Holistic resource allocation combines physical sustainability with emotional sustainability. This is an evolution of sustainability that we feel is necessary if we are to live as the ultimate expressions of healthy and happy people that also sustainably support the planet we all share. We are creating open source blueprints, tools, tutorials, resources and a physical location people can visit to share this approach to 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 implementing Holistic Resource Allocation. This is the February 13th, 2015 edition (#102) of our weekly progress update detailing the previous week’s development and accomplishments:

Holistic Resource Allocation
One Community Weekly Progress Update #102

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

HOLISTIC RESOURCE ALLOCATION INTRO @1:00

HOLISTIC RESOURCE ALLOCATION HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION @2:02

• Finished another 15% of Technology and Innovation Molecule graphic (see below)
• Behind the scenes: finished brainstorming the rest of the Innovation Half of this molecule
• Behind the scenes: finished first 10% of lesson plan with the central theme of “Civilization”

HOLISTIC RESOURCE ALLOCATION HIGHEST GOOD FOOD: @3:05

• Added another round of images and minor edits to the new Food Self-sufficiency Transition Plan sharing the work of Benjamin Sessions (see below)
• Researched and added two resources sections to the open source tomatoes hub (see below)
• Researched and added two resources sections to the open source radishes hub (see below)
• Researched and added two resources sections to the open source peppers hub (see below)
• Added the first three amazing vegan recipes from Sandra Sellani (see below)

HOLISTIC RESOURCE ALLOCATION HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING: @4:33

• Behind the scenes: continued laying out the specifics for the Open Source Murphy bed furniture
  assembly details (35% complete – see below)
• Behind the scenes: finished another 10% of the earthdome window and door framing reformatting (45% complete – see below)
• Created updated renders of the bathroom and kitchenette design for the 150′ diameter dome for the  upcoming crowdfunding campaign (see below)
• Samuel Soroaster created this schematic of the proposed rainwater catchment plans for updating 2 of the 4 toilet domes in the Earthbag Village (see below)
• Scott Thomas and his Shadow Ridge Signature Architecture Program team also finished putting a concept design into CAD for the upcoming crowdfunding campaign Murphy bed dome (see below)
• Douglas Simms Stenhouse produced updated drawings for Pod 3 that will be cob and rammed earth (see below)

HOLISTIC RESOURCE ALLOCATION DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER: @7:22

• Rob Gjerde created two plumbing designs for the indoor/outdoor natural pool and eco spa (see below)

HOLISTIC RESOURCE ALLOCATION HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY: @8:26

• Created new social media imagery and updated and featured our Phases of Community Building page (see below)
• Created new social media imagery and updated and featured our open source Sustainable Water Heating page (see below)
• Completed another round of updates and additions to our open source tax filing page to share our for-profit and nonprofit tax filing process (see below)
• Updated our “One Community and Helping Create the Venus Project” video and updated our page discussing this topic (see below)

HOLISTIC RESOURCE ALLOCATION SUMMARY: @9:30

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ONE COMMUNITY WEEKLY UPDATE DETAILS

HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

One Community is forwarding holistic resource allocation 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 finished another 15% of the Technology and Innovation Molecule graphic, which you can see here:

Technology and Innovation Molecule – 30% Complete – Click to Visit Page

Behind the scenes we also finished brainstorming the rest of the Innovation Half of this molecule.

Also behind the scenes, we finished the first 10% of the lesson plan with the central theme of “Civilization.”

HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

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

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

This last week the core team added another round of images and minor edits to the new Food Self-sufficiency Transition Plan sharing the work of Benjamin Sessions. You can see this here. Visit the page for the open source details of remote kitchen construction and food preparation for groups of 20+ people.

Images and Edits to New Food Self-sufficiency Transition Plan Page – Click to Visit

We also researched and added two resources sections to the open source tomatoes hub, the open source radishes hub, and the open source peppers hub:

Click for Tomatoes Page

Click for Radishes Page

Click for Peppers Page

In addition to this, we added the first three amazing vegan recipes from Sandra Sellani (Vegan Chef and author of What’s Your QB?). These are now on the Food Self-sufficiency Transition Plan, including pictures of the meals as Sandra has been making them along with writing the recipes. What you see here is just the beginning of what will develop into complete weekly vegan menus covering all meals and scalable for feeding groups of people as large as needed:

First Three Vegan Recipes Added to the Food Self-sufficiency Transition Plan – Click to Visit Page

HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

One Community is forwarding holistic resource allocation 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 continued laying out the specifics for the Open Source Murphy bed furniture assembly details behind the scenes. This included assembling the different front frame sections, attaching the left and right parts to the front section, and attaching the back frame sides to the wall frame. What you see here is all this behind-the-scenes work-in-progress. We estimate we are now 35% complete with what is needed for the website.

Open Source Murphy Bed Furniture Assembly Details Developing Behind-the-scenes – Click to Visit Furniture Page

Also behind the scenes we finished another 10% of the earthdome window and door framing reformatting details needed before moving these specifics to the website. This brings us to 45% complete with this work.

Earthdome Window and Door Framing Reformatting Details – In Progress – Click to Visit Page

We also created these updated renders of the bathroom and kitchenette design for the 150′ diameter dome for the upcoming crowdfunding campaign:

Updated 150′ Diameter Bathroom and Kitchenette Renders – Click to Visit Crowdfunding Page

In addition to this, Samuel Soroaster (Permaculturalist and sustainable designer from Green New World), created this schematic of the proposed rainwater catchment plans for updating 2 of the 4 toilet domes in the Earthbag Village. The central tank you see here will use rainwater for washing hands, then reuse the hand-washing greywater to flush the toilets:

Proposed Rainwater Catchment Plans for Earthbag Village Toilet Domes – Click to Visit Page

Scott Thomas and his Shadow Ridge Signature Architecture Program team also finished putting this concept design into CAD for the upcoming crowdfunding campaign Murphy bed dome that features a fold-down bed, his and hers closet area, and loft:

Murphy Bed Dome Concept Design – Click to Visit Page

Douglas Simms Stenhouse (Architect and Water Color Artist) also produced these updated drawings for Pod 3 that will be cob and rammed earth. This is the ground floor featuring a men’s and women’s bathroom, shared kitchenette and large social area and central fireplace:

Pod 3 Cob and Rammed Earth Ground Floor Conceptual Drawing – Click for Highest Good Housing Page

Here is the bedroom level with 6 rooms that overlook the social area below and share the double bathrooms and showers on this level:

Pod 3 Cob and Rammed 2nd Floor Conceptual Drawing – Click for Highest Good Housing Page

Here is a front view showing the maximum use of passive solar and building to conform to the 15% grade:

Pod 3 Cob and Rammed Earth Front View Conceptual Drawing – Click for Highest Good Housing Page

And this is the cross section where you can specifically see the grade and how the structure is built into it to offer beautiful views from the rooms and shared social space, plus the option for a living roof:

Pod 3 Cob and Rammed Earth Cross Section View Conceptual Drawing – Click for Highest Good Housing Page

Last but not least, here is the site plan showing how multiple units like this could be built diagonally on a grade like this so they would all maintain their views while maintaining easy path access from the front and road access from the back:

Pod 3 Cob and Rammed Earth Site Plan Conceptual Drawing – Click for Highest Good Housing Page

DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

One Community is forwarding holistic resource allocation 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 last week Rob Gjerde (Pool Design & Construction Expert and owner of Sorico Design and Consulting) created these two plumbing designs for the indoor/outdoor natural pool and eco spa. We’ve got what looks like one more round of edits and revisions to these and then we’ll add the final versions to the open source pool and spa hub.

Plumbing Designs for the Duplicable City Center Indoor/Outdoor Natural Pool – Click for Page

Plumbing Designs for the Duplicable City Center Natural Spa – Click for Page

HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS

One Community is forwarding holistic resource allocation 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 social media imagery and updated and featured our Phases of Community Building page that teaches the 4 phases of community building from Dr. M. Scott Peck’s book “The Different Drum: Community Making and Peace.”

Click for Stages of Community Building Page

We also did this for our open source Sustainable Water Heating page that shares all our research into comparing the different options for water heating in remote off-grid situations:

Click for Sustainable Water Heating Page

We additionally did another round of updates and additions to our open source tax filing page to share our for-profit and nonprofit tax filing process. You can see these additions here bringing this page to what we’d say is about 30% complete:

Updates and Additions to Open Source Tax Filing Page – Click to Visit Page

And we updated our “One Community and Helping Create the Venus Project” video:

…and updated our page discussing this topic:

Updated the “One Community and Helping Create the Venus Project” Page – Click to Visit

Holistic Resource Allocation

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 through Holistic Resource Allocation. 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.

Holistic Resource Allocation

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 through Holistic Resource Allocation. Villages include designs appropriate for each of the five main types of climates. They also include options for even the most challenged economies. These hubs will collaborate with one another, share ideas, resources, and work together as a network to heal the planet. They will also transform the global lifestyle to a more enjoyable, fulfilling, healthy, and sustainable one.

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

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

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 see new-paradigm philanthropy as philanthropy that meets the needs of the world while also meeting the needs of the individual. More specifically, combining sustainable food, energy, housing, education, economics, fulfilled living, and earth stewardship practices into open source sustainable and fulfilled living environments. These environments will better meet the needs of the individual while also helping creating a better planet and helping others to live this way too. 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 looking to implement new-paradigm philanthropy. This is the February 6th, 2015 edition (#101) of our weekly progress update detailing the previous week’s development and accomplishments:

New-Paradigm Philanthropy
One Community Weekly Progress Update #101

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

NEW-PARADIGM PHILANTHROPY INTRO @1:00

NEW-PARADIGM PHILANTHROPY: HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION @2:02

• Finished first 15% of Technology and Innovation Molecule graphic (see below)
• Behind the scenes: finished brainstorming blue circles of the Innovation Half of this molecule
• Added the huge video resource section to the Science Molecule page (see below)
• Added our first complete lesson plan example to the Lesson Plans How-to tutorial page (now 65% complete – see below)

NEW-PARADIGM PHILANTHROPY: HIGHEST GOOD FOOD: @3:30

• Researched and added two resources sections to the open source squash hub (see below)
• Researched and added two resources sections to the open source peas hub (see below)
• Researched and added two resources sections to the open source potatoes hub (see below)
• Created an initial template and tutorial for all the recipes we’ll be adding to the Food Self-sufficiency Transition Plan page with the help of Sandra Sellani (see below)

NEW-PARADIGM PHILANTHROPY: HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING: @4:27

• Continued laying out the specifics for the Open Source Murphy bed furniture assembly details (25% complete – see below)
• Behind the scenes: finished another 10% of the earthdome window and door framing reformatting (35% complete)
• Created two layouts for the bathroom and kitchenette design for the 150′ diameter dome for the upcoming crowdfunding campaign (see below)
• Samuel Soroaster created next design evolution for updating 2 of the 4 toilet domes in the Earthbag Village (see below)
• Scott Thomas and his Shadow Ridge Signature Architecture Program team finished putting a concept design into CAD for the upcoming crowdfunding campaign studio dome (see below) and completed design for 200 square foot bathroom dome (see below)
• Douglas Simms Stenhouse produced conceptual drawings for Pod 3 that will be cob and rammed earth (see below)

NEW-PARADIGM PHILANTHROPY: DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER: @6:37

• Completed final 50% of thermostatic shower valve and heat lamp energy and water savings calculations (see below)

NEW-PARADIGM PHILANTHROPY: HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY: @7:41

• Created new social media imagery and updated and featured our Highest Good Housing page (see below)
• Created new social media imagery and updated and featured our Love and Connection (see below)
• Created version 2.0 of the page we’re developing to promote Tsu and our reasons for supporting this new social network (see below)
• Created the beginnings of our open source tax filing page to share our for-profit and nonprofit tax filing process (see below)
• Added One Community to Amazon Smile (see below)
• Redid Sustainability Nonprofit website homepage to match our main site, then we redid all menus to simplify it (see below)
• Added a collection of over 50 different do-it-yourself Highest Good living resources to the Highest Good lifestyle considerations page (see below)

NEW-PARADIGM PHILANTHROPY:  SUMMARY: @9:07

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

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ONE COMMUNITY WEEKLY UPDATE DETAILS

HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

One Community is forwarding new-paradigm philanthropy 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 finished the first 15% of the Technology and Innovation Molecule graphic an important part of the new-paradigm philanthropy, which you can see here:

Technology and Innovation Molecule – 15% Complete – Click to Visit Page

Behind the scenes we also finished brainstorming the blue circles of the Innovation Half of this molecule.

We also added the huge video resource section you see here to the Science Molecule page covering the complete subject of science:

New Science Video Resource Section – Click to Visit Page

Last but not least, we added our first complete lesson plan example to the Lesson Plans How-to tutorial page. You can see this here, individualized as an example for a young learner that loves and is strong in Math and English, challenged in Social Sciences, and average in all other subjects. This brings the Lesson Plans How-to page to about 65% complete.

First Complete Lesson Plan Example Added to How-to Page – Click to Visit

HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

One Community is forwarding new-paradigm philanthropy 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 researched and added two resources sections to the open source squash hub, the open source peas hub, and the open source potatoes hub:

Click for Squash Page

Click for Peas Page

Click for Potatoes Page

Also, with the help of Sandra Sellani (Vegan Chef and author of What’s Your BQ?), we created this initial template and tutorial for all the recipes we’ll be adding to the Food Self-sufficiency Transition Plan page.

Initial Recipe Template and Tutorial – Click to Visit Page

HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

One Community is forwarding new-paradigm philanthropy 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 continued laying out the specifics for the Open Source Murphy bed furniture assembly details. Specifically instructions for cutting lumber and labeling for wall front sections and assembling the wall frame. You can see this behind-the-scenes work-in-progress here. We estimate we are now 25% complete with what is needed for the website.

Open Source Murphy Bed Furniture Assembly Details Developing Behind-the-scenes – Click to Visit Furniture Page

Also behind the scenes we finished another 10% of the earthdome window and door framing reformatting details needed before moving these specifics to the website. This brings us to 35% complete with this work.

We additionally created two layouts and decided on this second one for the bathroom and kitchenette design for the 150′ diameter dome for the upcoming crowdfunding campaign.

Bathroom and Kitchenette Design for the 150′ Diameter Dome – Click for Crowdfunding Page

Choosing this Bathroom and Kitchenette Design for the 150′ Diameter Dome – Click for Crowdfunding Page

In addition to this, Samuel Soroaster (Permaculturalist and sustainable designer from Green New World), created this next evolution for updating 2 of the 4 toilet domes promoting new-paradigm philanthropy in the Earthbag Village. This updated design still incorporates increased water collection and reuse of greywater to flush the toilets. In addition to this though, it now uses space more efficiently while allowing all bathrooms to be ADA complaint.

Next Evolution for Updating Toilet Domes in the Earthbag Village – Click for Page

Scott Thomas and his Shadow Ridge Signature Architecture Program team also finished putting this concept design into CAD for the upcoming crowdfunding campaign studio dome.

Studio Dome Concept Design – Click for Crowdfunding Page

…and this design for a 200 square foot bathroom dome.

200 Square Foot Bathroom Dome Design – Click for Crowdfunding Page

Douglas Simms Stenhouse (Architect and Water Color Artist) also produced these conceptual drawings for Pod 3 that will be cob and rammed earth. These designs feature 6 living spaces that share a common social area, bathrooms, and kitchen. They also feature maximization of passive solar, a central fireplace, and designs for construction on a slope.

Pod 3 Cob and Rammed Earth Front-view Conceptual Drawings – Click for Highest Good Housing Page

Pod 3 Cob and Rammed Earth Top-down view Conceptual Drawings – Click for Highest Good Housing Page

Pod 3 Cob and Rammed Earth Side-section Conceptual Drawings – Click for Highest Good Housing Page

DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

One Community is forwarding new-paradigm philanthropy 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 last week the core team completed the second 50% of the thermostatic shower valve and heat lamp energy and water savings calculations implementing new-paradigm philanthropy. Here is a picture of this work completed behind the scenes before we format it for the website. What you see here will be used for both the Duplicable City Center and the Earthbag Village.

Thermostatic Shower Valve and Heat Lamp Energy and Water Savings Calculations – Click for Duplicable City Center

HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS

One Community is forwarding new-paradigm philanthropy 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 social media imagery and updated and featured our Highest Good Housing overview page that outlines the 7 different village models we will build based on new-paradigm philanthropy. We also did this for our Love and Connection as a core value page sharing how we use this value in our decision making process and strategy for global change promoting a new-paradigm philanthropy.

Click for Highest Good Housing Page

Click for Love and Connection Page

We also created version 2.0 of the page we’re developing to promote Tsu and our reasons for supporting this new social network.

Version 2.0 of the Page We’ll be Using to Promote Tsū – Click to Visit

And we created the beginnings of our open source tax filing page to share our for-profit and nonprofit tax filing process.

Open Source Tax Filing Page – Click to Visit

We also added One Community to Amazon Smile.

One Community now on Amazon Smile – Click for Page to Sign up

We also redid the Sustainability Nonprofit website homepage to match our main site.

Sustainability Non Profit Homepage – Click to Visit

We also added a collection of over 50 different do-it-yourself Highest Good living resources promoting new-paradigm philanthropy to the Highest Good lifestyle considerations page. These new resources cover everything from DIY baby wipes, to household cleaners, how to make your own makeup, butter, salad dressing, syrup and more.

50 Do-it-Yourself Highest Good Living Resources on Highest Good Lifestyle Page – Click to Visit

New-Paradigm Philanthropy

WHY ONE COMMUNITY IS CREATING THIS

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

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

Even if we don’t achieve our ultimate goal of global transformation, a self-replicating teacher/demonstration model like this will take a relatively short period of time to positively affect millions through new-paradigm philanthropy 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.

New-Paradigm Philanthropy

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 through new-paradigm philanthropy. 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 promoting a new-paradigm philanthropy. 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.

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

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

 

INVESTOR PAGES

OVERVIEW       ●       LOCATION       ●       FUNDING

GET INVOLVED

CONSULTANTS     ●     WAYS ANYONE CAN HELP     ●     MEMBERSHIP

CLICK HERE FOR ALL PAST UPDATES

One Community welcomes Sandra Sellani to the Food Design Team!

Sandra Sellani – Business Author, Speaker, Consultant, and Vegan Chef: Sandra is a business author, speaker, strategist and consultant with more than 20 years experience in branding and marketing. She is the author of “What’s Your BQ? (Brand Quotient®)” and creator of the BQ Test, a 40-question diagnostic tool that helps business leaders determine their brand strengths and weaknesses quickly and accurately. Her goal is to simplify and demystify branding by teaching methods that work with any company in any market. She has an Executive MBA from Pepperdine University, Malibu, CA and a Bachelor’s Degree in Music from Misericordia University, Dallas, Pennsylvania. With a passion for animal welfare that began as a child, Sandra has also been a vegetarian for 29 years, and a vegan for the last four. She is a passionate advocate for animal rights and plant-based living. Now trained as a vegan Chef, Sandra has certifications in both Basic and Advanced Raw Cuisine from the Matthew Kenney Culinary Academy in Santa Monica, CA, and a certification in Plant-Based Nutrition from the T. Colin Campbell Center for Nutrition Studies. As a One Community Partner, Sandra is helping create delicious vegan menus as part of the open source Highest Good food and food transition to sustainability plan. 

WELCOME TO THE TEAM SANDRA!

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100 years of healing and regeneration starts somewhere. We believe the most successful strategy will include specific and Highest Good of All approaches to food, energy, housing, education, economics, fulfilled living, and earth stewardship components. With this in mind, we are creating open source tools, tutorials, resources, and blueprints covering all of these areas.

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

OUR MAIN OPEN SOURCE HUBS

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

One Community’s physical location will forward this movement as the first of many self-replicating teacher/demonstration communities, villages, and cities to be built around the world. This is the January 30th, 2015 edition (#100) of our weekly progress update detailing the previous week’s development and accomplishments:

100 Years of Healing and Regeneration

One Community Weekly Progress Update #100

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

100 YEARS OF HEALING AND REGENERATION INTRO @1:00

100 YEARS OF HEALING AND REGENERATION HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION @2:21

• Finished image research and remaining 50% of the “Human Body” lesson plan (see below)
• Behind the scenes completed another 40% of the “Human Body” lesson plan design itself (now 100% complete)
• Behind the scenes finished brainstorming and design of the green and yellow sections of the upcoming Technology and Innovation Molecule (now 60% complete)

100 YEARS OF HEALING AND REGENERATION HIGHEST GOOD FOOD: @3:35

• Researched and added two resources sections to the open source eggplants hub (see below)
• Researched and added two resources sections to the open source alliums hub (see below)
• Researched and added two resources sections to the open source cucumbers hub (see below)

100 YEARS OF HEALING AND REGENERATION HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING: @4:19

• Continued laying out the specifics for the Open Source Murphy bed furniture assembly details (20% done – see below)
• Behind the scenes: finished another 15% of the earthdome window and door framing reformatting (25% complete)
• Completed website addition of the total video outline specifics for the Earthbag and Aircrete Dome Finishing, Water Proofing, and Interior Finish (see below)
• Samuel Soroaster created design evolutions for updating 2 of the 4 toilet domes in the Earthbag Village (see below)

100 YEARS OF HEALING AND REGENERATION DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER: @5:58

• Completed 50% of the thermostatic shower valve and heat lamp energy and water savings calculations (see below)

100 YEARS OF REGENERATION HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY: @6:59

• Created new social media imagery and updated and featured our Teaching Strategies page (see below)
• Created new social media imagery and updated and featured our Freedom as a core value page (see below)
• Created new social media imagery and updated and featured our New Life in a New World page (see below)
• Created version 1.0 of the page we’ll be using to promote Tsu and our reasons for supporting this new social network (see below)
• Created version 1.0 of the page promoting GoodShop (see below)
• Behind the scenes, Irfan Saeed helped us with research into the specifics of the legal landscape for open sourcing sustainable building methods

100 YEARS OF HEALING AND REGENERATION SUMMARY: @8:13

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

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100 Years of Healing and Regeneration

ONE COMMUNITY WEEKLY UPDATE DETAILS

HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

One Community is building the foundation for 100 years of healing and regeneration 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 finished all the image research and remaining 50% of the “Human Body” lesson plan mindmap you see here:

Human Body Mindmap – Click to Visit Page

Behind the scenes we also completed another 40% of the “Human Body” lesson plan design itself – bringing us to 90% complete there.

Behind the scenes we also finished brainstorming and design of the green and yellow sections of the upcoming Technology and Innovation Molecule – this brings us to 60% complete there.

HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

One Community is building the foundation for 100 years of healing and regeneration 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 researched and added two resources sections to the open source eggplant hub, the open source alliums hub, and the open source cucumbers hub.

Click for Eggplants Page

Click for Alliums Page

Click for Cucumbers Page

HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

One Community is building the foundation for 100 years of healing and regeneration 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 continued laying out the specifics for the Open Source Murphy bed furniture assembly details. You can see the most recent behind-the-scenes image of this work in progress here. We estimate we are now 20% complete with what is needed for the website.

Open Source Murphy Bed Furniture Assembly Details Developing Behind-the-scenes – Click to Visit Furniture Page

Also behind the scenes we finished another 15% of the earthdome window and door framing reformatting details needed before moving these specifics to the website. This brings us to 25% complete with this work. Both the Murphy bed furniture and earthdome window and door framing details are part of the upcoming crowdfunding campaign.

Earthdome Window and Door Framing Reformatting Details – In Progress – Click to Visit Page

Also for that campaign, we completed website addition of the total video outline specifics for the Earthbag and Aircrete Dome Finishing, Water Proofing, and Interior Finish section of the site.

Video Specifics for Earthbag and Aircrete Dome Finishing, Water Proofing, and Interior Finish – Click to Visit Page

In addition to this, Samuel Soroaster (Permaculturalist and sustainable designer from Green New World), created these design evolutions for updating 2 of the 4 toilet domes in the Earthbag Village. These updated designs incorporate increased water collection, reuse of greywater to flush the toilets, and provide an alternative to the vermiculture design we’ll use for the other two bathrooms.

Toilet Dome Updated Draft Designs – Click to Visit Page

DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

One Community is building the foundation for 100 years of healing and regeneration 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 last week the core team completed 50% of the thermostatic shower valve and heat lamp energy and water savings calculations. Here is a picture of this work developing behind the scenes. What you see here will be used for both the Duplicable City Center and the Earthbag Village.

Thermostatic Shower Valve and Heat Lamp Energy and Water Savings Calculations In Progress – Click for Duplicable City Center

HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS

One Community is building the foundation for 100 years of healing and regeneration 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 social media imagery and updated and featured our Teaching Strategies page that is an open source education resource of strategies drawn from Montessori, Waldorf, Orff, Reggio, Multi-Intelligences, and more. We also did this for our Freedom as a core value page sharing how we use this value in our decision making process and strategy for global change. And we did this for our New Life in a New World page that presents a succinct overview of our global transformation approach.

Click for Teaching Strategies Page

Click for Freedom Page

Click for New Life in a New World Page

We also created version 1.0 of the page we’ll be using to promote Tsū and our reasons for supporting this new social network.

Version 1.0 of the Page We’ll be Using to Promote Tsū – Click to Visit

And we created version 1.0 of the page promoting GoodShop and how people can use their usual shopping and internet search habits to raise money for our non-profit (and others) at no cost to them.

Version 1.0 of the Page We’ll be Using to Promote GoodShop – Click to Visit

Behind the scenes, Irfan Saeed helped us with research into the specifics of the legal landscape for open sourcing sustainable building methods.

100 Years of Healing and Regeneration

WHAT ONE COMMUNITY IS CREATING

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

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

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

100 Years of Healing and Regeneration

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 through 100 years of healing and regeneration. They will also transform the global lifestyle to a more enjoyable, fulfilling, healthy, and sustainable one.

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

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

100 Years of Healing and Regeneration

INSPIRING SUSTAINABILITY WITH OPEN SOURCE

One Community’s four-phase strategy for the creation of solution models that create solution creating models uses open source blueprints for duplication that simultaneously address all aspects of the human experience (food, energy, housing, education, social inequality and injustice, fulfilled living, etc.) through 100 years of healing and regeneration. We see these areas as interdependent and requiring a comprehensive solution if humanity is to move ecologically, socially, economically, and permanently towards a truly sustainable future for everyone.

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

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

100 Years of Healing and Regeneration

COMPREHENSIVE SOLUTION TO HUMANITY’S NEEDS

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

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

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OVERVIEW       ●       LOCATION       ●       FUNDING

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If making a positive difference is presented as easy enough, affordable enough, and attractive enough, it will predictably gain mainstream support and spread on its own. One Community is creating open source food, energy, housing, education, economic, fulfilled living, and earth stewardship components and combining them as a replicable Highest Good society model for people interested in making a positive difference with how they live. We are designing these to be built as a complete and globally-replicable Highest Good of All teacher/demonstration 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 January 23th, 2015 edition (#99) of our weekly progress update detailing the previous week’s development and accomplishments:

Making a Positive Difference
One Community Weekly Progress Update #99

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

MAKING A POSITIVE DIFFERENCE INTRO @1:00

MAKING A POSITIVE DIFFERENCE: HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION @1:58

• Finished image research and first 50% of the “Human Body” lesson plan (see below)
• Behind the scenes completed another 30% of the “Human Body” lesson plan itself (now 60% complete)
• Added the complete explanations for the Lesson Plans How-to tutorial page sections (see below)

MAKING A POSITIVE DIFFERENCE: HIGHEST GOOD FOOD: @3:19

• Researched and added two resources sections to the open source beans hub (see below)
• Researched and added two resources sections to the open source beets hub (see below)
• Researched and added two resources sections to the open source celery hub (see below)
• Researched and added two resources sections to the open source lettuce hub (see below)
• Researched and added two resources sections to the open source corn hub (see below)
• Benjamin Sessions helped us begin adding images to the Food Self-sufficiency Transition Plan page (now about 20% done – see below)

MAKING A POSITIVE DIFFERENCE: HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING: @4:17

• Finished another 5% of the Open Source Murphy bed furniture assembly details behind the scenes (10% done – see below)
• Behind the scenes: finished the first 10% of the earthdome window and door framing reformatting
• Completed website addition of video outline specifics for the Site Clearing, Preparation, and Maintenance (see below)
• Samuel Soroaster created the initial draft of our updated bathroom design (see below)

MAKING A POSITIVE DIFFERENCE: DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER: @5:51

• Jennifer Engelmeier helped us add another 50% to hardware components of the open source eco-pool design page (see below)

MAKING A POSITIVE DIFFERENCE: HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY: @6:54

• Created new social media imagery and updated and featured our Lesson Plans for Life page (see below)
• Created new social media imagery and updated and featured our our Honesty and Integrity page (see below)
• Added new icon links to our website making it easier to volunteer, donate, shop, and find these updates (see below)

MAKING A POSITIVE DIFFERENCE SUMMARY: @7:40

• 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

HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

One Community is making a positive difference 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 finished all the image research and initial design work for the first 50% of the “Human Body” lesson plan mindmap you see here:

Human Body Mindmap – 50% Complete – Click for Page

Behind the scenes we also completed another 30% of the “Human Body” lesson plan design itself – bringing us to 60% complete there.

This last week we also added the complete explanations you see here for the Lesson Plans How-to tutorial page. These descriptions go with the image we created the week before to teach people all the components of the lesson plan pages. This brings the Lesson Plans How-to page to about 50% complete. Next will be providing several complete and detailed lesson plan examples and an FAQ.

Explanations Added to How-to Lesson Plan Tutorial Page – Click to Visit

HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

One Community is making a positive difference 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 researched and added two resources sections to the open source beans hub, the open source beets hub, the open source celery hub, the open source lettuce hub, and the open source corn hub:

Click for Beans Page

Click for Beets Page

Click for Celery Page

Click for Lettuce Page

Click for Corn Page

We also began adding images to the excellent work Benjamin Sessions has been doing for the Food Self-sufficiency Transition Plan that is now about 20% done on the website:

Images Added to Food Self-sufficiency Transition Plan Page – Click to Visit

HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

One Community is making a positive difference 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 continued laying out the specifics for the Open Source Murphy bed furniture assembly details. You can see a behind-the-scenes image of this work in progress here. We estimate we are now 10% complete with what is needed for the website:

Open Source Murphy Bed Furniture Assembly Details Developing Behind-the-scenes

Also behind the scenes, we finished the first 10% of the earthdome window and door framing reformatting details needed before moving these specifics to the website. Both the Murphy bed furniture and earthdome window and door framing details are part of the upcoming crowdfunding campaign.

Also for that campaign, we completed website addition of the total video outline specifics for the Site Clearing, Preparation, and Maintenance section of the site:

Dome Home Site Clearing Preparation – Click to Visit Page

In addition to this, Samuel Soroaster (Permaculturalist and sustainable designer from Green New World), created this initial draft of our updated bathroom design for 2 of the 4 toilet domes in the Earthbag Village. This design will incorporate increased water collection, reuse of greywater to flush the toilets, and provide an alternative to the vermiculture design we’ll use for the other two bathrooms:

Toilet Dome Updated Draft Design – Click to Visit Page

DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

One Community is making a positive difference 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 last week the core team added another 50% to hardware components of the open source eco-pool design page thanks to the information and specifics provided by Jennifer Engelmeier, our Eco-pool and Spa Specialist and founder of www.LoveYourNaturalPool.com

Eco-Pool Hardware Components Added to Page – Click to Visit

HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS

One Community is making a positive difference 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 social media imagery and updated and featured our Lesson Plans for Life page that shares the 12 lesson plans we’ve completed and the additional 30 we’re still working on. We also added social media imagery for our Honesty and Integrity core values page sharing how we use this value in our decision making process and strategy for global change.

Click for Lesson Plans for Life Page

Click for Honesty and Integrity Page

We also added new icon links to our website making it easier to volunteer, donate, shop, and find these updates. Here’s what these new icons look like:

New Icon Links Added to Website – Click to Visit Homepage

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

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

 

INVESTOR PAGES

OVERVIEW       ●       LOCATION       ●       FUNDING

GET INVOLVED

CONSULTANTS     ●     WAYS ANYONE CAN HELP     ●     MEMBERSHIP

CLICK HERE FOR ALL PAST UPDATES

WHAT ONE COMMUNITY IS CREATING

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

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

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

BUILDING THE FIRST OF MANY

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

WHY ONE COMMUNITY IS CREATING THIS

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

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

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

INSPIRING SUSTAINABILITY WITH OPEN SOURCE

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

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

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

COMPREHENSIVE SOLUTION TO HUMANITY’S NEEDS

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

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

GLOBALLY IMPLEMENTABLE REPLICATION MODEL

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

Igniting a renaissance of new ideas can be accomplished through open source sustainability and Highest Good living components. One Community is creating these to be combined as teacher/demonstration hubs to be built around the world:

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

OUR MAIN OPEN SOURCE HUBS

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

One Community’s physical location will forward this movement as the first of many self-replicating teacher/demonstration communities, villages, and cities to be built around the world. This is the January 16th, 2015 edition (#98) of our weekly progress update detailing the previous week’s development and accomplishments:

Igniting a Renaissance of New Ideas
One Community Weekly Progress Update #98

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

IGNITING A RENAISSANCE OF NEW IDEAS INTRO @1:00

IGNITING A RENAISSANCE OF NEW IDEAS: HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION @2:04

• Created this explanatory image for the Lesson Plans How-to tutorial page (see below)
• Behind the scenes we finished brainstorming the red and orange sections of the upcoming Technology and Innovation Molecule
• Behind the scenes we also finished 30% of design work for the written lesson plan with the central theme of “Human Body”

IGNITING A RENAISSANCE OF NEW IDEAS: HIGHEST GOOD FOOD: @3:25

• Researched and added two resources sections to the open source carrots hub (see below)
• We also researched and added two resources sections to the open source cole-crops hub (see below)
• Behind the scenes Benjamin Sessions researched images and costs for the temporary kitchen we’ll be open sourcing as part of the Food Self-sufficiency Transition Plan and upcoming crowdfunding campaign

IGNITING A RENAISSANCE OF NEW IDEAS: HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING: @4:20

• Began laying out the specifics for the Open Source Murphy bed furniture assembly (see below)
• Behind the scenes, we finished the final 30% of the video production outline for all the components of the upcoming crowdfunding campaign
• Completed website addition of the total video outline specifics for the Earthbag 200-Square-foot Dome and Loft Construction (see below)
• We created the same details for the Aircrete 200-Square-foot Dome and Loft Construction
• Behind the scenes we finished the final 25% of the earthdome window and door framing descriptions Draft A. This brings us to 100% complete there and we’ve now ready to begin formatting in preparation for adding this to the website.
• Scott Thomas and his Shadow Ridge Signature Architecture Program added the updated shower and toilet domes for the Earthbag Village into the complete CAD village layout (see below)

IGNITING A RENAISSANCE OF NEW IDEAS: DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER: @5:44

• This week the core team created Rev B of the Duplicable City Center hydronic piping diagram (see below)
• James Nance laid out the preliminary plumbing details for CAD (see below)
• Samuel Soroaster also began the behind-the-scenes redesign of our sustainable water systems and sewage systems design (see below)

IGNITING A RENAISSANCE OF NEW IDEAS: HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY: @7:00

• Created new social media imagery and updated and featured our Hoop Houses Open Source Hub (see below)
• Created new social media imagery and updated and featured our Culture of Personal Growth page (see below)
• Created new social media imagery and updated and featured our True Community page (see below)
• Completely rebuilt and simplified our Partner and Consultant Interest page (see below)
• Behind the scenes, Irfan Saeed, the newest member of our legal team, also helped us research copyright issues related to internet image use and sharing

IGNITING A RENAISSANCE OF NEW IDEAS SUMMARY: @8:03

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

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ONE COMMUNITY WEEKLY UPDATE DETAILS

HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

One Community is igniting a renaissance of new ideas 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 created this explanatory image for the Lesson Plans How-to tutorial page. This image teaches people all the components of the lesson plan pages and the full page, which we’d say is now about 30% done, will show how to use the lesson plans by providing several complete and detailed examples and an FAQ.

Explanatory Image for Lesson Plans How-to Tutorial Page – Click to Visit

Behind the scenes we finished brainstorming and design of the red and orange sections of the upcoming Technology and Innovation Molecule

Behind the scenes we also finished 30% of design work for the written lesson plan with the central theme of “Human Body”

HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

One Community is igniting a renaissance of new ideas 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 researched and added two resources sections to the open source carrots hub:

New Resources Sections Added to Open Source Carrots Hub – Click to Visit Page

We also researched and added two resources sections to the open source cole-crops hub:

New Resources Sections Added to Open Source Cole-Crops Hub – Click to Visit Page

Behind the scenes Benjamin Sessions researched images and costs for the temporary kitchen we’ll be open sourcing as part of the Food Self-sufficiency Transition Plan and upcoming crowdfunding campaign

HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

One Community is igniting a renaissance of new ideas 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 began laying out the specifics for the Open Source Murphy bed furniture assembly details. You can see a behind-the-scenes image of this work here. We are about 10% done:

Murphy Bed Furniture Assembly Details in Progress – Click to Visit Page

Behind the scenes, we finished the final 30% of the video production outline for all the components of the upcoming crowdfunding campaign

Then we completed website addition of the total video outline specifics for the Earthbag 200-Square-foot Dome and Loft Construction that you can see here. We created the same details for the Aircrete 200-Square-foot Dome and Loft Construction. Here are the Earthbag 200-Square-foot Dome and Loft Construction details:

Earthbag 200-Square-foot Dome and Loft Construction Video Overview Added – Click to Visit Page

Behind the scenes we finished the final 25% of the earthdome window and door framing descriptions Draft A. This brings us to 100% complete there and we’ve now ready to begin formatting in preparation for adding this to the website.

In addition to this, Scott Thomas and his Shadow Ridge Signature Architecture Program added the updated shower and toilet domes for the Earthbag Village into the complete CAD village layout:

Shower and Toilet Domes for the Earthbag Village Added into CAD – Click to Visit Page

DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

One Community is igniting a renaissance of new ideas 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 last week the core team created Rev B of the Duplicable City Center hydronic piping diagram you can see here:

Duplicable City Center Hydronic Piping Diagram – Rev B – Click to Visit Page

James Nance (Mechanical Engineer and Project Manager) also laid out the preliminary plumbing details so we can begin our search for a CAD drafter with plumbing experience.

Preliminary Plumbing Details – Click to Visit Page

Behind the scenes, Samuel Soroaster (Permaculturalist and sustainable designer from Green New World) also began the redesign of our sustainable water systems and sewage systems design. What you see here is a snapshot of this work in progress.

Water Systems and Sewage Systems Redesign in Progress- Click to Visit Page

HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS

One Community is igniting a renaissance of new ideas 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 social media imagery and updated and featured our Hoop Houses Open Source Hub sharing how to build hoop houses, our Culture of Personal Growth page sharing how this is a core value for us in creating global transformation, and our True Community page that is also a core value.

Click for Hoop House Page

Click for Personal Growth Page

Click for True Community Page

We also completely rebuilt our Partner and Consultant Interest page. You can see this here where it now features a cleaner and more streamlined look and an online data entry form that replaces the need for someone to copy and paste content into an email.

Updated Partner and Consultant Interest Page – Click to Visit

Behind the scenes Irfan Saeed, the newest member of our legal team, also helped us research copyright issues related to internet image use and sharing.

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.

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

BUILDING THE FIRST OF MANY

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

WHY ONE COMMUNITY IS CREATING THIS

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

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

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

INSPIRING SUSTAINABILITY WITH OPEN SOURCE

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

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

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

COMPREHENSIVE SOLUTION TO HUMANITY’S NEEDS

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

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

One Community is happy to welcome Green New World as our newest member of the Highest Good Collaborator and open source team!

Green New World assists in the transition of society by providing services in holistic sustainable living designs and solutions that focus on holistic water systems, renewable energy systems, holistic food production, holistic residential designs and ecological zero waste solutions. Currently Green New World is working on the House of Peace also known as the HOPE Project which aspires to create a model for holistic sustainable housing. HOPE represents the convergence of integrated holistic design into a single model home to bring together earth architecture, holistic water treatment and conservation, alternative energy integration, natural and ecological climate regulation, ecological sewage processing and the wellbeing of its inhabitants. Every material and system used in this home is evaluated to minimize the ecological impact as well as promote the health and wellbeing of its inhabitants. One Community is collaborating with Green New World on water systems and sewage systems design and the components of the earthbag village.

WELCOME TO THE TEAM GREEN NEW WORLD!

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INVESTOR PAGES

OVERVIEW       ●       LOCATION       ●       FUNDING

GET INVOLVED

CONSULTANTS     ●     WAYS ANYONE CAN HELP     ●     MEMBERSHIP

Bold new creative thinking can create a world that is sustainable and works for everyone. One Community is leading the facilitation of this through open source and free-shared teacher/demonstration hub creation. These hubs will start with One Community and combine replicable solutions for food, energy, housing, education, economics, fulfilled living and earth stewardship, all 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 January 9th, 2015 edition (#97) of our weekly progress update detailing the previous week’s development and accomplishments:

Bold New Creative Thinking
One Community Weekly Progress Update #97

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

BOLD NEW CREATIVE THINKING @1:00

BOLD NEW CREATIVE THINKING: HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION @1:58

• Created the final 50% of the lesson plan mindmap for “Dreams” (see below)
• Finished the final 50% of the Dreams Lesson Plan webpage (see below)
• Finished the first 20% of the new Lesson Plans How-to (see below)

BOLD NEW CREATIVE THINKING: HIGHEST GOOD FOOD: @3:35

• Added a resources section to the Hoop House open source portal (see below)
• Reformatted and added images and resources to the Large-scale Gardening page (see below)

BOLD NEW CREATIVE THINKING: HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING: @4:27

• Completed Revision A of the Earthbag Village hydronic piping for the shower domes (see below)
• Behind the scenes: finished another 25% of the earthdome window and door framing (75% complete)
• Behind the scenes: finished about 70% of the video production outline for all the components of the upcoming crowdfunding campaign
• Scott Thomas and his Shadow Ridge Signature Architecture Program finished what we think will be the final major revision of the shower and toilet domes (see below)
• Dave Walen lowered the planting beds and continued work on the redesign of the central area of the Straw Bale Village (Pod 2) (see below)

BOLD NEW CREATIVE THINKING: DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER: @6:01

• Created Rev A of the Duplicable City Center hydronic piping diagram (see below)
• Behind the scenes: Ron Payne finished what he was able to complete of the structural calculations for the cupola. We are now continuing our search for a structural engineer to complete the final calculations

BOLD NEW CREATIVE THINKING: HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY: @7:07

• Created new social media imagery and updated the One Community Overview page (see below)
• Created new social media imagery and updated the Sketchup Plants page (see below)
• Created new social media imagery and updated the Highest Good Network page (see below)
• Welcomed Emily’s Quotes to our Tsū family

BOLD NEW CREATIVE THINKING SUMMARY: @7:59

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

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

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ONE COMMUNITY WEEKLY UPDATE DETAILS

HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

One Community is forwarding bold new creative thinking 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 created the final 50% of the lesson plan mindmap for the lesson with the central theme of “Dreams”. You can see that here showing a beautiful graphic overview of how to teach all subjects, to any learning level, in any learning environment using this central theme of “Dreams”:

Dreams Mindmap – Click to Visit Page

To go along with this, we also finished the final 50% of the Dreams Lesson Plan webpage that contains the complete lesson plan specifics associated with this mindmap. Check it out and use the links on the page to share your own ideas to make it even better.

Dreams Lesson Plan Webpage – Click to Visit

Also, we finished the first 20% of the new Lesson Plans How-to purposed to teach the specifics of how each of these lesson plans is meant to be used. When complete, this new page will give a complete and detailed example of exactly how to combine all the components of any of the lesson plans for an all-subject week-long lesson plan for any age, learning level, and environment:

Lesson Plans How-to Page – Click to Visit

HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

One Community is forwarding bold new creative thinking 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 researched and added a massive new resources section to the Hoop House open source portal. You can see that here:

New Resources Section Added to the Hoop House Open Source Portal – Click to Visit

We also did a complete reformatting of the the Large-scale Gardening open source portal, added more resources there, and added several new educational images as well. You can see some of these here and visit the page for more details:

New Images Added to the Large Scale Garden Portal – Click to Visit

HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

One Community is forwarding bold new creative thinking 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 completed Revision A of the Earthbag Village hydronic piping diagram for the shower domes:

Earthbag Village Hydronic Piping for Shower Domes – Revision A – Click to Visit OS Hub

Behind the scenes we finished another 25% of the earthdome window and door framing descriptions Draft A. This brings us to 75% complete there to go with the 75% we have complete for the Skethcup 3-D aspects of this.

Also behind the scenes, we finished about 70% of the video production outline for all the components of the upcoming crowdfunding campaign.

In addition to this, Scott Thomas and his Shadow Ridge Signature Architecture Program finished what we think will be the final major revision of the shower and toilet domes for the Earthbag Village. The main change here is the toilet domes being reconfigured to allow for two urinals on the men’s side while still being ADA compliant:

Earthbag Village Updated Toilet and Shower Domes – Click to Visit

Dave Walen (Architectural Drafter & Designer and owner of Dave Philip Walen Design) also lowered the planting beds and continued working on the redesign of the central area of the Straw Bale Village (Pod 2):

Straw Bale Village – Click to Visit Page

DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

One Community is forwarding bold new creative thinking 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 last week the core team created Rev A of the Duplicable City Center hydronic piping diagram you can see here:

Duplicable City Center Hydronic Piping Diagram – Rev A – Click to Visit Page

Behind the scenes our mechanical engineer also finished what he was able to complete of the structural calculations for the Duplicable City Center cupola. We are now continuing our search for a structural engineer to complete the final calculations.

HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS

One Community is forwarding bold new creative thinking 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 social media imagery and updated and featured our One Community Overview page, our Open Source Guide to 3-D Creation with Sketchup Plants page, and our Highest Good Network page that talks about the custom and open source software we use and are evolving for complete city management and collaborative evolution. Here are the new social media images, click them for the related pages:

We also welcomed Emily’s Quotes to our Tsū family – continuing to grow our new favorite social media network, the network that pays its users 90% of its ad revenue and doesn’t censor our content like Facebook does. Join us there, it’s free!

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.

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

BUILDING THE FIRST OF MANY

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

WHY ONE COMMUNITY IS CREATING THIS

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

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

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

INSPIRING SUSTAINABILITY WITH OPEN SOURCE

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

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

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

COMPREHENSIVE SOLUTION TO HUMANITY’S NEEDS

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

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

GLOBALLY IMPLEMENTABLE REPLICATION MODEL

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

One Community welcomes Samuel Soroaster to the Design Team!

Samuel Soroaster – Permaculturalist, Sustainable Builder, and PhD in Neurophysiology: Samuel is a multiversed being dedicated to spreading Love and holistic sustainable solutions for the betterment of human civilization and the wellbeing of planet Earth. He believes the root cause of the status quo is due to the collective conditioning of competition and strives to nourish cooperation to make the world a better place. He has a doctorate in Neurophysiology from the University of California, San Francisco and a masters in Biology from the University of Cologne, Germany. He is the founder of Green New World a non-profit organization dedicated to promoting holistic sustainable living solutions and co-founder of the eco-village Nuevo Mundo in Guatemala. Over the years thousands of people have studied sustainable living and permaculture with Samuel as he continues to travel around the world providing courses and workshops. Samuel is a passionate permaculture designer, holistic water systems designer, gardener, architect, carpenter, natural builder, alternative energy designer, Reiki master and astrologer. As a biologist he has spent many years learning from nature which has inspired his ideas and inventions hence his love for biomimicry. As a One Community Consultant, Samuel is lending his extensive knowledge and experience to water systems and sewage systems design and the components of the earthbag village.

WELCOME TO THE TEAM SAMUEL!

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One Community welcomes Irfan Saeed to the Legal Team:

Shaikh Irfan Ahmed Saeed – Lawyer:  Irfan holds an LL.M in International Law from India and is a practicing lawyer in Mumbai with over 5 years of experience. He also holds a Diploma in Intellectual Property Rights Laws and a Diploma in Cyber Laws, covering courses in information technology used in corporate environments. Irfan has worked with cases dealing with criminal, economic, corporate, pharmaceutical, sports and entertainment, and related international and local legal matters. Irfan also commits pro bono time to his passion for protecting animal rights and human rights like women’s emancipation and protection of child rights. As a One Community consultant and partner, Irfan is helping with legal issues revolving around our shared desire to help society and the world at large.

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