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A Better Quality of Life for All – One Community Weekly Progress Update #71

Posted on July 11, 2014 by One Community

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One Community is here to help create a better quality of life for all people and life on this planet. This means simultaneously addressing and open source sharing solutions to hunger, homelessness, unsustainable energy practices, social injustice and inequality, education, and more while also providing a more fulfilled living experience and diverse sustainability elements. 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.

A Better Quality of Life for All One Community’s physical location will forward this movement as the first of many self-replicating teacher/demonstration communities, villages, and cities to be built around the world. This is the July 11th, 2014 edition (#71) of our weekly progress update detailing the previous week’s development and accomplishments:

A Better Quality of Life for All
One Community Weekly Progress Update #71

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

A BETTER QUALITY OF LIFE FOR ALL INTRO @1:00

A BETTER QUALITY OF LIFE – HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION @1:40

Finished the last 40% needed for the complete subject of Science page (see below)
Finished adding the first 50% of content to the Happiness Lesson plan webpage (see below)
Behind the scenes we finished 40% of the lesson plan with the core them of “Harmony”
Behind the scenes we finished 75% of the image research for the “Spring” lesson plan

A BETTER QUALITY OF LIFE – HIGHEST GOOD FOOD: @3:00

Finished adding the diversity details to Potatoes section of the large-scale gardening page (see below)
Finished adding the diversity details to the Squash section too (see below)

A BETTER QUALITY OF LIFE – HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING: @3:50

Added rollout specifics for 0-20, 20-50, and 50-100 people to our open source internet setup page (see below)
Added more water heating system design specifics to the open source sustainable water heating page (see below)
Behind the scenes we put in another 20-30 hours on the detailed action list for the upcoming 3DomeCluster crowdfunding and began creating the webpage for it

A BETTER QUALITY OF LIFE – DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER: @4:50

Updated the open source large-scale kitchen page with new images, downloadable layout details, and cut sheets (see below)
Joel Newman provided what we need to begin creation of the Duplicable City Center Lighting Page (see below)
Karl Harris also continued work on the CAD elevations adding the specifics discussed below (see below)
James Nance provided the first set of bathroom venting plans for this structure (see below)

A BETTER QUALITY OF LIFE – HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY: @6:44

Redesigned and updated the Fulfilled Living page (see below)
Created 3 more job posting pages, custom images, and updated our complete Helping Create One Community page (see below)

A BETTER QUALITY OF LIFE FOR ALL SUMMARY: @7:25

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

YOU CAN ALSO JOIN US THROUGH SOCIAL MEDIA

ONE COMMUNITY WEEKLY UPDATE DETAILS

HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

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

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

This last week the core team finished the last 40% needed for the complete subject of Science page (see below)

Science page, One Community, A Better Quality of Life for All

A Better Quality of Life for All – Last 40% of Science Page Completed – Click to Visit Page

We also finished adding the first 50% of content to the Happiness Lesson plan webpage:

Happiness page in progress, One Community, A Better Quality of Life for All

A Better Quality of Life for All – Happiness Lesson Plan 50% Complete – Click to Visit Page

HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

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

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

This last week the core team finished adding the diversity details to the heirloom and organic Potatoes section of the large-scale gardening page. We added 17 different potatoes and featured the 10 you see here:

Potatoes, One Community, A Better Quality of Life for All

A Better Quality of Life for All – Completed Potatoes Diversity Details – Click to Visit Page

We also finished adding the diversity details to the Squash section, adding 20 different squash, complete purchasing details, planting guidelines and cultural considerations and featuring the 10 squash you see here:

Squash diversity details, One Community, A Better Quality of Life for All

A Better Quality of Life for All – Completed Squash Diversity Details – Click to Visit Page

HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

One Community is open sourcing a better quality of life for all through Highest Good housing that is artistic and beautiful, more affordable, more space efficient, lasts longer, DIY buildable, and constructed with healthy and sustainable materials:

Learn about 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 added remote internet rollout specifics for 0-20, 20-50, and 50-100 people to our open source internet setup page:

Internet, One Community, A Better Quality of Life for All

Remote Internet Rollout Specifics Added for 0-20, 20-50, and 50-100 People – Click to Visit Page

We also added these water heating system specifics to the open source sustainable water heating page:

Water heating, One Community, A Better Quality of Life for All

A Better Quality of Life for All – New Water Heating System Specifics – Click to Visit Page

DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

One Community is open sourcing a better quality of life for all through a Duplicable and Sustainable City Center that is LEED Platinum certified/Sustainable, can feed 200 people at a time, provide laundry for over 300 people, is beautiful, spacious, and saves resources, money, and space:

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

This last week the core team updated the open source large-scale kitchen page with updated images and downloadable layout details and cut sheets for all the equipment thanks to the work that is compliments of Ben Pollock (Full Service Restaurant and Kitchen Designer/Senior Project Manager with Webb Food Service Design):

Kitchen page, One Community, A Better Quality of Life for All

A Better Quality of Life for All – Updated Open Source Large-Scale Kitchen Page – Click to Visit

We also began converting the outstanding design work of Joel Newman (Architectural Visualization Designer www.FigmentCreation.com) into the new Duplicable City Center Lighting Page you see here:

Duplicable City Center Lighting page in progress, One Community, A Better Quality of Life for All

A Better Quality of Life for All – New Lighting Page – Click to Visit

Karl Harris (Architect Drafter, Designer, and founder of Harris Design & Technology Services) added in the corridor on the South-side and West-view, corridor windows on the North-view, railing to the patio, and the stairs in the North-view of the CAD elevations:

CAD elevations, One Community, A Better Quality of Life for All

A Better Quality of Life for All – CAD Elevations Updated – Click to Visit Page

James Nance (Mechanical Engineer and Project Manager with P2S Engineering) also provided the first set of bathroom venting plans for this structure (see below)

Social Dome Venting, One Community, A Better Quality of Life for All

A Better Quality of Life for All – 1st Set of Bathroom Venting Plans

HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS

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

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

This last week the core team completely redesigned and updated our core value of Fulfilled Living page to share what this value means to One Community and how we use this value in decision making:

Fulfilled living page, One Community, A Better Quality of Life for All

A Better Quality of Life for All – Fulfilled Living Page Updated – Click to Visit

We also created 3 more job posting pages, custom images, and updated our complete Helping Create One Community page by adding these new images and links to the specific job description pages:

A Better Quality of Life For All, One Community

3 More Job Posting Pages Created – Click to Visit the Helping Us Page

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

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

INVESTOR PAGES

OVERVIEW ● LOCATION ● FUNDING

GET INVOLVED

WHAT ONE COMMUNITY IS CREATING

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

Our goal is to demonstrate what we feel is the most sustainable, healthy, and fun environment we can create. A place based on compassion, kindness, and collaboration, serving as an example for what is possible in terms of creating a better quality of life for all. 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, furthering the cause of creating a better quality of life for all

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: Creating a better quality of life for all, 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, thus creating a better quality of life for all. 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, further reinforcing the importance of creating a better quality of life for all.

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, thus fostering a sense of community and commitment to creating a better quality of life for all.

INSPIRING SUSTAINABILITY WITH OPEN SOURCE

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

Our open source model and blueprints engage and inspire people while simultaneously making sustainable living more affordable and easy to replicate, further promoting creating a better quality of life for all. 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 at the same time contributing to creating a better quality of life for all.

ONE COMMUNITY’S 4-PHASE STRATEGY

One Community is building solution-creating models designed to create additional solution-creating models to specifically facilitate exponential and sustainable global teacher/demonstration village growth. The following four phases of the strategy we are applying are designed to support each other and accelerate the process globally:

Phase I: Creating A Better Quality of Life for All by Demonstrating a Better Way

We are designing One Community to demonstrate an experience of living that we believe most people will consider to be better because it will be more enjoyable and fulfilling. We also think most people will consider it better because it is made possible specifically through a foundation of sustainable sustainability and a philosophy that is for The Highest Good of All, ultimately contributing to creating a better quality of life for all.

Phase II: Creating A Better Quality of Life for All with Open Source Project-Launch Blueprinting

Everything we do we are open source project-launch blueprinting and free-sharing to make it as easy and affordable as possible to duplicate, adapt, and evolve in the manner that suits each individual and/or group’s needs. Free-sharing information like this is our aggressive-exposure engine and an aspect of One Community that will accelerate indefinitely as we continue to build our team, move onto the property, and continuously build and evolve everything that is One Community.

Phase III: Creating A Better Quality of Life for All by Inviting the World to Participate

Everything we are open source project-launch blueprinting is designed to invite the world to participate by duplicating it as either individual components or complete teacher/demonstration communities, villages, and cities that will be able to be built almost anywhere in the world, thereby creating a better quality of life for all. Additionally, people can join One Community as members, consultants and/or partners, or use the suggestions links on our open source project-launch blueprinting hubs to help with the design, implementation, and evolution process. Scholarships, weekend learning and work crews, and tourism will be foundations of One Community once we have sufficient infrastructure in place to support these options.

Phase IV: Creating A Better Quality of Life for All with Universal Appeal and Global Expansion

As One Community continues evolving and establishing ourselves, everything we create and promote will serve as the engine to inspire people to align with the concept of open source and sustainable living for The Highest Good of All, further creating a better quality of life for all. We are doing this to create mainstream appeal and our path to achieving this appeal is demonstrating a happier, more affordable, and ecologically friendly model of living that can be built anywhere in the world.

Open source project-launch blueprinting it all is how we believe the model will spread and, possibly most importantly, that it will predictably spread even faster in the areas where it is needed most because building restrictions, the cost of land, and materials costs are in most cases lower in these areas.

Practical Utopia Creation – One Community Weekly Progress Update #70

Posted on July 4, 2014 by One Community

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

Practical utopia creation means evolving sustainability to comprehensively address the foundations of the complete human experience with ecological and duplicable solutions for improving all areas, and open source sharing this 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.

Practical Utopia Creation One Community’s physical location will forward this movement as the first of many self-replicating teacher/demonstration communities, villages, and cities to be built around the world. This is the July 4th, 2014 edition (#70) of our weekly progress update detailing the previous week’s development and accomplishments:

Practical Utopia Creation
One Community Weekly Progress Update #70

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

PRACTICAL UTOPIA CREATION INTRO @1:00

PRACTICAL UTOPIA CREATION – HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION @1:38

Finished the Happiness Lesson plan mindmap (see below)
Finished adding another 30% of the subject specifics for the subject of Science page (see below)
Behind the scenes we finished 80% of the lesson plan with the core theme of “Opposites”

PRACTICAL UTOPIA CREATION – HIGHEST GOOD FOOD: @2:51

Added diversity details to the Radishes section of the large-scale gardening page (see below)

PRACTICAL UTOPIA CREATION – HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING: @3:40

Finished internet setup specifics for first 50 residents (see below)
Spoke to our county about our septic needs for the crowdfunding campaign
3 members of our team continue to develop the 3-Dome crowdfunding Master Plan (70% done)
Philip Gill began the process of dissecting the first dome home furniture design (see below)

PRACTICAL UTOPIA CREATION – DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER: @4:44

Ben Pollock finished the rest of the the large-scale kitchen equipment specifics (see below)
Karl Harris added the corridor and 4th floor bathroom roof, the corridor and walls, and the cupola roof to the CAD elevations (see below)

PRACTICAL UTOPIA CREATION – HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY: @5:54

Updated our complete Helping Create One Community page with job posting images and links to 9 new pages (see below)

PRACTICAL UTOPIA CREATION SUMMARY: @6:26

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

YOU CAN ALSO JOIN US THROUGH SOCIAL MEDIA

ONE COMMUNITY WEEKLY UPDATE DETAILS

HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

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

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

This last week the core team finished the Happiness Lesson plan mindmap you see below. This mindmap is the overview of the lesson plan for teaching all subjects to all ages in the context of the central theme of Happiness:

Happiness Mindmap Final, One Community, Practical Utopia Creation

Practical Utopia Creation – Happiness Mindmap – Click to Visit Page

We also finished adding another 30% of the subject specifics for the subject of Science page, bringing us to 60% completion now with this also:

Science page in progress, One Community, Practical Utopia Creation

Practical Utopia Creation – Subject of Science Page in Progress – Click to Visit Page

HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

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

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

This last week the core team added the diversity purchase details to the heirloom and organic Radishes section of the large-scale gardening page. The 10 featured radishes are listed below and the purchasing details are on the complete page:

Radishes, One Community, Practical Utopia Creation

Practical Utopia Creation – Heirloom and Organic Radishes – Click for Complete Page

HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

One Community is engaging the process of practical utopia creation through Highest Good housing that is artistic and beautiful, more affordable, more space efficient, lasts longer, DIY buildable, and constructed with healthy and sustainable materials:

Learn about 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 finished the One Community internet setup guide through our first 50 residents and began the open source page you see here to share why we’ve chosen to go with point to point service instead of fiber:

Remote internet page in progress, One Community, Practical Utopia Creation

Practical Utopia Creation – Remote Internet Page – Click to Visit

Philip Gill (Interior and Furniture Designer and Owner of Philip Gill Design) has also begun the process you can see here of dissecting the first furniture design, which is the Murphy Bed design, so we can create detailed materials lists and construction plans for it:

Furniture, earthbag village, One Community, Practical Utopia Creation

Practical Utopia Creation – Dissecting the First Dome Home Furniture Design – Click to Visit Page

DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

One Community is engaging the process of practical utopia creation through a Duplicable and Sustainable City Center that is LEED Platinum certified/Sustainable, can feed 200 people at a time, provide laundry for over 300 people, is beautiful, spacious, and saves resources, money, and space:

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

Ben Pollock (Full Service Restaurant and Kitchen Designer/Senior Project Manager with Webb Food Service Design) finished the rest of the the large-scale kitc hen equipment specifics you can see below, modifying the pantry to fit the equipment and adding in the final large and small cooking and serving equipment selection details.

Kitchen, One Community, Practical Utopia Creation

Practical Utopia Creation – Large-Scale Kitchen Equipment Specifics Complete – Click to Visit Page

Karl Harris (Architect Drafter, Designer, and founder of Harris Design & Technology Services) also continued work on the CAD elevations adding the corridor and 4th floor bathroom roof, the corridor and walls, and the cupola roof to the West view seen here:

CAD elevations, One Community, Practical Utopia Creation

Practical Utopia Creation – CAD Elevations – Click to Visit Page

HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS

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

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

This last week the core team created 9 job posting pages, custom images, and updated our complete Helping Create One Community page while also adding these images and links to the specific job description pages:

Job postings, One Community, Practical Utopia Creation

Practical Utopia Creation – 9 Job Posting Pages Created – Click to Visit

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

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, ultimately contributing to practical utopia creation. 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, inspiring practical utopia creation.

Throughout our design process we are open sourcing and free-sharing everything needed for construction and replication, empowering practical utopia creation. 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,serving as a practical utopia creation. 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, embracing practical utopia creation. 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 through practical utopia creation. 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, thus contributing to practical utopia creation. 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, ultimately fostering practical utopia creation.

ONE COMMUNITY’S 4-PHASE STRATEGY

One Community is building solution-creating models designed to create additional solution-creating models to specifically facilitate exponential and sustainable global teacher/demonstration village growth. The following four phases of the strategy we are applying are designed to support each other and accelerate the process globally:

Phase I: Practical Utopia Creation by Demonstrating a Better Way

We are designing One Community to demonstrate an experience of living that we believe most people will consider to be better because it will be more enjoyable and fulfilling. We also think most people will consider it better because it is made possible specifically through a foundation of sustainable sustainability and a philosophy that is for The Highest Good of All.

Phase II: Practical Utopia Creation with Open Source Project-Launch Blueprinting

Everything we do we are open source project-launch blueprinting and free-sharing to make it as easy and affordable as possible to duplicate, adapt, and evolve in the manner that suits each individual and/or group’s needs. Free-sharing information like this is our aggressive-exposure engine and an aspect of One Community that will accelerate indefinitely as we continue to build our team, move onto the property, and continuously build and evolve everything that is One Community.

Phase III: Practical Utopia Creation by Inviting the World to Participate

Everything we are open source project-launch blueprinting is designed to invite the world to participate by duplicating it as either individual components or complete teacher/demonstration communities, villages, and cities that will be able to be built almost anywhere in the world. Additionally, people can join One Community as members, consultants and/or partners, or use the suggestions links on our open source project-launch blueprinting hubs to help with the design, implementation, and evolution process, further promoting practical utopia creation. Scholarships, weekend learning and work crews, and tourism will be foundations of One Community once we have sufficient infrastructure in place to support these options.

Phase IV: Practical Utopia Creation with Universal Appeal and Global Expansion

As One Community continues evolving and establishing ourselves, everything we create and promote will serve as the engine to inspire people to align with the concept of open source and sustainable living for The Highest Good of All. We are doing this to create mainstream appeal and our path to achieving this appeal is demonstrating a happier, more affordable, and ecologically friendly model of living that can be built anywhere in the world.

Open source project-launch blueprinting it all is how we believe the model will spread and, possibly most importantly, that it will predictably spread even faster in the areas where it is needed most because building restrictions, the cost of land, and materials costs are in most cases lower in these areas.

WHY OPEN SOURCE

We are creating everything One Community does as open source and free-shared blueprints because we see this as the path to a new Golden Age of creativity, innovation, cooperation, and collaboration for all of humanity. Our model is a solution model that creates additional solution creating models enabling people to live and collaborate globally for The Highest Good of All, ultimately contributing to practical utopia creation. The easier we make everything we do, the faster we see the world transitioning.

Every aspect of this model supports itself and contributes to its success, from the sustainable food, energy, and homes, to the social architecture, One Community Education Program, and open source sharing model itself. Each piece can be accessed, evolved, and even re-birthed as something completely new. It can be duplicated by itself or with other modules, with applications as diverse as the people who want and need them. The constantly expanding total model will additionally be able to be used in its entirety as the open source project-launch blueprint for a variety of duplicate teacher/demonstration communities, villages, and cities capable of being built virtually anywhere.

The most profound part is: the more we open source share, the more we help move everyone forward, the more people know about what we are doing and can participate, and the more successful and capable we are of project-launch blueprinting and sharing even more still. This is all supported and made possible because:

We have the team to produce an extensive quality and diversity of tools and resources
It gives us the opportunity to broaden the concept of sustainability and make it more desirable
Areas we open source expand our ability to evolve even faster through global collaboration
Each new area open sourced expands our target audience, advancing our world changing goals
The more we show our ability to share what we are creating, the more others will benefit and want to join this movement and mimic the part we are playing in it

SUMMARY

One Community sees the issues of the world as interdependent and interconnected. To address them simultaneously, we are open-source blueprinting a more advanced standard of living by designing holistic, environmentally-regenerative, self-sustaining, adaptable solutions for all areas of sustainability. We will model these within a comprehensive “village/city” which will be built in the southwestern U.S. This teacher/demonstration hub will be a place people can experience a new way of living and then replicate it with our open source blueprints: creating a model solution that creates additional solution-creating models.

World Game-Changing Solutions – One Community Weekly Progress Update #69

Posted on June 27, 2014 by One Community

WORLD GAME-CHANGING SOLUTIONS – HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION @1:43

One Community is creating world game-changing solutions through a comprehensive and holistic approach to sustainable, proactive, and regenerative living for The Highest Good of All:

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

OUR MAIN OPEN SOURCE HUBS

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

One Community’s physical location will forward this movement as the first of many self-replicating teacher/demonstration communities, villages, and cities to be built around the world. This is the June 27th, 2014 edition (#69) of our weekly progress update detailing the previous week’s development and accomplishments:

World Game-Changing Solutions
One Community Weekly Progress Update #69

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

WORLD GAME-CHANGING SOLUTIONS INTRO @1:00

- - Began working on the Happiness Lesson plan (see below)
  - Finished adding the rest of the Khan Academy open source education links to our Math subject page
  - Finished adding all icons and 30% of the subject specifics to the subject of Science page (see below)
  - Behind the scenes we finished the last details of the lesson plan with the core theme of “Signs” and began the lesson plan with the core them of “Opposites”

WORLD GAME-CHANGING SOLUTIONS – HIGHEST GOOD FOOD: @3:04

- - Added the diversity details of the Peas to the large-scale gardening page (see below)
  - Added the diversity details of the Tomatoes to the large-scale gardening page (see below)
  - We also finished the rest of our large-scale soil amendment strategy webpage

WORLD GAME-CHANGING SOLUTIONS – HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING: @4:12

- - Began the detailed equipment and tools inventory and needs lists for the crowdfunding campaign (see below)
  - Researched temporary shelter structures we’ll be needing for the crowdfunding campaign (see below)
  - Hajjar Gibran created the outline for complete DIY aircrete home construction (see below)

WORLD GAME-CHANGING SOLUTIONS – DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER: @5:28

- - Completed a utility analysis to evaluate the needed flow rates for our hot water needs (see below)
  - Began extensive research into Magnesium Oxide board as a possible sustainable plywood alternative
  - Began discussing elevator details (see below)
  - Joel Newman began outlining the lighting plan for this structure (see below)
  - P2S Engineering helped coordinate draft 3 of our floor heating plan (see below)
  - Ben Pollock finished about 70% of the large-scale kitchen equipment specifics (see below)

WORLD GAME-CHANGING SOLUTIONS – HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY: @7:28

- - Rewrite and redesign of our core values page for Personal Growth (see below)

WORLD GAME-CHANGING SOLUTIONS SUMMARY: @7:46

- - 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 creating world game-changing solutions 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 began working on the Happiness Lesson plan mindmap for teaching all subjects to all ages in the context of the central theme of happiness:

happiness, one Community, World Game-Changing Solutions

World Game-Changing Solutions – Happiness Lesson Plan Mindmap in Progress – Click to Visit Page

We also finished adding the rest of the icon images and about 30% of the subject specifics that correlate with those icons for the subject of Science page:

science page in progress, One Community, World Game-Changing Solutions

World Game-Changing Solutions – Subject of Science Page in Progress – Click to Visit

HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

One Community is creating world game-changing solutions 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 | Tropical Atrium

This last week the core team finished adding the diversity details to the organic Peas sections with 10 peas and the 9 featured that you see featured here. If you visit the large-scale gardening page you will also see we’ve added complete purchasing details, planting guidelines, cultural considerations, and more:

Peas, One Community, World Game-Changing Solutions

World Game-Changing Solutions – Organic Peas Diversity Details – Click to Visit Page

We also added the specifics for 25 Tomatoes, including the 10 that you can see featured here:

Tomatoes, One Community, World Game-Changing Solutions

World Game-Changing Solutions – Organic Tomatoes Diversity Details – Click to Visit Page

HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

One Community is creating world game-changing solutions 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 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 confirming the specifics of the detailed equipment and tools inventory and needs lists you see here for the 3-dome cluster crowdfunding campaign we are creating:

detailed equipment and tools inventory and needs list in progress, One Community

World Game-Changing Solutions – Detailed Equipment and Tools Inventory in Progress – Click for Complete Page

We also researched the temporary shelter structures we’ll be needing:

Researched temporary shelter structures, One Community, World Game-Changing Solutions

World Game-Changing Solutions – Temporary Shelter Structure Research

Related to this, we also announced our partnership with Hajjar Gibran (Designer, Builder, and Author) who is helping us add a do-it-yourself aircrete dome to the 3-dome cluster campaign so we can include and compare aircrete dome-home permitted blueprints, materials lists, tools lists like you saw before, DIY building instructions, video tutorials, and more to go along with the earthbag home plans. Here is the building list for what we’ll be completing and open source sharing with Hajjar’s help:

Aircrete Building List for 3-Dome Cluster Campaign, One Community, World Game-Changing Solutions

World Game-Changing Solutions – Aircrete Building List for 3-Dome Cluster Campaign

DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

One Community is creating world game-changing solutions 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 put together a utility analysis to evaluate the needed flow rates for our hot water needs:

Heat Pump Utility Chart, One Community, World Game-Changing Solutions

Heat Pump Utility Chart – Click to Visit Page

We also had multiple conversations with KONE elevators, listed by Newsweek as the 12th greenest company in the world, and producers of the EcoSpace elevator you see here:

Elevator example, One Community, World Game-Changing Solutions

World Game-Changing Solutions – KONE Ecospace Elevator

Joel Newman (Architectural Visualization Designer www.FigmentCreation.com) began outlining the lighting plan for the Duplicable City Center with an extensive amount of detail that we will be turning into an open source webpage. Here is a small preview of this work:

Preview of Lighting Plan, One Community, World Game-Changing Solutions

World Game-Changing Solutions – Preview of Lighting Plan

Also, Devin of Uponor, through coordination with James Nance (Mechanical Engineer and Project Manager with P2S Engineering) completed the next draft of our radiant floor heating plan, adding in equipment specifics and the schedule you see here:

World Game-Changing-Solutions-Flooring, One Community, World Game-Changing Solutions

World Game-Changing Solutions – Radiant Floor Heating Plan Draft

Last, but definitely not least, Ben Pollock with Webb Food Service Design finished about 70% of the large-scale kitchen equipment specifics you can see here:

Kitchen Equipment Specifics in progress, One Community, World Game-Changing Solutions

World Game-Changing Solutions – Kitchen Equipment Specifics in Progress

HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS

One Community is creating world game-changing solutions 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 working completed a rewrite and redesign of our core values page discussing creating a culture of personal growth as a foundation of global transformation, what the core value of growth means to us, and how we use this value in our decision making process. Here’s a screenshot of this work:

Personal Growth page, One Community, World Game-Changing Solutions

World Game-Changing Solutions – Personal Growth Page – Click to Visit

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

WHAT ONE COMMUNITY IS CREATING

One Community is creating a place to grow together and change the world together, along with a goal to be creating world game-changing solutions. 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, serving as an example for what is possible in terms of creating world game-changing solutions. 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, furthering the cause of world game-changing solutions.

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: Creating World Game-Changing Solutions, 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, thus world game-changing solutions. 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, further reinforcing the importance of creating world game-changing solutions.

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, thus fostering a sense of community and commitment to creating world game-changing solutions.

ONE COMMUNITY’S 4-PHASE STRATEGY

One Community is building solution-creating models designed to create additional solution-creating models to specifically facilitate exponential and sustainable global teacher/demonstration village growth. The following four phases of the strategy we are applying are designed to support each other and accelerate the process globally:

Phase I: Creating World Game-Changing Solutions by Demonstrating a Better Way

We are designing One Community to demonstrate an experience of living that we believe most people will consider to be better because it will be more enjoyable and fulfilling. We also think most people will consider it better because it is made possible specifically through a foundation of sustainable sustainability and a philosophy that is for The Highest Good of All, ultimately contributing to creating world game-changing solutions.

Phase II: Creating World Game-Changing Solutions with Open Source Project-Launch Blueprinting

Everything we do we are open source project-launch blueprinting and free-sharing to make it as easy and affordable as possible to duplicate, adapt, and evolve in the manner that suits each individual and/or group’s needs. Free-sharing information like this is our aggressive-exposure engine and an aspect of One Community that will accelerate indefinitely as we continue to build our team, move onto the property, and continuously build and evolve everything that is One Community.

Phase III: Creating World Game-Changing Solutions by Inviting the World to Participate

Everything we are open source project-launch blueprinting is designed to invite the world to participate by duplicating it as either individual components or complete teacher/demonstration communities, villages, and cities that will be able to be built almost anywhere in the world, thereby creating world game-changing solutions. Additionally, people can join One Community as members, consultants and/or partners, or use the suggestions links on our open source project-launch blueprinting hubs to help with the design, implementation, and evolution process. Scholarships, weekend learning and work crews, and tourism will be foundations of One Community once we have sufficient infrastructure in place to support these options.

Phase IV: Creating World Game-Changing Solutions with Universal Appeal and Global Expansion

As One Community continues evolving and establishing ourselves, everything we create and promote will serve as the engine to inspire people to align with the concept of open source and sustainable living for The Highest Good of All, further creating world game-changing solutions. We are doing this to create mainstream appeal and our path to achieving this appeal is demonstrating a happier, more affordable, and ecologically friendly model of living that can be built anywhere in the world.

Open source project-launch blueprinting it all is how we believe the model will spread and, possibly most importantly, that it will predictably spread even faster in the areas where it is needed most because building restrictions, the cost of land, and materials costs are in most cases lower in these areas.

WHY OPEN SOURCE

We are creating everything One Community does as open source and free-shared blueprints because we see this as the path to a new Golden Age of creativity, innovation, cooperation, and collaboration for all of humanity, ultimately contributing to creating world game-changing solutions. Our model is a solution model that creates additional solution creating models enabling people to live and collaborate globally for The Highest Good of All. The easier we make everything we do, the faster we see the world transitioning.

Every aspect of this model supports itself and contributes to its success, from the sustainable food, energy, and homes, to the social architecture, One Community Education Program, and open source sharing model itself. Each piece can be accessed, evolved, and even re-birthed as something completely new. It can be duplicated by itself or with other modules, with applications as diverse as the people who want and need them. The constantly expanding total model will additionally be able to be used in its entirety as the open source project-launch blueprint for a variety of duplicate teacher/demonstration communities, villages, and cities capable of being built virtually anywhere, thereby contributing to world game-changing solutions.

The most profound part is: the more we open source share, the more we help move everyone forward, the more people know about what we are doing and can participate, and the more successful and capable we are of project-launch blueprinting and sharing even more still, ultimately leading to creating world game-changing solutions. This is all supported and made possible because:

We have the team to produce an extensive quality and diversity of tools and resources
It gives us the opportunity to broaden the concept of sustainability and make it more desirable
Areas we open source expand our ability to evolve even faster through global collaboration
Each new area open sourced expands our target audience, advancing our world changing goals
The more we show our ability to share what we are creating, the more others will benefit and want to join this movement and mimic the part we are playing in it

SUMMARY

One Community sees the issues of the world as interdependent and interconnected. To address them simultaneously, we are open-source blueprinting a more advanced standard of living by designing holistic, environmentally-regenerative, self-sustaining, adaptable solutions for all areas of sustainability. We will model these within a comprehensive “village/city” which will be built in the southwestern U.S. This teacher/demonstration hub will be a place people can experience a new way of living and then replicate it with our open source blueprints: creating a model solution that creates additional solution-creating models.

Sustainable Paradigm Building – One Community Weekly Progress Update #68

Posted on June 20, 2014 by One Community

SUSTAINABLE PARADIGM BUILDING – HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION @1:39

One Community is sustainable paradigm building through a comprehensive and holistic approach to sustainable, proactive, and regenerative living for The Highest Good of All:

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

OUR MAIN OPEN SOURCE HUBS

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

One Community’s physical location will forward this movement as the first of many self-replicating teacher/demonstration communities, villages, and cities to be built around the world. This is the June 20th, 2014 edition (#68) of our weekly progress update detailing the previous week’s developments and accomplishments:

Sustainable Paradigm Building
One Community Weekly Progress Update #68

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

SUSTAINABLE PARADIGM BUILDING INTRO @1:00

Added Technology and Innovation lesson plan section for each of our three finished lesson plan pages:
- Time Page (see below)
- Matter and Materials Page
- Relative and Dimensional Space Page
Added 90% of the images to the complete subject of Science page
Finished another 30% of the lesson plan with the core theme of “Signs” (B.T.S.: 90% done total)
Finished the final 20% of the lesson plan with the core theme of “Happiness” (B.T.S.: 100% done)
Seeking people to help develop lesson plans

SUSTAINABLE PARADIGM BUILDING – HIGHEST GOOD FOOD: @2:59

Added diversity for Alliums and Lettuce sections of the large-scale gardening page (see below)
Finished another 15% of our large-scale soil amendment strategy webpage – 90% done (see below)

SUSTAINABLE PARADIGM BUILDING – HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING: @4:04

Visited the upcoming crowdfunding site for the 3-dome cluster (see below)
Researched all existing on-line free-shared plans (see below)
Completed our open source water heating and cooling webpage (see below)
Added thermal loss specifics & global ground temp. avs to the dome heating & cooling page (see below)
Philip Gill completed the dome-home furniture plan action list for crowdfunding campaign (see below)

SUSTAINABLE PARADIGM BUILDING – DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER: @5:29

Added natural pool indoor/outdoor transition point videos, materials list, thermal calcs and downloadable CAD file to the indoor/outdoor pool page (see below)
Jennifer Engelmeier and team helped us update the pool page and hardware details (see below)
Karl Harris redesigned our bathroom to be ADA compliant and completed about 50% of the West elevation CAD drawings (see below)

SUSTAINABLE PARADIGM BUILDING – HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY: @7:01

Redesigned and rewrote our Freedom values page (see below)
Removed Flash from all our key videos so that countries and people with older computers will be able to view them

SUSTAINABLE PARADIGM BUILDING SUMMARY: @7:44

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 sustainable paradigm building 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 addition of a Technology and Innovation lesson plan section for each of our three finished lesson plan mindmaps, here’s an example of what the completed Time Page now looks like and we’ve got the same level of detail for both a Matter and Materials lesson plan and a Relative and Dimensional Space lesson plan:

Time Lesson Plan Page, One Community, Sustainable Paradigm Building

Sustainable Paradigm Building – Updated Time Lesson Plan Page – Click to Visit

HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

One Community is sustainable paradigm building 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 | Tropical Atrium

This last week the core team finished adding the diversity details to the organic alliums section with 34 total alliums and 8 featured:

Alliums, One Community, Sustainable Paradigm Building

Organic Alliums Diversity Details – Click to Visit Page

We also added the diversity details to the lettuce sections 18 lettuces and specific details for the 9 that you can see featured here:

Lettuce, One Community, Sustainable Paradigm Building

Sustainable Paradigm Building – Lettuce Diversity Details – Click to Visit Page

We also finished another 15% of our large-scale soil amendment strategy webpage, adding all of the planting specifics and bringing us to 90% completion of this open source guide for soil reparation in areas needing it:

Soil Amendment Page in progress, One Community

Sustainable Paradigm Building – New Soil Amendment Page Additions – Click to Visit Page

HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

One Community is sustainable paradigm building 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 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 visited the site and took these pictures of where we will be building the 3-dome cluster as part of our crowdfunding campaign to open source share complete home plans, furniture plans, building tutorials, and more for earthbag construction. Here are pictures of the site from a distance:

3-dome cluster build site, One Community, Sustainable Paradigm Building

Sustainable Paradigm Building – 3-Dome Cluster Build Site

Here are pictures of the site up-close:

3-dome cluster build site close up view, One Community, Sustainable Paradigm Building

Sustainable Paradigm Building – 3-Dome Cluster Build Site Close-up View

We also completed research of all existing on-line free-shared plans showing there is definitely a need for what we will be adding to the industry and global open source archive. What’s available is extremely limited. Here is a sample of all we could find:

Other on line free-shared plans, Sustainable Paradigm Building

Sustainable Paradigm Building – Research of Existing On-line Free-shared Plans

Our open source water heating and cooling webpage is now complete. We share why we’ll be going with a combination of a solar-run heat pump and a solar collector.

Water Heating and cooling page, One Community,Sustainable Paradigm Building

Sustainable Paradigm Building – Completed Water Heating and Cooling Webpage – Click to Visit

And, thanks to public feedback, we added thermal loss specifics and global ground temperature averages to the dome-home heating and cooling page. Here are the thermal loss specifics:

Earthdome Heating and Cooling Equations, Sustainable Paradigm Building

Sustainable Paradigm Building – Earthdome Heating and Cooling Equations – Click to Visit the Complete Page

Philip Gill (Interior and Furniture Designer and Owner of Philip Gill Design) continues to develop the 2nd furniture layout for the Earthbag Village homes. This last week he added textures and started detailing the specific furniture pieces.

dome-home furniture plan action list, One Community, Sustainable Paradigm Building

Sustainable Paradigm Building – Dome-home Furniture Plan Action List – Click to Enlarge

DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

One Community is sustainable paradigm building 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 Da Ku‘s (Mechanical Engineer) completed natural pool indoor/outdoor transition point videos, materials list, thermal calculations and downloadable CAD file to the open source natural pool page:

natural pool indoor/outdoor transition point details, One Community, Sustainable Paradigm Building

Newly Added Natural Pool Indoor/Outdoor Transition Point Details – Click for Complete Page

Jennifer Engelmeier of www.LoveYourNaturalPool.com, working in conjunction with our partner Rick Ruggles of Hayward Pool Products and Rob Gjerde of Sorico Design and Consulting helped us to update all our hardware links on the website and continued evolving the master materials list you see here:

Pool Hardware Spreadsheet, One Community, Sustainable Paradigm Building

Sustainable Paradigm Building – Pool Hardware Links Updated

Also, Karl Harris (Architect Drafter, Designer, and founder of Harris Design & Technology Services) redesigned our resident bathroom in the Kitchen dome to be ADA compliant:

Duplicable City Center bathroom redesign, One Community, Sustainable Paradigm Building

Sustainable Paradigm Building – Duplicable City Center Bathroom Redesign in CAD

And completed about 50% of the West elevations CAD drawings you can see here:

West elevations CAD, One Community, Sustainable Paradigm Building

Sustainable Paradigm Building – West Elevations Evolving in CAD – Click for Complete Page

HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS

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

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

This last week the core team completed a rewrite and redesign of our core values page discussing Freedom and what it means to the environment we are creating along with how we use this value in our decision making process. Here’s what this looks like:

Freedom page, One Community, Sustainable Paradigm Building

Sustainable Paradigm Building – Freedom Page Rewritten – Click to Visit

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

WHAT ONE COMMUNITY IS CREATING

One Community is creating a place to grow together and change the world together, along with a goal to be creating a sustainable paradigm building. 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, serving as an example for what is possible in terms of creating a sustainable paradigm building. 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, furthering the cause of creating a sustainable paradigm building.

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: Creating a Sustainable Paradigm building, 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, thus creating a sustainable paradigm building. 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, further reinforcing the importance of creating a sustainable paradigm building.

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, thus fostering a sense of community and commitment to creating a sustainable paradigm building.

ONE COMMUNITY’S 4-PHASE STRATEGY

One Community is building solution-creating models designed to create additional solution-creating models to specifically facilitate exponential and sustainable global teacher/demonstration village growth. The following four phases of the strategy we are applying are designed to support each other and accelerate the process globally:

Phase I: Creating a Sustainable Paradigm Building by Demonstrating a Better Way

We are designing One Community to demonstrate an experience of living that we believe most people will consider to be better because it will be more enjoyable and fulfilling. We also think most people will consider it better because it is made possible specifically through a foundation of sustainable sustainability and a philosophy that is for The Highest Good of All, ultimately contributing to creating a sustainable paradigm building.

Phase II: Creating a Sustainable Paradigm Building with Open Source Project-Launch Blueprinting

Everything we do we are open source project-launch blueprinting and free-sharing to make it as easy and affordable as possible to duplicate, adapt, and evolve in the manner that suits each individual and/or group’s needs. Free-sharing information like this is our aggressive-exposure engine and an aspect of One Community that will accelerate indefinitely as we continue to build our team, move onto the property, and continuously build and evolve everything that is One Community.

Phase III: Creating a Sustainable Paradigm Building by Inviting the World to Participate

Everything we are open source project-launch blueprinting is designed to invite the world to participate by duplicating it as either individual components or complete teacher/demonstration communities, villages, and cities that will be able to be built almost anywhere in the world, thereby creating a sustainable paradigm building. Additionally, people can join One Community as members, consultants and/or partners, or use the suggestions links on our open source project-launch blueprinting hubs to help with the design, implementation, and evolution process. Scholarships, weekend learning and work crews, and tourism will be foundations of One Community once we have sufficient infrastructure in place to support these options.

Phase IV: Creating a Sustainable Paradigm Building with Universal Appeal and Global Expansion

As One Community continues evolving and establishing ourselves, everything we create and promote will serve as the engine to inspire people to align with the concept of open source and sustainable living for The Highest Good of All, further creating a sustainable paradigm building. We are doing this to create mainstream appeal and our path to achieving this appeal is demonstrating a happier, more affordable, and ecologically friendly model of living that can be built anywhere in the world.

Open source project-launch blueprinting it all is how we believe the model will spread and, possibly most importantly, that it will predictably spread even faster in the areas where it is needed most because building restrictions, the cost of land, and materials costs are in most cases lower in these areas.

WHY OPEN SOURCE

We are creating everything One Community does as open source and free-shared blueprints because we see this as the path to a new Golden Age of creativity, innovation, cooperation, and collaboration for all of humanity, ultimately contributing to creating a sustainable paradigm building. Our model is a solution model that creates additional solution creating models enabling people to live and collaborate globally for The Highest Good of All. The easier we make everything we do, the faster we see the world transitioning.

Every aspect of this model supports itself and contributes to its success, from the sustainable food, energy, and homes, to the social architecture, One Community Education Program, and open source sharing model itself. Each piece can be accessed, evolved, and even re-birthed as something completely new. It can be duplicated by itself or with other modules, with applications as diverse as the people who want and need them. The constantly expanding total model will additionally be able to be used in its entirety as the open source project-launch blueprint for a variety of duplicate teacher/demonstration communities, villages, and cities capable of being built virtually anywhere, thereby contributing to creating a sustainable paradigm building.

The most profound part is: the more we open source share, the more we help move everyone forward, the more people know about what we are doing and can participate, and the more successful and capable we are of project-launch blueprinting and sharing even more still, ultimately leading to creating a sustainable paradigm building. This is all supported and made possible because:

We have the team to produce an extensive quality and diversity of tools and resources
It gives us the opportunity to broaden the concept of sustainability and make it more desirable
Areas we open source expand our ability to evolve even faster through global collaboration
Each new area open sourced expands our target audience, advancing our world changing goals
The more we show our ability to share what we are creating, the more others will benefit and want to join this movement and mimic the part we are playing in it

SUMMARY

One Community sees the issues of the world as interdependent and interconnected. To address them simultaneously, we are open-source blueprinting a more advanced standard of living by designing holistic, environmentally-regenerative, self-sustaining, adaptable solutions for all areas of sustainability. We will model these within a comprehensive “village/city” which will be built in the southwestern U.S. This teacher/demonstration hub will be a place people can experience a new way of living and then replicate it with our open source blueprints: creating a model solution that creates additional solution-creating models.

One Community Welcomes Hajjar Gibran to the Design Team!

Posted on June 19, 2014 by One Community

One Community is happy to welcome Hajjar Gibran to the Design Team:

Hajjar Gibran – Innovative Designer, Builder, Author and Spiritual Guide: Hajjar abandoned his career in engineering after the tragic death of his brother compelled him to follow his spiritual calling. After decades of inner exploration and personal transformation he created the Gibran Method for Spiritual Empowerment. In 2009, Simon and Schuster and a dozen other foreign publishers published his book The Return of The Prophet, the award winning sequel to The Prophet by his great uncle Kahlil Gibran. Hajjar then created The Gibran Center, a community health retreat in one of the poorest regions of rural Thailand. Adjacent to the center he started a volunteer run school to offer a better life to the local children who otherwise get caught in the sex industry. While creating The Gibran Center, Hajjar developed an efficient, low-cost, ecological way of building beautiful domes. A video and articles of a dome home he built with his brother-in-law have gone viral on the internet creating a global demand. In 2014 he created Global Dome Homes with a vision to support One Community and other sustainable development projects, as well as provide low cost housing for people in need the world over.

Here is an example of Hajjar’s work:

WELCOME TO THE TEAM HAJJAR!

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Solutioneering Our Future – One Community Weekly Progress Update #67

Posted on June 11, 2014 by One Community

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One Community is solutioneering our future with open source approaches to food, energy, housing, education, for-profit and non-profit economic design, social architecture, fulfilled living, stewardship practices and more. Our purpose for doing this is to demonstrate living and creating for The Highest Good of All as a path to positive and permanent global transformation:

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. Here is our weekly progress update (#67) covering our development and accomplishments for the week of June 2nd, 2014:

Solutioneering Our Future
One Community Weekly Progress Update #67

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

SOLUTIONEERING OUR FUTURE INTRO @1:00

SOLUTIONEERING OUR FUTURE – HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION @1:42

Finished the addition of a Technology and Innovation branch to each of our 3 posted lesson plan mindmaps (see below)
Researched and added another 10% of the Khan Academy links to our Math page – 70% complete
Behind the scenes: Now 60% done with the lesson plan with the core theme of “Signs”

SOLUTIONEERING OUR FUTURE – HIGHEST GOOD FOOD: @2:58

Added diversity details to the organic eggplant section of the large-scale gardening page (see below)
Priced out all the necessary heavy equipment for the large-scale garden preparation (behind the scenes)
Finished another 25% of our large-scale soil amendment strategy webpage (see below)

SOLUTIONEERING OUR FUTURE – HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING: @4:03

Finished the initial outline of our open source water heating and cooling webpage (see below)
Began our labor calculations for the 3-dome home cluster crowdfunding campaign (see below)
Finished the research necessary to narrow our internet choices down to two (see below)

SOLUTIONEERING OUR FUTURE – DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER: @5:08

Da Ku finished the natural pool indoor/outdoor transition point redesign (see below)
Karl Harris added the stairs, walls, and cupola details for the north-view CAD elevations (see below)

SOLUTIONEERING OUR FUTURE – HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY: @6:13

Guy Fraser completed an extensive analysis of wordpress as a platform for collaboration (see below)

SOLUTIONEERING OUR FUTURE SUMMARY: @7:00

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HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

We are solutioneering our future including 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 addition of a Technology and Innovation branch to each of our three finished lesson plan mindmaps that you can see here:

Click to Visit Pages

HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

One Community is solutioneering our future including 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 | Tropical Atrium

This last week the core team finished adding the diversity details to the organic eggplant section of the large-scale gardening page featuring 8 different varieties of eggplant from around the world plus 1 more. The page now offers over 130 finished plants with cultural considerations, planting guidelines, complete sourcing details and more. Here is a snapshot of the eggplant details that are new:

Solutioneering Our Future, Eggplant, One Community

Organic Eggplant Section Complete – Click to Visit Page

We also finished another 25% of our large-scale soil amendment strategy webpage, bringing us to 75% completion of that open source guide for soil reparation in areas needing it:

Soil amendment page in progress, One Community, Solutioneering Our Future

Solutioneering Our Future – Soil Amendment Strategy Webpage – Click to Visit Page

HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

One Community is solutioneering our future including 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 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 finished the initial outline of our open source water heating and cooling webpage sharing the details of our research into this crucial city creation element. This image is an overview of what we learned and the page we are finishing will share complete details of why a combination of a solar collector combined with the cost of a heat pump will more than pay for themselves in a fairly short time through electricity savings:

Water Heating and Cooling Initial Outline, One Community

Solutioneering Our Future – Water Heating and Cooling Initial Outline – Click for Complete Page

We also spoke with the county for the property where we’ll be building the 3-dome cluster for the crowdfunding campaign we are creating and began our detailed labor calculations for this build. Here is a snapshot of this work in progress that we will share in detail once we all agree it is complete:

Earthbag Village Construction Chart, One Community, Solutioneering Our Future

Solutioneering Our Future – Earthbag Village Construction Chart – Click for Earthbag Village OS Hub

Lastly, we’re getting closer and closer to finalizing the internet strategy that will be necessary to share everything we are creating. Connection options.

Solutioneering Internet, Solutioneering Our Future

Solutioneering Our Future – Internet

Listed from best to worst, the internet options for any location are:

Physical connection of high-speed internet line (Fiber, Cable, T3, DSL)
High-speed wireless internet service
DIY wireless internet service (purchasing area/rights near property that can access high-speed physical connection and establish wireless point-to-point link onto property)
Satellite internet connection

This simple list is the result of hours of research determining that the details of the first two options are really what an organization open source and free-sharing as much as we are will need. Here are the specifics of the two options:

Physical data connection, options include:
1. Buried cabling between buildings/zones (buried at least 1m down)
  1. Fiber optic cable (up to ~40 Gbps), around $0.75/ft
    1. Single-mode (20km+)
    2. Multi-mode (up to 300m)
  2. Coax cable (up to ~10 Gbps), up to 100m, around $0.15/ft
  3. Ethernet cable (up to ~1 GBps), up to 75m, around $0.10/ft
2. Wireless ‘Point-to-Point’/’Line-of-Sight’ connection system (up to ~1.4 Gbps), around $2000/connection, plus cost of tower and cable connections

The first option is 10-40x better and the option we are now seeking to confirm if a realistic implementation option exists for our remote location. Stay tuned as our research continues.

DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

One Community is solutioneering our future including 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 week Da Ku (Mechanical Engineer) finished the natural pool indoor/outdoor transition point redesign including a materials list and the video and design specifics you see here showing two plexiglass doors that will open. This two-door system creates an additional space in the middle to improve insulative properties and allow for easy cleaning of both sides of the plexiglass to keep them clean and easy to see through. Here is the best summary image and more images are on the natural pool page:

Duplicable City Center Natural Pool Indoor/Outdoor Transition Point - Click for the Complete Page, Solutioneering Our Future

Solutioneering Our Future – Duplicable City Center Natural Pool Indoor/Outdoor Transition Point – Click for the Complete Page

Karl Harris (Architect Drafter, Designer, and founder of Harris Design & Technology Services) also added the stairs, walls, and cupola details for the north-view CAD elevations:

Duplicable City Center, CAD, One Community, Solutioneering Our Future

Stairs, Walls and Cupola Details Added for the North-view CAD Elevations – Click to Visit Page

HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS

One Community is solutioneering our future including 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 Guy Fraser (Software Developer and Information Architect) completed an extensive analysis of wordpress (the same platform this website is created on) as a platform for collaboration for both the Highest Good Network and the global plant database that Guy has been working on for months. Here is a screenshot of the page that the core team created to share his research and findings so others can benefit from this too:

UPDATE: A PLANT APPLICATION WITH THE DETAIL, OPEN SOURCE, AND COLLABORATIVE INPUT
ABILITY WE DESIRE NOW EXISTS: CLICK HERE FOR THE ENCYCLOPEDIA OF LIFE

Solutioneering Our Future WordPress as a collaborative tool, One Community

Solutioneering Our Future Can WordPress be Used for Collaboration Webpage – Click to Visit Page

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WHAT ONE COMMUNITY IS CREATING

One Community is creating a place to grow together and change the world together, along with a goal to be solutioneering our future. 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, serving as an example for what is possible in terms of solutioneering our future. This replicable community will serve as an example for what is possible.

Throughout our design process we are open sourcing and free-sharing everything needed for construction and replication. This includes what we call “Highest Good” approaches to food, energy, housing, education, for-profit and non-profit economics design, social architecture, fulfilled living, stewardship practices and more. 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, furthering the cause of solutioneering our future.

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: Solutioneering Our Future, 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, thus solutioneering our future. 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, further reinforcing the importance of solutioneering our future.

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, thus fostering a sense of community and commitment to solutioneering our future.

ONE COMMUNITY’S 4-PHASE STRATEGY

One Community is building solution-creating models designed to create additional solution-creating models to specifically facilitate exponential and sustainable global teacher/demonstration village growth. The following four phases of the strategy we are applying are designed to support each other and accelerate the process globally:

Phase I: Solutioneering Our Future by Demonstrating a Better Way

We are designing One Community to demonstrate an experience of living that we believe most people will consider to be better because it will be more enjoyable and fulfilling. We also think most people will consider it better because it is made possible specifically through a foundation of sustainable sustainability and a philosophy that is for The Highest Good of All, ultimately contributing to creating global sustainability.

Phase II: Solutioneering Our Future with Open Source Project-Launch Blueprinting

Everything we do we are open source project-launch blueprinting and free-sharing to make it as easy and affordable as possible to duplicate, adapt, and evolve in the manner that suits each individual and/or group’s needs. Free-sharing information like this is our aggressive-exposure engine and an aspect of One Community that will accelerate indefinitely as we continue to build our team, move onto the property, and continuously build and evolve everything that is One Community.

Phase III: Solutioneering Our Future by Inviting the World to Participate

Everything we are open source project-launch blueprinting is designed to invite the world to participate by duplicating it as either individual components or complete teacher/demonstration communities, villages, and cities that will be able to be built almost anywhere in the world, thereby solutioneering our future. Additionally, people can join One Community as members, consultants and/or partners, or use the suggestions links on our open source project-launch blueprinting hubs to help with the design, implementation, and evolution process. Scholarships, weekend learning and work crews, and tourism will be foundations of One Community once we have sufficient infrastructure in place to support these options.

Phase IV: Solutioneering Our Future with Universal Appeal and Global Expansion

As One Community continues evolving and establishing ourselves, everything we create and promote will serve as the engine to inspire people to align with the concept of open source and sustainable living for The Highest Good of All, further solutioneering our future. We are doing this to create mainstream appeal and our path to achieving this appeal is demonstrating a happier, more affordable, and ecologically friendly model of living that can be built anywhere in the world.

Open source project-launch blueprinting it all is how we believe the model will spread and, possibly most importantly, that it will predictably spread even faster in the areas where it is needed most because building restrictions, the cost of land, and materials costs are in most cases lower in these areas.

SUMMARY

One Community sees the issues of the world as interdependent and interconnected. To address them simultaneously, we are open-source blueprinting a more advanced standard of living by designing holistic, environmentally-regenerative, self-sustaining, adaptable solutions for all areas of sustainability. We will model these within a comprehensive “village/city” which will be built in the southwestern U.S. This teacher/demonstration hub will be a place people can experience a new way of living and then replicate it with our open source blueprints: creating a model solution that creates additional solution-creating models.

One Community Welcomes Public Architecture to Our Highest Good Collaboration Team

Posted on June 10, 2014 by One Community

One Community is happy to welcome Public Architecture to the Highest Good Collaborators Team:

Public Architecture is a national charitable organization based in San Francisco. It engages architecture and design firms, nonprofits, and manufacturers to commit to design for the public good through its nationally recognized 1% program; it acts to bring about positive community change through public-interest design initiatives and pro bono design service grants; and it shares the potential of design to change the world through advocacy and outreach. As a One Community partner, the 1% program uses its matching system (and offers the same service to all 501(c)(3) nonprofits) to find designers providing pro bono services to match with our design service needs covering all aspects of Highest Good Housing and the Duplicable City Center.

WELCOME TO THE TEAM PUBLIC ARCHITECTURE!

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One Community Welcomes Mike Creedy to the Consultants Team!

Posted on June 3, 2014 by One Community

One Community is happy to welcome Mike Creedy to the Consultants Team:

Mike Creedy – Earthbuilder, Electrical Engineer, and Commercial Mushroom Farmer: Mike was born in Wales and immigrated to Namibia when he was 7 years old. After leaving school he apprenticed as an electrician at De Beers diamond mines followed by a four year electrical engineering college degree in South Africa and two more years at Cape Town university enrolled in the electrical field again. He then joined a commercial mushroom farm and spent 6 years there working up to farm manager before returning to De Beers on the engineering side. 5 years later he moved back to his senior school town and spent 10 years in the position of city electrical engineer. Mike immigrated to Florida in 1996 and took up citizenship five years later. In 2011 Mike started building a dome home and, thanks to all the engineering background, was able to do all the work in-house. Mike is passionate about vegetarianism (40 years), hügels, organic veggie home growing, creating biodynamic and colloidal compost, and sustainability in general. Sharing One Community’s values to create and open source share for the benefit of all of humanity, Mike joined the Consultants and Partner’s team, shared the details of his own project, and continues to share his experience and input as needed to help us with the open source earthbag village (and any other sustainability aspects he has experience in).

WELCOME TO THE TEAM MIKE!

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Whole-systems Approach for World Change – One Community Weekly Progress Update #66

Posted on June 2, 2014 by One Community

WHOLE-SYSTEMS APPROACH FOR WORLD CHANGE – HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION @1:49

One Community is utilizing a whole-systems approach for world change by broadening sustainability beyond food, energy, and housing to include education, for-profit and non-profit economics design, social architecture, fulfilled living, stewardship practices and more:

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

OUR MAIN OPEN SOURCE HUBS

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

Whole-systems Approach for World Change 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. Here is our weekly progress update (#66) covering our development and accomplishments for the week of May 26th, 2014:

Whole-Systems Approach for World Change
One Community Weekly Progress Update #66

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

WHOLE-SYSTEMS APPROACH FOR WORLD CHANGE INTRO @1:00

- - - - Finished the English Subject molecule (see below)
        
        Researched and added another 20% of links from our Math page to the Khan Academy (60% complete)
        
        Behind the scenes we finished the Happiness themed lesson plan and began the lesson plan with the core theme of “Signs”

WHOLE-SYSTEMS APPROACH FOR WORLD CHANGE – HIGHEST GOOD FOOD: @2:58

- - - - Created the final 3-D renders of the complete aquapini and walipini footprint (see below)
        
        Added the 18-hoop house planting maps to the the large-scale gardening page
        
        Added the diversity details to the organic cucumber section of the large-scale gardening page (see below)
        
        Now 50% done with our large-scale soil amendment strategy webpage

WHOLE-SYSTEMS APPROACH FOR WORLD CHANGE – HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING: @4:26

- - - - Finished the earthbag home heating and cooling page
        
        Began outlining a strategy for crowdfunding the building and complete open source sharing of a 3-dome home cluster (see below)
        
        Outlined version 1.0 of our remote internet plan (see below)
        
        Finished our tank versus tankless water heater comparison research for the earthbag village communal showers (see below)

WHOLE-SYSTEMS APPROACH FOR WORLD CHANGE – DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER: @5:22

- - - - James Nance outlined all the heating zones (see below)
        
        Ben Pollock detailed kitchen canning and preserving and dishwashing sections and more equipment (see below)

WHOLE-SYSTEMS APPROACH FOR WORLD CHANGE – HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY: @6:38

- - - - Updated the details of our core value of Diversity page (see below)

WHOLE-SYSTEMS APPROACH FOR WORLD CHANGE SUMMARY: @7:15

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

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HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

We are creating whole-systems approach for world change including 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 English Subject molecule! Here it is:

English Molecule, One Community, Whole-systems Approach for World Change

English Molecule – Click to Visit Page

HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

We are creating whole-systems approach for world change including 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 | Tropical Atrium

This last week the core team created the final 3-D renders of the complete aquapini and walipini footprint. Here is a series showing this in-ground growing and aquaponics concept that will include 6 different internal growing environments, recreational spaces, water collection off of all structures, a central water pond for storage, and a central amphitheater for hosting recreational and educational events:

One Community Food Footprint, Whole-systems Approach for World Change

Final 3-D Renders of the Complete Aquapini and Walipini Footprint – Click to Visit Page

We also finished adding the diversity details to the organic cucumber section of the large-scale gardening page that now offers 10 different varieties of cucumbers from around the world, 7 beautifully featured, and complete sourcing details for all of these and the other food plants already on this page:

Whole-Systems Approach for World Change Cucumbers, One Community

Organic Cucumber Diversity Details – Click to Visit Page

HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

We are creating whole-systems approach for world change including 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 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 outlining a strategy for crowdfunding the building and open source sharing of a 3-dome home cluster. We’ll be building it in West Virginia and the campaign will provide complete building plans, multimedia building instructions for all components, opportunities to join the team for hands-on learning, and more. All of which will be a stepping stone to the construction of the complete Earthbag Village. We will continue to share weekly update details on our progress as we detail the rest of our plan and complete all the necessary plans, videos, labor projections, materials lists, etc. etc.

3-dome home cluster, earthbag village, One Community, Whole-systems Approach for World Change

3-Dome Home Cluster for Upcoming Crowdfunding Campaign – Click to Visit Page

We also finished outlining version 1.0 of our remote internet plan. Here is a screenshot of this GoogleDoc:

version 1.0 of our remote internet plan, One Community, Whole-systems Approach for World Change

Version 1.0 of Remote Internet Plan

And finished our tank versus tankless water heater comparison research for the earthbag village communal showers showing a heatpump with a simple solar collector as the best choice by far for heating water in off-grid situations like ours where energy costs can significantly raise the total water heating costs because they are directly tied to needing more energy infrastructure. Here is the cost to implement combined with cost to power chart that will soon be included on a complete page sharing all the specifics of our work and research into sustainable and ecological water heating for remote locations:

DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

We are creating whole-systems approach for world change including 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 week James Nance (Mechanical Engineer and Project Manager with P2S Engineering) continued work on the heating plan for the Duplicable City Center – here are the results of our collaborative outline for all the separate controllable heating zones for floors 1 and 2. Each of the zones outlined will allow us separate heating control so we can maximize the efficiency of this building based on use and season.

Heating plan first floor, duplicable city center, One Community, Whole-systems Approach for World Change

Heating Zones – 1st Floor

Heating plan, duplicable city center, One Community, Whole-systems Approach for World Change

Heating Zones – 2nd Floor

Ben Pollock (Full Service Restaurant and Kitchen Designer/Senior Project Manager with Webb Food Service Design) also made huge progress on the kitchen details including specifics for the canning and preserving and dishwashing sections plus all the food serving areas. He also confirmed the specific details for the sprayers, heat boosters, and dishwashers. Here is the updated layout:

Kitchen Details, One Community, Whole-systems Approach for World Change

Kitchen Specifics Added – Click to Visit Page

Here are the specifics of the equipment Ben chose:

whole-systems approach for world change dishwasher, One Community, Whole-systems Approach for World Change

Specifics for the Sprayers, Heat Boosters, and Dishwashers

HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS

We are creating whole-systems approach for world change including 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 completely updated the details of our core value of Diversity page covering how diversity is foundational to our organization’s world-change goals and philosophy and how we use this value in our internal decision making process:

Diversity Page, One Community, Whole-systems Approach for World Change

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