Building Open Source Sustainable Civilizations – One Community Weekly Progress Update #37

One Community is here to positively and permanently transform the world for everyone by building open source sustainable civilizations. We are bringing together the people who want to help us and creating detailed open source blueprints and a self-replicating starting point to reinvent the world as a cooperative of open source sustainable civilizations working together for The Highest Good of All. This is One Community’s weekly progress update (#37) about building open source sustainable civilizations covering our accomplishment for the week of November 4th, 2013.

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Building Open Source Sustainable Civilizations
One Community Weekly Progress Update #37

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

• Building open source sustainable civilizations @00:22, 7:39
• Summary of this week’s accomplishments @4:39
• Sketchup Plant Database Research is done @8:32
• Zenapini 2 Plants are now 50% complete on the site @12:16
• Finished editing all 300 food forest plant pictures @14:51
• Aquapini filtration and water flow updates are now done @16:11
• Plastic research is done – twin-walled 6′ wide polycarbonate clear panels @17:36
• Began designing an open source strategy for testing the other best options @19:26
• Earthbag Village furniture design #1 is 70% done @20:59
• Earthbag Village 3D doors and plants added @24:14
• Strawbale Village stairs and entry ways done in CAD @24:53
• SEGO Center Duplicable City Hub kitchen design is now 80% done @27:58
• Education for Life Geography research is done – started researching icons @29:58
• Updated stages of community building page and True Community page @33:49
• How you can help/get involved in One Community @36:41

ONE COMMUNITY WEEKLY UPDATE DETAILS

BUILDING OPEN SOURCE SUSTAINABLE CIVILIZATIONS’ HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

This last week Avery Ellis (Aquaponics Specialist and owner/operator of Integrated Aquaponics) helped us finish the final flow and filtration details of the aquapinis and zenapini aquaponics systems.

Here are the details: The pond will overflow by gravity as it gets filled by the waterfall. It will overflow into a pipe that fills every grow bed on the north wall. That pipe will drop the needed 2% (1″ per 4′) to flow down to the last bed. Each grow bed will have its own ball valve and bell siphon to control the ebb & flood of the water. This pipe will also have a cleanout for the ability to flush any biosolids that accumulate.

The ebb and flood beds will drain into a sump tank that can be used for crustacean culture or duckweed to feed the fish. This sump tank is 1″ higher than the middle deep water culture (DWC) trough, which is 1″ higher than the south DWC trough. The water will naturally flow by gravity from the sump tank into each DWC. A pump at the west side of the final DWC will send the water back into the pond as a beautiful waterfall and flowform feature. The waterfall and flowform will also be the primary aeration methods for the pond. The DWC will also have a separate air system that runs all the time.

This final flow and filtration design also came with some significant cost and labor-saving modifications to the aquapinis and zenapini designs. Here are the most recent 3D exports showing the elimination of the ramp we had before, elevation of the sitting area, elevation of the fish tank, and elimination of the more complex filtration system that is no longer needed.

BUILDING OPEN SOURCE SUSTAINABLE CIVILIZATIONS’ EARTHBAG VILLAGE PROGRESS

This last week Devin Porter (3D Graphics Design Specialist) and the team completed the addition of our first plant and tree placements as well as adding more door framing details to the earthbag village. Here’s the most recent 3D export:

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This last week Philip Gill (Interior and Furniture Designer and Owner of Philip Gill Design) also made more progress on the earthbag village furniture designs. In the screen shots below you can see the design developing next to the bed for how the desk will fold down when the bed is up. You can also see additional details added to the shelving in both the front and the back:

BUILDING OPEN SOURCE SUSTAINABLE CIVILIZATIONS’ STRAW BALE VILLAGE PROGRESS

The Strawbale Village focus for the last week was on completing the stairs, entryways, and more landscaping details in CAD. This export and work are compliments of Dave Walen (Architectural Drafter & Designer and owner of Dave Philip Walen Design):

BUILDING OPEN SOURCE SUSTAINABLE CIVILIZATIONS’ SEGO CENTER DUPLICABLE CITY HUB PROGRESS

This last week’s 3D progress for the SEGO Center includes completion of all the final Dining Dome appliances, countertops, cleaning closet, primary food preparation and cooking range details, and more. Here are the 3D exports of these additions:

WHAT ONE COMMUNITY IS CREATING

One Community is creating a place to grow together and change the world together by building open source sustainable civilizations. 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, paving the way for building open source sustainable civilizations.

Throughout our design of building open source sustainable civilization 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. For building open source sustainable civilizations, 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 for building open source sustainable civilizations. It. 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 building open source sustainable civilizations 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.) and building open source sustainable civilizations. 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, building open source sustainable civilizations for The Highest Good of All.

COMPREHENSIVE SOLUTION TO HUMANITY’S NEEDS

One Community is open source sharing an evolution of sustainable living that addresses the complete human experience, building open source sustainable civilizations. 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. To maximally facilitate duplication and building open source sustainable civilizations, 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 and building open source sustainable civilizations. 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. This is also part of this model to help the world. Its purpose is to facilitate more engagement of the sustainability industry, produce the absolute best possible consumer value, and the most convenient delivery of goods and methodologies for building open source sustainable civilizations, 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 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, achieving more options of building open source sustainable civilizations.

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.

ONE COMMUNITY’S 4-PHASE STRATEGY

One Community is building open source sustainable civilizations and 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: Demonstrating a Better Way

We are building open source sustainable civilizations by 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.

Phase II: 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 including building open source sustainable civilizations that are important for One Community’s ideas.

Phase III: 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. 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. Thereby further building open source sustainable civilizations.

Phase IV: Universal Appeal and Global Expansion

As One Community continues establishing ourselves and building open source sustainable civilizations, 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. 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.

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, building open source sustainable civilizations. The easier we make everything we do, the faster we see the world transitioning.

Although building open source sustainable civilizations is our ultimate goal, every aspect of this model supports itself and contributes to its success, from 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 the more successful and capable we will be of building open source sustainable civilizations. Building open source sustainable civilizations is 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, building open source sustainable civilizations.

OPEN SOURCE SHARING STRATEGY SPECIFICS

One Community’s building open source sustainable civilizations strategy will evolve 5 primary types of open source content purposed to reach and service as broad an audience as possible. This includes the following mediums of sharing that are being developed to function as standalone resources or in combination with each other:

• Video tutorials
• Audio tutorials
• Live streaming video
• Direct/live interaction
• Written content and downloadable PDFs

Maximum exposure is accomplished through simultaneous implementation of the following strategies:

• Free-shared audio, visual, and PDF downloads
• Scholarship and intern programs for direct learning
• Videoing or live-streaming almost all classes and activities
• Tourism option for involvement in almost all aspects of One Community
• Dedicated and search engine optimized sections of our website for each key area
• Our established infrastructure that simultaneously posts to over 20 social networks

SUMMARY

One Community sees the issues of the world as interdependent and interconnected. To address them simultaneously, we are building open source sustainable civilizations and 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 where 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 ultimately building open source sustainable civilizations.

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