One CommunityHighest Good Decision Making – One Community Weekly Progress Update #265
Imagine a world where Highest Good decision making is the norm. It seems reasonable to think that one way to get there could be by providing for people’s needs through a replicable lifestyle of abundance built on thinking, creating, and acting on ideas that are already for The Highest Good. The knowledge and technology already exist to help all people and life on our shared planet while taking into account the short term and longterm impacts of our decisions. The path to achieving this has never been clearer and One Community is designing and open sourcing all the steps and components we see as helpful.
- 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
OUR MAIN OPEN SOURCE HUBS
Click on each icon to be taken to the corresponding Highest Good hub page.
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 April 22nd, 2018 edition (#265) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments:
Highest Good Decision Making
One Community Progress Update #265
Here is the bullet-point list of this last week’s design and progress discussed in detail in the video above:
HIGHEST GOOD DECISION MAKING INTRO: @0:34
HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING: @5:42
- Began updating the 3D aspects of the Murphy bed drawers and changing areas (see below)
- Michael Hagler and the core team continued working together creating and testing the different layout options for the Compressed Earth Block Village parts of the 7-villages book (see below)
- Shadi Kennedy completed his 4th week leading the development of the Murphy bed instructions
- Dean Scholz continued with the Cob Village render updates (see below)
- Dan Alleck completed his 19th week working on the Compressed Earth Block Village render additions (see below)
- Mike Kowalski finished his 5th week helping update our Recycled Materials Village renders that are too big for anything but a gaming computer (see below)
- Mihaela “Michelle” Pinzaru completed her 12th week working on the Tree House Village residential renders (see below)
DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER: @7:40
- Working with Jin Yu, the core team completed a thorough review and update of the behind-the-scenes development of the City Center excavation and construction of the footer and foundation tutorial work from last week (see below)
- Dipti Dhondarkar continued developing the lighting specifics for the City Center (see below)
- David Olivero completed his 18th week helping with the HVAC Designs for the Duplicable City Center (see below)
- Anvita Kumari Pandey completed her 2nd week helping with the Duplicable City Enter Materials and Costs (see below)
HIGHEST GOOD FOOD: @9:29
- Continued working on the Garden Tools list by adding even more tools, images, and prices (see below)
- The core team began writing the behind-the-scenes narrative and detailed food rollout plan for the second landing party group of 20 people (see below)
HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION: @9:47
- Finished the second 50% of review, formatting, editing, and content, resources, and imagery additions to the Learning for Life Assessment Format page (see below)
HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY: @10:22
- Sowmya Manohar, Shubhra Mittal, Priyanka Singh, and Swathy Jayaseelan continued work on the Highest Good Network software (see below)
HIGHEST GOOD DECISION MAKING SUMMARY: @11:12
-
-
- How you can most help us right now and how anyone can help
-
CLICK HERE IF YOU’D LIKE TO RECEIVE AN EMAIL EACH WEEK WHEN WE RELEASE A NEW UPDATE
YOU CAN ALSO JOIN US THROUGH SOCIAL MEDIA
ONE COMMUNITY WEEKLY UPDATE DETAILS
HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS
One Community is facilitating highest good decision making 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 began updating the 3D aspects of the Murphy bed drawers and changing areas.
Highest Good Decision Making – 3D Aspects of Murphy Bed Drawers, Changing Areas – Click for Page
The core team working with Michael Hagler (Senior Graphic Designer and Artist), also completed another round of editing and testing different layout options shown here for the Compressed Earth Block Village parts of the 7-villages book we’re developing.
Highest Good Decision Making – Layout Options for Earth Block Village Parts ” Click for Page
Shadi Kennedy (Artist and Graphic Designer) completed his 4th week leading the development of the Murphy bed instructions. This week’s focus was simplifying the materials lists and further developing the drawers and nightstand frame pages, as shown here.
Highest Good Decision Making – Continued Work – Murphy Bed Instructions ” Click to Visit
Dean Scholz (Architectural Designer) continued with the Cob Village (Pod 3) render updates. Here is update 110 of Dean’s work. This week Dean finished the main render for the Dining Hall View from the Front Door, which you can see here.
Highest Good Decision Making – Continued with Cob Village AutoCAD Layout Updates ” Click for Page
Dan Alleck (Designer and Illustrator) completed his 19th week working on the Compressed Earth Block Village render additions. This week he finished updating this render of one of the massage rooms. This render is now updated on the website also.
Highest Good Decision Making – Massage Room – South (w)People Final Render ” Click for Page
Mike Kowalski (Game Developer) finished his 5th week helping update our Recycled Materials Village (Pod 6) renders that are too big for anything but a gaming computer. What you see here are two updated renders from before and a new and final render of the West Outdoor Dining Area. These are now updated on the website also.
Highest Good Decision Making – Materials Village Outdoor Dining Area Final Renders ” Click for Page
Mihaela “Michelle” Pinzaru (Interior Designer and Architectural Drafter) also completed her 12th week working on the Tree House Village (Pod 7) residential renders. This week she started working on the textures and other design details needed to produce final external renders.
Highest Good Decision Making – Tree House Village Residential Renders – Click for Page
DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS
One Community is facilitating highest good decision making 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 working with Jin Yu (Structural Engineering Designer) completed a thorough review and update of the behind-the-scenes development of the City Center excavation and construction of the footer and foundation tutorial work from last week. You can see some of this work-in-progress here.
Highest Good Decision Making-City Center Excavation,Construction Footer,Foundation -Click for Page
Dipti Dhondarkar, (Electrical Engineer), continued developing the lighting specifics for the City Center. This is Dipti’s 71st week volunteering on this task and the focus this week was choosing and comparing a variety of different fixture types that meet the LEED criteria for diffuse lighting.
Highest Good Decision Making – Lighting Specifics for the City Center ” Click for Page
David Olivero (Mechanical Engineer & Data Scientist) completed his 18th week helping with the HVAC Designs for the Duplicable City Center. This week’s focus was more additions and development of the HVAC zonal document and working on the Makeup Air Unit and electric boiler sizing challenges.
Highest Good Decision Making – HVAC Designs for the Duplicable City Center ” Click for Page
Anvita Kumari Pandey (Civil Engineer) also completed her 2nd week helping with the Duplicable City Center Materials and Costs. This week’s focus was summarizing construction materials for interior equipment, taking all the dimensions from the floor plans and calculating materials as well as interior quantities for the 1st floor, and starting the same for the 2nd floor.
Highest Good Decision Making – Duplicable City Center Materials and Costs – Click for Page
HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS
One Community is facilitating highest good decision making 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 continued working on the Garden Tools list by adding even more tools, images, and prices. You can see some of this work here.
Highest Good Decision Making – Continued Work – Garden Tools List ” Click for Page
The core team also began writing the behind-the-scenes narrative and detailed food rollout plan for the second landing party group of 20 people. You can see some of this work-in-progress here.
Highest Good Decision Making – Narrative and Detailed Food Rollout Plan – Click for Page
HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS
One Community is facilitating highest good decision making 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 week, the core team finished the second 50% of review, formatting, editing, and content, resources, and imagery additions to the Learning for Life Assessment Format page. You can see some of this last week’s work here and the page is now complete.
Highest Good Decision Making -Second 50% of the Learning for Life Assessment Format- Click for Page
HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS
One Community is facilitating highest good decision making 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 Highest Good Network software team consisting of Sowmya Manohar (Software Engineer, Web Developer & Net Application Developer), Shubhra Mittal (Software Delivery Manager), Priyanka Singh (Software Developer), and Swathy Jayaseelan (Software Developer) continued their work on the software. This week they added new sorting functionality to the user management table, made the administrative and social links on the user profile page clickable, tested new designs for the weekly effort gauge in the header, and added a dropdown that lists the members contributing to projects and produces a bar chart showing the total hours spent by a person every day in the current week.
Highest Good Decision Making – Highest Good Network Software ” Click for Page
AND WE PRODUCED THIS WEEKLY UPDATES BLOG – CLICK HERE TO SUBSCRIBE
FOLLOW ONE COMMUNITY’S PROGRESS (click icons for our pages)
INVESTOR PAGES
GET INVOLVED
CONSULTANTS | WAYS ANYONE CAN HELP | MEMBERSHIP
CLICK HERE FOR ALL PAST UPDATES
WHAT ONE COMMUNITY IS CREATING
One Community is creating a place to grow together, change the world together and facilitating Highest Good Decision Making. 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 growth on creating a golden Age for Humanity.
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, highest good decision making 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.
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 and facilitate Highest Good Decision Making. 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 facilitate Highest Good Decision Making and 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.
Connect with One Community