Thanks to the internet, reinventing sustainability as a primarily open source and free-shared industry is possible if enough people participate. One Community is working towards this as part of a comprehensive and replicable model for creating a 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 this movement as the first of many self-replicating teacher/demonstration communities, villages, and cities to be built around the world. This is the August 7th, 2016 edition (#176) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments:

Reinventing Sustainability
One Community Progress Update #176

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

REINVENTING SUSTAINABILITY INTRO: @1:03

REINVENTING SUSTAINABILITY HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION: @2:00

• Transferred the third 25% of the written content for the Honesty and Integrity Lesson Plan to the website (see below)
• Behind the scenes: Wrote first 25% of the written part of the Beliefs Lesson Plan
• Completed third 25% of the mindmap for the Information Lesson Plan (see below)

REINVENTING SUSTAINABILITY HIGHEST GOOD FOOD: @2:52

• Collated 3 spreadsheets to make one updated, comprehensive, and accurate list for the equipment we will need for the Transition Kitchen (see below)

REINVENTING SUSTAINABILITY HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING: @3:20

• Put another 10 hours into the behind-the-scenes revision for the Footers, Foundations and Flooring page for the crowdfunding campaign we are developing (see below)
• Created new more-compact and much clearer images to the new page we’re developing to open source the communal Vermiculture Eco-Toilet designs (see below)
• Sal Rubio continued working on creating professional do-it-yourself Earthbag Village Murphy Bed furniture assembly instructions (see below)
• Brianna Johnson continued evolving the renders for the Straw Bale Village (see below)
• Vidya Patil continued with her 2nd week of cost analysis for the Straw Bale Village  (see below)
• Dean Scholz further developed what’s necessary for us to create quality Cob Village renders (see below)
• Hamilton Mateca continued evolving the Compressed Earth Block Village (see below)
• Guy Grossfeld continued with his 8th week of photoshop work on the renders for the Shipping Container Village and finished adding blue accents to the render for the Compressed Earth Block Village (see below)
• Zachary Melin continued updating the Tree House Village book created by last year’s intern Team (see below)

REINVENTING SUSTAINABILITY DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER: @6:30

• Continued working on the Duplicable City Center 3D renders  (see below)
• Bupesh Seethala completed this first section drawing for the Dining Dome (see below)
• Iris Hsu continued exploring recycled pipe shelving and overhead lighting options for the Duplicable City Center library (see below)
• Dipti Dhondarkar continued her work on the lighting zones (see below)

REINVENTING SUSTAINABILITY HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY: @7:37

• Completed 1st round of the Shipping Container Village, Recycled Materials Village, and the Tree House Village color board and we revised the Cob Village color board (see below)
• Jennifer Zhou continued her work developing the new website structure (see below)

REINVENTING SUSTAINABILITY SUMMARY: @8:22

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REINVENTING SUSTAINABILITY HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

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

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

This last week the core team transferred the third 25% of the written content for the Honesty and Integrity 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 “Honesty & Integrity” is now 75% completed on our website.

Honesty and Integrity Lesson Plan – 75% Complete – Click to Visit Page

Behind the scenes, we wrote the first 25% of the written part of the Beliefs Lesson Plan.

We also completed the third 25% of the mindmap for the Information Lesson Plan, bringing it to 75% complete, which you see here:

Information Mindmap – 75% Complete – Click to Visit Page

REINVENTING SUSTAINABILITY HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

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

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

This week the core team collated 3 spreadsheets to make one updated, comprehensive, and accurate list for the equipment we will need for the Transition Kitchen, as you can see below:

Collated 3 Spreadsheets into One Updated List for Transition Kitchen – Click to Visit Page

REINVENTING SUSTAINABILITY HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

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

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

This last week the core team put another 10 hours into the behind-the-scenes revision for the Footers, Foundations and Flooring page for the crowdfunding campaign we are developing. This week we reviewed all content (video and articles) in Section 16 – Resources to assure relevancy due to significant narrative changes since inception. We also matched up all videos to coincide with those listed in that section, and then numbered all green step narratives in Sections 4, 5, 7, & 8 to coincide with Step Headings for ease of finding them. EPS and red sealing tape photos and description were also added to the materials list. We’d say we are now 93% complete with this total update and rewrite behind the scenes.

Continued Behind-the-Scenes Revision of the Footers, Foundations and Flooring Info – Click to Visit Page

We also created new more-compact and much clearer images to the new page we’re developing to open source the communal Vermiculture Eco-Toilet designs. You can see some of these updated images here:

Created New More-Compact and Much Clearer Images – Click to Visit Vermiculture Page

Sal Rubio (Industrial Designer) continued working on creating professional do-it-yourself Earthbag Village Murphy Bed furniture assembly instructions. What you see here is week 11 of this process that included this update to the Table of Contents format.

Continued Working on Creating DIY Furniture Assembly Instructions – Click to Visit

Brianna Johnson (Interior Designer), continued evolving the renders for the Straw Bale Village (Pod 2). What you see here are her ideas for the layout of all her renders for inclusion in the online book we’re creating that will be an overview of all 7 villages and the Duplicable City Center.

Continued Evolving Straw Bale Village Renders – Click to Visit Page

Vidya Patil (Quantity surveyor and Civil CAD Drafter) also continued with her 2nd week of cost analysis for the Straw Bale Village. What you see here are her initial analysis results for the gym, meeting room, play area, and computer room.

Continued Straw Bale Village Cost Analysis – Click for Straw Bale Village

And Dean Scholz, Architectural Designer, further developed what’s necessary for us to create quality Cob Village (Pod 3) renders. Here is update 30 of his work that focused on final touches and then incorporation of the new rooftop grill and shade structure designs, and then beginning the work of adding greenery we intend to grow on the sides of this village.

Further Developed What’s Necessary to Create Quality Cob Village Renders – Click to Visit Page

Also, Hamilton Mateca (AutoCAD Draftsperson and Designer) continued evolving the Compressed Earth Block Village (Pod 4). You can see his 2nd week of work here, showing the redesign of the family living units on the North side of the structure so that they share plumbing walls, and the addition of an elevator and 3 more units in the South, and adding individual bathrooms for all of the South units.

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

Guy Grossfeld, (Graphic Designer) also continued with his 8th week of photoshop work on the renders for the Shipping Container Village (Pod 5) and also finished adding blue accents to the render for the Compressed Earth Block Village (Pod 4), which you see here:

Finished Adding Blue Accents to the Render for the Compressed Earth Block Village – Click to Visit

For the Shipping Container Village, this week’s focus were the finalized versions of the dining area looking South:

Shipping Container Village – Finalized Versions of the Dining Area Looking South

…this family layout looking out:

Shipping Container Village – Finalized Versions of the Family Layout Looking Out

…and this family layout looking in:

Shipping Container Village – Finalized Versions of the Family Layout Looking In

Zachary Melin (Graphic Designer) also continued updating the Tree House Village (Pod 7) book created by last year’s intern Team. This week he created the page and image you see here.

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

REINVENTING SUSTAINABILITY DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

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

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

This week the core team continued working on the Duplicable City Center 3D renders. What you see here are the render updates in the dining dome (north view of the kitchen) where new details were added and the lights and shadows were adjusted. We also did the initial render setup for the root cellar and external views.

Continued Working on the Duplicable City Center 3D Renders – Click to Visit Page

Bupesh Seethala (Interior Designer and Drafter) also completed this first section drawing for the Dining Dome:

Completed First Section Drawing for Dining Dome – Click to Visit the Duplicable City Center

Iris Hsu, (Industrial Designer), continued exploring recycled pipe shelving and overhead lighting options for the Duplicable City Center library. What you see here is round #14 of this work showing another ceiling design for the lights.

Continued Exploring Recycled Pipe Shelving and Overhead Lighting Options – Click to Visit Page

Dipti Dhondarkar, (Electrical Engineer) continued her work on the lighting zones by further cleaning up and clarifying on the AutoCAD file where each zone begins and ends. The lower image is additional zones that still need to be added.

Continued Work on City Center Lighting Zones – Click to Visit City Center Lighting Page

REINVENTING SUSTAINABILITY HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS

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

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

This last week the core team completed the 1st round of the Shipping Container Village (Pod 5) color board:

Completed the 1st Round of Shipping Container Village Color Board – Click for Page

….and the first round of the color board for the Recycled Materials Village (Pod 6):

Completed the 1st Round of Recycled Materials Village Color Board – Click for Page

…and the first round of the color board for the Tree House Village (Pod 7), bringing all 3 to about 85% complete:

Completed the 1st Round of Tree House Village Color Board – Click for Page

Also this week, we revised the Cob Village (Pod 3) color board, which is now 99% complete:

Revised the Cob Village Color Board – Click to Visit Page

Jennifer Zhou (Web Designer) additionally continued her work developing the new website structure. What you see here is week 4 of her work as she continues with a new Homepage design. This week’s focus is on how to feature different languages, updated image and video placement formatting, and beginning to work on the filter and search system at the bottom.

Continued Developing the New Website Structure – Click for Our Homepage

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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 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.

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

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

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.

Most people would agree that facilitating ecological living for all people, everywhere, is a good idea. We agree and are doing our part through open source and free-shared approaches to eco-living that go beyond sustainable approaches to food, energy, and housing by also including open source and Highest Good approaches to education, for-profit and non-profit economic design, social architecture, fulfilled living, and global stewardship practices. By combining and open sourcing all these areas together, One Community is working towards a world where ecological living will be the standard and foundation from which all living models are evolved.

• 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 of facilitating ecological living for all as the first of many self-replicating teacher/demonstration communities, villages, and cities to be built around the world. This is the July 31st, 2016 edition (#175) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments:

Facilitating Ecological Living for All
One Community Progress Update #175

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

FACILITATING ECOLOGICAL LIVING FOR ALL INTRO: @1:03

FACILITATING ECOLOGICAL LIVING FOR ALL HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION: @2:00

• Transferred the second 25% of the written content for the Honesty and Integrity Lesson Plan to the website  (see below)
• Behind the scenes: wrote final 25% of the written part of the Honesty & Integrity Lesson Plan
• Completed the second 25% of the mindmap for the Information Lesson Plan (see below)

FACILITATING ECOLOGICAL LIVING FOR ALL HIGHEST GOOD FOOD: @2:54

• Added the nutrition corrections that were made by Naturopathic Doctor Matt Marturano to our Sustainable Food Nutrition Calculations page (see below)

FACILITATING ECOLOGICAL LIVING FOR ALL HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING: @3:27

• Put another 10 hours into the behind-the-scenes revision for the Footers, Foundations and Flooring page for the crowdfunding campaign we are developing (see below)
• Reformatted and updated the remaining 3 village pages: Shipping Container Village, Recycled Materials Village, and the Tree House Village (see below)
• Sal Rubio continued working on creating professional do-it-yourself Earthbag Village Murphy Bed furniture assembly instructions (see below)
• Brianna Johnson continued evolving the renders for the Straw Bale Village (see below)
• Vidya Patil joined the team and completed her 1st week of cost analysis for the Straw Bale Village (see below)
• Dean Scholz further developed what’s necessary for us to create quality Cob Village renders (see below)
• Hamilton Mateca joined the team and begin evolving the Compressed Earth Block Village (see below)
• Guy Grossfeld continued with his 7th week of photoshop work on the renders for the Shipping Container Village and also started working on the main render for the Compressed Earth Block Village (see below)
• Zachary Melin continued updating the Tree House Village (Pod 7) book created by last year’s intern Team

FACILITATING ECOLOGICAL LIVING FOR ALL DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER: @6:56

• Continued developing the Duplicable City Center in 3D and fixed some structural discrepancies in natural pool and spa area (see below)
• Worked with Bupesh Seethala to clarify outline of Sketchup to AutoCAD discrepancies (see below)
• Iris Hsu continued exploring recycled pipe shelving and overhead lighting options for the Duplicable City Center library (see below)
• Neha Verma continued developing the City Center Project Brief that will update the City Center Plans Page when complete (see below)
• Dipti Dhondarkar continued her work on the lighting zones (see below)
• Haoxuan “Hayes” Lei continued his work on the live load calculations for the City Center dining dining dome frame (see below)

FACILITATING ECOLOGICAL LIVING FOR ALL HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY: @8:50

FACILITATING ECOLOGICAL LIVING FOR ALL SUMMARY: @9:24

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FACILITATING ECOLOGICAL LIVING FOR ALL HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

One Community is facilitating ecological living for all 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 the second 25% of the written content for the Honesty and Integrity 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 “Honesty & Integrity” is now 50% completed on our website.

Honesty and Integrity Lesson Plan – 50% Complete – Click to Visit Page

Behind the scenes, we wrote the final 25% of the written part of the Honesty & Integrity Lesson Plan.

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

Information Mindmap – 50% Complete – Click to Visit Page

FACILITATING ECOLOGICAL LIVING FOR ALL HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

One Community is facilitating ecological living for all 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

As part of the development of our Food Self-sufficiency Transition Plan, this week, the corrections to our nutrition calculations that Naturopathic Doctor Matt Marturano (creator of the COHERENT model for comprehensive digestive health) made were added to our Sustainable Food Nutrition Calculations page.

Added Nutrition Corrections to our Sustainable Food Nutrition Calculations Page – Click to Visit

FACILITATING ECOLOGICAL LIVING FOR ALL HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

One Community is facilitating ecological living for all 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 put another 10 hours into the behind-the-scenes revision for the Footers, Foundations and Flooring page for the crowdfunding campaign we are developing. This week we researched EPS and XPS insulation and wrote up a narrative for the 16-gauge galvanized wire for its use in attaching to e-bag course 9 and to flashing. We also added photos and narratives for 1/2″ black poly tubing, 10″ aluminum flashing, rubber mallet, straw, hacksaw, 16-gauge galvanized wire, sealing tape, and caulking. We’d say we are now 92% complete with this total update and rewrite behind the scenes.

Continued Behind-the-Scenes Revision of the Footers, Foundations and Flooring Info – Click to Visit

The core team also reformatted and updated the remaining 3 village pages: Shipping Container Village (Pod 5), Recycled Materials Village (Pod 6), and the Tree House Village (Pod 7). This included adding new residence and social space details, the new renders that have been completed, imagery from the design process of each village, an index to the top of each page, What and Why sections to each page, as well as new resources and resource sections.

Reformatted and Updated the Remaining 3 Village Pages – Click for Highest Good Housing Page

Sal Rubio (Industrial Designer) also continued working on creating professional do-it-yourself Earthbag Village Murphy Bed furniture assembly instructions. What you see here is week 10 of this process that included this update to the component cutting instructions, the first draft of a Table of Contents, and a call with the core team brainstorming the two sketches as evolutions for the Table of Contents designs.

Continued Working on Creating DIY Furniture Assembly Instructions – Click for Page

Brianna Johnson (Interior Designer), also continued evolving the renders for the Straw Bale Village (Pod 2). What you see here are two new layouts for the family living spaces with a loft, re-designed to better reflect the sustainability and recreational values of the people who will be living here.

Continued Evolving Straw Bale Village Renders – Click to Visit Page

Vidya Patil (Quantity surveyor and Civil CAD Drafter) also joined the team and completed her 1st week of cost analysis for the Straw Bale Village. The beginning of this work focused on the bedroom and bathroom details shown here:

Completed 1st Week of Straw Bale Village Bedroom and Bathroom Cost Analysis – Click to Visit Page

And Dean Scholz, Architectural Designer, further developed what’s necessary for us to create quality Cob Village (Pod 3) renders. Here is update 29 of his work that focused on finishing the rooftop grill designs:

Further Developed What’s Necessary to Create Quality Cob Village Renders – Click to Visit Page

Also, Hamilton Mateca (AutoCAD Draftsperson and Designer) joined the team and begin evolving the Compressed Earth Block Village (Pod 4). You can see his 1st week of work here, showing the addition of family living units on the North side of the structure.

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

Guy Grossfeld, (Graphic Designer) also continued with his 7th week of photoshop work on the renders for the Shipping Container Village (Pod 5) and also started working on the main render for the Compressed Earth Block Village (bottom right) starting the extensive process of adding a blue overlay that will evolve into blue accents. For the Shipping Container Village the focus was on creating a resident’s room with different details and color formats from the visitor’s room and also beginning one of the Dining Hall renders.

Continued Work on Renders for Shipping Container and Compressed Earth Block Village

Zachary Melin (Graphic Designer) also continued updating the Tree House Village (Pod 7) book created by last year’s intern Team. What you see here is week 10 of this work including 2 updated pages and the before-and-after graphics created for one of them.

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

FACILITATING ECOLOGICAL LIVING FOR ALL DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

One Community is facilitating ecological living for all 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 developing the Duplicable City Center in 3D. What you see here are the updates in the dining dome where we increased the driveway to the cellar to a width of 13 feet and rearranged the cellar shelves and moved the outside boiler room to the corner of the basement where it is now close to the garage door.

Continued Developing the Duplicable City Center in 3D – Click to Visit Page

We also ran test renders for the Kitchen.

Ran Test Renders for the Duplicable City Center Kitchen – Click to Visit Page

And fixed some structural discrepancies in the natural pool and spa area.

Fixed Structural Discrepancies in Natural Pool and Spa Area – Click to Visit Page

We also worked with Bupesh Seethala (Interior Designer and Drafter) to clarify this outline of Sketchup to AutoCAD discrepancies so he could start updating the window and door plan and creating our section drawings.

Worked to Clarify Outline of Sketchup to AutoCAD Discrepancies – Click to Visit

Iris Hsu (Industrial Designer), also continued exploring recycled pipe shelving and overhead lighting options for the Duplicable City Center library. What you see here is round #13 of this work of initial renders to test 2 different art options for the center of  the pipe shelving wall.

Continued Exploring Recycled Pipe Shelving and Overhead Lighting Options – Click to Visit Page

Neha Verma (Construction Project Manager and Bachelor’s of Architecture), also continued developing the City Center Project Brief that will update the City Center Plans Page when complete. This week’s focus was a file naming tutorial we’ll use for all projects and details about why we chose Geodesic Domes.

Continued Developing the City Center Project Brief – Click to Visit Page

Dipti Dhondarkar, (Electrical Engineer) continued her work on the lighting zones by updating the AutoCAD file and double checking all the zones with a simpler labeling method:

Continued Work on City Center Lighting Zones – Click to Visit City Center Lighting Page

Haoxuan “Hayes” Lei (Structural Engineering Student) continued his work on the live load calculations for the City Center dining dining dome frame as seen here.

Continued Work on Live Load Calculations for City Center Dining Dome Frame – Click to Visit Page

FACILITATING ECOLOGICAL LIVING FOR ALL HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS

One Community is facilitating ecological living for all 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 completed the 1st round of the Cob Village (Pod 3) color board:

Completed the 1st Round of Cob Village Color Board – Click to Visit Page

….and the first round of the color board for the Compressed Earth Block Village (Pod 4), bringing both to about 85% complete.

Completed the 1st Round of Compressed Earth Block Village Color Board – Click to Visit Page

Also this week, we revised and completed the Straw Bale Village color board with final color callouts.

Revised and Completed the Straw Bale Village Color Board – Click to Visit Page

Jennifer Zhou (Web Designer) additionally continued her work developing the new website structure. What you see here is week 3 of her work as she continues to build the new homepage structure and functionality with a focus on the top sliders and menus.

Continued Developing the New Website Structure – Click for Our Homepage

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

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GET INVOLVED

CONSULTANTS     ●     WAYS ANYONE CAN HELP     ●     MEMBERSHIP

CLICK HERE FOR ALL PAST UPDATES

WHAT ONE COMMUNITY IS CREATING

One Community is creating a place to grow together and change the world together by facilitating ecological living for all. 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 by facilitating ecological living for all.

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.

FACILITATING ECOLOGICAL LIVING FOR ALL BUILDING THE FIRST OF MANY

One Community will be the first teacher/demonstration hub for facilitating ecological living for all. 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 by facilitating ecological living for all. 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 by facilitating ecological living for all. 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 for facilitating ecological living for all will become a foundation that can be trusted as the donation point for distribution of monies to help others to establish this model also.

One Community welcomes Guy Grossfeld to the Graphic Design Team as our newest Volunteer/Consultant!

One Community welcomes Dipti Dhondarkar to the Design Team as our newest Volunteer/Consultant!

Dipti Dhondarkar – Electrical Engineer: Dipti received her Bachelor’s and Master’s degree in Electrical Engineering from Nagpur University in India. She has five-plus years of experience in teaching subjects related to Electrical Engineering and is proficient in power electronics, basic electrical, electrical machines, utilization and traction. She has worked with the National Institute of Technology Nagpur, Maharashtra, India and Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel Institute of Technology, Vasad Gujarat India as a lecturer and Assistant professor and has also published papers on “Stability Analysis of Symmetrical Induction Motor on Parameter Variation” and “Energy Audit Analysis of Time of Day (TOD) Metering.” As a One Community team member, Dipti is applying her outstanding knowledge and background to assist with the electrical and lighting design for the Duplicable City Center.

WELCOME TO THE TEAM DIPTI!

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Creating a new earth paradigm can be accomplished if enough people participate. We can redefine “traditional living” as sustainable living and make current and unsustainable building and living methods history. One way to accelerate the process is gathering like-minded groups together to create and demonstrate open source and sustainable approaches to food, energy, and housing combined with equally conscientious approaches to education, for-profit and non-profit economic design, social architecture, fulfilled living, and global stewardship practices. Combining all this is what One Community calls living and creating for The Highest Good of All:

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

OUR MAIN OPEN SOURCE HUBS

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

One Community’s physical location will forward this movement as the first of many self-replicating teacher/demonstration communities, villages, and cities to be built around the world. This is the July 24th, 2016 edition (#174) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments:

Creating a New Earth Paradigm
One Community Progress Update #174

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

CREATING A NEW EARTH PARADIGM INTRO: @1:03

CREATING A NEW EARTH PARADIGM HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION: @1:59

• Transferred first 25% of the written content for Honesty and Integrity Lesson Plan to the website (see below)
• Behind the scenes: wrote the third 25% of the written part of the Honesty & Integrity Lesson Plan
• Completed the first 25% of the mindmap for the Information Lesson Plan (see below)

CREATING A NEW EARTH PARADIGM HIGHEST GOOD FOOD: @2:56

• Doctor Matt Marturano recalculated and made a significant number of changes to the nutrition calculations he created, as part of the development of our Food Self-sufficiency Transition Plan (see below)

CREATING A NEW EARTH PARADIGM HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING: @3:31

• Put another 10 hours into the behind-the-scenes revision for the Footers, Foundations and Flooring page for the crowdfunding campaign we are developing (see below)
• Reformatted and updated the complete Highest Good Housing open source hub and the first 4 village pages (see below)
• Sal Rubio continued working on creating professional do-it-yourself Earthbag Village Murphy Bed furniture assembly instructions (see below)
• Brianna Johnson continued evolving the renders for the Straw Bale Village (see below)
• Dean Scholz further developed what’s necessary for us to create quality Cob Village (Pod 3) renders (see below)
• Guy Grossfeld continued with his 6th week of photoshop work on the renders for the Shipping Container Village (see below)
• Bupesh Seethala created the 2nd version of multiple renders for the Recycled Materials Village (see below)

CREATING A NEW EARTH PARADIGM DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER: @6:32

• Continued developing the Duplicable City Center in 3D and worked on the natural pool and spa area (see below)
• Iris Hsu continued exploring recycled pipe shelving and overhead lighting options for Duplicable City Center library (see below)
• Neha Verma produced the root cellar driveway details and beginnings of a Project Brief that will form the City Center Plans Page when complete (see below)
• Dipti Dhondarkar continued her work on the lighting zones, lumens, and number of lamps needed spreadsheet (see below)
• Haoxuan “Hayes” Lei worked on the live load calculations for the City Center dining dome beams (see below)

CREATING A NEW EARTH PARADIGM HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY: @8:14

• Recolored 2 complete sets of 28 Highest Good housing Icons (see below)
• Updated the Straw Bale Village color board and icon to align with the new icons and existing renders (see below)
• Jennifer Zhou continued her work developing the new website structure we desire for easier and more graphic access to all the One Community open source content (see below)

CREATING A NEW EARTH PARADIGM SUMMARY: @8:52

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CREATING A NEW EARTH PARADIGM HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

One Community is creating a new earth 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 the first 25% of the written content for the Honesty and Integrity 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 “Honesty & Integrity” is now 25% completed on our website. These are geared towards creating a new earth paradigm with sustainability.

Honesty and Integrity Lesson Plan – 25% Complete – Click to Visit Page

Behind the scenes, we wrote the third 25% of the written part of the Honesty & Integrity Lesson Plan.

We also completed the first 25% of the mindmap for the Information Lesson Plan:

Information Mindmap – 25% Complete – Click to Visit Page

CREATING A NEW EARTH PARADIGM HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

One Community is creating a new earth 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

CREATING A NEW EARTH PARADIGM HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

One Community is creating a new earth 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

This last week the core team put another 10 hours into the behind-the-scenes revision for the Footers, Foundations and Flooring page for the crowdfunding campaign we are developing. This week’s focus was on finishing and stabilizing the end of the stucco with a waterproof barrier and providing a method of securing a flashing backsplash below the end of the stucco to help prevent moisture damage to the structure. We then entered the new information into the narrative in a step-by-step description. We’d say we are now 91% complete with this total update and rewrite behind the scenes.

Continued Behind-the-Scenes Revision of the Footers, Foundations and Flooring Info – Click to Visit

The core team also reformatted and updated the complete Highest Good Housing open source hub and the first 4 village pages. This reformatting included adding new residence and social space details, additional imagery from the design process of each village, an index to the top of each page, What and Why sections to each page, as well as new resources and resource sections.

Reformatted and Updated the 1st Four H.G.H Village Pages – Click to Visit Highest Good Housing Page

Sal Rubio (Industrial Designer) also continued working on creating professional do-it-yourself Earthbag Village Murphy Bed furniture assembly instructions. What you see here is week 9 of this process, with this week’s focus being further development of single-page cutting instructions.

Continued Working on Creating DIY Furniture Assembly Instructions – Click to visit

Brianna Johnson (Interior Designer), also continued evolving the renders for the Straw Bale Village (Pod 2). What you see here are two new layouts for the studio living spaces, re-designed to better reflect the sustainability and recreational values of the people who will be living here.

Continued Evolving Straw Bale Village Renders – Click to Visit Page

And Dean Scholz, Architectural Designer, further developed what’s necessary for us to create quality Cob Village (Pod 3) renders. Here is update 28 of his work that focused on an additional and new shade structure for the roof and beginning the rooftop grill designs.

Further Developed What’s Necessary to Create Quality Cob Village Renders – Click to Visit Page

Guy Grossfeld (Graphic Designer) also continued with his 6th week of photoshop work on the renders for the Shipping Container Village (Pod 5). Here you see the final renders of the front perspective…

Shipping Container Final Render of Front Perspective – Click to Visit Page

…1st floor circulation area:

Shipping Container Final Render of 1st Floor Circulation Area – Click to Visit Page

…computer room:

Shipping Container Final Render of Computer Room – Click to Visit Page

…library:

Shipping Container Final Render of Library – Click to Visit Page

….rental room looking in:

Shipping Container Final Render of Rental Room Looking In – Click to Visit Page

….outdoor meeting and relaxation area:

Shipping Container Final Render of Outdoor Meeting and Relaxation Area – Click to Visit Page

….northside recreation and dining area:

Northside Recreation and Dining Area – Click to Visit Page

….and a northside circulation space:

Shipping Container Village Render of a Northside Circulation Space – Click to Visit Page

In addition to this, Bupesh Seethala (Interior Designer) created the 2nd version of multiple renders for the Recycled Materials Village (Pod 6) including additions to 2 perspectives for the game room, 1 for the gym, 3 for the music room, and 1 for the yoga room:

Created the 2nd Version of Renders for Recycled Materials Village – Click to Visit Page

Bupesh also finalized these images looking in and out for the art room…

Recycled Materials Village Final Render Looking In the Art Room – Click to Visit Page

Recycled Materials Village Final Render of Art Room Looking Out – Click to Visit Page

…this one looking out for the gym:

Recycled Materials Village Final Render of the Gym Looking Out – Click to Visit Page

…these two looking in and out for the library and computer room:

Recycled Materials Village Final Render of Library and Computer Room Looking In – Click to Visit Page

Recycled Materials Village Final Render of Library and Computer Room Looking Out – Click to Visit

…and this one for the recreation and social space:

Recycled Materials Village Final Render of Recreation and Social Space – Click to Visit Page

CREATING A NEW EARTH PARADIGM DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

One Community is creating a new earth 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 continued developing the Duplicable City Center in 3D. What you see here are changes made to the dry storage in the dining dome that include the redesigning of the glass sliding doors and walls.

Made Changes to Dry Storage in the Dining Dome – Click to Visit Duplicable City Center

We also set the height of the basement to 8 feet, adjusted the driveway to the cellar to 20%, and we placed the storage shelves and containers in the cellar area.

Continued Developing the Duplicable City Center in 3D – Click to Visit Page

Additionally, we worked on the natural pool and spa area, where we changed the rinsing station privacy screen from a trellis to in-ground bamboo.

Changed the Rinsing Station Privacy Screen from a Trellis to In-Ground Bamboo – Click to Visit

Iris Hsu (Industrial Designer), also continued exploring recycled pipe shelving and overhead lighting options for the Duplicable City Center library. What you see here is round #12 of this work now focusing on researching and trying different art options for the center of the pipe furniture wall.

Continued Exploring Recycled Pipe Shelving and Overhead Lighting Options – Click for Page

Neha Verma (Construction Project Manager and Bachelor’s of Architecture) also produced the root cellar driveway details and beginnings of a Project Brief you see here. The Project Brief will form the City Center Plans Page when complete.

Produced Root Cellar Driveway Details and Beginnings of a Project Brief – Click to Visit

And Dipti Dhondarkar (Electrical Engineer) continued her work on the lighting zones, lumens, and number of lamps needed spreadsheet you see here. This week’s focus was on further defining the zones and adding details related to minimum lumens and percentage-reductions possible for each zone.

Continued Work on Lighting Zones, Lumens, and Lamps Needed Spreadsheet – Click to Visit Page

Haoxuan “Hayes” Lei (Structural Engineering Student) also worked on the live load calculations for the City Center dining dome beams.

Worked on Live Load Calculations for City Center Dining Dome Beams – Click to Visit Page

CREATING A NEW EARTH PARADIGM HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS

One Community is creating a new earth 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 last week the core team recolored 2 complete sets of 28 Highest Good housing Icons. These were to match the color palettes we’re developing to color coordinate the village interior and exterior color plans with the website and all promotional materials.

Recolored 2 Complete Sets of 28 Highest Good Housing Icons

Also this week, we updated the Straw Bale Village color board and icon to align with the new icons and existing renders.

Updated the Straw Bale Village Color Board and Icon – Click to Visit Page

Jennifer Zhou (Web Designer) additionally continued her work developing the new website structure we desire for easier and more graphic access to all the One Community open source content. What you see here is week 2 of her work focusing on more details and functionality of the Home Page.

Continued Building the New Website Structure – Click for Our Homepage

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

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

 

INVESTOR PAGES

OVERVIEW       ●       LOCATION       ●       FUNDING

GET INVOLVED

CONSULTANTS     ●     WAYS ANYONE CAN HELP     ●     MEMBERSHIP

CLICK HERE FOR ALL PAST UPDATES

WHAT ONE COMMUNITY IS CREATING

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

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.

CREATING A NEW EARTH PARADIGM BUILDING THE FIRST OF MANY

One Community will be the first teacher/demonstration hub for creating a new earth paradigm. 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 thus setting a precedent for creating a new earth paradigm.

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.

 

Humanity is capable of comprehensive ecological architecture that will regenerate our planet while meeting our needs better than traditional and non-sustainable methods. If we make these eco-methods of building and living easy enough, affordable enough, and attractive enough, they will spread on their own and speed the regenerative process. Engaging and sharing in the design process is what One Community calls 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 of comprehensive ecological architecture as the first of many self-replicating teacher/demonstration communities, villages, and cities to be built around the world. This is the July 17th, 2016 edition (#173) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments:

Comprehensive Ecological Architecture
One Community Progress Update #173

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

COMPREHENSIVE ECOLOGICAL ARCHITECTURE  INTRO: @1:00

COMPREHENSIVE ECOLOGICAL ARCHITECTURE HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION: @1:57

• Transferred final 25% of written content for the Information Lesson Plan to the website (see below)
• Behind the scenes: Wrote second 25% of the written part of the Honesty & Integrity Lesson Plan
• Completed final 25% of the mindmap for the Humility Lesson Plan (see below)

COMPREHENSIVE ECOLOGICAL ARCHITECTURE HIGHEST GOOD FOOD: @2:53

• Added additional details for the recommended quantities of daily vegetables to our website. This work is done as part of the development of our Food Self-sufficiency Transition Plan, which features contributions from Naturopathic Doctor Matt Marturano (see below)

COMPREHENSIVE ECOLOGICAL ARCHITECTURE HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING: @3:24

• Put another 10 hours into the behind-the-scenes revision for the Footers, Foundations and Flooring page for the crowdfunding campaign we are developing (see below)
• Sal Rubio continued working on creating professional do-it-yourself Earthbag Village Murphy Bed furniture assembly instructions (see below)
• Ray Triboulet continued with week 4 of developing the communal Vermiculture Eco-Toilet designs that are part of the Earthbag Village (see below)
• Brianna Johnson continued evolving the renders for the Straw Bale Village (see below)
• Dean Scholz further developed what’s necessary for us to create quality Cob Village renders (see below)
• Jaspreet Sond continued designing wood working maker space for Northwest wing of the Cob Village (see below)
• Guy Grossfeld continued with his 5th week of photoshop work on the renders for the Shipping Container Village (see below)
• Bupesh Seethala created the first version of multiple renders for the Recycled Materials Village (see below)

COMPREHENSIVE ECOLOGICAL ARCHITECTURE DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER: @6:53

• Continued developing the Duplicable City Center in 3D (see below)
• Worked on the natural pool and spa area, adding a trellis and vines to the rinsing station screen (see below)
• Updated all the icons for the Duplicable City Center again, creating better color consistency and adding a few new ones (see below)
• Neha Verma updated the AutoCAD to reflect the spa mechanical room and shower location and Kitchen dry storage changes from last week’s 3D design updates (see below)

COMPREHENSIVE ECOLOGICAL ARCHITECTURE HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY: @8:03

• Updated all the icons and formatting for our Purpose, Mission and Vision page (see below)
• Created 6 new icons and further revised the template we’re developing for color coordination of the website, village interior and exterior colors, and all of the graphic design work for each of the 7 villages (see below)
• Jennifer Zhou continued her work developing the new website structure we desire for easier and more graphic access to all the One Community open source content (see below)

COMPREHENSIVE ECOLOGICAL ARCHITECTURE SUMMARY: @8:44

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

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ONE COMMUNITY WEEKLY UPDATE DETAILS

COMPREHENSIVE ECOLOGICAL ARCHITECTURE HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

One Community is supporting comprehensive ecological architecture 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 the final 25% of the written content for the Information 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 “Information” is now 100% completed on our website.

Information Lesson Plan – Complete – Click to Visit Page

Behind the scenes, we wrote the second 25% of the written part of the Honesty & Integrity Lesson Plan with the comprehensive ecological architecture in mind.

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

Humility Mindmap – Complete – Click to Visit Page

COMPREHENSIVE ECOLOGICAL ARCHITECTURE HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

One Community is supporting comprehensive ecological architecture 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

As part of the development of our Food Self-sufficiency Transition Plan, the core team added additional details for the recommended quantities of daily vegetables to our website, as suggested by Naturopathic Doctor Matt Marturano (creator of the COHERENT model for comprehensive digestive health).

Added Details for Recommended Quantities of Vegetables – Click to Visit the Main Food Page

COMPREHENSIVE ECOLOGICAL ARCHITECTURE HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

One Community is supporting comprehensive ecological architecture 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 put another 10 hours into the behind-the-scenes revision for the Footers, Foundations and Flooring page for the crowdfunding campaign we are developing. This week’s focus was on completing edits and adding further information in Section 12 Dome Exterior Finish, Section 14 French Drain Gutter Construction, and Section 16 Resources. One example of the work this week would be an explanation of 2% lateral and downward sloping of French Drain Gutter and how that affects Section 15 Final Backfill and size changes in polyethylene, addressing a paver edging barrier with attached flashing at the base of the stucco to prevent water damage to lower stucco, and eliminating outdated resources. We’d say we are now 90% complete with this total update and rewrite behind the scenes.

Continued Behind-the-Scenes Revision of the Footers, Foundations and Flooring Info – Click to Visit Page

Sal Rubio (Industrial Designer) also continued working on creating professional do-it-yourself Earthbag Village Murphy Bed furniture assembly instructions. What you see here is week 8 of this process and Sal’s 4th version of exploring instructions for cutting the proper pieces.

Continued Working on Creating DIY Furniture Assembly Instructions – Click for Earthbag Village Furniture Page

In addition to this, Ray Triboulet (Web Developer and Active Duty U.S. Sailor) continued with week 4 of developing the communal Vermiculture Eco-Toilet designs that are part of the Earthbag Village (Pod 1). This weeks’ focus was on streamlining the focus of the page and adding in small placeholder images so the Core Team knows what images to create and clean up for the final version.

Continued Developing the Communal Vermiculture Eco-Toilet Design Details – Click to Visit Page

Brianna Johnson (Interior Designer), also continued evolving the renders for the Straw Bale Village (Pod 2). What you see here is the view inside one of the living spaces looking up toward the loft sleeping area:

Continued Evolving Straw Bale Village Renders – Click to Visit Page

…. a view from the top of the stairs looking at the loft sleeping area:

Straw Bale Village View from Top of Stairs Looking at the Loft Sleeping Area – Click to Visit Page

… and a view from the sleeping area under the loft looking outward onto the living room:

Straw Bale Village View from Sleeping Area Under Loft Looking Outward onto the Living Room – Click to Visit Page

And Dean Scholz, Architectural Designer, further developed what’s necessary for us to create quality Cob Village (Pod 3) renders. Here is update 27 of his work that focused on test rendering the newly designed roof space and building additional 3D furniture to add there.

Further Developed What’s Necessary to Create Quality Cob Village Renders – Click to Visit Page

Jaspreet Sond (Graphic Designer and Computer Engineer) also created this complete layout for the wood working maker space for the Northwest wing of the Cob Village (Pod 3). What you see here is week 2 of this work converting hand drawings into an Illustrator file before starting to build all this in 3-D.

Continued Designing the Wood Working Maker Space for Northwest Wing of Cob Village – Click to Visit Page

Guy Grossfeld (Graphic Designer) also continued with his 5th week of photoshop work on the renders for the Shipping Container Village (Pod 5). Here you see the initial versions of the library, game room, and outdoor meeting space:

Continued Photoshop work on Renders for Shipping Container Village – Click to Visit Page

In addition to this, Bupesh Seethala (Interior Designer) created the first version of multiple renders for the Recycled Materials Village (Pod 6) including the art room, dance room, two perspectives on the game room, the gym, two perspectives on the library and computer room, two perspectives on the music room, render of a social space, an outdoor perspective on the yoga room, and an indoor perspective on the same room.

Created First Version of Multiple Renders for Recycled Materials Village – Click to Visit Page

COMPREHENSIVE ECOLOGICAL ARCHITECTURE DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

One Community is supporting comprehensive ecological architecture 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 developing the Duplicable City Center in 3D as a precursor to updating the CAD drawing. What you see here is the staircase to the basement cellar redesigned to accommodate the curvature of the wall and to have the appropriate headroom to enter the root cellar below the dry storage:

Continued Developing the Duplicable City Center in 3D – Click to Visit Page

Here you see the kitchen elevator moved into the washing area.

Kitchen Elevator Moved into the Washing Area – Click to Visit the Duplicable City Center

We also worked on the natural pool and spa area, where we added a trellis and vines to the rinsing station screen:

Added a Trellis and Vines to the Rinsing Station Screen – Click to Visit the Natural Pool and Spa Page

In addition to this, we updated all the icons for the Duplicable City Center again, creating better color consistency and adding a few new ones:

Updated all Icons for Duplicable City Center Again – Click to Visit Page

Last but not least, Neha Verma (Construction Project Manager and Bachelor’s of Architecture) also updated the AutoCAD to reflect the spa mechanical room and shower location and Kitchen dry storage changes from last week’s 3D design updates.

Updated the Duplicable City Center AutoCAD – Click to Visit Page

COMPREHENSIVE ECOLOGICAL ARCHITECTURE HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS

One Community is supporting comprehensive ecological architecture 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 updated all the icons and formatting for our Purpose, Mission and Vision page:

Updated all Icons and Formatting for Purpose, Mission and Vision Page – Click to Visit

We also created 6 new icons as seen here:

…and we further revised the template we’re developing for color coordination of the website, village interior and exterior colors, and all of the graphic design work for each of the 7 villages.

Continued Working on Color Pallets for the Villages – Click for Highest Good Housing Page

Continued Building the New Website Structure – Click for Our Homepage

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

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

 

INVESTOR PAGES

OVERVIEW       ●       LOCATION       ●       FUNDING

GET INVOLVED

CONSULTANTS     ●     WAYS ANYONE CAN HELP     ●     MEMBERSHIP

CLICK HERE FOR ALL PAST UPDATES

WHAT ONE COMMUNITY IS CREATING

One Community is creating a place to grow together and change the world together through comprehensive ecological architecture. 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.

COMPREHENSIVE ECOLOGICAL ARCHITECTURE BUILDING THE FIRST OF MANY

One Community will be the first teacher/demonstration hub for the comprehensive ecological architecture. 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. This will be our way in establishing a comprehensive ecological architecture for the future.

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.

One Community welcomes Zachary Melin to the Graphic Design Team as our newest Volunteer/Consultant!

WELCOME TO THE TEAM ZACHARY!

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

INVESTOR PAGES

OVERVIEW       ●       LOCATION       ●       FUNDING

GET INVOLVED

CONSULTANTS     ●     WAYS ANYONE CAN HELP     ●     MEMBERSHIP

Sustainable living and Eco-designs for a better world are exponentially growing in popularity. One Community is contributing to this through open source and sustainable food, energy, and housing combined with Highest Good approaches to education, for-profit and non-profit economics design, social architecture, fulfilled living, and 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 of designs for 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 July 10, 2016 edition (#172) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments:

Designs for a Better World
One Community Progress Update #172

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

DESIGNS FOR A BETTER WORLD INTRO: @1:00

DESIGNS FOR A BETTER WORLD HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION: @1:59

• Transferred third 25% of written content for the Information Lesson Plan to the website (see below)
• Behind the scenes: Wrote first 25% of the written part of the Beliefs Lesson Plan
• Completed third 25% of the mindmap for the Humility Lesson Plan (see below)
• Updated all icons and formatting on the Highest Good Education open source hub and the Curriculum for Life page (see below)

DESIGNS FOR A BETTER WORLD HIGHEST GOOD FOOD: @3:03

• Behind the scenes: Compiled the pasta recipes which will later be added to our weekly recipe pages. This work is done as part of the development of our Food Self-sufficiency Transition Plan, which features contributions from Naturopathic Doctor Matt Marturano (see below)

DESIGNS FOR A BETTER WORLD HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING: @3:38

• Put another 10 hours into the behind-the-scenes revision for the Footers, Foundations and Flooring page for the crowdfunding campaign we are developing (see below)
• Brianna Johnson continued evolving the renders for the Straw Bale Village (see below)
• Dean Scholz further developed what’s necessary for us to create quality Cob Village renders (see below)
• Jaspreet Sond began designing wood working maker space for Northwest wing of the Cob Village (see below)
• Guy Grossfeld continued with his 4th week of photoshop work on the renders for the Shipping Container Village (see below)
• Zachary Melin continued updating the Tree House Village (Pod 7) book created by last year’s intern Team

DESIGNS FOR A BETTER WORLD DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER: @5:56

• Continued updating the Duplicable City Center Sketchup file according to the latest CAD drawing (see below)
• Worked on the natural pool and spa area locker textures, moved the under-staircase rinsing station, and added a rinsing station screen (see below)
• Haoxuan “Hayes” Lei finished the second 50% of the City Center 1st floor subframe loading conditions calculations (see below)

DESIGNS FOR A BETTER WORLD HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY: @6:59

• Finished new letterhead and business card designs and worked on color pallets details for the villages themselves (see below)
• Jennifer Zhou (Web Designer) joined the team and began building the new website structure for easier and more graphic access to all the One Community open source content (see below)

DESIGNS FOR A BETTER WORLD SUMMARY: @7:29

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

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

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ONE COMMUNITY WEEKLY UPDATE DETAILS

DESIGNS FOR A BETTER WORLD HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

One Community is helping create designs for 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 the third 25% of the written content for the Information 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 “Information” is now 75% completed on our website.

Information Lesson Plan – 75% Complete – Click to Visit Page

Behind the scenes, we wrote the first 25% of the written part of the Beliefs Lesson Plan that help in creating designs for a better world.

We also completed the third 25% of the mindmap for the Humility Lesson Plan, bringing it to 75% complete, which you see here:

Humility Mindmap – 75% Complete – Click to Visit Page

Last but not least, we updated all the icons and formatting on the Highest Good Education open source hub and the Curriculum for Life page.

Updated All Icons and Formatting on Two Edu. Pages – Click for Highest Good Education Page

DESIGNS FOR A BETTER WORLD HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

One Community is helping create designs for 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

As part of the development of our Food Self-sufficiency Transition Plan, which features contributions from Naturopathic Doctor Matt Marturano (creator of the COHERENT model for comprehensive digestive health), this week we compiled the pasta recipes, to add to the weekly recipe pages we are creating.

Compiled the Pasta Recipes, to Add to the Weekly Recipe Pages – Click to Visit the Main Food Page

DESIGNS FOR A BETTER WORLD HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

One Community is helping create designs for 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 last week the core team put another 10 hours into the behind-the-scenes revision for the Footers, Foundations and Flooring page for the crowdfunding campaign we are developing. This week’s focus was on the continued intensive read and dissecting of Section 10 Construction of Stem Wall and Dome, and on Section 11 Floor Construction. Followed by Section 13 Subterranean Exterior Ground Finish of Polyethylene Water Barrier and EPS Insulation. We updated the 6 mil poly horizontal subterranean EPS installation due to a change in how it is installed; changing it from cutting multiple pieces and patching them together to cutting a single larger ring with a center hole to slip over the dome in a single piece. We’d say we are now 89% complete with this total update and rewrite behind the scenes.

Continued Behind-the-Scenes Revision of the Footers, Foundations and Flooring Info – Click to Visit

Brianna Johnson (Interior Designer), also continued evolving the renders for the Straw Bale Village (Pod 2). What you see here is the initial renders for the central areas in front of the residences and a resident-housing bathroom:

Continued Evolving the Renders for the Straw Bale Village – Click to Visit Page

Straw Bale Village Resident-Housing Bathroom – Click to Visit Page

Dean Scholz, Architectural Designer, further developed what’s necessary for us to create quality Cob Village (Pod 3) renders. Here is update 26 of his work that focused on shade structures for the newly designed roof.

Further Developed What’s Necessary to Create Quality Cob Village Renders – Click to Visit Page

Jaspreet Sond (Graphic Designer and Computer Engineer) also began designing the wood working maker space for Northwest wing of the Cob Village (Pod 3). What you see here is the initial layout of this space created by working in conjunction with a friend of his who has his Master’s Degree in woodworking.

Began Designing the Wood Working Maker Space for Northwest Wing of Cob Village – Click to Visit

Guy Grossfeld (Graphic Designer) also continued with his 4th week of photoshop work on the renders for the Shipping Container Village (Pod 5). Here you see the final versions of a rental room looking out, the business media room, and the computer room:

Shipping Container Village Rental Room Looking Out – Click to Visit Page

Shipping Container Village Business Media Room – Click to Visit Page

Shipping Container Village Computer Room – Click to Visit Page

Zachary Melin (Graphic Designer) also continued updating the Tree House Village (Pod 7) book created by last year’s intern Team. What you see here is the updated page for the complete village layout.

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

DESIGNS FOR A BETTER WORLD DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

One Community is helping create designs for 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

Continued Updating the Duplicable City Center Sketchup File – Click to Visit Page

Here you see development of the root cellar in the Dining Dome focused on the driveway, roll-up door, lower parts of the stairs, and the kitchen elevator:

Continued Updating the Duplicable City Center Sketchup File – Click to Visit Page

Natural Pool and Spa Area Renders – Click to Visit Page

Haoxuan “Hayes” Lei (Structural Engineering Student) also finished the second 50% of the City Center 1st floor subframe loading conditions calculations, which you can see here.

Finished 2nd 50% of City Center 1st Floor Subframe Loading Calculations – Click to Visit Page

DESIGNS FOR A BETTER WORLD HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS

One Community is helping create designs for 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 last week the core team finished our new letterhead and business card designs and also our 2nd-generation exploration of how we’ll be presenting the color pallets for the villages themselves, all instructional materials, interior design, future icon creation, etc.

Finished our New Letterhead & Business Card Designs and Worked on Color Pallets for the Villages

Jennifer Zhou (Web Designer) also joined the team and created what you see here, beginning the monumental process of building the new website structure we desire for easier and more graphic access to all the One Community open source content.

Began Building the New Website Structure – Click for Our Homepage

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

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

 

INVESTOR PAGES

OVERVIEW       ●       LOCATION       ●       FUNDING

GET INVOLVED

CONSULTANTS     ●     WAYS ANYONE CAN HELP     ●     MEMBERSHIP

CLICK HERE FOR ALL PAST UPDATES

WHAT ONE COMMUNITY IS CREATING

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

Our goal is to demonstrate what we feel is the most sustainable, healthy, and fun environment we can create. Also to build designs for 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.

DESIGNS FOR 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 to perpetuate the designs for a better world. 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 of designs for a better world. 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’s designs for a better world will become a foundation that can be trusted as the donation point for distribution of monies to help others to establish this model also.

Restoring sustainable balance and regenerating our planet is possible if enough people participate. Increasing participation can be attained by making sustainability easy enough, affordable enough, and attractive enough to spread on it’s own. This is what One Community is doing:

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

OUR MAIN OPEN SOURCE HUBS

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

One Community’s physical location will forward this movement as the first of many self-replicating teacher/demonstration communities, villages, and cities to be built around the world. This is the July 3rd, 2016 edition (#171) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments:

Restoring Sustainable Balance
One Community Progress Update #171

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

RESTORING SUSTAINABLE BALANCE INTRO: @1:00

RESTORING SUSTAINABLE BALANCE HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION: @1:59

• Transferred final 25% of written content for Humility Lesson Plan to the website (see below)
• Behind the scenes: Wrote final 25% of the written part of Information Lesson Plan (see below)
• Completed second 25% of the mindmap for the Humility Lesson Plan (see below)

RESTORING SUSTAINABLE BALANCE HIGHEST GOOD FOOD: @2:50

• Behind the scenes: Compiled all the sweet potato recipes which will later be added to our updated recipe strategy page. This work is done as part of the development of our Food Self-sufficiency Transition Plan, which features contributions from Naturopathic Doctor Matt Marturano (see below)

RESTORING SUSTAINABLE BALANCE HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING: @3:25

RESTORING SUSTAINABLE BALANCE DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER: @6:21

RESTORING SUSTAINABLE BALANCE HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY: @7:30

• Clarified colors and designs for the new 7 sustainable villages icons and created first color template for all the webpages, informational materials, assembly instructions, interior design, and more (see below)

RESTORING SUSTAINABLE BALANCE SUMMARY: @7:49

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RESTORING SUSTAINABLE BALANCE HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

One Community is restoring sustainable balance 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 the final 25% of the written content for the Humility 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 “Humility” is now 100% completed on our website.

Humility Lesson Plan Now Complete – Click to Visit Page

Behind the scenes, we wrote the final 25% of the written part of the Information Lesson Plan.

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

Humility Mindmap – 50% Complete – Click to Visit Page

RESTORING SUSTAINABLE BALANCE HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

One Community is restoring sustainable balance 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

As part of the development of our Food Self-sufficiency Transition Plan, which features contributions from Naturopathic Doctor Matt Marturano (creator of the COHERENT model for comprehensive digestive health), this week the core team compiled the sweet potato recipes, as you can see here. Transforming our food behavior towards restoring sustainable balance is one of the critical steps of progress. We will add them to the updated recipe strategy page.

Compiled All of the Vegan Sweet Potato Recipes – Click to Visit the Main Food Page

RESTORING SUSTAINABLE BALANCE HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

One Community is restoring sustainable balance 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 put another 10 hours into the behind-the-scenes revision for the Footers, Foundations and Flooring page for the crowdfunding campaign we are developing. This week’s focus was on the continued intensive read and dissecting of Section 10 Construction of Stem Wall and Dome. We cross referenced facts and confirmed the accuracy of content, grammar, sentence structure, continuity, and overall presentation. We’d say we are now 88% complete with this total update and rewrite behind the scenes.

Continued Behind-the-Scenes Revision of the Footers, Foundations and Flooring Info – Click to Visit

Completed this Final CAD Drawing of the Slider to Place and Stabilize Finishing Nails – Click to Visit

Sal Rubio (Industrial Designer) also continued working on creating professional do-it-yourself Earthbag Village Murphy Bed furniture assembly instructions. What you see here is week 7 of this process and Sal’s 3rd version of exploring instructions for cutting the proper pieces, plus our notes for what will be version 4 of these instructions.

Continued Working on Creating DIY Furniture Assembly Instructions – Click to Visit

Ganyang Du (Construction Project Manager) also continued working on the Materials Schedules layouts for the Earthbag Village Materials page. You can see week 3 of this work here making the pricing sheet for Wood Doors & Framing, Electrical, and Cast-in-place Concrete.

Continued Working on Materials Schedules Layouts for Earthbag Village Materials Page – Click to Visit

Began Moving the Earthbag Village Communal Vermiculture Eco-Toilet Design Details – Click to Visit

Brianna Johnson (Interior Designer), also continued evolving the renders for the Straw Bale Village (Pod 2). What you see here is the first render for the central 2nd floor patio area looking down.

Continued Evolving the Renders for the Straw Bale Village – Click to Visit Page

Dean Scholz, Architectural Designer, further developed what’s necessary for us to create quality Cob Village (Pod 3) renders. Here is update 25 of his work that continued with exploration of a new and more accurate roof design as seen here.

Further Developed What’s Necessary to Create Quality Cob Village Renders – Click to Visit Page

Guy Grossfeld (Graphic Designer) also continued with his 3rd week of photoshop work on the renders for the Shipping Container Village (Pod 5). Here you see final versions of a rental room looking in:

Shipping Container Village Final Render of a Rental Room Looking In – Click to Visit Page

….the open area behind the dining hall looking Northwest:

Shipping Container Village Final Render of the Open Area Behind the dining Hall – Click to Visit Page

….and one of the circulation areas:

Shipping Container Village Final Render of One of the Circulation Areas – Click to Visit Page

Bupesh Seethala (Interior Designer) also transformed the initial render into an updated render for the Recycled Materials Village (Pod 6) Art room.

Updated Recycled Materials Village Art Room Render – Click to Visit Page

Zachary Melin (Graphic Designer) also continued updating the Tree House Village (Pod 7) book created by last year’s intern Team. What you see here are updated information and storyboard pages covering the tourism and event hosting with storyboard artwork compliments of Ana Carolina Salomao Faria (Industrial Design and Service Design Student).

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

RESTORING SUSTAINABLE BALANCE DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

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

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

Continued Working on the Duplicable City Center Renders – Click to Visit Page

Continued Working on the Duplicable City Center Renders – Click to Visit Page

Began Brainstorming the Design and Dimensions for the Root Cellar – Click to Visit City Center

Continued Working on Renders of Natural Pool and Spa Area – Click to Visit Page

Dipti Dhondarkar (Electrical Engineer) also took the team’s feedback from last week and started creating this more detailed spreadsheet for the lighting zones, lumens, and number of lamps needed. 

Started Creating More Detailed Spreadsheet for City Center Lighting Zones – Click to Visit City Center

Finished First 50% of the City Center 1st Floor Subframe Loading Calculations – Click to Visit Page

RESTORING SUSTAINABLE BALANCE HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS

One Community is restoring sustainable balance 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 clarified colors and designs for the new 7 sustainable villages icons and then created our first color template that will be used for all the webpages, informational materials, assembly instructions, interior design, and more.

Clarified Colors and Designs for New 7 Sustainable Villages Icons and Created First Color Template

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

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

 

INVESTOR PAGES

OVERVIEW       ●       LOCATION       ●       FUNDING

GET INVOLVED

CONSULTANTS     ●     WAYS ANYONE CAN HELP     ●     MEMBERSHIP

CLICK HERE FOR ALL PAST UPDATES

ONE COMMUNITY’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. These are few steps One community is taking in restoring sustainable balance. 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 also helps in restoring sustainable balance. 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 restoring sustainable balance 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.

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. 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 as building blocks towards restoring sustainable balance. 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.

The time has come to open source the building blocks of ecological living and create a sustainable planet that meets the needs of all of humanity. The technology and ability to globally collaborate already exist, all that remains is to bring together those who share the necessary desire and willingness to do the work and build the open source foundation. One Community is doing this and we call the process living and creating for The Highest Good of All:

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

OUR MAIN OPEN SOURCE HUBS

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

One Community’s physical location will forward this movement as the first of many self-replicating teacher/demonstration communities, villages, and cities to be built around the world. These activities act as the first step towards the building blocks of ecological living. This is the June 26th, 2016 edition (#170) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments:

The Building Blocks of Ecological Living
One Community Progress Update #170

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

THE BUILDING BLOCKS OF ECOLOGICAL LIVING INTRO: @1:00

THE BUILDING BLOCKS OF ECOLOGICAL LIVING HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION: @1:55

• Transferred third 25% of the written content for the Humility Lesson Plan to the website (see below)
• Behind the scenes: Wrote final 25% of the written part of the Humility Lesson Plan
• Completed first 25% of the mindmap for the Humility Lesson Plan (see below)

THE BUILDING BLOCKS OF ECOLOGICAL LIVING HIGHEST GOOD FOOD: @2:50

• Behind the scenes: Compiled all the potato recipes which will later be added to our updated recipe strategy page. This work is done as part of the development of our Food Self-sufficiency Transition Plan, which features contributions from Naturopathic Doctor Matt Marturano (see below)

THE BUILDING BLOCKS OF ECOLOGICAL LIVING HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING: @3:26

• Put another 10 hours into the behind-the-scenes revision for the Footers, Foundations and Flooring page for the crowdfunding campaign we are developing (see below)
• Jessica Zynda put the final touches on the excavation drawing (see below)
• Shadi Kennedy began updating an image of the central Tropical Atrium for the Earthbag Village (see below)
• Sal Rubio continued working on creating professional do-it-yourself Earthbag Village Murphy Bed furniture assembly instructions (see below)
• Ganyang Du continued working on the Materials Schedules layouts for the Earthbag Village Materials page (see below)
• Ray Triboulet continued working on final revisions and edits for the communal Vermiculture Eco-Toilet designs that are part of the Earthbag Village (see below)
• Guy Grossfeld continued with his second week of photoshop work on the renders for the Shipping Container Village (see below)
• Zachary Melin continued updating the Tree House Village (Pod 7) book created by last year’s intern Team (see below)

THE BUILDING BLOCKS OF ECOLOGICAL LIVING DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER: @6:04

• Continued working on what is needed for the first renders of the natural pool and spa area aspects of the Duplicable City Center (see below)
• Rendered an image for the Cupola area of the Duplicable City Center (see below)
• Updated all the Duplicable City Center icons for the open source hub and all the associated pages (see below)
• Iris Hsu continued exploring recycled pipe shelving and overhead lighting options for the Duplicable City Center library (see below)
• Dipti Dhondarkar updated the lighting zones for the City Center and then added details to the AutoCAD file (see below)
• Mike Hogan, Lucas Tsutsui da Silva and Jae discussed more circuit design details for the Control Systems designs (see below)

THE BUILDING BLOCKS OF ECOLOGICAL LIVING HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY: @7:53

• Created 7 new icons and recolored and cleaned up several existing icons (see below)

THE BUILDING BLOCKS OF ECOLOGICAL LIVING SUMMARY: @8:05

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

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THE BUILDING BLOCKS OF ECOLOGICAL LIVING HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

One Community is creating the building blocks of ecological 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 the third 25% of the written content for the Humility 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 “Humility” as the building blocks of ecological living is now 75% completed on our website:

Humility Lesson Plan – 75% Complete – Click to Visit Page

Behind the scenes, we wrote the final 25% of the written part of the Humility Lesson Plan.

We also completed the first 25% of the mind-map for the Humility Lesson Plan, bringing it to 25% complete, which you see here:

Humility Mindmap – 25% Complete – Click to Visit Page

THE BUILDING BLOCKS OF ECOLOGICAL LIVING HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

One Community is creating the building blocks of ecological 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

As part of the development of our Food Self-sufficiency Transition Plan, which features contributions from Naturopathic Doctor Matt Marturano (creator of the COHERENT model for comprehensive digestive health), this last week the core team compiled all of the potato recipes as you see here. They will be added to the recipe strategy pages we are updating.

Compiled All of the Vegan Potato Recipes – Click to Visit the Main Food Page

THE BUILDING BLOCKS OF ECOLOGICAL LIVING HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

One Community is creating the building blocks of ecological 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 last week the core team put another 10 hours into the behind-the-scenes revision for the Footers, Foundations and Flooring page for the crowdfunding campaign we are developing. This week’s focus was on section 10, where we continued editing procedural steps 1-41, and added new video inserts along with changing some existing video titles to reflect the modified narratives. We also wrote the narratives for steps 36, 38, 39, and 40. We’d say we are now 87% complete with this total update and rewrite behind the scenes.

Continued Behind-the-Scenes Revision of the Footers, Foundations and Flooring Info

Related to this, Jessica Zynda (Drafter/Designer) put the final touches on the excavation drawing as shown here:

Put the Final Touches on the Excavation Drawing – Click to Visit the Page

Also for the Earthbag Village, Shadi Kennedy (Artist and Graphic Designer) began updating this image of the central Tropical Atrium. This week’s work included adding furniture on top of the structure and trees and rocks throughout the village.

Began Updating Central Tropical Atrium Image – Click to Visit Page

And Sal Rubio (Industrial Designer) also continued working on creating professional do-it-yourself Earthbag Village Murphy Bed furniture assembly instructions. What you see here is week 6 of this this process and our 2nd version of exploring instructions for cutting the proper pieces.

Continued Working on Creating DIY Furniture Assembly Instructions

Ganyang Du (Construction Project Manager) also continued working on the Materials Schedules layouts for the Earthbag Village Materials page. You can see week 2 of this work here, outlining the floor, bathrooms, and showers.

Continued Working on Materials Schedules Layouts for Earthbag Village Materials Page – Click to Visit

Ray Triboulet (Web Developer and Active Duty U.S. Sailor) also continued working on final revisions and edits for the communal Vermiculture Eco-Toilet designs that are part of the Earthbag Village (Pod 1). What you see here is the GoogleDoc Trib is working on before beginning to move these details to the website.

Continued Working on Final Revisions and Edits for Communal Vermiculture Eco-Toilet Designs

Guy Grossfeld (Graphic Designer) also continued with his second week of photoshop work on the renders for the Shipping Container Village (Pod 5). Here you see his first versions of 2 different perspectives of the residences and rental rooms and a view outside the dining area and looking Northwest.

Continued with Photoshop work on the Shipping Container Village Renders – Click for Page

Zachary Melin (Graphic Designer) also continued updating the Tree House Village (Pod 7) book created by last year’s intern Team. What you see here are more updated Service Design pages and the first few updated storyboard pages featuring the artwork of Ana Carolina Salomao Faria (Industrial Design and Service Design Student).

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

THE BUILDING BLOCKS OF ECOLOGICAL LIVING DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

One Community is creating the building blocks of ecological living through a Duplicable and Sustainable City Center that is LEED Platinum certified/Sustainable, can feed 200 people at a time, provide laundry for over 300 people, is beautiful, spacious, and saves resources, money, and space:

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

This week the core team continued working on what is needed for the renders of the natural pool and spa area aspects of the Duplicable City Center. This week’s focus was on updating all material textures to add more color diversity to the rocks, placing more stones around the mechanical room door and waterfall, and creating shadows for rendering images in two different directions. These contribute in creating the building blocks of ecological living.

Continued Working on Renders of Natural Pool and Spa Area – Click to Visit Page

The core team also rendered this image for the Cupola area of the Duplicable City Center.

Rendered Image for Cupola Area of Duplicable City Center – Click to Visit the City Center

We also updated all the Duplicable City Center icons for the open source hub and all the associated pages. You can see the new icons here:

Updated the Icons for Duplicable City Center & Associated Pages – Click for City Center

Iris Hsu (Industrial Designer), also continued exploring recycled pipe shelving and overhead lighting options for the Duplicable City Center library. What you see here is round #11 of this work now focusing on another series of exploration for different ways to artistically and effectively integrate the ceiling lighting with the shelving.

Continued Exploring Recycled Pipe Shelving and Overhead Lighting Options for City Center Library

Dipti Dhondarkar (Electrical Engineer) also updated the lighting zones for the City Center and then added the optimum and minimum lumens, along with optimum lights, to the AutoCAD file. The results are seen here:

Updated Lighting Zones for City Center & Added Details to AutoCAD file – Click to Visit City Center

Mike Hogan (Automation Systems Developer and Business Systems Consultant) and Lucas Tsutsui da Silva(4th-year Computer Engineering Student) and Jae then discussed more circuit design details and also how Dipti’s information could best be displayed on the AutoCAD for the Control Systems designs. What they come up with is important because it’ll be the format for all the villages and we’ll use it for the HVAC systems too.

Continued Circuit Board Testing Discussions for the City Center Control Systems Designs

THE BUILDING BLOCKS OF ECOLOGICAL LIVING HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS

One Community is creating the building blocks of ecological 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 last week the core team created 7 new icons and recolored and cleaned up several existing icons. You can see them all here:

Created 7 new Icons – Click to Visit the Highest Good Economics Page

Recolored and Cleaned up Several Existing Icons

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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 and also work as the building blocks of ecological living.

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.

THE BUILDING BLOCKS OF ECOLOGICAL LIVING 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 will be an example of the building blocks of ecological living to the 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. These are the building blocks of ecological living, the way of the future.

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.