Permaculture Community Building – One Community Weekly Progress Update #302

One Community is open sourcing and free-sharing permaculture community building with DIY-replicable designs covering all aspects of sustainable living. This includes food, energy, housing, education, for-profit and non-profit 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

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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 6, 2019 edition (#302) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments:

Permaculture Community Building
One Community Progress Update #302

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

PERMACULTURE COMMUNITY BUILDING: INTRO: @0:34

PERMACULTURE COMMUNITY BUILDING: HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING: @6:29

• Continued design updates to the open source Murphy bed furniture assembly details (see below)
• Finished development of the new page sharing our research into the most sustainable toilet options (see below)
• Continued updating the complete Vermiculture Bathroom page (see below)
• Dean Scholz continued working on 3D-model updates the entryway and windows Earthbag Village (see below)

PERMACULTURE COMMUNITY BUILDING: DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER: @7:43

PERMACULTURE COMMUNITY BUILDING: HIGHEST GOOD FOOD: @9:26

• Continued adding more content to the open source Apiary page (see below)
• Continued writing the behind-the-scenes narrative and detailed food rollout plan for the various stages of development (see below)
• Guy Grossfeld began creating an open source icon and symbol set for our permaculture designs (see below)

PERMACULTURE COMMUNITY BUILDING: HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION: @10:46

• 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.

PERMACULTURE COMMUNITY BUILDING: HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY: @11:52

• Emilio Nájera researched keywords for five of our top-level housing-related pages: Cob Village, Compressed Earth Block Village, Shipping Container Village, and Recycled Materials Village (see below)
• Highest Good Network software team consisting of Shubhra Mittal, Jordan Miller, and Tyler Calvert continued developing the software (see below)

PERMACULTURE COMMUNITY BUILDING: SUMMARY: @13:02

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PERMACULTURE COMMUNITY BUILDING: HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

One Community is supporting and expanding permaculture 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 week the core team continued design updates to the open source Murphy bed furniture assembly details by double checking our clearances for the entire structure. You can see some of this work here.

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

The core team also finished development of the new page sharing our research into the most sustainable toilet options. To complete the page we finished the composting toilet section, water-saving accessories section, summary and FAQ sections, and shared it through social media.

Finished Most Sustainable Toilet Options Page – Click to Visit

And the core team continued updating the complete Vermiculture Bathroom page. This week we finished reviewing and updating all the text and design details for design-version 1. You can see some of this work here.

Continued Updating the Complete Vermiculture Bathroom Page – Click to Visit

Dean Scholz (Architectural Designer) continued working on the Earthbag Village (Pod 1). Here is weekly update #144 from Dean. This week’s focus, as shown in these images, was continued 3D-model updates to the entryway and windows.

Continued Updating the Earthbag Village Designs – Click for Page

PERMACULTURE COMMUNITY BUILDING: DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

One Community is supporting and expanding permaculture 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 working on the Sketchup Duplicable City Center updates. We updated all the hexagon windows, ceiling, and floor heights in the Dining and Social Domes. We also added complete furniture details to one of the Living Dome rooms, changed door opening directions where needed, updated windows on the Dining Dome second floor, raised the Sunrise Patio deck, redesigned the laundry room door frame details, and updated the Social Dome shell to accommodate the pedestrian door connecting the inside and outside swimming pool areas. You can see some of these details here.

Continued Working on Sketchup Duplicable City Center Updates – Click to Visit

The core team also continued with week 2 of our research into lake and water retention landscape creation as an alternative source of water for the Duplicable City Center Sprinkler and Emergency Systems Designs, agriculture, greywater processing, and more. This week we reviewed video and took notes on Sepp Holzer’s work on the topic.

Continued Research Into Lake and Water Retention Landscape Creation for the Duplicable City Center – Click to Visit

The core team also continued our final review of the City Center lighting spreadsheet, light placement, symbols, and layers in AutoCAD, and correlating website details. You can see some of this work here and we’d say we are about 50% complete.

Continued Our Final Review of the City Center Lighting – Click to Visit

And James Herrigel (Student Researcher) also completed his 5th week researching the best, safest, and most sustainable paints, carpet, and other building materials. This week he finished his research into responsible paints and began the process of writing the detailed tutorial. You can see some of this behind-the-scenes work here.

Continued Researching the Safest and Most Sustainable Paints, Carpet, and Other Building Materials – Click to Visit Page

PERMACULTURE COMMUNITY BUILDING: HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

One Community is supporting and expanding permaculture 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 continued working on the open source Apiary page. We finished the tools and equipment sections and added a section teaching what’s needed for buying bees. You can see some of this work here and we’d say we are now 90% complete with the page.

Continued Adding More Content to the Open Source Apiary 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 added the post hole/auger info, chainsaw tool kit info, and researched the Bio 400 shredder/chipper.  In addition we added examples of necessary activities for the 50-100 person third team, and food for 400+ on the food Google Doc. You can see some of this behind-the-scenes work here.

Continued with Behind-the-Scenes Narrative and Food Rollout Plan – Click for Page

And the core team working with Guy Grossfeld (Graphic Designer) completed our 1st week working on creating an open source icon and symbol set for our permaculture designs. This week we created the initial design template, researched textures, and Guy created the first icon samples. You can see some of this work here.

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

PERMACULTURE COMMUNITY BUILDING: 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. We’ll report on the final two elements to be finished as we develop them.

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

Highest Good Education: All Subjects | All Learning Levels | Any Age – Click image for the open source hub

PERMACULTURE COMMUNITY BUILDING: HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS

One Community is supporting and expanding permaculture 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

This week Emilio Nájera (Digital Marketer) continued with his 12th week as part of the marketing team. This week he researched keywords for five of our top-level housing-related pages: Cob Village, Compressed Earth Block Village, Shipping Container Village, and Recycled Materials Village.

Researched Keywords for Five More of our Top-level Housing-related Pages – Click to Visit Site Map Page

In addition to this, the Highest Good Network software team consisting of Shubhra Mittal (Software Delivery Manager), Jordan Miller (Web Developer), and Tyler Calvert (Full-stack Software Engineer) continued developing the software. This week the team debugged the unit tests for header and leaderboard components, wrote test for new front-end developers, started working on transitioning non-redux components to use Redux, and updated our documentation so it will be easier to read for new developers. 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 through permaculture community building.

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 through permaculture 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 grow through permaculture community building.

PERMACULTURE 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: 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 through permaculture community building.

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 through permaculture community building. 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, focusing on permaculture community building.

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

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, emphasizing permaculture community building.

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, emphasizing permaculture community building.

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, with a focus on permaculture community building.

COMPREHENSIVE SOLUTION TO HUMANITY’S NEEDS

One Community is open source sharing an evolution of sustainable living that addresses the complete human experience, with a focus on permaculture 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 permaculture 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, including permaculture 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, prioritizing permaculture community building. 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.

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 permaculture community building, global sustainability, philanthropy, and humanitarian movements and organizations.

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.

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.