Building a Highest Good Society Model – One Community Weekly Progress Update #81

One Community is building a Highest Good Society model for creating positive and permanent global transformation 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 September 19th, 2014 edition (#81) of our weekly progress update detailing the previous week’s development and accomplishments:

Building a Highest Good Society Model
One Community Weekly Progress Update #81

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

BUILDING A HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY MODEL INTRO @1:00

BUILDING A HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY MODEL – HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION @1:40

• Finished another 25% of the Signs Lesson Plan mindmap (see below)
• Researched and added another 40 resources to our free online education resources page (see below)
• Behind the scenes we finished another 30% of the lesson plan design with the central theme of “Recreation”
• Behind the scenes we finished the first 15% of the lesson plan design with the central theme of “Energy”

BUILDING A HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY MODEL – HIGHEST GOOD FOOD: @3:04

• Finished our first large-scale gardening details page: beans (see below)

BUILDING A HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY MODEL – HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING: @3:55

• Finished redesign 3.0 for the crowdfunding campaign laundry, bathroom, and kitchen dome (see below)
• Finished first 20% of the redesign and updating details on the Highest Good energy page (see below)
• Behind the scenes, now 95% done with the final electrical details needed for the dome home crowdfunding campaign do-it-yourself page we’ll build over the next few weeks
• Finished the first 40% of the Murphy bed wall, changing area, and storage component image (see below)
• Scott Howard helped us update and add pictures to the open source plaster page (see below)

BUILDING A HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY MODEL – DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER: @5:39

• James Nance finished version 3.0 of our exhaust and venting details (see below)
• Karl Harris finished the elevations in CAD and updated the 3rd floor storage areas (see below)

BUILDING A HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY MODEL – HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY: @6:48

• Updated, featured, and added to the Fulfilled Living page (see below)

BUILDING A HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY MODEL SUMMARY: @7:39

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BUILDING A HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY MODEL –  HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

One Community is building a Highest Good society model 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 finished another 25% of the Signs Lesson Plan mindmap which you can see here. The lesson plan that goes with this mindmap teaches all subjects to all learning levels in the context of “signs and symbolism”:

We also researched and added another 40 resources to our free online education resources page and then we reorganized the page into different sections to make it easier to use. To our knowledge, we now have the most comprehensive online free education resource available:

Behind the scenes we also finished another 30% of the lesson plan design with the central theme of “Recreation” – bringing us to 50% total completion there.

We additionally finished the first 15 % of the lesson plan design with the central theme of “Energy”.

BUILDING A HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY MODEL –  HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

One Community is building a Highest Good society model 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 our first complete breakout page from the large-scale gardening page. This page covers beans and the new format is designed to load faster and give us the space to add recipes, gardening tips, harvesting and canning tips, videos and more!

BUILDING A HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY MODEL – HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

One Community is building a Highest Good society model 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 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 another redesign for the upcoming crowdfunding campaign laundry, bathroom, and kitchen dome. This newest design moved everything so we can put the electrical and plumbing in the central wall and is very close to what we believe will be the final design:

We also finished the first 20% of the redesign of the complete energy rollout and phasing-in plan for all of One Community. This begins a total redesign of the Highest Good energy open source hub to share the specifics of setting up and phasing in off-grid energy infrastructure for 20 people all the way up to 400+ people:

Behind the scenes, we’re now also 95% done with the final electrical details needed for the dome home crowdfunding campaign do-it-yourself page we’ll build over the next few weeks.

We also finished the first 40% of the Murphy bed wall, changing area, and storage component image. This image is the parts overview image and introduction to the construction plans for this custom furniture design by Philip Gill (Interior and Furniture Designer and Owner of Philip Gill Design) for the complete earthbag village domes:

Last but not least, working with Scott Howard (Sustainable Building Expert and owner of Earthen Hand Natural Building), we updated all the information and added all the beautiful pictures you see here for the open source plaster page. This page is a fantastic open source resource covering natural and traditional methods of weather proofing structures:

BUILDING A HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY MODEL – DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

One Community is building a Highest Good society model 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 James Nance (Mechanical Engineer and Project Manager with P2S Engineering) finished version 3.0 of our exhaust and venting details that you can see here:

Karl Harris (Architect Drafter, Designer, and founder of Harris Design & Technology Services) also added stairs into the 2nd floor in north elevation, added the corridor, walls, and elevator stairs on the 3rd floor in the west elevation. Karl also finished his CAD updates with final 3rd floor wall fixes to increase available storage. Here you can see the updated north elevation on the left and the redesigned 3rd floor on the right:

BUILDING A HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY MODEL – HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS

One Community is building a Highest Good society model 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, featured, and added the pie chart you see here to the Fulfilled Living page. This chart shows how the average person spends their life right now and the updates to the page explain how this relates to One Community and our approach to global transformation:

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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.

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.

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.

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.

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 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.

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.

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.

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. 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

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.