share these areas we will establish a living example of the first teacher/demonstration village purposed to teach others through open source sustainable world building. To maximally facilitate duplication, One Community will provide seven duplicable examples and function indefinitely as a place people can visit and a non-profit and open source think tank continuing to further evolve and share solutions in all of the above areas and more. We will also provide hands-on experience and training. Most importantly, growing upon our sustainable foundation, we will endlessly make this comprehensive solution even more widely known and globally accessible, understandable and diversely duplicable, and inspiring and desirable as a model worth duplicating.

GLOBALLY IMPLEMENTABLE REPLICATION MODEL

The more people that are inspired and desiring for themselves what it is that One Community creates, the more demand there will be for spreading the One Community model, open source sustainable world building. This leads to the directing of financial resources and resourceful people where we believe they are needed most: the establishment of additional sustainable communities around the world. We also feel this duplication will specifically happen quickly internationally due to the affordability of overseas land, less restrictive building environments, and the spirit of adventure in many people who really desire to make a difference for those who need it most.

To meet the increasing demand for sustainability that we are contributing to, we are coordinating with manufacturers, education institutions, individuals, and vendors, open source sustainable world building. This is also part of this model to help the world. Its purpose is to facilitate more engagement in the sustainability industry, produce the absolute best possible consumer value, and the most convenient delivery of goods and methodologies for building sustainable living communities and sustainable living components.

This means we not only provide education and increase needed sustainability resources, but we also address the underlying roadblocks to a sustainable planet by decreasing the cost and simultaneously increasing the demand and generating financial support for global sustainability, philanthropy, and humanitarian movements and organizations, open source sustainable world building.

As demand increases, so too will the ways to participate in open source sustainable world building. Right now people are participating as consultants or partners donating time to our 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization, and others are more involved as Pioneers of the core team that will be moving to the property. We also have options for people to just follow our progress or participate through internet contribution.

Once the supportive physical infrastructure is about 30% developed, One Community will be ready to additionally expand what we offer to include scholarships, free weekend learning groups, core team members choosing to travel abroad to help others get established too, handling the marketing for all similar models operating for The Highest Good of All, and hosting classes and other sponsored events to promote and demonstrate additional methodologies in open source sustainable world building.

We also imagine the high likelihood that our organization will become a foundation that can be trusted as the donation point for distribution of monies to help others to establish this model also.

Helping humanity help itself is One Community’s path to global sustainability. We’re facilitating this by creation open source and DIY sustainability components for food, energy, housing, education, for-profit and non-profit economic design, social architecture, fulfilled living, global stewardship practices, and more. These components are modular for individual implementation or combinable to create any of 7 complete sustainable villages. 

• 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 30, 2018 edition (#288) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments:

Helping Humanity
One Community Progress Update #288

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

HELPING HUMANITY: INTRO: @0:34

HELPING HUMANITY: HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING: @6:57

HELPING HUMANITY: DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER: @8:56

HELPING HUMANITY: HIGHEST GOOD FOOD: @10:29

• Continued writing the behind-the-scenes narrative and detailed food rollout plan for the various stages of development (see below)
• Continued working on the Apiary hive setup instructions (see below)

HELPING HUMANITY: HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION: @11:24

• 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.

HELPING HUMANITY: HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY: @12:28

• Core team working with Jin Hua continued collaboration on our new online marketing strategy and our related grant (see below)
• Highest Good Network software team consisting of Sowmya Manohar and Shubhra Mittal implemented validation for the force password page, greying out of role field for non administrators, MongoDB scheduled job to auto assign blue squares if weekly volunteer-time commitment is not met, and bug fixes for a new application outage issue (see below)

HELPING HUMANITY: SUMMARY: @13:37

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ONE COMMUNITY WEEKLY UPDATE DETAILS

HELPING HUMANITY: HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

One Community is helping humanity 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 design updates to the open source Murphy bed furniture assembly instructions. The focus this week was updating the table and bench structures with better and easier hinge options, eliminating some unnecessary parts, adding additional supports for the primary swivel hinge, and updating the related materials lists. You can see some of this work-in-progress here.

Continued Design Updates to Open Source Murphy Bed Furniture Assembly Instructions

The core team also created the initial webpage setup and formatting for the new One Community Home Shares page that will share our structure for individualized and expanded designs of the standard homes in this village. You can see some of this work-in-progress here.

Created Initial Webpage Setup and formatting for New One Community Home Shares Page

Shadi Kennedy (Artist and Graphic Designer) also completed his 23rd week leading the development of the Murphy bed instructions. This week he went through the latest Sketchup file and checked sizes, made new table and benches parts, added new parts to the parts list, and integrated it all as new assembly steps. You can see some of this work-in-progress here.

Continued Development of Murphy Bed Furniture Assembly Instructions – Click for Furniture Page

Mike Kowalski (Game Developer) finished his 21st week helping update our renders that are too big for anything but a gaming computer. This week Mike redid this Earthbag Village (Pod 1) render so it has all closed doors.

Redid Earthbag Village Render so it has All Closed Doors – Click for Page

Hemanth Kotaru (Structural Engineer) completed his 22nd week helping with the structural engineering research and calculations for the Earthbag Village (Pod 1). This week’s focus was writing the tutorial details for how to evaluate different soils for this type of construction. You can see some of this work here.

Continued Helping with Structural Engineering Research and Calculations for Earthbag Village

Dean Scholz (Architectural Designer) also continued working on the Earthbag Village (Pod 1). Here is weekly update #131 from Dean, his focus this week was exploring new layouts for the bathroom and kitchen structure. You can see some of this work here.

Continued Working on the Earthbag Village – Click for Page

HELPING HUMANITY: DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

One Community is helping humanity 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

The core team working with Dipti Dhondarkar (Electrical Engineer) also continued developing the lighting specifics for the City Center. This is Dipti’s 96th week volunteering on this task and the focus this week was testing lighting options and finalizing the layouts and selections for the basement entry, which you can see here and now on the website too.

Continued Developing the Lighting Specifics for the City Center – Click for Page

The core team also continued updating the Pallet Furniture open source hub by adding more cost analysis details and creating and adding the assembly graphics you can see here. We’d say this page update is now 75% complete.

Continued Updating the Pallet Furniture Open Source Hub – Click for Page

And the core team started adding the LEED heating and air conditioning details to the City Center HVAC Design page. This week we researched and finished the LEED credits overview and “LEED HVAC-Related Energy & Atmosphere Credits Explained” sections. You can see some of this work here and we’d say this brings the addition of these details to 50% complete.

Started Adding the LEED Heating and Air Conditioning Details to the City Center HVAC Design Page

Dehua Feng (Civil Engineer) also completed his 22nd week working on the fire suppression and safety systems designs for the Duplicable City Center Sprinkler and Emergency Systems open source hub. This week he finished updating the spreadsheets and AutoCAD designs for Zones B & C with a new and more cost effective design. You can see some of this work here.

Continued Work on Fire Suppression and Safety Systems Design for the City Center – Click for Page

HELPING HUMANITY: HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

One Community is helping humanity 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 writing the behind-the-scenes narrative and detailed food rollout plan for the various stages of development. This week we completed the Food Self-sufficiency Transition Plan and Apiary page edits. We also made edits to the chicken section of the Food Rollout Google doc. You can see some of this work here.

Continued Writing the Behind-the-Scenes Narrative and Detailed Food Rollout Plan – Click for Page

In addition, the core team continued working on the Apiary hive setup instructions. This week we finished the “Construction Details for a 10 Frame Langstroth Beehive” section. You can see some of the new images and written content here on the behind-the-scenes Google development doc.

Continued Working on the Apiary Hive Setup Instructions – Click for Page

HELPING HUMANITY: HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

One Community is building the foundations for how humanity creates a sustainable world 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 to Visit

HELPING HUMANITY: HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS

One Community is helping humanity 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 working with Jin Hua (Web and Graphic Designer) continued collaboration on our new online marketing strategy and our related grant. This week’s focus was continued keyword strategy development and fine tuning of our current ads. You can see here some of the results of this and how the campaign for the open source free-education database is progressing.

Continued Collaboration on our New Online Marketing Strategy and our Related Grant – Click for Page

This week, the Highest Good Network software team consisting of Sowmya Manohar (Software Engineer, Web Developer & Net Application Developer) and Shubhra Mittal (Software Delivery Manager) implemented validation for the force password page, greying out of role field for non administrators, MongoDB scheduled job to auto assign blue squares if weekly volunteer-time commitment is not met, and bug fixes for a new application outage issue.

Continued Working on the Highest Good Network Software – 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

WHAT ONE COMMUNITY IS CREATING

One Community is creating a place to grow together and change the world together, helping humanity. We are creating a space that helps each other live in integrity with each other and the planet as we strive to be the greatest versions of ourselves. We do this by harmoniously respecting each other, nature, and the rest of our one shared planet.

Our goal is to demonstrate what we feel is the most sustainable, healthy, and fun environment we can create, helping humanity. A place based on compassion, kindness, and collaboration. This replicable community will serve as an example of what is possible.

Throughout our design process of helping humanity, we are open sourcing and free-sharing everything needed for construction and replication. This includes what we call “Highest Good” approaches to food, energy, housing, education, for-profit and non-profit economics design, social architecture, fulfilled living, stewardship practices, and more. We are creating these resources for implementation as individual components or complete developments called teacher/demonstration hubs. These hubs will help launch additional hubs as awareness and knowledge grow.

BUILDING THE FIRST OF MANY

One Community will be the first teacher/demonstration hub of helping humanity. It will function as an experiential-learning model that facilitates mass participation to address humanity’s most pressing challenges through: A replicable model for expansion, building seven self-sufficient village/city prototypes, becoming the world leader in open-source sustainability solutions, and evolving and expanding ALL aspects of sustainable living.

WHY ONE COMMUNITY IS CREATING THIS

The One Community self-replicating model is capable of creating a sustainable planet within 30 years, helping humanity. We will achieve this by establishing successful teacher/demonstration hubs on every continent. Villages include designs appropriate for each of the five main types of climates. They also include options for even the most challenged economies. These hubs will collaborate with one another, share ideas, and resources, and work together as a network to heal the planet. They will also transform the global lifestyle into a more enjoyable, fulfilling, healthy, and sustainable one.

The specifics of how One Community is accomplishing this can be found on the One Community Solution Model to Create Solution-creating Models Page, helping humanity. Research supporting and showing the benefits of a model like this can be found in our Research and Resources Articles Archive.

Even if we don’t achieve our ultimate goal of global transformation, a self-replicating teacher/demonstration model like this will take a relatively short period of time to positively affect millions while inspiring millions more, helping humanity. For One Community residents (the Pioneer Team), the idea of creating and sharing the social and recreational experience with visitors is also fun, exciting, fulfilling, and an additional reason why we are creating this.

INSPIRING SUSTAINABILITY WITH OPEN SOURCE

One Community’s four-phase strategy for the creation of solution models that create solution creating models uses open source blueprints for duplication that simultaneously address all aspects of the human experience (food, energy, housing, education, social inequality and injustice, fulfilled living, etc.), helping humanity. We see these areas as interdependent and requiring a comprehensive solution if humanity is to move ecologically, socially, economically, and permanently towards a truly sustainable future for everyone.

Our open source model and blueprints engage and inspire people while simultaneously making sustainable living more affordable and easy to replicate, helping humanity. By free-sharing the step-by-step plans people need for duplication, inviting people to participate, and demonstrating sustainable teacher/demonstration hubs as a more desirable way of living, the model will predictably expand on its own.

It is this approach we see uniting the world and leading to a new Golden Age for humanity, helping humanity. While we understand that not everyone believes this is even possible, we are nonetheless bringing together all those that do see this as possible as the non-profit think tank of forward-thinking individuals willing to design, build, and open source project-launch blueprint and free-share it for The Highest Good of All.

COMPREHENSIVE SOLUTION TO HUMANITY’S NEEDS

One Community is open source sharing an evolution of sustainable living that addresses the complete human experience, helping humanity. We are doing this because we see the solutions for global food, housing, energy, education, social inequality, ethical business practices, earth regenerative practices, and a desire for a more fulfilling living experience as inseparably interconnected. As a comprehensive solution, we are addressing all these areas simultaneously and open source free-sharing everything needed for individual duplication and/or duplication as complete self-replicating teacher/demonstration communities, villages, and cities to be built around the world.

As we address and open source share these areas we will establish a living example of the first teacher/demonstration village purposed to teach others, helping humanity. To maximally facilitate duplication, One Community will provide seven duplicable examples and function indefinitely as a place people can visit and a non-profit and open source think tank continuing to further evolve and share solutions in all of the above areas and more. We will also provide hands-on experience and training. Most importantly, growing upon our sustainable foundation, we will endlessly make this comprehensive solution even more widely known and globally accessible, understandable and diversely duplicable, and inspiring and desirable as a model worth duplicating.

GLOBALLY IMPLEMENTABLE REPLICATION MODEL

The more people that are inspired and desiring for themselves what it is that One Community creates, the more demand there will be for spreading the One Community model, helping humanity. This leads to the directing of financial resources and resourceful people where we believe they are needed most: the establishment of additional sustainable communities around the world. We also feel this duplication will specifically happen quickly internationally due to the affordability of overseas land, less restrictive building environments, and the spirit of adventure in many people who really desire to make a difference for those who need it most.

To meet the increasing demand for sustainability that we are contributing to, we are coordinating with manufacturers, education institutions, individuals, and vendors, helping humanity. This is also part of this model to help the world. Its purpose is to facilitate more engagement in the sustainability industry, produce the absolute best possible consumer value, and the most convenient delivery of goods and methodologies for building sustainable living communities and sustainable living components.

This means we not only provide education and increase needed sustainability resources, but we also address the underlying roadblocks to a sustainable planet by decreasing the cost and simultaneously increasing the demand and generating financial support for global sustainability, philanthropy, and humanitarian movements and organizations, helping humanity.

As demand increases, so too will the ways to participate, helping humanity. Right now people are participating as consultants or partners donating time to our 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization, and others are more involved as Pioneers of the core team that will be moving to the property. We also have options for people to just follow our progress or participate through internet contribution.

Once the supportive physical infrastructure is about 30% developed, One Community will be ready to additionally expand what we offer to include scholarships, free weekend learning groups, core team members choosing to travel abroad to help others get established too, handling the marketing for all similar models operating for The Highest Good of All, and hosting classes and other sponsored events to promote and demonstrate additional methodologies, helping humanity.

We also imagine the high likelihood that our organization will become a foundation that can be trusted as the donation point for distribution of monies to help others to establish this model also.

Open source communities can positively impact life for people all over the world by demonstrating and sharing how to DIY-replicate sustainable approaches to food, energy, housing, education, Highest Good economic design, social architecture, fulfilled living, global stewardship practices, and more. One Community is supporting this as a path to global sustainability by developing what is needed to form and lead a global network of self-replicating teacher/demonstration hubs that will cooperatively create even more of these open source plans and resources.

• 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 23, 2018 edition (#287) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments:

Open Source Communities
One Community Progress Update #287

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

OPEN SOURCE COMMUNITIES: INTRO: @0:34

OPEN SOURCE COMMUNITIES: HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING: @7:37

OPEN SOURCE COMMUNITIES: DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER: @9:09

• Core team working with Dipti Dhondarkar continued developing the lighting specifics for the City Center (see below)
• Organized the City Center structural engineering details completed to this point and started the process of building the next team to finish what remains (see below)
• Began updating the Pallet Furniture open source hub with complete cost analysis details (see below)
• Dehua Feng completed his 21st week working on the fire suppression and safety systems designs for the Duplicable City Center Sprinkler and Emergency Systems open source hub (see below)

OPEN SOURCE COMMUNITIES: HIGHEST GOOD FOOD: @10:31

• Continued writing the behind-the-scenes narrative and detailed food rollout plan for the various stages of development (see below)

OPEN SOURCE COMMUNITIES: HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION: @11:08

• 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 (see below)

OPEN SOURCE COMMUNITIES: HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY: @11:54

• Highest Good Network software team consisting of Sowmya Manohar and Shubhra Mittal continued development of this software (see below)

OPEN SOURCE COMMUNITIES: SUMMARY: @12:38

• • • 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

OPEN SOURCE COMMUNITIES: HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

One Community is helping create open source communities 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 design updates to the open source Murphy bed furniture assembly instructions. The focus this week was integrating a new cheaper and easier hardware strategy for securing the bed and making it so it lowers slowly and safely, and updates to the hinge details of the new table and bench designs. You can see some of this work-in-progress here.

Continued Design Updates to Open Source Murphy Bed Furniture Assembly Instructions

The core team also brainstormed and created an outline for a new Earthbag Village construction option that will allow for individualized and expanded designs of the standard homes in this village. You can see some of this work-in-progress here.

Finished the Initial Outline for a New Earthbag Village Construction Option – Click for Page

And the core team created new imagery and updated all the Highest Good housing graphics used during the introductions to these weekly updates. You can see some of these updates here and you can watch the beginning of this video to see the complete update details.

Created New Imagery and Updated all the Highest Good Housing Graphics – Click for Page

Shadi Kennedy (Artist and Graphic Designer) also completed his 22nd week leading the development of the Murphy bed instructions. This week he created the new parts layout and duplicated it on all the section pages, changed all the references to all the parts throughout, double checked final sizes by making digital parts at a 1:1 scale, and created all the cutting maps for the ¼, ¾ & 1-inch pieces. You can see some of this work-in-progress here.

Continued Development of Murphy Bed Furniture Assembly Instructions – Click for Furniture Page

OPEN SOURCE COMMUNITIES: DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

One Community is helping create open source communities 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

The core team working with Dipti Dhondarkar (Electrical Engineer) also continued developing the lighting specifics for the City Center. This is Dipti’s 95th week volunteering on this task and the focus this week was testing several different lighting options for the library to settle on these final fixture and placement choices so we could create the graphic here that is now on the website also.

Continued Developing the Lighting Specifics for the City Center – Click for Page

The core team also organized the City Center structural engineering details completed to this point and started the process of building the next team to finish what remains.

Organized the City Center Structural Engineering Details – Click for Page

And the core team began updating the Pallet Furniture open source hub by adding a table of contents, organizing all the data we have so far, and adding the completed cost analysis details. You can see some of this new work here.

Began Updating the Pallet Furniture Open Source Hub – Click for Page

Dehua Feng (Civil Engineer) also completed his 21st week working on the fire suppression and safety systems designs for the Duplicable City Center Sprinkler and Emergency Systems open source hub. This week he began the process of updating the AutoCAD, spreadsheets, and tutorial with a design that will be more cost effective. You can see some of this work here.

Continued Work on Fire Suppression and Safety Systems Design for the City Center – Click for Page

OPEN SOURCE COMMUNITIES: HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

One Community is helping create open source communities 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 writing the behind-the-scenes narrative and detailed food rollout plan for the various stages of development. This week’s focus was continuing the proofreading of the Food Self-sufficiency Transition Plan page and completing the edits for the Transition Kitchen page behind the scenes. You can see some of this work here.

Continued Writing the Behind-the-Scenes Narrative and Detailed Food Rollout Plan – Click for Page

OPEN SOURCE COMMUNITIES: HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

One Community is building the foundations for how humanity creates a sustainable world 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 to Visit

OPEN SOURCE COMMUNITIES: HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS

One Community is helping create open source communities 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 Highest Good Network software team consisting of Sowmya Manohar (Software Engineer, Web Developer & Net Application Developer) and Shubhra Mittal (Software Delivery Manager) also continued development of this software. This week they implemented the ability for Administrators to edit the date of work and implemented a Force Password Change template and logic. You can see some of this work here.

Continued Working on the Highest Good Network Software – 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

WHAT ONE COMMUNITY IS CREATING

One Community is creating a place to grow together and change the world together, rooted in principles of open source communities. We are creating a space that helps each other live in integrity with each other and the planet as we strive to be the greatest versions of ourselves. We do this by harmoniously respecting each other, nature, and the rest of our one shared planet.

Our goal is to demonstrate what we feel is the most sustainable, healthy, and fun environment we can create, rooted in principles of open source communities. A place based on compassion, kindness, and collaboration. This replicable community will serve as an example of what is possible.

Throughout our design process, we are open sourcing and free-sharing everything needed for construction and replication, in collaboration with open source communities. This includes what we call “Highest Good” approaches to food, energy, housing, education, for-profit and non-profit economics design, social architecture, fulfilled living, stewardship practices, and more. We are creating these resources for implementation as individual components or complete developments called teacher/demonstration hubs. These hubs will help launch additional hubs as awareness and knowledge grow.

OPEN SOURCE COMMUNITIES: BUILDING THE FIRST OF MANY

One Community will be the first teacher/demonstration hub, driven by principles of open source communities. It will function as an experiential-learning model that facilitates mass participation to address humanity’s most pressing challenges through: A replicable model for expansion, building seven self-sufficient village/city prototypes, becoming the world leader in open-source sustainability solutions, and evolving and expanding ALL aspects of sustainable living.

WHY ONE COMMUNITY IS CREATING THIS

The One Community self-replicating model is capable of creating a sustainable planet within 30 years, driven by principles of open source communities. We will achieve this by establishing successful teacher/demonstration hubs on every continent. Villages include designs appropriate for each of the five main types of climates. They also include options for even the most challenged economies. These hubs will collaborate with one another, share ideas, and resources, and work together as a network to heal the planet. They will also transform the global lifestyle into a more enjoyable, fulfilling, healthy, and sustainable one.

The specifics of how One Community is accomplishing this can be found on the One Community Solution Model to Create Solution-creating Models Page, in collaboration with open source communities. Research supporting and showing the benefits of a model like this can be found in our Research and Resources Articles Archive.

Even if we don’t achieve our ultimate goal of global transformation, a self-replicating teacher/demonstration model like this will take a relatively short period of time to positively affect millions while inspiring millions more. For One Community residents (the Pioneer Team), the idea of creating and sharing the social and recreational experience with visitors is also fun, exciting, fulfilling, and an additional reason why we are creating open source communities.

INSPIRING SUSTAINABILITY WITH OPEN SOURCE

One Community’s four-phase strategy for the creation of solution models that create solution creating models uses open source blueprints for duplication, in collaboration with open source communities, that simultaneously address all aspects of the human experience (food, energy, housing, education, social inequality and injustice, fulfilled living, etc.). We see these areas as interdependent and requiring a comprehensive solution if humanity is to move ecologically, socially, economically, and permanently towards a truly sustainable future for everyone.

Our open source model and blueprints engage and inspire people within open source communities while simultaneously making sustainable living more affordable and easy to replicate. By free-sharing the step-by-step plans people need for duplication, inviting people to participate, and demonstrating sustainable teacher/demonstration hubs as a more desirable way of living, the model will predictably expand on its own.

It is this approach we see uniting the world and leading to a new Golden Age for humanity. While we understand that not everyone believes this is even possible, we are nonetheless bringing together all those that do see this as possible within open source communities as the non-profit think tank of forward-thinking individuals willing to design, build, and open source project-launch blueprint and free-share it for The Highest Good of All.

COMPREHENSIVE SOLUTION TO HUMANITY’S NEEDS

One Community is open source sharing an evolution of sustainable living that addresses the complete human experience within open source communities. We are doing this because we see the solutions for global food, housing, energy, education, social inequality, ethical business practices, earth regenerative practices, and a desire for a more fulfilling living experience as inseparably interconnected. As a comprehensive solution, we are addressing all these areas simultaneously and open source free-sharing everything needed for individual duplication and/or duplication as complete self-replicating teacher/demonstration communities, villages, and cities to be built around the world.

As we address and open source share these areas we will establish a living example of the first teacher/demonstration village purposed to teach others within open source communities. To maximally facilitate duplication, One Community will provide seven duplicable examples and function indefinitely as a place people can visit and a non-profit and open source think tank continuing to further evolve and share solutions in all of the above areas and more. We will also provide hands-on experience and training. Most importantly, growing upon our sustainable foundation, we will endlessly make this comprehensive solution even more widely known and globally accessible, understandable and diversely duplicable, and inspiring and desirable as a model worth duplicating.

GLOBALLY IMPLEMENTABLE REPLICATION MODEL

The more people that are inspired and desiring for themselves what it is that One Community creates, the more demand there will be for spreading the One Community model within open source communities. This leads to the directing of financial resources and resourceful people where we believe they are needed most: the establishment of additional sustainable communities around the world. We also feel this duplication will specifically happen quickly internationally due to the affordability of overseas land, less restrictive building environments, and the spirit of adventure in many people who really desire to make a difference for those who need it most.

To meet the increasing demand for sustainability that we are contributing to, we are coordinating with manufacturers, education institutions, individuals, and vendors within open source communities. This is also part of this model to help the world. Its purpose is to facilitate more engagement in the sustainability industry, produce the absolute best possible consumer value, and the most convenient delivery of goods and methodologies for building sustainable living communities and sustainable living components.

This means we not only provide education and increase needed sustainability resources, but we also address the underlying roadblocks to a sustainable planet by decreasing the cost and simultaneously increasing the demand and generating financial support for global sustainability, philanthropy, and humanitarian movements and organizations.

As demand increases, so too will the ways to participate. Right now people are participating as consultants or partners donating time to our 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization, and others are more involved as Pioneers of the core team that will be moving to the property. We also have options for people to just follow our progress or participate through internet contribution.

Once the supportive physical infrastructure is about 30% developed, One Community will be ready to additionally expand what we offer to include scholarships, free weekend learning groups, core team members choosing to travel abroad to help others get established too, handling the marketing for all similar models operating for The Highest Good of All, and hosting classes and other sponsored events to promote and demonstrate additional methodologies.

We also imagine the high likelihood that our organization will become a foundation that can be trusted as the donation point for distribution of monies to help others to establish this model also.

Affordable sustainability is necessary if mainstream implementation is going to happen. Such implementation has the benefit to positively impact the life of everything on our planet and One Community is supporting and forwarding this movement through open source and do-it-yourself plans for sustainable food, energy, housing, education, for-profit and non-profit economic design, social architecture, fulfilled living, global stewardship practices, and more. We call this living and creating for The Highest Good of All.

• Here’s our project overview
• Here’s our world-change methodology
  
• Here’s how this becomes self-replicating
• Here’s how we are open source and free-sharing all the do-it-yourself designs

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 16, 2018 edition (#286) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments:

Affordable Sustainability
One Community Progress Update #286

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

AFFORDABLE SUSTAINABILITY: INTRO: @0:34

AFFORDABLE SUSTAINABILITY: HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING: @7:44

AFFORDABLE SUSTAINABILITY: DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER: @9:52

• Core team working with Dipti Dhondarkar continued developing the lighting specifics for the City Center (see below)
• Dehua Feng completed his 20th week working on the fire suppression and safety systems designs for the Duplicable City Center Sprinkler and Emergency Systems open source hub (see below)
• Haoxuan “Hayes” Lei finished his last week working on the City Center structural engineering (see below)
• Anvita Kumari Pandey completed her 22nd week volunteering by working on final details for the Duplicable City Center Materials and Costs and beginning work updating the Earthbag Village Materials and Costs (see below)

AFFORDABLE SUSTAINABILITY: HIGHEST GOOD FOOD: @11:19:

• Continued writing the behind-the-scenes narrative and detailed food rollout plan for the various stages of development (see below)

AFFORDABLE SUSTAINABILITY: HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION: @12:07

• Wrote initial script and started creating the graphics for what will replace our regular Highest Good education updates in the videos and website now that this component is pretty much complete until we move onto the property and develop it further with teachers and students (see below)
• Added more resources, a new table of contents, and instructions for using the “Find Function” to the Free Online Education Resources page (see below)

AFFORDABLE SUSTAINABILITY: HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY: @12:50

• Jin Hua, working with the core team continued collaboration on our new online marketing strategy (see below)
• Highest Good Network software team consisting of Sowmya Manohar and Shubhra Mittal returned to development (see below)

AFFORDABLE SUSTAINABILITY: SUMMARY: @14:12

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AFFORDABLE SUSTAINABILITY: HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

One Community is facilitating affordable sustainability 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 testing the open source Murphy bed furniture assembly instructions. The focus this week was final testing of the back storage and changing area and we redesigned the fold-down bed and fold out tables and benches. You can see some of this work-in-progress here.

Continued Testing the Murphy Bed Furniture Assembly Instructions – Click for Page

The core team also made significant updates to the open source plaster page by adding more resources, updating the table of contents, and adding instructions for how to create wheat paste.

Made Significant Updates to Open Source Plaster Page – Click to Visit

Shadi Kennedy (Artist and Graphic Designer) also completed his 21st week leading the development of the Murphy bed instructions. This week he continued development of the initial bed box assembly instruction and started final revisions for the Clothing and Storage section now that the core team finished the final assembly testing of this area using Sketchup 3D. You can see some of this work-in-progress here.

Continued Development of Murphy Bed Furniture Assembly Instructions – Click for Furniture Page

Mike Kowalski (Game Developer) finished his 20th week helping update our renders that are too big for anything but a gaming computer. This week Mike redid these 3 Earthbag Village (Pod 1) renders with all closed doors and made fixes to the trees and lighting.

Redid 3 Renders with all Closed Doors and Fixes to Trees and Lighting – Click for Earthbag Village

Edited Images and Added to the Earthbag Village and Tropical Atrium – Click for Tropical Atrium

Hemanth Kotaru (Structural Engineer) completed his 21st week helping with the structural engineering research and calculations for the Earthbag Village (Pod 1). This week’s focus was interpreting the results of all his research on the engineering details of the different kinds of earth that can be used to fill the bags, finding more resources, and starting to create the calculations spreadsheet.

Continued Helping with Structural Engineering Research and Calculations for Earthbag Village

Continued Working on the Earthbag Village – Click for Page

AFFORDABLE SUSTAINABILITY: DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

One Community is facilitating affordable sustainability 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

The core team working with Dipti Dhondarkar (Electrical Engineer) also continued developing the lighting specifics for the City Center. This is Dipti’s 94th week volunteering on this task and the focus this week was these floor-by-floor overview lighting renders that are now on the website also.

Continued Developing the Lighting Specifics for the City Center – Click for Page

Dehua Feng (Civil Engineer) also completed his 20th week working on the fire suppression and safety systems designs for the Duplicable City Center Sprinkler and Emergency Systems open source hub. This week he finished the calculation updates for all the remaining zones, updated all the references for the tutorial, and calculated the reservoir size needed to support the system. You can see some of this work here.

Continued Work on Fire Suppression and Safety Systems Design for the City Center – Click for Page

Haoxuan “Hayes” Lei (Structural Engineer) also finished his last week working on the City Center structural engineering. What you see here are the wrapup documents sharing what has been completed and what still remains to be done by the next volunteer team.

Finished His Last Week Working on the City Center Structural Engineering – Click for Page

Last but not least, Anvita Kumari Pandey (Civil Engineer) completed her 22nd week volunteering by working on final details for the Duplicable City Center Materials and Costs and beginning work updating the Earthbag Village Materials and Costs with the same level of detail – some of which you can see here.

Continued Working on Duplicable City Center Materials and Costs – Click for Page

AFFORDABLE SUSTAINABILITY: HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

One Community is facilitating affordable sustainability 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 writing the behind-the-scenes narrative and detailed food rollout plan for the various stages of development. We continued our comprehensive review of the complete 20-person food rollout and implementation details. This included further integration of our related webpages, information on “How to Stockpile Compost Material”, a very simple brown/green composting explanation for the novice gardener, and beginning edits for the Transition Kitchen page. You can see some of this work here.

Continued Writing the Behind-the-Scenes Narrative and Detailed Food Rollout Plan – Click for Page

HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

One Community is facilitating affordable sustainability through Highest Good education that is for all ages, applicable in any environment, adaptable to individual needs, far exceeds traditional education standards, and more fun for both the teachers and the students:

• • • Learn about the components: Education open source hub
    • Learn how the components work together: How to use the Education for Life Program
      

This week, the core team wrote the initial script and started creating the graphics for what will replace our regular Highest Good education updates in the videos and website now that this component is pretty much complete until we move onto the property and develop it further with teachers and students.

Wrote Initial Script and Started Creating Graphics – Click for Education Page

We also added more resources, a new table of contents, and instructions for using the “Find Function” to the Free Online Education Resources page.

Added More Resources and Content to Free Online Education Resources Page – Click to Visit

AFFORDABLE SUSTAINABILITY: HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS

One Community is facilitating affordable sustainability 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 Jin Hua (Web and Graphic Designer) working with the core team continued collaboration on our new online marketing strategy by updating our Adwords details, creating the sped-up tutorial you see running here in the background and teaching how to better do keyword research to improve it even more, and running reports to evaluate our updated marketing approach for these updates versus how we were doing it before.

Continued Collaboration on Our New Online Marketing Strategy – Click for Home Page

The Highest Good Network software team consisting of Sowmya Manohar (Software Engineer, Web Developer & Net Application Developer) and Shubhra Mittal (Software Delivery Manager) also returned to development. This week they upgraded the HGNApp from CircleCI 1.0 to 2.0 and enabled email deployment notifications, investigated the cause for the HGN timer counting two seconds at a time and disabled it for now, and added functionality for auto-refreshing when status changes are made to Active/Inactive in user management page. You can see some of this work here.

Returned to Working on the Highest Good Network Software – Click for Page

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WHAT ONE COMMUNITY IS CREATING

One Community is creating a place to grow together and change the world together, guided by principles of affordable sustainability. We are creating a space that helps each other live in integrity with each other and the planet as we strive to be the greatest versions of ourselves. We do this by harmoniously respecting each other, nature, and the rest of our one shared planet.

Our goal is to demonstrate what we feel is the most sustainable, healthy, and fun environment we can create, rooted in principles of affordable sustainability. A place based on compassion, kindness, and collaboration. This replicable community will serve as an example of what is possible.

Throughout our design process, we are open sourcing and free-sharing everything needed for construction and replication, guided by principles of affordable sustainability. This includes what we call “Highest Good” approaches to food, energy, housing, education, for-profit and non-profit economics design, social architecture, fulfilled living, stewardship practices, and more. We are creating these resources for implementation as individual components or complete developments called teacher/demonstration hubs. These hubs will help launch additional hubs as awareness and knowledge grow.

AFFORDABLE SUSTAINABILITY: BUILDING THE FIRST OF MANY

One Community will be the first teacher/demonstration hub. It will function as an experiential-learning model that facilitates mass participation to address humanity’s most pressing challenges through: A replicable model for expansion, building seven self-sufficient village/city prototypes, becoming the world leader in open-source sustainability solutions, and evolving and expanding ALL aspects of sustainable living, all rooted in principles of affordable sustainability.

WHY ONE COMMUNITY IS CREATING THIS

The One Community self-replicating model is capable of creating a sustainable planet within 30 years, driven by principles of affordable sustainability. We will achieve this by establishing successful teacher/demonstration hubs on every continent. Villages include designs appropriate for each of the five main types of climates. They also include options for even the most challenged economies. These hubs will collaborate with one another, share ideas, and resources, and work together as a network to heal the planet. They will also transform the global lifestyle into a more enjoyable, fulfilling, healthy, and sustainable one.

The specifics of how One Community is accomplishing affordable sustainability can be found on the One Community Solution Model to Create Solution-creating Models Page. Research supporting and showing the benefits of a model like this can be found in our Research and Resources Articles Archive.

Even if we don’t achieve our ultimate goal of global transformation, a self-replicating teacher/demonstration model like this will take a relatively short period of time to positively affect millions while inspiring millions more. For One Community residents (the Pioneer Team), the idea of creating and sharing the social and recreational experience with visitors is also fun, exciting, fulfilling, and an additional reason why we are creating affordable sustainability.

INSPIRING SUSTAINABILITY WITH OPEN SOURCE

One Community’s four-phase strategy for the creation of solution models that create solution creating models uses open source blueprints for duplication that simultaneously address all aspects of the human experience (food, energy, housing, education, social inequality and injustice, fulfilled living, etc.), rooted in principles of affordable sustainability. We see these areas as interdependent and requiring a comprehensive solution if humanity is to move ecologically, socially, economically, and permanently towards a truly sustainable future for everyone.

Our open source model and blueprints engage and inspire people while simultaneously making sustainable living more affordable and easy to replicate, driven by principles of affordable sustainability. By free-sharing the step-by-step plans people need for duplication, inviting people to participate, and demonstrating sustainable teacher/demonstration hubs as a more desirable way of living, the model will predictably expand on its own.

It is this approach, rooted in principles of affordable sustainability, we see uniting the world and leading to a new Golden Age for humanity. While we understand that not everyone believes this is even possible, we are nonetheless bringing together all those that do see this as possible as the non-profit think tank of forward-thinking individuals willing to design, build, and open source project-launch blueprint and free-share it for The Highest Good of All.

COMPREHENSIVE SOLUTION TO HUMANITY’S NEEDS

One Community is open source sharing an evolution of sustainable living rooted in principles of affordable sustainability that addresses the complete human experience. We are doing this because we see the solutions for global food, housing, energy, education, social inequality, ethical business practices, earth regenerative practices, and a desire for a more fulfilling living experience as inseparably interconnected. As a comprehensive solution, we are addressing all these areas simultaneously and open source free-sharing everything needed for individual duplication and/or duplication as complete self-replicating teacher/demonstration communities, villages, and cities to be built around the world.

As we address and open source share these areas we will establish a living example of the first teacher/demonstration village purposed to teach others, rooted in principles of affordable sustainability. To maximally facilitate duplication, One Community will provide seven duplicable examples and function indefinitely as a place people can visit and a non-profit and open source think tank continuing to further evolve and share solutions in all of the above areas and more. We will also provide hands-on experience and training. Most importantly, growing upon our sustainable foundation, we will endlessly make this comprehensive solution even more widely known and globally accessible, understandable and diversely duplicable, and inspiring and desirable as a model worth duplicating.

GLOBALLY IMPLEMENTABLE REPLICATION MODEL

The more people that are inspired and desiring for themselves what it is that One Community creates, the more demand there will be for spreading the One Community model, driven by principles of affordable sustainability. This leads to the directing of financial resources and resourceful people where we believe they are needed most: the establishment of additional sustainable communities around the world. We also feel this duplication will specifically happen quickly internationally due to the affordability of overseas land, less restrictive building environments, and the spirit of adventure in many people who really desire to make a difference for those who need it most.

To meet the increasing demand for sustainability that we are contributing to, we are coordinating with manufacturers, education institutions, individuals, and vendors, with a focus on affordable sustainability. This is also part of this model to help the world. Its purpose is to facilitate more engagement in the sustainability industry, produce the absolute best possible consumer value, and the most convenient delivery of goods and methodologies for building sustainable living communities and sustainable living components.

This means we not only provide education and increase needed sustainability resources, but we also address the underlying roadblocks to a sustainable planet by decreasing the cost and simultaneously increasing the demand and generating financial support for global sustainability, philanthropy, and humanitarian movements and organizations, all centered around principles of affordable sustainability.

As demand increases, so too will the ways to participate. Right now people are participating as consultants or partners donating time to our 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization, and others are more involved as Pioneers of the core team that will be moving to the property. We also have options for people to just follow our progress or participate through internet contribution.

Once the supportive physical infrastructure is about 30% developed, One Community will be ready to additionally expand what we offer to include scholarships, free weekend learning groups, core team members choosing to travel abroad to help others get established too, handling the marketing for all similar models operating for The Highest Good of All, and hosting classes and other sponsored events to promote and demonstrate additional methodologies.

We also imagine the high likelihood that our organization will become a foundation that can be trusted as the donation point for distribution of monies to help others to establish this model also.