Creating a cooperative future is possible if enough people want it. We can change the societal norms of competition to norms of collaboration if we choose to. One way to achieve sufficient engagement and participation in this idea is to create an open source and free-shared model that demonstrates this on a small-scale while providing a better way of living than the way most people are living now. Such a model, if demonstrated as easy enough and affordable enough, will predictably spread and expand on its own. We are designing this as what we call living and creating for The Highest Good of All.

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

OUR MAIN OPEN SOURCE HUBS

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

One Community’s physical location will forward this movement of creating a cooperative future as the first of many self-replicating teacher/demonstration communities, villages, and cities to be built around the world. This is the January 1st, 2017 edition (#197) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments:

Creating a Cooperative Future
One Community Progress Update #197

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

CREATING A COOPERATIVE FUTURE INTRO: @1:03

CREATING A COOPERATIVE FUTURE HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION: @2:04

• Transferred the final 25% of the written content for the Cognition Lesson Plan to the website (see below)
• Behind the scenes: wrote the final 75% section of the written part of the Cosmos Lesson Plan
• Completed the third 25% of the mindmap for the Consciousness Lesson Plan (see below)

CREATING A COOPERATIVE FUTURE HIGHEST GOOD FOOD: @3:01

• Finished reformatting and adding sections to the Vegan Sweet Potato Recipes & Omnivore Sweet Potato Recipes pages (see below)

CREATING A COOPERATIVE FUTURE HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING: @3:34

• Finished final 15% of the Earthbag Municipal/County Involvement and Permitting page (see below)
• Updated the Recycled Materials Village floor plans, added them to the site, and worked some more on updating the related details for the 7 villages online book (see below)
• Worked on renders for the Earthbag Village bathroom and shower structures (see below)
• Adrienne Gould-Choquette helped work on the standardized AutoCAD layers and line weights template we are creating (see below)
• Fernando Remolina continued managing the Vermiculture Bathroom development with help from Lin Xu and Jianyu “Lucas” Liang (see below)
• Lianyi Zhao completed his 2nd week of working on the Net-zero Communal Bathroom modeling (see below)
• Dean Scholz continued helping us create quality Cob Village renders (see below)
• Hamilton Mateca finished his 24th week helping with the Compressed Earth Block Village design details (see below)
• Aparna Tandon continued her work on the Compressed Earth Block Village external elements (see below)
• Guy Grossfeld created this 1st generation update of the main Shipping Container Village render (see below)

CREATING A COOPERATIVE FUTURE DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER: @6:55

• Continued render creation for the Duplicable City Center which included more work on the natural pool area (see below)
• Created a new render for the Duplicable City Center Dining Dome (see below)
• Oruba Rabie joined the team and helped double check all structural engineering details for the City Center (see below)
• Dipti Dhondarkar continued with her 24th week of work on the lighting specifics for the City Center (see below)
• Jinxi Feng continued her research helping us create an in-depth laundry and dryer machine sustainability analysis (see below)
• Ramya Vudi and Shubham Agrawal continued their work on the electrical and Control and Automation systems designs for the City Center (see below)
• Lucas Tsutsui da Silva finished updating the Control and Automation systems layout to reflect the most recent design changes (see below)
• Mike Hogan continued work on the hardware designs for the Control and Automation systems (see below)

CREATING A COOPERATIVE FUTURE HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY: @9:39

• Began exploring and testing new options and looks for the video introduction we use for the project (see below)
• Ashwin Patil completed a new image code page and template for easier insertion and formatting of images throughout the site (see below)
• Jennifer Zhou continued working on setting up the icons for insertion into the search engine she and Ashwin are building (see below)

CREATING A COOPERATIVE FUTURE SUMMARY: @10:12

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

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ONE COMMUNITY WEEKLY UPDATE DETAILS

CREATING A COOPERATIVE FUTURE HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

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

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

This last week the core team transferred the final 25% of the written content for the Cognition Lesson Plan to the website, as you see here. This lesson plan purposed to teach all subjects, to all learning levels, in any learning environment, using the central theme of “Cognition” is now 100% completed on our website.

Creating a Cooperative Future – Transferred Final 25% of Cognition Lesson Plan to Site ” Click to Visit

Behind the scenes, we wrote the final 75% section of the written part of the Cosmos Lesson Plan.

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

Creating a Cooperative Future – Consciousness Mindmap ” 75% Complete ” Click to Visit

CREATING A COOPERATIVE FUTURE HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

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

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

This last week the core team finished reformatting and adding sections to the Vegan Sweet Potato Recipes & Omnivore Sweet Potato Recipes pages, bringing both of the pages to 60% completion. You can see a sample of that work here, on the vegan sweet potato recipe page:

Reformatted and Added Sections to the Vegan Sweet Potato Recipes Page ” Click to Visit

CREATING A COOPERATIVE FUTURE HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

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

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

The core team also finished the final 15% of the Earthbag Municipal/County Involvement and Permitting page. The page is now complete and you can see some of the final details completed this week here:

Finished Final 15% of Earthbag Municipal/County Involvement and Permitting Page – Click to Visit

The core team also updated the Recycled Materials Village (Pod 6) floor plans, added them to the site…

Creating a Cooperative Future – Updated the Recycled Materials Village Floor Plans – Click for Page

….and we worked some more on updating the related details for the 7 villages online book:

Updated the Recycled Village Related Details for the 7 Villages Online Book – Click for Housing Page

In addition to this, the core team worked on these renders for the Earthbag Village (Pod 1) bathroom and shower structures. We added textures to the water in the pool, updated the roof details for the Net-zero Communal Bathroom, Communal Eco-shower Structures, and Vermiculture Toilet structures, updated the texture and color of the walkways, and adjusted the shadows.

Earthbag Village Communal Shower and Net-Zero Bathroom Concept Render View Looking Northeast

Earthbag Village Communal Shower and Net-Zero Bathroom Concept Render View Looking East

Earthbag Village Communal Shower and Net-Zero Bathroom Concept Render View Looking South

Earthbag Village Vermiculture Toilets View Looking Southwest – Click for Vermiculture Page

Adrienne Gould-Choquette (Mechanical Engineer) also finished her 2nd week with the team, helping work on the standardized AutoCAD layers and line weights template we are creating. Here are screenshots of our collaborative call discussing this work:

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

Fernando Remolina (Industrial Engineer specializing in Project Management) continued with his 11th week of managing the Vermiculture Bathroom development with the 6th week of help from Lin Xu (Mechanical Engineering Student) and Jianyu “Lucas” Liang (Mechanical Engineer). This week’s focus, as shown here, was exploration and design evolutions for the connection of the toilets to the main unit and the emptying and removal chamber:

Creating a Cooperative Future – Continued Work on the Vermiculture Bathroom ” Click for Page

Lianyi Zhao (Mechanical Engineer) completed his 2nd week of working on the Net-zero Communal Bathroom modeling. This week he created a section view in AutoCAD and continued designing the shower structure and Net-zero bathrooms in SolidWorks, adding details for the surrounding area in the Earthbag Village (Pod 1), as shown here.

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

Dean Scholz (Architectural Designer), continued helping us create quality Cob Village (Pod 3) renders. Here is update 49 of his work that is now focusing on internal home views. What you are seeing is a series of 59 renders (the final 11 are new) showing the testing and development of the lighting in one of these units.

Creating a Cooperative Future – Continued Creating Quality Cob Village Renders ” Click to Visit

Hamilton Mateca (AutoCAD and Revit Drafter and Designer) also finished his 24th week helping with the Compressed Earth Block Village (Pod 4) design details. This week’s focus was updating the window plan for the main meeting and events hall, adding another meeting room, adding missing column support for the 2nd floor, and continuing to develop different lighting, texture, and furniture details.

Creating a Cooperative Future – Continued Evolving the Compressed Earth Block Village ” Click to Visit

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

Guy Grossfeld (Graphic Designer) also created this 1st generation update of the main Shipping Container Village (Pod 5) render with a new background to match all the other shipping container renders Guy helped finalize.

Created the 1st Generation Update of Main Shipping Container Village – Click to Visit Page

CREATING A COOPERATIVE FUTURE DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

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

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

This week the core team continued render creation for the Duplicable City Center. This included finalizing the 3D design and placement work for these three natural pool area renders. Next step will be adding details using PhotoShop.

Natural Pool Concept Render – Outside View Looking Southeast – Click to Visit Page

Natural Pool Concept Render – Outside View Looking Northeast – Click to Visit Page

Natural Pool Concept Render – Outside View Looking Down – Click to Visit Page

The core team also created a new render for the Duplicable City Center Dining Dome. This render was created to reflect color changes to the inside of the dome and also included a slight shift in perspective and updates to the people within the structure:

Updated Render for the Duplicable City Center Dining Dome – Click for Page

Oruba Rabie (Ph.D, PE, and Civil Engineer) joined the team and completed her first week of helping double check all the structural engineering details for the City Center. Here you see her notes for the beginning of the dome snow and wind loads:

Helped Double Check all Structural Engineering Details for the City Center – Click to Visit Page

And Dipti Dhondarkar, (Electrical Engineer) continued with her 24th week of work on the lighting specifics for the City Center. This week’s focus was finishing the calculations for how many bulbs will be needed in each zone (now that we’ve chosen them), as shown by the new “Lamps” column in the spreadsheet here.

Creating a Cooperative Future – Continued Working on the Lighting Specifics for the City Center

Jinxi Feng (Environmental Consultant) also continued her research helping us create an in-depth laundry and dryer machine sustainability analysis. What you see here is her 16th week of behind-the-scenes work on this area of the project. This week’s focus was continued development of the formatting and structure of the open source tool to compare water and energy savings with different washers and dryers.

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

Ramya Vudi (Electrical Engineer) and Shubham Agrawal (Electrical Engineer) continued their work on the electrical and Control and Automation systems designs for the City Center. What you see here are a couple photos from the weekly collaborative call with Mike Hogan (Automation Systems Developer and Business Systems Consultant) and some of their notes from this week’s work researching conductors, categorizing electrical components, and sizing conduit.

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

Lucas Tsutsui da Silva (4th-year Computer Engineering Student) also finished updating the Control and Automation systems layout to reflect the most recent design changes for the building. You can see this work here and on the site in a version you can click to enlarge.

Finished Updating the Control and Automation Systems Layout – Click to Enlarge

Mike Hogan (Automation Systems Developer and Business Systems Consultant) also continued work on the hardware designs for the Control and Automation systems. You can see him here, holding a version he’s testing on his farm in Canada.

Continued Work on Hardware Designs for Control and Automation Systems – Click to Visit Page

CREATING A COOPERATIVE FUTURE HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS

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

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

This week the core team began exploring and testing new options and looks for the video introduction we use for the project. This collage shows some of the team’s work in this area.

Began Exploring and Testing New Options for the Video Introduction – Click for Home Page

Ashwin Patil (Web Developer) also completed this new image code page and template for easier insertion and formatting of images throughout the site.

Creating a Cooperative Future – Completed this New Image Code Page and Template – Click to Visit

And Jennifer Zhou (Web Designer) continued working on setting up the icons for insertion into the search engine she and Ashwin are building. You can see some examples of these icons and the partial code here.

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

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The time has come for solutioneering communities to rise to the task of creating a global cooperative capable of creating a sustainable world for all. Open source and free-shared tools, tutorials anstructural engineering detailed resources for food, energy, housing, education, Highest Good economic design, social architecture, fulfilled living, global stewardship practices, and more are already under development to support such a cooperative. Through this open source foundation, we hope to shift global thinking and living to models of cooperation instead of competition and, for the first time in human history, a sustainable world for The Highest Good of all life.

• 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 December 25th, 2016 edition (#196) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments:

Solutioneering Communities
One Community Progress Update #196

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

SOLUTIONEERING COMMUNITIES INTRO: @1:03

SOLUTIONEERING COMMUNITIES HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION: @2:01

• Transferred the third 25% of the written content for the Cognition Lesson Plan to the website (see below)
• Behind the scenes: wrote the first 25% section of the written part of the Cosmos Lesson Plan
• Completed the second 25% of the mindmap for the Consciousness Lesson Plan (see below)
• Finished updating the icons across all the Lesson Plan pages  (see below)

SOLUTIONEERING COMMUNITIES HIGHEST GOOD FOOD: @3:08

• Finished reformatting and adding sections to the Vegan Pasta Recipes & Omnivore Pasta Recipes pages (see below)
• Created another update for the appearance of the Highest Good food icons and updated them on all pages (see below)

SOLUTIONEERING COMMUNITIES HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING: @3:47

• Put another combined total of 20 hours into the crowdfunding campaign we are developing along with Ashwini Ramesh (see below)
• Continued developing the Earthbag Municipal/County Involvement and Permitting page (see below)
• Reorganized all images for the Recycled Materials Village into their respective floors and added initial descriptions for each one (see below)
• Completed final edits to Tropical Atrium renders and added them to Earthbag Village page along with the versions without people to Tropical Atrium (see below)
• Incorporated the new Tropical Atrium into the 7 villages online book along with updates to the front spread and final render of the Game Room for the Recycled Materials Village (see below)
• Created new earthbag village water saving net-zero communal toilet page featuring the designs of Samuel Soroaster (see below)
• Adrienne Gould-Choquette joined the team and took over creation of the standardized AutoCAD layers and line weights template we are creating (see below)
• Fernando Remolina continued with his 10th week of managing the Vermiculture Bathroom development with the 5th week of help from Lin Xu and Jianyu “Lucas” Liang (see below)
• Lianyi Zhao joined the team and began his 1st week of working on the Net-zero Communal Bathroom Designs (see below)
• Dean Scholz continued helping us create quality Cob Village renders (see below)
• Hamilton Mateca finished his 23rd week helping with the Compressed Earth Block Village design details (see below)
• Aparna Tandon continued her work on the Compressed Earth Block Village external elements (see below)
• Guy Grossfeld helped with some additional 3DSMax visualization testing of another of the zones for the Compressed Earth Block Village (see below)
• Zachary Melin continued developing the Tree House Village book (see below)

SOLUTIONEERING COMMUNITIES DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER: @7:34

• Continued render creation for the Duplicable City Center which included more work on the natural pool area
• Haoxuan “Hayes” Lei and Shuna Ni continued their work on the City Center structural engineering
• Dipti Dhondarkar continued with her 23rd week of work on the lighting specifics for the City Center
• Jinxi Feng continued her research helping us create an in-depth laundry and dryer machine sustainability analysis
• Renan Dantas continued with his 5th week working on creating our next generation of Duplicable City Center sections, layout organization, layer updates, and color updates

SOLUTIONEERING COMMUNITIES HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY: @9:29

• Yuri Witte completed his 8th week of helping create the music that will accompany our new overview video (see below)
• Ashwin Patil completed more development of the new search engine (see below)

SOLUTIONEERING COMMUNITIES SUMMARY: @10:02

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

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

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ONE COMMUNITY WEEKLY UPDATE DETAILS

SOLUTIONERRING COMMUNITIES HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

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

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

This last week the core team transferred the third 25% of the written content for the Cognition Lesson Plan to the website, as you see here. This lesson plan purposed to teach all subjects, to all learning levels, in any learning environment, using the central theme of “Cognition” is now 75% completed on our website.

Transferred Third 25% of Cognition Lesson Plan to Site ” Click to Visit Page

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

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

Solutioneering Communities – Consciousness Mindmap ” 50% Complete ” Click to Visit Page

And we finished updating the icons across all the Lesson Plan pages, here’s an example and we are now 90% done with the total icon update for the Highest Good Education component.

Solutioneering Communities – Updated the Icons Across All the Lesson Plan Pages – Click to Visit

SOLUTIONEERING COMMUNITIES HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

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

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

This week, the core team finished reformatting and adding sections to the Vegan Pasta Recipes & Omnivore Pasta Recipes pages, bringing both of the pages to 60% completion. You can see a sample of that work here, on the vegan pasta recipe page:

Solutioneering Communities – Reformatted and Added Sections to the Vegan Pasta Recipes Page

We also did another update for the appearance of the Highest Good food icons and then updated them on all pages of the website, here’s a picture of the new icons:

Updated Appearance of the Food Icons and Updated on all the Pages – Click to Visit the Page

SOLUTIONEERING COMMUNITIES HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

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

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

The core team working with Ashwini Ramesh (Civil Engineer and Project Manager) put another combined total of 20 hours into the crowdfunding campaign we are developing. This week’s focus was more AutoCAD image creation….

Worked on AutoCAD Image Creation for Crowdfunding Campaign – Click for Page

….and developing the second half of the Earthbag Municipal/County Involvement and Permitting page:

Developing the 2nd Half of Earthbag Municipal/County Involvement and Permitting Page

The core team also reorganized all the images for the Recycled Materials Village (Pod 6) into their respective floors and added initial descriptions for each one. You can see a sample of that work here:

Reorganized all Images for the Recycled Materials Village into their Respective Floors – Click for Page

We also added these three new renders of the living spaces:

Recycled Materials Village Final Render of Kitchen Dining Area – Click to Visit Page

Recycled Materials Village Final Render of Large Bedroom – Click to Visit Page

Recycled Materials Village Final Render of Bedroom Perspective – Click to Visit Page

Then we completed final edits to the three Tropical Atrium renders shown here and added them to the Earthbag Village (Pod 1) page…

Solutioneering Communities – Tropical Atrium Final Render ” View Looking Northeast

Solutioneering Communities – Tropical Atrium Final Render ” View Looking South

Solutioneering Communities – Tropical Atrium Final Render ” View Looking West

along with the versions without people to the Tropical Atrium page….

Solutioneering Communities – Tropical Atrium Final Render ” Plan View – Click for Page

Tropical Atrium Final Render ” Before and After Planting Plan – Click for Page

Solutioneering Communities – Tropical Atrium Final Render ” View Looking Southwest – Click for Page

….and incorporated them into the 7 villages online book along with updates to the front spread:

Incorporated Tropical Atrium Images into 7 Villages Online Book – Click To Visit Page

….and final render of the Game Room for the Recycled Materials Village (Pod 6) :

Solutioneering Communities – Recycled Materials Village Game Room Final Render – Click for Page

In addition to this, we created this new earthbag village water saving net-zero communal toilet page featuring the designs of Samuel Soroaster, Permaculturalist, Sustainable Builder, PhD, and founder of Green New World.

Created New Earthbag Village Water Saving Net-zero Communal Toilet Page – Click to Visit

Adrienne Gould-Choquette (Mechanical Engineer) joined the team and finished her first week by taking over creation of the standardized AutoCAD layers and line weights template we are creating. You can see some of how this is developing with these images of the work-in-progress here.

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

Fernando Remolina (Industrial Engineer specializing in Project Management) continued with his 10th week of managing the Vermiculture Bathroom development with the 5th week of help from Lin Xu (Mechanical Engineering Student) and Jianyu “Lucas” Liang (Mechanical Engineer). This week’s focus, as shown here, was drain design and exploring different ways to connect the main unit to the toilets above.

Solutioneering Communities – Continued Work on the Vermiculture Bathroom – Click for Page

Lianyi Zhao (Mechanical Engineer) joined the team and began his 1st week of working on the Net-zero Communal Bathroom Designs. This week he began remodeling the designs to better match the AutoCAD drawing and adding SolidWorks model details for the surrounding area in the Earthbag Village (Pod 1).

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

Solutioneering Communities – Continued Creating Quality Cob Village Renders ” Click to Visit Page

Hamilton Mateca (AutoCAD and Revit Drafter and Designer) also finished his 23rd week helping with the Compressed Earth Block Village (Pod 4) design details. This week’s focus was on developing the front and back perspectives, internal views of the hallways and some of the rooms, roof textures, and other details shown here.

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

Aparna Tandon (Architect) additionally continued her work on the Compressed Earth Block Village external elements. What you see here is her 13th week of work, focusing on exploring new elements for meditation labyrinth and surrounding areas, adding amphitheater seating, a walking path, and other planting-plan details, as shown here.

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

Working off of Aparna’s work, Guy Grossfeld (Graphic Designer) helped with some additional 3DSMax visualization testing of another of the zones for the Compressed Earth Block Village (Pod 4), as shown here.

Helped with DSMax Visualization Testing for the Compressed Earth Block Village – Click for Page

Zachary Melin (Graphic Designer) also continued developing the Tree House Village (Pod 7) book. What you see here is week 18 of this work that continued with another update to page 51 and newly update pages 52 and 53.

Solutioneering Communities – Continued Developing the Tree House Village Book – Click to Visit

SOLUTIONEERING COMMUNITIES DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

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

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

This week the core team continued render creation for the Duplicable City Center. This included more work on the natural pool area where added pond water and bottom-of-the-pond textures, water plants and lilies, and bike racks and bikes…

Continued Working on the Natural Pool Area Renders ” Click for Page

…plus updating this dining dome render with the new internal color scheme.

Updated Dining Dome Render with New Internal Color Scheme – Click for Duplicable City Center

Haoxuan “Hayes” Lei (Structural Engineer) and Shuna Ni (Masters of Mechanical Engineering and Civil Engineering PhD) also continued their work on the City Center structural engineering. This week’s work was continued calculations for the braces and columns and merging and updating all the AutoCAD files to confirm consistency.

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

And Dipti Dhondarkar, (Electrical Engineer) continued with her 23rd week of work on the lighting specifics for the City Center. This week’s focus was beginning the calculations for how many bulbs will be needed in each zone (now that we’ve chosen them) and beginning to update the spreadsheet, as shown here.

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

Jinxi Feng (Environmental Consultant) also continued her research helping us create an in-depth laundry and dryer machine sustainability analysis. What you see here is her 16th week of behind-the-scenes work on this area of the project. This week’s focus was beginning creation of an open source tool to compare water and energy savings with different washers and dryers. You can see screenshots of this amazing tool here:

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

And Renan Dantas (Mechanical Engineer) continued with his 5th week working on creating our next generation of Duplicable City Center sections, layout organization, layer updates, and color updates. You can see the most recent colors, formatting, and updates here.

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

SOLUTIONEERING COMMUNITIES HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS

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

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

This week Yuri Witte (Music Composer and Sound Designer)” completed his 8th week of helping create the music that will accompany the new overview video we are planning. This week’s focus was writing a new audio for the background of these blogs. You can hear this here and you can visit Yuri’s SoundCloud to hear his other work with us.

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Continued Creating Music that Will Accompany the New Overview Video ” Click for Yuri’s Soundcloud

Ashwin Patil (Web Developer) also completed more development of the new search engine beginning to integrate a decision to create multiple smaller engines and successfully testing 3 huge demo engines on one page.

Continued Working on the New Search Engine – Click to Visit Home Page

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One Community welcomes Jiming Chen to the Design Team as our newest Volunteer/Consultant!

Designer and Aspiring Architect and Fabricator: Jiming Chen finished a 5-year architecture major and received a Bachelor of Engineering with distinction and excellent academic standing from Guangxi University in China. He gained professional practice experience at ADEPT, in Guangzhou, where he participated in the Hengyang City Design International Competition and was awarded 1st prize. He received his Master of Architecture degree from the University of Michigan, where he participated in multiple experimental seminars and design studios. His works range from materials study, architectural representation, graphic design, digital fabrication, residential innovation, to world-making and utopian project design. He is passionate about exploring the mediation between imagination and physical environment with spatial narrative and materials of varied forms. As a One Community Volunteer, Jiming is helping with the open source and sustainable Tree House Village designs and visualizations.

WELCOME TO THE TEAM JIMING!

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One Community welcomes Shuna Ni to the Engineering Team as our newest Volunteer/Consultant!

Structural Engineer: Shuna earned her BS in Civil Engineering from Central South University, China, her MS in Structural Engineering from Tongji University, China, and her PhD in Civil Engineering from Texas A&M University, Texas. Passionate about learning, Shuna also has over 7 years experience working a diversity of intern positions helping as a research assistant, teaching assistant, and now a volunteer with One Community. She is skilled in structural analysis using SAP 2000, ETABS, RISA-3D, PERFORM 3D, et al. The projects she has participated in during her previous professional experiences range from timber structures to steel structures. Born and growing up on an island, Shuna has witnessed rapid environmental changes and an increasing frequency and severity of natural disasters impacting densely populated areas. This has driven her to learn and apply engineering principles and building-design tools to help produce economical, low-impact, and durable building systems. As a volunteer on the One Community Team, Shuna is applying all her experience and knowledge by helping with the structural engineering details for the Duplicable City Center.

WELCOME TO THE TEAM SHUNA!

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One Community is an all-volunteer nonprofit creating plans for building global sustainability hubs to teach all aspects of community and sustainable living. These plans include open source and free-shared tools, tutorials and resources for food, energy, housing, education, Highest Good economic design, social architecture, fulfilled living, global stewardship practices, and more. We see this as a path to a truly sustainable planet.

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

OUR MAIN OPEN SOURCE HUBS

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

One Community’s physical location will forward this movement as the first of many self-replicating teacher/demonstration communities, villages, and cities to be built around the world. This is the December 18th, 2016 edition (#195) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments:

Building Global Sustainability Hubs
One Community Progress Update #195

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

BUILDING GLOBAL SUSTAINABILITY HUBS INTRO: @1:03

BUILDING GLOBAL SUSTAINABILITY HUBS HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION: @2:04

• Transferred second 25% of the written content for the Cognition Lesson Plan to the website (see below)
• Behind the scenes: wrote the final 25% section of the written part of the Cognition Lesson Plan
• Completed the first 25% of the mindmap for the Consciousness Lesson Plan (see below)
• Updated the icons on the Core Curriculum page (see below)
• Added a new resource section to all the education pages, with an example from our Ultimate Classroom page (see below)

BUILDING GLOBAL SUSTAINABILITY HUBS HIGHEST GOOD FOOD: @3:19

• Finished reformatting and adding sections to the Vegan Rice Recipes & Omnivore Rice Recipes pages (see below)
• Created the new Recipes Shortcode which can be seen at the bottom of every recipes page (see below)

BUILDING GLOBAL SUSTAINABILITY HUBS HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING: @3:56

• Ashwini Ramesh and the core team put another combined total of 20 hours into the crowdfunding campaign we are developing (see below)
• Reorganized all the images for the Shipping Container Village (see below)
• Created 30 housing icons each for Villages 3 thru 6 and updated the color of the Highest Good food icons (see below)
• Shadi Kennedy created 3 renders of the Tropical Atrium with people in them (see below)
• Dean Scholz continued helping us create quality Cob Village renders (see below)
• Hamilton Mateca continued helping with the Compressed Earth Block Village design details (see below)
• Aparna Tandon continued work on the Compressed Earth Block Village external elements (see below)
• Guy Grossfeld began 3D creation of Aparna’s work of the Compressed Earth Block Village using 3DSMax (see below)
• Jiming Chen continued helping develop the Tree House Village (see below)
• Zachary Melin continued developing the Tree House Village book (see below)

BUILDING GLOBAL SUSTAINABILITY HUBS DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER: @7:00

• Continued render creation for the Duplicable City Center (see below)
• Created final render of thenatural pool area central view looking northwest (see below)
• Iris Hsu continued her work on the recycled pipe shelving for the Duplicable City Center library (see below)
• Haoxuan “Hayes” Lei and Shuna Ni continued their work on the City Center structural engineering (see below)
• Neha Verma researched the most sustainable options for the exterior of the City Center (see below)
• Dipti Dhondarkar continued working on the lighting specifics for the City Center (see below)
• Jinxi Feng continued her research helping us create an in-depth laundry and dryer machine sustainability analysis (see below)
• Ramya Vudi, Shubham Agrawal , and Mike Hogan continued working on the Control and Automation systems electrical design (see below)
• Lucas Tsutsui da Silva finished first update of Control and Automation systems layout to reflect the most recent design changes (see below)
• Renan Dantas continued creating our next generation of Duplicable City Center section drawings (see below)

BUILDING GLOBAL SUSTAINABILITY HUBS HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY: @10:16

• Created new icons and updated them on the Copyrights, Trademarks, Patents and Using them to Support Open Source and Free-sharing page (see below)
• Yuri Witte continued helping create the music that will accompany the new overview video we are planning (see below)

BUILDING GLOBAL SUSTAINABILITY HUBS SUMMARY: @10:52

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

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BUILDING GLOBAL SUSTAINABILITY HUBS HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

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

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

This last week the core team transferred the second 25% of the written content for the Cognition Lesson Plan to the website, as you see here. This lesson plan purposed to teach all subjects, to all learning levels, in any learning environment, using the central theme of “Cognition” is now 50% completed on our website.

Transferred Second 25% of Cognition Lesson Plan to Site ” Click to Visit Page

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

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

Building Global Sustainability Hubs -Consciousness Mindmap ” 25% Complete ” Click to Visit Page

And we finished updating the icons across another 40% of the Education pages, bringing us to 80% complete there. What you see here is the Core Curriculum page, one of the most dramatically different looking pages after this update.

Continued Updating the Icons Across another 40% of the Education pages – Click for Core Curriculum

We also added a new resource section to all the education pages. Here’s an example of what this looks like from our Ultimate Classroom page.

Added a New Resource Section to All the Education Pages – Click to Visit the Ultimate Classroom Page

BUILDING GLOBAL SUSTAINABILITY HUBS HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

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

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

This week, the core team finished reformatting and adding sections to the Vegan Rice Recipes & Omnivore Rice Recipes. You can see a sample of that work here, on the vegan rice recipe page.

Reformatted and Added Sections to the Vegan Rice Recipes Page – Click to Visit

The core team also created the new recipes shortcode which can be seen at the bottom of every recipes page. You can see a picture of those icons here:

Created New Recipes Shortcode for New Icons – Click for Omnivore Rice Recipes Page

BUILDING GLOBAL SUSTAINABILITY HUBS HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

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

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

The core team working with Ashwini Ramesh (Civil Engineer and Project Manager) put another combined total of 20 hours into the crowdfunding campaign we are developing. This week’s focus was more AutoCAD image creation and creating the first 50% of the Earthbag Municipal/County Involvement and Permitting page you see here.

Created the First 50% of the Earthbag Municipal/County Involvement and Permitting Page

The core team also reorganized all the images for the Shipping Container Village (Pod 5) into their respective floors and added detailed descriptions for each one. You can see some of this work here:

Reorganized All the Images for the Shipping Container Village – Click for Page

We also created 30 housing icons each for Villages 3 thru 6, with the new icons from the Recycled Materials Village (Pod 6) shown here:

Created 30 Housing Icons Each for Villages 3 thru 6 – Click to Visit the Recycled Materials Village Page

…and we updated the color of the Highest Good food icons, which you can see here.

Building Global Sustainability Hubs -Updated the Color of the Highest Good Food Icons – Click to Visit

Shadi Kennedy (Artist and Graphic Designer) created these 3 renders of the Tropical Atrium with people in them. These now go to the core team for final review and edits.

Building Global Sustainability Hubs -Created 3 Renders of the Tropical Atrium with People Added

Dean Scholz (Architectural Designer), continued helping us create quality Cob Village (Pod 3) renders. Here is update 47 of his work that is now focusing on internal home views. What you are seeing is a sample of the series of 23 renders testing and developing the lighting in one of these units:

Building Global Sustainability Hubs -Continued Creating Quality Cob Village Renders ” Click to Visit

Hamilton Mateca (AutoCAD and Revit Drafter and Designer) also finished his 22nd week helping with the Compressed Earth Block Village (Pod 4) design details. This week’s focus was on kitchen visualizations as shown here:

Building Global Sustainability Hubs -Continued Evolving the Compressed Earth Block Village

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

Working off of Aparna’s work, Guy Grossfeld (Graphic Designer) began 3D creation of the same area of the Compressed Earth Block Village (Pod 4) using 3DSMax. This is so he can help with development of what this area will look like:

Began 3D Creation of Aparna’s Work of Compressed Earth Block Village – Click to Visit Page

Building Global Sustainability Hubs -Continued Helping Develop the Tree House Village

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

BUILDING GLOBAL SUSTAINABILITY HUBS DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

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

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

This week the core team continued render creation for the Duplicable City Center. This included working on the natural pool area, where we placed sitting rocks around the walkway, added water lilies to the pond, and upgraded the compass for the circular walkway with a new stone/brick texture design.

Building Global Sustainability Hubs -Continued Working on the Natural Pool Area Renders

Also in the natural pool area, we added people and other aesthetic finishing touches to create this final render of the central view looking northwest.

Final Render of Inside Court Looking Northwest – Click to Visit Natural Pool Page

Iris Hsu, (Industrial Designer), also continued her work on the recycled pipe shelving for the Duplicable City Center library. This week’s focus was further development of the instructions by adding more renders, details for the tee joints, and details for the coupling fittings that will house the light socket.

Continued Working on the Recycled Pipe Shelving for the Library – Click for Page

Haoxuan “Hayes” Lei (Structural Engineer) and Shuna Ni (Masters of Mechanical Engineering and Civil Engineering PhD) also continued their work on the City Center structural engineering. This week’s work was additional calculations for the beams in the 2nd, 3rd, and 4th floor…

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

….and column loads for the entire structure:

Building Global Sustainability Hubs – Continued Calculations for City Center Column Loads

Neha Verma (Construction Project Manager and Bachelor’s of Architecture) researched the most sustainable options for the exterior of the City Center so we can start developing a water proofing page for this structure.

Researched Sustainable Options for the Exterior of the City Center – Click for Page

And Dipti Dhondarkar, (Electrical Engineer) continued with her 22nd week of work on the lighting specifics for the City Center. This week’s focus was finalizing the final four bulbs for inside and around the structure.

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

Jinxi Feng (Environmental Consultant) also continued her research helping us create an in-depth laundry and dryer machine sustainability analysis. What you see here is her 15th week of behind-the-scenes work on this area of the project. This week’s focus was further clarification of what a “household is” and calculating residential and commercial washer efficiency and comparing the two using laundry projections for 1, 5, 50, 100, and 500 households, as shown here.

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

Ramya Vudi (Electrical Engineer), Shubham Agrawal (Electrical Engineer), and Mike Hogan (Automation Systems Developer and Business Systems Consultant) continued working on the electrical design for the Control and Automation systems. This week’s focus was research and selection of the conduit and discussions about panel design. What you see here are notes and photos from the weekly collaborative call.

Building Global Sustainability Hubs – Working on Electrical Design for Control & Automation Systems

Lucas Tsutsui da Silva (4th-year Computer Engineering Student) also finished this first update of the Control and Automation systems layout to reflect the most recent design changes for the building. You can see this work here:

Worked on the Control and Automation Systems Layout to Reflect the Most Recent Design Changes

And Renan Dantas (Mechanical Engineer) continued with his 4th week working on creating our next generation of Duplicable City Center section drawings. This week’s focus was reorganizing the complete Master File and further updates to layer organization, colors, and details for all the sections shown here.

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

BUILDING GLOBAL SUSTAINABILITY HUBS HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS

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

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

This week the core team created the new icons you see here and updated them on the Copyrights, Trademarks, Patents and Using them to Support Open Source and Free-sharing page and the 3 pages associated with this page.

Created New Icons and Updated them on a Few Pages, Including the Copyrights, Trademarks, Patents

Yuri Witte (Music Composer and Sound Designer)” completed his 7th week of helping create the music that will accompany the new overview video we are planning. What you hear in the background are versions 7.7 a, b, and c testing different instrument groups for the intro. You can visit Yuri’s SoundCloud to hear all previous versions.

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Building Global Sustainability Hubs – Creating Music that Will Accompany the New Overview Video

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One Community is an all-volunteer nonprofit facilitating global eco-cooperatives through open source and free-shared tools, tutorials and resources for food, energy, housing, education, Highest Good economic design, social architecture, fulfilled living, global stewardship practices, and more. We call this living and creating for The Highest Good of All.

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

OUR MAIN OPEN SOURCE HUBS

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

One Community’s physical location will forward this movement as the first of many self-replicating teacher/demonstration communities, villages, and cities to be built around the world. This is the December 11th, 2016 edition (#194) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments:

Facilitating Global Eco-Cooperatives
One Community Progress Update #194

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

FACILITATING GLOBAL ECO-COOPERATIVES INTRO: @1:03

FACILITATING GLOBAL ECO-COOPERATIVES HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION: @2:00

• Transferred the first 25% of the written content for the Cognition Lesson Plan to the website (see below)
• Behind the scenes: wrote the third 25% section of written part of the Cognition Lesson Plan
• Completed the final 25% of the mindmap for the Individuality Lesson Plan (see below)
• Updated the icons across Education pages and updated the formatting to the Strategies for Leadership, Teaching, and Communicating page (see below)

FACILITATING GLOBAL ECO-COOPERATIVES HIGHEST GOOD FOOD: @3:07

• Continued to reformat and add sections and anchor links to recipe pages for our Transition Kitchen strategy (see below)
• Updated the look of all the Highest Good food icons (see below)

FACILITATING GLOBAL ECO-COOPERATIVES HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING: @3:44

• Ashwini Ramesh and the core team put another combined total of 15 hours into the crowdfunding campaign we are developing (see below)
• Hannah Gibbs joined the team and helped us adding and formatting the text on this Tropical Atrium instructional image from Shadi Kennedy (see below)
• Dean Scholz continued helping us create quality Cob Village renders (see below)
• Hamilton Mateca finished his 21st week helping with the Compressed Earth Block Village design details (see below)
• Aparna Tandon additionally continued her work on the Compressed Earth Block Village external elements (see below)
• Jiming Chen continued helping develop the Tree House Village (see below)
• Zachary Melin continued developing the Tree House Village book (see below)

FACILITATING GLOBAL ECO-COOPERATIVES DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER: @6:10

• Continued render creation for the Duplicable City Center which entailed working on the natural pool area (see below)
• Added people and other details to finalize the render of the natural pool area (see below)
• Iris Hsu continued her work on the recycled pipe shelving for the Duplicable City Center library (see below)
• Shuna Ni continued working on the City Center structural engineering (see below)
• Dipti Dhondarkar continued with her 21st week of work on the lighting specifics for the City Center (see below)
• Jinxi Feng continued research helping us create an in-depth laundry and dryer machine sustainability analysis (see below)
• Ashwin Patil finished his 4th week of collaboratively working on the open source pipe furniture page (see below)
• Ramya Vudi and Shubham Agrawal continued working on the electrical design specifics we’ll be using to add to the Duplicable City Center Electrical Planning and Design Details page (see below)
• Renan Dantas continued with his 3rd week working on creating our next generation of Duplicable City Center section drawings (see below)

FACILITATING GLOBAL ECO-COOPERATIVES HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY: @9:23

• Yuri Witte completed his 6th week of helping create the music that will accompany the new overview video we are planning (see below)

FACILITATING GLOBAL ECO-COOPERATIVES SUMMARY: @8:

• • • 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

 

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FACILITATING GLOBAL ECO-COOPERATIVES HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

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

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

This last week the core team transferred the first 25% of the written content for the Cognition Lesson Plan to the website, as you see here. This lesson plan purposed to teach all subjects, to all learning levels, in any learning environment, using the central theme of “Cognition” is now 25% completed on our website:

Facilitating Global Eco-Cooperatives – Transferred First 25% of Cognition Lesson Plan to Site

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

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

Facilitating Global Eco-Cooperatives – Individuality Mindmap ” 100% Complete ” Click to Visit Page

And we updated the icons across 40% of the Education pages and updated the formatting to add a What and Why section to the Strategies for Leadership, Teaching, and Communicating page:

Updated Education Icons and Formatting on Foundations of Leadership Page – Click to Visit

FACILITATING GLOBAL ECO-COOPERATIVES HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

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

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

This week, the core team continued to reformat and add sections and anchor links to recipe pages for our Transition Kitchen strategy. You can see a sample of that work here, on the vegan potato recipes page:

Continued Reformatting and Adding Sections to Recipe Pages for our Transition Kitchen Strategy

We also updated the look of all the Highest Good food icons. Here’s what they look like now, but they aren’t final yet:

Facilitating Global Eco-Cooperatives – Updated the Look of all the Highest Good Food Icons

FACILITATING GLOBAL ECO-OPERATIVES HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

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

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

This last week the core team and Ashwini Ramesh (Civil Engineer and Project Manager) put another combined total of 15 hours into the crowdfunding campaign we are developing. This week’s focus was more AutoCAD image creation and finishing the behind-the-scenes content editing for the Earthbag Municipal/County Involvement and Permitting page. You can see a snapshot of this behind-the-scenes work here.

Worked on Behind-the-Scenes Content Editing for the Earthbag Municipal/County Involvement

Hannah Gibbs (Web Developer) also joined the team and helped us adding and formatting the text on this Tropical Atrium instructional image from Shadi Kennedy.

Facilitating Global Eco-Cooperatives – Formatted the Text on the Tropical Atrium Instructional Image

Dean Scholz (Architectural Designer), continued helping us create quality Cob Village (Pod 3) renders. Here is update 46 of his work that focused on starting the internal home views…

Facilitating Global Eco-Cooperatives – Continued Creating Quality Cob Village Renders

….and Dean created this final outdoor Roof View Looking Southwest:

Facilitating Global Eco-Cooperatives – Cob Village Final Render ” Rooftop View Looking Southwest

Hamilton Mateca (AutoCAD and Revit Drafter and Designer) also finished his 21st week helping with the Compressed Earth Block Village (Pod 4) design details. This week’s focus was on testing and updating textures for the roof, roof furniture tests, elevation drawing progress, and dining room floor and ceiling texture and design tests.

Facilitating Global Eco-Cooperatives – Continued Evolving the Compressed Earth Block Village

Aparna Tandon (Architect) additionally continued her work on the Compressed Earth Block Village external elements. What you see here is her 10th week of work, focusing on more updates and improvements to the roundabout entry, central recreation space Zone 6, and relaxation and green spaces Zones 2 and 9.

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

Facilitating Global Eco-Cooperatives – Continued Helping Develop the Tree House Village

Zachary Melin (Graphic Designer) also continued developing the Tree House Village (Pod 7) book. What you see here is week 16 of this work that continued with updates to pages 46, 47, and 48… which you can see here:

Facilitating Global Eco-Cooperatives – Continued Developing the Tree House Village Book

FACILITATING GLOBAL ECO=COOPERATIVES DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

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

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

This week the core team continued render creation for the Duplicable City Center. This included working on the natural pool area, where we added new plants, updated the window texture, placed the initial design of the compass and chose the best shadow position.

Continued Render Creation for the Duplicable City Center Natural Pool Area – Click to Visit Page

We also added people and other details to finalize this render of the natural pool area inside the City Center.

Facilitating Global Eco-Cooperatives – Finalized Render of Natural Pool Area Inside the City Center

Iris Hsu, (Industrial Designer), also continued her work on the recycled pipe shelving for the Duplicable City Center library. This week’s focus was adjustments to the size of all the people in the main library and creating these final three full-perspective renders.

Facilitating Global Eco-Cooperatives – Duplicable City Center Library Final Render – Click for Page

Facilitating Global Eco-Cooperatives – Duplicable City Center Library Final Render – Click for Page

Facilitating Global Eco-Cooperatives – Duplicable City Center Library Final Render – Click for Page

Shuna Ni (Masters of Mechanical Engineering and Civil Engineering PhD) continued working on the City Center structural engineering. This week’s focus was continuing calculations for the braces and columns:

Facilitating Global Eco-Cooperatives – Continued Work on the City Center Structural Engineering

And Dipti Dhondarkar, (Electrical Engineer) continued with her 21st week of work on the lighting specifics for the City Center. This week’s focus was finalizing the 3 primary bulbs we’ll use throughout the structure.

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

Jinxi Feng (Environmental Consultant) also continued her research helping us create an in-depth laundry and dryer machine sustainability analysis. What you see here is her 14th week of behind-the-scenes work on this area of the project. This week’s focus was continued research into residential and commercial washer efficiency and comparing the two using laundry projections for 1, 5, 50, 100, and 500 households.

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

Ashwin Patil (Web Developer) also finished his 4th week of collaboratively working on the open source pipe furniture page. This week’s focus was trying to create a new way for us to present multiple images with clickable labels. Problems making this portable-device-friendly means it is still a work in progress. 

Facilitating Global Eco-Cooperatives – Continued Working on the Pipe Furniture Page ” Click to Visit

Ramya Vudi (Electrical Engineer) and Shubham Agrawal (Electrical Engineer) also continued working on the electrical design specifics we’ll be using to add to the Duplicable City Center Electrical Planning and Design Details page. What you see here is this team’s 6th week of work focusing on breaker panel research, control systems integration, beginning a wind power tutorial, and double checking the power requirements for all of our equipment. You can see snapshots of some of this work here.

Continued on Electrical Design for Control & Automation Systems ” Click for Page

And Renan Dantas (Mechanical Engineer) continued with his 3rd week working on creating our next generation of Duplicable City Center section drawings. This week’s focus was on the updated details of Sections A-D as shown here:

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

FACILITATING GLOBAL ECO-COOPERATIVES HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS

One Community is facilitating global eco-cooperatives 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

Yuri Witte (Music Composer and Sound Designer)” completed his 6th week of helping create the music that will accompany the new overview video we are planning. What you hear in the background is version 7.6.3, two octaves higher from last week’s and the newest iteration we’re building off of. You can visit Yuri’s SoundCloud to hear all previous versions.

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Continued Creating Music that Will Accompany the New Overview Video ” Click for Yuri’s Soundcloud

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WHAT ONE COMMUNITY IS CREATING

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

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

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

BUILDING THE FIRST OF MANY

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

One Community welcomes Fernando Remolina to the Design Team as our newest Volunteer/Consultant!

Industrial Engineer Specializing in Project Management: Fernando has over 10 years experience in project management related to Ship Repair, Shipbuilding, and Oil & Gas industries. He received his certification as a Project Management Professional (PMP) in 2011 and has become an author and public speaker on project management in the ship repair industry. Fernando has volunteered for different organizations such PMI Colombia Chapter, PMI Buenos Aires Chapter, and the United Nations. A very enthusiastic person who cares about the environment and strongly believes in helping create a better world and future for all, Fernando joined the One Community team to Project Manage the completion of the vermiculture bathroom designs.

WELCOME TO THE TEAM FERNANDO!

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A better way to live that is also good for each other and our planet is necessary if we are to realistically expect large-scale participation in creating a cooperative and sustainable society. Combining the physical components of sustainability (food, energy, housing) with the emotional components of sustainability (education, Highest Good economic design, social architecture, fulfilled living, global stewardship practices, etc.) is one way to provide this. One Community calls this living and creating for The Highest Good of All and we think it has the potential to positively and permanently change the world for everyone.

• 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 December 4th, 2016 edition (#193) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments:

A Better Way to Live
One Community Progress Update #193

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

A BETTER WAY TO LIVE INTRO: @1:03

A BETTER WAY TO LIVE HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION: @2:00

• Transferred final 25% of the written content for the Consciousness Lesson Plan to the website (see below)
• Behind the scenes: wrote the second 25% section of the Cognition Lesson Plan
• Completed third 25% of the mindmap for the Individuality Lesson Plan (see below)

A BETTER WAY TO LIVE HIGHEST GOOD FOOD: @2:57

• Began to reformat and add sections and anchor links to recipe pages for our Transition Kitchen strategy (see below)

A BETTER WAY TO LIVE HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING: @3:27

• Ashwini Ramesh and the core team put another combined total of 15 hours into the crowdfunding campaign we are developing (see below)
• Completed another large round of revisions for the upcoming 7 villages online book (see below)
• Shilcy Augustine continued with her help creating and testing a standardized color set for all our AutoCAD files (see below)
• Fernando Remolina continued with his 7th week of managing the Vermiculture Bathroom development with the 3rd week of help from Lin Xu (see below)
• Dean Scholz continued helping us create quality Cob Village renders (see below)
• Hamilton Mateca finished his 20th week helping with the Compressed Earth Block Village design details (see below)
• Guy Grossfeld continued with 3D earth block construction for the Compressed Earth Block Village labyrinth meditation walking path (see below)
• Aparna Tandon continued work on the Compressed Earth Block Village external elements and converted Guy’s 3D bench design into the AutoCAD design (see below)
• Yee-Cheng Ho finished her 9th week of helping with the Shipping Container Village renders for the living units (see below)

A BETTER WAY TO LIVE DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER: @6:27

A BETTER WAY TO LIVE HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY: @9:19

• Ashwin Patil and Jennifer Zhou continued developing the new site search engine (see below)
• Yuri Witte completed his 5th week of helping create the music that will accompany the new overview video we are planning (see below)

A BETTER WAY TO LIVE SUMMARY: @10:03

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A BETTER WAY TO LIVE HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

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

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

This last week the core team transferred the final 25% of the written content for the Consciousness Lesson Plan to the website, as you see here. This lesson plan purposed to teach all subjects, to all learning levels, in any learning environment, using the central theme of “Consciousness” is now 100% completed on our website.

A Better Way to Live – Transferred Final 25% of Consciousness Lesson Plan to Site ” Click to Visit Page

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

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

A Better Way to Live – Individuality Mindmap ” 75% Complete ” Click to Visit Page

A BETTER WAY TO LIVE HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

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

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

This week, the core team began to reformat and add sections and anchor links to recipe pages for our Transition Kitchen strategy. You can see a before and after image of a sample of that work here, on the vegan rice recipe page:

Reformatted and Added Sections to Recipe Pages for our Transition Kitchen Strategy -Click to Visit

A BETTER WAY TO LIVE HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

One Community is generating a better way to live through Highest Good housing that is artistic and beautiful, more affordable, more space efficient, lasts longer, DIY buildable, and constructed with healthy and sustainable materials:

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

The core team and Ashwini Ramesh (Civil Engineer and Project Manager) put another combined total of 15 hours into the crowdfunding campaign we are developing. This week’s focus was the behind-the-scenes content editing for the Site Selection and Preparation page and detailing the AutoCAD images needed for all other sections, as shown here:

Continued Editing the Site Selection and Preparation Page Behind-the-Scenes ” Click to Visit Site

The core team also completed another large round of revisions for the upcoming 7 villages online book. You can see some of these revisions here, including an updated and color version of the Duplicable City Center floor plan, and new imagery and descriptions on the Recycled Materials Village (Pod 6) and Shipping Container Village (Pod 5) spreads.

A Better Way to Live – Continued Revisions for the Upcoming 7 Villages Online Book

Continued Creating and Testing a Standardized Color Set for all our AutoCAD Files – Click to Visit

Fernando Remolina (Industrial Engineer specializing in Project Management) continued with his 7th week of managing the Vermiculture Bathroom development with the 3rd week of help from Lin Xu (Mechanical Engineering Student). This week’s focus, as shown here, was beginning clarifying task assignments and beginning the foundation work with his team.

A Better Way to Live – Continued Managing the Vermiculture Bathroom Development

Dean Scholz (Architectural Designer), continued helping us create quality Cob Village (Pod 3) renders. Here is update 45 of his work creating all the iterations you see here:

Continued Creating Quality Cob Village Renders – Click to Visit Page

…leading up to this final rooftop view looking Southeast render:

A Better Way to Live – Cob Village Final Render – Rooftop View

Hamilton Mateca (AutoCAD and Revit Drafter and Designer) also finished his 20th week helping with the Compressed Earth Block Village (Pod 4) design details. This week’s focus was on testing and updating textures for the bricks, frames, and railings as shown here:

A Better Way to Live – Continued Evolving the Compressed Earth Block Village ” Click to Visit

Guy Grossfeld (Graphic Designer) continued with 3D earth block construction for the Compressed Earth Block Village (Pod 4) labyrinth meditation walking path. This week’s focus was working on the dark-to-light texture pattern shown here and minor layout corrections:

Continued w/ 3D Earth Block Construction for Labyrinth Walking Path ” Click for Compressed Earth

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

Converted Guy’s 3D Bench Design Into the AutoCAD Design – Click for Compressed Earth Block Village

Yee-Cheng Ho (Interior Designer) also finished her 9th week of helping with the Shipping Container Village (Pod 5) renders for the living units. This week’s focus was finishing these two back-to-back single-residence designs created using 3 shipping containers.

Final Renders Finished of Two Back-to-Back Single-Residence Designs Created Using 3 Shipping

A BETTER WAY TO LIVE DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

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

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

Continued Structural Column Updates for the Kitchen in the Dining Dome ” Click to Visit Page

Worked on Render Position Testing for Outdoor Aspects of Natural Pool Area – Click to Visit Page

Continued Working on Recycled Pipe Shelving for the Duplicable City Center ” Click to Visit Page

Shuna Ni (Masters of Mechanical Engineering and Civil Engineering PhD) also continued working on the City Center structural engineering. This week’s work focused on calculations for the added braces you see here that will support the 4th floor and storage rooms attached to the elevator area.

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

Jinxi Feng (Environmental Consultant) also continued her research helping us create an in-depth laundry and dryer machine sustainability analysis. What you see here is her 13th week of behind-the-scenes work on this area of the project. This week’s focus was explaining and graphically showing the water and energy comparisons of conventional washers with Energy Star washers.  

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

Also, Jennifer Zhou (Web Designer) and Ashwin Patil (Web Developer), finished their 4th week of collaboratively working on the open source pipe furniture page. This week’s focus was working on improving the slider image function and finalizing the general layout shown here for the different tutorial sections.

A Better Way to Live – Continued Working on the Pipe Furniture Page – Click to Visit

Ramya Vudi (Electrical Engineer), Shubham Agrawal (Electrical Engineer), and Mike Hogan (Automation Systems Developer and Business Systems Consultant) continued working on the electrical design for the Control and Automation systems. What you see here is this team’s 5th week of work on focusing on research and planning for the control panel size and placement:

Continued on Electrical Design for Control & Automation Systems ” Click for Page

Lucas Tsutsui da Silva (4th-year Computer Engineering Student) also did long cable tests for the Pi2, updated code he’d been testing for functionality, and updated the current requirements spreadsheet to include the total current information for the main controller box.

A Better Way to Live – Continued Working on the Control Systems – Click to Visit Page

And Renan Dantas (Mechanical Engineer) continued with his 3rd week working on creating our next generation of Duplicable City Center section drawings. This week’s focus was primarily on adding more section details, creating a better layer system for the complete structure, and updating the colors for the different layers so everything is easier to see:

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

A BETTER WAY TO LIVE HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS

One Community is generating a better way to live 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

Ashwin Patil (Web Developer) and Jennifer Zhou (Web Designer) also completed what is, collectively, the 9th week of work developing the new site search engine. This week’s focus was inputting the details for the first half of the Highest Good education section and writing the code for the rest of that same section.

Continued Developing New Site Search Engine ” Click to Visit Home Page

And Yuri Witte (Music Composer and Sound Designer)” completed his 5th week of helping create the music that will accompany the new overview video we are planning. This week’s focus was another new intro, changes in the transitions between the music and where the different intensity builds happen, and adding new drum details. You can here some of the track in the background here and listen to all the progressions on Yuri’s SoundCloud.

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Continued Creating Music that Will Accompany the New Overview Video – Click for Yuri’s Soundcloud

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WHAT ONE COMMUNITY IS CREATING

One Community is creating a place to grow together and change the world together. We are creating a space that helps each other live in integrity with each other and the planet as we strive to be the greatest versions of ourselves while promoting a better way to live. 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 while promoting a better way to live. A place based on compassion, kindness, and collaboration. This replicable community will serve as an example for what is possible.

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

A BETTER WAY TO LIVE – BUILDING THE FIRST OF MANY

One Community will be the first teacher/demonstration hub and it will teach about a better way to live. 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 of a better way to live is capable of creating a sustainable planet within 30 years. We will achieve this by establishing successful teacher/demonstration hubs on every continent. Villages include designs appropriate for each of the five main types of climates. They also include options for even the most challenged economies. These hubs will collaborate with one another, share ideas, resources, and work together as a network to heal the planet and create a better way to live. 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 a better way to live 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 a better way to live will take a relatively short period of time to positively affect millions while inspiring millions more.  For One Community residents (the Pioneer Team), the idea of creating and sharing the social and recreational experience with visitors is also fun, exciting, fulfilling, and an additional reason why we are creating this.

INSPIRING SUSTAINABILITY WITH OPEN SOURCE

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

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

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

COMPREHENSIVE SOLUTION TO HUMANITY’S NEEDS

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

As we address and open source share these areas we will establish a living example of the first teacher/demonstration village purposed to teach others about the model of a better way to live. To maximally facilitate duplication, One Community will provide seven duplicable examples and function indefinitely as a place people can visit and a non-profit and open source think tank continuing to further evolve and share solutions in all of the above areas and more.

We will also provide hands-on experience and training. Most importantly, growing upon our sustainable foundation, we will endlessly make this comprehensive solution of a better way to live even more widely known and globally accessible, understandable and diversely duplicable, and inspiring and desirable as a model worth duplicating.

GLOBALLY IMPLEMENTABLE REPLICATION MODEL

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

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

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

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

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

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

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, a better way to live, 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 towards a better way to live.

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

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

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

OPEN SOURCE SHARING STRATEGY SPECIFICS

One Community’s open source strategy will evolve 5 primary types of open source content purposed to reach and service as broad an audience as possible in order to disseminate information about the model of a better way to live. This includes the following mediums of sharing that are being developed to function as standalone resources or in combination with each other:

• Video tutorials
• Audio tutorials
• Live streaming video
• Direct/live interaction
• Written content and downloadable PDFs

Maximum exposure of a better way to live model is accomplished through simultaneous implementation of the following strategies:

• Free-shared audio, visual, and PDF downloads
• Scholarship and intern programs for direct learning
• Videoing or live-streaming almost all classes and activities
• Tourism option for involvement in almost all aspects of One Community
• Dedicated and search engine optimized sections of our website for each key area
• Our established infrastructure that simultaneously posts to over 20 social networks

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 that will lead to creating a cooperative future through a better way to live. 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.

Creating a planet that works for everyone is possible if enough people want it. We can change how we interact with each other and our shared environment if we choose to. One way to achieve sufficient engagement and participation is to create an open source and free-shared model that demonstrates this on a small-scale while providing a better way of living than how most people are living now. Such a model, if demonstrated as easy enough and affordable enough, will predictably spread and expand on its own. We are designing this as what we call 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

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 November 27th, 2016 edition (#192) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments:

Creating a Planet that Works for Everyone
One Community Progress Update #192

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

CREATING A PLANET THAT WORKS FOR EVERYONE INTRO: @1:03

CREATING A PLANET THAT WORKS FOR EVERYONE HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION: @1:58

• Transferred third 25% of the written content for the Consciousness Lesson Plan to the website (see below)
• Behind the scenes: wrote the first 25% section of the written part of the Cognition Lesson Plan
• Completed the second 25% of the mindmap for the Individuality Lesson Plan (see below)

CREATING A PLANET THAT WORKS FOR EVERYONE HIGHEST GOOD FOOD: @2:53

• Cleaned up the recipes on the breakfast page and created a “Dessert & Snack Recipes” page (see below)

CREATING A PLANET THAT WORKS FOR EVERYONE HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING: @3:21

• Ashwini Ramesh and the core team put another combined total of 15 hours into the crowdfunding campaign we are developing (see below)
• Finished updates to two final Straw Bale Village renders and added them to the site (see below)
• Updated the Straw Bale Village floor plans (see below)
• Fernando Remolina continued with his 5th week of managing the Vermiculture Bathroom development (see below)
• Hamilton Mateca finished his 19th week helping with the Compressed Earth Block Village design details (see below)
• Guy Grossfeld continued with 3D earth block construction for Compressed Earth Block Village meditation walking path (see below)
• Aparna Tandon continued work on the Compressed Earth Block Village external elements (see below)
• Jiming Chen continued helping develop the Tree House Village (see below)
• Zachary Melin continued developing the Tree House Village book (see below)

CREATING A PLANET THAT WORKS FOR EVERYONE DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER: @6:03

• Continued render creation for the Duplicable City Center (see below)
• Iris Hsu continued her work on the recycled pipe shelving for the Duplicable City Center library (see below)
• Haoxuan “Hayes” Lei and Shuna Ni continued their work on the City Center structural engineering (see below)
• Dipti Dhondarkar continued with her 20th week of work on the lighting specifics for the City Center (see below)
• Jinxi Feng continued her research helping us create an in-depth laundry and dryer machine sustainability analysis (see below)
• Began updating the eco-laundry page with Jinxi’s work (see below)
• Ramya Vudi, Shubham Agrawal, and Mike Hogan continued working on the electrical design for the Control and Automation systems and Ramya and Shubham continued working on the solar and wind designs (see below)
• Lucas Tsutsui da Silva finished the Control Systems ” Current Requirements for Room Controller chart (see below)
• Renan Dantas continued creating our next generation of Duplicable City Center section drawings (see below)

CREATING A PLANET THAT WORKS FOR EVERYONE HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY: @8:59

• Updated the Taxes and Sustainable Community Building page (see below)
• Ashwin Patil and Jennifer Zhou continued work developing the new site search engine (see below)
• Yuri Witte continued helping create the music that will accompany the new overview video we are planning (see below)

CREATING A PLANET THAT WORKS FOR EVERYONE SUMMARY: @10:06

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CREATING A PLANET THAT WORKS FOR EVERYONE HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

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

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

This last week the core team transferred the third 25% of the written content for the Consciousness Lesson Plan to the website, as you see here. This lesson plan purposed to teach all subjects, to all learning levels, in any learning environment, using the central theme of “Consciousness” is now 75% completed on our website.

Creating a Planet that Works for Everyone -Transferred Third 25% of Consciousness Lesson Plan

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

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

Creating a Planet that Works for Everyone -Individuality Mindmap ” 50% Complete

CREATING A PLANET THAT WORKS FOR EVERYONE HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

One Community is creating a planet that works for everyone 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 cleaned up the recipes on the breakfast page and created a “Dessert & Snack Recipes” page. You can see images of that work here:

Created a “Dessert & Snack Recipes” Page – Click to Visit Transition Kitchen Page

CREATING A PLANET THAT WORKS FOR EVERYONE HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

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

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

The core team and Ashwini Ramesh (Civil Engineer and Project Manager) put another combined total of 15 hours into the crowdfunding campaign we are developing. This week’s focus was the behind-the-scenes content editing for the Site Selection and Preparation page. You can see some of this work here.

Continued Editing the Site Selection and Preparation Page Behind-the-Scenes – Click to Visit Site

We also finished updates to these two final Straw Bale Village (Pod 2) renders and added them to the site. The first one is the “Central Social Area with the Chimney Closed” and the second one is the “Outdoor Picnic Area Looking East.”

Final Render of Central Social Area with the Chimney Closed – Click to Visit Straw Bale Village

Creating a Planet that Works for Everyone -Final Render of Outdoor Picnic Area Looking East

Next, we updated the Straw Bale Village floor plans and “click to enlarge” floor plans, as shown here:

Fernando Remolina (Industrial Engineer specializing in Project Management) continued with his 5th week of managing the Vermiculture Bathroom development. This week’s focus, as shown here, was beginning clarifying task assignments and beginning the foundation work with his team.

Continued Managing the Vermiculture Bathroom Development – Click to Visit Page

Hamilton Mateca (AutoCAD and Revit Drafter and Designer) also finished his 19th week helping with the Compressed Earth Block Village (Pod 4) design details. This week’s focus was on railing, lighting, and furniture updates to the internal and external Revit 3-D room and exterior design specifics shown here:

Creating a Planet that Works for Everyone – Continued Evolving the Compressed Earth Block Village

Guy Grossfeld (Graphic Designer) continued with 3D earth block construction for the Compressed Earth Block Village (Pod 4) labyrinth meditation walking path. This week’s focus was trying a new approach that allowed him to finish the layout for this, as shown here:

Continued w/ 3D Earth Block Construction for Labyrinth Walking Path ” Click for Compressed Earth

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

Jiming Chen (Designer with his Master’s in Architecture and BA in Engineering) also continued helping develop the Tree House Village (Pod 7). What you see here is his 7th week of this work focusing on enlarged bathroom and shower designs, updating and finishing the roof, window, and external seating plans, and more doorway and storage updates.

Creating a Planet that Works for Everyone – Continued Developing the Tree House Village

Zachary Melin (Graphic Designer) also continued developing the Tree House Village (Pod 7) book. What you see here is week 15 of this work that continued with updates to more pages that will feature Jiming’s new floor plans and designs once they are complete.

Creating a Planet that Works for Everyone – Continued Developing the Tree House Village Book

CREATING A PLANET THAT WORKS FOR EVERYONE DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

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

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

This week the core team continued render creation for the Duplicable City Center. This included the structural column updates for the Kitchen in the Dining Dome as seen here:

Worked on Structural Column Updates for the Kitchen in the Dining Dome – Click to Visit Page

… and checking in 3D the placement of columns, doors and windows to accommodate the fourth floor:

Creating a Planet that Works for Everyone – Continued Render Creation for the Duplicable City Center

Iris Hsu, (Industrial Designer), also continued her work on the recycled pipe shelving for the Duplicable City Center library. This week’s focus was beginning work on the assembly instructions. What you see here are the initial layouts, beginnings of the parts list, explanation of the lighting color options, and more:

Continued Working on Recycled Pipe Shelving for the Duplicable City Center – Click to Visit Page

Creating a Planet that Works for Everyone – Continued Work on the City Center Structural Engineering

And Dipti Dhondarkar, (Electrical Engineer) also continued with her 20th week of work on the lighting specifics for the City Center. This week’s focus was solidifying the specific wattage of LED bulbs we will use and researching the different looks for the various LED options, as shown here:

Creating a Planet that Works for Everyone – Continued Lighting Specifics for the City Center

Jinxi Feng (Environmental Consultant) also continued her research helping us create an in-depth laundry and dryer machine sustainability analysis. What you see here is her 12th week of behind-the-scenes work on this area of the project. This week’s focus was more calculations and comparisons and beginning to create the charts and info-graphics you can see here:

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

The core team also began updating the eco-laundry page with Jinxi’s work, finishing the What, Why, and initial 3 Details sections discussing the range of what is possible from the most basic approaches to the most comprehensive. Visit the page to read the details.

Creating a Planet that Works for Everyone – Began Updating the Eco-Laundry Page with Jinxi’s Work

Ramya Vudi (Electrical Engineer), Shubham Agrawal (Electrical Engineer), and Mike Hogan (Automation Systems Developer and Business Systems Consultant) continued working on the electrical design for the Control and Automation systems and Ramya and Shubham continued working on the solar and wind designs. What you see here is this team’s 5th week of work on both of these tasks and focusing on controller sizing, battery selection, and wind turbine types.

Continued on Control & Automation Systems & Solar Sizing Plan

Lucas Tsutsui da Silva (4th-year Computer Engineering Student) also finished the Control Systems ” Current Requirements for Room Controller chart you can see here:

Finished Current Requirements for Room Controller Chart – Click to Visit Control Systems Page

And Renan Dantas (Mechanical Engineer) continued with his 2nd week working on creating our next generation of Duplicable City Center section drawings. You can see some of the notes and examples of the ongoing revisions here.

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

CREATING A PLANET THAT WORKS FOR EVERYONE HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS

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

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

This last week the core team updated the Taxes and Sustainable Community Building page with more of the comprehensive research and educational content written last year by Binru Chen (Accountant Specializing in Audit and Financial Reporting). The work-in-progress you see here is in preparation for a new web designer who we just brought on the team and will be taking on finishing this page as her first project with the team.

Updated the Taxes and Sustainable Community Building Page – Click to Visit

Ashwin Patil (Web Developer) and Jennifer Zhou (Web Designer) also completed what is, collectively, the 8th week of work developing the new site search engine. This week’s focus was inputting the details for the Highest Good energy section, fixing a broken icon set problem, and writing the code for the Highest Good society and Highest Good education sections, as shown here.

Creating a Planet that Works for Everyone – Continued Developing New Site Search Engine

And Yuri Witte (Music Composer and Sound Designer)” completed his 3rd week of helping create the music that will accompany the new overview video we are planning. This week’s focus was several new composition tests for a more progressive and action-oriented intro. You can hear one of these here and listen to the rest on Yuri’s SoundCloud.

Continued Creating Music that Will Accompany the New Overview Video – Click for Yuri’s Soundcloud

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WHAT ONE COMMUNITY IS CREATING

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

Our goal is to demonstrate what we feel is the most sustainable, healthy, and fun environment we can create. Creating a planet that works for everyone means creating place based on compassion, kindness, and collaboration. This replicable community will serve as an example for what is possible.

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

CREATING A PLANET THAT WORKS FOR EVERYONE – BUILDING THE FIRST OF MANY

One Community will be the first teacher/demonstration hub t0 teach about creating a planet that works for everyone. It will function as an experiential-learning model that facilitates mass participation to address humanity’s most pressing challenges through: A replicable model for expansion, building seven self-sufficient village/city prototypes, becoming the world leader in open-source sustainability solutions, and evolving and expanding ALL aspects of sustainable living.

WHY ONE COMMUNITY IS CREATING THIS

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

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 creating a planet that works for everyone 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 creating a planet that works for everyone will take a relatively short period of time to positively affect millions while inspiring millions more.  For One Community residents (the Pioneer Team), the idea of creating and sharing the social and recreational experience with visitors is also fun, exciting, fulfilling, and an additional reason why we are creating this.

INSPIRING SUSTAINABILITY WITH OPEN SOURCE

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

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

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

COMPREHENSIVE SOLUTION TO HUMANITY’S NEEDS

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

As we address and open source share these areas we will establish a living example of the first teacher/demonstration village purposed to teach others more about the model of creating a planet that works for everyone. To maximally facilitate duplication, One Community will provide seven duplicable examples and function indefinitely as a place people can visit and a non-profit and open source think tank continuing to further evolve and share solutions in all of the above areas and more.

We will also provide hands-on experience and training on the creating a planet that works for everyone model. Most importantly, growing upon our sustainable foundation, we will endlessly make this comprehensive solution even more widely known and globally accessible, understandable and diversely duplicable, and inspiring and desirable as a model worth duplicating.

GLOBALLY IMPLEMENTABLE REPLICATION MODEL

The more people that are inspired and desiring for themselves what it is that One Community creates, the more demand there will be for spreading the One Community model of creating a planet that works for everyone. This leads to the directing of financial resources and resourceful people where we believe they are needed most: the establishment of additional sustainable communities around the world.

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

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

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

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

WHY OPEN SOURCE

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

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 in the quest to creating a planet that works for everyone. It can be duplicated by itself or with other modules, with applications as diverse as the people who want and need them. The constantly expanding total model will additionally be able to be used in its entirety as the open source project-launch blueprint for a variety of duplicate teacher/demonstration communities, villages, and cities capable of being built virtually anywhere.

The most profound part about creating a planet that works for everyone 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.

OPEN SOURCE SHARING STRATEGY SPECIFICS

One Community’s open source strategy will evolve 5 primary types of open source content purposed to reach and service as broad an audience as possible in order to share insight about creating a planet that works for everyone. This includes the following mediums of sharing that are being developed to function as standalone resources or in combination with each other:

• Video tutorials
• Audio tutorials
• Live streaming video
• Direct/live interaction
• Written content and downloadable PDFs

For the model of creating a planet that works for everyone, maximum exposure is accomplished through simultaneous implementation of the following strategies:

• Free-shared audio, visual, and PDF downloads
• Scholarship and intern programs for direct learning
• Videoing or live-streaming almost all classes and activities
• Tourism option for involvement in almost all aspects of One Community

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 with the intention of creating a planet that works for everyone. 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, all aimed at creating a planet that works for everyone.

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

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

OUR MAIN OPEN SOURCE HUBS

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

One Community’s physical location will forward this movement as the first of many self-replicating teacher/demonstration communities, villages, and cities to be built around the world. This is the November 20th, 2016 edition (#191) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments:

Regenerative Community Building
One Community Progress Update #191

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

REGENERATIVE COMMUNITY BUILDING INTRO: @1:03

REGENERATIVE COMMUNITY BUILDING HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION: @1:56

• Transferred second 25% of the written content for the Consciousness Lesson Plan to the website (see below)
• Behind the scenes: wrote the third and final 25% sections of the written part of the Consciousness Lesson Plan
• Completed the first 25% of the mindmap for the Individuality Lesson Plan (see below)

REGENERATIVE COMMUNITY BUILDING HIGHEST GOOD FOOD: @2:52

• Organized recipes on the omnivore recipe pages for our Transition Kitchen strategy, and created a “breakfast recipes” page (see below)

REGENERATIVE COMMUNITY BUILDING HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING: @3:21

• Ashwini Ramesh and the core team put a combined total of 20 hours into the Licensing and Permitting section of the crowdfunding campaign we are developing (see below)
• Finished updates to two final Straw Bale Village renders and added them to the site (see below)
• Dean Scholz continued helping us create quality Cob Village renders (see below)
• Hamilton Mateca finished his 18th week helping with the Compressed Earth Block Village design details (see below)
• Guy Grossfeld continued with 3D earth block construction for the Compressed Earth Block Village (see below)
• Aparna Tandon continued her work on the Compressed Earth Block Village external elements (see below)

REGENERATIVE COMMUNITY BUILDING DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER: @5:28

• Continued render creation for the Duplicable City Center. This included these two finished perspectives for the Kitchen in the Dining Dome (see below)
• Updated all the formatting and icons on all the pages linked to from the main City Center open source hub (see below)
• Haoxuan “Hayes” Lei and Shuna Ni continued their work on the City Center structural engineering (see below)
• Dipti Dhondarkar continued with her 19th week of work on the lighting specifics for the City Center (see below)
• Jinxi Feng continued her research helping us create an in-depth laundry and dryer machine sustainability analysis (see below)
• Jennifer Zhou and Ashwin Patil finished their 3rd week of collaboratively working on the open source pipe furniture page (see below)
• Ramya Vudi was joined by Shubham Agrawal working on the solar sizing plan as well and our collaboration with Mike Hogan designing the Control and Automation systems (see below)
• Renan Dantas joined the team and started creating our next generation of Duplicable City Center section drawings (see below)

REGENERATIVE COMMUNITY BUILDING HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY: @8:14

• Ashwin Patil and Jennifer Zhou completed what is, collectively, the 7th week of work developing the new site search engine (see below)
• Yuri Witte completed his 2nd week of helping create the music that will accompany the new overview video we are planning (see below)

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REGENERATIVE COMMUNITY BUILDING – HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

One Community is facilitating regenerative community 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 transferred the second 25% of the written content for the Consciousness Lesson Plan to the website, as you see here. This lesson plan purposed to teach all subjects, to all learning levels, in any learning environment, using the central theme of “Consciousness” is now 50% completed on our website.

Transferred Second 25% of Consciousness Lesson Plan to Site ” Click to Visit Page

Behind the scenes, we wrote the third and final 25% sections of the written part of the Consciousness Lesson Plan.

We also completed the first 25% of the mindmap for the Individuality Lesson Plan, which you see here:

Regenerative Community Building – Individuality Mindmap ” 25% Complete ” Click to Visit Page

REGENERATIVE COMMUNITY BUILDING – HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

One Community is facilitating regenerative community 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 | TA

This week, the core team organized recipes on the omnivore recipe pages for our Transition Kitchen strategy, and created a “breakfast recipes” page. You can see images of that work here:

Organized Recipes on Omnivore Recipe Pages and Created a “Breakfast Recipes” Page – Click to Visit

REGENERATIVE COMMUNITY BUILDING HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

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

This last the core team and Ashwini Ramesh (Civil Engineer and Project Manager) put another combined total of 20 hours into the crowdfunding campaign we are developing. This weeks work focused on finishing the content for the Licensing and Permitting section, as shown here:

Worked on the Content for the Licensing and Permitting Section – Click to Visit Page

We also finished updates to these two final Straw Bale Village (Pod 2) renders and added them to the site. The first one is the “Children’s Playroom” and the second one is the “Outdoor Play Area Looking Northeast.”

Regenerative Community Building – Final Render of Playroom ” Click to Visit Straw Bale Village

Final Render of Outdoor Play Area Looking Northeast ” Click to Visit Straw Bale Village

Next, we updated the Straw Bale Village header, social media, and preview images with the new floor plan, as shown here:

Regenerative Community Building – New Straw Bale Village Floor Plan Created – Click to Visit

Dean Scholz (Architectural Designer), continued helping us create quality Cob Village (Pod 3) renders. Here is update 44 of his work creating all the iterations you see here…

Continued Helping us Create Quality Cob Village Renders ” Click to Visit Page

….leading up to this final rooftop view looking North render:

Final Render of the Rooftop View Looking North ” Click to Visit Cob Village

He also fixed the sky to create this new final render of the back view looking East:

Updated Final Render of the Back View Looking East ” Click to Visit Cob Village

Hamilton Mateca (AutoCAD and Revit Drafter and Designer) also finished his 18th week helping with the Compressed Earth Block Village (Pod 4) design details. This week’s focus was focused on continued development of the internal and external Revit 3-D room and exterior design specifics shown here.

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

Regenerative Community Building – Continued Render Creation for the Duplicable City Center

Guy Grossfeld (Graphic Designer) continued with 3D earth block construction for the Compressed Earth Block Village (Pod 4). This week’s focus was hours of brick placement for a real-to-life layout of the earth brick labyrinth, we’re starting over now with a new approach.

Continued w/ 3D Earth Block Outdoor Furniture Construction ” Click for Compressed Earth Block

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

REGENERATIVE COMMUNITY BUILDING – DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

One Community is facilitating regenerative community 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 week the core team continued render creation for the Duplicable City Center. This included these two finished perspectives looking Northwest and Northeast for the Kitchen in the Dining Dome:

Duplicable City Center Kitchen Final Render ” View Looking Northwest

Duplicable City Center Kitchen Final Render ” View Looking Northeast

…as part of these, we also added the columns into all the other perspectives to check the 3-D view and accuracy as compared to the AutoCAD file, identifying all discrepancies as shown here:

Regenerative Community Building – Continued Render Creation for the Duplicable City Center

In addition to this, the core team also updated all the formatting and icons on all the pages linked to from the main City Center open source hub. You can see a collage of these updates here:

Updated Formatting & Icons for Pages Linked to the City Center – Click to Visit Main Hub

Haoxuan “Hayes” Lei (Structural Engineer) and Shuna Ni (Masters of Mechanical Engineering and Civil Engineering PhD) also continued their work on the City Center structural engineering. This week’s work focused on environmental load calculations and additional updates to the internal column calculations.

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

And Dipti Dhondarkar, (Electrical Engineer) also continued with her 19th week of work on the lighting specifics for the City Center. This week’s focus was researching and comparing specific bulbs. This image is a good summary of what our research confirmed.  

Regenerative Community Building – Continued Lighting Specifics for the City Center – Click to Enlarge

Jinxi Feng (Environmental Consultant) also continued her research helping us create an in-depth laundry and dryer machine sustainability analysis. What you see here is her 11th week of behind-the-scenes work on this are of the project. This week’s focus was finishing the research and writing process for the “What” and “Why” sections. Here is this work ready for movement to the webpage. 

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

Also, Jennifer Zhou (Web Designer) and Ashwin Patil (Web Developer), finished their 3rd week of collaboratively working on the open source pipe furniture page. What you see here is the initial formatting of this page taking shape along with the new slider feature at the top and an additional slider below that for easier page summarization and navigation.

Continued Working on the Open Source Pipe Furniture Page – Click to Visit

Ramya Vudi (Electrical Engineer) was also joined by Shubham Agrawal (Electrical Engineer) working on the solar sizing plan as well and our collaboration with Mike Hogan (Automation Systems Developer and Business Systems Consultant) designing the Control and Automation systems. What you see here are some of the notes and research from this team’s 4th week of work on both of these tasks:

Continued on Solar Sizing Plan & Control & Automation Systems – Click for Control Systems Page

And Renan Dantas (Mechanical Engineer) joined the team and started creating our next generation of Duplicable City Center section drawings. You can see this work-in-progress here.

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

REGENERATIVE COMMUNITY BUILDING – HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS

One Community is facilitating regenerative community 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

Ashwin Patil (Web Developer) and Jennifer Zhou (Web Designer) also completed what is, collectively, the 7th week of work developing the new site search engine. This week’s focus was inputting the details for the Highest Good economics section and writing the code for the Straw Bale Village (pod2) and Duplicable City Center sections, as shown here.

Regenerative Community Building – Continued Developing New Site Search Engine ” Click to Visit

And Yuri Witte (Music Composer and Sound Designer)” completed his 2nd week of helping create the music that will accompany the new overview video we are planning. This week’s focus was adding test voiceover and writing an option for the closing piano music. You can hear an example of the work-in-progress audio in the background here, and the complete clips (including the test voiceover) as the 5th and 6th iterations on Yuri’s SoundCloud:

Helping Create Music that Will Accompany the New Overview Video – Click for Yuri’s Soundcloud

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WHAT ONE COMMUNITY IS CREATING

One Community is creating a place to grow together and change the world together through regenerative community 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. This replicable community will serve as an example for what is possible in regenerative community building .

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

REGENERATIVE COMMUNITY 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 regenerative community 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. 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 through regenerative community building to a more enjoyable, fulfilling, healthy, and sustainable one.

The specifics of how One Community is accomplishing the regenerative community building vocation 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 via regenerative community building, a self-replicating teacher/demonstration model like this will take a relatively short period of time to positively affect millions while inspiring millions more.  For One Community residents (the Pioneer Team), the idea of creating and sharing the social and recreational experience with visitors is also fun, exciting, fulfilling, and an additional reason why we are creating this.

INSPIRING SUSTAINABILITY WITH OPEN SOURCE

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

Our open source model and blueprints engage and inspire people while simultaneously making sustainable living more affordable and easy to replicate. By free-sharing the step-by-step regenerative community building model plans people need for duplication, inviting people to participate, and demonstrating sustainable teacher/demonstration hubs as a more desirable way of living, the model of regenerative community building 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 regenerative community building is even possible, we are nonetheless bringing together all those that do see this as possible as the non-profit think tank of forward-thinking individuals willing to design, build, and open source project-launch blueprint and free-share it for The Highest Good of All.

COMPREHENSIVE SOLUTION TO HUMANITY’S NEEDS

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

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

GLOBALLY IMPLEMENTABLE REPLICATION MODEL

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

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

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

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

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

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

ONE COMMUNITY’S 4-PHASE STRATEGY

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

Phase I: Demonstrating a Better Way

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

Phase II: Open Source Project-Launch Blueprinting

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

Phase III: Inviting the World to Participate

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

Phase IV: Universal Appeal and Global Expansion

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

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

WHY OPEN SOURCE

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

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 of the regenerative community building model can be accessed, evolved, and even re-birthed as something completely new. It can be duplicated by itself or with other modules, with applications as diverse as the people who want and need them. The constantly expanding total model will additionally be able to be used in its entirety as the open source project-launch blueprint for a variety of duplicate teacher/demonstration communities, villages, and cities capable of being built virtually anywhere.

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

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

OPEN SOURCE SHARING STRATEGY SPECIFICS

One Community’s open source strategy will evolve 5 primary types of open source content purposed to reach and service as broad an audience as possible to spread word on regenerative community building. This includes the following mediums of sharing that are being developed to function as standalone resources or in combination with each other:

• Video tutorials
• Audio tutorials
• Live streaming video
• Direct/live interaction
• Written content and downloadable PDFs

Maximum exposure about regenerative community building is accomplished through simultaneous implementation of the following strategies:

• Free-shared audio, visual, and PDF downloads
• Scholarship and intern programs for direct learning
• Videoing or live-streaming almost all classes and activities
• Tourism option for involvement in almost all aspects of One Community
• Dedicated and search engine optimized sections of our website for each key area
• Our established infrastructure that simultaneously posts to over 20 social networks

SUMMARY

One Community sees the issues of the world as interdependent and interconnected. To address them simultaneously, we are open-source blueprinting a more advanced standard of living by designing holistic, environmentally-regenerative, self-sustaining, adaptable solutions for all areas of sustainability through regenerative community building. 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.