It is time for eco-living and design to progress beyond just food, energy, and housing to additionally include Highest Good approaches to education, for-profit and non-profit economics design, social architecture, fulfilled living, and stewardship practices. By doing this we can combine physical sustainability with emotional sustainability foundations and create a way of living that most people will consider better than how they are living now. Open sourcing and free-sharing it all will make it easy enough and affordable enough to spread on its own.

• 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 June 19th, 2016 edition (#169) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments:

Eco-Living and Design
One Community Progress Update #169

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

ECO-LIVING AND DESIGN INTRO: @1:00

ECO-LIVING AND DESIGN – HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION: @1:58

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

ECO-LIVING AND DESIGN – HIGHEST GOOD FOOD: @2:53

• Behind the scenes: Compiled all the rice 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)
• Shadi Kennedy finished render looking Northeast for the Tropical Atrium Planting and Harvesting plan page (see below)

ECO-LIVING AND DESIGN – HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING: @3:39

• 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)
• Ganyang Du began working on the Materials Schedules layouts for the Earthbag Village Materials page (see below)
• Ray Triboulet began working on final revisions and edits for 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)
• Guy Grossfeld joined the team and began adding people, backgrounds, and other details to the renders for the Shipping Container Village (see below)
• Zachary Melin continued updating the Tree House Village book created by last year’s intern Team (see below)
• Jesika Rohrbach continued designing and exploring different Tree House Village bathroom tower options (see below)

ECO-LIVING AND DESIGN – DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER: @6:42

• 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)
• Dipti Dhondarkar completed an analysis of the City Center lighting requirements and suggestions completed by last year’s intern team with the requirements and suggestions from P2S Engineering (see below)
• Neha Verma finished re-organizing the hundreds of City Center files for us (see below)
• Iris Hsu continued exploring recycled pipe shelving and overhead lighting options for the Duplicable City Center library (see below)
• Behind the scenes: Mike Hogan and Lucas Tsutsui da Silva continued with circuit board testing for the City Center Control Systems designs (see below)

ECO-LIVING AND DESIGN – HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY: @8:27

• Created new icons for the Pledge page and added new menus to the tops of the associated values pages for Love and Connection, Honesty and Integrity, FulfilledLiving, Freedom, Diversity, Contribution, Consensus/Decision Making, Community, and Communication (see below)
• Updated icons for the Highest Good Economics open source hub and all pages associated with the hub (see below)
• Lokesh Gopu continued developing the Highest Good Network software (see below)

ECO LIVING AND DESIGN SUMMARY: @9:09

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ECO-LIVING AND DESIGN – HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

One Community is facilitating eco living and design 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 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 50% completed on our website.

Information Lesson Plan – 50% Complete – Click to Visit Page

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

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

Courage Mindmap – Complete – Click to Visit Page

ECO-LIVING AND DESIGN – HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

One Community is forwarding eco living and design 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 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 all of the rice recipes as you see here. They will be added to our updated recipe strategy, which is in progress.

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

Shadi Kennedy (Artist and Graphic Designer) also finished this render looking Northeast for the Tropical Atrium Planting and Harvesting plan page:

Tropical Atrium View Looking Northeast – “The North 180”

ECO-LIVING AND DESIGN – HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

One Community is forwarding eco living and design 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 analyzed the chronological procedural steps 1-41 for accuracy of content, grammar, and sentence structure. We also changed locations of steps 33-39 due to the addition of 6-mil and 12-mil layers on earthbag course 9 instead of course 8 due to the relocation of the backsplash from the top of the earthbag course 8 to the top of the earthbag course 9. We’d say we are now 86% 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, aimed at eco-living and design. What you see here is week 5 of this process and our first version of instructions for cutting the proper pieces.

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

Began Working on Materials Schedules Layouts for Earthbag Village Materials Page -Click to Visit

Ray Triboulet (Web Developer and Active Duty U.S. Sailor) also began 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:

Began Working on Final Revisions and Edits for Communal Vermiculture Eco-Toilet Designs – 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 2nd generation render for one of the studio residences within this village.

2nd Generation Render for One of the Studio Residences – Click to Visit the Straw Bale Village Page

Dean Scholz, Architectural Designer, further developed what’s necessary for us to create quality Cob Village (Pod 3) renders, with a vision of eco-living and design. Here is update 24 of his work that continued with adding more plants, textures, and other outdoor details to the Cob Village overview images you see here.

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

Guy Grossfeld (Graphic Designer) also joined the team and began adding people, backgrounds, and other details to the renders for the Shipping Container Village (Pod 5), with a emphasis on eco-living and design. Here you see the first of these renders.

Began Adding Details to the Renders for the Shipping Container Village – 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 another revision of the SWOT analysis page and multiple iterations of the Sustainable Design and Service Design pages:

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

Also working on the Tree House Village (Pod 7), Jesika Rohrbach (Architectural Drafter, Designer, and 3-D Modeler) continued designing and exploring different bathroom tower options. These will include individual storage spaces below, recreation space above, and be separate from the trees to maximize efficiency and minimize the ecological footprint, all with a focus on eco-living and design.

Continued Working on Tree House Village Bathroom Tower Options – Click to Visit Page

ECO-LIVING AND DESIGN – DUPLICATE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

One Community is forwarding eco living and design 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 creating three different designs for the waterfall, also arched stone work around the mechanical room door, and a small pond near the waterfall.

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

Dipti Dhondarkar (Electrical Engineer) also completed an analysis of the City Center lighting requirements and suggestions completed by last year’s intern team with the requirements and suggestions from P2S Engineering. You can see this work here:

Completed Analysis of the City Center Lighting Requirements – Click for City Center

Neha Verma (Construction Project Manager and Bachelor’s of Architecture) also finished re-organizing the hundreds of City Center files for us. What you see here is about 20% of this work:

Finished Organizing the Hundreds of City Center Files – Click to Visit the City Center

Iris Hsu (Industrial Designer), also continued exploring recycled pipe shelving and overhead lighting options for the Duplicable City Center library, with the concept of eco-living and design in mind. What you see here is round #10 of Iris’s work along with a brainstorming drawing from our weekly call. This work is now focusing on 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 – Click to Visit City Center

Behind the scenes Mike Hogan (Automation Systems Developer and Business Systems Consultant) and Lucas Tsutsui da Silva (4th-year Computer Engineering Student) continued with circuit board testing for the City Center Control Systems designs, all aimed at eco-living and design. What you see here are pictures from our weekly call with discussions revolving around an overheating issue Lucas was experiencing.

Continued with Circuit Board Testing for the City Center Control Systems Designs – Click to Visit Page

ECO-LIVING AND DESIGN – HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS

One Community is forwarding eco living and design 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 new icons for the Pledge page and updated the formatting for that page and updated the formatting and added new menus to the tops of the associated values pages for Love and Connection, Honesty and Integrity, FulfilledLiving, Freedom, Diversity, Contribution, Consensus/Decision Making, Community, and Communication.

Created New Icons for Pledge page and Updated Several Pages with New Icons and Formatting – Click to Visit the Pledge Page

We also updated all the icons for the Highest Good Economics open source hub and all pages associated with the hub:

Updated Icons for Highest Good Economics Hub and Pages Associated with the Hub – Click to Visit Page

Lokesh Gopu (Software Engineer) also continued developing the Highest Good Network software. Here’s a picture of Lokesh and Jae discussing the task management component he worked on this week.

Continued Developing the Highest Good Network Software – Click to Visit Page

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

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

 

INVESTOR PAGES

OVERVIEW       ●       LOCATION       ●       FUNDING

GET INVOLVED

CONSULTANTS     ●     WAYS ANYONE CAN HELP     ●     MEMBERSHIP

CLICK HERE FOR ALL PAST UPDATES

WHAT ONE COMMUNITY IS CREATING

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

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

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

BUILDING THE FIRST OF MANY

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

WHY ONE COMMUNITY IS CREATING THIS

The One Community self-replicating model, focused on eco-living and design, 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, all incorporating aspects of eco-living and design. 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, promoting the philosophy of eco-living and design.

The specifics of how One Community is accomplishing this can be found on the One Community Solution Model to Create Solution-creating Models Page, which emphasizes eco-living and design. Research supporting and showing the benefits of a model like this can be found on our Research and Resources Articles Archive, with several references to eco-living and design.

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 with principles of eco-living and design.  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, all while emphasizing eco-living and design.

How to build a sustainable planet can be defined and outlined in the same manner as building a sustainable structure, business, or city. There are many more elements and steps, but a similar implementable blueprint can be created. The foundations we’ve identified and are working on as part of this blueprint are 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. One Community calls this living and creating for The Highest Good of All:

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

OUR MAIN OPEN SOURCE HUBS

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

One Community’s physical location will forward this movement as the first of many self-replicating teacher/demonstration communities, villages, and cities to be built around the world. This is the June 12th, 2016 edition (#168) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments:

How to Build a Sustainable Planet
One Community Progress Update #168

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

HOW TO BUILD A SUSTAINABLE PLANET INTRO: @1:00

HOW TO BUILD A SUSTAINABLE PLANET – HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION: @1:57

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

HOW TO BUILD A SUSTAINABLE PLANET – HIGHEST GOOD FOOD: @2:50

• Finished final texture adjustments and rendering for the Tropical Atrium (see below)
• Updated and reorganized the Tropical Atrium Planting and Harvesting plan page to include all the images created by Shadi Kennedy (see below)
• Added instructions for general procurement and preparation of root vegetabless to our website using work from Naturopathic Doctor Matt Marturano as part of the development of our Food Self-sufficiency Transition Plan (see below)

HOW TO BUILD A SUSTAINABLE PLANET – HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING: @3:46

HOW TO BUILD A SUSTAINABLE PLANET – DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER: @5:26

• 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)
• Neha Verma created an updated plan for the sections that her team will be creating (see below)
• Dipti Dhondarkar completed calculations for minimum number of lumens for City Center areas (see below)
• Iris Hsu continued exploring recycled pipe shelving options for the Duplicable City Center library (see below)

HOW TO BUILD A SUSTAINABLE PLANET – HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY: @6:40

• Continued exploring how to create an open source and standardized presentation for Highest Good Housing villages (see below)
• Steven Paslawsky created images for the food self-sufficiency plan omnivore and vegan meal plan pages and several sets of icon ideas for the different Highest Good Housing pages (see below)

HOW TO BUILD A SUSTAINABLE PLANET SUMMARY: @7:03

• • • 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

HOW TO BUILD A SUSTAINABLE PLANET – HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

One Community is facilitating how to build a sustainable planet 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 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 50% completed on our website.

Humility Lesson Plan – 50% Complete – Click to Visit Page

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

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

Courage Mindmap – 75% Complete – Click to Visit Page

HOW TO BUILD A SUSTAINABLE PLANET – HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

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

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

This week the core team finished the final texture adjustments and rendering for the Tropical Atrium. You can see the new image here:

Finished Final Texture Adjustments and Rendering for the Tropical Atrium – Click to Visit Page

The core team also updated and reorganized the Tropical Atrium Planting and Harvesting plan page to include all the images created by Shadi Kennedy (Artist and Graphic Designer). You can see examples of these updates here:

Updated and Reorganized the Tropical Atrium Planting and Harvesting Plan Page – Click to Visit

As part of the development of our our Food Self-sufficiency Transition Plan, we added instructions for general procurement and  preparation of root vegetables to our website, as suggested by Naturopathic Doctor Matt Marturano (creator of the COHERENT model for comprehensive digestive health).

Added Instructions for General Procurement and Preparation of Root Vegetables – Click to Visit the Main Food Page

HOW TO BUILD A SUSTAINABLE PLANET – HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

One Community is facilitating how to build a sustainable planet 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 editing and creating accompanying narratives to additional green step headings of Section 10: Construction of Stem Wall and Dome. Due to previous changes that affected multiple areas within the FFF document, we combined some of the multiple entries into single entities and realigned others. We’d say we are now 85% 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

In addition to this, Brianna Johnson (Interior Designer), continued evolving the renders for the Straw Bale Village (Pod 2). What you see here is the initial layout for rendering one of the studio residences….

Initial Layout for Rendering One of the Studio Residences – Click to Visit the Straw Bale Village Page

…. and the initial render for the communal computer and study room:

Initial Render for Communal Computer & Study Room – Click to Visit Straw Bale Village

Dean Scholz, Architectural Designer, further developed what’s necessary for us to create quality Cob Village (Pod 3) renders, aligning with our vision on how to build a sustainable planet. Here is update 23 of his work that continued with adding more trees and textures to the Cob Village overview images you see here:

Further Developed What’s Necessary to Create Quality Cob Village Renders – 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 another revision of the SWOT analysis page and the work in progress for the Sustainable Design and Service Design pages.

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

HOW TO BUILD A SUSTAINABLE PLANET – DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

One Community is facilitating how to build a sustainable planet 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 first renders of the natural pool and spa area aspects of the Duplicable City Center. This week’s focus was on the new locker and arched stone work around the hobbit door access to the mechanical room and waterfall rock placement and textures for this area.

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

Neha Verma (Construction Project Manager and Bachelor’s of Architecture) also created this updated plan for the sections that her team will be creating:

Created Updated Plan for Sections Her Team Will Be Creating – Click to Visit City Center

And Dipti Dhondarkar (Electrical Engineer) completed calculations for minimum number of lumens for each of the different City Center areas. The results are seen here:

Completed Calculations for Number of Lumens for City Center Areas – Click for City Center

Iris Hsu (Industrial Designer), also continued exploring recycled pipe shelving options for the Duplicable City Center library. What you see here is round #9 of this work exploring additional shelving and lighting designs for the main spaces on the walls along with art options to fill the space above.

Continued Exploring Recycled Pipe Shelving Options for Duplicable City Center library – Click to Visit City Center

HOW TO BUILD A SUSTAINABLE PLANET – HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS

One Community is facilitating how to build a sustainable planet 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 continued exploring how to create an open source and standardized presentation for Highest Good Housing villages. Here are a few image examples:

Continued Exploring How to Create a Standardized Presentation for Highest Good Housing Villages – Click to Visit Page

Steven Paslawsky (Graphic Designer) also created these new images for the food self-sufficiency plan omnivore and vegan meal plan pages and several sets of icon ideas for the different Highest Good Housing pages:

New Images for Omnivore & Vegan Meal Plan Pgs & Highest Good Housing Icon Ideas – Click to Visit Housing Page

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

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

 

INVESTOR PAGES

OVERVIEW       ●       LOCATION       ●       FUNDING

GET INVOLVED

CONSULTANTS     ●     WAYS ANYONE CAN HELP     ●     MEMBERSHIP

CLICK HERE FOR ALL PAST UPDATES

WHAT ONE COMMUNITY IS CREATING

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

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

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

BUILDING THE FIRST OF MANY

One Community will be the first teacher/demonstration hub, designed as a cornerstone on how to build a sustainable planet. 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 as a part of the grander vision of how to build a sustainable planet.

WHY ONE COMMUNITY IS CREATING THIS

The One Community self-replicating model is capable of creating a sustainable planet within 30 years. We will achieve this by establishing successful teacher/demonstration hubs on every continent, which are pivotal in the mission of how to build a sustainable planet. Villages include designs appropriate for each of the five main types of climates. They also include options for even the most challenged economies. These hubs will collaborate with one another, share ideas, resources, and work together as a network to heal the planet and take actionable steps on how to build a sustainable 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, central to the concept of how to build a sustainable planet, 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.

Sustainability and technological ingenuity have advanced sufficiently that we now know how to make the world we want. Implementing this to demonstrate sustainable living as easier, more affordable, and a more enjoyable is the a logical step to increasing involvement and implementation. Scalable, Open source and free-shared models for 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 are already under development. One Community calls this living and creating for The Highest Good of All:

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

OUR MAIN OPEN SOURCE HUBS

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

One Community’s physical location will forward this movement as the first of many self-replicating teacher/demonstration communities, villages, and cities to be built around the world. This is the June 5th, 2016 edition (#167) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments:

How to Make the World We Want
One Community Progress Update #167

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

HOW TO MAKE THE WORLD WE WANT INTRO: @1:00

HOW TO MAKE THE WORLD WE WANT – HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION: @1:55

• Transferred the first 25% of the written content for the Humility Lesson Plan to the website (see below)
• Behind the scenes: wrote the second 25% of the written part of the Humility Lesson Plan.
• We also completed the second 25% of the mindmap for the Courage Lesson Plan (see below)

HOW TO MAKE THE WORLD WE WANT – HIGHEST GOOD FOOD: @2:48

• Continued working on the renders for the Tropical Atrium that is the center of the Earthbag Village (see below)
• Shadi Kennedy finished the Tropical Atrium render created a few weeks ago by the core team (see below)
• Shadi then created these new images for the Transition Kitchen designs for feeding 20-50 people in remote locations (see below)
• Added instructions for general procurement and preparation of legumes, nuts, & seeds to our website using work from Naturopathic Doctor Matt Marturano as part of the development of our Food Self-sufficiency Transition Plan (see below)

HOW TO MAKE THE WORLD WE WANT – HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING: @4:04

• 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)
• Zachary Melin continued updating the Tree House Village (Pod 7) book created by last year’s intern Team (see below)
• Jesika Rohrbach continued designing and exploring different Tree House Village bathroom tower options (see below)
• Dean Scholz further developed what’s necessary for us to create quality Cob Village renders (see below)
• Sal Rubio continued working on creating professional do-it-yourself Earthbag Village Murphy Bed furniture assembly instructions (see below)

HOW TO MAKE THE WORLD WE WANT – DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER: @6:30

• Continued working on the first renders of the natural pool and spa area (see below)
• Neha Verma began organizing the hundreds of files generated through the City Center development over the past 5 years (see below)
• Haoxuan “Hayes” Lei finished the layout of the City Center subframe (see below)
• Dipti Dhondarkar finished her calculations for number of lamps for the City Center rooms (see below)
• Iris Hsu continued exploring recycled pipe shelving options for the Duplicable City Center library (see below)
• Behind the scenes: Mike Hogan and Lucas Tsutsui da Silva talked about and tested Optoisolator connections for the Control Systems design (see below)
• Behind the scenes: James Nance began working on the City Center plumbing layout (see below)

HOW TO MAKE THE WORLD WE WANT – HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY: @8:20

• Began exploring how to create an open source and standardized presentation for Highest Good Housing villages (see below)
• Steven Paslawsky finalized the icons for our open source copyrights, trademarks, and patenting pages, and for our food self-sufficiency plan and page (see below)

HOW TO MAKE THE WORLD WE WANT SUMMARY: @8:48

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HOW TO MAKE THE WORLD WE WANT – HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

One Community facilitating how to make the world we want 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 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 25% completed on our website.

Humility Lesson Plan – 25% Complete – Click to Visit Page

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

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

Courage Mindmap – 50% Complete – Click to Visit Page

HOW TO MAKE THE WORLD WE WANT – HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

One Community is facilitating how to make the world we want through Highest Good food that is more diverse, more nutritious, locally grown and sustainable, and part of our open source botanical garden model to support and share bio-diversity:

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

This last week the core team continued working on the renders for the Tropical Atrium that is the center of the Earthbag Village (Pod 1). Here you can see an incomplete render looking down and South. This week we made adjustments on the textures for the roads and completed work on the shadows.

Continued Working on Renders for the Tropical Atrium – Click to Visit Page

Shadi Kennedy (Artist and Graphic Designer) also finished this render created a few weeks ago by the core team. To do this he added benches and all the plant details so it now shows the Tropical Atrium flourishing with fruit trees, flowers, and the other plants from the Tropical Atrium Planting and Harvesting plan.

Tropical Atrium View Looking South – Click for the Planting and Harvesting Page

Shadi then created these new images for the Transition Kitchen designs, embodying the vision of how to make the world we want, for feeding 20-50 people in remote locations while more permanent facilities are being built.

Created New Image for the Transition Kitchen Design – Click to Visit Page

Transition Kitchen Render – Click to Visit Page

As part of the development of our our Food Self-sufficiency Transition Plan, we added instructions for general procurement and preparation of legumes, nuts, & seeds to our website, as calculated by Naturopathic Doctor Matt Marturano (creator of the COHERENT model for comprehensive digestive health).

Added Instructions for General Procurement and Preparation of Legumes, Nuts, & Seeds – Click to Visit the Main Food Page

HOW TO MAKE THE WORLD WE WANT – HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

One Community is facilitating how to make the world we want 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 continued the thorough review of Section 10: Construction of Stem Wall and Dome, adding necessary repeating steps like “Removal of the Slider” and “Securing String to the Finish Nails for the Interior Stucco Netting” into the ongoing evolution of the dome. We also added several new steps to Section 9: Foundation Construction. We’d say we are now 84% 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

Brianna Johnson (Interior Designer), also continued evolving the renders for the Straw Bale Village (Pod 2). What you see here are two different outdoor picnic areas:

Straw Bale Village Outdoor Render – Click to Enlarge

Straw Bale Village Outdoor Render – Click to Enlarge

….. and the kids’ playground area:

Render of Kids’ Playground Area – Click to Enlarge

Also, here you can see additional brainstorming she did on how to improve how this will look in the online book we are creating for all the villages:

Brainstorming on how to Improve the Online Book – Click to Visit the Straw Bale Village

Additionally, Zachary Melin (Graphic Designer) continued updating the Tree House Village (Pod 7) book created by last year’s intern Team, illustrating how to make the world we want. What you see here is Zachary’s process of cleaning up the background image and redoing the SWOT analysis page.

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

Also working on the Tree House Village (Pod 7), Jesika Rohrbach (Architectural Drafter, Designer, and 3-D Modeler) continued designing and exploring different bathroom tower options. These will include individual storage spaces below, recreation space above, and be separate from the trees to maximize efficiency and minimize the ecological footprint.

Continued Working on Tree House Village Bathroom/ Shower Floor Plan Options – Click to Visit Page

Dean Scholz, Architectural Designer, further developed what’s necessary for us to create quality Cob Village (Pod 3) renders, in line with our vision of how to make the world we want. Here is update 22 of his work that continued with what you see here, creating more high-quality render plants and trees like those we’ll be growing on the property and then placing them throughout the Cob Village.

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

Sal Rubio (Industrial Designer) also continued working on creating professional do-it-yourself Earthbag Village Murphy Bed furniture assembly instructions, encapsulating the vision of how to make the world we want. What you see here are week 4 of his process of double checking all our pieces and creating SolidWorks versions of them from the Sketchup pieces we already have.

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

HOW TO MAKE THE WORLD WE WANT – DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

One Community is facilitating how to make the world we want 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 first renders of the natural pool and spa area aspects of the Duplicable City Center. This week’s focus was setting up room dimensions, designing the hobbit door and designing the stones/boulders for decorating the waterfall.

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

Began Organizing the Hundreds of City Center Files – Click to Visit the Duplicable City Center

Haoxuan “Hayes” Lei (Structural Engineering Student) also finished the layout of the City Center subframe, which you can see here:

Finished the Layout of the City Center Subframe – Click to Visit the Duplicable City Center

And Dipti Dhondarkar (Electrical Engineer) finished her calculations for number of lamps for the City Center rooms. The results are seen here:

Finished Calculations for Number of Lamps for City Center Rooms – Click for City Center

Iris Hsu (Industrial Designer), also continued exploring recycled pipe shelving options for the Duplicable City Center library. What you see here is round #8 of this work exploring more shelving and lighting designs for the main spaces on the walls along with art options to fill the space above.

Continued Exploring Recycled Pipe Shelving Options for Duplicable City Center library – Click to Visit City Center

Behind the scenes Mike Hogan (Automation Systems Developer and Business Systems Consultant) and Lucas Tsutsui da Silva (4th-year Computer Engineering Student) talked about and tested Optoisolator connections for the Control Systems design, a crucial step towards how to make the world we want.

Discussed and Tested Optoisolator Connections for Control Systems Design – Click to Visit Page

Also behind the scenes, James Nance, Mechanical Engineer and Project Manager, began working on the City Center plumbing layout. You can see a picture of this work in progress here.

Began Working on the City Center Plumbing Layout – Click to Visit Page

HOW TO MAKE THE WORLD WE WANT – HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS

One Community is facilitating how to make the world we want 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 began exploring how to create an open source and standardized presentation for Highest Good Housing villages. You can see this here along with the color guide wireframe:

Began Exploring Presentation for Highest Good Housing Villages – Click to Visit Page

Steven Paslawsky (Graphic Designer) also finalized the icons for our open source copyrights, trademarks, and patenting pages – aligned with our commitment to how to make the world we want, the icons associated with the food self-sufficiency plan and page, and fixed the last icon we needed fixed out of the social media set.

Finalized Copyrights/Trademarks/Patents Icons and Food Icons – Click to Visit Food Page

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

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INVESTOR PAGES

OVERVIEW       ●       LOCATION       ●       FUNDING

GET INVOLVED

CONSULTANTS     ●     WAYS ANYONE CAN HELP     ●     MEMBERSHIP

CLICK HERE FOR ALL PAST UPDATES

One Community welcomes Steven Paslawsky to the Graphic Design Team as our newest Volunteer/Consultant!

Graphic Designer: Steven is a graduate of the Graphic Communications program at Northern Alberta Institute of Technology located in Edmonton, Alberta. Art has always been a part of his life, leading to his passion for creating and designing. Other passions include Ice Dancing, a sport Steven has been competitive in on a national level for 15 years, traveling across Canada to compete. Steven believes that the world we live in and the things that we do can be improved on. Motivated by this understanding and a desire to be a part of the change One Community is creating, Steven is using his skills and experience with the Adobe Suite to help us create new and professional icons and presentations used throughout our website.

WELCOME TO THE TEAM STEVEN!

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

INVESTOR PAGES

OVERVIEW       ●       LOCATION       ●       FUNDING

GET INVOLVED

CONSULTANTS     ●     WAYS ANYONE CAN HELP     ●     MEMBERSHIP

Through sustainable and open source living models, it is possible to achieve an ecological tipping point for an abundant future for all people and life on our planet. As a species we can adopt Highest Good society and conscious stewardship practices to renew and regenerate our planet in ways that also provide a better quality of living for all who participate. One Community calls this living and creating for The Highest Good of All:

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

OUR MAIN OPEN SOURCE HUBS

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

One Community’s physical location will forward this movement as the first of many self-replicating teacher/demonstration communities, villages, and cities to be built around the world. This is the May 29th, 2016 edition (#166) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments:

Ecological Tipping Point for an Abundant Future
One Community Progress Update #166

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

ECOLOGICAL TIPPING POINT FOR AN ABUNDANT FUTURE INTRO: @1:03

ECOLOGICAL TIPPING POINT FOR AN ABUNDANT FUTURE – HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION: @1:56

• Transferred the first 25% of the written content for the Information Lesson Plan to the website (see below)
• Behind the scenes: wrote the first 25% of the written part of the Humility Lesson Plan
• We also completed the first 25% of the mindmap for the Courage Lesson Plan (see below)

ECOLOGICAL TIPPING POINT FOR AN ABUNDANT FUTURE – HIGHEST GOOD FOOD: @2:52

• Continued working on the renders for the Tropical Atrium that is the center of the Earthbag Village (see below)
• Shadi Kennedy created a composite image from that now includes the rest of the plants and trees from the Tropical Atrium Planting and Harvesting page (see below)
• Shadi finished a new image for the tree aspects of the Tropical Atrium Planting and Harvesting plan (see below)
• Using work from Naturopathic Doctor Matt Marturano we modified the calculations for quantities for our food bars and began adding the food bar plans to our website as part of the development of our Food Self-sufficiency Transition Plan (see below)

ECOLOGICAL TIPPING POINT FOR AN ABUNDANT FUTURE – HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING: @4:16

• 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)
• Zachary Melin continued updating the Tree House Village (Pod 7) book created by last year’s intern Team (see below)
• Jesika Rohrbach worked on the communal bathroom and shower floor plan options for the Tree House Village (see below)
• Dean Scholz further developed what’s necessary for us to create quality Cob Village renders (see below)

ECOLOGICAL TIPPING POINT FOR AN ABUNDANT FUTURE – DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER: @6:14

• Began working on the first renders of the natural pool and spa area (see below)
• Haoxuan “Hayes” Lei began working on load calculations and updating the City Center structural details (see below)
• Dipti Dhondarkar studied the area calculations completed by last year’s Intern Team for room lighting and began calculations for number of lamps for the rooms (see below)
• Iris Hsu continued exploring recycled pipe shelving options for the Duplicable City Center library (see below)
• Behind the scenes: Mike Hogan and Lucas Tsutsui da Silva started testing the Control Systems microcontroller input (see below)

ECOLOGICAL TIPPING POINT FOR AN ABUNDANT FUTURE – HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY: @7:42

• Jonathan DeAscentis finished development of our Highest Good Network logo (see below)
• Steven Paslawsky created version 2 of our open source copyrights, trademarks, and patenting page icons, along with a first set of new icons associated with the food self-sufficiency plan and page (see below)

ECOLOGICAL TIPPING POINT FOR AN ABUNDANT FUTURE SUMMARY: @8:10

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ECOLOGICAL TIPPING POINT FOR AN ABUNDANT FUTURE – HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

One Community is moving towards an ecological tipping point for an abundant future 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 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 25% completed on our website.

Information Lesson Plan – 25% Complete – Click to Visit Page

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

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

Courage Mindmap – 25% Complete – Click to Visit Page

ECOLOGICAL TIPPING POINT FOR AN ABUNDANT FURTURE – HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

One Community is moving towards an ecological tipping point for an abundant future through Highest Good food that is more diverse, more nutritious, locally grown and sustainable, and part of our open source botanical garden model to support and share bio-diversity:

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

This last week the core team continued working on the renders for the Tropical Atrium that is the center of the Earthbag Village (Pod 1). Here you can see an incomplete render looking down and South. We’re still working on the colors and textures for this one.

Continued Working on Renders for the Tropical Atrium – Click to Visit Page

Shadi Kennedy (Artist and Graphic Designer) also created this composite image from the core team’s renders from last week. This updated render now includes the rest of the plants and trees from the Tropical Atrium Planting and Harvesting page as well as a diversity of outdoor plants, symbolizing our approach towards reaching an ecological point for an abundant future.

Created Updated Render with Additional Plants and Trees – Click to Visit T.A. Planting and Harvesting Page

Shadi then finished this new image for the tree aspects of the Tropical Atrium Planting and Harvesting plan, adding more details to show the layering of these trees and how this has been done to maximize sunlight availability for all of them, all with an aim of reaching an ecological tipping point for an abundant future. Next step is for us to add the content and upload them to the site.

Finished New Image for Tree Aspects of Tropical Atrium Planting and Harvesting plan – Click to Visit Page

As part of the development of our 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 modified the calculations for quantities for our food bars and began adding the food bar plans to our website, focused on reaching an ecological point for an abundant future.

Modified Food Bar Calculations and Added to Our Website – Click to Visit the Main Food Page

ECOLOGICAL TIPPING POINT FOR AN ABUNDANT FUTURE – HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

One Community is moving towards an ecological tipping point for an abundant future 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 did another review of Section 10: Stem Wall and Dome Construction and added narratives along with 3 additional steps due to a change in the 6 & 12 mil Polyethylene extension from atop the 8th earthbag course to atop the 9th earthbag course. This will allow the 9th earthbag course to serve as a backsplash for the french drain gutter from rain off the dome. We’d say we are now 83% 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

Brianna Johnson (Interior Designer), also continued evolving the renders for the Straw Bale Village (Pod 2). What you see here is an updated render of the outdoor dining and social space…

Straw Bale Village Render of Outdoor Dining and Social Space – Click to Visit Page

… and an updated render of the community gym.

Straw Bale Village Render of Community Gym – Click to Visit Page

Additionally, Zachary Melin (Graphic Designer) continued updating the Tree House Village (Pod 7) book created by last year’s intern Team. What you see here is Zachary’s process of redoing the Service Design page and all the pages of associated personas.

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

Also working on the Tree House Village (Pod 7), Jesika Rohrbach (Architectural Drafter, Designer, and 3-D Modeler) started designing fire escape options and working on the communal bathroom and shower floor plan options for this village, focusing on reaching an ecological tipping point for an abundant future.

Working on the Tree House Village Fire Escape Options and Bathroom/ Shower Floor Plan Options – 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 21 of this work that continued with what you see here, creating more high-quality render plants and trees like those we’ll be growing on the property. This effort aligns with our vision of creating an ecological tipping point for an abundant future

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

ECOLOGICAL TIPPING FOR AN ABUNDANT FUTURE – DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

One Community is moving towards an ecological tipping point for an abundant future through a Duplicable and Sustainable City Center that is LEED Platinum certified/Sustainable, can feed 200 people at a time, provide laundry for over 300 people, is beautiful, spacious, and saves resources, money, and space:

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

This week the core team began working on the first renders of the natural pool and spa area aspects of the Duplicable City Center. Here are three of the perspectives we are developing:

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

Haoxuan “Hayes” Lei (Structural Engineering Student), also began working on load calculations and updating the City Center structural details you can see here:

Began Working on Load Calculations and Updating Structural Details – Click to Visit the City Center

And Dipti Dhondarkar (Electrical Engineer) studied the area calculations completed by last year’s Intern Team for room lighting and began calculations for number of lamps for the rooms as seen here:

Studied Area Calculations Previously Completed for Room Lighting and Began Calcs for Lamps – Click for City Center

Iris Hsu (Industrial Designer), also continued exploring recycled pipe shelving options for the Duplicable City Center library, integrating the concept of an ecological tipping point for an abundant future. What you see here is round #7 of this work appropriately adjusting the shelves to only occupy the lower 7 feet of the 13′ walls in this room, and then exploring more designs along with ways to fill the space above the shelving.

Continued Exploring Recycled Pipe Shelving Options for Duplicable City Center library – Click to Visit City Center

Behind the scenes Mike Hogan (Automation Systems Developer and Business Systems Consultant) and Lucas Tsutsui da Silva (4th-year Computer Engineering Student) started testing the Control Systems microcontroller input, incorporating the concept of reaching an ecological tipping point for an abundant future. Here is a picture from the weekly development call.

Started Testing the Control Systems Microcontroller Input – Click to Visit Page

ECOLOGICAL TIPPING POINT FOR AN ABUNDANT FUTURE – HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS

One Community is moving towards an ecological tipping point for an abundant future through a Highest Good society approach to living that is founded on fulfilled living, the study of meeting human needs, Community, and making a difference in the world:

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

This week in Highest Good society, Jonathan DeAscentis (Graphic Designer and Web Developer) finished development of our Highest Good Network logo as shown here. Next step is trademarking of this logo.

Finished Development of our Highest Good Network Logo – Click to Visit Page

Steven Paslawsky (Graphic Designer) also created version 2 of our open source copyrights, trademarks, and patenting page icons, along with a first set of new icons associated with the food self-sufficiency plan and page.

Created Version 2 of Copyrights/Trademarks/Patents Icons and New Food Icons – Click to Visit Food Page

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

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

 

INVESTOR PAGES

OVERVIEW       ●       LOCATION       ●       FUNDING

GET INVOLVED

CONSULTANTS     ●     WAYS ANYONE CAN HELP     ●     MEMBERSHIP

CLICK HERE FOR ALL PAST UPDATES

WHAT ONE COMMUNITY IS CREATING

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

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, embodying the ecological tipping point for an abundant future. 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, all under the concept of ecological tipping point for an abundant future. We are creating these resources for implementation as individual components or complete developments called teacher/demonstration hubs. These hubs, integral to reaching the ecological tipping point for an abundant future, will help launch additional hubs as awareness and knowledge grow.

BUILDING THE FIRST OF MANY

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

A sustainable world is possible if enough people want it and are willing to take action to help create it. Demonstrating a sustainable world as easier, more affordable, and a more enjoyable way of living are dependable approaches to increasing both desire and involvement. Open source and free-shared methods for 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 will help. We call this living and creating for The Highest Good of All:

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

OUR MAIN OPEN SOURCE HUBS

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

One Community’s physical location will forward this movement as the first of many self-replicating teacher/demonstration communities, villages, and cities to be built around the world. This is the May 22nd, 2016 edition (#165) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments:

A Sustainable World is Possible
One Community Progress Update #165

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

A SUSTAINABLE WORLD IS POSSIBLE INTRO @1:03

A SUSTAINABLE WORLD IS POSSIBLE – HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION: @1:57

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

A SUSTAINABLE WORLD IS POSSIBLE – HIGHEST GOOD FOOD: @2:50

• Continued working on the renders for the Tropical Atrium that is the center of the Earthbag Village (see below)
• Shadi Kennedy began creating images for the tree aspects of the Tropical Atrium Planting and Harvesting plan (see below)
• Doctor Matt Marturano calculated the daily requirements and preparation instructions for root vegetables as part of the development of our Food Self-sufficiency Transition Plan (see below)

A SUSTAINABLE WORLD IS POSSIBLE – HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING: @4:00

• 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)
• Zachary Melin continued updating the Tree House Village (Pod 7) book created by last year’s intern Team (see below)
• Dean Scholz further developed what’s necessary for us to create quality Cob Village renders (see below)

A SUSTAINABLE WORLD IS POSSIBLE – DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER: @5:43

• Shadi Kennedy finished final details for the City Center renders of the cupola (see below)
• Iris Hsu continued exploring recycled pipe shelving options for the Duplicable City Center library (see below)

A SUSTAINABLE WORLD IS POSSIBLE – HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY: @6:43

• Completed updating icons for all the Highest Good Society sections of the website (see below)
• Jonathan DeAscentis continued development of our Highest Good Network logo (see below)
• Steven Paslawsky created new icons options for our social media links as well as icon ideas for our open source copyrights, trademarks, and patenting pages (see below)

A SUSTAINABLE WORLD IS POSSIBLE SUMMARY @7:33

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

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ONE COMMUNITY WEEKLY UPDATE DETAILS

A SUSTAINABLE WORLD IS POSSIBLE – HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

One Community believes a sustainable world is possible 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 Courage 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 “Courage” is now 100% completed on our website.

Courage Lesson Plan – Final 25% Complete – Click to Visit Page

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

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

Summer Mindmap – Now Complete – Click to Visit Page

A SUSTAINABLE WORLD IS POSSIBLE – HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

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

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

This last week the core team continued working on the renders for the Tropical Atrium that is the center of the Earthbag Village (Pod 1). Here you can see the finished render looking southeast and showing the hand terraces and trees there. Next step here is PhotoShop colors and additions.

Render for the Tropical Atrium Looking Southeast – Click to Visit Page

We also completed these two renders of this structure:

Render for the Tropical Atrium – Open Front View – Click to Visit Page

Continued Working on Renders for the Tropical Atrium – Roof Render – Click to Visit Page

Shadi Kennedy (Artist and Graphic Designer) also began creating these images for the tree aspects of the Tropical Atrium Planting and Harvesting plan. The purpose of these is to show the layering of these trees and how this has been done to maximize sunlight availability for all of them.

Began Creating Images for Tree Aspects of Tropical Atrium Planting and Harvesting plan – Click to Visit Page

As part of the development of our our Food Self-sufficiency Transition Plan, this week Naturopathic Doctor Matt Marturano (creator of the COHERENT model for comprehensive digestive health), calculated and wrote out the daily requirements and preparation instructions for root vegetables for our meal plans with a vision, a sustainable world is possible.

Calculated Daily Requirements and Prep. Instructions for Root Vegetables – Click to Visit Main Food Page

A SUSTAINABLE WORLD IS POSSIBLE – HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

One Community believes a sustainable world is possible 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 organized, wrote new narratives, and included additional info to steps 1-37 of Section 10 Construction of Stem Walls and Dome. Additionally we added scissors, chalkline, and chalk, to Section 1 Tools and Materials list, along with photos of each item and usage explanation. We also edited and added additional info to Section 13: Subterranean Exterior Ground Finish of EPS insulation and Polyethylene Water Barrier for exterior EPS installations. We’d say we are now 82% 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

Brianna Johnson (Interior Designer), also continued evolving the renders for the Straw Bale Village (Pod 2). What you see here is her render of the large-scale communal kitchen.

Continued Evolving the Renders for the Straw Bale Village – 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 Zachary’s process of redoing the Vision page, Master Plan page, some background images and the Sustainable Design intro page.

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

Dean Scholz, Architectural Designer, further developed what’s necessary for us to create quality Cob Village (Pod 3) renders. Here is update 20 of this work that focused this week on creating more plants and beginning to place them appropriately.

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

A SUSTAINABLE WORLD IS POSSIBLE – DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

One Community believes a sustainable world is possible 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 Shadi Kennedy (Artist and Graphic Designer) finished the final details for the City Center renders of the cupola that tops this structure. These renders show this part of the building functioning as a classroom, a multi-media room and a wellness space.

Finished Final details for the City Center renders of the Cupola – Click to Visit Page

City Center Cupola – Click to Visit Page

City Center Cupola – Functioning as a Classroom – Click to Visit Page

City Center Cupola – Functioning as a Multimedia Room – Click to Visit Page

City Center Cupola – Functioning as a Multimedia Room – Click to Visit Page

City Center Cupola – Functioning as a Yoga Room – Click to Visit Page

Iris Hsu (Industrial Designer), also continued exploring recycled pipe shelving options for the Duplicable City Center library. What you see here is round #6 of this work building more 3-D examples of the corner shelving option we ended up choosing and different approaches for integrating these designs with the shelving the adjacent walls.

Continued Exploring Recycled Pipe Shelving Options for Duplicable City Center library – Click to Visit City Center

A SUSTAINABLE WORLD IS POSSIBLE – HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS

One Community believes a sustainable world is possible 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 updating all the icons for all the Highest Good Society sections of the website. What you see here are these icons added now to the Highest Good Society open source portal and collaborative resource and information hub. All the Highest Good Society pages you see linked here have also been updated.

Updated Icons for Highest Good Society Sections on the Website – Click to Visit Page

Jonathan DeAscentis (Graphic Designer and Web Developer) additionally continued development of our Highest Good Network logo as shown here. This week’s changes were exploring different options for the separation of the words from the top and the bottom and finalizing that we want rings, which aligns with our belief that a sustainable world is possible.

Continued Development of our Highest Good Network Logo – Click to Visit Page

Steven Paslawsky (Graphic Designer) also created these new icons options for our social media links as well as these icon ideas for our open source copyrights, trademarks, and patenting pages, along with a couple others.

Created New Icon Options for Social Media & Several Pages – Click to Visit Open Source Copyrights & Trademarking Page

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

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

 

INVESTOR PAGES

OVERVIEW       ●       LOCATION       ●       FUNDING

GET INVOLVED

CONSULTANTS     ●     WAYS ANYONE CAN HELP     ●     MEMBERSHIP

CLICK HERE FOR ALL PAST UPDATES

We are caretakers of our shared planet. Whether we choose to do so consciously or not, we are each still caretakers. Hasn’t the time come for clear and open source options for those interested in caretaking for The Highest Good of All? We think it has.

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

OUR MAIN OPEN SOURCE HUBS

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

One Community’s physical location will forward this movement as the first of many self-replicating teacher/demonstration communities, villages, and cities to be built around the world. This is the May 15th, 2016 edition (#164) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments:

Caretakers of Our Shared Planet
One Community Progress Update #164

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

CARETAKERS OF OUR SHARED PLANET INTRO: @1:03

CARETAKERS OF OUR SHARED PLANET – HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION: @2:01

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

CARETAKERS OF OUR SHARED PLANET – HIGHEST GOOD FOOD: @2:54

• Continued working on the renders for the Tropical Atrium that is the center of the Earthbag Village (Pod 1) (see below)
• Calculated and added the nutrition information and daily requirements for greens to our meal plans, which features contributions from Naturopathic Doctor Matt Marturano (see below)
• Shadi Kennedy added fruit trees, flowers, etc. to the Tropical Atrium render (see below)

CARETAKERS OF OUR SHARED PLANET – HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING: @4:03

• 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 completed final CAD drawing of the Earthbag Village Dome Excavation, French Drain Gutter, and Footer (see below)
• Zachary Melin took over updating the Tree House Village (Pod 7) book created by last year’s intern Team (see below)
• Dean Scholz further developed what’s necessary for us to create quality Cob Village renders (see below)
• Sal Rubio continued working on creating professional do-it-yourself Earthbag Village Murphy Bed furniture assembly instructions (see below)
• Shilcy Augustine continued developing the Compressed Earth Block Village (Pod 4) massage and treatment room spaces (see below)

CARETAKERS OF OUR SHARED PLANET – DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER: @6:05

• Neha Verma created an initial section plan for the City Center (see below)
• Shadi Kennedy added the final details to City Center render of the large-scale communal Kitchen (see below)
• Iris Hsu continued exploring recycled pipe shelving options for the Duplicable City Center library (see below)

CARETAKERS OF OUR SHARED PLANET – HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY: @7:02

• Completed icons for all the Highest Good of All sections of the website and added to The Highest Good of All Portal and Collaborative resource and information hub (see below)
• Jonathan DeAscentis continued development of our Highest Good Network logo (see below)

CARETAKERS OF OUR SHARED PLANET SUMMARY @7:28

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

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

YOU CAN ALSO JOIN US THROUGH SOCIAL MEDIA

 

ONE COMMUNITY WEEKLY UPDATE DETAILS

CARETAKERS OF OUR SHARED PLANET – HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

One Community is contributing as caretakers of our shared planet 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 Courage 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 “Courage” is now 75% completed on our website.

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

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

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

Summer Mindmap – 75% Complete – Click to Visit Page

CARETAKERS OF OUR SHARED PLANET – HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

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

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

This last week the core team continued working on the renders for the Tropical Atrium that is the center of the Earthbag Village (Pod 1). Here you can see the finished render looking southwest and focusing on the hand terraces and central pond. Next step here is PhotoShop colors and additions.

Continued Working on Renders for the Tropical Atrium – Click to Visit Page

As part of the development of our 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 calculated and added the nutrition information and daily requirements for greens to our meal plans, with a focus on caretakers of our shared planet.

Calculated & Added Nutrition Information & Daily Requirements for Greens to Meal Plans – Click to Visit Page

Shadi Kennedy (Artist and Graphic Designer) then took the render from the core team and added all the plant details so it now shows the Tropical Atrium flourishing with fruit trees, flowers, and other plants from the Tropical Atrium Planting and Harvesting plan.

Added Plant Details to Tropical Atrium – View Looking Southwest – Click for the Planting and Harvesting Page

CARETAKERS OF OUR SHARED PLANET – HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

One Community is contributing as caretakers of our shared planet 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 creating a sketch and explanatory narrative depicting the layout of expanded polystyrene insulation for the earthbag dome floor and dome subterranean exterior. We also finished the narrative for the 6-millimeter polyethylene over exterior horizontal EPS insulation. We’d say we are now 81% 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

Jessica Zynda (Drafter and Designer) also completed this final CAD drawing of the Earthbag Village Dome Excavation, French Drain Gutter, and Footer.

Completed Final CAD Drawing of Earthbag Village Dome Excavation, French Drain Gutter, and Footer – Click to Visit Page

Zachary Melin (Graphic Designer) also took over updating the Tree House Village (Pod 7) book created by last year’s intern Team. What you see here is Zachary’s process of redoing the background image and rebuilding the table of contents and the summary page.

In Process of Updating the Tree House Village Book – Click to Visit Tree House Village Page

Dean Scholz, Architectural Designer, further developed what’s necessary for us to create quality Cob Village (Pod 3) renders. Here is update 19 of this work that is now focused on what you see here, creating quality render plants and trees like those we’ll be growing on the property.

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

Sal Rubio (Industrial Designer) also continued working on creating professional do-it-yourself Earthbag Village Murphy Bed furniture assembly instructions, emphasizing caretakers of our shared planet. What you see here are week 3 of his process of double checking all our pieces and creating SolidWorks versions of them from the Sketchup pieces we already have.

Continued Creating Professional Do-It-Yourself Earthbag Village Furniture Instructions – Click to Visit Page

Shilcy Augustine (Architect) continued developing the Compressed Earth Block Village (Pod 4) massage and treatment room spaces. You can see this work here where her focus continues with the aesthetic and structural details for the external spaces.

Cont’d Developing Compressed Earth Block Village Massage & Treatment Room Spaces – Click to Visit Page

CARETAKERS OF OUR SHARED PLANET – DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

One Community is contributing as caretakers of our shared planet 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 Neha Verma (Construction Project Manager and Bachelor’s of Architecture) created this initial section plan for the City Center.

Created Initial Section Plan for City Center – Click to Visit Page

And Shadi Kennedy (Artist and Graphic Designer) added the final details to this City Center render of the large-scale communal Kitchen.

Added Final Details to Large-Scale Communal Kitchen Render – Click to Visit Duplicable City Center

Additionally, Iris Hsu (Industrial Designer), also continued exploring recycled pipe shelving options for the Duplicable City Center library, aimed at caretakers of our shared planet. What you see here is round #5 of this work building more 3-D examples of the corner shelving options we liked best and further exploring how they’ll look with different shelving for the adjacent walls.

Continued Exploring Recycled Pipe Shelving Options for Duplicable City Center library – Click to Visit City Center

CARETAKERS OF OUR SHARED PLANET – HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS

One Community is contributing as caretakers of our shared planet 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 updating all the icons for all the Highest Good of All sections of the website. What you see here are these icons added now to The Highest Good of All Portal and Collaborative resource and information hub.

Updated Icons for Highest Good Food Sections on the Website – Click to Visit Page

Jonathan DeAscentis (Graphic Designer and Web Developer) additionally continued development of our Highest Good Network logo as shown here. This week’s changes were discussing options for the words in the outer ring.

Continued Development of our Highest Good Network Logo – Click to Visit Page

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

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

 

INVESTOR PAGES

OVERVIEW       ●       LOCATION       ●       FUNDING

GET INVOLVED

CONSULTANTS     ●     WAYS ANYONE CAN HELP     ●     MEMBERSHIP

CLICK HERE FOR ALL PAST UPDATES

Forwarding the evolution of sustainability can be accelerated through open source sharing models for self-sufficient eco-villages. For maximum effect, it makes sense to include within these village models approaches for Highest Good food, energy, housing, education, for-profit and non-profit economics design, social architecture, fulfilled living, and stewardship practices and more. We call this living and creating for The Highest Good of All:

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

OUR MAIN OPEN SOURCE HUBS

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

One Community’s physical location will forward this movement as the first of many self-replicating teacher/demonstration communities, villages, and cities to be built around the world. This is the May 8th, 2016 edition (#163) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments:

Forwarding the Evolution of Sustainability
One Community Progress Update #163

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

FORWARDING THE EVOLUTION OF SUSTAINABILITY INTRO: @1:00

FORWARDING THE EVOLUTION OF SUSTAINABILITY – HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION: @1:56

• Transferred the second 25% of the written content for the Courage Lesson Plan to the website (see below)
• Behind the scenes: wrote the third 25% of the written part of the Courage Lesson Plan
• Completed the second 25% of the mindmap for the Summer Lesson Plan, bringing it to 50% complete (see below)

FORWARDING THE EVOLUTION OF SUSTAINABILITY – HIGHEST GOOD FOOD: @2:46

• Continued working on the renders for the Tropical Atrium that is the center of the Earthbag Village (Pod 1) (see below)
• Began laying out the preliminary outline for our nutrition based buffet-style meals, which features contributions from Naturopathic Doctor Matt Marturano (see below)
• Shadi Kennedy created individual planting plan maps for the Tropical Atrium Planting and Harvesting page (see below)
• Shadi added all the plant details to the Core Team’s Tropical Atrium render (see below)

FORWARDING THE EVOLUTION OF SUSTINABILITY – HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING: @3:57

• 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)
• Dean Scholz further developed what’s necessary for us to create quality Cob Village renders (see below)
• Sal Rubio continued working on creating professional do-it-yourself Earthbag Village Murphy Bed furniture assembly instructions (see below)
• Shilcy Augustine continued developing the Compressed Earth Block Village (Pod 4) massage and treatment room spaces (see below)

FORWARDING THE EVOLUTION OF SUSTAINABLITY – DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER: @5:37

• Shadi Kennedy finalized his work on the updated render scenes for the City Center (see below)
• Behind the scenes: Mike Hogan and Lucas Tsutsui da Silva were joined by Dipti Dhondarkar and Neha Verma on their Control Systems discussion (see below)

FORWARDING THE EVOLUTION OF SUSTAINABLITY – HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY: @6:43

• Completed updating all the icons for all the Highest Good Food sections of the website (see below)
• Added a “how to maintain it” section to both our Open Source and Copyrights page and our Open Source and Trademarks page with the help of Oz Czerski (see below)
• Jonathan DeAscentis continued development of our Highest Good Network logo (see below)

FORWARDING THE EVOLUTION OF SUSTAINABILITY SUMMARY : @7:19

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

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ONE COMMUNITY WEEKLY UPDATE DETAILS

FORWARDING THE EVOLUTION OF SUSTAINABILITY – HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

One Community is forwarding the evolution of 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 second 25% of the written content for the Courage 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 “Courage” is now 50% completed on our website.

Courage Lesson Plan – 50% Complete – Click to Visit Page

Behind the scenes, we wrote the third 25% of the written part of the Courage Lesson Plan.

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

Summer Mindmap – 50% Complete – Click to Visit Page

FORWARDING THE EVOLUTION OF SUSTAINABILITY – HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

One Community is forwarding the evolution of 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 last week the core team continued working on the renders for the Tropical Atrium that is the center of the Earthbag Village (Pod 1). Here you can see the finished initial render looking northwest. Next step here is PhotoShop colors and additions.

Continued Working on Renders for the Tropical Atrium – Click to Visit Page

As part of the development of our 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 began laying out the preliminary outline for our nutrition based buffet-style meals.

Began Laying out Preliminary Outline for Nutrition Based Buffet-Style Meals – Click for Main Food Page

Shadi Kennedy (Artist and Graphic Designer) also created these individual planting plan maps for the Tropical Atrium Planting and Harvesting page.

Created Individual Planting Plan Maps for Tropical Atrium Planting and Harvesting Page – Click to Visit Page

Then Shadi added all the plant details to the Core Team’s render, now it shows the Tropical Atrium flourishing with fruit trees, flowers, and other plants from the Tropical Atrium Planting and Harvesting plan.

Added Plant Details to Tropical Atrium – View Looking Northwest – click for the Planting and Harvesting Page

FORWARDING THE EVOLUTION OF SUSTAINABILITY – HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

One Community is forwarding the evolution of 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’s focus was on continued insertion of backfill steps and steps for raising the poly instruction that are part of Section 10: Construction of Stem Walls and Dome. We also completed further edits of Section 13: Subterranean Exterior Ground Finish of Polyethylene Water Barrier and EPS Insulation. We additionally moved all new green-step headings into the Section 10 doc and inserted newly written narratives. We’d say we are now 80% 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

Dean Scholz, Architectural Designer, further developed what’s necessary for us to create quality Cob Village (Pod 3) renders. Here is update 18 of this work that is now focused on what you see here, creating quality-render trees like those native to the area we intend to build in.

Further Developed What’s Necessary to Create Quality Cob Village Renders – 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 are week 2 of his process of double checking all our pieces and creating SolidWorks versions of them from the Sketchup pieces we already have.

Continued Creating Professional Do-It-Yourself Earthbag Village Furniture Instructions – Click to Visit Page

Shilcy Augustine (Architect) continued developing the Compressed Earth Block Village (Pod 4) massage and treatment room spaces. You can see this work here where her focus is now on the external spaces.

Cont’d Developing Compressed Earth Block Village Massage & Treatment Room Spaces – Click to Visit Page

FORWARDING THE EVOLUTION OF SUSTAINABILITY – DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

One Community is forwarding the evolution of 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 working on the City Center, Shadi Kennedy (Artist and Graphic Designer) finalized his work on the updated render scenes for the rental rooms:

Finalized Work on Updated Render Scenes for Rental Rooms – Click to Visit the Duplicable City Center

… the loft in the Social Dome:

Finalized Work on Updated Render Scenes for Loft in Social Dome – Click to Visit the Duplicable City Center

Finalized Work on Updated Render Scenes for Loft in Social Dome – Click to Visit the Duplicable City Center

… and dining area by the Kitchen:

Finalized Work on Updated Render Scenes for Dining Area in Kitchen – Click to Visit the Duplicable City Center

… also these four new images of the rental room and what will be the do-it-yourself pallet furniture:

Finalized Work on Updated Render Scenes for Rental Room – Click to Visit the Duplicable City Center

Finalized Work on Updated Render Scenes for Rental Room – Click to Visit the Duplicable City Center

Finalized Work on Updated Render Scenes for Rental Room – Click to Visit the Duplicable City Center

Finalized Work on Updated Render Scenes for Rental Room – Click to Visit the Duplicable City Center

Behind the scenes Mike Hogan (Automation Systems Developer and Business Systems Consultant) and Lucas Tsutsui da Silva (4th-year Computer Engineering Student) were joined by Dipti Dhondarkar (Electrical Engineer) and Neha Verma (Construction Project Manager). The discussion this week was about how Dipti‘s work with lighting and minimum and optimal lumens will integrate with the Control Systems, aimed at forwarding the evolution of sustainability.

Continued Discussion for development of the Control Systems Lighting – Click to Visit Page

FORWARDING THE EVOLUTION OF SUSTAINABILITY – HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS

One Community is forwarding the evolution of 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 updating all the icons for all the Highest Good Food sections of the website. What you see here is a collage of some of these icons on a few of the updated pages:

Updated Icons for Highest Good Food Sections on the Website – Click to Visit Page

With the help of Oz Czerski, Lawyer Specializing in Trademark and Copyright Law, we also added a “how to maintain it” section to both our Open Source and Copyrights page and our Open Source and Trademarks page.

Added a “How to Maintain it” Section to Open Source Copyrights and Open Source Trademarks Page – Click to Visit Copyrights Page

Jonathan DeAscentis (Graphic Designer and Web Developer) additionally continued development of our Highest Good Network logo. This week’s changes were finalizing the center tree details:

Continued Development of our Highest Good Network Logo – Click to Visit Page

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

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

 

INVESTOR PAGES

OVERVIEW       ●       LOCATION       ●       FUNDING

GET INVOLVED

CONSULTANTS     ●     WAYS ANYONE CAN HELP     ●     MEMBERSHIP

CLICK HERE FOR ALL PAST UPDATES

WHAT ONE COMMUNITY IS CREATING

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

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

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

BUILDING THE FIRST OF MANY

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

WHY ONE COMMUNITY IS CREATING THIS

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

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

Understanding how humanity creates a sustainable world can be achieved by looking at how we’ve created the world we have now. To get to where we are now, humanity has chosen what’s easiest, most affordable, and most attractive. If we make living sustainability and for The Highest Good of All easy enough, affordable enough, and attractive enough, we can create a new and better paradigm the same way we created our current one. One Community’s focus is open sourcing everything needed to accomplish this:

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

OUR MAIN OPEN SOURCE HUBS

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

One Community’s physical location will forward this movement as the first of many self-replicating teacher/demonstration communities, villages, and cities to be built around the world. This is the May 1st, 2016 edition (#162) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments:

How Humanity Creates a Sustainable World
One Community Progress Update #162

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

HOW HUMANITY CREATES A SUSTAINABLE WORLD INTRO: @1:00

HOW HUMANITY CREATES A SUSTAINABLE WORLD – HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION: @1:56

• Transferred the first 25% of the written content for the Courage Lesson Plan to the website (see below)
• Behind the scenes: wrote the second 25% of the written part of the Courage Lesson Plan
• Completed the first 25% of the mindmap for the Summer Lesson Plan (see below)

HOW HUMANITY CREATES SUSTAINABLE WORLD – HIGHEST GOOD FOOD: @2:51

• Found and added a great video to the Aquapini/Walipini open source hub and the Aquapini and Walipini Planting and Harvesting pages (see below)
• Shadi Kennedy finalized the planting plan specifics image for the Tropical Atrium that is the center of the Earthbag Village. Then the core team added both versions of this image to the website (see below)

HOW HUMANITY CREATES A SUSTAINABLE WORLD – HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING: @3:40

• 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)
• Jesika Rohrbach continued designing different loft sleeping area options for Tree House Village living structures (see below)
• Dean Scholz further developed what’s necessary for us to create quality Cob Village renders (see below)
• Sal Rubio began working on converting our custom and do-it-yourself Earthbag Village Murphy Bed furniture assembly instructions to professional and simplified instructions made in SolidWorks (see below)

HOW HUMANITY CREATES A SUSTAINABLE WORLD – DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER: @5:21

• Began rendering work for the Tropical Atrium (see below)
• Haoxuan “Hayes” Lei began working on updating the City Center AutoCAD drawings (see below)
• Dipti Dhondarkar began working on switch board placement for lights, fans, sockets, and power outlets (see below)
• Neha Verma created 3rd-generation designs for the basement and root cellar (see below)
• Shadi Kennedy began working on updated render scenes for the City Center rental room, social dome loft, and dining area (see below)
• Behind the scenes: Mike Hogan and Lucas Tsutsui da Silva continued discussion for development of the Control Systems main panel (see below)

HOW HUMANITY CREATES A SUSTAINABLE WORLD – HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY: @7:09

• Completed final round of edits on master plan concept map for the property and added it to our Overview, Methodology, Property, and Highest Good housing pages (see below)
• Jonathan DeAscentis took the work of Mariam Sargsyan and began further development of our Highest Good Network logo as shown here (see below)

HOW HUMANITY CREATES A SUSTAINABLE WORLD SUMMARY: @7:34

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

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

YOU CAN ALSO JOIN US THROUGH SOCIAL MEDIA

 

ONE COMMUNITY WEEKLY UPDATE DETAILS

HOW HUMANITY CREATES A SUSTAINABLE WORLD – HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

One Community is building the foundations for how humanity creates a sustainable world through Highest Good education that is for all ages, applicable in any environment, adaptable to individual needs, far exceeds traditional education standards, and more fun for both the teachers and the students:

• • • 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 Courage 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 “Courage” is now 25% completed on our website.

Courage Lesson Plan – 25% Complete – Click to Visit Page

Behind the scenes, we wrote the second 25% of the written part of the Courage Lesson Plan.

We also completed the first 25% of the mindmap for the Summer Lesson Plan, bringing it to one quarter complete, which you see here.

Summer Mindmap – 25% Complete – Click to Visit Page

HOW HUMANITY CREATES A SUSTAINABLE WORLD – HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

One Community is building the foundations for how humanity creates a sustainable world through Highest Good food that is more diverse, more nutritious, locally grown and sustainable, and part of our open source botanical garden model to support and share bio-diversity:

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

This last week the core team found and added this great video to the Aquapini/Walipini open source hub and the Aquapini and Walipini Planting and Harvesting pages. It shows a working example of a passive greenhouse in Nebraska demonstrating what will be possible with our open source Aquapini/Walipini designs:

Shadi Kennedy (Artist and Graphic Designer) also finalized the planting plan specifics image for the Tropical Atrium focusing on how humanity creates a sustainable world that is the center of the Earthbag Village (Pod 1) , and then the core team added both versions of this image to the webpage.

Added Planting Plan Specifics Image to Website – Click to Visit Page

HOW HUMANITY CREATES A SUSTAINABLE WORLD – HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

One Community is building the foundations for how humanity creates a sustainable 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 writing up the narrative for the Section 13 Subterranean Exterior Ground Finish of Polyethylene Water Barrier and EPS Insulation, and creating the narrative for Section 15 Final Backfill. Further steps were also added to Section 10 Stem Wall and Dome Construction. We’d say we are now 79% 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

Working on the Tree House Village (Pod 7), Jesika Rohrbach (Architectural Drafter, Designer, and 3-D Modeler) continued designing and exploring different loft sleeping area options for the living structures for this village. This week’s focus was on designs for skylights and shelving behind and below the bed.

Continued Designing and Exploring Loft Sleeping Area Options for Treehouse Family Structures – 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 17 of this work that included placing the natural and do-it-yourself constructed outdoor water feature and beginning work on a cordwood chair design, aimed towards how humanity creates a sustainable world.

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

Sal Rubio (Industrial Designer) also began working on converting our custom and do-it-yourself Earthbag Village Murphy Bed furniture assembly instructions from the GoogleDoc format we have them in now to professional and simplified instructions made in SolidWorks. What you see here is iteration 1.0 with pictures from the GoogleDoc and the beginnings of his SolidWorks plans.

Began Converting our Earthbag Village Murphy Bed Furniture Instructions to Professional Instructions Made in SolidWorks – Click to Visit Page

HOW HUMANITY CREATES SUSTAINABLE WORLD – DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

One Community is building the foundations for how humanity creates a sustainable world through a Duplicable and Sustainable City Center that is LEED Platinum certified/Sustainable, can feed 200 people at a time, provide laundry for over 300 people, is beautiful, spacious, and saves resources, money, and space:

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

This week the core team began the rendering work for the Tropical Atrium. This rendering preparation process included setting up the shadows and background, and applying the texture material for the trees, water, windows, rock walls and wood panels. You can see the first rendering of this image here:

Began the Rendering Work for the Tropical Atrium – Click to Visit Page

Haoxuan “Hayes” Lei (Structural Engineering Student), also began working on updating the City Center AutoCAD drawings with column placement specifics shown here:

Began Working on Updating the City Center AutoCAD Drawings – Click to Visit Page

Dipti Dhondarkar (Electrical Engineer) also began working on switch board placement for lights, fans, sockets, and power outlets.

Began Working on Switch Board Placement for Lights, Fans, Sockets, and Power Outlets – Click to Visit Electrical Page

Neha Verma (Construction Project Manager and Bachelor’s of Architecture) also created these 3rd-generation designs for the basement and root cellar for the City Center:

Created 3rd-Generation Designs for Basement and Root Cellar for the City Center – Click to Visit Page

Shadi Kennedy (Artist and Graphic Designer) also began working on updated render scenes for the City Center rental room, loft in the Social Dome, and dining area by the Kitchen:

Began Working on Updated Render Scenes for City Center Rooms – Click to Visit Page

Behind the scenes Mike Hogan (Automation Systems Developer and Business Systems Consultant) and Lucas Tsutsui da Silva (4th-year Computer Engineering Student) continued discussion for development of the Control Systems main panel. This week’s focus was having Lucas build the same prototype in Brazil to test if it worked the same as Mikes’, results of our ongoing survey from the Control System’s page, and additional edits and updates that both Mike and Lucas helped with for the webpage.

Continued Discussion for development of the Control Systems Main Panel – Click to Visit Page

HOW HUMANITY CREATES SUSTAINABLE WORLD –  HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS

One Community is building the foundations for how humanity creates a sustainable 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 completed a final round of edits on our master plan concept map for the property and added this map to our Overview , Methodology, Property, and Highest Good housing pages.

Completed Final Round of Edits on Our Master Plan Map and Added to Several Pages – Click to Visit the Property Page

Jonathan DeAscentis (Graphic Designer and Web Developer) additionally took the work of Mariam Sargsyan (Graphic Designer and Project Manager) and began further development of our Highest Good Network logo as shown here:

Began Further Development of Highest Good Network Logo – Click to Visit Page

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

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

 

INVESTOR PAGES

OVERVIEW       ●       LOCATION       ●       FUNDING

GET INVOLVED

CONSULTANTS     ●     WAYS ANYONE CAN HELP     ●     MEMBERSHIP

CLICK HERE FOR ALL PAST UPDATES

WHAT ONE COMMUNITY IS CREATING

One Community is creating a place to grow together and change the world together focusing on how humanity creates a sustainable world. 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, emphasizing how humanity creates a sustainable world. A place based on compassion, kindness, and collaboration. This replicable community will serve as an example for what is possible in terms of how humanity creates a sustainable world.

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

BUILDING THE FIRST OF MANY

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

WHY ONE COMMUNITY IS CREATING THIS

The One Community self-replicating model is capable of creating a sustainable planet within 30 years, with a strong focus on how humanity creates a sustainable world. 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, highlighting how humanity creates a sustainable world. 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, emphasizing how humanity creates a sustainable world.

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 with a focus on how humanity creates a sustainable world.  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.

Creating an ecological Earth model to regenerate our planet and meet the food, energy, housing and other needs of all people is now possible. One Community is doing our part to facilitate this through sustainable and self-sufficient teacher/demonstration communities, villages, and hubs:

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

OUR MAIN OPEN SOURCE HUBS

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

One Community’s physical location will forward this movement as the first of many self-replicating teacher/demonstration communities, villages, and cities to be built around the world. This is the April 24th, 2016 edition (#161) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments:

Creating an Ecological Earth
One Community Progress Update #161

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

CREATING AN ECOLOGICAL EARTH INTRO: @1:00

CREATING AN ECOLOGICAL EARTH – HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION: @1:57

• Transferred final 25% of written content for Summer Lesson Plan to website (see below)
• Behind the scenes: wrote first 25% of written part of Courage Lesson Plan (see below)
• Completed final 25% of mindmap for Cooperation and Collaboration Lesson Plan (see below)

CREATING AN ECOLOGICAL EARTH – HIGHEST GOOD FOOD: @2:47

• Finalized and are launching our Transition Kitchen page to the public, which features contributions from Naturopathic Doctor Matt Marturano (see below)
• Shadi Kennedy further developed planting plan specifics of  the Tropical Atrium that is the center of the Earthbag Village (see below)

CREATING AN ECOLOGICAL EARTH – 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)
• Jesika Rohrbach started designing different loft sleeping area options for Tree House Village living structures (see below)
• Dean Scholz further developed what’s necessary for us to create quality Cob Village renders (see below)

CREATING AN ECOLOGICAL EARTH – DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER: @4:59

• Finished rendering Cupola area of the Duplicable City Center (see below)
• Started work on updates for Duplicable City Center Natural Pool and Spa. The children’s easy-access area was redesigned based on the excellent design work of Bupesh Seethala (see below)
• Iris Hsu continued exploring recycled pipe shelving options for the Duplicable City Center library (see below)
• Added the amazing City Center Control Systems and Electrical Design work from Mike Hogan and Lucas Tsutsui da Silva to the City Center Open Source Hub and Control Systems pages (see below)
• Mike, Lucas, and Jae discussed testing being done to fix an electrical interference problem (see below)
  
• Hoang Bao continued transferring the work of last year’s intern team into the new Duplicable City Center Electrical page (see below)

CREATING AN ECOLOGICAL EARTH – HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY: @7:00

• Completed final edits and reorganization needed for the icons designed by Ivan Manzurov (see below)
• Added the work of Lokesh Gopu to the Highest Good Network software page along with links to the GitHub (see below)
• Jonathan DeAscentis continued development of our Highest Good Network logo (see below)

CREATING AN ECOLOGICAL EARTH SUMMARY: @7:43

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CREATING AN ECOLOGICAL EARTH – HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

One Community is creating an ecological Earth 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 Summer 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 “Summer” is now 100% completed on our website.

Summer Lesson Plan – Final 25% Complete – Click to Visit Page

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

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

Cooperation and Collaboration Mindmap Complete – Click to Visit Page

CREATING AN ECOLOGICAL EARTH – HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

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

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

This last week the core team finalized and launched our Transition Kitchen page to the public. This work is 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).

Finalized and Launched our Transition Kitchen Page to the Public – Click to Visit

Shadi Kennedy (Artist and Graphic Designer) also further developed the planting plan specifics of the Tropical Atrium that is the center of the Earthbag Village (Pod 1). What you see here are version 2.0 of the two different layout options we’ve decided on:

Further Developed the Tropical Atrium Planting Plan Specifics – Click to Visit Page

CREATING AN ECOLOGICAL EARTH – HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

One Community is creating an ecological Earth 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 reviewing the first three poly installations and re-writing the poly foundation to coincide with the floor construction in Section 12 and providing determinations of how to fit EPS to exterior dome shape and cost estimates for Section 14 Subterranean Exterior Ground Finish of Polyethylene Water Barrier and EPS Insulation. We’d say we are now 78% 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

Working on the Tree House Village (Pod 7), Jesika Rohrbach (Architectural Drafter, Designer, and 3-D Modeler) started designing and exploring different loft sleeping area options for the living structures for this village. You can see these here:

Started Designing and Exploring Loft Sleeping Area Options for Treehouse Family Structures – 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 16 of this work that included finishing the natural and do-it-yourself constructed outdoor water feature.

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

CREATING AN ECOLOGICAL EARTH – DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

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

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

This week the core team finished rendering the Cupola area of the Duplicable City Center. Here you see 3 most recent rendered scene images for different settings of the Cupola studio.

Finished Rendering the Cupola Area of the Duplicable City Center – Click to Visit Page

We also started to work on updates for the Duplicable City Center Natural Pool and Spa. The children’s easy-access area was redesigned as seen here and based on the excellent design work of Bupesh Seethala (Interior Designer). The new design features safety rails, a separation wall between the children and adult areas of the pool, and an 8″, 16″ and 24″ set of stepped areas for children to enjoy all aimed at creating an ecological earth.

Started Work on Updates for Duplicable City Center Natural Pool and Spa – Click to Visit Page

Iris Hsu (Industrial Designer), also continued exploring recycled pipe shelving options for the Duplicable City Center library. What you see here is round #4 of this work building 3-D examples of the corner shelving options we liked best and starting to see how they’ll look with different shelving for the adjacent walls focusing on creating an ecological earth.

Continued Exploring Recycled Pipe Shelving Options for Library – Click to Visit the Duplicable City Center

We also added the amazing City Center Control Systems and Electrical Design work from Mike Hogan (Automation Systems Developer and Business Systems Consultant) and Lucas Tsutsui da Silva (4th-year Computer Engineering Student) to the City Center Open Source Hub and Control Systems pages. What you see here are the details of placement for all of the control and automation systems, lights, and electrical for the entire City Center.

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

In our weekly collaborative call, Mike, Lucas, and Jae discussed testing being done to fix an electrical interference problem happening with long cable runs and wiring Mike is doing to test the control panel design we shared last week. 

Discussed Testing Being Done to Fix an Electrical Interference Problem – Click to Visit Control Systems Page

Hoang Bao (Software Developer) also continued transferring the work of last year’s intern team into the new Duplicable City Center Electrical page. What you see here is the last 3rd of the complete content live on the new page.

Cont’d Transferring Work of last year’s Intern Team into New Duplicable City Center Electrical Page – Click to Visit

CREATING AN ECOLOGICAL EARTH – HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS

One Community is creating an ecological Earth 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 final edits and reorganization needed for the icons designed by Graphic Designer, Ivan Manzurov. The final icons we worked on are shown here, these are for the Earthbag Village (Pod 1) open source hub.

Continued Multi-hour Reorganization of the Icons – Now Complete – Click to Enlarge

We also added the work of Lokesh Gopu (Software Engineer) to the Highest Good Network software page along with links to the GitHub. Once complete, this open source software will streamline project tracking and sustainable community collaboration and data sharing around the world.

Added New Open Source Software to the Highest Good Network Page – Click to Visit

Related to this, Jonathan DeAscentis (Graphic Designer and Web Developer) continued development of what will be the Highest Good Network logo. What you see here are his 4th round of evolutions:

Continued Further Development of Highest Good Network Logo – Click to Visit Page

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WHAT ONE COMMUNITY IS CREATING

One Community is creating an ecological earth place to grow together and change the world together. We are 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 focusing on creating an ecological earth.

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  to advocate for creating an ecological earth.

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 all aimed to create an ecological earth.

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 an ecological earth.

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 focusing on creating an ecological earth. 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.