One CommunitySolutioneering Our Future – One Community Weekly Progress Update #67
One Community is solutioneering our future with open source approaches to food, energy, housing, education, for-profit and non-profit economic design, social architecture, fulfilled living, stewardship practices and more. Our purpose for doing this is to demonstrate living and creating for The Highest Good of All as a path to positive and permanent global transformation:
- Here’s our project overview
- Here’s our world-change methodology
- Here’s how this becomes self-replicating
- Here’s how we are open source and free-sharing all the do-it-yourself designs
OUR MAIN OPEN SOURCE HUBS
Click on each icon to be taken to the corresponding Highest Good hub page.
One Community’s physical location will forward this movement as the first of many self-replicating teacher/demonstration communities, villages, and cities to be built around the world. Here is our weekly progress update (#67) covering our development and accomplishments for the week of June 2nd, 2014:
Solutioneering Our Future
One Community Weekly Progress Update #67
Here is the bullet-point list of this last week’s design and progress discussed in detail in the video above:
SOLUTIONEERING OUR FUTURE INTRO @1:00
SOLUTIONEERING OUR FUTURE – HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION @1:42
- Finished the addition of a Technology and Innovation branch to each of our 3 posted lesson plan mindmaps (see below)
- Researched and added another 10% of the Khan Academy links to our Math page – 70% complete
- Behind the scenes: Now 60% done with the lesson plan with the core theme of “Signs”
SOLUTIONEERING OUR FUTURE – HIGHEST GOOD FOOD: @2:58
- Added diversity details to the organic eggplant section of the large-scale gardening page (see below)
- Priced out all the necessary heavy equipment for the large-scale garden preparation (behind the scenes)
- Finished another 25% of our large-scale soil amendment strategy webpage (see below)
SOLUTIONEERING OUR FUTURE – HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING: @4:03
- Finished the initial outline of our open source water heating and cooling webpage (see below)
- Began our labor calculations for the 3-dome home cluster crowdfunding campaign (see below)
- Finished the research necessary to narrow our internet choices down to two (see below)
SOLUTIONEERING OUR FUTURE – DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER: @5:08
- Da Ku finished the natural pool indoor/outdoor transition point redesign (see below)
- Karl Harris added the stairs, walls, and cupola details for the north-view CAD elevations (see below)
SOLUTIONEERING OUR FUTURE – HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY: @6:13
- Guy Fraser completed an extensive analysis of wordpress as a platform for collaboration (see below)
SOLUTIONEERING OUR FUTURE SUMMARY: @7:00
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HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS
We are solutioneering our future including Highest Good education that is for all ages, applicable in any environment, adaptable to individual needs, far exceeds traditional education standards, and more fun for both the teachers and the students:
- Learn about the components: Education open source hub
- Learn how the components work together: How to use the Education for Life Program
This last week the core team finished the addition of a Technology and Innovation branch to each of our three finished lesson plan mindmaps that you can see here:
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HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS
One Community is solutioneering our future including Highest Good food that is more diverse, more nutritious, locally grown and sustainable, and part of our open source botanical garden model to support and share bio-diversity:
- Learn about the structures: Hoop House Hub | Aquapini & Walipini Open Source Hub
- See what we’ll be growing: Gardens & Hoop Houses | Large-scale Structures | Food Forest | Tropical Atrium
This last week the core team finished adding the diversity details to the organic eggplant section of the large-scale gardening page featuring 8 different varieties of eggplant from around the world plus 1 more. The page now offers over 130 finished plants with cultural considerations, planting guidelines, complete sourcing details and more. Here is a snapshot of the eggplant details that are new:
Organic Eggplant Section Complete – Click to Visit Page
We also finished another 25% of our large-scale soil amendment strategy webpage, bringing us to 75% completion of that open source guide for soil reparation in areas needing it:
Solutioneering Our Future – Soil Amendment Strategy Webpage – Click to Visit Page
HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS
One Community is solutioneering our future including Highest Good housing that is artistic and beautiful, more affordable, more space efficient, lasts longer, DIY buildable, and constructed with healthy and sustainable materials:
- Learn about the different village models: 7 Sustainable Village Models
- Visit the open source portals for the first two: Earthbag Village OS Hub | Straw Bale Village OS Hub
This last week the core team finished the initial outline of our open source water heating and cooling webpage sharing the details of our research into this crucial city creation element. This image is an overview of what we learned and the page we are finishing will share complete details of why a combination of a solar collector combined with the cost of a heat pump will more than pay for themselves in a fairly short time through electricity savings:
Solutioneering Our Future – Water Heating and Cooling Initial Outline – Click for Complete Page
We also spoke with the county for the property where we’ll be building the 3-dome cluster for the crowdfunding campaign we are creating and began our detailed labor calculations for this build. Here is a snapshot of this work in progress that we will share in detail once we all agree it is complete:
Solutioneering Our Future – Earthbag Village Construction Chart – Click for Earthbag Village OS Hub
Lastly, we’re getting closer and closer to finalizing the internet strategy that will be necessary to share everything we are creating. Connection options.
Solutioneering Our Future – Internet
Listed from best to worst, the internet options for any location are:
- Physical connection of high-speed internet line (Fiber, Cable, T3, DSL)
- High-speed wireless internet service
- DIY wireless internet service (purchasing area/rights near property that can access high-speed physical connection and establish wireless point-to-point link onto property)
- Satellite internet connection
This simple list is the result of hours of research determining that the details of the first two options are really what an organization open source and free-sharing as much as we are will need. Here are the specifics of the two options:
- Physical data connection, options include:
- Buried cabling between buildings/zones (buried at least 1m down)
- Fiber optic cable (up to ~40 Gbps), around $0.75/ft
- Single-mode (20km+)
- Multi-mode (up to 300m)
- Coax cable (up to ~10 Gbps), up to 100m, around $0.15/ft
- Ethernet cable (up to ~1 GBps), up to 75m, around $0.10/ft
- Fiber optic cable (up to ~40 Gbps), around $0.75/ft
- Wireless ‘Point-to-Point’/’Line-of-Sight’ connection system (up to ~1.4 Gbps), around $2000/connection, plus cost of tower and cable connections
- Buried cabling between buildings/zones (buried at least 1m down)
The first option is 10-40x better and the option we are now seeking to confirm if a realistic implementation option exists for our remote location. Stay tuned as our research continues.
DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS
One Community is solutioneering our future including a Duplicable and Sustainable City Center that is LEED Platinum certified/Sustainable, can feed 200 people at a time, provide laundry for over 300 people, is beautiful, spacious, and saves resources, money, and space:
- Learn about this building and it’s function: Duplicable City Center Open Source Hub
This last week week Da Ku (Mechanical Engineer) finished the natural pool indoor/outdoor transition point redesign including a materials list and the video and design specifics you see here showing two plexiglass doors that will open. This two-door system creates an additional space in the middle to improve insulative properties and allow for easy cleaning of both sides of the plexiglass to keep them clean and easy to see through. Here is the best summary image and more images are on the natural pool page:
Solutioneering Our Future – Duplicable City Center Natural Pool Indoor/Outdoor Transition Point – Click for the Complete Page
Karl Harris (Architect Drafter, Designer, and founder of Harris Design & Technology Services) also added the stairs, walls, and cupola details for the north-view CAD elevations:
Stairs, Walls and Cupola Details Added for the North-view CAD Elevations – Click to Visit Page
HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS
One Community is solutioneering our future including a Highest Good society approach to living that is founded on fulfilled living, the study of meeting human needs, Community, and making a difference in the world:
- Read the Highest Good society overview: Highest Good Society
- Learn about the model for fulfilled living and sharing: A Day in the Life
- Learn about the 4 economic models: RBE | For-profit | Non-profit | Entrepreneurship
- Learn about our open source community collaboration and management software: The Highest Good Network
This last week Guy Fraser (Software Developer and Information Architect) completed an extensive analysis of wordpress (the same platform this website is created on) as a platform for collaboration for both the Highest Good Network and the global plant database that Guy has been working on for months. Here is a screenshot of the page that the core team created to share his research and findings so others can benefit from this too:
UPDATE: A PLANT APPLICATION WITH THE DETAIL, OPEN SOURCE, AND COLLABORATIVE INPUT
ABILITY WE DESIRE NOW EXISTS: CLICK HERE FOR THE ENCYCLOPEDIA OF LIFE
Solutioneering Our Future Can WordPress be Used for Collaboration Webpage – Click to Visit Page
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WHAT ONE COMMUNITY IS CREATING
One Community is creating a place to grow together and change the world together, along with a goal to be solutioneering our future. We are creating a space that helps each other live in integrity with each other and the planet as we strive to be the greatest versions of ourselves. We do this by harmoniously respecting each other, nature, and the rest of our one shared planet.
Our goal is to demonstrate what we feel is the most sustainable, healthy, and fun environment we can create. A place based on compassion, kindness, and collaboration, serving as an example for what is possible in terms of solutioneering our future. This replicable community will serve as an example for what is possible.
Throughout our design process we are open sourcing and free-sharing everything needed for construction and replication. This includes what we call “Highest Good” approaches to food, energy, housing, education, for-profit and non-profit economics design, social architecture, fulfilled living, stewardship practices and more. We are creating these resources for implementation as individual components or complete developments called teacher/demonstration hubs. These hubs will help launch additional hubs as awareness and knowledge grow, furthering the cause of solutioneering our future.
BUILDING THE FIRST OF MANY
One Community will be the first teacher/demonstration hub. It will function as an experiential-learning model that facilitates mass participation to address humanity’s most pressing challenges through: Solutioneering Our Future, A replicable model for expansion, building seven self-sufficient village/city prototypes, becoming the world leader in open-source sustainability solutions, and evolving and expanding ALL aspects of sustainable living.
WHY ONE COMMUNITY IS CREATING THIS
The One Community self-replicating model is capable of creating a sustainable planet within 30 years. We will achieve this by establishing successful teacher/demonstration hubs on every continent, thus solutioneering our future. Villages include designs appropriate for each of the five main types of climates. They also include options for even the most challenged economies. These hubs will collaborate with one another, share ideas, resources, and work together as a network to heal the planet. They will also transform the global lifestyle to a more enjoyable, fulfilling, healthy, and sustainable one.
The specifics of how One Community is accomplishing this can be found on the One Community Solution Model to Create Solution-creating Models Page. Research supporting and showing the benefits of a model like this can be found on our Research and Resources Articles Archive, further reinforcing the importance of solutioneering our future.
Even if we don’t achieve our ultimate goal of global transformation, a self-replicating teacher/demonstration model like this will take a relatively short period of time to positively affect millions while inspiring millions more. For One Community residents (the Pioneer Team), the idea of creating and sharing the social and recreational experience with visitors is also fun, exciting, fulfilling, and an additional reason why we are creating this, thus fostering a sense of community and commitment to solutioneering our future.
ONE COMMUNITY’S 4-PHASE STRATEGY
One Community is building solution-creating models designed to create additional solution-creating models to specifically facilitate exponential and sustainable global teacher/demonstration village growth. The following four phases of the strategy we are applying are designed to support each other and accelerate the process globally:
Phase I: Solutioneering Our Future by Demonstrating a Better Way
We are designing One Community to demonstrate an experience of living that we believe most people will consider to be better because it will be more enjoyable and fulfilling. We also think most people will consider it better because it is made possible specifically through a foundation of sustainable sustainability and a philosophy that is for The Highest Good of All, ultimately contributing to creating global sustainability.
Phase II: Solutioneering Our Future with Open Source Project-Launch Blueprinting
Everything we do we are open source project-launch blueprinting and free-sharing to make it as easy and affordable as possible to duplicate, adapt, and evolve in the manner that suits each individual and/or group’s needs. Free-sharing information like this is our aggressive-exposure engine and an aspect of One Community that will accelerate indefinitely as we continue to build our team, move onto the property, and continuously build and evolve everything that is One Community.
Phase III: Solutioneering Our Future by Inviting the World to Participate
Everything we are open source project-launch blueprinting is designed to invite the world to participate by duplicating it as either individual components or complete teacher/demonstration communities, villages, and cities that will be able to be built almost anywhere in the world, thereby solutioneering our future. Additionally, people can join One Community as members, consultants and/or partners, or use the suggestions links on our open source project-launch blueprinting hubs to help with the design, implementation, and evolution process. Scholarships, weekend learning and work crews, and tourism will be foundations of One Community once we have sufficient infrastructure in place to support these options.
Phase IV: Solutioneering Our Future with Universal Appeal and Global Expansion
As One Community continues evolving and establishing ourselves, everything we create and promote will serve as the engine to inspire people to align with the concept of open source and sustainable living for The Highest Good of All, further solutioneering our future. We are doing this to create mainstream appeal and our path to achieving this appeal is demonstrating a happier, more affordable, and ecologically friendly model of living that can be built anywhere in the world.
Open source project-launch blueprinting it all is how we believe the model will spread and, possibly most importantly, that it will predictably spread even faster in the areas where it is needed most because building restrictions, the cost of land, and materials costs are in most cases lower in these areas.
SUMMARY
One Community sees the issues of the world as interdependent and interconnected. To address them simultaneously, we are open-source blueprinting a more advanced standard of living by designing holistic, environmentally-regenerative, self-sustaining, adaptable solutions for all areas of sustainability. We will model these within a comprehensive “village/city” which will be built in the southwestern U.S. This teacher/demonstration hub will be a place people can experience a new way of living and then replicate it with our open source blueprints: creating a model solution that creates additional solution-creating models.
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