Zero-waste Regenerative Community Building – One Community Weekly Progress Update #65

One Community is open sourcing the complete process of zero-waste regenerative community building as a path to 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. Here is our weekly progress update (#65) covering our development and accomplishments for the week of May 19th, 2014:

Zero-waste Regenerative Community Building
One Community Weekly Progress Update #65

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

ZERO-WASTE REGENERATIVE COMMUNITY BUILDING INTRO @1:00

ZERO-WASTE REGENERATIVE COMMUNITY BUILDING – HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION @1:44

• Finished the indigo ring and all of the linguistics section for the English Subject molecule (see below)
• Researched and added another 20% of links from our Math page to the Khan Academy (40% complete)
• Finished creation of our free online education resource guide webpage (see below)
• Behind the scenes we finished the Spring lesson plan and 30% of the lesson plan with the core theme of happiness

ZERO-WASTE REGENERATIVE COMMUNITY BUILDING – HIGHEST GOOD FOOD: @3:02

• Finished adding sitting areas, trees, and other external accents to the 3-D aquapini and walipini footprint (see below)
• Finished the professional planting plans for the 18 Hoop-houses we’ll be starting with (see below)
• Adding the diversity details to the organic corn section of the large-scale gardening page (see below)
• Behind the scenes, we’ve also finished our large-scale soil amendment strategy details – page coming

ZERO-WASTE REGENERATIVE COMMUNITY BUILDING – HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING: @4:25

• Finished first 15% of the earthbag home heating and cooling page (see below)
• Began researching and comparing tank water heaters to tankless water heaters for the communal showers

ZERO-WASTE REGENERATIVE COMMUNITY BUILDING – DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER: @5:19

• James Nance helped with water heating and heater research (see below)
• Da Ku finished the natural pool transition point door engineering calculations needed for the hinges (see below)
• Karl Harris finished up correcting the windows for the North-view elevation drawings (see below)

ZERO-WASTE REGENERATIVE COMMUNITY BUILDING – HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY: @6:33

• Updated the consensus as a core value page
• Updated the consensus for groups of 200+ page
• Updated the details on consensus training
• Updated the where we are now in our consensus process page (see below for all details)

ZERO-WASTE REGENERATIVE COMMUNITY BUILDING SUMMARY: @7:11

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ZERO-WASTE REGENERATIVE COMMUNITY BUILDING HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

We are zero-waste regenerative community building 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 the indigo ring and all of the linguistics section for the English Subject molecule:

We also finished creation of our free online education resource guide webpage covering all the best free online education resources we’ve found

ZERO-WASTE REGENERATIVE COMMUNITY BUILDING HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

We are zero-waste regenerative 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 | Tropical Atrium

This last week the core team finished adding sitting areas, trees, and other external accents to the 3-D aquapini and walipini footprint. Here’s this work completed before we make final renders:

We also finished the professional planting plans for the 18 Hoop-houses we’ll be starting with. Here’s all of them in one image and you can click the image to be taken to the large-scale gardening page for individual images you can enlarge:

On top of this, we finished adding the diversity details to the organic corn section of the large-scale gardening page that now offers 36 different varieties of corn from around the world, 8 beautifully featured, and complete sourcing details for all of them:

ZERO-WASTE REGENERATIVE COMMUNITY BUILDING HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

We are zero-waste regenerative 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 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 began putting together the earthbag home heating and cooling page. Thus far we’re about 15% done and the page in progress looks like this:

ZERO-WASTE REGENERATIVE COMMUNITY BUILDING DUPLICABLE CITY HUB PROGRESS

We are zero-waste regenerative community building through 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 James Nance (Mechanical Engineer and Project Manager with P2S Engineering) working in conjunction with the core team working on the earthbag village, expanded the water heater research and evaluation we’d planned for the Duplicable City Center. Here are cut sheets for all the electric water heater options of the Duplicable City Center:

Da Ku (Mechanical Engineer) finished the natural pool transition-point door engineering calculations needed for the hinges. Here is his process:

Da Ku’s question: Since the plexiglass is heavier than an ordinary wood door, is a normal hinge for the door strong enough for our transition door ?

First, Da Ku tried to calculate the stress of the hinge of an ordinary wood door (his bedroom door). He measured the dimensions of the hinge and the door, and modeled it in ANSYS. The result was 1.7e8 Pa for maximum Von-Mises stress, around the contact position with the hinge axis.

Then, he input the model of the transition door (2 inch thick), which is more than twice the weight of the bedroom door (taken into account the buoyancy force). In this case the stress is of course much bigger, near the yielding strength of steel. So Da Ku added 2 more hinges in addition to the original 2 hinges. As a result it gives 1.2e8 Pa for maximum Von-Mises stress, less than the bedroom door hinge.

His conclusion is that we just need to use 2 more hinges and we will be fine.

Da Ku also did some online research into hinges and rust and saw that stainless steel might be good for our case, since some stainless steel can stay rust-free even in water. His next step here will be to ask someone who sells stainless hinges next time he goes to home Depot or Lowe’s.

Also, Karl Harris finished correcting the windows for the North-view elevation drawings:

ZERO-WASTE REGENERATIVE COMMUNITY BUILDING HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY

We are zero-waste regenerative 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 last week the core team completely updated the details of all our consensus pages including the consensus as a core value page, consensus for groups of 200+ page, details on consensus training, and where we are now in our consensus process page. Here’s a collage of these pages that you can click to be taken to the main page we’d recommend for anyone starting on their journey to understanding the consensus process:

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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 zero-waste regenerative community building. 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 zero-waste regenerative community building. 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 zero-waste regenerative 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: Creating Zero-waste Regenerative Community Building, 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 zero-waste regenerative community building. 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 zero-waste regenerative 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, thus fostering a sense of community and commitment to creating zero-waste regenerative community building.

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: 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 zero-waste regenerative community building.

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 that is One Community.

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, thereby creating zero-waste regenerative community building. 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: 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 creating zero-waste regenerative community building. 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, ultimately contributing to creating zero-waste regenerative community building. 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 creating zero-waste regenerative community building.

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.