Helping People Create a Better World – One Community Weekly Progress Update #203

Helping people create a better world can be accomplished through open source and free-shared approaches to sustainable food, energy, housing, education, for-profit and non-profit economic design, social architecture, fulfilled living, and global stewardship practices. Open sourcing all these as a complete model and new way of living has the potential to provide a better way of life for everyone built on a sustainable foundation. One Community calls this living and creating for The Highest Good of All because it benefits all people and life on our planet.

• 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 the movement of helping people create a better world as the first of many self-replicating teacher/demonstration communities, villages, and cities to be built around the world. This is the February 12th, 2017 edition (#203) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments:

Helping People Create a Better World
One Community Progress Update #203

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

HELPING PEOPLE CREATE A BETTER WORLD INTRO: @1:03

HELPING PEOPLE CREATE A BETTER WORLD HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION: @2:00

• Transferred all of the written content for the Form and Our Outer World Lesson Plan to the website (see below)
• Behind the scenes: completed 100% of the written part of the Reality Lesson Plan
• Completed the first 50% of the mindmap for the Sharing Lesson Plan (see below)
• Began creation of renders for The Ultimate Classroom indigo room and the blue room (see below)

HELPING PEOPLE CREATE A BETTER WORLD HIGHEST GOOD FOOD: @3:07

• Edited and added information to the “Why” section of the Food Bars page (see below)
• Jennifer Zhou completed phase I of the edits and reorganization of the Transition Kitchen page behind the scenes (see below)

HELPING PEOPLE CREATE A BETTER WORLD HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING: @3:46

• Added people to the replacement Tropical Atrium images, added callouts, and revised the Tropical Atrium page (see below)
• Alena Thompson joined the team and completed her 1st week helping with the Net-zero Communal Bathroom Designs (see below)
• Christian Ojeda completed his 2nd week helping with the heat recycling Communal Eco-shower designs (see below)
• Adrienne Gould-Choquette also finished her 8th week helping create the standardized AutoCAD layers and line-weights template and tutorial (see below)
• Dean Scholz continued helping us create quality Cob Village renders (see below)
• Jiming Chen continued helping develop the Tree House Village (see below)
• Hamilton Mateca finished his 30th week helping with the Compressed Earth Block Village design details (see below)

HELPING PEOPLE CREATE A BETTER WORLD DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER: @5:59

• Replaced all the people and updated the Duplicable City Center Kitchen final render (see below)
• Guy Grossfeld helped us create this updated final render of a person sitting by the window in one of the City Center rental rooms (see below)
• Jinxi Feng continued her research helping us create an in-depth washing machine sustainability analysis (see below)
• Started editing and formatting last week’s content for the eco-laundry page on the site (see below)
• Ramya Vudi and Shubham Agrawal continued their work on the energy infrastructure for the City Center (see below)
• Jin Yu completed her 4th week working on the concrete foundation design and tutorial details for the Duplicable City Center (see below)
• Renan Dantas continued with his 8th week working on the Duplicable City Center AutoCAD updates (see below)
• Lucas Tsutsui da Silva finished integrating another round of sensor and automation component updates for the Control and Automation systems layout (see below)

HELPING PEOPLE CREATE A BETTER WORLD HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY: @8:05

• Finished another round of developing the new Highest Good education video intro a new overview intro (see below)
• Ashwin Patil continued with his 17th week developing the new Search Engines for our site (see below)

HELPING PEOPLE CREATE A BETTER WORLD SUMMARY: @8:49

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HELPING PEOPLE CREATE A BETTER WORLD HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

One Community is helping people create a better world 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 all of the written content for the Form and Our Outer World Lesson Plan to the website, as you see here. This lesson plan is purposed to teach all subjects, to all learning levels, in any learning environment, using the central theme of “Form and Our Outer World”.

Behind the scenes, we completed 100% of the written part of the Reality Lesson Plan.

We also completed the first 50% of the mindmap for the Sharing Lesson Plan, bringing it to 50% complete, which you see here.

In addition, the core team began creation of renders for The Ultimate Classroom indigo room that has a focus of global and historical perspectives and celebrating diversity… and the blue room that has a focus of communication, empathy, feelings, and the ability to express oneself, as shown here.

HELPING PEOPLE CREATE A BETTER WORLD HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

One Community is helping people create a better world 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 week, the core team edited and added information to the “Why” section of the Food Bars page, as you see here, bringing the page to ~20% completion.

Jennifer Zhou (Web Designer) also completed phase I of the edits and reorganization of the Transition Kitchen page behind the scenes, bringing that page to 40% completion. You can see screenshots of this work in progress here:

HELPING PEOPLE CREATE A BETTER WORLD HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

One Community is helping people create a better world 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 week the core team added people to the replacement Tropical Atrium images, added callouts, and revised the Tropical Atrium page shown here:

Alena Thompson (Mechanical Engineer) joined the team and completed her 1st week helping with the Net-zero Communal Bathroom Designs. This week she researched the reservoir design, evaluated structural feasibility and suggested changes, started SolidWorks updates to the existing structure, and building the user interface for adapting structures to different size needs, as shown here.

Christian Ojeda (Mechatronic Engineer) completed his 2nd week helping with the heat recycling Communal Eco-shower designs. What you see here are minor modifications to the structure and version 2.0 of 3D modeling the pipes, point-of-use heater, thermostatic mixing valve, and heat exchanger.

Adrienne Gould-Choquette (Mechanical Engineer) also finished her 8th week helping create the standardized AutoCAD layers and line-weights template and tutorial. This week’s focus was beginning an AutoCAD blocks template and writing draft 1 of the AutoCAD layers and line-weights tutorial.

HELPING PEOPLE CREATE A BETTER WORLD DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

One Community is helping people create a better world 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 replaced all the people and updated the Duplicable City Center Kitchen final render, which you can see here:

In addition to this, Guy Grossfeld (Graphic Designer) helped us create this updated and final render of a person sitting by the window in one of the City Center rental rooms:

…..and this first-generation updated view of the rest of the room.

And Jinxi Feng (Environmental Consultant) continued her research helping us create an in-depth washing machine sustainability analysis. What you see here is her 21st week of behind-the-scenes work on this area of the project. This week’s focus was updating the graphics you see here and writing the project-specific content for the tutorial.

The core team also started editing and formatting last week’s content for the eco-laundry page on the site, as you can see here.

Ramya Vudi (Electrical Engineer) and Shubham Agrawal (Electrical Engineer) continued their work on the energy infrastructure for the City Center. This week’s work focused on finishing the research and selecting the multi-conductors and conduit types. Here are pictures of this work and from our weekly collaborative call.

Jin Yu (Structural Engineering Designer) also completed her 4th week working on the concrete foundation design and tutorial details for the Duplicable City Center. This week’s focus was continuing the foundation design detail tutorial with a focus on the overview details and footing design specifics, as shown here.

And Renan Dantas (Mechanical Engineer) continued with his 8th week working on the Duplicable City Center AutoCAD updates. This week’s focus was 3D updates and design details to match the mezzanine level to the new geometry of the dome, as shown here.

Lucas Tsutsui da Silva (4th-year Computer Engineering Student) also finished integrating another round of sensor and automation component updates for the Control and Automation systems layout, as shown here.

HELPING PEOPLE CREATE A BETTER WORLD HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS

One Community is helping people create a better world 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 week the core team finished another round of developing the new Highest Good education video intro you see here:

…and also the this new overview intro:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 Ashwin Patil (Web Developer) continued with his 17th week developing the new Search Engines for our site. This week’s work included integration of the first round of edits to the Highest Good Food search engine and final revisions to the Highest Good education search engine that is now 100% complete and live on the Highest Good education main 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 which will be helping people create a better world. 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.

HELPING PEOPLE CREATE A BETTER WORLD 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. Thereby helping people create a better world.

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.