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WHAT ONE COMMUNITY IS CREATING

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

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 of what is possible, guided by global sustainability methodology.

Throughout our design process, we are open sourcing and free-sharing everything needed for construction and replication, following a global sustainability methodology. 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, operating in alignment with a global sustainability methodology. 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, guided by a global sustainability methodology. 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, all within the framework of a global sustainability methodology. 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, all guided by a global sustainability methodology. 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.), within the framework of a global sustainability methodology. 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, all within the framework of a global sustainability methodology. 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 a global sustainability methodology, that we see uniting the world and leading to a new Golden Age for humanity. While we understand that not everyone believes this is even possible, we are nonetheless bringing together all those that do see this as possible as the non-profit think tank of forward-thinking individuals willing to design, build, and open source project-launch blueprint and free-share it for The Highest Good of All.

COMPREHENSIVE SOLUTION TO HUMANITY’S NEEDS

One Community is open source sharing an evolution of sustainable living that addresses the complete human experience through a global sustainability methodology. 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 guided by a global sustainability methodology. 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, guided by a global sustainability methodology. 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, in alignment with a global sustainability methodology. 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.

Highest Good Living Models – One Community Weekly Progress Update #284

Posted on September 2, 2018 by Ruiqi Liu

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Highest Good living models are living models that are sustainable, ecological, and supportive and regenerative for our planet and all life on it. One Community is a 100% volunteer team developing open source and free-shared tools, tutorials, and DIY resources for replicable teacher/demonstration hubs designed to teach, share, and evolve these models.

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 2, 2018 edition (#284) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments:

Highest Good Living Models
One Community Progress Update #284

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

HIGHEST GOOD LIVING MODELS INTRO: @0:34

HIGHEST GOOD LIVING MODELS: HOUSING: @6:30

Core team working with Michael Hagler finished the final round of edits and corrections for the 2nd printed copies of the 7-villages book we’ve been developing (see below)
Continued testing the open source Murphy bed furniture assembly instructions for the back clothing and storage area (see below)
Shadi Kennedy completed his 19th week leading the development of the Murphy bed instructions (see below)
Mike Kowalski created 5 additional Earthbag Village renders (see below)
Dean Scholz continued working on the Earthbag Village and his focus this week was finishing the AutoCAD elevations for the alternate floor plans (see below)

HIGHEST GOOD LIVING MODELS: DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER: @8:11

Core team working with Dipti Dhondarkar continued developing the lighting specifics for the City Center (see below)
Anvita Kumari Pandey completed her 20th week helping with the Duplicable City Center Materials and Costs (see below)
Dehua Feng completed his 18th 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 LIVING MODELS: FOOD: @9:40

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

HIGHEST GOOD LIVING MODELS: EDUCATION: @10:28

Finished all work except for adding images to the Information Maintenance and Sharing – Taking Your Learning With You page (see below)

HIGHEST GOOD LIVING MODELS: SOCIETY: @11:03

Core team working with Jin Hua continued collaboration on our new online marketing strategy, focusing on the Conscious Music Project, open source free-education database, and the Sketchup Plant database (see below)
Reviewed and updated the Highest Good Network software design details and next-steps action item lists in preparation for continuing with the development team (see below)

HIGHEST GOOD LIVING MODELS SUMMARY: @11:54

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ONE COMMUNITY WEEKLY UPDATE DETAILS

HIGHEST GOOD LIVING MODELS: HOUSING PROGRESS

One Community is creating highest good living models 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 working with Michael Hagler (Senior Graphic Designer and Artist) finished the final round of edits and corrections for the 2nd printed copies of the 7-villages book we’ve been developing. This completes almost 2 years of work on this book and we now move on to full integration into the website.

7-Villages Book, Highest Good Living Models, One Community Weekly Progress Update #284

Finished Final Round of Edits and Corrections for the 2nd Printed Copies of the 7-Villages Book

This week the core team also continued testing the open source Murphy bed furniture assembly instructions for the back clothing and storage area. We do this by building it in Sketchup 3D and noting mistakes as we go. You can see some of this work-in-progress here.

Murphy Bed Furniture, Highest Good Living Models, One Community Weekly Progress Update #284

Testing the Murphy Bed Furniture Assembly Instructions for Back Clothing and Storage Area

Shadi Kennedy (Artist and Graphic Designer) also completed his 19th week leading the development of the Murphy bed instructions. This week he added details to the Clothing & Storage introduction graphic and created the first detailed drawings of the new bed, couch, and fold-out table designs.

Murphy Bed furniture assembly, Highest Good Living Models, One Community Weekly Progress Update #284

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

Mike Kowalski (Game Developer) finished his 18th week helping update our renders that are too big for anything but a gaming computer. This week Mike created the 5 additional Earthbag Village (Pod 1) renders you see here. Next steps for these will be PhotoShop edits and then adding them to the appropriate pages of the site.

Earthbag Village, Highest Good Living Models, One Community Weekly Progress Update #284

Created 5 Earthbag Village Renders – Click for Page

Dean Scholz (Architectural Designer) also continued working on the Earthbag Village (Pod 1). Here is weekly update #128 from Dean, his focus this week was finishing the AutoCAD elevations seen here for the alternate floor plans for the homes we’ll be building as part of this village.

Continued Working on the Earthbag Village – Click for Page

HIGHEST GOOD LIVING MODELS: DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

One Community is creating highest good living models 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 working with D i pti Dhondarkar (Electrical Engineer) continued developing the lighting specifics for the City Center. This is Dipti’s 92nd week volunteering on this task and the focus this week was final lighting selection, placement and testing for the Mezzanine level to produce and add to the website the graphic shown here.

lighting specifics for the City Center, Highest Good Living Models, One Community Weekly Progress Update #284

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

Anvita Kumari Pandey (Civil Engineer) completed her 20th week helping with the Duplicable City Center Materials and Costs. This week’s focus was restroom accessories, floor construction & miscellaneous items like bicycle stands, and final corrections and additions needed to produce the 2nd-generation summary for the total construction cost – some of which you can see here.

Duplicable City Center Materials and Costs, Highest Good Living Models, One Community Weekly Progress Update #284

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

Dehua Feng (Civil Engineer) also completed his 18th 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 added piping-elevation changes to the master AutoCAD file, updated the spreadsheet and tutorial to include related details, and color coordinated the spreadsheet colors to match the AutoCAD piping colors. You can see some of this work here.

Duplicable City Center Sprinkler and Emergency Systems, Highest Good Living Models, One Community Weekly Progress Update #284

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

HIGHEST GOOD LIVING MODELS: FOOD PROGRESS

One Community is creating highest good living models 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 with a focus on worms and soil, clarifying specific research on carbon-to-nitrogen ratios, batch compost piles and “as you go” piles. We learned we’ll save a lot of manpower by switching over to worm composting and trench composting during the milder months of the year, rather than using traditional composting piles. You can see some of this work here.

food rollout plan, Highest Good Living Models, One Community Weekly Progress Update #284

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

HIGHEST GOOD LIVING MODELS: EDUCATION PROGRESS

One Community is creating highest good living models 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 finished all work except for adding images to the Information Maintenance and Sharing – Taking Your Learning With You page. We finished the formatting, adding content, and resources and we’d say this brings the page to 90% complete.

Learning for Life, Highest Good Living Models, One Community Weekly Progress Update #284

Finished all Work Except for Adding Images to the Information Maintenance and Sharing

HIGHEST GOOD LIVING MODELS: SOCIETY PROGRESS

One Community is creating highest good living models 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. This week’s focus was initial keyword organization and ad writing for the Conscious Music Project, open source free-education database, and the Sketchup Plant database.

collaboration on our new online marketing strategy, Highest Good Living Models, One Community Weekly Progress Update #284

Continued Collaboration on our New Online Marketing Strategy

The core team also reviewed and updated the Highest Good Network software design details and next-steps action item lists in preparation for continuing with the development team.

Highest Good Network software, Highest Good Living Models, One Community Weekly Progress Update #284

Reviewed and Updated the Highest Good Network Software Design Details – 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. 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, with the highest good living models. We do this by harmoniously respecting each other, nature, and the rest of our one shared planet.

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

Throughout our design process of creating the highest good living models, 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.

HIGHEST GOOD LIVING MODELS: 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, with highest good living models.

WHY ONE COMMUNITY IS CREATING THIS

The One Community self-replicating model is capable of creating a sustainable planet within 30 years. We will achieve this by establishing successful teacher/demonstration hubs on every continent. Villages include designs appropriate for each of the five main types of climates. They also include options for even the most challenged economies. These hubs will collaborate with one another, share ideas, 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 rooted in the highest good living models.

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

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

INSPIRING SUSTAINABILITY WITH OPEN SOURCE

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

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

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

COMPREHENSIVE SOLUTION TO HUMANITY’S NEEDS

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

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

GLOBALLY IMPLEMENTABLE REPLICATION MODEL

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

To meet the increasing demand for sustainability that we are contributing to, we are coordinating with manufacturers, education institutions, individuals, and vendors. This is also part of this model to help the world. Its purpose is to facilitate more engagement 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, aligned with the highest good living models.

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.

Cooperation as the New Medium of Exchange – One Community Weekly Progress Update #283

Posted on August 26, 2018 by Ruiqi Liu

COOPERATION AS THE NEW MEDIUM OF EXCHANGE: HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING: @7:00

Instead of competing with each other, what if we worked together and made cooperation the new medium of exchange? One Community is open sourcing sustainable and replicable approaches to food, energy, housing, education, for-profit and non-profit economic design, social architecture, fulfilled living, global stewardship practices, and more as a path to this goal. 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 August 26, 2018 edition (#283) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments:

Cooperation as the New Medium of Exchange
One Community Progress Update #283

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

COOPERATION AS THE NEW MEDIUM OF EXCHANGE: INTRO: @0:34

Core team working with Michael Hagler finished multiple rounds of edits and correction of the first printed copy of the 7-villages book we’ve been developing (see below)
Created updated render of the open source Murphy bed furniture so we could finalize preview image for the book and update the website (see below)
Shadi Kenn edy completed his 18th week leading the development of the Murphy bed instructions (see below)
Hemanth Kotaru completed his 19th week helping with the structural engineering research and calculations for the Earthbag Village (see below)
Mike Kowalski created 9 Earthbag Village renders (see below)
Dean Sch olz continued working on the Earthbag Village (see below)
Dan Alleck completed his 25th week working on the Compressed Earth Block Village render additions (see below)

COOPERATION AS THE NEW MEDIUM OF EXCHANGE: DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER: @9:16

Finished rebuilding the City Center geodesic dome in 3D (see below)
Rebuild and added necessary content to the Duplicable City Center Time Investment open source hub (see below)
Dipti Dhondarkar continued developing the lighting specifics for the City Center (see below)
Anvita Kumari Pandey completed her 19th week helping with the Duplicable City Center Materials and Costs (see below)
Dehua Feng completed his 17th week working on the fire suppression and safety systems designs for the Duplicable City Center Sprinkler and Emergency Systems open source hub (see below)

COOPERATION AS THE NEW MEDIUM OF EXCHANGE: HIGHEST GOOD FOOD: @11:03

Continued writing the behind-the-scenes narrative and detailed food rollout plan for the various stages of development (see below)
Worked on the Apiary equipment instructions for “Hive Set Up” (see below)

COOPERATION AS THE NEW MEDIUM OF EXCHANGE: HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION: @11:50

Began work on the Information Maintenance and Sharing – Taking Your Learning With You page (see below)

COOPERATION AS THE NEW MEDIUM OF EXCHANGE: HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY: @12:25

COOPERATION AS THE NEW MEDIUM OF EXCHANGE SUMMARY: @11:

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ONE COMMUNITY WEEKLY UPDATE DETAILS

COOPERATION AS THE NEW MEDIUM OF EXCHANGE: HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

One Community is developing cooperation as the new medium of exchange 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 working with Michael Hagler (Senior Graphic Designer and Artist) finished multiple rounds of edits and correction of the first printed copy of the 7-villages book we’ve been developing. You can see some of this work here, along with this picture of Sara doing one of the first hardcopy reviews.

7 Village book edits, Cooperation as the New Medium of Exchange, One Community Weekly Progress Update #283

Finished Multiple Rounds of Edits and Correction of the First Printed Copy of the 7-Villages Book

The core team also created an additional updated render of the open source Murphy bed furniture so we could finalize this preview image for the book (bottom left) and update the website to show the level of detail we’re working on.

Earthbag Village, Murphy Bed furniture, Cooperation as the New Medium of Exchange, One Community Weekly Progress Update #283

Created Additional Updated Render of the Open Source Murphy Bed Furniture – Click for Page

Shadi Kennedy (Artist and Graphic Designer) also completed his 18th week leading the development of the Murphy bed instructions. This week he fixed a stair issue so the stairs fit properly, went through the nightstand section and added final construction points, and drew up new plans to add a couch and increase the table size.

Earthbag Village, Murphy Bed instruction, Cooperation as the New Medium of Exchange, One Community Weekly Progress Update #283

Continued Developing the Murphy Bed Instructions – Click for Page

Hemanth Kotaru (Structural Engineer) completed his 19th week helping with the structural engineering research and calculations for the Earthbag Village (Pod 1). This week’s focus was research on the engineering details of the different kinds of earth that can be used to fill the bags. You can see some of the results of this research here.

Earthbag Village, Cooperation as the New Medium of Exchange, One Community Weekly Progress Update #283

Continued Helping with Structural Engineering Research and Calculations for Earthbag Village

Mike Kowalski (Game Developer) finished his 17th week helping update our renders that are too big for anything but a gaming computer. This week Mike created the 9 Earthbag Village (Pod 1) renders you see here. The next steps for these will be PhotoShop edits and then adding them to the appropriate pages of the site.

Earthbag Village Renders, Cooperation as the New Medium of Exchange, One Community Weekly Progress Update #283

Created 9 Earthbag Village Renders – Click for Page

Dean Scholz (Architectural Designer) also continued working on the Earthbag Village (Pod 1). Here is weekly update #127 from Dean, his focus this week was adding in the hot tub and beginning the AutoCAD elevations for this alternate floor plan option for the homes we’ll be building as part of this village.

Continued Working on the Earthbag Village – Click for Page

Dan Alleck (Designer and Illustrator) additionally completed his 25th week working on the Compressed Earth Block Village render additions. This week he continued with initial people and object additions for this Earth Block Village 2nd floor outdoor perspective looking East.

Earth Block Village 2nd Floor Outdoors Looking-East-Work-in-progress, Cooperation as the New Medium of Exchange, One Community Weekly Progress Update #283

Continued Working on Compressed Earth Block Village Render Additions – Click for Page

COOPERATION AS THE NEW MEDIUM OF EXCHANGE: DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

One Community is developing cooperation as the new medium of exchange 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 finished rebuilding the City Center geodesic dome in 3D. This completes our process of double checking all the angles and parts lengths, minimizing the number of different parts, and bringing this Sketchup file to the point it matches the AutoCAD file.

City Center shell structure, Cooperation as the New Medium of Exchange, One Community Weekly Progress Update #283

Finished Rebuilding the City Center Geodesic Dome in 3D – Click to Visit

The core team also completed a rebuild and addition of all the necessary content to the Duplicable City Center Time Investment open source hub. This page describes how we’ll be tracking construction time and all the areas we’ll be measuring separately and together for this structure.

Duplicable City Center Time Projections, Cooperation as the New Medium of Exchange, One Community Weekly Progress Update #283

Rebuilt the Duplicable City Center Time Investment Open Source Hub – Click to Visit

D i pti Dhondarkar (Electrical Engineer) also continued developing the lighting specifics for the City Center. This is Dipti’s 91st week volunteering on this task and the focus this week was initial lighting selection, placement and testing for the Mezzanine level, some of which you can see here.

Duplicable City Center Lighting, Cooperation as the New Medium of Exchange, One Community Weekly Progress Update #283

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

Anvita Kumari Pandey (Civil Engineer) completed her 19th week helping with the Duplicable City Center Materials and Costs. This week’s focus was the flooring final cost analysis & material selection, more work on the column and column footing cost analysis, and restroom & bath accessories cost analysis – some of which you can see here.

Duplicable City Center Materials and Costs, Cooperation as the New Medium of Exchange, One Community Weekly Progress Update #283

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

Dehua Feng (Civil Engineer) also completed his 17th 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 updated the tutorial and spreadsheet with the new pipe materials selections, updated the reservoir sizing details, and added labels and updated colors to the master AutoCAD file to clarify branches and pipe sizes. You can see some of this work here.

fire suppression and safety systems designs, Duplicable City Center, Duplicable City Center Sprinkler and Emergency Systems, Cooperation as the New Medium of Exchange, One Community Progress Update #283

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

COOPERATION AS THE NEW MEDIUM OF EXCHANGE: HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

One Community is developing cooperation as the new medium of exchange 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 continued research, edits, and additions to the orchard resurrection, Hugelkultur construction, food forest, and compost set-up & composting section. You can see some of this work here.

Food Rollout, Cooperation as the New Medium of Exchange, One Community Weekly Progress Update #283

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

In addition, the core team worked on the Apiary equipment instructions for “Hive Set Up” adding images and written content to the behind-the-scenes Google development doc, as shown here.

Apiary Equipment, Cooperation as the New Medium of Exchange, One Community Weekly Progress Update #283

Worked on the Apiary Equipment Instructions for “Hive Set Up” – Click for Page

COOPERATION AS THE NEW MEDIUM OF EXCHANGE: HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

One Community is developing cooperation as the new medium of exchange throughh 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 began work on the Information Maintenance and Sharing – Taking Your Learning With You page. We redid the formatting and overall outline, updated the initial graphics, and rewrote the What and Why sections. We would say this brings the page to about 30% complete.

Information Maintenance and Sharing, Taking Your Learning With You, Cooperation as the New Medium of Exchange, One Community Weekly Progress Update #283

Began Work on the Information Maintenance and Sharing – Click to Visit

COOPERATION AS THE NEW MEDIUM OF EXCHANGE: HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS

One Community is developing cooperation as the new medium of exchange 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

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

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, with cooperation as the new medium of exchange.

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 of what is possible, with cooperation as the new medium of exchange.

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, with cooperation as the new medium of exchange. We are creating these resources for implementation as individual components or complete developments called teacher/demonstration hubs. These hubs will help launch additional hubs as awareness and knowledge grow.

BUILDING THE FIRST OF MANY

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

WHY ONE COMMUNITY IS CREATING THIS

The One Community self-replicating model is capable of creating a sustainable planet within 30 years. We will achieve this by establishing successful teacher/demonstration hubs on every continent. Villages include designs appropriate for each of the five main types of climates. They also include options for even the most challenged economies. These hubs will collaborate with one another, share ideas, 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, with cooperation as the new medium of exchange.

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

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

INSPIRING SUSTAINABILITY WITH OPEN SOURCE

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

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

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

COMPREHENSIVE SOLUTION TO HUMANITY’S NEEDS

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

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

GLOBALLY IMPLEMENTABLE REPLICATION MODEL

The more people that are inspired and desiring for themselves what it is that One Community creates, the more demand there will be for spreading the One Community model. This leads to the directing of financial resources and resourceful people where we believe they are needed most: the establishment of additional sustainable communities around the world, with cooperation as the new medium of exchange. 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 cooperation as the new medium of exchange. 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, with cooperation as the new medium of exchange.

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, with cooperation as the new medium of exchange. 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.

Earth Biohacking – One Community Weekly Progress Update #282

Posted on August 19, 2018 by Ruiqi Liu

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

Earth biohacking is already happening, it just seems that we’re not doing a very positive job of it so far. What if we collective decided to sustainably biohack Earth using global stewardship practices? Collective action like this could be possible if it were demonstrated as easy enough, affordable enough, and comparable to or better than the way most people are living already. One Community is open sourcing and free-sharing the necessary components for global implementation and replication.

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

OUR MAIN OPEN SOURCE HUBS

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

One Community’s physical location will forward this movement as the first of many self-replicating teacher/demonstration communities, villages, and cities to be built around the world. This is the August 19, 2018 edition (#282) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments:

Earth Biohacking
One Community Progress Update #282

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

EARTH BIOHACKING: INTRO: @0:34

EARTH BIOHACKING: HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING: @6:02

Michael Hagler and the core team finished the final PDF review of the 7-villages book we’re developing and sent it off to the printer for an initial print draft (see below)
Michael then integrated several edits and finished final creation and edits for 4 pages (see below)
Core team created updated renders for the open source Murphy bed furniture preview image (see below)
Mike Kowalski continued working on the Earthbag Village and finished a render (see below)
Mike contributed images to the open source Murphy bed furniture preview image (see below)
Shadi Kennedy continued leading the development of the Murphy bed instructions (see below)
Dean Scholz joined the team working on the Earthbag Village and his focus this week was the initial AutoCAD work for alternate floor plan options for the homes we’ll be building as part of this village (see below)
Dan Alleck began initial people and object additions for the Compressed Earth Block Village 2nd floor outdoor perspective looking East (see below)

EARTH BIOHACKING: DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER: @8:15

Continued rebuilding the City Center geodesic dome in 3D (see below)
Core team working with Dipti Dhondarkar continued developing the lighting specifics for the City Center (see below)
Anvita Kumari Pandey completed her 18th week helping with the Duplicable City Center Materials and Costs (see below)
Dehua Feng completed his 16th week working on the fire suppression and safety systems designs for the Duplicable City Center Sprinkler and Emergency Systems open source hub (see below)

EARTH BIOHACKING: HIGHEST GOOD FOOD: @9:48

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

EARTH BIOHACKING: HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION: @10:21

Finished work on the Surpassing Educational Standards page (see below)

EARTH BIOHACKING: HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY: @10:52

EARTH BIOHACKING SUMMARY: @11:11

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EARTH BIOHACKING: HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

One Community is open sourcing earth Biohacking 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 working with Michael Hagler (Senior Graphic Designer and Artist) finished the final PDF review of the 7-villages book we’re developing and sent it off to the printer for an initial print draft. You can see some of our editing process here.

7 Villages Book, Highest Good Housing, Earth Biohacking, One Community Weekly Progress Update #282

Finished Final PDF Review of the 7-Villages Book – Click for Housing Page

Michael then integrated all the above edits. He also finished final creation and edits for these 4 pages, which are all now integrated into the website also.

Finished Final Creation and Edits for 4 Pages – Click to Visit Housing Page

The core team also created these updated renders for the open source Murphy bed furniture preview image. This included adding new objects, updating the texture of the wall lights, and adding loft light for rendering with the bed up and down.

Murphy Bed, Earth Biohacking, One Community Weekly Progress Update #282

Created Updated Renders for Open Source Murphy Bed Furniture Preview Image – Click for Page

Mike Kowalski (Game Developer) finished his 16th week helping update our renders that are too big for anything but a gaming computer. Mike continued working on the Earthbag Village (Pod 1) and finished the render you see here.

Earthbag Village, Earth Biohacking, One Community Weekly Progress Update #282

Continued Working on Earthbag Village and Finished this Render – Click for Page

Mike also contributed these images to the open source Murphy bed furniture preview image.

Murpy Bed Furniture, Earth Biohacking, One Community Weekly Progress Update #282

Contributed these Images to Open Source Murphy Bed Furniture Preview Image – Click for Page

Shadi Kennedy (Artist and Graphic Designer) completed his 17th week leading the development of the Murphy bed instructions and finished the graphic by integrating the images we just shared and also finished another round of instruction-edits integration for the back changing and storage area. What you see here is where the assembly instructions are so far for this component and we’d say we are about 80% complete with this part of these instructions.

Earthbag Village, Murphy Bed Instructions, Earth Biohacking, One Community Weekly Progress Update #282

Continued Leading the Development of the Murphy Bed Instructions – Click for Page

Dean Scholz (Architectural Designer) also joined the team working on the Earthbag Village (Pod 1). Here is weekly update #126 from Dean, his focus this week was this initial AutoCAD work for alternate floor plan options for the homes we’ll be building as part of this village.

Began Initial AutoCAD Work for Alternate Floor Plan Options for the Homes – Click for Page

Dan Alleck (Designer and Illustrator) additionally completed his 24th week working on the Compressed Earth Block Village render additions. This week he began initial people and object additions for this Earth Block Village 2nd floor outdoor perspective looking East.

Earth Block Village, Earth Biohacking, One Community Weekly Progress Update #282

Continued Working on Compressed Earth Block Village Render Additions – Click for Page

EARTH BIOHACKING: DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

One Community is open sourcing earth Biohacking 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 rebuilding the City Center geodesic dome in 3D. This week we continued the shell structure process where we redid and solved parts-length errors to finish row 5, as shown here.

CD shell structure, Duplicable City Center, Earth Biohacking, One Community Weekly Progress Update #282

Continued Rebuilding the City Center Geodesic Dome in 3D – Click for Page

The core team working with Dipti Dhondarkar (Electrical Engineer) also continued developing the lighting specifics for the City Center. This is Dipti’s 90th week volunteering on this task and the focus this week was finalizing the lighting tests shown here for the 4th-floor cupola. This image is now on the website also.

City Center Cupola Lighting Tests, open source lighting, eco-community lighting, sustainable lighting design, LEED Platinum lighting, money-saving lighting, energy-saving lighting, ecological lighting, Earth Biohacking, One Community Weekly Progress Update #282

Finalized Lighting Tests for 4th-Floor Cupola – Click for Duplicable City Center Lighting Page

Anvita Kumari Pandey (Civil Engineer) completed her 18th week helping with the Duplicable City Center Materials and Costs. This week’s focus was 1st version of the total cost analysis and detailed cost analysis for the footing concrete and basement slab concrete, and making changes to the cement mortar cost analysis details.

Duplicable City Center Materials and Costs, Earth Biohacking, One Community Weekly Progress Update #282

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

Dehua Feng (Civil Engineer) also completed his 16th week working on the fire suppression and safety systems designs for the Duplicable City Center Sprinkler and Emergency Systems open source hub. This week’s focus was writing content, AutoCAD updates, and creating imagery and charts used to update another 20 pages of the tutorial, some of which you can see here.

Duplicable City Center Sprinkler and Emergency Systems open source hub, Earth Biohacking, One Community Weekly Progress Update #282

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

EARTH BIOHACKING: HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

One Community is open sourcing earth Biohacking 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 finalized the worm information and reviewed and completed edits of the soil amendments section. You can see some of this work here.

Highest Good Food, Food Rollout plan, Earth Biohacking, One Community Weekly Progress Update #282

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

EARTH BIOHACKING: HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

One Community is open sourcing earth Biohacking 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 finished work on the Surpassing Educational Standards page by adding the rest of the content, finishing the formatting, and inserting all the graphics. You can see some of this work here.

Surpassing Educational Standards, Earth Biohacking, One Community Weekly Progress Update #282

Finished Work on Surpassing Educational Standards Page – Click to Visit

EARTH BIOHACKING: HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS

One Community is open sourcing earth Biohacking 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

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

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, incorporating earth biohacking practices.

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, integrating earth biohacking principles. 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. 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, including earth biohacking strategies. We are creating these resources for implementation as individual components or complete developments called teacher/demonstration hubs. These hubs will help launch additional hubs as awareness and knowledge grow.

BUILDING THE FIRST OF MANY

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

WHY ONE COMMUNITY IS CREATING THIS

The One Community self-replicating model is capable of creating a sustainable planet within 30 years. We will achieve this by establishing successful teacher/demonstration hubs on every continent. Villages include designs appropriate for each of the five main types of climates. They also include options for even the most challenged economies. These hubs will collaborate with one another, share ideas, and resources, and work together as a network to heal the planet through earth biohacking. 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. Research supporting and showing the benefits of a model like this can be found in our Research and Resources Articles Archive, which also explores the potential of earth biohacking..

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

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.), incorporating principles of earth biohacking. We see these areas as interdependent and requiring a comprehensive solution if humanity is to move ecologically, socially, economically, and permanently towards a truly sustainable future for everyone.

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

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

COMPREHENSIVE SOLUTION TO HUMANITY’S NEEDS

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

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

GLOBALLY IMPLEMENTABLE REPLICATION MODEL

The more people that are inspired and desiring for themselves what it is that One Community creates, the more demand there will be for spreading the One Community model. This leads to the directing of financial resources and resourceful people where we believe they are needed most: the establishment of additional sustainable communities around the world, including earth biohacking. 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, including earth biohacking. 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.

Living with More fun in Our Lives – One Community Weekly Progress Update #281

Posted on August 12, 2018 by Ruiqi Liu

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

Living with more fun in our lives seems like a worthwhile goal. It’s even better if this can be accomplished while also reducing our ecological footprint, reducing our cost of living, and making a positive and objectively measurable difference in the world. One Community calls this living and creating for The Highest Good of All and we’re creating open source and free-shared tools, tutorials, and resources covering all aspects of the living models necessary to demonstrate and replicate such a lifestyle.

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

OUR MAIN OPEN SOURCE HUBS

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

One Community’s physical location will forward this movement as the first of many self-replicating teacher/demonstration communities, villages, and cities to be built around the world. This is the August 12, 2018 edition (#281) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments:

Living with More fun in Our Lives
One Community Progress Update #281

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

LIVING WITH MORE FUN IN OUR LIVES: INTRO: @0:34

LIVING WITH MORE FUN IN OUR LIVES: HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING: @6:16

Outlined several alternative options for the Earthbag Village and Dean Scholz will be taking over on these (see below)
Working with Michael Hagler, the core team updated another 3 spreads for the 7-villages book we’re developing (see below)
Mike Kowalski continued working on the Earthbag Village and finished two additional renders (see below)

LIVING WITH MORE FUN IN OUR LIVES: DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER: @7:14

Began building the Duplicable City Center Time Investment page (see below)
Core team working with Dipti Dhondarkar continued developing the lighting specifics for the City Center (see below)
Anvita Kumari Pandey completed her 17th week helping with the Duplicable City Center Materials and Costs (see below)
Dehua Feng completed his 15th week working on the fire suppression and safety systems designs for the Duplicable City Center Sprinkler and Emergency Systems open source hub (see below)

LIVING WITH MORE FUN IN OUR LIVES: HIGHEST GOOD FOOD: @8:48

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

LIVING WITH MORE FUN IN OUR LIVES: HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION: @9:31

Began work on the Surpassing Educational Standards page (see below)

LIVING WITH MORE FUN IN OUR LIVES: HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY: @10:06

LIVING WITH MORE FUN IN OUR LIVES SUMMARY: @10:28

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LIVING WITH MORE FUN IN OUR LIVES: HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

One Community thinks we should all be living with more fun in our lives 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 outlined several alternative options for the Earthbag Village (Pod 1), as shown here. Dean Scholz (Architectural Designer) will be taking over on these.

Earthbag Village, Living with More fun in Our Lives, One Community Weekly Progress Update #281

Outlined Several Alternative Options for the Earthbag Village – Click for Page

The core team working with Michael Hagler (Senior Graphic Designer and Artist) also updated another 3 spreads for the 7-villages book we’re developing, you can see these updated pages here and now on the website also.

7 Villages Book, Living with More fun in Our Lives, One Community Weekly Progress Update #281

Updated Another 3 Spreads for the 7-Villages Book – Click for Housing Page

Mike Kowalski (Game Developer) finished his 15th week helping update our renders that are too big for anything but a gaming computer. Mike continued working on the Earthbag Village (Pod 1) and finished the two renders you see here, both of which are now updated on the website also.

Earthbag Village, Pod 1-Village, Net-zero-View-looking-NE, Living with More fun in Our Lives, One Community Weekly Progress Update #281

Earthbag Village Communal Shower and Net-Zero Bathroom Render of View Looking Northeast – Click for Page

Earthbag Village, Heat-recycling Showers, Earth Construction Village Looking South, One Community Village One, Eco-community, Sustainable Community, Eco-conscious Living, Conscientious Living, Green Living, Sustainable Living, Living with More fun in Our Lives, One Community Weekly Progress Update #281

Earthbag Village Heat-Recycling Showers Render- View Looking South – Click to Enlarge

LIVING WITH MORE FUN IN OUR LIVES: DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

One Community thinks we should all be living with more fun in our lives through a Duplicable and Sustainable City Center that is LEED Platinum certified/Sustainable, can feed 200 people at a time, provides laundry for over 300 people, is beautiful, spacious, and saves resources, money, and space:

- - Learn about this building and its function: Duplicable City Center Open Source Hub

This week the core team began building the Duplicable City Center Time Investment page. This week’s focus was creating the initial formatting, index and jump-to links, and writing the Overview and Why Open Source sections. We’d say this brings this page to 30% completion.

Time Investment page, Living with More fun in Our Lives, One Community Weekly Progress Update #281

Began Building the Time Investment Page – Click to Visit

The core team working with Dipti Dhondarkar (Electrical Engineer) also continued developing the lighting specifics for the City Center. This is Dipti’s 89th week volunteering on this task and the focus this week was finalizing the lighting tests shown here for the Living Dome sunrise patio. This image is now on the website also.

lighting specifics for the City Center, Sunrise Patio Lighting tests, Living with More fun in Our Lives, One Community Weekly Progress Update #281

Finalized Lighting Tests for Living Dome Sunrise Patio – Click for Duplicable City Center Lighting Page

Anvita Kumari Pandey (Civil Engineer) completed her 17th week helping with the Duplicable City Center Materials and Costs. This week’s focus was continued cost analysis for the basement retaining wall and beginning work on costing out the columns and flooring specifics. You can see some of this work here.

Duplicable City Center Materials and Costs, Living with More fun in Our Lives, One Community Weekly Progress Update #281

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

Dehua Feng (Civil Engineer) also completed his 15th week working on the fire suppression and safety systems designs for the Duplicable City Center Sprinkler and Emergency Systems open source hub. This week’s focus was finishing the gallons-per-minute branches and elevation research for the complete system and updating the first 10 pages of the tutorial, some of which you can see here.

Sprinkler and Emergency Systems, Living with More fun in Our Lives, One Community Weekly Progress Update #281

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

LIVING WITH MORE FUN IN OUR LIVES: HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

One Community thinks we should all be living with more fun in our lives 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 reviewed and summarized the worm videos. The videos demonstrate that worm farms made from PVC pipe and 5 gallon buckets are suitable for non-winter conditions; and in cold climates, a basement would work well but heat and constant feeding are necessary. You can see some of this work here.

Food Rollout Plan, Living with More fun in Our Lives, One Community Weekly Progress Update #281

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

LIVING WITH MORE FUN IN OUR LIVES: HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

One Community thinks we should all be living with more fun in our lives 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 began work on the Surpassing Educational Standards page. We redid the formatting and overall outline, updated the initial graphics, added a resources section, and rewrote the What and Why sections. We would say this brings the page to about 30% complete.

Surpassing Educational Standards, Highest Good Education, Living with More fun in Our Lives, One Community Weekly Progress Update #281

Began Work on Surpassing Educational Standards Page – Click to Visit

LIVING WITH MORE FUN IN OUR LIVES: HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS

One Community thinks we should all be living with more fun in our lives 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

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WHAT ONE COMMUNITY IS CREATING

One Community is creating a place to grow together and change the world together. We are creating a space that helps each other live in integrity with each other and the planet as we strive to be the greatest versions of ourselves, living with more fun in our lives. 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, living with more fun in our lives. 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, living with more fun in our lives. This includes what we call “Highest Good” approaches to food, energy, housing, education, for-profit and non-profit economics design, social architecture, fulfilled living, stewardship practices, and more. We are creating these resources for implementation as individual components or complete developments called teacher/demonstration hubs. These hubs will help launch additional hubs as awareness and knowledge grow.

BUILDING THE FIRST OF MANY

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

WHY ONE COMMUNITY IS CREATING THIS

The One Community self-replicating model is capable of creating a sustainable planet within 30 years. We will achieve this by establishing successful teacher/demonstration hubs on every continent, living with more fun in our lives. 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, living with more fun in our lives. 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 this, living with more fun in our lives.

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.), living with more fun in our lives. 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, living with more fun in our lives. 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, living with more fun in our lives. 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, living with more fun in our lives. 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, living with more fun in our lives. 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, living with more fun in our lives. 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, living with more fun in our lives. 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, living with more fun in our lives.

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.

Restoring Local-level Decision Making – One Community Weekly Progress Update #280

Posted on August 5, 2018 by Ruiqi Liu

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Sustainable and self-sufficient eco-communities can be a path to restoring local-level decision making for the benefit of residents, the planet, local communities, and more. Through conscious and conscientious stewardship, we can regenerate our world and provide more ethical and enjoyable living environments for ourselves and others too. One Community is supporting this through do-it-yourself open source blueprints, tools, tutorials, 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 August 5, 2018 edition (#280) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments:

Restoring Local-level Decision Making
One Community Progress Update #280

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

RESTORING LOCAL-LEVEL DECISION MAKING: INTRO: @0:34

RESTORING LOCAL-LEVEL DECISION MAKING:HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING: @6:38

Continued testing the open source Murphy bed furniture assembly instructions for the back changing and storage area (see below)
Working with Michael Hagler, the core team completed another 6 pages for the 7-villages book we’re developing (see below)
Gave another round of feedback, added the 4 of Michael’s images that were complete to the site, and added other finished images to the site too (see below)
Created the Residential Open Floor Plan graphic and added to the Tree House Village open source hub (see below)
Hemanth Kotaru completed his 18th week helping with the structural engineering research and calculations for the Earthbag Village (see below)
Mike Kowalski continued working on the Earthbag Village and created 4 updated renders (see below)
The core team used one of Mike’s renders to create a Vermiculture Bathroom graphic (see below)
Dean Scholz continued with the Cob Village render updates (see below)
Dan Alleck completed his 23rd week working on the Compressed Earth Block Village render additions (see below)

RESTORING LOCAL-LEVEL DECISION MAKING: DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER: @8:52

Core team working with David Olivero created overview graphic of HVAC Designs for the Duplicable City Center (see below)
Core team working with Dipti Dhondarkar continued developing the lighting specifics for the City Center (see below)
Haoxuan “Hayes” Lei continued work on the City Center structural engineering
Anvita Kumari Pandey completed her 16th week helping with the Duplicable City Center Materials and Costs (see below)
Dehua Feng completed his 14th week working on the fire suppression and safety systems designs for the Duplicable City Center Sprinkler and Emergency Systems open source hub (see below)

RESTORING LOCAL-LEVEL DECISION MAKING: 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)

RESTORING LOCAL-LEVEL DECISION MAKING: HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION: @11:14

Continued and finished work on the Objective Data and Analysis page (see below)

RESTORING LOCAL-LEVEL DECISION MAKING: HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY: @11:47

RESTORING LOCAL-LEVEL DECISION MAKING SUMMARY: @12:06

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RESTORING LOCAL-LEVEL DECISION MAKING: HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

One Community is restoring local level decision making 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 for the back changing and storage area. We do this by building it in Sketchup 3D and noting mistakes as we go. You can see some of this work-in-progress here.

Murphy Bed Furniture, Restoring Local-level Decision Making, One Community Weekly Progress Update #280

Continued Testing Murphy Bed Furniture Assembly Instructions for Back Changing and Storage Area – Click to Visit Page

The core team working with Michael Hagler (Senior Graphic Designer and Artist) also completed another 6 pages for the 7-villages book we’re developing, you can see these finished pages here.

7-villages book, Restoring Local-level Decision Making, One Community Weekly Progress Update #280

Completed Another 6 Pages for the 7-Villages Book we’re Developing – Click for Housing Page

We also gave another round of feedback, added the 4 of Michael’s images that were complete to the site, and added other finished images to the site too. This included updates to the Earthbag Village (Pod 1), Cob Village (Pod 3), Compressed Earth Block Village (Pod 4), and Tree House Village (Pod 7) webpages. You can see some of this work here.

Highest Good Housing, Restoring Local-level Decision Making, One Community Weekly Progress Update #280

Gave Feedback and Added Images to the Site – Click for Highest Good Housing

The core team additionally created and added to the Tree House Village (Pod 7) open source hub this Residential Open Floor Plan graphic.

Tree House Village, Residential Open Floor Plan, Restoring Local-level Decision Making, One Community Weekly Progress Update #280

Created Residential Open Floor Plan Graphic and Added to Tree House Page – Click to Visit

Hemanth Kotaru (Structural Engineer) completed his 18th week helping with the structural engineering research and calculations for the Earthbag Village (Pod 1). This week’s focus was more nail embedment calculations and research on the engineering details of the earth and cement mixture used to fill the bags.

Earthbag Village, Restoring Local-level Decision Making, One Community Weekly Progress Update #280

Continued Helping with Structural Engineering Research and Calculations for Earthbag Village – Click for Page

Mike Kowalski (Game Developer) finished his 14th week helping update our renders that are too big for anything but a gaming computer. This week Mike continued working on the Earthbag Village (Pod 1) and created the 4 updated renders you see here.

Created 4 Updated Earthbag Village Renders – Click for Page

One of these renders was then used by the core team to create this Vermiculture Bathroom graphic, which is now also on the website.

Vermiculture Bathroom, Restoring Local-level Decision Making, One Community Weekly Progress Update #280

Created Vermiculture Bathroom Graphic and Added to Site – Click for Page

Dean Scholz (Architectural Designer) continued with the Cob Village (Pod 3) render updates also. Here is update 125 of Dean’s work that produced this final view of the Dining Area looking South. Due to the complexity and number of light sources, this image took his computer over 12 days to render.

Cob- Village, Central Dining, Restoring Local-level Decision Making, One Community Weekly Progress Update #280

Cob Village Central Dining and Stage Area Render – Click for Page

Dan Alleck (Designer and Illustrator) completed his 23rd week working on the Compressed Earth Block Village render additions. This week he finished this render of one of the living units, which you can now see updated on the site also.

Compressed Earth Block Village, Restoring Local-level Decision Making, One Community Weekly Progress Update #280

Continued Working on the Compressed Earth Block Village Render Additions – Click for Page

RESTORING LOCAL-LEVEL DECISION MAKING: DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

One Community is restoring local level decision making 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 working with David Olivero (Mechanical Engineer & Data Scientist) created this overview graphic of the HVAC Designs for the Duplicable City Center. This is for the 7-villages book we’re developing.

Duplicable City Center, HVAC, Restoring Local-level Decision Making, One Community Weekly Progress Update #280

Created Overview Graphic of HVAC Designs for the Duplicable City Center – Click for Page

The core team working with Dipti Dhondarkar (Electrical Engineer) also continued developing the lighting specifics for the City Center. This is Dipti’s 88th week volunteering on this task and the focus this week was initial lighting tests for the Living Dome sunrise patio, cupola and surrounding patio, and mezzanine level.

lighting specifics for the City Center, Restoring Local-level Decision Making, One Community Weekly Progress Update #280

Continued Developing the Lighting Specifics for the City Center – Click to Visit

Haoxuan “Hayes” Lei (Structural Engineer) continued work on the City Center structural engineering. This week’s focus was finishing the spreadsheet for wind load calculations on the cupola roof. You can see some of this work here.

City Center structural engineering, Restoring Local-level Decision Making, One Community Weekly Progress Update #280

Continued Work on the City Center Structural Engineering – Click for Page

Anvita Kumari Pandey (Civil Engineer) completed her 16th week helping with the Duplicable City Center Materials and Costs. This week’s focus was cost analysis for the basement retaining wall, footers, foundation, Civil and interior work, and plumbing. You can see some of this work here.

Duplicable City Center Materials and Costs, Restoring Local-level Decision Making, One Community Weekly Progress Update #280

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

Last but not least, Dehua Feng (Civil Engineer) completed his 14th 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 continued updating the piping details in AutoCAD, checked the sprinkler pressures in zones H, K and L, caught an error in the calculations, and redid and updated them for all zones.

fire suppression and safety systems designs, Duplicable City Center Sprinkler and Emergency Systems

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

RESTORING LOCAL-LEVEL DECISION MAKING: HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

One Community is restoring local level decision making 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 researched and added latin names Wikipedia links for the food plants that we’ll initially be growing. This included researching and excluding plants that were not appropriate for zone 5 in our outdoor gardens. Additionally, we completed some of the summaries for worm videos on pages 8 & 9 of the food rollout doc. You can see some of this work here.

Highest Good Food, Restoring Local-level Decision Making, One Community Weekly Progress Update #280

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

RESTORING LOCAL-LEVEL DECISION MAKING: HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

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

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

This week, the core team continued and finished work on the Objective Data and Analysis page. This included writing the rest of the content, creating the graphics, and finalizing the formatting. You can see some of this newly complete page here.

Objective Data and Analysis, Restoring Local-level Decision Making, One Community Weekly Progress Update #280

Finished Work on the Objective Data and Analysis Page – Click to Visit

RESTORING LOCAL-LEVEL DECISION MAKING: HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS

One Community is restoring local level decision making 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

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

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OVERVIEW ● LOCATION ● FUNDING

GET INVOLVED

WHAT ONE COMMUNITY IS CREATING

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

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

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

RESTORING LOCAL-LEVEL DECISION MAKING: 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, restoring local-level decision making, and evolving and expanding ALL aspects of sustainable living.

WHY ONE COMMUNITY IS CREATING THIS

The One Community self-replicating model is capable of creating a sustainable planet within 30 years. We will achieve this by establishing successful teacher/demonstration hubs on every continent. Villages include designs appropriate for each of the five main types of climates. They also include options for even the most challenged economies. These hubs will collaborate with one another, share ideas, and resources, and work together as a network to heal the planet while restoring local-level decision making. 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. Research supporting and showing the benefits of a model like this, including restoring local-level decision making, 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 this, restoring local-level decision making.

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.), including restoring local-level decision making. 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, including restoring local-level decision making. By free-sharing the step-by-step plans people need for duplication, inviting people to participate, and demonstrating sustainable teacher/demonstration hubs as a more desirable way of living, the model will predictably expand on its own.

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

COMPREHENSIVE SOLUTION TO HUMANITY’S NEEDS

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

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

GLOBALLY IMPLEMENTABLE REPLICATION MODEL

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

To meet the increasing demand for sustainability that we are contributing to, we are coordinating with manufacturers, education institutions, individuals, and vendors. This is also part of this model to help the world, restoring local-level decision making. 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, restoring local-level decision making.

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, restoring local-level decision making.

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, restoring local-level decision making.

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, restoring local-level decision making.

Sustainable Diversity – One Community Weekly Progress Update #279

Posted on July 29, 2018 by Zuqi Li

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Sustainable diversity means diversity that is sufficient to meet the different needs and values of people around the world. We think the best way to achieve this is through open source and free-shared sustainability models that cover both universal needs (food, energy, housing) and emotional needs (education, for-profit and non-profit economic design, social architecture, fulfilled living, global stewardship practices, etc.). Creating these with the goal to do what is best for The Highest Good of All, our intent is global sustainability.

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 sustainable diversity movement as the first of many self-replicating teacher/demonstration communities, villages, and cities to be built around the world. This is the July 29, 2018 edition (#279) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments:

Sustainable Diversity
One Community Progress Update #279

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

SUSTAINABLE DIVERSITY INTRO: @0:34

SUSTAINABLE DIVERSITY – HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING: @7:42

Began testing the open source Murphy bed furniture assembly instructions for the back changing and storage area (see below)
Working with Michael Hagler, the core team completed another 6 pages for the 7-villages book we’re developing (see below)
Updated the formatting and added them all to the Earthbag Village (Pod 1), Tropical Atrium, and Duplicable City Center webpages (see below)
Shadi Kennedy completed his 17th week leading the development of the Murphy bed instructions (see below)
Mike Kowalski continued working on the Earthbag Village and created updated renders (see below)
Dean Scholz continued with the Cob Village render updates (see below)
Mihaela “Michelle” Pinzaru completed her 20th week working on the Tree House Village residential renders (see below)

SUSTAINABLE DIVERSITY – DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER: @9:41

Continued rebuilding and testing the City Center geodesic dome parts in 3D (see below)
Core team working with Dipti Dhondarkar continued developing the lighting specifics for the City Center (see below)
Added graphics to the website and redesigned the related sections of the Lighting Page (see below)
Haoxuan “Hayes” Lei continued work on the City Center structural engineering (see below)
Anvita Kumari Pandey completed her 15th week helping with the Duplicable City Center Materials and Costs (see below)
Dehua Feng completed his 13th week working on the fire suppression and safety systems designs for the Duplicable City Center Sprinkler and Emergency Systems open source hub (see below)

SUSTAINABLE DIVERSITY – HIGHEST GOOD FOOD: @11:39

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

SUSTAINABLE DIVERSITY – HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION: @12:26

Began work on the Objective Data and Analysis page (see below)

SUSTAINABLE DIVERSITY – HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY: @12:59

Updated our Legal Documents and Processes page with new PDF downloads of all our Trademark documents, trademark infringement letter templates, and links to the actual trademark registration documentation (see below)

SUSTAINABLE DIVERSITY SUMMARY: @13:36

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HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

One Community is expanding sustainable diversity through Highest Good housing that is artistic and beautiful, more affordable, more space efficient, lasts longer, DIY buildable, and constructed with healthy and sustainable materials:

- - Learn about: Our Upcoming Crowdfunding Campaign
  - Learn about the different village models: 7 Sustainable Village Models
  - Visit the open source portals for the first two: Earthbag Village OS Hub | Straw Bale Village OS Hub

This week the core team began testing the open source Murphy bed furniture assembly instructions for the back changing and storage area, contributing to sustainable diversity. We do this by building it in Sketchup 3D and noting mistakes as we go. You can see some of this work-in-progress here.

Sustainable Diversity, Earthbag Village Assembly Instruction, Sustainable Diversity, One Community Weekly Progress Update #279

Began Testing Murphy Bed Furniture Assembly Instructions for Back Changing and Storage Area

The core team working with Michael Hagler (Senior Graphic Designer and Artist) also completed another 6 pages for the 7-villages book we’re developing, you can see these finished pages here.

Sustainable Diversity, Highest Good Housing, 7 Villages Book, Sustainable Diversity, One Community Weekly Progress Update #279

Completed Another 6 Pages for the 7-Villages Book we’re Developing – Click for Housing Page

We also updated the formatting and added them all to the Earthbag Village (Pod 1), Tropical Atrium, and Duplicable City Center webpages. You can see some of this work here.

Sustainable Diversity, Highest Good Housing, Sustainable Diversity, One Community Weekly Progress Update #279

Formatting the Earthbag Village, Tropical Atrium, and Duplicable City Center Webpages – Click to Visit

Shadi Kennedy (Artist and Graphic Designer) completed his 17th week leading the development of the Murphy bed instructions, in pursuit of sustainable diversity. This week Shadi added a diversity of objects to the 3D file and then created this initial mockup introduction image.

Sustainable Diversity, Murphy Bed Furniture, Sustainable Diversity, One Community Weekly Progress Update #279

Continued Leading the Development of the Murphy Bed Instructions – Click for Page

Mike Kowalski (Game Developer) finished his 13th week helping update our renders that are too big for anything but a gaming computer, dedicated to building sustainable diversity. This week Mike continued working on the Earthbag Village (Pod 1) and created the updated renders you see here. The first two need more work but the bottom one is complete and added to the site.

Sustainable Diversity, Sustainable Diversity, One Community Weekly Progress Update #279

Continued Working on the Earthbag Village Renders – Click to Visit

Dean Scholz (Architectural Designer) continued with the Cob Village (Pod 3) render updates also. Here is update 124 of Dean’s work continuing the lighting and texturing process for the dining area looking South.

Sustainable Diversity, Cob Village, Sustainable Diversity, One Community Weekly Progress Update #279

Continued Cob Village Render Updates – Click for Page

Mihaela “Michelle” Pinzaru (Interior Designer and Architectural Drafter) also completed her 20th week working on the Tree House Village (Pod 7) residential renders, contributing to building sustainable diversity. This week she finished these final renders showing the residential layouts with an open floor plan.

Sustainable Diversity, Tree House Village, Sustainable Diversity, One Community Weekly Progress Update #279

Continued Working on Tree House Village Residential Renders – Click for Page

DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

One Community is expanding sustainable diversity 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 rebuilding and testing the City Center geodesic dome parts in 3D. This week’s focus was developing row 5 and fixing errors we found, which you can see here.

Sustainable Diversity, CD shell structure, Sustainable Diversity, One Community Weekly Progress Update #279

Continued Rebuilding the City Center Geodesic Dome in 3D – Click for Page

The core team working with Dipti Dhondarkar (Electrical Engineer) also continued developing the lighting specifics for the City Center. This is Dipti’s 87th week volunteering on this task and the focus this week was finalizing this Social Dome multi-color light graphic:

multicolor lighting tests, City Center Social Dome, LEED Lighting plan, open source LEED Platinum lighting, full-spectrum lighting, Sustainable Diversity, One Community Weekly Progress Update #279

Finalized the Social Dome Multi-Color Light Graphic – Click for DCC Lighting Page

…and the Dining Dome kitchen lighting tests and graphic:

multicolor lighting tests, City Center Dining Dome, LEED Lighting plan, open source LEED Platinum lighting, full-spectrum lighting, Sustainable Diversity, One Community Weekly Progress Update #279

Finalized City Center Dining Dome Kitchen Lighting Tests – Click for Lighting Page

The core team also added these graphics to the website and redesigned the related sections of the Lighting Page to better organize and describe them based on which dome they are in, as shown here.

Duplicable City Center, Sustainable Diversity, One Community Weekly Progress Update #279

Added Graphics and Redesigned Related Sections of Lighting Page – Click to Visit

Haoxuan “Hayes” Lei (Structural Engineer) continued work on the City Center structural engineering. This week’s focus was more discussing and updating the spreadsheet tabs for snow calculation and beam design and further developing the spreadsheet for wind load calculation on cupola roof. You can see some of this work here.

City Center structural engineering, Sustainable Diversity, One Community Weekly Progress Update #279

Continued Working on the City Center Structural Engineering – Click for Page

Anvita Kumari Pandey (Civil Engineer) completed her 15th week helping with the Duplicable City Center Materials and Costs. This week’s focus was material selection for the dome structure, doors & windows, swimming pool, spa and natural pond, and basement walls. You can see some of this work here.

Duplicable City Center Materials and Costs, Sustainable Diversity, One Community Weekly Progress Update #279

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

Last but not least, Dehua Feng (Civil Engineer) completed his 13th 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 continued fixing details in the autoCAD layout, redid the cupola piping, and double checked and updated the pressure calculations for zones A, B, C, D, and F.

Duplicable City Center Sprinkler and Emergency Systems Design, Sustainable Diversity, One Community Weekly Progress Update #279

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

HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

One Community is expanding sustainable diversity 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 identified the plant names by their latin names using Wikipedia and provided a link to Wikipedia to directly reference and view them. We also removed about 17 pages of herb photos and summaries and placed common names, latin names, and wiki links on page 22-23 of the food rollout doc. You can see some of this work here.

Food Rollout Plan, Sustainable Diversity, One Community Weekly Progress Update #279

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

HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

One Community is expanding sustainable diversity 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 began work on the Objective Data and Analysis page. We redid the formatting and overall outline, updated the initial graphics, and rewrote the What and Why sections. We would say this brings the page to about 30% complete.

Objective Data and Analysis, Sustainable Diversity, One Community Weekly Progress Update #279

Began work on the Objective Data and Analysis Page – Click to Visit

HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS

One Community is expanding sustainable diversity through a Highest Good society approach to living that is founded on fulfilled living, the study of meeting human needs, Community, and making a difference in the world:

- - Read the Highest Good society overview: Highest Good Society
  - Learn about the model for fulfilled living and sharing: A Day in the Life
  - Learn about the 4 economic models: RBE | For-profit | Non-profit | Entrepreneurship
  - Learn about our open source community collaboration and management software: The Highest Good Network

This week the core team updated our Legal Documents and Processes page with new PDF downloads of all our Trademark documents, trademark infringement letter templates, and links to the actual trademark registration documentation. You can see some examples of all of this here.

Legal Documents and Processes, Trademark documents, trademark infringement letter templates, links to trademark registration documentation, Sustainable Diversity, One Community Weekly Progress Update #279

Updated our Legal Documents and Processes Page with New PDF Downloads – 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. We are creating a space that helps each other live in integrity with each other and the planet as we strive to be the greatest versions of ourselves, committed to sustainable diversity. We do this by harmoniously respecting each other, nature, and the rest of our one shared planet.

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

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

BUILDING THE FIRST OF MANY

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

WHY ONE COMMUNITY IS CREATING THIS

The One Community self-replicating model is capable of creating a sustainable planet within 30 years through the sustainable diversity. 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, further promoting the ideals of the sustainable diversity. These hubs will collaborate with one another, share ideas, resources, and work together as a network to heal the planet. They will also transform the global lifestyle to a more enjoyable, fulfilling, healthy, and sustainable one.

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

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

INSPIRING SUSTAINABILITY WITH OPEN SOURCE

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

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

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

COMPREHENSIVE SOLUTION TO HUMANITY’S NEEDS

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

As we address and open source share these areas we will establish a living example of the first teacher/demonstration village purposed to teach others the principles of sustainable diversity. 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.

ONE COMMUNITY’S 4-PHASE STRATEGY

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

Phase I: Sustainable Diversity by Demonstrating a Better Way

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

Phase II: Sustainable Diversity with Open Source Project-Launch Blueprinting

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

Phase III: Sustainable Diversity by Inviting the World to Participate

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

Phase IV: Sustainable Diversity with Universal Appeal and Global Expansion

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

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

WHY OPEN SOURCE

We are creating everything One Community does as open source and free-shared blueprints because we see this as the path to a new Golden Age of creativity, innovation, cooperation, and collaboration for all of humanity. Our model is a solution model that creates additional solution creating models enabling people to live and collaborate globally for The Highest Good of All. The easier we make everything we do, the faster we see the world transitioning the faster we see the world transitioning towards sustainable diversity.

Every aspect of this model supports itself and contributes to its success, from the sustainable food, energy, and homes, to the social architecture, One Community Education Program, and open source sharing model itself. Each piece can be accessed, evolved, and even re-birthed as something completely new. It can be duplicated by itself or with other modules, with applications as diverse as the people who want and need them. The constantly expanding total model will additionally be able to be used in its entirety as the open source project-launch blueprint for a variety of duplicate teacher/demonstration communities, villages, and cities capable of being built virtually anywhere.

The most profound part is: the more we open source share, the more we help move everyone forward, the more people know about what we are doing and can participate, and the more successful and capable we are of project-launch blueprinting and sharing even more still. This is all supported and made possible because:

We have the team to produce an extensive quality and diversity of tools and resources
It gives us the opportunity to broaden the concept of sustainability and make it more desirable
Areas we open source expand our ability to evolve even faster through global collaboration
Each new area open sourced expands our target audience, advancing our world changing goals and contributing to sustainable diversity.
The more we show our ability to share what we are creating, the more others will benefit and want to join this movement and mimic the part we are playing in it

OPEN SOURCE SHARING STRATEGY SPECIFICS

One Community’s open source strategy for sustainable diversity will evolve 5 primary types of open source content purposed to reach and service as broad an audience as possible. This includes the following mediums of sharing that are being developed to function as standalone resources or in combination with each other:

Video tutorials
Audio tutorials
Live streaming video
Direct/live interaction
Written content and downloadable PDFs

Maximum exposure is accomplished through simultaneous implementation of the following strategies:

Free-shared audio, visual, and PDF downloads
Scholarship and intern programs for direct learning
Videoing or live-streaming almost all classes and activities
Tourism option for involvement in almost all aspects of One Community
Dedicated and search engine optimized sections of our website for each key area
Our established infrastructure that simultaneously posts to over 20 social networks

SUMMARY

One Community sees the issues of the world as interdependent and interconnected. To address them simultaneously, we are open-source blueprinting a more advanced standard of living by designing holistic, environmentally-regenerative, self-sustaining, adaptable solutions for all areas of sustainability. We will model these within a comprehensive “village/city” which will be built in the southwestern U.S. This teacher/demonstration hub will be a place people can experience a new way of living and then replicate it with our open source blueprints: creating a model solution that creates additional solution-creating models all aimed at sustainable diversity.

Managing Global Transformation – One Community Weekly Progress Update #278

Posted on July 22, 2018 by Zuqi Li

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Managing global transformation is probably not possible, but creating an open source and self-replicating sustainability model that can create global transformation without management is absolutely 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 managing global transformation movement as the first of many self-replicating teacher/demonstration communities, villages, and cities to be built around the world. This is the July 22, 2018 edition (#278) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments:

Managing Global Transformation
One Community Progress Update #278

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

MANAGING GLOBAL TRANSFORMATION INTRO: @0:34

MANAGING GLOBAL TRANSFORMATION – HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING: @7:38

Created and added to the site a new Tree House Village residential housing perspective image (see below)
Working with Michael Hagler, the core team completed another round of edit requests and updates and added Michael’s latest approved and finalized images to the Shipping Container Village, Recycled Materials Village, Tree House Village, and Duplicable City Center open source hubs (see below)
Michael integrated another round of suggestions and edits into several pages, all from the 7-villages book we’re developing (see below)
Hemanth Kotaru completed his 17th week helping with the structural engineering research and calculations for the Earthbag Village (see below)
Shadi Kennedy completed his 16th week leading the development of the Murphy bed instructions (see below)
Dean Scholz continued with the Cob Village render updates (see below)

MANAGING GLOBAL TRANSFORMATION – DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER: @9:27

Continued rebuilding and testing the City Center geodesic dome parts in 3D (see below)
Created initial setup of the Duplicable City Center Sprinkler and Emergency Systems Design open source hub (see below)
Core team working with Dipti Dhondarkar continued developing the lighting specifics for the City Center (see below)
Haoxuan “Hayes” Lei continued work on the City Center structural engineering (see below)
David Olivero completed his 25th week helping with the HVAC Designs for the Duplicable City Center (see below)
Anvita Kumari Pandey completed her 14th week helping with the Duplicable City Center Materials and Costs (see below)
Dehua Feng completed his 12th week working on the fire suppression and safety systems designs for the City Center (see below)

MANAGING GLOBAL TRANSFORMATION – HIGHEST GOOD FOOD: @11:34

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

MANAGING GLOBAL TRANSFORMATION – HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION: @12:18

Researched and added a diversity of resources from Dr. Becky Bailey’s Conscious Discipline YouTube channel to the related pages of the Highest Good education component (see below)

MANAGING GLOBAL TRANSFORMATION – HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY: @12:57

MANAGING GLOBAL TRANSFORMATION SUMMARY: @13:17

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HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

One Community is managing global transformation 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 created and added to the site this new Tree House Village (Pod 7) residential housing perspective image.

Tree House Village, Managing Global Transformation, One Community Weekly Progress Update #278

Created and Added to the Site a New Tree House Village Residential Image – Click for Page

The core team working with Michael Hagler (Senior Graphic Designer and Artist) also completed another round of edit requests and updates and added Michael’s latest approved and finalized images to the Shipping Container Village, Recycled Materials Village, Tree House Village, and Duplicable City Center open source hubs. You can see some of this work here.

Shipping Container Village, Recycled Materials Village, Tree House Village, and Duplicable City Center, Managing Global Transformation, One Community Weekly Progress Update #278

Continued Edits & Added Finalized Images to 4 Housing Pages – Click for Highest Good Housing Page

Michael additionally integrated another round of suggestions and edits into all the pages shown here. These, like the previous images, are all from the 7-villages book we’re developing. We’d say we are now about 85% complete with it.

Highest Good Housing, Managing Global Transformation, One Community Weekly Progress Update #278

Integrated Suggestions and Edits Into Several Pages – Click for Highest Good Housing

Hemanth Kotaru (Structural Engineer) completed his 17th week helping with the structural engineering research and calculations for the Earthbag Village (Pod 1), contributing to managing global transformation. This week’s focus was nail embedment calculations and research on cement mortar and polypyrene bag bond strength.

Structural Engineering Research and Calculations, Earthbag Village, Managing Global Transformation, One Community Weekly Progress Update #278

Continued Structural Engineering Research and Calculations for the Earthbag Village – Click for Page

Also, Shadi Kennedy (Artist and Graphic Designer) completed his 16th week leading the development of the Murphy bed instructions, in pursuit of managing global transformation. This week Shadi redrew and replaced parts 18 & 19, redid the main section and elements section with consideration to the order of pieces used in assembly, added screw info icons throughout, and began setting up the extra elements on the cutting pages.

Murphy Bed, Managing Global Transformation, One Community Weekly Progress Update #278

Continued Leading the Development of the Murphy Bed Instructions – Click for Page

Dean Scholz (Architectural Designer) continued with the Cob Village (Pod 3) render updates also, dedicated to managing global transformation. Here is update 123 of Dean’s work that produced this 2nd-generation test render of the dining area looking South.

Cob Village Render, Managing Global Transformation, One Community Weekly Progress Update #278

Continued Cob Village Render Updates – Click for Page

DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

One Community is managing global transformation 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 rebuilding and testing the City Center geodesic dome parts in 3D. This week we continued the shell structure process from the bottom up, finishing rows 2, 3, and 4, as shown here.

City Center geodesic dome, 3D Dome, Managing Global Transformation, One Community Weekly Progress Update #278

Continued Rebuilding the City Center Geodesic Dome in 3D – Click for Page

And core team created this initial setup of the Duplicable City Center Sprinkler and Emergency Systems Design open source hub.

Duplicable City Center Sprinkler and Emergency Systems Design, open source hub, Managing Global Transformation, One Community Weekly Progress Update #278

Initial Setup of Duplicable City Center Sprinkler and Emergency Systems Design Page – Click to Visit

The core team working with Dipti Dhondarkar (Electrical Engineer) also continued developing the lighting specifics for the City Center. This is Dipti’s 86th week volunteering on this task and the focus this week was finalizing the Social Dome hallway lighting tests:

LEED Platinum Hallway Lighting Tests, green living, sustainable lighting, LED lighting, green lighting, hallway light fixtures, hallway illumination, sustainable lighting, city center lighting, One Community Global, Managing Global Transformation, One Community Weekly Progress Update #278

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

…and these basement lighting tests, all of which you can see now on the website also:

dining dome basement lights,Managing Global Transformation, One Community Weekly Progress Update #278

Finalized City Center Basement Lighting Tests – Click for Page

Haoxuan “Hayes” Lei (Structural Engineer) continued work on the City Center structural engineering. This week’s focus was discussing and updating the spreadsheet tabs for snow calculation and beam design, researching how to apply wind loads on the cupola roof according to ASCE 7-10, and starting to develop the related spreadsheet for these calculations.

City Center Structural Engineering, Managing Global Transformation, One Community Weekly Progress Update #278

Continued Working on the City Center Structural Engineering – Click for Page

David Olivero (Mechanical Engineer & Data Scientist) completed his 25th week helping with the HVAC Designs for the Duplicable City Center. This week’s focus was adding the creating a zones-only AutoCAD layout for the complete HVAC systems, researching and choosing the make and model for our 3 ERVs, and writing an FAQ description for why we don’t have any fans in the living dome bathrooms.

HVAC Designs for the Duplicable City Center, Managing Global Transformation, One Community Weekly Progress Update #278

Continued Helping with HVAC Designs for Duplicable City Center – Click for Page

Anvita Kumari Pandey (Civil Engineer) completed her 14th week helping with the Duplicable City Center Materials and Costs. This week’s focus was researching LEED materials for the dome cladding, doors & windows, updating related cost details, and began cost analysis for the natural pool.

Duplicable City Center Materials and Costs, Managing Global Transformation, One Community Weekly Progress Update #278

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

Last but not least, Dehua Feng (Civil Engineer) completed his 12th week working on the fire suppression and safety systems designs for the City Center. This week he checked for valid working pressure for the cupola Zone N, added an additional system for the horizontal-spray pipes in the Social Dome, and modified the AutoCAD file to use only 45 and 90 degree fittings.

fire suppression and safety systems designs, Duplicalte City Center, Managing Global Transformation, One Community Weekly Progress Update #278

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

HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

One Community is managing global transformation 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 rearranged the Google doc and added more information from the LDS Prepper videos we’ve been reviewing. We also continued researching the Stout method by watching 3 videos and integrating the relevant information covering details like the importance of using organic hay or grass and cutting it before it goes to seed. You can see some of this work here.

food rollout plan, Managing Global Transformation, One Community Weekly Progress Update #278

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

HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

One Community is managing global transformation 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 researched and added a diversity of resources from Dr. Becky Bailey’s Conscious Discipline YouTube channel to the related pages of the Highest Good education component.

Highest Good education, Managing Global Transformation, One Community Weekly Progress Update #278

Researched and Added Resources from Dr. Becky Bailey to Related Pages – Click to visit Page

HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS

One Community is managing global transformation 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

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WHAT ONE COMMUNITY IS CREATING

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

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

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

BUILDING THE FIRST OF MANY

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

WHY ONE COMMUNITY IS CREATING THIS

The One Community self-replicating model is capable of creating a sustainable planet within 30 years through the managing global transformation. 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, further promoting the ideals of the managing global transformation. These hubs will collaborate with one another, share ideas, resources, and work together as a network to heal the planet. They will also transform the global lifestyle to a more enjoyable, fulfilling, healthy, and sustainable one.

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

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

INSPIRING SUSTAINABILITY WITH OPEN SOURCE

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

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

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

COMPREHENSIVE SOLUTION TO HUMANITY’S NEEDS

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

As we address and open source share these areas we will establish a living example of the first teacher/demonstration village purposed to teach others the principles of managing global transformation. 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.

ONE COMMUNITY’S 4-PHASE STRATEGY

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

Phase I: Managing Global Transformation by Demonstrating a Better Way

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

Phase II: Managing Global Transformation with Open Source Project-Launch Blueprinting

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

Phase III: Managing Global Transformation by Inviting the World to Participate

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

Phase IV: Managing Global Transformation with Universal Appeal and Global Expansion

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

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

WHY OPEN SOURCE

We are creating everything One Community does as open source and free-shared blueprints because we see this as the path to a new Golden Age of creativity, innovation, cooperation, and collaboration for all of humanity. Our model is a solution model that creates additional solution creating models enabling people to live and collaborate globally for The Highest Good of All. The easier we make everything we do, the faster we see the world transitioning the faster we see the world transitioning towards managing global transformation.

Every aspect of this model supports itself and contributes to its success, from the sustainable food, energy, and homes, to the social architecture, One Community Education Program, and open source sharing model itself. Each piece can be accessed, evolved, and even re-birthed as something completely new. It can be duplicated by itself or with other modules, with applications as diverse as the people who want and need them. The constantly expanding total model will additionally be able to be used in its entirety as the open source project-launch blueprint for a variety of duplicate teacher/demonstration communities, villages, and cities capable of being built virtually anywhere.

The most profound part is: the more we open source share, the more we help move everyone forward, the more people know about what we are doing and can participate, and the more successful and capable we are of project-launch blueprinting and sharing even more still. This is all supported and made possible because:

We have the team to produce an extensive quality and diversity of tools and resources
It gives us the opportunity to broaden the concept of sustainability and make it more desirable
Areas we open source expand our ability to evolve even faster through global collaboration
Each new area open sourced expands our target audience, advancing our world changing goals and contributing to managing global transformation.
The more we show our ability to share what we are creating, the more others will benefit and want to join this movement and mimic the part we are playing in it

OPEN SOURCE SHARING STRATEGY SPECIFICS

One Community’s open source strategy for managing global transformation will evolve 5 primary types of open source content purposed to reach and service as broad an audience as possible. This includes the following mediums of sharing that are being developed to function as standalone resources or in combination with each other:

Video tutorials
Audio tutorials
Live streaming video
Direct/live interaction
Written content and downloadable PDFs

Maximum exposure is accomplished through simultaneous implementation of the following strategies:

Free-shared audio, visual, and PDF downloads
Scholarship and intern programs for direct learning
Videoing or live-streaming almost all classes and activities
Tourism option for involvement in almost all aspects of One Community
Dedicated and search engine optimized sections of our website for each key area
Our established infrastructure that simultaneously posts to over 20 social networks

SUMMARY

One Community sees the issues of the world as interdependent and interconnected. To address them simultaneously, we are open-source blueprinting a more advanced standard of living by designing holistic, environmentally-regenerative, self-sustaining, adaptable solutions for all areas of sustainability. We will model these within a comprehensive “village/city” which will be built in the southwestern U.S. This teacher/demonstration hub will be a place people can experience a new way of living and then replicate it with our open source blueprints: creating a model solution that creates additional solution-creating models all aimed at managing global transformation.

Long-Term Sustainable Solutions for Immediate Challenges – One Community Weekly Progress Update #277

Posted on July 15, 2018 by Zuqi Li

LONG-TERM SUSTAINABLE SOLUTIONS FOR IMMEDIATE CHALLENGES – HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING: @7:56

Long-term sustainable solutions for immediate challenges are a path to addressing long-term challenges too. One Community is creating open source versions of these for 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 by creating long-term sustainable solutions for immediate challenges. This is the July 15, 2018 edition (#277) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments:

Long-Term Sustainable Solutions for Immediate Challenges
One Community Progress Update #277

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

LONG-TERM SUSTAINABLE SOLUTIONS FOR IMMEDIATE CHALLENGES INTRO: @0:34

The core team working with Michael Hagler completed another round of edit requests, updates, and mockups along with adding Michael’s latest approved and finalized images to the Earthbag Village (Pod 1), Straw Bale Village (Pod 2), and Cob Village (Pod 3) open source hubs (see below)
Michael also integrated another round of suggestions and edits into several pages from the 7-villages book we’re developing (see below)
Hemanth Kotaru completed his 16th week helping with the structural engineering research and calculations for the Earthbag Village (see below)
Shadi Kennedy completed his 15th week leading the development of the Murphy bed instructions (see below)
Dean Scholz continued with the Cob Village render updates (see below)
Mihaela “Michelle” Pinzaru completed her 19th week working on the Tree House Village residential renders (see below)

LONG-TERM SUSTAINABLE SOLUTIONS FOR IMMEDIATE CHALLENGES – DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER: @9:58

Continued rebuilding the City Center geodesic dome in 3D (see below)
The core team working with Dipti Dhondarkar continued developing the lighting specifics for the City Center (see below)
Haoxuan “Hayes” Lei continued work on the City Center structural engineering (see below)
Anvita Kumari Pandey completed her 13th week helping with the Duplicable City Center Materials and Costs (see below)
Mike Hogan helped with researching and initial selection of the Control and Automation Systems hardware (see below)
Dehua Feng completed his 11th week working on the fire suppression and safety systems designs for the City Center (see below)

LONG-TERM SUSTAINABLE SOLUTIONS FOR IMMEDIATE CHALLENGES – HIGHEST GOOD FOOD: @11:55

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

LONG-TERM SUSTAINABLE SOLUTIONS FOR IMMEDIATE CHALLENGES – HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION: @12:36

Updated the resource sections of the alternative education pages coving Reggio Emilia Theory and Application, Bloom’s Taxonomy, and Howard Gardner Multiple Intelligences (see below)

LONG-TERM SUSTAINABLE SOLUTIONS FOR IMMEDIATE CHALLENGES – HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY: @13:13

David Olivero helped update the open source AutoCAD template (see below)

LONG-TERM SUSTAINABLE SOLUTIONS FOR IMMEDIATE CHALLENGES SUMMARY: @13:46

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HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

One Community is creating long term sustainable solutions for immediate challenges 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 working with Michael Hagler (Senior Graphic Designer and Artist) completed another round of edit requests, updates, and mockups along with adding Michael’s latest approved and finalized images to the Earthbag Village (Pod 1), Straw Bale Village (Pod 2), and Cob Village (Pod 3) open source hubs, contributing to long-term sustainable solutions for immediate challenges. You can see some of this work here.

Highest Good Housing, Long-Term Sustainable Solutions for Immediate Challenges, One Community Weekly Progress Update #277

Continued Edits & Added Finalized Images to 3 Housing Pages – Click for Highest Good Housing Page

Michael also integrated another round of suggestions and edits into all the pages shown here, dedicated to long-term sustainable solutions for immediate challenges. These, like the previous images, are all from the 7-villages book we’re developing. We’d say we are now about 80% complete with it.

Integrated Suggestions and Edits Into Several Pages – Click for Highest Good Housing

Hemanth Kotaru (Structural Engineer) completed his 16th week helping with the structural engineering research and calculations for the Earthbag Village (Pod 1), offering long-term sustainable solutions for immediate challenges. This week’s focus was research and beginning nail embedment calculations to see if this is a viable option for replacing barbed wire. You can see some of this work-in-progress here.

structural engineering research and calculations, Earthbag Village, Pod 1, Long-Term Sustainable Solutions for Immediate Challenges, One Community Weekly Progress Update #277

Continued Structural Engineering Research and Calculations for the Earthbag Village – Click for Page

Also, Shadi Kennedy (Artist and Graphic Designer) completed his 15th week leading the development of the Murphy bed instructions, in pursuit of creating long-term sustainable solutions for immediate challenges. This week Shadi finished the last set of diagrams for the back storage section, went through all diagrams assigning correct parts labels and formatting, and went through all the steps checking for appropriate use of tool symbols.

Murphy Bed Instructions, Long-Term Sustainable Solutions for Immediate Challenges, One Community Weekly Progress Update #277

Continued Leading the Development of the Murphy Bed Instructions – Click for Page

Dean Scholz (Architectural Designer) continued with the Cob Village (Pod 3) render updates also, contributing to long-term sustainable solutions for immediate challenges. Here is update 122 of Dean’s work that produced this initial test render of the dining area looking South.

Cob Village, Cob Village Renders, Long-Term Sustainable Solutions for Immediate Challenges, One Community Weekly Progress Update #277

Continued Cob Village Render Updates – Click for Page

Mihaela “Michelle” Pinzaru (Interior Designer and Architectural Drafter) also completed her 19th week working on the Tree House Village (Pod 7) residential renders, dedicated to long-term sustainable solutions for immediate challenges. This week she created this 1st-floor and 2nd-floor top-down render of the residential designs. Both of these are now integrated into the website also.

Tree House Village Residential Renders, Long-Term Sustainable Solutions for Immediate Challenges, One Community Weekly Progress Update #277

Continued Working on Tree House Village Residential Renders – Click for Page

DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

One Community is creating long term sustainable solutions for immediate challenges 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 rebuilding the City Center geodesic dome in 3D, in pursuit of creating long-term sustainable solutions for immediate challenges. This week we continued the shell structure process from the bottom up, finishing rows 1 and 6, as shown here.

City Center Geodesic Dome in 3D, Long-Term Sustainable Solutions for Immediate Challenges, One Community Weekly Progress Update #277

Continued Rebuilding the City Center Geodesic Dome in 3D – Click for Page

The core team working with Dipti Dhondarkar (Electrical Engineer) also continued developing the lighting specifics for the City Center. This is Dipti’s 85th week volunteering on this task and the focus this week was finalizing the Living Dome hallway:

City Center Living Dome Hallway Light Distribution Tests, One Community, Long-Term Sustainable Solutions for Immediate Challenges, One Community Weekly Progress Update #277

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

….and these public men’s and women’s restroom lighting tests, which you can see now on the website also.

LEED Platinum Public Bathroom Lighting Tests, open source eco-lighting, green living, sustainable lights, eco-lights, LED lighting, lighting tests, One Community Global, Long-Term Sustainable Solutions for Immediate Challenges, One Community Weekly Progress Update #277

Finished Public Men’s and Women’s Restroom Lighting Tests – Click for Page

Haoxuan “Hayes” Lei (Structural Engineer) continued work on the City Center structural engineering, contributing to long-term sustainable solutions for immediate challenges. This week’s focus was revising the spreadsheet for floor beam layout with the latest naming format and adding notes on the drawings for the beam layout.

City Center structural engineering, Long-Term Sustainable Solutions for Immediate Challenges, One Community Weekly Progress Update #277

Continued Working on the City Center Structural Engineering – Click for Page

Anvita Kumari Pandey (Civil Engineer) completed her 13th week helping with the Duplicable City Center Materials and Costs. This week’s focus was working on the dome structure quantities and materials costs, additional corrections to the kitchen equipment cost analysis sheet, and researching LEED materials recommendations for roofing, windows, and doors. You can see some of this work here.

Duplicable City Center Materials and Costs, Long-Term Sustainable Solutions for Immediate Challenges, One Community Weekly Progress Update #277

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

Mike Hogan (Automation Systems Developer and Business Systems Consultant) also helped with researching and initial selection of the Control and Automation Systems hardware, you can see some examples of this here.

Control and Automation Systems, Long-Term Sustainable Solutions for Immediate Challenges, One Community Weekly Progress Update #277

Researched and Selected Control and Automation Systems Hardware – Click for Page

Last but not least, Dehua Feng (Civil Engineer) completed his 11th week working on the fire suppression and safety systems designs for the City Center. This week he finished pressure requirement calculations and updates for zones H, K, and N and updated the related piping layouts in AutoCAD, some of which you can see here.

Fire Suppression and Safety Systems Design, City Center, Long-Term Sustainable Solutions for Immediate Challenges, One Community Weekly Progress Update #277

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

HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

One Community is creating long term sustainable solutions for immediate challenges 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, dedicated to creating long-term sustainable solutions for immediate challenges. This week we we researched the R, U, & K insulation values of Poly Keder greenhouse cladding that may be our choice due to its strength and longevity. We also researched the Stout method using hay mulch, and although it appears to work, further research is required before use.

Food Rollout Plan, Long-Term Sustainable Solutions for Immediate Challenges, One Community Weekly Progress Update #277

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

HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

One Community is creating long term sustainable solutions for immediate challenges 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 updated the resource sections of the alternative education pages coving Reggio Emilia Theory and Application, Bloom’s Taxonomy, and Howard Gardner Multiple Intelligences, contributing to long-term sustainable solutions for immediate challenges. The purple links in the graphic here are new and the best our research was able to uncover.

Reggio Emilia Theory and Application, Bloom’s Taxonomy, Howard Gardner Multiple Intelligences, Long-Term Sustainable Solutions for Immediate Challenges, One Community Weekly Progress Update #277

Updated the Resource Sections of the Alternative Education Pages – Click for Page

HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS

One Community is creating long term sustainable solutions for immediate challenges 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 David Olivero (Mechanical Engineer & Data Scientist) helped update the open source AutoCAD template to fix and better diversify some of the HVAC-related colors and layers. You can see some of this here.

open source AutoCAD template, Long-Term Sustainable Solutions for Immediate Challenges, One Community Weekly Progress Update #277

Helped Update the Open Source AutoCAD Template – 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

WHAT ONE COMMUNITY IS CREATING

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

Our goal is to demonstrate what we feel is the most sustainable, healthy, and fun environment we can create. A place based on compassion, kindness, and collaboration. This replicable community will serve as an example for what is possible in terms of long-term sustainable solutions for immediate challenges.

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

BUILDING THE FIRST OF MANY

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

WHY ONE COMMUNITY IS CREATING THIS

The One Community self-replicating model is capable of creating a sustainable planet within 30 years through the long-term sustainable solutions for immediate challenges. 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, further promoting the ideals of the long-term sustainable solutions for immediate challenges. These hubs will collaborate with one another, share ideas, resources, and work together as a network to heal the planet. They will also transform the global lifestyle to a more enjoyable, fulfilling, healthy, and sustainable one.

The specifics of how One Community is accomplishing this can be found on the One Community Solution Model to Create Solution-creating Models Page. Research supporting and showing the benefits of a model like this can be found on our Research and Resources Articles Archive, furthering the cause of the long-term sustainable solutions for immediate challenges.

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

INSPIRING SUSTAINABILITY WITH OPEN SOURCE

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

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

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

COMPREHENSIVE SOLUTION TO HUMANITY’S NEEDS

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

As we address and open source share these areas we will establish a living example of the first teacher/demonstration village purposed to teach others the principles of long-term sustainable solutions for immediate challenges. 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.

ONE COMMUNITY’S 4-PHASE STRATEGY

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

Phase I: Long-Term Sustainable Solutions for Immediate Challenges by Demonstrating a Better Way

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

Phase II: Long-Term Sustainable Solutions for Immediate Challenges with Open Source Project-Launch Blueprinting

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

Phase III: Long-Term Sustainable Solutions for Immediate Challenges by Inviting the World to Participate

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

Phase IV: Long-Term Sustainable Solutions for Immediate Challenges with Universal Appeal and Global Expansion

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

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

WHY OPEN SOURCE

We are creating everything One Community does as open source and free-shared blueprints because we see this as the path to a new Golden Age of creativity, innovation, cooperation, and collaboration for all of humanity. Our model is a solution model that creates additional solution creating models enabling people to live and collaborate globally for The Highest Good of All. The easier we make everything we do, the faster we see the world transitioning the faster we see the world transitioning towards long-term sustainable solutions for immediate challenges.

Every aspect of this model supports itself and contributes to its success, from the sustainable food, energy, and homes, to the social architecture, One Community Education Program, and open source sharing model itself. Each piece can be accessed, evolved, and even re-birthed as something completely new. It can be duplicated by itself or with other modules, with applications as diverse as the people who want and need them. The constantly expanding total model will additionally be able to be used in its entirety as the open source project-launch blueprint for a variety of duplicate teacher/demonstration communities, villages, and cities capable of being built virtually anywhere.

The most profound part is: the more we open source share, the more we help move everyone forward, the more people know about what we are doing and can participate, and the more successful and capable we are of project-launch blueprinting and sharing even more still. This is all supported and made possible because:

We have the team to produce an extensive quality and diversity of tools and resources
It gives us the opportunity to broaden the concept of sustainability and make it more desirable
Areas we open source expand our ability to evolve even faster through global collaboration
Each new area open sourced expands our target audience, advancing our world changing goals and contributing to long-term sustainable solutions for immediate challenges.
The more we show our ability to share what we are creating, the more others will benefit and want to join this movement and mimic the part we are playing in it

OPEN SOURCE SHARING STRATEGY SPECIFICS

One Community’s open source strategy for long-term sustainable solutions for immediate challenges will evolve 5 primary types of open source content purposed to reach and service as broad an audience as possible. This includes the following mediums of sharing that are being developed to function as standalone resources or in combination with each other:

Video tutorials
Audio tutorials
Live streaming video
Direct/live interaction
Written content and downloadable PDFs

Maximum exposure is accomplished through simultaneous implementation of the following strategies:

Free-shared audio, visual, and PDF downloads
Scholarship and intern programs for direct learning
Videoing or live-streaming almost all classes and activities
Tourism option for involvement in almost all aspects of One Community
Dedicated and search engine optimized sections of our website for each key area
Our established infrastructure that simultaneously posts to over 20 social networks

SUMMARY

One Community sees the issues of the world as interdependent and interconnected. To address them simultaneously, we are open-source blueprinting a more advanced standard of living by designing holistic, environmentally-regenerative, self-sustaining, adaptable solutions for all areas of sustainability. We will model these within a comprehensive “village/city” which will be built in the southwestern U.S. This teacher/demonstration hub will be a place people can experience a new way of living and then replicate it with our open source blueprints: creating a model solution that creates additional solution-creating models all aimed at long-term sustainable solutions for immediate challenges.

Making the World Work for Everyone – One Community Weekly Progress Update #276

Posted on July 8, 2018 by Zuqi Li

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What better goal is there than making the world work for everyone? We now have the technology and resources to sustainably provide food, energy, and housing for every person on the planet. We can provide more fulfilling lifestyles, sustainable economic models, and more empowering and free-thinking education models too. One Community is designing and open sourcing these solutions and more as self-replicating teacher/demonstration communities, villages, and cities with the ability to create a world that works for everyone 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, making the world work for everyone. This is the July 8, 2018 edition (#276) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments:

Making the World Work for Everyone
One Community Progress Update #276

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

MAKING THE WORLD WORK FOR EVERYONE INTRO: @0:34

MAKING THE WORLD WORK FOR EVERYONE – HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING: @7:48

Hemanth Kotaru completed his 15th week helping with the structural engineering research and calculations for the Earthbag Village (see below)
Mike Kowalski continued working on the Earthbag Village renders and successfully finished the initial merge of our three primary village and landscaping files (see below)
Shadi Kennedy completed his 14th week leading the development of the Murphy bed instructions (see below)
Dean Scholz continued with the Cob Village render updates (see below)
Michael Hagler finished two updated versions of the Cob Village introduction and summary spreads for the 7-villages book (see below)
Dan Alleck completed his 22nd week working on the Compressed Earth Block Village render additions (see below)

MAKING THE WORLD WORK FOR EVERYONE – DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER: @9:49

Began rebuilding the City Center geodesic dome in 3D to reflect our simpler design (see below)
Finished the City Center basement and root cellar storage redesign in Sketchup (see below)
Updated the floor plans on the City Center main open source hub and Eco-kitchen pages (see below)
Created three overview images that will be used as part of the 7-Villages books were creating (see below)
Dipti Dhondarkar and the core team continued developing the lighting specifics for the City Center (see below)
Dipti ran initial tests for the hallway areas (see below)
Haoxuan “Hayes” Lei continued work on the City Center structural engineering (see below)
Anvita Kumari Pandey completed her 12th week helping with the Duplicable City Center Materials and Costs (see below)
Dehua Feng completed his 10th week working on the fire suppression and safety systems designs for the City Center (see below)

MAKING THE WORLD WORK FOR EVERYONE – HIGHEST GOOD FOOD: @12:08

Returned to developing the Permaculture Design open source hub (see below)

MAKING THE WORLD WORK FOR EVERYONE – HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION: @12:37

Finished rebuilding and writing the content for the Collaborative Team Roles and Training page (see below)

MAKING THE WORLD WORK FOR EVERYONE – HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY: @13:12

MAKING THE WORLD WORK FOR EVERYONE SUMMARY: @13:32

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HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

One Community is making the world work for everyone 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 past week, Hemanth Kotaru (Structural Engineer) completed his 15th week helping with the structural engineering research and calculations for the Earthbag Village (Pod 1), making the world work for everyone. This week’s focus was researching bond beam use and other stabilization approaches for permitted construction in seismic zones.

structural engineering research and calculations for the Earthbag Village, Making the World Work for Everyone, One Community Weekly Progress Update #276

Structural Engineering Research and Calculations for the Earthbag Village – Click for Page

Mike Kowalski (Game Developer) finished his 12th week helping update our renders that are too big for anything but a gaming computer, in pursuit of making the world work for everyone. This week Mike continued working on the Earthbag Village (Pod 1) and successfully finished the initial merge of our three primary village and landscaping files. You can see a couple of his test renders here.

Earthbag Village, Landscaping, Making the World Work for Everyone, One Community Weekly Progress Update #276

Finished Initial Merge of our 3 Primary Village and Landscaping Files – Click for Page

Also, Shadi Kennedy (Artist and Graphic Designer) completed his 14th week leading the development of the Murphy bed instructions, contributing to making the world work for everyone. This week Shadi further developed the pages you see here for assembling the back storage area component. This work-in-progress included creation of several new pages, adding steps to existing pages, and several parts updates.

Murphy bed instructions, Making the World Work for Everyone, One Community Weekly Progress Update #276

Continued Leading the Development of the Murphy Bed Instructions – Click for Page

Dean Scholz (Architectural Designer) continued with the Cob Village (Pod 3) render updates also. Here is update 121 of Dean’s work showing this final section view of one of the Cob Village living units. This image is now on the website also.

Cob Village, Making the World Work for Everyone, One Community Weekly Progress Update #276

Continued Cob Village Render Updates – Click for Page

Michael Hagler (Senior Graphic Designer and Artist) also finished these two updated versions of the Cob Village (Pod 3) introduction and summary spreads for the 7-villages book. These are both on the website now also.

Two Updated Versions of Cob Village Introduction and Summary Spreads for the 7-Villages Book

Dan Alleck (Designer and Illustrator) completed his 22nd week working on the Compressed Earth Block Village render additions, dedicated to making the world work for everyone. This week he began work on this render of one of the living units by replacing the ceiling, outdoor details, and adding in initial people and room elements.

Compressed Earth Block Village Render Additions, Making the World Work for Everyone, One Community Weekly Progress Update #276

Continued Working on Compressed Earth Block Village Render Additions – Click for Page

DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

One Community is creating sustainable patterns 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 began rebuilding the City Center geodesic dome in 3D to reflect our simpler design, double check our beam lengths, and work to minimize the number of different beam lengths needed for DIY construction of a structure this large and complex.

City Center Geodesic Dome, 3D, Making the World Work for Everyone, One Community Weekly Progress Update #276

Began Rebuilding the City Center Geodesic Dome in 3D – Click for Page

The core team also finished the City Center basement and root cellar storage redesign in Sketchup, an area shown here and considered part of the Eco-kitchen.

City Center Basement, Root Cellar Storage Redesign, SketchUp, Making the World Work for Everyone, One Community Weekly Progress Update #276

Finished the City Center Basement and Root Cellar Storage Redesign in SketchUp – Click for Page

The core team also updated the floor plans on the City Center main open source hub and Eco-kitchen pages, some of which you can see here.

Updated Floor Plans, City Center, Open Source Hub, Making the World Work for Everyone, One Community Weekly Progress Update #276

Updated Floor Plans on the City Center Main Open Source Hub – Click for City Center

And the core team created these three overview images that will be used as part of the 7-Villages books were creating. They show the City Center control systems and initial plumbing and electrical systems designs.

7-Villages Book, Making the World Work for Everyone, One Community Weekly Progress Update #276

Created 3 Overview Images for Part of the 7-Villages Book We’re Creating – Click for Housing Page

The core team working with Dipti Dhondarkar (Electrical Engineer) also continued developing the lighting specifics for the City Center, making the world work for everyone. This is Dipti’s 84th week volunteering on this task and the focus this week was a new round of lighting tests for the public bathrooms, some of which you can see here.

Lighting Specifics for the City Center, Making the World Work for Everyone, One Community Weekly Progress Update #276

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

Dipti also ran initial tests for the hallway areas. You can see some of this work here.

Tests for Lighting of City Center Hallway Areas, Making the World Work for Everyone, One Community Weekly Progress Update #276

Ran Initial Tests for Lighting of City Center Hallway Areas – Click for Page

Haoxuan “Hayes” Lei (Structural Engineer) continued work on the City Center structural engineering by redoing the beam layout and labeling system to what you see here.

Updated City Center Beam Layout and Labeling System, City Center Engineering, Making the World Work for Everyone, One Community Weekly Progress Update #276

Updated City Center Beam Layout and Labeling System – Click for City Center Engineering Page

Anvita Kumari Pandey (Civil Engineer) completed her 12th week helping with the Duplicable City Center Materials and Costs, in pursuit of making the world work for everyone. This week’s focus was changes in furniture selection for the cupola, Living Dome lighting cost analysis, review and changes to the kitchen equipment costs, adding all equipment images, and standardizing the dome structural members. You can see some of this work here.

Duplicable City Center Materials and Costs, Making the World Work for Everyone, One Community Weekly Progress Update #276

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

Last but not least, Dehua Feng (Civil Engineer) completed his 10th week working on the fire suppression and safety systems designs for the City Center. This week he focused mostly on pressure requirement calculations and updates along with related changes to the zones and piping layouts, some of which you can see here.

Fire Suppression and Safety Systems Design for the City Center, Making the World Work for Everyone, One Community Weekly Progress Update #276

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

HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

One Community is making the world work for everyone 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 returned to developing the Permaculture Design open source hub. We created and added a new header image, SWOT Analysis section, and added all the permaculture graphics finished so far.

Permaculture Design Open Source Hub, Making the World Work for Everyone, One Community Weekly Progress Update #276

Returned to Developing the Permaculture Design Open Source Hub – Click to Visit

HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

One Community is making the world work for everyone 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 finished rebuilding and writing the content for the Collaborative Team Roles and Training page so it is as complete and comprehensive as all the other pages of the Evaluation and Evolution component of the Learning for Life program. You can some of this newly finished page here.

Collaborative Team Roles and Training Page, Making the World Work for Everyone, One Community Weekly Progress Update #276

Finished Rebuilding and Writing Content for Collaborative Team Roles and Training Page – Visit

HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS

One Community is making the world work for everyone 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

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