Open Source Community Ecology – One Community Weekly Progress Update #304

Open source community ecology combines sustainable and open source approaches to food, energy, housing, education, for-profit and non-profit economic design, social architecture, fulfilled living, global stewardship practices, and more. By living and creating this way, we can improve our own lives and the lives of others while also helping to regenerate our 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

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One Community’s physical location will forward this movement as the first of many self-replicating teacher/demonstration communities, villages, and cities to be built around the world. This is the January 20, 2019 edition (#304) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments:

Open Source Community Ecology
One Community Progress Update #304

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

OPEN SOURCE COMMUNITY ECOLOGY: INTRO: @0:34

OPEN SOURCE COMMUNITY ECOLOGY: HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING: @6:46

• Continued design updates to the open source Murphy bed furniture assembly details (see below)
• Continued with one more round of edits and additions to the finished most sustainable toilet options page (see below)
• Shadi Kennedy completed his 36th week leading the development of the Murphy bed instructions (see below)
• Dean Scholz finished the 3D-model updates to Earthbag Village entryway and windows (see below)

OPEN SOURCE COMMUNITY ECOLOGY: DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER: @8:10

OPEN SOURCE COMMUNITY ECOLOGY: HIGHEST GOOD FOOD: @9:38

• Started adding all the Highest Good Food rollout plan details to a staging page (see below)
• Continued writing the behind-the-scenes narrative and detailed food rollout plan for the various stages of development (see below)
• And Guy Grossfeld completed his 3rd week working on creating an open source icon and symbol set for our permaculture designs (see below)

OPEN SOURCE COMMUNITY ECOLOGY: HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION: @10:45

• With over 8 years of development invested in the Education for Life component, this part of One Community is now complete enough to no longer focus and report on it with weekly updates. That is, of course, until we move onto the property and continue the development and open sourcing process with teachers and students. Visit the Education section below for links to all the completed elements of this component and details on the final remaining action items for this area of One Community before moving onto the property and fully launching it.
• Continued working on the structural aspects of the Ultimate Classroom (see below)

OPEN SOURCE COMMUNITY ECOLOGY: HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY: @12:06

• Emilio Nájera added additional keywords for the Highest Good Education pages and then worked on the keywords for the Resource Based Economy, Wind Microgrid, Solar Microgrid, Consensus, and Evolving Sustainability (see below)
• Highest Good Network software team consisting of Jordan Miller and Tyler Calvert continued developing the software (see below)

OPEN SOURCE COMMUNITY ECOLOGY: SUMMARY: @13:18

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OPEN SOURCE COMMUNITY ECOLOGY: HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

One Community is expanding open source community ecology 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 week the core team continued design updates to the open source Murphy bed furniture assembly details. This week we continued checking measurements, created two different layouts for the loft joists, and worked on further improving the assembly step order.

Continued Design Updates to the Open Source Murphy Bed Furniture Assembly Details – Click to Visit

And the core team did one more round of edits and additions to the finished most sustainable toilet options page. This included adding more details about the brands we didn’t select, adding new icons, and adding more resources.

Made Edits and Additions to the Finished Most Sustainable Toilet Options Page – Click to Visit

Shadi Kennedy (Artist and Graphic Designer) also completed his 36th week leading the development of the Murphy bed instructions. This week’s focus was creating new parts files from the updated 3D parts list, double checked all measurements and labeled all areas where improvement could be possible, outlined the new plan for descriptive and illustrative renders, and created new instructional diagrams for the frame section based on the newly revised assembly method. You can see some of this work-in-progress here.

Continued Leading the Development of the Murphy Bed Instructions – Click to Visit

Dean Scholz (Architectural Designer) continued working on the Earthbag Village (Pod 1). Here is weekly update #145 from Dean. This week’s focus, as shown in these images, was finishing the 3D-model updates to the entryway and windows.

Continued Updating the Earthbag Village Designs – Click for Page

OPEN SOURCE COMMUNITY ECOLOGY: DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

One Community is expanding open source community ecology 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 started building the new page sharing the best, safest, and most sustainable paints. We created the initial page setup, header and social media images, and wrote the Why, Summary, and FAQ sections. You can see some of this work here.

Started Building the New Page Sharing the Best, Safest, and Most Sustainable Paints – Click to Visit

Dehua Feng (Civil Engineer) further updated the Duplicable City Center Sprinkler and Emergency Systems designs. This week he eliminated all 3.5″ pipes and replaced them with more readily available 4″ pipes and fittings in AutoCAD and redid all the related calculations. You can see some of this work here.

Further Updated the Duplicable City Center Sprinkler and Emergency Systems Designs – Click to Visit

Tanya Griffin, Aubryanne Boyle, and Allie Marsh (Interior Designers from Lotus Designs) also completed their 4th week helping with the Duplicable City Center interior design details. This week they explored options for pendent and track lights, additional corner seating, and staggered seating with storage and work spaces along the back wall. You can see some of this work here.

Continued with Duplicable City Center Interior Design Details – Click to Visit

And James Herrigel (Student Researcher) also completed his 7th week researching the best, safest, and most sustainable paints. This week’s focus was beginning the process of integrating in the LEED points details related to paints. You can see some of this behind-the-scenes work here.

Continued Researching the Safest and Most Sustainable Paints – Click to Visit Page

OPEN SOURCE COMMUNITY ECOLOGY: HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

One Community is expanding open source community ecology 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 started adding all the Highest Good Food rollout plan details to a staging page. This week we rebuilt the menus and updated all the formatting, rewrote the What and Why sections, and added the completed details for the initial 3-person survey team. You can see some of this behind-the-scenes work here.

Started Adding All the Highest Good Food Rollout Plan Details to a Staging Page – Click to Visit

The core team also continued writing the behind-the-scenes narrative and detailed food rollout plan for the various stages of development. This week we wrote the initial rollout details covering food infrastructure for the first 20-50 people on the property, a newly added component “maintenance building,” and completed the fuel storage summary. You can see some of this behind-the-scenes work here.

Continued with Behind-the-scenes Narrative and Detailed Food Rollout Plan for Various Stages of Development – Click to Visit

And Guy Grossfeld (Graphic Designer) completed his 3rd week working on creating an open source icon and symbol set for our permaculture designs. What you see here are the icons created so far.

Continued Creating an Open Source Icon and Symbol Set for Our Permaculture Designs – Click to Visit

OPEN SOURCE COMMUNITY ECOLOGY: HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

One Community is building the foundations for how humanity creates a sustainable world through Highest Good education that is for all ages, applicable in any environment, adaptable to individual needs, far exceeds traditional education standards, and more fun for both the teachers and the students. This component of One Community is about 95% complete with only the Open Source School Licensing and Ultimate Classroom construction and assembly details remaining to be finished. With over 8 years of work invested in the process, the sections below are all complete until we move onto the property and continue the development and open sourcing process with teachers and students – a development process that is built directly into the structure of the education program and everything else we’re creating too:

• Program Overview: Education Open Source Hub
• How the components work together: How to use the Education for Life Program
  
• Lesson Plans for Life – Lesson Plans How-to
• Foundations of Outstanding Leaders, Teachers, and Communicators
• Curriculum for Life
• Teaching Strategies for Life
• Learning Tools and Toys for Life
• Evaluation and Evolution

This week the core team continued working on the structural aspects of the Ultimate Classroom. We changed the height of the wall from 4 feet to 5 feet and updated the window wall with a window header and cripple studs. We also added sill plates and designed the foundation and the framing for the glass door.

Continued on the Structural Aspects of the Ultimate Classroom – Click for Page

OPEN SOURCE COMMUNITY ECOLOGY: HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS

One Community is expanding open source community ecology 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 Emilio Nájera (Digital Marketer) continued with his 14th week as part of the marketing team. This week he added additional keywords for the Highest Good Education pages and then worked on the keywords for the Resource Based Economy, Wind Microgrid, Solar Microgrid, Consensus, and Evolving Sustainability pages. You can see some of this work here. 

Continued Researching Keywords for Several Pages – Click to Visit our Site Map

In addition to this, the Highest Good Network software team consisting of Jordan Miller (Web Developer) and Tyler Calvert (Full-stack Software Engineer) continued developing the software. This week the team continued to work on the Redux transition, researched Mailgun to replace Gmail for the application emails, revamped our test for onboarding new test engineers, removed all the remaining bootstrap imports, debugged a 400 error, and merged our updated README into the current branch. You can see some of this work here.

Continued Developing the Highest Good Network Software – Click to Visit

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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, fostering open source community ecology.

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 of what is possible, showcasing open source community ecology.

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, promoting open source community ecology.

OPEN SOURCE COMMUNITY ECOLOGY: BUILDING THE FIRST OF MANY

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

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, and resources, and work together as a network to heal the planet, emphasizing open source community ecology. They will also transform the global lifestyle into a more enjoyable, fulfilling, healthy, and sustainable one.

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

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

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.), emphasizing open source community ecology. We see these areas as interdependent and requiring a comprehensive solution if humanity is to move ecologically, socially, economically, and permanently towards a truly sustainable future for everyone.

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

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

COMPREHENSIVE SOLUTION TO HUMANITY’S NEEDS

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

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

GLOBALLY IMPLEMENTABLE REPLICATION MODEL

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

To meet the increasing demand for sustainability that we are contributing to, we are coordinating with manufacturers, education institutions, individuals, and vendors. This is also part of this model to help the world. Its purpose is to facilitate more engagement in 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 through open source community ecology.

This means we not only provide education and increase needed sustainability resources, but 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 through open source community ecology.

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

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

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