Regenerative Human Progress – One Community Weekly Progress Update #80

One Community is purposed to forward regenerative human progress through open source models covering every aspect of sustainable living and creating 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 12th, 2014 edition (#80) of our weekly progress update detailing the previous week’s development and accomplishments:

Regenerative Human Progress
One Community Weekly Progress Update #80

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

REGENERATIVE HUMAN PROGRESS  INTRO @1:00

REGENERATIVE HUMAN PROGRESS – HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION @1:37

• Finished the first 25% of the Signs Lesson Plan mindmap (see below)
• Finished the final 60% of the Harmony Lesson Plan webpage (see below)
• Behind the scenes (BTS) we also finished 30% of the lesson plan design with the central theme of “Recreation”

REGENERATIVE HUMAN PROGRESS – HIGHEST GOOD FOOD: @2:57

• Featured 6 new Asparagus on the large-scale gardening page (see below)

REGENERATIVE HUMAN PROGRESS – HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING: @3:52

• Finished the final 30% of the earthbag footers, foundation, and flooring tutorial page (see below)
• BTS finished another 70% of the electrical details page for the crowdfunding campaign– 80% done
• Updated our main crowdfunding campaign page with an outline of all the pages to come (see below)
• Switched the laundry, bathroom, and kitchen dome to 200 sq. ft. and created two designs (see below)
• Philip Gill helped us finish the redesign of the bed portion of the Murphy Bed custom furniture design (see below)

REGENERATIVE HUMAN PROGRESS – DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER: @5:50

• Updated the complete Duplicable City Center 3-D Sketchup file to match the CAD floor plan (see below)
• Finished the first 20% of the property-wide hydronic setup details (see below)
• Assessed long-term energy storage options (see below)
• James Nance finished 50% of the laundry heat recovery research (see below)

REGENERATIVE HUMAN PROGRESS – HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY: @7:52

• Updated and simplified One Community’s Policies and Procedures (see below)

REGENERATIVE HUMAN PROGRESS SUMMARY: @8:56

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REGENERATIVE HUMAN PROGRESS HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

One Community is forwarding regenerative human progress 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 first 25% of the Signs Lesson Plan mindmap which you can see here. The lesson plan for this is complete behind the scenes and will teach all subjects to all learning levels in the context of “signs and symbolism.”

We also finished the final 60% of the Harmony Lesson Plan webpage. You can see the new additions here and click the image for the complete page:

Behind the scenes we also finished 30% of the lesson plan design with the central theme of “Recreation.”

REGENERATIVE HUMAN PROGRESS – HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

One Community is forwarding regenerative human progress 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 completed adding the 6 featured Asparagus you see here to the large-scale gardening page. Visit the complete page for purchasing details, cultural considerations, and planting guidelines for these and over 400 other food plants.

REGENERATIVE HUMAN PROGRESS – HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

One Community is forwarding regenerative human progress 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 the final 30% of the earthbag construction footers, foundation, and flooring tutorial page you see below. This is all part of preparation for our upcoming crowdfunding campaign and the first fully outlined and completed example with video placeholders showing the comprehensiveness and detail we are committed to providing with our open source creative process.

Related to this and behind the scenes, we’ve also finished another 70% of the electrical details page that will eventually look just like the page above. We are now 80% done there.

And we updated our main crowdfunding campaign page with an outline of all the other pages to come:

We also switched the crowdfunding campaign laundry, bathroom, and kitchen dome from the 150 square foot dome to one of the 200 square foot domes and created the two layouts you see developing here:

Lastly, Philip Gill (Interior and Furniture Designer and Owner of Philip Gill Design) finished a redesign of the bed portion of the Murphy bed dome-home furniture design. We mis-reported last week that we were done with all of the Murphy Bed measurements and parts and we still had this one that needed to be redone due to an error we discovered. After Philip fixed the error, we then redid all the measurements and individual parts pictures. Here is a collage of some of these:

REGENERATIVE HUMAN PROGRESS – DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

One Community is forwarding regenerative human progress 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 last week the core team updated the complete Duplicable City Center 3-D Sketchup file to match the CAD floor plan that was recently updated compliments of Karl Harris (Architect Drafter, Designer, and founder of Harris Design & Technology Services). This meant adding the boiler room and updating all four floors surrounding the elevator that needed to be expanded.

We also finished the first 20% of the property-wide hydronic setup details and did another complete overhaul on the energy plan phase-in process starting with 20 and working to 400+ people. Here is a picture of our hydronic setup googledoc in progress:

Evolving the energy details behind the scenes included an assessment of energy storage options showing the relationship of time needing to store energy (on the left) to kWh needing to be stored to make different options viable. For our first 400 people, it appears batteries remain our best bet since we will not need to store sufficient energy to make one of the less conventional energy storage methods more affordable or sustainable than batteries:

Behind the scenes, James Nance (Mechanical Engineer and Project Manager with P2S Engineering) finished about 50% of the work and research needed to see if integrating a heat recovery unit into the One Community eco-laundry dryer exhaust will make sense. This is a picture of one of one of the fan components we’re evaluating as part of that possible system.

REGENERATIVE HUMAN PROGRESS – HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS

One Community is forwarding regenerative human progress 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 and simplified our Policies and Procedures in relation to accountability. This is after two weeks of team discussion and adaptation reflecting on over a year and a half of experience with the current system. The update included increasing the minimum weekly tangible contribution for Pioneers from 4 hours to 5 and streamlining and simplifying our accountability and consequences process for not contributing the minimum time and/or missing mandatory weekly team calls. Here is a screenshot of the updated page:

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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.