One Community welcomes Anvita Kumari Pandey to the Design Team as our newest Volunteer/Consultant!

Anvita received her Bachelors in Civil Engineering from the University of Pune in India. After graduation she worked for 2+ years as a Cost Analysis and Estimation Engineer for a variety of commercial and residential projects through a construction firm in Pune called B&M Infra Private Limited. Looking to expand her domain expertise, she then worked at Meta Arch Private Limited and took on more responsibility with a customer-based role. After that, Anvita moved to the US to join her husband who works full-time here and brought her expertise to the One Community team helping with cost analysis for the Duplicable City Center.

WELCOME TO THE TEAM ANVITA!

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Cultivating global sustainability will be most successful if it is replicable and engaged by diverse nations and skill sets. One Community is facilitating this process through open source and free-shared tools, tutorials, and resources covering all aspects of sustainability and the creation of sustainability teacher/demonstration communities, villages, cities, and hubs.

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

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One Community’s physical location will forward this cultivating global sustainability movement as the first of many self-replicating teacher/demonstration communities, villages, and cities to be built around the world. This is the June 10, 2018 edition (#272) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments:

Cultivating Global Sustainability
One Community Progress Update #272

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

CULTIVATING GLOBAL SUSTAINABILITY INTRO: @0:34

CULTIVATING GLOBAL SUSTAINABILITY – HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING: @7:17

• Assembled the Murphy bed night stand in 3D using the assembly instructions and created a list of suggested improvements (see below)
• Michael Hagler worked with the core team to finish another round of edit requests for the Cob Village, and the Recycled Materials Village and integrated work for the Shipping Container Village into the website for the 7-villages book we’re developing (see below)
• Shadi Kennedy completed his 11th week leading the development of the Murphy bed instructions (see below)
• Dean Scholz continued with the Cob Village render updates (see below)
• Mike Kowalski finished his 10th week helping update our Recycled Materials Village renders that are too big for anything but a gaming computer (see below)
• Mihaela “Michelle” Pinzaru completed her 16th week working on the Tree House Village residential renders (see below)

CULTIVATING GLOBAL SUSTAINABILITY – DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER: @9:06

• Began updating the bedroom renders in the Duplicable City Center to test the new lighting and color schemes (see below)
• Working with Dipti Dhondarkar, the core team continued developing the lighting specifics for the City Center (see below)
• Haoxuan “Hayes” Lei continued work on the City Center structural engineering (see below)
• Yun Lin completed his 9th week helping with the beam design and calculation spreadsheet creation for the City Center structural engineering (see below)
• Dehua Feng completed his 6th week working on the fire suppression and safety systems designs for the City Center (see below)

CULTIVATING GLOBAL SUSTAINABILITY – HIGHEST GOOD FOOD: @10:45

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

CULTIVATING GLOBAL SUSTAINABILITY – HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION: @11:32

• Began work on the Learning for Life – Transference of Knowledge resource by formatting the page, writing content, and adding graphics (see below)

CULTIVATING GLOBAL SUSTAINABILITY – HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY: @12:04

• Sowmya Manohar, Shubhra Mittal, and Swathy Jayaseelan continued work on the Highest Good Network software (see below)

CULTIVATING GLOBAL SUSTAINABILITY SUMMARY: @13:12

• Sowmya Manohar, Shubhra Mittal, and Swathy Jayaseelan continued work on the Highest Good Network software (see below)

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HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

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

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

Assembled the Murphy bed Night Stand in 3D – Click for Page

And, the core team working with Michael Hagler (Senior Graphic Designer and Artist) also finished another round of edit requests for the Cob Village (Pod 3), for the Recycled Materials Village (Pod 6), and integrated Michael’s completed work for the Shipping Container Village (Pod 5) into the website, contibuting to cultivating global sustainability. This is also all part of the 7-villages book we’re developing.

Made Edits to Cob Village, Recycled Materials Village, and Shipping Container Village  – Click for Page

Also, Shadi Kennedy (Artist and Graphic Designer) completed his 11th week leading the development of the Murphy bed instructions. This week Shadi renumbered all the parts to make referencing them easier and updated all the related steps, the cutting plan, and parts layouts.

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 too. Here is update 117 of Dean’s work and this new render he’s working on that will show a section view of one of the units.

Continued with the Cob Village Render Updates – Click for Page

Mike Kowalski (Game Developer) finished his 10th week helping update our Recycled Materials Village (Pod 6) renders that are too big for anything but a gaming computer, in pursuit of cultivating global sustainability. This week Mike finished re-rendering the main render of the complete village, then we updated it across the entire website.

Continued Updating our Recycled Materials Village Renders – Click for Page

Mihaela “Michelle” Pinzaru (Interior Designer and Architectural Drafter) also completed her 16th week working on the Tree House Village (Pod 7) residential renders. This week she redesigned the stair access to the loft bed and added test furniture for the upstairs hostel living area. You can see this work-in-progress here.

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

DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

One Community is cultivating global sustainability through a Duplicable and Sustainable City Center that is LEED Platinum certified/Sustainable, can feed 200 people at a time, provide laundry for over 300 people, is beautiful, spacious, and saves resources, money, and space:

• • • Learn about this building and it’s function: Duplicable City Center Open Source Hub

This week the core team started updating the bedroom renders in the Duplicable City Center to test the new lighting and color schemes. We updated the furniture, checked all walls, doors, and windows, and added the correct lights.

Started Updating the Bedroom Renders in the Duplicable City Center – Click for Page

And, the core team working with Dipti Dhondarkar (Electrical Engineer) also continued developing the lighting specifics for the City Center. This is Dipti’s 80th week volunteering on this task and the focus this week was applying everything we tested with the different lighting fixture types and layouts so we could create (and add to the website) this final “1st-Floor Final Bedroom Lighting Distribution” graphic.

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

Haoxuan “Hayes” Lei (Structural Engineer) continued work on the City Center structural engineering by creating the price estimates for the TJI beams and reviewing the joist design, some of which you can see here.

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

Yun Lin (Bridge Design Engineer) also completed his 9th week helping with the beam design and calculation spreadsheet creation for the City Center structural engineering, dedicated to cultivating global sustainability. This week he finished the wind load calculations for the roof.

Helped with Beam Design and Calculation Spreadsheet Creation for City Center Structural Engineering

Last but not least, Dehua Feng (Civil Engineer) completed his 6th week working on the fire suppression and safety systems designs for the City Center. This week he further researched horizontal sprinkler options, sensor and other options for triggering these systems, and further developed the AutoCAD sprinkler layouts for these and the in-ceiling sprinklers.

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

HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

One Community is cultivating global sustainability through Highest Good food that is more diverse, more nutritious, locally grown and sustainable, and part of our open source botanical garden model to support and share bio-diversity:

• • • Learn about the structures: Hoop House Hub | Aquapini & Walipini Open Source Hub
    • See what we’ll be growing: Gardens & Hoop Houses | Large-scale Structures | Food Forest | TA

This week, the core team continued writing the behind-the-scenes narrative and detailed food rollout plan for the various stages of development, contributing to cultivating global sustainability. We researched nitrogen fixers and worm digestion and added orchard grass and hay mulch benefits with accompanying articles. In addition, we incorporated hay vs. straw and the Ruth Stout mulching methods into the plan. Next, we organized and gave a final proofread to the assorted articles for the Garden Establishment section on pages 7-13, some of this you can see here.

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

HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

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

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

This week, the core team began work on the Learning for Life – Transference of Knowledge resource by formatting the page, writing content, and adding graphics. We’d say we are now 50% complete with this new page.

Began Work on the Learning for Life – Transference of Knowledge Resource – Click for Page

HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS

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

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

This week, the Highest Good Network software team consisting of Sowmya Manohar (Software Engineer, Web Developer & Net Application Developer), Shubhra Mittal (Software Delivery Manager), and Swathy Jayaseelan (Software Developer) continued their work on the software. This week they added an Admin reset password option, checkbox-classification of users by active and inactive, made roles selectable and editable by dropdown, fixed user’s timelog header bar, fixed team and project hyperlinks, made ‘current week’ as the default selection for reports and ‘choose a range’ as a popup, removed past week data from charts other than the current week, changed the page layout in the charts page to match the mockup, and started working on the individual reports.

Continued Working on Highest Good Network Software – Click for Page

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WHAT ONE COMMUNITY IS CREATING

One Community is creating a place to grow together and change the world together. 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 cultivating global sustainability. 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 cultivating global sustainability.

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 cultivating global sustainability. 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 cultivating global sustainability.

WHY ONE COMMUNITY IS CREATING THIS

The One Community self-replicating model is capable of creating a sustainable planet within 30 years through the cultivating global sustainability. We will achieve this by establishing successful teacher/demonstration hubs on every continent. Villages include designs appropriate for each of the five main types of climates. They also include options for even the most challenged economies, further promoting the ideals of the cultivating global sustainability. 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 cultivating global sustainability.

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 cultivating global sustainability.  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 cultivating global sustainability.

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 cultivating global sustainability. 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 cultivating global sustainability.

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 cultivating global sustainability. To maximally facilitate duplication, One Community will provide seven duplicable examples and function indefinitely as a place people can visit and a non-profit and open source think tank continuing to further evolve and share solutions in all of the above areas and more. We will also provide hands-on experience and training. Most importantly, growing upon our sustainable foundation, we will endlessly make this comprehensive solution even more widely known and globally accessible, understandable and diversely duplicable, and inspiring and desirable as a model worth duplicating.

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: Cultivating Global Sustainability 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: Cultivating Global Sustainability 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: Cultivating Global Sustainability 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: Cultivating Global Sustainability 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 cultivating global sustainability.

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 cultivating global sustainability.
• 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 cultivating global sustainability 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 cultivating global sustainability.

Sustainable community models are needed if we are to create a sustainable world. Open source and free-shared models for constructing and sharing them will facilitate the process. One Community is creating these for “The Highest Good of All people and life.“

• 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, focusing on constructing sustainable community models. This is the June 3, 2018 edition (#271) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments:

Sustainable Community Models
One Community Progress Update #271

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

SUSTAINABLE COMMUNITY MODELS INTRO: @0:34

SUSTAINABLE COMMUNITY MODELS – HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING: @6:40 

SUSTAINABLE COMMUNITY MODELS – DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER: @8:18

SUSTAINABLE COMMUNITY MODELS – HIGHEST GOOD FOOD: @9:34

SUSTAINABLE COMMUNITY MODELS – HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION: @10:16

• Finished work on the Learning for Life – Ongoing Growth Strategies resource page (see below)
• Updated our open source Waldorf resource page with new content and an added resource section (see below)

SUSTAINABLE COMMUNITY MODELS – HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY: @11:02

• Sowmya Manohar, Shubhra Mittal, and Swathy Jayaseelan continued work on the Highest Good Network software (see below)

SUSTAINABLE COMMUNITY MODELS SUMMARY: @12:00

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HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

One Community is building sustainable community 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 finished creating and organizing the Murphy bed materials list for the backside redesign.

Created and Organized the Murphy Bed Materials List for the Backside Redesign – Click for Page

The core team also tested and identified any errors in the Murphy bed nightstand assembly instructions by building them in 3D while using the new instructions.

Continued Working on the Murphy Bed Assembly Instructions – Click to Visit Page

Also, Shadi Kennedy (Artist and Graphic Designer) completed his 10th week leading the development of these Murphy bed instructions, contributing to building sustainable community models. This week Shadi started creating the style guide shown here:

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

Shadi also created version 1 of the cutting instructions and updated the rest of the instructions with parts graphics that are proportionate to the actual pieces.

Continued Working on the Murphy Bed Instructions – Click for Page

Michael Hagler (Senior Graphic Designer and Artist) also updated the two spreads you see here with new content and imagery, dedicated to sustainable community models. These are all part of the 7-villages book we’re developing.

Updated the 7-villages Book we’re Developing with New Content and Imagery – Click for Housing Page

Dean Scholz (Architectural Designer) continued with the Cob Village (Pod 3) render updates too. Here is update 116 of Dean’s work, what you see is the finished render for the “Dining Hall View from the 2nd Floor.” This render is now on the site also.

Finished Render for “Dining Hall View from the 2nd Floor” – Click for Cob Village Page

Mike Kowalski (Game Developer) finished his 9th week helping update our Recycled Materials Village (Pod 6) renders that are too big for anything but a gaming computer, contributing to our sustainable community models. This week Mike finished rendering the final art and outdoor library areas you can see here. These are all now integrated into the website too.

Outdoor Art Area Looking Northeast Concept Render – Click for Recycled Materials Village

Outdoor Art and Library Areas Looking Northeast – Click for Recycled Materials Village

Outdoor Art and Library Areas Looking Northwest – Click for Recycled Materials Village

Outdoor Art and Library Areas Looking Southeast – Click for Recycled Materials Village

Outdoor Library Area Looking North – Click for Recycled Materials Village

Outdoor Library Area Looking Northwest – Click for Recycled Materials Village

Outdoor Library Area Looking West – Click for Recycled Materials Village

DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

One Community is building sustainable community 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

The core team working with Dipti Dhondarkar (Electrical Engineer) also continued developing the lighting specifics for the City Center, as a part of our sustainable community models. This is Dipti’s 79th week volunteering on this task and the focus this week was testing different lighting fixture types and layouts for the rental rooms and bathrooms and creating (and adding to the website) the final “Bedroom Light Fixture and Initial Placement Tests” graphic. 

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

Anvita Kumari Pandey (Civil Engineer) completed her 8th week helping with the Duplicable City Center Materials and Costs. This week’s focus was the initial research for the cost analysis for the dining room and other tables we’ll be building.

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

Last but not least, Dehua Feng (Civil Engineer) completed his 5th week working on the fire suppression and safety systems designs for the City Center. This week he further researched horizontal sprinkler options, sensor and other options for triggering these systems, and further developed the AutoCAD sprinkler layouts for these and the in-ceiling sprinklers.

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

HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

One Community is building sustainable community 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

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

HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

One Community is building sustainable community 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 work on the Learning for Life – Ongoing Growth Strategies resource by adding the final graphics and completing the sections for High School/Secondary Schooling, Post-secondary Schooling, Summary and FAQ.

Finished Work on the Learning for Life – Ongoing Growth Strategies Resource – Click for Page

We also updated our open source Waldorf resource page with new content and an added resource section with the best of the Waldorf information and evaluation resources we researched and found.

Updated our Open Source Waldorf Resource Page with New Content – Click for Page

HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS

One Community is building sustainable community 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 Highest Good Network software team consisting of Sowmya Manohar (Software Engineer, Web Developer & Net Application Developer), Shubhra Mittal (Software Delivery Manager), and Swathy Jayaseelan (Software Developer) continued their work on the software. This week they added an Autoclose function to the Projects Management page, changed the reset password to a component, created mockups for appearance upgrades, moved confidential hardcoded data to a new secure location, updated the reports page UI to match the mockup, added a scroll box and changed the size of charts, and made the week selection option appear when generating reports.

Continued Working on Highest Good Network Software – Click for Page

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

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GET INVOLVED

CONSULTANTS     ●     WAYS ANYONE CAN HELP     ●     MEMBERSHIP

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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 community 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. This replicable community will serve as an example for what is possible in terms of sustainable community models.

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 community models. 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 community models.

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 community models. 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 community models. 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 community 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, contributing to the sustainable community models.  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 community 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.

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 community models. 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 community 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 the principles of sustainable community models. 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 Community Models 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 Community Models 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 Community Models 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 Community Models 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 community models.

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 community models.
• 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 community models 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 community models.

One Community is a nonprofit and 100% volunteer organization developing open source and free-shared designs for a global community cooperative of sustainable villages. These designs cover  food, energy, housing, education, economics, social architecture, fulfilled living, global stewardship practices, and more.

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

OUR MAIN OPEN SOURCE HUBS

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

One Community’s physical location will forward this movement as the first of many self-replicating teacher/demonstration communities, villages, and cities to be built around the world. This is the May 27, 2018 edition (#270) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments:

Global Community Cooperative
One Community Progress Update #270

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

GLOBAL COMMUNITY COOPERATIVE INTRO: @0:34

GLOBAL COMMUNITY COOPERATIVE – HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING: @6:39

GLOBAL COMMUNITY COOPERATIVE – DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER: @8:38

GLOBAL COMMUNITY COOPERATIVE – HIGHEST GOOD FOOD: @10:55

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

GLOBAL COMMUNITY COOPERATIVE – HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION: @11:36

• Continued work on the Learning for Life – Ongoing Growth Strategies resource and finished the sections for Elementary and Intermediate students (see below)
• Updated our open source Montessori resource page with the best of the Montessori Evaluation resources we researched and found – shown here in purple (see below)

GLOBAL COMMUNITY COOPERATIVE – HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY: @12:22

• Sowmya Manohar, Shubhra Mittal, and Swathy Jayaseelan continued work on the Highest Good Network software (see below)
• Jin Hua returned to volunteering and helped fix a variety of Google indexing issues for our website and sitemap (see below)

GLOBAL COMMUNITY COOPERATIVE SUMMARY: @11:

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ONE COMMUNITY WEEKLY UPDATE DETAILS

HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

One Community is designing a global community cooperative 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 creating and organizing the Murphy bed materials list, as shown here.

Began Creating and Organizing the Murphy Bed Materials List – Click for Page

And, Shadi Kennedy (Artist and Graphic Designer) completed his 9th week leading the development of the Murphy bed instructions. This week Shadi finished component updates, simplifying the instructions, and finalizing them so we can now test construction in 3D using them as our guide.

Continued Working on the Murphy Bed Instructions – Click to Visit Page

Michael Hagler (Senior Graphic Designer and Artist) also created this new layout for the introduction to the Cob Village (Pod 3) aspect of the 7-villages book we’re developing for a global community cooperative of sustainable villages.

Created New Layout for Introduction to Cob Village Aspect of the 7-Villages Book – Click for Page

Dean Scholz (Architectural Designer) continued with the Cob Village (Pod 3) render updates too. Here is update 115 of Dean’s work, continuing with the final lighting and texture edits and the test renderings of “Dining Hall View from the 2nd Floor.”

Continued with the Cob Village Render Updates – Click for Page

Dan Alleck (Designer and Illustrator) completed his 21st week working on the Compressed Earth Block Village render additions. This week he finished this render of the Game Room Looking South. You can now see this on the website also.

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

Mike Kowalski (Game Developer) finished his 8th week helping update our Recycled Materials Village (Pod 6) renders that are too big for anything but a gaming computer, developing designs for a global community cooperative of sustainable villages. This week Mike finished rendering the final game and exercise areas you can see here….

Recycled Materials Village | Concept Render – Playground Looking Northeast – Click for Page

Recycled Materials Village | Concept Render – Outdoor Exercise Area from Above – Click for Page

Recycled Materials Village | Concept Render – Outdoor Game and Exercise Area – Click for Page

…..and this top-down render of the entire village. These are all now integrated into the website too.

Recycled Materials Village | Concept Render – Outdoor Recreation Spaces – Click for Page

Mihaela “Michelle” Pinzaru(Interior Designer and Architectural Drafter) also completed her 15th week working on the Tree House Village (Pod 7) residential renders, contributing to global community cooperative. This week she designed and tested new layouts for the upstairs hostel living area. You can see this work-in-progress here.

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

DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

One Community is designing a global community cooperative 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 updated the parts lists and instructions for the open source City Center Pipe Furniture designs shown here, contributing to the global community cooperative.

Updated Parts Lists and Instructions for Open Source City Center Pipe Furniture Design – Click to Visit

And the core team working with Dipti Dhondarkar (Electrical Engineer), continued developing the lighting specifics for the City Center for a global community cooperative of sustainable villages. This is Dipti’s 78th week volunteering on this task and the focus this week was testing lighting and creating (and adding to the website) the final comparison of the different direct sconce lighting fixture types. Here you can see this and all the other lighting comparisons we’ve finished.

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

Haoxuan “Hayes” Lei (Structural Engineer) continued work on the City Center structural engineering by generating the beam layout spreadsheet, investigating the cost estimate of TJI beams, and further reviewing and revising the snow load on the living dome platform, some of which you can see here.

Continued Work on the City Center Structural Engineering – Click to Visit Page

Yun Lin (Bridge Design Engineer) also completed his 8th week helping with the beam design and calculation spreadsheet creation for the City Center structural engineering, in pursuit of building a global community cooperative of sustainable villages. This week he completed checking the snow load calculations, as shown here.

Beam Design and Calculation Spreadsheet for City Center Structural Engineering – Click for Page

David Olivero (Mechanical Engineer & Data Scientist) completed his 20th week helping with the HVAC Designs for the Duplicable City Center. This week’s focus was more hardware research, matching zonal information to hardware selections, using previous preliminary analysis of radiant floor layouts for boiler sizing estimates, and adding these details to the HVAC  Zonal spreadsheet.

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

Anvita Kumari Pandey (Civil Engineer) completed her 7th week helping with the Duplicable City Center Materials and Costs. This week’s focus was working on the pipe furniture cost analysis by researching and comparing materials, updating some parts, and also working on the pallet furniture and outdoor furniture cost analysis details.

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

Last but not least, Dehua Feng (Civil Engineer) completed his 4th week working on the fire suppression and safety systems designs for the City Center. This week he modified the fire zones and started creating the AutoCAD sprinkler layouts, as shown here.

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

HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

One Community is designing a global community cooperative 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, contributing to global community cooperative. This past week we researched hay vs. straw as a mulch option, researched and removed the use of cardboard and paper as a weed blocker, mulch, and carbon source due to chemicals added in the creation of these products, and made further updates to the garden rollout and trial bed strategy.  

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

HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

One Community is designing a global community cooperative 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 work on the Learning for Life – Ongoing Growth Strategies resource and finished the sections for Elementary and Intermediate students, dedicated to a global community cooperative of sustainable villages. You can see some of this last week’s work here and we’d say we’re about 60% done with the page update and redesign.

Continued Learning for Life Growth Strategies Resource – Click for Page

We also updated our open source Montessori resource page with the best of the Montessori Evaluation resources we researched and found – shown here in purple.

Updated Open Source Montessori Resource Page – Click to Visit

HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS

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

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

This week, the Highest Good Network software team consisting of Sowmya Manohar(Software Engineer, Web Developer & Net Application Developer), Shubhra Mittal(Software Delivery Manager), and Swathy Jayaseelan(Software Developer) continued their work on the software. This week they implemented a route to specific user profiles from the user management page, added alphabetization functionality, added a delete functionality in the user management page, worked on resolving deployment issues with the Azure support team, fixed tangible status in timelog entry form bugs,  changed ‘weeks’ to date ranges in the chart, reorganized the reports page to include the filter on the top, added the selected week range option on the reports, and removed past-week data for options other than the current week.

Continued Working on Highest Good Network Software – Click for Page

Jin Hua (Web and Graphic Designer) also returned to volunteering and helped fix a variety of Google indexing issues for our website and sitemap. You can see some of this work here.

Helped Fix a Variety of Google Indexing Issues for our Website and Sitemap – Click to Visit Page

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

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

 

INVESTOR PAGES

OVERVIEW       ●       LOCATION       ●       FUNDING

GET INVOLVED

CONSULTANTS     ●     WAYS ANYONE CAN HELP     ●     MEMBERSHIP

CLICK HERE FOR ALL PAST UPDATES

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 global community cooperative. 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 global community cooperative.

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 global community cooperative. 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 global community cooperative.

WHY ONE COMMUNITY IS CREATING THIS

The One Community self-replicating model is capable of creating a sustainable planet within 30 years through the global community cooperative. 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 global community cooperative. 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 global community cooperative.

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 global community cooperative.  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 global community cooperative.

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 global community cooperative. 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 global community cooperative.

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 global community cooperative. 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: Global Community Cooperative 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: Global Community Cooperative 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: Global Community Cooperative 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: Global Community Cooperative 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 global community cooperative.

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 global community cooperative.
• 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 global community cooperative 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 global community cooperative.

Eco-permanence is ecologically sustainable living. Creating eco-permanence globally can be accomplished if enough people want it. We see the path to creating this as making global stewardship practices easy enough, affordable enough and attractive enough to become self-replicating. Open source and free-shared sustainability components covering food, energy, housing, education, economics, and more can make this possible by improving accessibility, lowering costs, and being combined to provide a higher quality of living.

• 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 May 20, 2018 edition (#269) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments:

Creating Eco-Permanence
One Community Progress Update #269

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

CREATING ECO-PERMANENCE INTRO: @0:34

HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING: @6:06

• Shadi Kennedy completed his 8th week leading the development of the Murphy bed instructions (see below)
• Dean Scholz continued with the Cob Village render updates (see below)
• Dan Alleck completed his 20th week working on the Compressed Earth Block Village render additions (see below)
• Mike Kowalski finished his 7th week helping update our Recycled Materials Village renders that are too big for anything but a gaming computer (see below)
• Mihaela “Michelle” Pinzaru completed her 14th week working on the Tree House Village residential renders (see below)

DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER: @7:56

HIGHEST GOOD FOOD: @9:58

• Continued writing the behind-the-scenes narrative and detailed food rollout plan for the various stages of development (see below)
• Researched and began creating the Apiary parts and cost analysis list (see below)

HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION: @10:51

• Began the process of finishing the Learning for Life – Ongoing Growth Strategies resource (see below)

HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY: @11:23

• Sowmya Manohar, Shubhra Mittal, and Swathy Jayaseelan continued work on the Highest Good Network software (see below)

CREATING ECO-PERMANENCE SUMMARY: @12:17

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

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ONE COMMUNITY WEEKLY UPDATE DETAILS

HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

One Community is creating eco-permanence 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 Shadi Kennedy (Artist and Graphic Designer) completed his 8th week leading the development of the Murphy bed instructions. This week Shadi continued instituting changes removing pieces and simplifying the design and calculating new parts sizes. This included removal of the base, redesign of drawers, redesign of sliding mechanism, and removal of custom curved corner pieces.

Creating Eco-Permanence – Continued Working on the Murphy Bed Instructions – Click to Visit Page

Dean Scholz (Architectural Designer) continued with the Cob Village (Pod 3) render updates. Here is update 114 of Dean’s work. This week Dean focused on more edits and test rendering the “Dining Hall View from the 2nd Floor.”

Creating Eco-Permanence – Continued with the Cob Village Render Updates – Click for Page

Dan Alleck (Designer and Illustrator) completed his 20th week working on the Compressed Earth Block Village render additions. This week he finished one final round of edits adding missing shadows to this render. This render is now updated on the website also.

Creating Eco-Permanence – Compressed Earth Block Village Render Additions – Click for Page

Mike Kowalski (Game Developer) finished his 7th week helping update our Recycled Materials Village (Pod 6) renders that are too big for anything but a gaming computer. This week Mike finished rendering the huge amount of renders you see here, which are also now integrated into the website.

Creating Eco-Permanence – Recycled Materials Village Render Looking Northeast – Click for Page

Creating Eco-Permanence – Recycled Materials VillageRender – Top-down View – Click to enlarge

Creating Eco-Permanence – Recycled Materials Village | Render – Playground Collage of Features

Creating Eco-Permanence – Recycled Materials Village Render – Outdoor Game Area Looking North

Recycled Materials Village | Concept Render –  Obstacle Course Looking Northeast – Click to enlarge

Creating Eco-Permanence – Recycled Materials Village – Render – Obstacle Course Looking Southeast

Creating Eco-Permanence – Recycled Materials Village | Render – Outdoor Game Area Obstacle Course

Creating Eco-Permanence – Recycled Materials Village | Render – Volleyball, Basketball, Soccer Areas

Creating Eco-Permanence – Recycled Materials Village | Render – Skate Park View from Above

Creating Eco-Permanence – Recycled Materials Village | Concept Render – Outdoor Yoga Area – Click

Creating Eco-Permanence – Recycled Materials Village Render – Outdoor Exercise Area Closeups – Click

Mihaela “Michelle” Pinzaru (Interior Designer and Architectural Drafter) also completed her 14th week working on the Tree House Village (Pod 7) residential renders. This week she finished the renders shown here for the downstairs hostel living area, which can now also be seen on the website.

Creating Eco-Permanence – Tree House Village | 1st Floor Hostel Layout – Render – Click for page

Creating Eco-Permanence –  Tree House Village | 1st Floor Hostel Layout – Concept Render – Click

DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

One Community is creating eco-permanence 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 work on the bathroom designs for the City Center, further testing our designs in 3D. This week we worked with the adjustment of the lights, as shown here.

Creating Eco-Permanence – Continued Work – Bathroom Design for the City Center – Click for Page

And the core team working with Dipti Dhondarkar (Electrical Engineer), continued developing the lighting specifics for the City Center. This is Dipti’s 75th week volunteering on this task and the focus this week was testing lighting and creating (and adding to the website) this comparison of the different diffused sconce lighting fixture types that meet our LEED sustainability criteria.

Creating Eco-Permanence – Lighting Specifics for the City Center – Click for Page

Haoxuan “Hayes” Lei (Structural Engineer) continued work on the City Center structural engineering by finishing the snow load calculation spreadsheet for the roof of the Living Dome, which you can see here.

Creating Eco-Permanence- Continued Work – City Center Structural Engineering – Click to Visit

Yun Lin (Bridge Design Engineer) also completed his 7th week helping with the beam design and calculation spreadsheet creation for the City Center structural engineering. This week he worked on joist design for the cupola on the 4th floor and began research for seismic load and design.

Creating Eco-Permanence – Beam Design, Calculation Spreadsheet for City Center – Click for Page

Anvita Kumari Pandey (Civil Engineer) completed her 6th week helping with the Duplicable City Center Materials and Costs. This week’s focus was initial research and updating of material quantities and costs for the DIY furniture components of this structure, finishing updates to the basement layout in AutoCAD, and developing new area and perimeter sections for the AutoCAD Master File.

Creating Eco-Permanence – Duplicable City Center Materials and Costs – Click for Page

Last but not least, Dehua Feng (Civil Engineer) completed his 3rd week working on the fire suppression and safety systems designs for the City Center. This week he split the residential zones in AutoCAD, calculated the required sprinkler head and system demands, and updated all the related tutorial details.

Creating Eco-Permanence – Fire Suppression, Safety Systems Design for City Center – Click for Page

HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

One Community is creating eco-permanence 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 past week we designated time frames for when we will initiate setup of the apiary, water lab, and acquisition of farm animals, all based on having the manpower & knowledge with our 20-50 on-site Pioneers and Volunteers. We also added clarifying information to our garden establishment section and researched worm towers.

Creating Eco-Permanence –  Detailed Food Rollout Plan for the Various Stages of Development – Click

The core team also researched and began creating the Apiary parts and cost analysis list, adding images and descriptions to the Google doc, as shown here.

Creating Eco-Permanence – Research, Creating the Apiary Parts and Cost Analysis List – Click for Page

HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

One Community is creating eco-permanence 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 the process of finishing the Learning for Life – Ongoing Growth Strategies resource. You can see some of this last week’s work here and we’d say we’re about 30% done with the page update and redesign.

Creating Eco-Permanence – Learning for Life – Ongoing Growth Strategies Resource – Click for Page

HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS

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

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

This week, the Highest Good Network software team consisting of Sowmya Manohar (Software Engineer, Web Developer & Net Application Developer), Shubhra Mittal (Software Delivery Manager), and Swathy Jayaseelan (Software Developer) continued their work on the software. This week they set up the ability for the software to send emails, created password reset functionality, alphabetized projects and teams, fixed leaderboard time bugs and bugs to reset the projects list when admins create time entry for others, implemented weekly trend analysis charts using actual data, and added active/inactive filter options.

Creating Eco-Permanence – Continued Working on Highest Good Network Software – Click for Page

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

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INVESTOR PAGES

OVERVIEW       ●       LOCATION       ●       FUNDING

GET INVOLVED

CONSULTANTS     ●     WAYS ANYONE CAN HELP     ●     MEMBERSHIP

CLICK HERE FOR ALL PAST UPDATES

WHAT ONE COMMUNITY IS CREATING

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

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

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

BUILDING THE FIRST OF MANY

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

WHY ONE COMMUNITY IS CREATING THIS

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

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

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

WHY OPEN SOURCE

We are creating everything One Community does as open source and free-shared blueprints because we see this as the path for ethical lifestyle creation,  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.

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 by cooperating with nature and 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 and cooperating with nature. 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
• 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

SUMMARY

One Community sees the issues of the world as interdependent and interconnected. For cooperating with nature and 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 by ethical lifestyle creation. 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.

One Community welcomes Michael Kowalski to the One Community Design Team as our newest Volunteer/Consultant!

Software Engineering Professional: Michael has spent his whole life taking everything imaginable apart and discovering how they work. This has ranged from doorknobs and electronics, engines, instruments, to computer software. Over time, computer programming became his specialty and profession, including completion of a BS degree with honors as a game developer. Choosing to study game development because he believes it’s applicable and growing in every industry including aerospace, chemical, medical, training, military, entertainment, automobiles, etc., he currently works through IBM as a contractor to companies such as the US Army, TSA, Sprint, Electrolux, DTE Energy, Boing, and more. In his free time, Michael enjoys maintaining Ubuntu servers and writing bash scripts to help simplify every day development. As a One Community volunteer, he is helping apply his 3D modeling and rendering skills to produce improved real-to-life renders of the Recycled Materials Village (Pod 6).

WELCOME TO THE TEAM MICHAEL!

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INVESTOR PAGES

OVERVIEW       ●       LOCATION       ●       FUNDING

GET INVOLVED

CONSULTANTS     ●     WAYS ANYONE CAN HELP     ●     MEMBERSHIP

Ethical lifestyle creation built on sustainable infrastructure. Using this we can live a better life that meets survival, recreation, and socialization needs while also helping others and taking care of our one shared planet. One Community calls 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 May 13, 2018 edition (#268) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments:

Ethical Lifestyle Creation
One Community Progress Update #268

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

ETHICAL LIFESTYLE CREATION INTRO: @0:34

HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING: @5:41

DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER: @6:52

• Worked on the bathroom design for the City Center (see below)
• Dipti Dhondarkar and the core team continued developing the lighting specifics for the City Center (see below)
• Jin Yu continued with the behind-the-scenes development of the City Center excavation and construction of the footer and foundation tutorial (see below)
• Haoxuan “Hayes” Lei continued work on the City Center structural engineering (see below)
• Yun Lin completed his 6th week helping with the beam design and calculation spreadsheet creation for the City Center structural engineering (see below)
• Anvita Kumari Pandey completed her 5th week helping with the Duplicable City Center Materials and Costs (see below)
• Dehua Feng completed his 2nd week working on the fire suppression and safety systems designs for the City Center (see below)

HIGHEST GOOD FOOD: @9:06

• Continued writing the behind-the-scenes narrative and detailed food rollout plan for the second landing party group of 20 people (see below)

HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION: @9:58

• Finished the creation of the 4 assessment templates that are linked to from the Assessment Forms page (see below)

HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY: @10:27

• Sowmya Manohar, Shubhra Mittal, and Swathy Jayaseelan continued work on the Highest Good Network software (see below)

ETHICAL LIFESTYLE CREATION SUMMARY: @11:20

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

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HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

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

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

This week the core team finished redesigning the Murphy bed storage area in 3D. We marked the same parts with matching colors and added additional parts for stability, as shown here.

Ethical Lifestyle Creation – Continued Working on the Murphy Bed Storage Area in 3D – Click for Page

The core team also updated the living-structure graphics shown here and added them to the Tree House Village (Pod 7) open source hub.

Ethical Lifestyle Creation – Living-Structure Graphics – Added to Tree House Village – Click to Visit

Shadi Kennedy (Artist and Graphic Designer) completed his 7th week leading the development of the Murphy bed instructions. This week Shadi continued refining the format for the nightstand designs and also explored several proposed design changes that will simplify the construction process and reduce materials too.

Ethical Lifestyle Creation – Continued Working on the Murphy Bed Instructions – Click to Visit Page

Dean Scholz (Architectural Designer) continued with the|Cob Village (Pod 3) render updates. Here is update 113 of Dean’s work. This week Dean focused on adding trim and other aesthetic details to what will be the “Dining Hall View from the 2nd Floor” render when complete.

Ethical Lifestyle Creation – Continued with Cob Village Render Updates – Click for Page

DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

One Community is creating ethical lifestyle creation through a Duplicable and Sustainable City Center that is LEED Platinum certified/Sustainable, can feed 200 people at a time, provide laundry for over 300 people, is beautiful, spacious, and saves resources, money, and space:

• • • Learn about this building and it’s function: Duplicable City Center Open Source Hub

This week the core team worked on the bathroom design for the City Center. Testing our designs in 3D, we updated the floor and tiles on the wall, changed mirrors and counter size, and corrected the counter top height, as shown here.

Ethical Lifestyle Creation – Worked on the Bathroom Design for the City Center – Click for Page

And the core team working with Dipti Dhondarkar (Electrical Engineer), continued developing the lighting specifics for the City Center. This is Dipti’s 74th week volunteering on this task and the focus this week was testing lighting and creating (and adding to the website) this comparison of the different direct lighting fixture types that meet our LEED sustainability criteria.

Ethical Lifestyle Creation – Developed the Lighting Specifics for the City Center – Click for Page

Jin Yu(Structural Engineering Designer) continued with her work with the behind-the-scenes development of the City Center excavation and construction of the footer and foundation tutorial. This week’s focus was more research and editing of the Construction Flow section of the tutorial. You can see some of this work-in-progress here.

Ethical Lifestyle Creation – City Center Excavation, Construction – Footer, Foundation – Click for Page

Haoxuan “Hayes” Lei (Structural Engineer) continued work on the City Center structural engineering by creating the snow load spreadsheet for the roof of the Living Dome, which you can see here.

Ethical Lifestyle Creation – Continued Work – City Center Structural Engineering – Click to Visit Page

Yun Lin (Bridge Design Engineer) also completed his 6th week helping with the beam design and calculation spreadsheet creation for the City Center structural engineering. This week he continued developing the sawn timber design spreadsheet and completed the preliminary beam designs for the entire 2nd floor.

Ethical Lifestyle Creation – Beam Design and Calculation Spreadsheet for City Center – Click for Page

Anvita Kumari Pandey (Civil Engineer) completed her 5th week helping with the Duplicable City Center Materials and Costs. This week’s focus was researching and updating material quantities and costs and updating the basement layouts in AutoCAD.

Ethical Lifestyle Creation – Duplicable City Center Materials and Costs – Click for Page

Last but not least, Dehua Feng (Civil Engineer) completed his 2nd week working on the fire suppression and safety systems designs for the City Center. This week he redesigned the fire zones in AutoCAD and began research on the minimum and maximum operating pressures and sprinkler hardware options.

Ethical Lifestyle Creation – Fire Suppression, Safety Systems Design for the City Center – Click for Page

HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

One Community is creating ethical lifestyle creation through Highest Good food that is more diverse, more nutritious, locally grown and sustainable, and part of our open source botanical garden model to support and share bio-diversity:

• • • Learn about the structures: Hoop House Hub | Aquapini & Walipini Open Source Hub
    • See what we’ll be growing: Gardens & Hoop Houses | Large-scale Structures | Food Forest | TA

This week, the core team continued writing the behind-the-scenes narrative and detailed food rollout plan for the second landing party group of 20 people. This past week we established and defined 6 separate trial planting beds so we can compare production rates at high elevation growing under varying planting conditions. We also added a narrative explaining how we will resurrect existing neglected orchard by pruning, adding nutrients, and mulching. And we added a narrative describing the purpose of hugelkultur beds for recycling large branches and trees and turning them into a nutrient soil additive. You can see some of this work here.

Ethical Lifestyle Creation – Detailed Food Rollout Plan for Second Landing Party Group – Click for Page

HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

One Community is creating ethical lifestyle creation 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 the creation of the 4 assessment templates that are linked to from the Assessment Forms page. You can see some of this last week’s work here.

Ethical Lifestyle Creation – 4 Assessment Templates Linked From the Assessment Forms – Click to Visit

HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS

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

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

This week, the Highest Good Network software team consisting of Sowmya Manohar (Software Engineer, Web Developer & Net Application Developer), Shubhra Mittal (Software Delivery Manager), and Swathy Jayaseelan (Software Developer) continued their work on the software. This week they fixed issues with creating new users, started working on a new password process, removed the “search task” option, added a projects filter, added functionality that puts the most recently edited action item at the top of the timelog, and developed a line chart for showing weekly work-input trends with a drop down to include/exclude individual member’s data from the chart.

Ethical Lifestyle Creation – Continued Working on Highest Good Network Software – Click for Page

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

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OVERVIEW       ●       LOCATION       ●       FUNDING

GET INVOLVED

CONSULTANTS     ●     WAYS ANYONE CAN HELP     ●     MEMBERSHIP

CLICK HERE FOR ALL PAST UPDATES

WHAT ONE COMMUNITY IS CREATING

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

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

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

BUILDING THE FIRST OF MANY

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

WHY ONE COMMUNITY IS CREATING THIS

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

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

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

WHY OPEN SOURCE

We are creating everything One Community does as open source and free-shared blueprints because we see this as the path for ethical lifestyle creation,  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.

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 by cooperating with nature and 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 and cooperating with nature. 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
• 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

SUMMARY

One Community sees the issues of the world as interdependent and interconnected. For cooperating with nature and 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 by ethical lifestyle creation. 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.

We should be cooperating with nature rather than destroying it. We can do this using permaculture, sustainable building methods, and sustainable energy infrastructure. One Community is open sourcing cooperative and sustainable tutorials and DIY instructions for these areas as well as for-profit and non-profit economic design, social architecture, fulfilled living, global stewardship practices.

• 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 May 6, 2018 edition (#267) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments:

Cooperating With Nature
One Community Progress Update #267

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

COOPERATING WITH NATURE INTRO: @0:34

HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING: @5:27

DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER: @6:59

• Dipti Dhondarkar and the core team continued developing the lighting specifics for the City Center
• Haoxuan “Hayes” Lei continued work on the City Center structural engineering (see below)
• Yun Lin completed his 5th week helping with the beam design and calculation spreadsheet creation for the City Center structural engineering (see below)
• David Olivero completed his 19th week helping with the HVAC Designs for the Duplicable City Center (see below)
• Anvita Kumari Pandey completed her 4th week helping with the Duplicable City Enter Materials and Costs (see below)
• Dehua Feng joined the team and completed his 1st week working on the fire suppression and safety systems design for the City Center (see below)

HIGHEST GOOD FOOD: @9:10

HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION: @9:53

• Finished the editing and content creation for the Assessment Forms page (see below)

HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY: @10:25

• Sowmya Manohar, Shubhra Mittal, and Swathy Jayaseelan continued work on the Highest Good Network software (see below)

COOPERATING WITH NATURE SUMMARY: @11:26

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

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ONE COMMUNITY WEEKLY UPDATE DETAILS

HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

One Community is cooperating with nature 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 working on the Murphy bed storage area in 3D. What you see shown here are the most recent test redesigns for this area.

Cooperating With Nature – Continued Work – Murphy Bed Storage Area in 3D – Click for Page

The core team working with Michael Hagler (Senior Graphic Designer and Artist), also completed another round of editing and testing different layout options shown here for the Compressed Earth Block Village parts of the 7-villages book we’re developing. We’d say we’re now 95% complete with this layout’s updates and edits.

Cooperating With Nature – Compressed Earth Block Village Parts of 7-Villages Book – Click for Page

Shadi Kennedy (Artist and Graphic Designer) completed his 6th week leading the development of the Murphy bed instructions. This week Shadi added a new parts page, one more assembly page, and further evolved the standardization and formatting of all the pages. You can see these here as version 3.3 of these designs.

Cooperating With Nature – Continued Working on the Murphy Bed Instructions – Click to Visit Page

Dean Scholz (Architectural Designer) continued with the Cob Village (Pod 3) render updates. Here is update 112 of Dean’s work. This week Dean continued with his 2nd week working on the textures and lighting for this new “Dining Hall View from the 2nd Floor.”

Cooperating With Nature – Continued with Cob Village AutoCAD Layout Updates – Click for Page

Dan Alleck (Designer and Illustrator) completed his 20th week working on the Compressed Earth Block Village render additions. This week he finished adding people and other details to this render of one of the offices in this village.  This render is now updated on the website also.

Cooperating With Nature – Finished Render of an Earth Block Village Office – Click for Page

DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

One Community is cooperating with nature 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 Dipti Dhondarkar (Electrical Engineer), continued developing the lighting specifics for the City Center. This is Dipti’s 73rd week volunteering on this task and the focus this week was testing lighting and creating (and adding to the website) this comparison of the different table lamp fixture types that meet our LEED sustainability criteria.

Cooperating With Nature – Continued Developing Lighting Specifics for the City Center – Click for Page

Haoxuan “Hayes” Lei (Structural Engineer) continued work on the City Center structural engineering by finishing his review and additions to the new beam calculation and testing spreadsheets we’ve created. You can see this updated and checked work here.

Cooperating With Nature – Continued Work on City Center Structural Engineering – Click to Visit Page

Yun Lin (Bridge Design Engineer) also completed his 5th week helping with the beam design and calculation spreadsheet creation for the City Center structural engineering. This week he started creating the sawn timber design spreadsheet shown here. He also back checked and provided replies to Hayes’ comments and additions.

Cooperating With Nature – Beam Design, Calculation Spreadsheet Creation for City Center – Click for Page

David Olivero (Mechanical Engineer & Data Scientist) completed his 19th week helping with the HVAC Designs for the Duplicable City Center. This week’s focus was electric boiler quantity and size research and considerations, positioning and sizing of minisplits, and adding column descriptions and additional data to the HVAC tab of the Zonal spreadsheet.

Cooperating With Nature – Continued Help – HVAC Designs for Duplicable City Center – Click for Page

Anvita Kumari Pandey (Civil Engineer) completed her 4th week helping with the Duplicable City Center Materials and Costs. This week’s focus was working on the interior, carpentry, and furniture summary sheets and amending various other material quantities as well. You can see some of this work here.

Cooperating With Nature – Continued Help Duplicable City Center Materials and Costs – Click for Page

Last but not least, Dehua Feng (Civil Engineer) joined the team and completed his 1st week working on the fire suppression and safety systems design for the City Center. This week he reviewed all previous work done on these designs, updated calculations where needed, added two more fire zones, and integrated those two new zones and their information into the calculation processes. You can see some of this work here.

Cooperating With Nature – Began Work on Fire Suppression, Safety Systems Design – Click for Page

HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

One Community is cooperating with nature 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 working on the Garden Tools list by researching and adding the Kubota attachments you can see here.

Cooperating With Nature – Continued Working on the Garden Tools List – Click for Page

The core team also continued writing the behind-the-scenes narrative and detailed food rollout plan for the second landing party group of 20 people. The focus this past week was further researching and developing the initial composting and elevation and climate-appropriate food growing strategies you see here.

Cooperating With Nature – Food Rollout Plan – Second Landing Party Group of 20 – Click for Page

HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

One Community is cooperating with nature 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 the editing, image, and content creation for the Assessment Forms page. You can see some of this last week’s work here and the page is now about 100% complete except for creation of the assessment form templates.

Cooperating With Nature – Editing, Image, and Content Creation of Assessment Forms – Click to Visit

HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS

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

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

This week, the Highest Good Network software team consisting of Sowmya Manohar (Software Engineer, Web Developer & Net Application Developer), Shubhra Mittal (Software Delivery Manager), and Swathy Jayaseelan (Software Developer) continued their work on the software. This week they fixed issues with refreshing, inactive users, date stamps, and how the software defines the work week when running reports. They also added a navigation bar to the timelog for easy viewing of work weeks, auto-close function for time entry, auto-update when adding time entries, new notification styling, a custom time range function so that reports can be generated for any given period of time, and new 4 weeks and 6 weeks time range functions for reports.

Cooperating With Nature – Continued Work – Highest Good Network Software – Click for Page

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

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

 

INVESTOR PAGES

OVERVIEW       ●       LOCATION       ●       FUNDING

GET INVOLVED

CONSULTANTS     ●     WAYS ANYONE CAN HELP     ●     MEMBERSHIP

CLICK HERE FOR ALL PAST UPDATES

WHAT ONE COMMUNITY IS CREATING

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

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

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

BUILDING THE FIRST OF MANY

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

WHY ONE COMMUNITY IS CREATING THIS

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

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

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

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.

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 by cooperating with nature and 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 and cooperating with nature. 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
• 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

SUMMARY

One Community sees the issues of the world as interdependent and interconnected. For cooperating with nature and 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.

One Community welcomes Swathy Jayaseelan to the One Community Software Design Team as our newest Volunteer/Consultant!

Swathy Jayaseelan – Software Developer: Swathy holds a Master’s Degree in Software Engineering from California State University, Fullerton and a Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering from SASTRA University, India. She is excited about technology and its proven ability to make the world a better and sustainable place. Swathy has 3 years of experience building and managing a wide range of interesting software products. One of her specialities is in building intuitive and responsive web applications through the complete stack using the best technology of the day. Swathy is well versed in javascript and python ecosystems and continuously strives to expand her horizons. A proud mom, she likes to travel and paint in her spare time. As a member of the One Community team, Swathy is building interactive analytical tools that will allow us to run diverse and details reports within the open source Highest Good Network software.

WELCOME TO THE TEAM SWATHY!

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

INVESTOR PAGES

OVERVIEW       ●       LOCATION       ●       FUNDING

GET INVOLVED

CONSULTANTS     ●     WAYS ANYONE CAN HELP     ●     MEMBERSHIP

Abundant natural systems already exist that are capable of supporting our global and growing population. What is needed is intelligent and ethical stewardship to help protect, develop, and further leverage their effectiveness and application. Integration and expansion of these systems with open source and free-shared sustainable approaches to food, energy, housing, education, for-profit and non-profit economic design, social architecture, and more is what One Community is doing.

• 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 April 29th, 2018 edition (#266) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments:

Abundant Natural Systems
One Community Progress Update #266

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

ABUNDANT NATURAL SYSTEMS INTRO: @0:34

HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING: @8:04

• Continued testing different redesigns of the Murphy bed storage area in 3D (see below)
• Michael Hagler and the core team continued working together creating and testing the different layout options for the Compressed Earth Block Village parts of the 7-villages book (see below)
• Shadi Kennedy completed his 5th week leading the development of the Murphy bed instructions (see below)
• Dean Scholz continued with the Cob Village render updates (see below)
• Mike Kowalski finished his 6th week helping update our Recycled Materials Village renders that are too big for anything but a gaming computer (see below)
• Mihaela “Michelle” Pinzaru completed her 13th week working on the Tree House Village residential renders (see below)

DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER: @9:38

• 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)
• Yun Lin completed his 4th week helping with the beam design and calculation spreadsheet creation for the City Center structural engineering (see below)
• Anvita Kumari Pandey completed her 3rd week helping with the Duplicable City Enter Materials and Costs (see below)

HIGHEST GOOD FOOD: @11:05

• Continued working on the Garden Tools list by researching and integrating large-scale machine plans like tractors and their attachments (see below)
• Continued writing the behind-the-scenes narrative and detailed food rollout plan for the second landing party group of 20 people (see below)

HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION: @11:46

• Completed the initial review, formatting, editing, and content creation for the Assessment Forms page (see below)

HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY: @12:16

• Sowmya Manohar, Shubhra Mittal, and Swathy Jayaseelan continued work on the Highest Good Network software (see below)

ABUNDANT NATURAL SYSTEMS SUMMARY: @13:36

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

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

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ONE COMMUNITY WEEKLY UPDATE DETAILS

HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

One Community is creating abundant natural systems 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 with testing different redesigns of the Murphy bed storage area in 3D. What you see shown here is the most recent of these.

Abundant Natural Systems-Testing Different 3D Redesigns of Murphy Bed Storage Area- Click for Page

The core team working with Michael Hagler (Senior Graphic Designer and Artist), also completed another round of editing and testing different layout options shown here for the Compressed Earth Block Village parts of the 7-villages book we’re developing.

Abundant Natural Systems – Compressed Earth Block Village Parts of 7-Villages Book – Click for Page

Shadi Kennedy (Artist and Graphic Designer) completed his 5th week leading the development of the Murphy bed instructions. This week Shadi finished the rest of our updated layout for the 5-page assembly instructions for the night stands. You can see these here as version 3.2 of these designs.

Abundant Natural Systems – Continued Work on Murphy Bed Instructions – Click to Visit

Dean Scholz (Architectural Designer) continued with the Cob Village (Pod 3) render updates. Here is update 111 of Dean’s work. This week Dean began working on the textures and lighting for this new “Dining Hall View from the 2nd Floor.”

Abundant Natural Systems – Continued with Cob Village AutoCAD Layout Updates – Click for Page

Mike Kowalski (Game Developer) finished his 6th week helping update our Recycled Materials Village (Pod 6) renders that are too big for anything but a gaming computer. What you see here is a collage of all the renders he finished for the outdoor dining area…

Abundant Natural Systems – Outdoor Dining Area Renders – Click for Recycled Materials Village

….plus these three updated final renders including 2 more of the outdoor exercise area…

Abundant Natural Systems – Outdoor Exercise Area Final Render – Click for Recycled Materials Village

Abundant Natural Systems, Outdoor Exercise Area Final Render – Click for Recycled Materials Village

……and this updated final render of the dining area that also shows the exercise area in the background.

Abundant Natural Systems – Outdoor Dining Area Northwest Final Render – Click for Page

Mihaela “Michelle” Pinzaru (Interior Designer and Architectural Drafter) also completed her 13th week working on the Tree House Village (Pod 7) residential renders. This week she finished the textures and other design details needed to produce these three final external renders.

Abundant Natural Systems – Final Tree House Village External Renders – Click for Page

DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

One Community is creating abundant natural systems 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 Dipti Dhondarkar, (Electrical Engineer), continued developing the lighting specifics for the City Center. This is Dipti’s 72nd week volunteering on this task and the focus this week was testing lighting and creating (and adding to the website) this comparison of the different diffuse fixture types that meet our LEED sustainability criteria.

Abundant Natural Systems – Continued Develop – Lighting Specifics for City Center – Click for Page

Haoxuan “Hayes” Lei (Structural Engineer) continued work on the City Center structural engineering by reviewing the new beam calculation and testing spreadsheets we’ve created. We’d say this review process is now 80% complete.

Abundant Natural Systems – Continued Work City Center Structural Engineering – Click for Page

Yun Lin (Bridge Design Engineer) also completed his 4th week helping with the beam design and calculation spreadsheet creation for the City Center structural engineering. This week he added TJI deflection criteria and required web stiffeners into the spreadsheets and researched the impact of utilities holes in the joists.

Abundant Natural Systems –  Beam Design. Calculation Spreadsheet Creation – Click for Page

Anvita Kumari Pandey (Civil Engineer) also completed her 3rd week helping with the Duplicable City Center Materials and Costs. This week’s focus was completing the second floor estimations, working on third and top floor estimation work, and developing a summary sheet. You can see some of this work here.

Abundant Natural Systems – Continued Help – Duplicable City Center Materials, Costs – Click for Page

HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

One Community is creating abundant natural systems 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 working on the Garden Tools list by researching and integrating large-scale machine plans like tractors and their attachments. You can see some of these new additions here.

Abundant Natural Systems – Continued Working on the Garden Tools List – Click for Page

The core team also continued writing the behind-the-scenes narrative and detailed food rollout plan for the second landing party group of 20 people. You can version 2 of this work-in-progress here.

Abundant Natural Systems – Food Rollout Plan – Landing Party Group of 20 People – Click for Page

HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

One Community is creating abundant natural systems 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 completed the initial review, formatting, editing, and content creation for the Assessment Forms page. You can see some of this last week’s work here and the page is now about 50% complete.

Abundant Natural Systems – Completed Initial Review & Editing of Assessment Forms – Click to Visit

HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS

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

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

This week, the Highest Good Network software team consisting of Sowmya Manohar (Software Engineer, Web Developer & Net Application Developer), Shubhra Mittal (Software Delivery Manager), and Swathy Jayaseelan (Software Developer) continued their work on the software. This week they filtered the users in the front end depending on active and inactive users, changed the table headers to fit in single line, removed tasks options, updated the timelog page to show the number of notifications and number of action items for user whose timelog is being viewed, and fixed issues with adding personal links, duplicate project names, and deleting active projects.

They also updated the reports bar charts to show the total hours contributed by each member in the current week in descending order with a drop down to include/exclude members from the chart, included a pie chart to show the number and % of members who have contributed and not contributed in the current week, added an arrow function to show if hours increased or decreased from the previous week, and added functionality for seeing who has contributed to projects and for adding and removing members from project reports.

Abundant Natural Systems – Continued Working on Highest Good Network Software – Click for Page

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WHAT ONE COMMUNITY IS CREATING

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

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

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

BUILDING THE FIRST OF MANY

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

WHY ONE COMMUNITY IS CREATING THIS

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

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

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

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.

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 and facilitate Highest Good Decision Making. 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
• 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

SUMMARY

One Community sees the issues of the world as interdependent and interconnected. To facilitate Abundant Natural Systems and 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.