Creating a global sustainability collaborative makes sense if our intent is a truly sustainable planet for all people everywhere. Open source and free-shared sustainable approaches to food, energy, housing, education, for-profit and non-profit economic design, social architecture, fulfilled living, and global stewardship practices can stimulate global collaboration and innovation and forward this goal and all these areas 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 the movement of creating a global sustainability collaborative as the first of many self-replicating teacher/demonstration communities, villages, and cities to be built around the world. This is the February 26th, 2017 edition (#205) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments:

Creating a Global Sustainability Collaborative
One Community Progress Update #205

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

CREATING A GLOBAL SUSTAINABILITY COLLABORATIVE INTRO: @1:03

CREATING A GLOBAL SUSTAINABILITY COLLABORATIVE HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION: @2:00

• Transferred all of written content for the Fulfilled Living Lesson Plan to the website (see below)
• Behind the scenes: completed 100% of the written part of the Consensus and Decision Making Lesson Plan
• Completed the first 25% of the mindmap for the Play Lesson Plan (see below)
• Continued creation of renders for The Ultimate Classroom (see below)
• Created the initial layout for The Ultimate Classroom component of the developing Highest Good education introductory video (see below)

CREATING A GLOBAL SUSTAINABILITY COLLABORATIVE HIGHEST GOOD FOOD: @3:16

• Completed edits and additional content needed to bring the Transition Kitchen page to 90% complete (see below)
• Ashwin Patil continued with his 19th week developing the new Search Engines for our site (see below)

CREATING A GLOBAL SUSTAINABILITY COLLABORATIVE HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING: @3:54

• Created new needed for the standardized AutoCAD layers and line-weights template and tutorial (see below)
• Alena Thompson completed her 3rd week helping with the Net-zero Communal Bathroom Designs (see below)
• Christian Ojeda completed his 4th week helping with the heat-recycling Communal Eco-shower designs (see below)
• Jennifer Zhou helped create the formatting and initial presentation of the Communal Eco-shower heat exchanger engineering details (see below)
• Adrienne Gould-Choquette finished her 10th week helping create the standardized AutoCAD layers and line-weights template and tutorial (see below)
• Fernando Remolina continued with his 13th week of managing the Vermiculture Bathroom development with the 9th week of help from Lin Xu (see below)
• Dean Scholz continued helping us create quality Cob Village renders (see below)
• Adding details to Dean’s previous work, Guy Grossfeld added people and nature elements to create two new final views of the Cob Village (see below)
• Hamilton Mateca finished his 32nd week helping with the Compressed Earth Block Village design details (see below)
• Aparna Tandon additionally continued her work on the Compressed Earth Block Village external elements (see below)

CREATING A GLOBAL SUSTAINABILITY COLLABORATIVE DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER: @6:53

• Dipti Dhondarkar continued with her 28th week of work on the lighting specifics for the City Center (see below)
• Haoxuan “Hayes” Lei and Shuna Ni continued their work on the City Center structural engineering (see below)
• Ramya Vudi and Shubham Agrawal continued their work on the energy infrastructure for the City Center with Mike Hogan (see below)
• Renan Dantas continued with his 9th week working on the Duplicable City Center AutoCAD updates (see below)

CREATING A GLOBAL SUSTAINABILITY COLLABORATIVE HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY: @8:33

• Finished another several rounds of developing the new Highest Good education video (see below)
• Hannah Gibbs completed her 5th week of helping develop the Taxes and Sustainable Community Building page (see below)

CREATING A GLOBAL SUSTAINABILITY COLLABORATIVE SUMMARY: @9:27

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CREATING A GLOBAL SUSTAINABILITY COLLABORATIVE HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

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

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

This last week the core team transferred all of the written content for the Fulfilled Living Lesson Plan to the website, as you see here. This lesson plan is purposed to teach all subjects, to all learning levels, in any learning environment, using the central theme of “Fulfilled Living”.

Transferred 100% of Fulfilled Living Lesson Plan to Site – Click to Visit Page

Behind the scenes, we completed 100% of the written part of the Consensus and Decision Making Lesson Plan.

We also completed the first 25% of the mindmap for the Play Lesson Plan and added the theme images to the play lesson plan page.

Play Mindmap 25% Complete – Click to Visit Page

In addition, the core team continued creation of renders for The Ultimate Classroom. We updated the windows, tables and chairs for the blue, indigo and red room, added items to the orange room, and rendered the entry doorway area.

Continued Creation of Renders for the Ultimate Classroom – Click to Visit Page

We also created the initial layout for The Ultimate Classroom component of the developing Highest Good education introductory video.

Created Initial Layout for The Ultimate Classroom Component of the Highest Good Education Introductory Video

CREATING A GLOBAL SUSTAINABILITY COLLABORATIVE HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

One Community is creating a global sustainability collaborative 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 completed edits and additional content needed to bring the Transition Kitchen page to 90% complete.

Edited and Added Content to Transition Kitchen Page – Click to Visit

Ashwin Patil (Web Developer) continued with his 19th week developing the new Search Engines for our site. This week’s work was finishing adding the final links to the Highest Good Food search engine.

Continued Developing the New Search Engine for Our Site – Click for Highest Good Food

CREATING A GLOBAL SUSTAINABILITY COLLABORATIVE HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

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

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

This week the core team created easier to read and website optimized versions of all the images needed for the standardized AutoCAD layers and line-weights template and tutorial.

Created Images for Standardized AutoCAD Layers & Line-Weights Template & Tutorial – Click to Visit

Alena Thompson (Mechanical Engineer) completed her 3rd week helping with the Net-zero Communal Bathroom Designs. This week she researched filtration options and worked out the details necessary to design the barrel collection, storage, and filtration system shown here.

Continued Working on Net-zero Communal Bathroom Designs – Click to Visit Page

Christian Ojeda (Mechatronic Engineer) completed his 4th week helping with the heat-recycling Communal Eco-shower designs. This week’s focus was researching a new design for the heat exchanger and updating the sink designs with a new location for the point-of-use electric water heater.

Continued Working on Heat Recycling Communal Eco-Shower Designs – Click to Visit Page

And Jennifer Zhou (Web Designer) helped create the formatting and initial presentation of the Communal Eco-shower heat exchanger engineering details shown here:

Worked on Formatting & Initial Presentation of Communal Eco-shower Heat Exchanger – Click to Visit

Adrienne Gould-Choquette (Mechanical Engineer) also finished her 10th week helping create the standardized AutoCAD layers and line-weights template and tutorial. This week’s focus was more integration of feedback and writing all the content you see here for the Tips and Tricks section of the tutorial.

Continued Creation of Standardized AutoCAD Layers and Line Weights Template – Click for Page

Fernando Remolina (Industrial Engineer specializing in Project Management) continued with his 13th week of managing the Vermiculture Bathroom development with the 9th week of help from Lin Xu (Mechanical Engineering Student). This week’s focus, as shown here, was on more updates and design explorations for the removable compost receptacle attachments.

Continued Working on the Vermiculture Bathroom Development – Click to Visit Page

And Dean Scholz (Architectural Designer), continued helping us create quality Cob Village (Pod 3) renders. Here is update 57 of Dean’s work developing this progression of 30 images for the room lighting for the Eastside living spaces:

Continued Working on Renders for Cob Village Eastside Living Spaces – Click to Visit Page

Adding details to Dean’s previous work, Guy Grossfeld (Graphic Designer) added people and nature elements to create these two new final views of the Cob Village Roof View Looking Southwest:

Cob Village Final Render of Roof View Looking Southwest – Click to Visit Page

…. and this Cob Village – Inside South Wing Looking North view.

Cob Village Final Render of Inside South Wing Looking North View – Click to Visit Page

Hamilton Mateca (AutoCAD and Revit Drafter and Designer) also finished his 32nd week helping with the Compressed Earth Block Village (Pod 4) design details. This week’s focus was more render tests and texture updates for the kitchen, main entry, and living spaces:

Continued Helping with the Compressed Earth Block Village – Click to Visit Page

….and creation of this final render of the main entryway looking Southeast.

Compressed Earth Block Village Final Render of Main Entryway Looking Southeast – Click for Page

Aparna Tandon (Architect) additionally continued her work on the Compressed Earth Block Village external elements. What you see here is her 17th week of work, focusing on continuing the development of the layout and landscaping details in front of the structure.

Continued Working on the Compressed Earth Block Village External Elements – Click for Page

CREATING A GLOBAL SUSTAINABILITY COLLABORATIVE DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

One Community is creating a global sustainability collaborative 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  Dipti Dhondarkar, (Electrical Engineer) continued with her 28th week of work on the lighting specifics for the City Center. This week’s focus was continuing the process of learning how to use the Dialux software, modeling the City Center Social Dome bathrooms, and continuing lighting testing with different floor and wall colors.

Continued Working on the Lighting Specifics for the City Center – Click to Visit Page

Haoxuan “Hayes” Lei (Structural Engineer) and Shuna Ni (Masters of Mechanical Engineering and Civil Engineering PhD) also continued their work on the City Center structural engineering. This week’s focus was continuing the roof designs and working out more details for the column flange and weight specifics, as shown here.

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

Ramya Vudi (Electrical Engineer) and Shubham Agrawal (Electrical Engineer) continued their work on the energy infrastructure for the City Center. What you see here are a couple photos from the weekly collaborative calls with Mike Hogan (Automation Systems Developer and Business Systems Consultant and this week’s research into what is needed to connect to and sell solar power back to the grid.

Continued Working on Energy Infrastructure for the City Center – Click for Page

And Renan Dantas (Mechanical Engineer) continued with his 9th week working on the Duplicable City Center AutoCAD updates. This week’s focus was continuing to integrate the new dome geometry into the Master File and simplification and standardization of the Faster File layers.

Continued Working on the Duplicable City Center AutoCAD Updates – Click for Page

CREATING A GLOBAL SUSTAINABILITY COLLABORATIVE HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS

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

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

This last week the core team finished another several rounds of developing the new Highest Good education video. What you see in the background here is the most recently developed and tested video and graphics.

Hannah Gibbs (Web Developer) also completed her 5th week of helping develop the Taxes and Sustainable Community Building page. This week’s focus was creating and updating the site with more new graphics and formatting updates so everything looks good on phones too.

Continued Developing the Taxes and Sustainable Community Building Page – Click to Visit

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WHAT ONE COMMUNITY IS CREATING

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

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

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

CREATING A GLOBAL SUSTAINABILITY COLLABORATIVE BUILDING THE FIRST OF MANY

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

WHY ONE COMMUNITY IS CREATING THIS

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

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

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

INSPIRING SUSTAINABILITY WITH OPEN SOURCE

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

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

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

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

GLOBALLY IMPLEMENTABLE REPLICATION MODEL

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

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

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

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

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

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

One Community welcomes Adrienne Gould-Choquette to the Engineering Team as our newest Volunteer/Consultant!

Mechanical Engineer: Adrienne has a B.S. & M.S. in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Rhode Island, and has completed graduate coursework at Harvard University in Sustainability studies. She is a licensed Professional Engineer and LEED Green Associate. Her career path has taken her on an amazing journey which includes Ultra High Purity Engineer for Lucent Technologies, Multilevel Interconnect Development Engineer for Bell Labs, Professor and Program Director for Emerging Technologies at the State College of Florida, and presently, Principal Engineer for Adicot, Inc., a consulting engineering firm. Adrienne was awarded two patents for her innovative contributions to the Tungsten CVD process for low-temperature manufacturing applications; and was named Florida’s 2012 Post-Secondary Educator of the Year in part because of her role as founding director of her college’s Alternative Energy program. Her biggest joy and proudest accomplishment is her role as mom to her two sons, Riley and Miles. In their spare time, Adrienne and her husband restore homes to their former glory. Their most recent project was a complete restoration of a 1950s mid-century modern; preserving the architectural integrity of the original design while transforming the home into to a modern, highly energy efficient structure. Adrienne has been been a vegetarian for over 25 years, an avid yogi, and, through her research, an avid proponent of a sustainability in all aspects of life. When looking for a way to give back, she found that her skills and passions were directly inline with One Community’s vision and mission. As a One Community Volunteer, Adrienne is currently helping create CAD standards and contribute to the HVAC design for the Duplicable City Center.

WELCOME TO THE TEAM ADRIENNE!

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One Community welcomes Ramya Vudi to the Engineering Team as our newest Volunteer/Consultant!

Bachelor’s Electrical & Electronics Engineering and Certified Engineer in Training: Ramya received her Bachelor’s degree in Electrical and Electronics Engineering from the renowned engineering school, Vellore Institute of Technology, India. Now she is a Master of Science Student in Electric Power at University of Southern California, Los Angeles and a Certified Engineer In Training by the state of California. Coming from a family of power engineers, Ramya grew up understanding the power industry and its challenges. As an undergrad, she developed a passion for power systems; learning all she could about power system technology. This led to work experience with natural gas and coal power plant networks, conducting various case studies on these networks, and realizing that these sources of power are definitely economical and efficient but not reliable as they are exhaustible. Working towards producing “greener electricity” became an obvious next step and Ramya moved to one of the hubs of renewable energy, California. Now she brings awareness about the value of sustainable living as the President of the Energy Club at USC, organizing guest lectures, field trips, workshops, etc. As a member of the One Community team, Ramya brings her knowledge and passion for innovative solutions to the challenges of renewable energy as she is helping with research and design of the overall energy infrastructure and Duplicable City Center electrical and control and automation tie-in specifics.

WELCOME TO THE TEAM RAMYA!

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An open source and free-shared whole-systems approach to community living could change the way people look at both sustainability and community living. One Community is designing this to include food, energy, housing, education, for-profit and non-profit economic design, social architecture, fulfilled living, global stewardship practices, and more.

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

OUR MAIN OPEN SOURCE HUBS

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

One Community’s physical location will forward the movement of whole-systems approach to community living as the first of many self-replicating teacher/demonstration communities, villages, and cities to be built around the world. This is the February 19th, 2017 edition (#204) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments:

Whole-Systems Approach to Community Living
One Community Progress Update #204

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

WHOLE-SYSTEMS APPROACH TO COMMUNITY LIVING INTRO: @1:03

WHOLE-SYSTEMS APPROACH TO COMMUNITY LIVING HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION: @1:

• Transferred all of written content for the Reality Lesson Plan to the website (see below)
• Behind the scenes: completed 100% of the written part of the Fulfilled Living Lesson Plan
• Completed the second 50% of the mindmap for the Sharing Lesson Plan (see below)
• Continued creation of renders for The Ultimate Classroom (see below)
• Sangam Stanczak joined the team and completed several weeks of cost analysis and hours of additional research for the Learning Tools and Toys component (see below)

WHOLE-SYSTEMS APPROACH TO COMMUNITY LIVING HIGHEST GOOD FOOD: @2:

• Ashwin Patil continued with his 18th week developing the new Search Engines for our site (see below)

WHOLE-SYSTEMS APPROACH TO COMMUNITY LIVING HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING: @3:

• Updated several pages in the 7 villages online book and began reviewing where we left off with the DIY Murphy Bed construction instructions (see below)
• Completed final edits to this Tropical Atrium render and added it to the Earthbag Village and Tropical Atrium pages (see below)
• Created final render of the Communal Eco-shower Structure for the Earthbag Village and final render of the Communal Eco-shower Structure section view (see below)
• Alena Thompson completed her 2nd week helping with the Net-zero Communal Bathroom Designs (see below)
• Christian Ojeda completed his 3rd week helping with the heat-recycling Communal Eco-shower designs (see below)
• Adrienne Gould-Choquette finished her 9th week helping create the standardized AutoCAD layers and line-weights template and tutorial (see below)
• Fernando Remolina continued with his 13th week of managing the Vermiculture Bathroom development with the 8th week of help from Lin Xu (see below)
• Dean Scholz continued helping us create quality Cob Village (Pod 3) renders (see below)
• Adding details to Dean’s previous work, Guy Grossfeld added people and nature elements to create two new views of the Cob Village Roof View (see below)
• Jiming Chen continued helping develop the Tree House Village (see below)
• Hamilton Mateca finished his 31st week helping with the Compressed Earth Block Village design details (see below)
• Aparna Tandon continued her work on the Compressed Earth Block Village external elements (see below)

WHOLE-SYSTEMS APPROACH TO COMMUNITY LIVING DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER: @6:

• Dipti Dhondarkar continued with her 27th week of work on the lighting specifics for the City Center (see below)
• Guy Grossfeld helped us create the updated and final render of one of the City Center rental rooms (see below)
• Jinxi Feng continued her research helping us create an in-depth washing machine sustainability analysis (see below)
• Haoxuan “Hayes” Lei and Shuna Ni continued their work on the City Center structural engineering (see below)
• Ramya Vudi working with the guidance of Mike Hogan worked on the energy infrastructure for the City Center (see below)
• Jin Yu completed her 5th week working on the concrete foundation design and tutorial details for the Duplicable City Center (see below)

WHOLE-SYSTEMS APPROACH TO COMMUNITY LIVING HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY: @8:

• Finished another round of developing the new Highest Good education video (see below)

WHOLE-SYSTEMS APPROACH TO COMMUNITY LIVING SUMMARY: @8:

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

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WHOLE-SYSTEMS APPROACH TO COMMUNITY LIVING HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

One Community is facilitating a whole-systems approach to community living through Highest Good education that is for all ages, applicable in any environment, adaptable to individual needs, far exceeds traditional education standards, and more fun for both the teachers and the students:

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

This last week the core team transferred all of the written content for the Reality Lesson Plan to the website, as you see here. This lesson plan is purposed to teach all subjects, to all learning levels, in any learning environment, using the central theme of “Reality”.

Transferred 100% of Reality Lesson Plan to Site – Click to Visit Page

Behind the scenes, we completed 100% of the written part of the Fulfilled Living Lesson Plan.

We also completed the second 50% of the mindmap for the Sharing Lesson Plan, bringing it to 100% complete, which you see here:

Sharing Mindmap Complete – Click to Visit Page

In addition, the core team continued creation of renders for The Ultimate Classroom. We finished rendering updates for the indigo room:

Continued Creation of Renders for the Ultimate Classroom – Click to Visit Page

…..and started adding missing items and updating textures for the red room:

Continued Creation of Renders for the Ultimate Classroom – Click to Visit Page

Last but not least, Sangam Stanczak (Ph.D. and P.E.) joined the team and completed several weeks of cost analysis (top pic) and hours of additional research for the Learning Tools and Toys component. You can see screenshots of all this behind-the-scenes work here:

Completed Several Weeks of Tool and Toy Cost Analysis – Click for Page

Completed Hours of Research for the Learning Tools and Toys Component – Click for Page

WHOLE-SYSTEMS APPROACH TO COMMUNITY LIVING HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

One Community is facilitating a whole-systems approach to community living through Highest Good food that is more diverse, more nutritious, locally grown and sustainable, and part of our open source botanical garden model to support and share bio-diversity:

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

Ashwin Patil (Web Developer) continued with his 18th week developing the new Search Engines for our site. This week’s work was on the Highest Good Food search engine to integrate more edits to the names, add in the Open Source Botanical Gardens page and related pages, and begin working on the Walipini and Aquapini sections.

Continued Developing the New Search Engine for Our Site – Click for Highest Good Food

WHOLE-SYSTEMS APPROACH TO COMMUNITY LIVING HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

One Community is facilitating a whole-systems approach to community living through Highest Good housing that is artistic and beautiful, more affordable, more space efficient, lasts longer, DIY buildable, and constructed with healthy and sustainable materials:

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

This week the core team updated several pages in the 7 villages online book. We also began reviewing where we left off with the DIY Murphy Bed construction instructions.

Updated Pages in the 7 Villages Online Book and Continued Murphy Bed Construction instructions

Then we completed final edits to this Tropical Atrium render (now with people doing yoga) and added it to the Earthbag Village and Tropical Atrium pages:

Tropical Atrium New Final Render Now with People Doing Yoga – Click for Page

Final Render of the Communal Eco-shower Structure – Click for Page

Final Render of the Communal Eco-Shower Structure Section View – Click for Page

Alena Thompson (Mechanical Engineer)  completed her 2nd week helping with the Net-zero Communal Bathroom Designs. This week she researched barrel options and eliminated this option based on space needs, came up with multiple reservoir alternatives, confirmed metal sheeting will work for the roof, and began researching water purification alternatives.

Worked on Net-zero Communal Bathroom Designs – Click to Visit Page

Christian Ojeda (Mechatronic Engineer) completed his 3rd week helping with the heat-recycling Communal Eco-shower designs. This week’s focus was the designs shown here for the central sink piping.

Continued Working on Heat Recycling Communal Eco-Shower Designs – Click to Visit Page

Adrienne Gould-Choquette (Mechanical Engineer) also finished her 9th week helping create the standardized AutoCAD layers and line-weights template and tutorial. This week’s focus was adding pictures and additional edits to create 2.0 of the AutoCAD layers and line-weights tutorial, as shown here.

Continued Creation of Standardized AutoCAD Layers and Line Weights Template – Click for Page

Fernando Remolina (Industrial Engineer specializing in Project Management) continued with his 13th week of managing the Vermiculture Bathroom development with the 8th week of help from Lin Xu (Mechanical Engineering Student). This week’s focus, as shown here, was on the removable compost receptacle attachments and new approaches to emptying and cleaning.

Continued Working on the Vermiculture Bathroom Development – Click to Visit Page

And Dean Scholz (Architectural Designer), continued helping us create quality Cob Village (Pod 3) renders. Here is update 56 of Dean’s work focusing this week on the Eastside living spaces:

Continued Working on Renders for Cob Village Eastside Living Spaces – Click to Visit Page

…this final render of the Westside Living Space Upstairs View:

Westside Living Space Upstairs View – Final Render – Click for Cob Village Page

… and this final render of the Section View of the Westside Living Spaces Looking North:

Cob Village Section View of the Westside Living Spaces Looking North – Click for Page

Adding details to Dean’s previous work, Guy Grossfeld (Graphic Designer) added people and nature elements to create these two new views of the Cob Village Roof View Looking Southeast:

Cob Village Concept Render – Roof View Looking Southeast – Click for Page

…. and this Roof View Looking North.

Cob Village Concept Render – Roof View Looking North – Click for Page

Jiming Chen (Designer with his Master’s in Architecture and BA in Engineering) also continued helping develop the Tree House Village (Pod 7). What you see here is his 13th week of this work focusing on applying last week’s color choices and test rendering each of the different tree house structures shown here:

Continued Developing the Tree House Village – Click for Page

….also this next-generation render of the complete village.

Cob Village Next-Generation Render of the Complete Village – Click for Page

Hamilton Mateca (AutoCAD and Revit Drafter and Designer) also finished his 31st week helping with the Compressed Earth Block Village (Pod 4) design details. This week’s focus was more updates to the kitchen textures and design testing more lighting strategies for the living spaces.

Continued Helping with the Compressed Earth Block Village – Click to Visit Page

Aparna Tandon (Architect) additionally continued her work on the Compressed Earth Block Village external elements. What you see here is her 16th week of work, focusing on updating layers to match the new template and continued development of the details in front of the East wing and inside the left wing, as shown here.

Continued Working on the Compressed Earth Block Village External Elements – Click for Page

WHOLE-SYSTEMS APPROACH TO COMMUNITY LIVING DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

One Community is facilitating a whole-systems approach to community living through a Duplicable and Sustainable City Center that is LEED Platinum certified/Sustainable, can feed 200 people at a time, provide laundry for over 300 people, is beautiful, spacious, and saves resources, money, and space:

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

This week Dipti Dhondarkar, (Electrical Engineer) continued with her 27th week of work on the lighting specifics for the City Center. This week’s focus was beginning the process of learning how to use the Dialux software to model the City Center Living Dome bathrooms and begin lighting testing.

Continues Working on the Lighting Specifics for the City Center – Click to Visit Page

In addition to this, Guy Grossfeld (Graphic Designer) helped us create this updated and final render of one of the City Center rental rooms.

Created Final Render of One of the City Center Rental Rooms – Click to Visit Page

And Jinxi Feng (Environmental Consultant) continued her research helping us create an in-depth washing machine sustainability analysis. What you see here is her 22nd week of behind-the-scenes work on this area of the project. This week’s focus was more content creation and updating the graphics and numbers for water savings. The core team also continued editing and formatting last week’s content on the eco-laundry page on the site. A collage of all of this is shown here.

Continued Research for in-Depth Laundry and Dryer Machine Sustainability Analysis – Click to Visit

Haoxuan “Hayes” Lei (Structural Engineer) and Shuna Ni (Masters of Mechanical Engineering and Civil Engineering PhD) also continued their work on the City Center structural engineering. This week’s focus was continued more roof design updates and working on the flange specifics and best lengths for the main column sections to be able to be constructed without heavy machinery.

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

Ramya Vudi (Electrical Engineer) working with the guidance of Mike Hogan (Automation Systems Developer and Business Systems Consultant) worked on the energy infrastructure for the City Center. This week’s work focused on the initial wiring layouts shown here.

Continued Working on Energy Infrastructure for the City Center – Click for Page

Jin Yu (Structural Engineering Designer) also completed her 5th week working on the concrete foundation design and tutorial details for the Duplicable City Center. This week’s focus was this behind-the-scenes tutorial explaining the engineering of column spread footings with an example that includes all the calculations of footings that are used, as shown here.

Continued Working on the Concrete Foundation Design and Tutorial Details

WHOLE-SYSTEMS APPROACH TO COMMUNITY LIVING HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS

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

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

This week the core team finished another round of developing the new Highest Good education video. What you see here are a couple different proposed layouts for the lesson plans graphic.

Continued Developing New Highest Good Education Video – Click to Visit

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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 of whole-systems approach to community living globally:

Phase I: 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: 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: 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. thereby helping the world by transitioning to the whole-systems approach to community living.

Phase IV: 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 to the whole-systems approach to community living.

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
• 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 will evolve 5 primary types of open source content purposed to reach and service as broad an audience as possible and inch them towards whole-systems approach to community living. 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.

Helping people create a better world can be accomplished through open source and free-shared approaches to sustainable food, energy, housing, education, for-profit and non-profit economic design, social architecture, fulfilled living, and global stewardship practices. Open sourcing all these as a complete model and new way of living has the potential to provide a better way of life for everyone built on a sustainable foundation. One Community calls this living and creating for The Highest Good of All because it benefits all people and life on our planet.

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

OUR MAIN OPEN SOURCE HUBS

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

One Community’s physical location will forward the movement of helping people create a better world as the first of many self-replicating teacher/demonstration communities, villages, and cities to be built around the world. This is the February 12th, 2017 edition (#203) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments:

Helping People Create a Better World
One Community Progress Update #203

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

HELPING PEOPLE CREATE A BETTER WORLD INTRO: @1:03

HELPING PEOPLE CREATE A BETTER WORLD HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION: @2:00

• Transferred all of the written content for the Form and Our Outer World Lesson Plan to the website (see below)
• Behind the scenes: completed 100% of the written part of the Reality Lesson Plan
• Completed the first 50% of the mindmap for the Sharing Lesson Plan (see below)
• Began creation of renders for The Ultimate Classroom indigo room and the blue room (see below)

HELPING PEOPLE CREATE A BETTER WORLD HIGHEST GOOD FOOD: @3:07

• Edited and added information to the “Why” section of the Food Bars page (see below)
• Jennifer Zhou completed phase I of the edits and reorganization of the Transition Kitchen page behind the scenes (see below)

HELPING PEOPLE CREATE A BETTER WORLD HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING: @3:46

• Added people to the replacement Tropical Atrium images, added callouts, and revised the Tropical Atrium page (see below)
• Alena Thompson joined the team and completed her 1st week helping with the Net-zero Communal Bathroom Designs (see below)
• Christian Ojeda completed his 2nd week helping with the heat recycling Communal Eco-shower designs (see below)
• Adrienne Gould-Choquette also finished her 8th week helping create the standardized AutoCAD layers and line-weights template and tutorial (see below)
• Dean Scholz continued helping us create quality Cob Village renders (see below)
• Jiming Chen continued helping develop the Tree House Village (see below)
• Hamilton Mateca finished his 30th week helping with the Compressed Earth Block Village design details (see below)

HELPING PEOPLE CREATE A BETTER WORLD DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER: @5:59

• Replaced all the people and updated the Duplicable City Center Kitchen final render (see below)
• Guy Grossfeld helped us create this updated final render of a person sitting by the window in one of the City Center rental rooms (see below)
• Jinxi Feng continued her research helping us create an in-depth washing machine sustainability analysis (see below)
• Started editing and formatting last week’s content for the eco-laundry page on the site (see below)
• Ramya Vudi and Shubham Agrawal continued their work on the energy infrastructure for the City Center (see below)
• Jin Yu completed her 4th week working on the concrete foundation design and tutorial details for the Duplicable City Center (see below)
• Renan Dantas continued with his 8th week working on the Duplicable City Center AutoCAD updates (see below)
• Lucas Tsutsui da Silva finished integrating another round of sensor and automation component updates for the Control and Automation systems layout (see below)

HELPING PEOPLE CREATE A BETTER WORLD HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY: @8:05

• Finished another round of developing the new Highest Good education video intro a new overview intro (see below)
• Ashwin Patil continued with his 17th week developing the new Search Engines for our site (see below)

HELPING PEOPLE CREATE A BETTER WORLD SUMMARY: @8:49

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HELPING PEOPLE CREATE A BETTER WORLD HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

One Community is helping people create a better world through Highest Good education that is for all ages, applicable in any environment, adaptable to individual needs, far exceeds traditional education standards, and more fun for both the teachers and the students:

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

This last week the core team transferred all of the written content for the Form and Our Outer World Lesson Plan to the website, as you see here. This lesson plan is purposed to teach all subjects, to all learning levels, in any learning environment, using the central theme of “Form and Our Outer World”.

Transferred 100% of Form and Our Outer World Lesson Plan to Site – Click to Visit Page

Behind the scenes, we completed 100% of the written part of the Reality Lesson Plan.

We also completed the first 50% of the mindmap for the Sharing Lesson Plan, bringing it to 50% complete, which you see here.

Sharing Mindmap – 50% Complete – Click to Visit Page

In addition, the core team began creation of renders for The Ultimate Classroom indigo room that has a focus of global and historical perspectives and celebrating diversity… and the blue room that has a focus of communication, empathy, feelings, and the ability to express oneself, as shown here.

Began Creation of Renders for the Ultimate Classroom – Click to Visit Page

HELPING PEOPLE CREATE A BETTER WORLD HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

One Community is helping people create a better world 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 edited and added information to the “Why” section of the Food Bars page, as you see here, bringing the page to ~20% completion.

Edited & Added Info to the “Why” Section of the Food Bars Page – Click to Visit

Jennifer Zhou (Web Designer) also completed phase I of the edits and reorganization of the Transition Kitchen page behind the scenes, bringing that page to 40% completion. You can see screenshots of this work in progress here:

Completed Phase I of Edits and Reorganization of the Transition Kitchen Page – Click to Visit Page

HELPING PEOPLE CREATE A BETTER WORLD HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

One Community is helping people create a better world 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 added people to the replacement Tropical Atrium images, added callouts, and revised the Tropical Atrium page shown here:

Updated the Tropical Atrium Images and Updated the Page – Click for Tropical Atrium

Alena Thompson (Mechanical Engineer) joined the team and completed her 1st week helping with the Net-zero Communal Bathroom Designs. This week she researched the reservoir design, evaluated structural feasibility and suggested changes, started SolidWorks updates to the existing structure, and building the user interface for adapting structures to different size needs, as shown here.

Worked on Net-zero Communal Bathroom Designs – Click to Visit Page

Christian Ojeda (Mechatronic Engineer) completed his 2nd week helping with the heat recycling Communal Eco-shower designs. What you see here are minor modifications to the structure and version 2.0 of 3D modeling the pipes, point-of-use heater, thermostatic mixing valve, and heat exchanger.

Continued Working on Heat Recycling Communal Eco-Shower Designs – Click to Visit Page

Adrienne Gould-Choquette (Mechanical Engineer) also finished her 8th week helping create the standardized AutoCAD layers and line-weights template and tutorial. This week’s focus was beginning an AutoCAD blocks template and writing draft 1 of the AutoCAD layers and line-weights tutorial.

Continued Creation of Standardized AutoCAD Layers and Line Weights Template – Click for Page

And Dean Scholz (Architectural Designer), continued helping us create quality Cob Village (Pod 3) renders. Here is update 55 of Dean’s work focusing this week on the Eastside living spaces:

Worked on Renders for the Cob Village Eastside Living Spaces – Click to Visit Page

…and this final render of the Westside looking North.

Created Final Render of the Westside Looking North – Click for Cob Village

Jiming Chen (Designer with his Master’s in Architecture and BA in Engineering) also continued helping develop the Tree House Village (Pod 7). What you see here is his 12th week of this work focusing on applying our chosen color palette to the outside of the village to provide these color options.

Continued Developing the Tree House Village – Click for Page

Hamilton Mateca (AutoCAD and Revit Drafter and Designer) also finished his 30th week helping with the Compressed Earth Block Village (Pod 4) design details. This week’s focus was updates to the kitchen and front entryway textures and furniture and lighting within the living spaces.

Continued Helping with the Compressed Earth Block Village – Click to Visit Page

HELPING PEOPLE CREATE A BETTER WORLD DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

One Community is helping people create a better world 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 replaced all the people and updated the Duplicable City Center Kitchen final render, which you can see here:

Replaced all People and Updated the Duplicable City Center Kitchen Final Render – Click for Page

In addition to this, Guy Grossfeld (Graphic Designer) helped us create this updated and final render of a person sitting by the window in one of the City Center rental rooms:

Living Dome Rental Room Final Render – Click for Duplicable City Center

…..and this first-generation updated view of the rest of the room.

Updated View of Living Dome Rental Room – Click to Visit Duplicable City Center

And Jinxi Feng (Environmental Consultant) continued her research helping us create an in-depth washing machine sustainability analysis. What you see here is her 21st week of behind-the-scenes work on this area of the project. This week’s focus was updating the graphics you see here and writing the project-specific content for the tutorial.

Continued Research for in-Depth Laundry and Dryer Machine Sustainability Analysis – Click to Visit

The core team also started editing and formatting last week’s content for the eco-laundry page on the site, as you can see here.

Began Editing and Formatting Last Week’s Content for the Eco-Laundry Page – Click to Visit

Ramya Vudi (Electrical Engineer) and Shubham Agrawal (Electrical Engineer) continued their work on the energy infrastructure for the City Center. This week’s work focused on finishing the research and selecting the multi-conductors and conduit types. Here are pictures of this work and from our weekly collaborative call.

Continued Working on Energy Infrastructure for the City Center – Click for Page

Jin Yu (Structural Engineering Designer) also completed her 4th week working on the concrete foundation design and tutorial details for the Duplicable City Center. This week’s focus was continuing the foundation design detail tutorial with a focus on the overview details and footing design specifics, as shown here.

Continued Working on the Concrete Foundation Design and Tutorial Details – Click for Duplicable City

And Renan Dantas (Mechanical Engineer) continued with his 8th week working on the Duplicable City Center AutoCAD updates. This week’s focus was 3D updates and design details to match the mezzanine level to the new geometry of the dome, as shown here.

Continued Creating Our Duplicable City Center AutoCAD Updates – Click to Visit Page

Lucas Tsutsui da Silva (4th-year Computer Engineering Student) also finished integrating another round of sensor and automation component updates for the Control and Automation systems layout, as shown here.

Duplicable City Center Control Systems, Lighting, and Electrical Map – Click to Enlarge

HELPING PEOPLE CREATE A BETTER WORLD HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS

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

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

This week the core team finished another round of developing the new Highest Good education video intro you see here:

 Ashwin Patil (Web Developer) continued with his 17th week developing the new Search Engines for our site. This week’s work included integration of the first round of edits to the Highest Good Food search engine and final revisions to the Highest Good education search engine that is now 100% complete and live on the Highest Good education main page.

Continued Developing the New Search Engine for Our Site – Click for Highest Good Education

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INVESTOR PAGES

OVERVIEW       ●       LOCATION       ●       FUNDING

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. 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 which will be helping people create a better world. A place based on compassion, kindness, and collaboration. This replicable community will serve as an example for what is possible.

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

HELPING PEOPLE CREATE A BETTER WORLD BUILDING THE FIRST OF MANY

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

WHY ONE COMMUNITY IS CREATING THIS

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

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

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

INSPIRING SUSTAINABILITY WITH OPEN SOURCE

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

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

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

COMPREHENSIVE SOLUTION TO HUMANITY’S NEEDS

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

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

GLOBALLY IMPLEMENTABLE REPLICATION MODEL

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

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

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

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

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

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

 

 

The time has come for game-changing solutions for the world. This means whole-systems approaches covering all aspects of sustainable and ecologically intelligent approaches to food, energy, housing, education, for-profit and non-profit economic design, social architecture, fulfilled living, and global stewardship practices. One Community is working to design, open source and free-share, and build these solutions.

• 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 February 5th, 2017 edition (#2o2) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments:

Game-Changing Solutions for the World
One Community Progress Update #202

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

GAME-CHANGING SOLUTIONS FOR THE WORLD INTRO: @1:03

GAME-CHANGING SOLUTIONS FOR THE WORLD HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION: @1:59

• Transferred all of the written content for the Diversity Lesson Plan to the website (see below)
• Behind the scenes: completed 100% of written part of the “Form & Our Outer World” Lesson Plan
• Completed the first 50% of the mindmap for the Cosmos Lesson Plan (see below)

GAME-CHANGING SOLUTIONS FOR THE WORLD HIGHEST GOOD FOOD: @2:48

• Added anchor links and created / added a new image to the “What Is” section of the Food Bars page (see below)
• Working with Jennifer Zhou, completed edits and reorganization of the Food Self-sufficiency Transition Plan page (see below)

GAME-CHANGING SOLUTIONS FOR THE WORLD HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING: @3:31

• Built the initial test heat exchanger for the Communal Eco-shower Structure (see below)
• Merged two renders to create the final section view of the Communal Eco-shower Structure for the Earthbag Village (see below)
• Guy Grossfeld added people and nature elements to create two new Final renders of Earthbag Village Tropical Atrium (see below)
• Christian Ojeda joined the team and completed his 1st week helping with the heat recycling Communal Eco-shower designs (see below)
• Adrienne Gould-Choquette finished her 7th week helping create the standardized AutoCAD layers and line-weights template (see below)
• Fernando Remolina continued with his 12th week of managing the Vermiculture Bathroom development with help from Lin Xu and Jianyu “Lucas” Liang (see below)
• Dean Scholz continued helping us create quality Cob Village renders (see below)

GAME-CHANGING SOLUTIONS FOR THE WORLD DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER: @5:39

• Made final edits to render for natural pool area inside the Duplicable City Center Social Dome (see below)
• Continued working on 3D-visualizing the structural support updates for the Cupola (see below)
• Dipti Dhondarkar continued with her 26th week of work on the lighting specifics for the City Center (see below)
• Jinxi Feng continued her research helping us create an in-depth washing machine sustainability analysis (see below)
• Haoxuan “Hayes” Lei and Shuna Ni continued their work on the City Center structural engineering (see below)
• Ramya Vudi and Shubham Agrawal continued their work on the energy infrastructure for the City Center (see below)
• Jin Yu completed her 3rd week working on the concrete foundation design and tutorial details for the Duplicable City Center (see below)
• Renan Dantas continued with his 7th week working on the Duplicable City Center AutoCAD updates (see below)

GAME-CHANGING SOLUTIONS FOR THE WORLD HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY: @8:15

• Finished a complete rewrite and update of the Highest Good Network software page and launched a new campaign to help build the team (see below)
• Hannah Gibbs completed her 4th week of helping develop the Taxes and Sustainable Community Building page (see below)
• Ashwin Patil continued with his 16th week developing the new Search Engines for our site (see below)

GAME-CHANGING SOLUTIONS FOR THE WORLD SUMMARY: @8:55

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GAME-CHANGING SOLUTIONS FOR THE WORLD HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

One Community is helping create game-changing solutions for the world through Highest Good education that is for all ages, applicable in any environment, adaptable to individual needs, far exceeds traditional education standards, and more fun for both the teachers and the students:

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

This last week the core team transferred all of the written content for the Diversity Lesson Plan to the website, as you see here. This lesson plan is purposed to teach all subjects, to all learning levels, in any learning environment, using the central theme of “Diversity”.

Transferred 100% of Diversity Lesson Plan to Site – Click to Visit Page

Behind the scenes, we completed 100% of the written part of the “Form & Our Outer World” Lesson Plan.

We also completed the first 50% of the mindmap for the Cosmos Lesson Plan, bringing it to 50% complete, which you see here:

Cosmos Mindmap – 50% Complete – Click to Visit Page

GAME-CHANGING SOLUTIONS FOR THE WORLD HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

One Community is helping create game-changing solutions for the world 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 added anchor links and created / added a new image to the “What Is” section of the Food Bars page, as you see here, bringing the page to ~20% completion.

Added Anchor Links & Created New Image for the “What Is” Section of the Food Bars Page

Working with Jennifer Zhou (Web Designer), we also completed edits and reorganization of the Food Self-sufficiency Transition Plan page, bringing that page to 90% completion, which you can see here.

Completed Edits and Reorganization of the Food Self-Sufficiency Transition Plan Page – Click to Visit

GAME-CHANGING SOLUTIONS FOR THE WORLD HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

One Community is helping create game-changing solutions for the world through Highest Good housing that is artistic and beautiful, more affordable, more space efficient, lasts longer, DIY buildable, and constructed with healthy and sustainable materials:

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

This last week the core team built the initial test heat exchanger for the Communal Eco-shower Structure:

Heat Exchanger Test Parts Before Assembly – Click for Communal Eco-Shower Structure Page

… assembled and sealed it:

Assembled and Sealed Heat Exchanger – Click for Communal Eco-Shower Structure Page

… and produced this final construction ready for testing:

Heat Exchanger Final Construction – Click for Communal Eco-Shower Structure Page

We also merged two renders to create this final section view of the Communal Eco-shower Structure for the Earthbag Village (Pod 1):

Merged Two Renders to Create this Final Section View of Communal Eco-Shower Structure – Click for Page

In addition to this, Guy Grossfeld (Graphic Designer) added people and nature elements to create these two new Final renders of the Earthbag Village Tropical Atrium, then we added them to the site.

Created New Final Render of Earthbag Village Tropical Atrium – Click for Page

Created New Final Render of Earthbag Village Tropical Atrium – View Looking South – Click for Page

Christian Ojeda (Mechatronic Engineer) joined the team and completed his 1st week helping with the heat recycling Communal Eco-shower designs. What you see here is version 1.0 of 3D modeling the pipes, point-of-use heater, thermostatic mixing valve, and heat exchanger.

Worked on Heat Recycling Communal Eco-Shower Designs – Click to Visit Page

Adrienne Gould-Choquette (Mechanical Engineer) also finished her 7th week helping create the standardized AutoCAD layers and line-weights template. This week’s focus was another round of integrating feedback and further simplifying the template to produce what you see here.

Continued Creation of Standardized AutoCAD Layers and Line Weights Template – Click for Page

Fernando Remolina (Industrial Engineer specializing in Project Management) continued with his 12th week of managing the Vermiculture Bathroom development with the 7th week of help from Lin Xu (Mechanical Engineering Student) and Jianyu “Lucas” Liang (Mechanical Engineer). This week’s focus, as shown here, was on the toilet connections to the main unit and drainage details.

Continued Managing the Vermiculture Bathroom Development – Click to Visit Page

And Dean Scholz (Architectural Designer), continued helping us create quality Cob Village (Pod 3) renders. Here is update 54 of Dean’s work developing renders for the living spaces. This week’s focus was a new perspective and section including the 2nd-floor sleeping areas of the Southwest wing.

Continued Creating Quality Cob Village Renders – Click to Visit Page

GAME-CHANGING SOLUTIONS FOR THE WORLD DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

One Community is helping create game-changing solutions for the world 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 made final edits to this render for the natural pool area inside the Duplicable City Center Social Dome:

Made Final Edits to Render for Natural Pool Indoor Render – Click for Page

The core team also continued working on 3D-visualizing the structural support updates for the Cupola that tops the Duplicable City Center. We added structural metal beam support for the South and North columns of the central area, and continued working on the structural support columns around the staircase area of the Dining Dome. You can see this work in both of these areas here:

Continued Working on 3D-Visualizing the Structural Support Updates for the Cupola

Dipti Dhondarkar, (Electrical Engineer) continued with her 26th week of work on the lighting specifics for the City Center. This week’s focus was creation of a simplified zone drawing and beginning initial light placement.

Continued Working on the Lighting Specifics for the City Center – Click to Visit Page

And Jinxi Feng (Environmental Consultant) continued her research helping us create an in-depth washing machine sustainability analysis. What you see here is her 20th week of behind-the-scenes work on this area of the project. This week’s focus was finalizing writing the content and creating the graphics for the first half of the Research and Application section of the tutorial.

Continued Research for in-Depth Laundry and Dryer Machine Sustainability Analysis – Click to Visit

Haoxuan “Hayes” Lei (Structural Engineer) and Shuna Ni (Masters of Mechanical Engineering and Civil Engineering PhD) also continued their work on the City Center structural engineering. This week’s focus was continued roof engineering calculations and finishing the process of updating the structural calculations based on commonly available steel members.

Continued Working on City Center Structural Engineering – Click for Page

Ramya Vudi (Electrical Engineer) and Shubham Agrawal (Electrical Engineer) continued their work on the energy infrastructure for the City Center. This week’s work focused on researching multiconductors, conduit types, and saltwater batteries and doing a comparative analysis for saltwater versus lead acid batteries.

Continued Working on Energy Infrastructure for the City Center – Click for Page

Jin Yu (Structural Engineering Designer) also completed her 3rd week working on the concrete foundation design and tutorial details for the Duplicable City Center. This week’s focus was on writing the beginning of the foundation design detail tutorial, as seen here.

Continued Working on the Concrete Foundation Design and Tutorial Details – Click for Duplicable City

And Renan Dantas (Mechanical Engineer) continued with his 7th week working on the Duplicable City Center AutoCAD updates. This week’s focus was adjusting the windows and doors to fit the new dome geometry and identifying possible problem areas.

Continued Creating Our Duplicable City Center AutoCAD Updates – Click to Visit Page

GAME-CHANGING SOLUTIONS FOR THE WORLD HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS

One Community is helping create game-changing solutions for the world through a Highest Good society approach to living that is founded on fulfilled living, the study of meeting human needs, Community, and making a difference in the world:

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

This week the core team finished a complete rewrite and update of the Highest Good Network software page and launched a new campaign to help build the team necessary to complete this software.

Finished a Complete Rewrite and Update of the Highest Good Network Software Page – Click to Visit

Hannah Gibbs (Web Developer) also completed her 4th week of helping develop the Taxes and Sustainable Community Building page. This week’s focus was final edits to the state images and adding these images to the site along with their links to their states’ tax pages.

Continued Developing Taxes & Sustainable Community Building Page – Click to Visit

Ashwin Patil (Web Developer) continued with his 16th week developing the new Search Engines for our site. This week’s work included integration of the first round of edits to the Straw Bale Village search engine and creation and testing of version 1.0 of the Highest Good Food search engine.

Continued Developing the New Search Engine for Our Site – Click for Straw Bale Village

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WHAT ONE COMMUNITY IS CREATING

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

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

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

GAME-CHANGING SOLUTIONS FOR THE WORLD BUILDING THE FIRST OF MANY

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

WHY ONE COMMUNITY IS CREATING THIS

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

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

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

INSPIRING SUSTAINABILITY WITH OPEN SOURCE

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

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

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

COMPREHENSIVE SOLUTION TO HUMANITY’S NEEDS

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

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

GLOBALLY IMPLEMENTABLE REPLICATION MODEL

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

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

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

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

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

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

An ecological paradigm is possible if enough people want it. One nonprofit and non-governmental approach to achieving this is open source and free-shared approaches to sustainable food, energy, housing, education, for-profit and non-profit economic design, social architecture, fulfilled living, and global stewardship practices. We call this living and creating for The Highest Good of All.

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

OUR MAIN OPEN SOURCE HUBS

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

One Community’s physical location will forward the movement to create an ecological paradigm as the first of many self-replicating teacher/demonstration communities, villages, and cities to be built around the world. This is the January 29th, 2017 edition (#201) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments:

Ecological Paradigm
One Community Progress Update #201

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

ECOLOGICAL PARADIGM INTRO: @1:03

ECOLOGICAL PARADIGM HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION: @2:00

• Transferred all written content for Caring and Kindness Lesson Plan to the website (see below)
• Behind the scenes: completed 100% of the written part of the Diversity Lesson Plan
• Completed second 50% of the mindmap for the Cognition Lesson Plan (see below)
• Recolored all the Highest Good education icons to match the master icon and for video use, and then updated the site (see below)

ECOLOGICAL PARADIGM HIGHEST GOOD FOOD: @2:59

• Edited and added information to the “What Is” and “Overview ” sections of the Food Bars page (see below)

ECOLOGICAL PARADIGM HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING: @3:28

• Ashwini Ramesh and core team put another combined total of 15 hours into the crowdfunding campaign we are developing (see below)
• Created/revised the structural engineering icons in 8 colors for Highest Good housing (see below)
• Created two new Communal Eco-shower Structure renders for the Earthbag Village (see below)
• Adrienne Gould-Choquette finished her 6th week helping create the standardized AutoCAD layers and line-weights template (see below)
• Dean Scholz continued helping us create quality Cob Village renders (see below)
• Adding details to Dean’s previous work, Guy Grossfeld added people and nature elements to create 4 new final renders of the Cob Village (see below)
• Jiming Chen also continued helping develop the Tree House Village (see below)
• Hamilton Mateca finished his 29th week helping with the Compressed Earth Block Village design details (see below)

ECOLOGICAL PARADIGM DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER: @6:06

• Started working on 3D-visualizing the structural support updates for the Cupola that tops the Duplicable City Center (see below)
• Made additional formatting and image changes to the Duplicable City Center component of the 7 villages online book (see below)
• Jinxi Feng continued her research helping us create an in-depth washing machine sustainability analysis (see below)
• Haoxuan “Hayes” Lei and Shuna Ni continued their work on the City Center structural engineering (see below)
• Shubham Agrawal continued his work on the electrical and Control and Automation systems designs for the City Center (see below)
• Jin Yu completed her 2nd week working on the concrete foundation design and tutorial details for the Duplicable City Center (see below)
• Renan Dantas continued with his 6th week working on creating our next generation of Duplicable City Center sections, layout organization, layer updates, and color updates (see below)

ECOLOGICAL PARADIGM HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY: @8:28

• Finished the One Community aspect of our open source and replicable annual social media strategy (see below)
• Hannah Gibbs completed her 3rd week of helping develop the Taxes and Sustainable Community Building page (see below)
• Ashwin Patil continued with his 15th week developing the new Search Engines for our site (see below)

ECOLOGICAL PARADIGM SUMMARY: @9:08

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ECOLOGICAL PARADIGM HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

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

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

This last week the core team transferred all of the written content for the Caring and Kindness Lesson Plan to the website, as you see here. This lesson plan is purposed to teach all subjects, to all learning levels, in any learning environment, using the central theme of “Caring and Kindness”

Transferred 100% of Caring and Kindness Lesson Plan to Site – Click to Visit Page

Behind the scenes, we completed 100% of the written part of the Diversity Lesson Plan.

We also completed the second 50% of the mindmap for the Cognition Lesson Plan, bringing it to 100% complete, which you see here:

Cognition Mindmap – Complete – Click to Visit Page

And we recolored all the Highest Good education icons to match the master icon and for video use, and then updated the site with them.

Recolored Highest Good Education Icons and Updated on the Site – Click for Page

ECOLOGICAL PARADIGM HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

One Community is facilitating a new ecological-paradigm 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 edited and added information to the “What Is” and “Overview ” sections of the Food Bars page, as you see here, bringing the page to approximately 18% completion.

Worked on the “What Is” and “Overview ” Sections of the Food Bars Page – Click to Visit Page

ECOLOGICAL PARADIGM HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

One Community is facilitating a new ecological-paradigm 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

The core team working with Ashwini Ramesh (Civil Engineer and Project Manager) put another combined total of 15 hours into the crowdfunding campaign we are developing. This week’s focus was behind-the-scenes review and continued writing and editing of the Sustainable Site Selection, Planning and Preparation GoogleDoc that also contains the Site Clearing, Preparation, and Maintenance details. You can see some of this work here.

Continued Writing & Editing the Sustainable Site Selection, Planning and Preparation GoogleDoc

The core team also created/revised the structural engineering icons in 8 colors for Highest Good housing.

Created/Revised Structural Engineering Icons in 8 colors for Highest Good Housing – Click to Visit

And we created two new Communal Eco-shower Structure renders for the Earthbag Village (Pod 1). Next, we will merge these to create the final render.

Created Two New Communal Eco-Shower Structure Renders – Click for Page

Adrienne Gould-Choquette (Mechanical Engineer) also finished her 6th week helping create the standardized AutoCAD layers and line-weights template. This week’s focus was several rounds of integrating the feedback and suggestions from all the other disciplines on our team.

Continued Creation of Standardized AutoCAD Layers and Line Weights Template – Click for Page

And Dean Scholz (Architectural Designer), continued helping us create quality Cob Village (Pod 3) renders. Here is update 53 of Dean’s work developing renders for the living spaces. This week’s focus was on sections and renders for the 2nd floor sleeping areas of the Southwest wing.

Continued Creating Quality Cob Village Renders – Click to Visit Page

Adding details to Dean’s previous work, Guy Grossfeld (Graphic Designer) added people and nature elements to create this new final render of the Cob Village Front View:

Cob Village Final Render of Front View – Click to Visit Page

… and this Front View Looking Northwest:

Cob Village Final Render of Front View Looking Northwest – Click to Visit Page

… this Back View Looking East:

Cob Village Final Render of Back View Looking East – Click to Visit Page

… and this Center View Looking Northeast:

Cob Village Final Render of Center View Looking Northeast- Click to Visit Page

Jiming Chen (Designer with his Master’s in Architecture and BA in Engineering) also continued helping develop the Tree House Village (Pod 7). What you see here is his 11th week of this work focusing on test rendering the entire village you see here with columns as tree placeholders:

Continued Helping Develop the Tree House Village -Click to Visit Page

…and finishing the plans and running test renders as seen here for the shower and bathroom stand-alone tower structures.

Shower and Bathroom Tower Structures – Click for Tree House Village

Hamilton Mateca (AutoCAD and Revit Drafter and Designer) also finished his 29th week helping with the Compressed Earth Block Village (Pod 4) design details. This week’s focus was updates to the kitchen renders, creation of accurate outdoor earth block benches, and simplifying the AutoCAD colors and layers.

Continued Evolving the Compressed Earth Block Village – Click to Visit Page

ECOLOGICAL PARADIGM DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

One Community is facilitating a new ecological-paradigm 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 working on 3D-visualizing the structural support updates for the Cupola that tops the Duplicable City Center. You can see the beginnings of this work here.

Worked on 3D-Visualizing Structural Support Updates for Cupola – Click for Duplicable City Center

We also made additional formatting and image changes to the Duplicable City Center component of the 7 villages online book.

Made Changes to DCC Component of the 7 Villages Online Book – Click to Visit Page

And Jinxi Feng (Environmental Consultant) continued her research helping us create an in-depth washing machine sustainability analysis in route of creating an ecological paradigm. What you see here is her 19th week of behind-the-scenes work on this area of the project. This week’s focus was writing the data analysis content and creating info graphics explaining what’s possible when maximizing sustainability in this area.

Continued Research for in-Depth Laundry and Dryer Machine Sustainability Analysis – Click to Visit

Haoxuan “Hayes” Lei (Structural Engineer) and Shuna Ni (Masters of Mechanical Engineering and Civil Engineering PhD) also continued their work on the City Center structural engineering. This week’s focus was roof engineering, fixing stairway conflicts with existing beams, and beginning the process of updating the structural calculations based on commonly available steel members.

Continued Working on City Center Structural Engineering – Click for Page

Shubham Agrawal (Electrical Engineer) continued his work on the electrical and Control and Automation systems designs for the City Center. What you see here are a couple photos from the weekly collaborative call with Mike Hogan (Automation Systems Developer and Business Systems Consultant) and the new tool Shubham created for calculating solar and battery sizing and needs.

Continued Working on Electrical and Control and Automation Systems Designs – Click for Page

Jin Yu (Structural Engineering Designer) also completed her 2nd week working on the concrete foundation design and tutorial details for the Duplicable City Center. This week’s focus was on the wall footings and basement design details.

Continued Working on the Concrete Foundation Design and Tutorial Details – Click for Page

And Renan Dantas (Mechanical Engineer) continued with his 6th week working on creating our next generation of Duplicable City Center sections, layout organization, layer updates, and color updates. This week’s focus was modeling the the new dome geometry at each floor level and then applying this to the floor plans.

Continued Creating our Next Generation of Duplicable City Center Section Drawings – Click to Visit

ECOLOGICAL PARADIGM HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS

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

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

This week the core team finished the One Community aspect of our open source and replicable annual social media strategy. You can see a small snapshot of this work here.

Finished the One Community Aspect of Open Source Annual Social Media Strategy – Click to Visit

Hannah Gibbs (Web Developer) also completed her 3rd week of helping develop the Taxes and Sustainable Community Building page. What you see here are the second round of custom images she’s created that will link to the tax codes for each state.

Continued Helping Develop the Taxes and Sustainable Community Building Page – Click to Visit Page

Ashwin Patil (Web Developer) continued with his 15th week developing the new Search Engines for our site. This week’s work included another round of revisions and updates for the the Highest Good education component and completing version 1.0 of the complete Straw Bale Village search engine.

Continued Work on Search Engine for the Highest Good Education Component & Highest Good Housing – Click to Visit

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WHAT ONE COMMUNITY IS CREATING

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

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

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

BUILDING THE FIRST OF MANY

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

WHY ONE COMMUNITY IS CREATING THIS

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

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

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

INSPIRING SUSTAINABILITY WITH OPEN SOURCE

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

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

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

COMPREHENSIVE SOLUTION TO HUMANITY’S NEEDS

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

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

GLOBALLY IMPLEMENTABLE REPLICATION MODEL

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

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

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

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

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

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

One Community is an all-volunteer nonprofit open sourcing sustainability hubs for all aspects of community and sustainable living. This includes open source and free-shared tools, tutorials and resources for food, energy, housing, education, for-profit and non-profit economic design, social architecture, fulfilled living, global stewardship practices, and more. We see this as a path to a truly sustainable planet.

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

OUR MAIN OPEN SOURCE HUBS

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

One Community’s physical location will forward the movement of open sourcing sustainability hubs as the first of many self-replicating teacher/demonstration communities, villages, and cities to be built around the world. This is the January 22nd, 2017 edition (#200) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments:

Open Sourcing Sustainability Hubs
One Community Progress Update #200

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

OPEN SOURCING SUSTAINABILITY HUBS INTRO: @1:03

OPEN SOURCING SUSTAINABILITY HUBS HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION: @1:

• Transferred all the written content for the Sharing Lesson Plan to the website (see below)
• Behind the scene: completed 100% of the written part of the Caring Lesson Plan
• Completed the second 25% of the mindmap for the Cognition Lesson Plan (see below)

OPEN SOURCING SUSTAINABILITY HUBS HIGHEST GOOD FOOD: @2:

• Added Dr. Matt Marturano’s food bar information to the Food Bars page and organized it into sections (see below)

OPEN SOURCING SUSTAINABILITY HUBS HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING: @3:

• Created/revised several new icons for Highest Good housing (see below)
• Tested various platforms for hosting the 7 villages online book (see below)
• Continued working on the renders for the Communal Eco-shower Structures that are part of the Earthbag Village (see below)
• Adrienne Gould-Choquette finished her 5th week helping create the standardized AutoCAD layers and line weights template and started researching additional HVAC options for the Earthbag Village and Duplicable City Center (see below)
• Shilcy Augustine started updating the layers and color details for the Straw Bale Village (see below)
• Dean Scholz continued helping us create quality Cob Village renders (see below)
• Adding details to Dean’s previous work, Guy Grossfeld (Graphic Designer) added people and nature elements to create two new final renders of the Cob Village (see below)
• Hamilton Mateca finished his 28th week helping with the Compressed Earth Block Village (Pod 4) design details (see below)

OPEN SOURCING SUSTAINABILITY HUBS DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER: @6:

• Jinxi Feng continued her research helping us create an in-depth laundry and dryer machine sustainability analysis (see below)
• Guy Grossfeld developed final version of the City Center root cellar where large-scale food storage will be maintained (see below)
• Haoxuan “Hayes” Lei and Shuna Ni continued their work on the City Center structural engineering (see below)
• Shubham Agrawal continued his work on the energy infrastructure for the City Center (see below)
• Lucas Tsutsui da Silva finished integrating last week’s basement and Dining Dome equipment updates for the Control and Automation systems layout (see below)

OPEN SOURCING SUSTAINABILITY HUBS HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY: @8:

• Continued exploration of a video effect that we’ll share on our website and in our new introduction video the locations of everyone who has volunteered with our organization (see below)
• Hannah Gibbs completed her 2nd week of helping develop the Taxes and Sustainable Community Building page (see below)
• Ashwin Patil and Jennifer Zhou completed another round of edits to Search Engine for the Highest Good education component and Highest Good housing villages (see below)

OPEN SOURCING SUSTAINABILITY HUBS SUMMARY: @8:

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OPEN SOURCING SUSTAINABILITY HUBS HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

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

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

This last week the core team transferred all of the written content for the Sharing Lesson Plan to the website, as you see here. This lesson plan purposed to teach all subjects, to all learning levels, in any learning environment, using the central theme of “Sharing” is now 100% completely written on our website:

Transferred 100% of Sharing Lesson Plan to Site – Click to Visit Page

Behind the scenes, we completed 100% of the written part of the Caring and Kindness Lesson Plan.

We also completed the second 25% of the mindmap for the Cognition Lesson Plan, bringing it to 50% complete, which you see here:

Cognition Mindmap – 50% Complete – Click to Visit Page

OPEN SOURCING SUSTAINABILITY HUBS HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

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

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

This last week the core team added Dr. Matt Marturano’s food bar information to the Food Bars page (currently behind the scenes) and organized it into sections, bringing the page to approximately 15% complete:

Added and Organized Food Bar Information to the Food Bars Page

OPEN SOURCING SUSTAINABILITY HUBS HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

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

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

This last week the core team created/revised several new icons for Highest Good housing:

Created New Icons for Highest Good Housing – Click to Visit Page

And we tested various platforms for hosting the 7 villages online book. You can see some of this work and the related testing notes here:

Tested Various Platforms for Hosting the 7 Villages Online Book – Click for Housing Page

In addition to this, the core team continued working on the renders for the Communal Eco-shower Structures that are part of the Earthbag Village (Pod 1). This week we updated the texture of the floor, adjusted the lighting, and added internal walls and appliances.

Continued Working on Renders for Communal Eco-shower Structures in the Earthbag Village

Adrienne Gould-Choquette (Mechanical Engineer) also finished her 5th week helping create the standardized AutoCAD layers and line weights template and she started researching additional HVAC options for the Earthbag Village (Pod 1) and Duplicable City Center. What you see here is a collage of her work on both of these areas:

Continued Creation of Standardized AutoCAD Layers and Line Weights Template – Click for Page

Shilcy Augustine (Architect) started updating the layers and color details for the Straw Bale Village (Pod 2), as shown here.

Started Updating Layers and Color Details for Straw Bale Village – Click for Page

And Dean Scholz (Architectural Designer), continued helping us create quality Cob Village (Pod 3) renders. Here is update 52 of his work that continues focusing on lighting, texture and other aesthetic details inside the homes. In the video portion of the blog you can see the progression of a series of 72 test renders showing this development and wrapping up with his final 3 newest ones:

Continued Creating Quality Cob Village Renders – Click to Visit Page

….and finishing with this final render of what this living space will look like:

Created Cob Village Final Render of Southwest Living Space Looking South – Click for Page

Lighting complete, Dean then created this final perspective looking the other direction too.

Cob Village Final Render of Southwest Living Space Looking North – Click for Page

Adding details to Dean’s previous work, Guy Grossfeld (Graphic Designer) added people and nature elements to create this new final render of the Cob Village Center View Looking Northwest:

Created Final Render of Cob Village Center View Looking Northwest – Click for Page

… and this Back View Looking Southeast:

Back View Looking Southeast Cob Village Final Render – Click to Visit Page

Hamilton Mateca (AutoCAD and Revit Drafter and Designer) also finished his 28th week helping with the Compressed Earth Block Village (Pod 4) design details. This week’s focus was continued development of the furniture, plants, textures, and layer colors for the different scenes shown here:

Continued Evolving the Compressed Earth Block Village – Click to Visit Page

Continued Evolving the Compressed Earth Block Village – Click to Visit Page

OPEN SOURCING SUSTAINABILITY HUBS DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

One Community is open sourcing sustainability hubs 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, Jinxi Feng (Environmental Consultant) continued her research helping us create an in-depth laundry and dryer machine sustainability analysis. What you see here is her 18th week of behind-the-scenes work on this area of the project. This week’s focus was finalizing the data needed for the website and graphics creation and creating open source spreadsheets so others can duplicate this work too.

Continued Research for in-Depth Laundry and Dryer Machine Sustainability Analysis – Click to Visit

Guy Grossfeld (Graphic Designer) also developed this final version of the City Center root cellar where large-scale food storage will be maintained.

Developed Final Version of the Root Cellar – Click for City Center Kitchen Page

Haoxuan “Hayes” Lei (Structural Engineer) and Shuna Ni (Masters of Mechanical Engineering and Civil Engineering PhD) also continued their work on the City Center structural engineering. What you see here are the newest calculations for wind and snow loads.

Continued Working on City Center Structural Engineering – Click for Page

Shubham Agrawal (Electrical Engineer) continued his work on the energy infrastructure for the City Center. This week’s work focus was beginning the development of a spreadsheet and tool outlined here for calculating battery and solar array size and cost comparisons for grid versus non-grid setups.

Continued Working on Energy Infrastructure for the City Center – Click for Page

Lucas Tsutsui da Silva (4th-year Computer Engineering Student) also finished integrating last week’s basement and Dining Dome equipment updates for the Control and Automation systems layout, as shown here.

Integrated Basement and Dining Dome Equipment Updates for Control & Automation Systems Layout

OPEN SOURCING SUSTAINABILITY HUBS HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS

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

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

This week the core team continued exploration of this video effect that we’ll share on our website and in our new introduction video the locations of everyone who has volunteered with our organization.

Hannah Gibbs (Web Developer) also completed her 2nd week of helping develop the Taxes and Sustainable Community Building page. What you see here are the first round of images she’s created that will link to the tax codes for each state.

Continued Helping Develop the Taxes and Sustainable Community Building Page – Click to Visit Page

Ashwin Patil (Web Developer) and Jennifer Zhou (Web Designer) also completed another round of edits to Search Engine for the Highest Good education component and Highest Good housing villages. This included modifying existing links and adding new links to live search engines and sets of code developing behind the scenes, as seen here.

Continued Work on Search Engine for the Highest Good Education Component & Highest Good Housing

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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 of creating open sourcing sustainability hubs globally:

Phase I: 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: 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 further create open sourcing sustainability hubs.

Phase III: 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: 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. As One Community we strive to be open sourcing sustainability hubs for all aspects of community and sustainable living

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
• 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 will evolve 5 primary types of open source content purposed to reach and service as broad an audience as possible and develop multiple open sourcing sustainability hubs. 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.

Regenerative sustainability creation is one way we as a species can begin to consciously steward our planet. Designing an open source and free-shared model for this will make it easier and more affordable. Combining the components of food, energy, and housing with sustainable and Highest Good approaches to education, for-profit and non-profit economic design, social architecture, fulfilled living, and global stewardship practices can also make it a better way of living than the way most people are living now.

• 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 January 15th, 2017 edition (#199) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments:

Regenerative Sustainability Creation
One Community Progress Update #199

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

REGENERATIVE SUSTAINABILITY CREATION INTRO: @1:03

HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION: @2:02

• Transferred all written content for the Play Lesson Plan to the website (see below)
• Behind the scenes: completed 100% of the written part of the Sharing Lesson Plan
• Completed the first 25% of the mindmap for the Cognition Lesson Plan (see below)

HIGHEST GOOD FOOD: @2:56

• Finished updating the anchor links and formatting the Food Bars page (see below)

HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING: @3:22

• Working with Ashwini Ramesh, we put another combined total of 15 hours into the crowdfunding campaign we are developing (see below)
• Further evolved last week’s main render from Guy Grossfeld for the Shipping Container Village (see below)
• Updated all associated web pages and 7 villages online book with the new version (see below)
• Continued working on the renders for the Communal Eco-shower Structures that are part of the Earthbag Village (see below)
• Adrienne Gould-Choquette finished her 4th week helping create the standardized AutoCAD layers and line weights template (see below)
• Dean Scholz continued helping us create quality Cob Village renders (see below)
• Guy Grossfeld created a new final render of the Front External View Looking East for the Cob Village (see below)
• Jiming Chen continued helping develop the Tree House Village (see below)
• Hamilton Mateca finished his 27th week helping with the Compressed Earth Block Village design details (see below)
• Zachary Melin continued developing the Tree House Village book (see below)

DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER: @6:18

• Made final edits to the render for the Duplicable City Center outside portion of the natural pool (see below)
• Continued developing the lighting and textures for the render perspective for the natural pool area inside the Duplicable City Center Social Dome.
• Dipti Dhondarkar continued with her 25th week of work on the lighting specifics for the City Center (see below)
• Jinxi Feng continued her research helping us create an in-depth laundry and dryer machine sustainability analysis (see below)
• Guy Grossfeld further developed the render for the City Center root cellar (see below)
• Haoxuan “Hayes” Lei and Shuna Ni continued their work on the City Center brace details (see below)
• Ramya Vudi and Shubham Agrawal continued their work on the energy infrastructure for the City Center (see below)
• Mike Hogan and Lucas Tsutsui da Silva began a new round of development of the Control and Automation systems layout (see below)
• Jin Yu joined the team and completed her first week working on the concrete foundation design and tutorial details for the Duplicable City Center (see below)

HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY: @9:03

• Created a detailed list of next steps for developing the Highest Good Network (see below)
• Working with Ashwin Patil and Jennifer Zhou we completed another round of edits and launched the search engine for the Highest Good education component. We also continued development of the code needed for the Highest Good housing search engines for each village (see below)

REGENERATIVE SUSTAINABILITY CREATION SUMMARY: @9:28

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HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

One Community is facilitating regenerative sustainability 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 last week the core team transferred all of the written content for the Play Lesson Plan to the website, as you see here. This lesson plan purposed to teach all subjects, to all learning levels, in any learning environment, using the central theme of “Play” is now 100% completely written on our website.

Transferred 100% of Play Lesson Plan to Site – Click to Visit Page

Behind the scenes, we completed 100% of the written part of the Sharing Lesson Plan.

We also completed the first 25% of the mindmap for the Cognition Lesson Plan, bringing it to 25% complete, which you see here:

Cognition Mindmap – 25% Complete – Click to Visit Page

HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

One Community is facilitating regenerative sustainability 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 last week the core team finished updating the anchor links and formatting the Food Bars page, bringing the page to ~10% completion:

Finished Updating the Anchor Links and Formatting the Food Bars Page – Click to Visit

HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

One Community is facilitating regenerative sustainability 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

The core team working with Ashwini Ramesh (Civil Engineer and Project Manager) put another combined total of 15 hours into the crowdfunding campaign we are developing. This week’s focus was behind-the-scenes review and continued development of AutoCAD drawings and continued writing and editing of the Sustainable Site Selection, Planning and Preparation GoogleDoc that also contains the Site Clearing, Preparation, and Maintenance details. You can see some of this work here:

Worked Behind-the-Scenes Writing and Editing the Site Planning and Preparation Google Doc – Click for Related Page

The core team also further evolved last week’s main render from Guy Grossfeld (Graphic Designer) for the Shipping Container Village.

Further Evolved the Shipping Container Village Render – Click for Page

We then updated all associated web pages and 7 villages online book with the new version:

Updated Webpages and 7 Villages Online Book with the New Version – Click for Shipping Container Page

In addition to this, the core team continued working on the renders for the Communal Eco-shower Structures that are part of the Earthbag Village (Pod 1). This week we updated the central sink area with additional under sink storage units and we updated the shape/texture of the mirrors over the sinks.

Continued Working on Renders for Communal Eco-shower Structures in the Earthbag Village – Click for Page

Adrienne Gould-Choquette (Mechanical Engineer) also finished her 4th week helping create the standardized AutoCAD layers and line weights template. This week’s focus was further applying it to the Shipping Container Village (Pod 5) and adding what is needed to gather input from other disciplines.

Continued Creation of Standardized AutoCAD Layers and Line Weights Template – Click for Page

Dean Scholz (Architectural Designer), continued helping us create quality Cob Village (Pod 3) renders. Here is update 51 of his work that continues focusing on lighting, texture and other aesthetic details inside the homes. In the Video portion of the blog you can see the progression of a series of 70 renders showing this development and finishing with his final 3 newest ones:

Continued Creating Quality Cob Village Renders – Click to Visit Page

Adding details to Dean’s previous work, Guy Grossfeld (Graphic Designer) added people and nature elements to create this new final render of the Front External View Looking East for the Cob Village.

Final Render of the Front External View Looking East – Click to Visit Page

Jiming Chen (Designer with his Master’s in Architecture and BA in Engineering) also continued helping develop the Tree House Village (Pod 7). What you see here is his 10th week of this work focusing on test rendering a variety of different perspectives within the village.

Continued Helping Develop the Tree House Village – Click for Page

Tree House Village – Click for Page

Hamilton Mateca (AutoCAD and Revit Drafter and Designer) also finished his 27th week helping with the Compressed Earth Block Village (Pod 4) design details. This week’s focus was continued lighting details and further development of the external village specifics.

Continued Evolving the Compressed Earth Block Village – Click to Visit Page

Zachary Melin (Graphic Designer) also continued developing the Tree House Village (Pod 7) book. What you see here is week 20 of this work that produced these two custom made 3D sections for page 56. 

Continued Developing the Tree House Village Book – Click to Visit Page

DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

One Community is facilitating regenerative sustainability 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 made final edits to this render for the Duplicable City Center outside portion of the natural pool.

Made Final Edits to Render for Duplicable City Center Outside Portion of the Natural Pool – Click for Page

And we continued developing the lighting and textures for the render perspective for the natural pool area inside the Duplicable City Center Social Dome.

Continued Working on the Natural Pool Area Inside the Duplicable City Center Social Dome – Click to Visit Page

And Dipti Dhondarkar, (Electrical Engineer) continued with her 25th week of work on the lighting specifics for the City Center. This week’s focus was finishing adding and updating the type of bulb details, watts per zone, and minimum lumens and lights details to the zone spreadsheet, as seen here.

Continued Working on the Lighting Specifics for the City Center – Click to Visit Page

Jinxi Feng (Environmental Consultant) also continued her research helping us create an in-depth laundry and dryer machine sustainability analysis. What you see here is her 17th week of behind-the-scenes work on this area of the project. This week’s focus was continued development of the data for the tutorial and adding details to the open source tool to help people understand how we came to our conclusions for comparing water and energy savings with different washers and dryers.

Continued Research for in-Depth Laundry and Dryer Machine Sustainability Analysis – Click to Visit Page

Guy Grossfeld (Graphic Designer) further developed the City Center root cellar render:

Further Developed the City Center Root Cellar Render – Click to Visit Page

Haoxuan “Hayes” Lei (Structural Engineer) and Shuna Ni (Masters of Mechanical Engineering and Civil Engineering PhD) also continued their work on the City Center brace details. What you see here are the design specifics and completed calculation and measurement details necessary for us to now model this in 3D.

Continued Working on the City Center Brace Details – Click to Visit Page

Ramya Vudi (Electrical Engineer) and Shubham Agrawal (Electrical Engineer) continued their work on the energy infrastructure for the City Center. This week’s work focused on an initial lifestyle schedule and evaluating different solar scenarios and the associated effects on battery and solar panel array sizing.

Continued Working on Electrical and Control and Automation Systems Designs – Click for Page

Mike Hogan (Automation Systems Developer and Business Systems Consultant) and Lucas Tsutsui da Silva (4th-year Computer Engineering Student) also began a new round of development of the Control and Automation systems layout. Here are pictures from the weekly development call where we focused on the root cellar, boiler room, and 1st floor details.

Began a New Round of Development of the Control and Automation Systems Layout – Click for Page

Jin Yu (Structural Engineering Designer) also joined the team and completed her first week working on the concrete foundation design and tutorial details for the Duplicable City Center. You can see a collage of some of this work here.

Worked on Concrete Foundation Design and Tutorial Details for Duplicable City Center – Click for Page

HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS

One Community is facilitating regenerative sustainability 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 core team created a detailed list of next steps for developing the Highest Good Network, as seen here:

Create a Detailed List of Next Steps for Developing the Highest Good Network – Click for Page

And, working with Ashwin Patil (Web Developer) and Jennifer Zhou (Web Designer), we completed another round of edits and launched the search engine for the Highest Good education component. We also continued development of the code needed for the Highest Good housing search engines for each village.

Continued Working on the Search Engine for Education and Developed Code for Housing Search Engine – Click for Highest Good Housing Page

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REGENERATIVE SUSTAINABILITY CREATION – WHAT ONE COMMUNITY IS CREATING

One Community is creating a place to grow together and change the world together through regenerative sustainability creation. 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 regenerative sustainability creation.

REGENERATIVE SUSTAINABILITY CREATION – 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.

REGENERATIVE SUSTAINABILITY CREATION – WHY ONE COMMUNITY IS CREATING THIS

The One Community self-replicating model is capable of creating a sustainable planet within 30 years. We will achieve this by establishing successful teacher/demonstration hubs on every continent which will spread knowledge on the regenerative sustainability creation model. 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 regenerative sustainability creation 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 regenerative sustainability creation 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.

REGENERATIVE SUSTAINABILITY CREATION – INSPIRING SUSTAINABILITY WITH OPEN SOURCE

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

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

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

REGENERATIVE SUSTAINABILITY CREATION – COMPREHENSIVE SOLUTION TO HUMANITY’S NEEDS

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

As we address and open source share these areas we will establish a living example of the first teacher/demonstration village purposed to teach others. To maximally facilitate duplication of the regenerative sustainability creation plan, 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.

REGENERATIVE SUSTAINABILITY CREATION – GLOBALLY IMPLEMENTABLE REPLICATION MODEL

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

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

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

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

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

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

REGENERATIVE SUSTAINABILITY CREATION – 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 of regenerative sustainability creation globally:

Phase I: 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: 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: 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: 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.

REGENERATIVE SUSTAINABILITY CREATION – 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 of regenerative sustainability creation 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 of regenerative sustainability creation 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 about regenerative sustainability creation 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
• 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

REGENERATIVE SUSTAINABILITY CREATION – OPEN SOURCE SHARING STRATEGY SPECIFICS

One Community’s open source strategy will evolve 5 primary types of open source content purposed to reach and service as broad an audience as possible in order to spread word about the regenerative sustainability creation model. 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 of regenerative sustainability creation model 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

REGENERATIVE SUSTAINABILITY CREATION – 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.

Open source and free-shared designs are one approach for jump starting global eco-communities. Designs like this can cover all aspects of eco-community establishment and maintenance while also providing templates for stand-alone implementation by individuals too. Comprehensively providing models like this has the potential to influence and stimulate the entire sustainability industry, moving us closer to global sustainability and Highest Good living models for 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 January 8th, 2017 edition (#198) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments:

Jump Starting Global Eco-Communities
One Community Progress Update #198

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

JUMP STARTING GLOBAL ECO-COMMUNITIES INTRO: @1:03

HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION: @2:01

• Transferred all the written content for the Cosmos Lesson Plan to the website (see below)
• Behind the scenes: completed 100% of the written part of the Play Lesson Plan (see below)
• Completed the final 25% of the mindmap for the Consciousness Lesson Plan (see below)

HIGHEST GOOD FOOD: @2:57

• Finished updating the anchor links on all of the new food pages (see below)

HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING: @3:38

• Put another combined total of 20 hours into the crowdfunding campaign we are developing along with Ashwini Ramesh (see below)
• Created 20 new pages of the web infrastructure for sustainable villages #’s 3-7 (see below)
• Created 5 new layout outlines for the 7 villages online book (see below)
• Created and added to the book and website two final renders of the Recycled Materials Village Dance Studio and Music Room (see below)
• Continued working on the renders for the Communal Eco-shower Structures that are part of the Earthbag Village (see below)
• Adrienne Gould-Choquette continued working on standardized AutoCAD layers and line weights template (see below)
• Lianyi Zhao continued working on Net-zero Communal Bathroom modeling (see below)
• Dean Scholz continued helping us create quality Cob Village renders  (see below)
• Hamilton Mateca continued helping with Compressed Earth Block Village design details (see below)
• Aparna Tandon continued working on Compressed Earth Block Village external elements (see below)
• Guy Grossfeld created the new and final main Shipping Container Village render (see below)
• Zachary Melin continued developing the Tree House Village book (see below)

DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER: @7:06

• Continued render and book layout creation for the Duplicable City Center (see below)
• Created a new render for the natural pool area inside the Duplicable City Center Social Dome (see below)
• Guy Grossfeld began working on adding food and people to render of City Center root cellar (see below)
• Haoxuan “Hayes” Lei and Shuna Ni continued their work on City Center structural engineering (see below)
• Ramya Vudi and Shubham Agrawal continued their work on the electrical and Control and Automation systems designs for the City Center with Mike Hogan (see below)

HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY: @8:35

• Dakota Kaiser began developing a new open source and replicable annual social media strategy (see below)
• Ashwin Patil completed the search engine functionality for the Highest Good education component (see below)
• Jennifer Zhou continued working on setting up the search engine icons and code for Highest Good housing village #3-7 (see below)

JUMP STARTING GLOBAL ECO-COMMUNITIES SUMMARY: @9:10

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HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

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

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

This last week the core team transferred all of the written content for the Cosmos Lesson Plan to the website, as you see here. This lesson plan purposed to teach all subjects, to all learning levels, in any learning environment, using the central theme of “Cosmos” is now 100% completely written on our website.

Transferred 100% of Cosmos Lesson Plan to Site – Click to Visit Page

Behind the scenes, we completed 100% of the written part of the Play Lesson Plan.

We also completed the final 25% of the mindmap for the Consciousness Lesson Plan, bringing it to 100% complete, which you see here:

Consciousness Mindmap – 100% Complete – Click to Visit Page

HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

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

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

This week, the core team finished updating the anchor links on all of the new food pages; Vegan Rice Recipes & Omnivore Rice Recipes, Vegan Potato Recipes & Omnivore Potato Recipes, Vegan Sweet Potato Recipes & Omnivore Sweet Potato Recipes, and the Vegan Pasta Recipes & Omnivore Pasta Recipes pages, bringing all of the pages to ~60% completion:

Finished Updating the Anchor Links on All of New Food Pages – Click for Vegan Rice Recipes Page

HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

One Community is jump starting global eco-communities through Highest Good housing that is artistic and beautiful, more affordable, more space efficient, lasts longer, DIY buildable, and constructed with healthy and sustainable materials:

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

This last week the core team working with Ashwini Ramesh (Civil Engineer and Project Manager) put another combined total of 20 hours into the crowdfunding campaign we are developing. This week’s focus was behind-the-scenes writing and editing of the Sustainable Site Selection, Planning and Preparation GoogleDoc that also contains the Site Clearing, Preparation, and Maintenance details. You can see some of this work here:

Worked Behind-the-Scenes Writing and Editing the Site Planning and Preparation Google Doc – Click for Related Page

The core team also created 20 new pages of the web infrastructure for sustainable villages #’s 3-7. You can see a collage of this work here and access them all through the site map.

Created 20 New Pages of the Web Infrastructure for Sustainable Village #’s 3-7 – Click for Housing Page

And we created these 5 new layout outlines for the 7 villages online book:

Created 5 New Layout Outlines for 7 Villages Online Book – Click for Housing Page

The core team also created, and added to the book and website these two final renders of the Recycled Materials Village (Pod 6) Dance Studio and Music Room.

Recycled Materials Village Dance Studio Final Render – Click for Page

Recycled Materials Village Music Room Final Render – Click for Page

In addition to this, the core team continued working on the renders for the Communal Eco-shower Structures that are part of the Earthbag Village (Pod 1). This week we updated the texture of the walls, adjusted the lighting, and added internal details.

Continued Working on Renders for Communal Eco-shower Structures in the Earthbag Village – Click for Page

Earthbag Village Communal Shower and Net-Zero Bathroom Concept Render – Click for Page

Adrienne Gould-Choquette (Mechanical Engineer) also finished her 3rd week with the team, helping work on the standardized AutoCAD layers and line weights template we are creating. This week’s focus was adding a line weight index and updating and testing the tutorial by beginning to apply it to the Shipping Container Village (Pod 5), as shown here.

Continued Creation of Standardized AutoCAD Layers and Line Weights Template – Click for Page

Lianyi Zhao (Mechanical Engineer) completed his 3rd week of working on the Net-zero Communal Bathroom modeling. This week’s focus was continued modeling of the structure and internal details for the shower structure and Net-zero bathrooms in the Earthbag Village (Pod 1).

Continued Working on the Net-zero Communal Bathroom Designs – Click to Visit Page

Dean Scholz (Architectural Designer), continued helping us create quality Cob Village (Pod 3) renders. Here is update 50 of his work that continues focusing on internal home views. What you are seeing is a series of 66 renders (the final 7 are new) showing the testing and development of the lighting in one of these units.

Continued Creating Quality Cob Village Renders – Click to Visit Page

Hamilton Mateca (AutoCAD and Revit Drafter and Designer) also finished his 25th week helping with the Compressed Earth Block Village (Pod 4) design details. This week’s focus was window and front entryway design and updates, as shown here.

Continued Evolving the Compressed Earth Block Village – Click to Visit Page

Continued Work on Compressed Earth Block Village External Elements – Click to Visit Page

Guy Grossfeld (Graphic Designer) also created this new and final main Shipping Container Village (Pod 5) render, fixing several alignment issues and external elements.

Created Main Shipping Container Village Final Render – Click to Visit Page

Zachary Melin (Graphic Designer) also continued developing the Tree House Village (Pod 7) book. What you see here is week 19 of this work that produced new versions of pages 54 and 55, as shown here!

Continued Developing the Tree House Village Book – Click to Visit Page

DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

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

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

This week the core team continued render and book layout creation for the Duplicable City Center. This included adding people to this render of the outside portion of the natural pool and this new layout for the page of the book that will feature the pool and the library.

Continued Render and Book Layout Creation for the Duplicable City Center – Click to Visit Page

The core team also created a new render for the natural pool area inside the Duplicable City Center Social Dome. We removed a few plants to open up the area and added additional lighting and other aesthetic details.

Created New Render for Natural Pool Area Inside the City Center Social Dome – Click for Page

Guy Grossfeld (Graphic Designer) began working on adding food and people to this render of the City Center root cellar.

Added Food and People to City Center Root Cellar Render – Click to Visit Page

Haoxuan “Hayes” Lei (Structural Engineer) and Shuna Ni (Masters of Mechanical Engineering and Civil Engineering PhD) also continued their work on the City Center structural engineering. This week’s work was initial section drawings for the braces, as show here.

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

Ramya Vudi (Electrical Engineer) and Shubham Agrawal (Electrical Engineer) continued their work on the electrical and Control and Automation systems designs for the City Center with Mike Hogan (Automation Systems Developer and Business Systems Consultant). Here are pictures of this week’s collaborative call and the results of last week’s work calculating the updated battery and solar panel array sizing.

Continued Working on Electrical and Control and Automation Systems Designs – Click for Page

HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS

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

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

This week the core team, working with Dakota Kaiser (Ambassador of The Tribe of Awakening Sovereignty), began developing a new open source and replicable annual social media strategy.

Began Developing a New Open Source and Replicable Annual Social Media Strategy – Click for Page

Ashwin Patil (Web Developer) also completed the search engine functionality for the Highest Good education component. You can see a collage of this new functionality here.

Completed Search Engine Functionality for Highest Good Education Component – Click for Page

And Jennifer Zhou (Web Designer) continued working on setting up the search engine icons and code for all the open source components of Highest Good housing village numbers three through seven.

Continued Working on the Icons for Insertion into the Search Engine – Click for Home Page

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JUMP STARTING GLOBAL ECO-COMMUNITIES – WHAT ONE COMMUNITY IS CREATING

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

Our goal is to demonstrate what we feel is the most sustainable, healthy, and fun environment we can create. 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 jump starting global eco-communities.

JUMP STARTING GLOBAL ECO-COMMUNITIES – 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.

JUMP STARTING GLOBAL ECO-COMMUNITIES – WHY ONE COMMUNITY IS CREATING THIS

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

JUMP STARTING GLOBAL ECO-COMMUNITIES – INSPIRING SUSTAINABILITY WITH OPEN SOURCE

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

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

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

JUMP STARTING GLOBAL ECO-COMMUNITIES – COMPREHENSIVE SOLUTION TO HUMANITY’S NEEDS

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

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

JUMP STARTING GLOBAL ECO-COMMUNITIES – GLOBALLY IMPLEMENTABLE REPLICATION MODEL

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

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

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

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

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

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

JUMP STARTING GLOBAL ECO-COMMUNITIES – 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: 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: 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: 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: 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.

JUMP STARTING GLOBAL ECO-COMMUNITIES – 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. 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

JUMP STARTING GLOBAL ECO-COMMUNITIES – OPEN SOURCE SHARING STRATEGY SPECIFICS

One Community’s open source strategy 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

JUMP STARTING GLOBAL ECO-COMMUNITIES – 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.