Community Organized Eco-Restoration – One Community Weekly Progress Update #142

Community organized eco-restoration is one path to regenerating and restoring our planet. Through holistically sustainable communities, ecological and sustainable approaches to food, energy, and housing can be combined with sustainable and more enriching fulfilled living, education, and economics models to improve people’s lives while also teaching them to sustainably rejuvenate the earth for The Highest Good of All. This is what One Community is doing:

• 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 December 13th, 2015 edition (#142) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments:

Community Organized Eco-Restoration
One Community Progress Update #142

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

COMMUNITY ORGANIZED ECO-RESTORATION INTRO: @1:03

HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION: @1:56

• Transferred the first 50% of the written content for the Winter Lesson Plan to the website (see below)
• Behind the scenes: wrote the final 1/3 of the Winter Lesson Plan (see below)
• Completed the final third of the mindmap for the Fall Lesson Plan (see below)

HIGHEST GOOD FOOD: @3:07

• Behind the scenes: updated calculations for our Food Self-sufficiency Transition Plan, which includes contributions provided by Naturopathic Doctor Matt Marturano (see below)
• Added three additional recipes from Sandra Sellani to the Food Self-sufficiency Transition Plan (see below)

HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING: @4:11

• Behind the scenes: Put another 10 hours into the revision for the Footers, Foundations and Flooring page for the upcoming crowdfunding campaign (see below)
• Added the written portion of the presentation the Intern Team created for the Tree House Village (Pod 7) (see below)

DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER: @5:23

• Finished the 3-D natural pool and spa internal details for the Duplicable City Center 3-D specifics (see below)
• Iris Hsu continued finalizing the Pipe Furniture design renders for the Duplicable City Center library (see below)
• Jarvis Zhao and Michelle Wu continued together working on the designs for the pipe shelving for the library (see below)
• Behind the scenes: Mike Hogan and Lucas Tsutsui da Silva continued work on the the Control Systems design (see below)

HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY: @6:55

• Began updating the Highest Good Network page with what has been weeks of work with Andrew Herman (see below)
• Continued working with Ivan Manzurov to create new icons for all of our pages (see below)
• Lisa Ramos completed logo variations that led to a new and updated design for our logo (see below)

COMMUNITY ORGANIZED ECO-RESTORATION SUMMARY: @7:52

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HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

One Community is forwarding community organized eco-restoration 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 transferred the first 50% of the written content for the Winter Lesson Plan to the website, as you see here which focuses on community Organized Eco-Restoration This lesson plan is purposed to teach all subjects, to all learning levels, in any learning environment, using the central theme of “Winter.”

Behind the scenes, we wrote the final 1/3 of the Winter Lesson Plan, bringing the behind-the-scenes written part for that to 100% complete and ready for addition to the site.

We also completed the final third of the mindmap for the Fall Lesson Plan. That brings this mindmap to 100% complete, which you can see here:

HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

One Community is forwarding community organized eco-restoration 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 updated calculations for our Food Self-sufficiency Transition Plan behind the scenes. Naturopathic Doctor Matt Marturano (creator of the COHERENT model for comprehensive digestive health) made the updates to the calculations by taking into account the specific nutrient needs of our current pioneer team.

We also added three additional recipes from Sandra Sellani (Vegan Chef and author of What’s Your BQ?) to the Food Self-sufficiency Transition Plan ” These recipes are: Chestnut & Avocado Bruschetta, â€œMeatball” Soup, and Zucchini Pizza with pine nut cheese:

HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

One Community is forwarding community organized eco-restoration 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: Our Upcoming Crowdfunding Campaign
    • 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 put another 10 hours into the behind-the-scenes revision for the Footers, Foundations and Flooring page for the upcoming crowdfunding campaign. This week’s focus was converting single bag details over to tubed bags, bailing twine tying updates due to exclusion of the buttress wall, and re-writing the foundation construction due to exclusion of the buttress wall.. You can see some of this work here and we’d say this brings us to 56% complete with this total rewrite and update.

We also added the written portion of the presentation the Intern Team created for the Tree House Village (Pod 7), as you can see here. This includes the considerations and rational for the service design, interior/exterior design, and structural design choices the interns made.

DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

One Community is forwarding community organized eco-restoration 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 the core team finished the 3-D natural pool and spa internal details for the Duplicable City Center 3-D specifics. You can see these additions here with plants, rocks, the design of the transition door, people and other aesthetic touches which contributes to community organized eco-restoration.

We also finished designing the upper loft social and recreation space for the Social Dome. You can see this addition of furniture and people here. We’d say we are now 85% done with the complete 3-D update.

Iris Hsu (Industrial Designer), continued finalizing the Pipe Furniture design renders for the Duplicable City Center library. The new renders you see here show an additional layout for the chair/table combination designs:

Michelle Wu and Jarvis Zhao, both Industrial Designers, also continued together working on the designs for the pipe shelving for the library. Here are some of Michelle’s explorations in to different furniture options:

And here are Jarvis‘ designs for the shelving that incorporate a movable box option we all explored supporting community organized eco-restoration.

Behind the scenes Mike Hogan (Automation Systems Developer and Business Systems Consultant) and Lucas Tsutsui da Silva (4th-year Computer Engineering Student), continued work on the the Control Systems design. Here’s revision #6 for this:

And here is one of Mike’s other designs he was using for clarification and some drawing he was doing to explain it to Lucas and Jae on their weekly call.

HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS

One Community is forwarding community organized eco-restoration 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 began updating the Highest Good Network page with what has been weeks of work with Andrew Herman (Software Engineer and Core Member of Futurist Playground) which also supports the community organized eco-restoration.This page shares the details of the open source software we’re creating together for complete teacher/demonstration hub management, data gathering, open source collaboration and more. We’d say this page is about 50% complete:

We also continued working with Ivan Manzurov (Artist and Illustrator) to create new icons for all of our pages. Here are the icons Ivan created for the Highest Good education component:

In addition to this, Lisa Ramos (Graphic Designer) completed all these logo variations for us….

…which led to this new and updated design for our logo!

Here is the old version of our logo for easy comparison. This will be updated across our pages in the near future.

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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.

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.

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. 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. 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.

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.