Sustainable and Free-shared Solutions – One Community Weekly Progress Update #63

One Community is here to create sustainable and free-shared solutions for food, energy, housing, education, for-profit and non-profit economics design, social architecture, fulfilled living, stewardship practices and more. We are here to open source and free-shared all the blueprints, tools, tutorials, and DIY approaches 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. Here is our weekly progress update (#63) covering our development and accomplishments for the week of May 5th, 2014:

Sustainable and Free-shared Solutions
One Community Weekly Progress Update #63

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

SUSTAINABLE AND FREE-SHARED SOLUTIONS INTRO @1:00

SUSTAINABLE AND FREE-SHARED SOLUTIONS – HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION @1:43 Sustainable and Free-Shared Solution –

• Finished the first 15% of the English Subject Molecule you can see expanding here in the background (see below)
• Behind the scenes we also finished draft one of the Spring-themed lesson plan for Arts and Trades, English, and Health

SUSTAINABLE AND FREE-SHARED SOLUTIONS – HIGHEST GOOD FOOD: @2:38

• Adding the Walipini terraces, doors, and other details to the insides of the complete 3-D footprint (see below)
• Finished version 2.0 of the professional template for the 18-hoop house planting plan (see below)
• Finished the rest of the diversity details to the heirloom beets section of the  large-scale gardening page
• Finished another 25% of our soil amendment strategy details for land preparation in areas with poor soil

SUSTAINABLE AND FREE-SHARED SOLUTIONS – HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING: @4:06

• Submitted an application to Google to use GoogleGlass for an Earthbag Village 3-dome cluster tutorial (see below)

SUSTAINABLE AND FREE-SHARED SOLUTIONS – DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER: @5:10

• Created the open source eco-laundry page (see below)
• James Nance identified boilers and continued exploring radiant floor heating (see below)
• Ben Pollock with Webb Food Service Design chose and sourced our walk-in cooler and freezer details (see below)
• And Karl Harris began the north elevations in CAD, placing the windows and doors of the first level (see below)

SUSTAINABLE AND FREE-SHARED SOLUTIONS – HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY: @6:41

• Updated our Purpose, Values, Mission page with all new icons and other imagery (see below)
• Rewrote our Honesty and Integrity page (see below)

SUSTAINABLE AND FREE-SHARED SOLUTIONS SUMMARY: @7:21

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HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

We are creating sustainable and free-shared solutions 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 outermost ring of the English Subject Molecule. Here it is:

Sustainable and Free-shared Solutions – English Molecule – Outermost Ring Complete

HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

We are creating sustainable and free-shared solutions 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 continued work on the complete indoor growing food infrastructure footprint in 3D. We added the Walipini terraces, doors, and other details to the insides of the structures you can see here and are now moving on to the external features like stairways and berms:

Walipini Terraces, Doors, and Other Details Added to the Insides of the Structures – Click to Visit Related Page

We also finished version 2.0 of the professional template for the 18-hoop house planting plan. Here are some pictures of us working on developing this:

Finished Version 2.0 of the Professional Template for the 18-Hoop House Planting Plan – Click to Visit Hoop House Page

HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

We are creating sustainable and free-shared solutions 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 Submitted an application to Google to use GoogleGlass to create open source tutorials of an Earthbag Village 3-dome cluster as part of our sustainable promotion of Innovation and Technology strategy.  This application and another application we’re submitting have the secondary goal of partnering with Google for remote teacher/demonstration hub telecommunications infrastructure design and development that could completely eliminate the need for telephones and telephone wires. Here’s an excerpt from our application:

Sustainable and Free-shared Solutions – Application to Google Submitted – Click to Visit Innovation and Technology Page

DUPLICABLE CITY HUB PROGRESS

We are creating sustainable and free-shared solutions including a Duplicable and Sustainable City Center that is LEED Platinum certified/Sustainable, can feed 200 people at a time, can provide laundry for over 300 people, beautiful, spacious, saves resources, saves money, and saves space:

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

This last week the core team created the open source eco-laundry page for the Duplicable City Center laundry facility that will service 300 people:

Sustainable and Free-shared Solutions – Open Source Eco-Laundry Page Complete – Click to Visit Page

James Nance (Mechanical Engineer and Project Manager with P2S Engineering) identified the boilers we think we’ll be using and continued exploring radiant floor heating with our team. We are planning on two boilers right now, one propane and one electric, so we can phase in 100% electric over time.

Sustainable and Free-shared Solutions – Boilers Identified – One Propane and One Electric

For the flooring, there are two primary options for how to design it for maximum heat efficiency:

Sustainable and Free-shared Solutions – Two Options for Radiant Heat and Flooring to Create Maximum Heat Efficiency

Here’s an example of some of the new radiant heating insulation options that have become available. This one has an R-value of 11 with the 3.3″ thickness option:

Sustainable and Free-shared Solutions – New Radiant Heating Insulation Option

Ben Pollock (Full Service Restaurant and Kitchen Designer/Senior Project Manager with Webb Food Service Design) chose and sourced our walk-in cooler and freezer details:

Sustainable and Free-shared Solutions – Walk-in Cooler & Freezer Details – Click to Visit Page

Karl Harris (Architect Drafter, Designer, and founder of Harris Design & Technology Services) began the north elevations in CAD, placing the windows and doors of the first level:

Sustainable and Free-shared Solutions – Windows and Doors Placed in CAD – Click to Visit Page

We are creating sustainable and free-shared solutions including a Highest Good society approach to living that is founded on fulfilled living, the study of meeting human needs, Community, and making a difference in the world:

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

This last week the core team updated our Purpose, Values, Mission page with all new icons and other imagery:

Sustainable and Free-shared Solutions – Purpose, Values, Mission Page Updated – Click to Visit Page

We also completely rewrote our Honesty and Integrity page, adding in specifics about what this core value means to us and how we use it in our decision making and ongoing development process:

Sustainable and Free-shared Solutions – Honesty and Integrity Page Rewrote – 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 creating sustainable and free-shared solution. We are creating a space that helps each other live in integrity with each other and the planet as we strive to be the greatest versions of ourselves. We do this by harmoniously respecting each other, nature, and the rest of our one shared planet.

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

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

BUILDING THE FIRST OF MANY

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

WHY ONE COMMUNITY IS CREATING THIS

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

The specifics of how One Community is accomplishing this can be found on the One Community Solution Model to Create Solution-creating Models Page. Research supporting and showing the benefits of a model like this can be found on our Research and Resources Articles Archive, further reinforcing the importance of creating sustainable and free-shared solutions.

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

INSPIRING SUSTAINABILITY WITH OPEN SOURCE

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

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

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

ONE COMMUNITY’S 4-PHASE STRATEGY

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

Phase I: Create Sustainable and Free-Shared Solutions by Demonstrating a Better Way

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

Phase II: Create Sustainable and Free-Shared Solutions with Open Source Project-Launch Blueprinting

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

Phase III: Create Sustainable and Free-Shared Solutions by Inviting the World to Participate

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

Phase IV: Create Sustainable and Free-Shared Solutions with Universal Appeal and Global Expansion

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

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

WHY OPEN SOURCE

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

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

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

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

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 and also create sustainable and free-shared solutions.