Long-Term Sustainable Solutions for Immediate Challenges – One Community Weekly Progress Update #277

Long-term sustainable solutions for immediate challenges are a path to addressing long-term challenges too. One Community is creating open source versions of these for food, energy, housing, education, for-profit and non-profit economic design, social architecture, fulfilled living, global stewardship practices, and more.

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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 by creating long-term sustainable solutions for immediate challenges. This is the July 15, 2018 edition (#277) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments:

Long-Term Sustainable Solutions for Immediate Challenges
One Community Progress Update #277

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

LONG-TERM SUSTAINABLE SOLUTIONS FOR IMMEDIATE CHALLENGES INTRO: @0:34

LONG-TERM SUSTAINABLE SOLUTIONS FOR IMMEDIATE CHALLENGES – HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING: @7:56 

• The core team working with Michael Hagler completed another round of edit requests, updates, and mockups along with adding Michael’s latest approved and finalized images to the Earthbag Village (Pod 1), Straw Bale Village (Pod 2), and Cob Village (Pod 3) open source hubs (see below)
• Michael also integrated another round of suggestions and edits into several pages from the 7-villages book we’re developing (see below)
• Hemanth Kotaru completed his 16th week helping with the structural engineering research and calculations for the Earthbag Village (see below)
• Shadi Kennedy completed his 15th week leading the development of the Murphy bed instructions (see below)
• Dean Scholz continued with the Cob Village render updates (see below)
• Mihaela “Michelle” Pinzaru completed her 19th week working on the Tree House Village residential renders (see below)

LONG-TERM SUSTAINABLE SOLUTIONS FOR IMMEDIATE CHALLENGES – DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER: @9:58

• Continued rebuilding the City Center geodesic dome in 3D (see below)
• The core team working with Dipti Dhondarkar continued developing the lighting specifics for the City Center (see below)
• Haoxuan “Hayes” Lei continued work on the City Center structural engineering (see below)
• Anvita Kumari Pandey completed her 13th week helping with the Duplicable City Center Materials and Costs (see below)
• Mike Hogan helped with researching and initial selection of the Control and Automation Systems hardware (see below)
• Dehua Feng completed his 11th week working on the fire suppression and safety systems designs for the City Center (see below)

LONG-TERM SUSTAINABLE SOLUTIONS FOR IMMEDIATE CHALLENGES – HIGHEST GOOD FOOD: @11:55

• Continued writing the behind-the-scenes narrative and detailed food rollout plan for the various stages of development (see below)

LONG-TERM SUSTAINABLE SOLUTIONS FOR IMMEDIATE CHALLENGES – HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION: @12:36

• Updated the resource sections of the alternative education pages coving Reggio Emilia Theory and Application, Bloom’s Taxonomy, and Howard Gardner Multiple Intelligences (see below)

LONG-TERM SUSTAINABLE SOLUTIONS FOR IMMEDIATE CHALLENGES – HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY: @13:13

• David Olivero helped update the open source AutoCAD template (see below)

LONG-TERM SUSTAINABLE SOLUTIONS FOR IMMEDIATE CHALLENGES SUMMARY: @13:46

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HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

One Community is creating long term sustainable solutions for immediate challenges 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 working with Michael Hagler (Senior Graphic Designer and Artist) completed another round of edit requests, updates, and mockups along with adding Michael’s latest approved and finalized images to the Earthbag Village (Pod 1), Straw Bale Village (Pod 2), and Cob Village (Pod 3) open source hubs, contributing to long-term sustainable solutions for immediate challenges. You can see some of this work here.

Michael also integrated another round of suggestions and edits into all the pages shown here, dedicated to long-term sustainable solutions for immediate challenges. These, like the previous images, are all from the 7-villages book we’re developing. We’d say we are now about 80% complete with it.

Hemanth Kotaru (Structural Engineer) completed his 16th week helping with the structural engineering research and calculations for the Earthbag Village (Pod 1), offering long-term sustainable solutions for immediate challenges. This week’s focus was research and beginning nail embedment calculations to see if this is a viable option for replacing barbed wire. You can see some of this work-in-progress here.

DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

One Community is creating long term sustainable solutions for immediate challenges 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 continued rebuilding the City Center geodesic dome in 3D, in pursuit of creating long-term sustainable solutions for immediate challenges. This week we continued the shell structure process from the bottom up, finishing rows 1 and 6, as shown here.

The core team working with Dipti Dhondarkar (Electrical Engineer) also continued developing the lighting specifics for the City Center. This is Dipti’s 85th week volunteering on this task and the focus this week was finalizing the Living Dome hallway:

….and these public men’s and women’s restroom lighting tests, which you can see now on the website also.

Haoxuan “Hayes” Lei (Structural Engineer) continued work on the City Center structural engineering, contributing to long-term sustainable solutions for immediate challenges. This week’s focus was revising the spreadsheet for floor beam layout with the latest naming format and adding notes on the drawings for the beam layout.

Anvita Kumari Pandey (Civil Engineer) completed her 13th week helping with the Duplicable City Center Materials and Costs. This week’s focus was working on the dome structure quantities and materials costs, additional corrections to the kitchen equipment cost analysis sheet, and researching LEED materials recommendations for roofing, windows, and doors. You can see some of this work here.

Mike Hogan (Automation Systems Developer and Business Systems Consultant) also helped with researching and initial selection of the Control and Automation Systems hardware, you can see some examples of this here.

Last but not least, Dehua Feng (Civil Engineer) completed his 11th week working on the fire suppression and safety systems designs for the City Center. This week he finished pressure requirement calculations and updates for zones H, K, and N and updated the related piping layouts in AutoCAD, some of which you can see here.

HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

One Community is creating long term sustainable solutions for immediate challenges 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 writing the behind-the-scenes narrative and detailed food rollout plan for the various stages of development, dedicated to creating long-term sustainable solutions for immediate challenges. This week we we researched the R, U, & K insulation values of Poly Keder greenhouse cladding that may be our choice due to its strength and longevity. We also researched the Stout method using hay mulch, and although it appears to work, further research is required before use.

HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

One Community is creating long term sustainable solutions for immediate challenges 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 updated the resource sections of the alternative education pages coving Reggio Emilia Theory and Application, Bloom’s Taxonomy, and Howard Gardner Multiple Intelligences, contributing to long-term sustainable solutions for immediate challenges. The purple links in the graphic here are new and the best our research was able to uncover.

HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS

One Community is creating long term sustainable solutions for immediate challenges 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 David Olivero (Mechanical Engineer & Data Scientist) helped update the open source AutoCAD template to fix and better diversify some of the HVAC-related colors and layers. You can see some of this here.

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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, committed to long-term sustainable solutions for immediate challenges. 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 in terms of long-term sustainable solutions for immediate challenges.

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, all aimed at long-term sustainable solutions for immediate challenges. 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 for the long-term sustainable solutions for immediate challenges.

 

WHY ONE COMMUNITY IS CREATING THIS

The One Community self-replicating model is capable of creating a sustainable planet within 30 years through the long-term sustainable solutions for immediate challenges. 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, further promoting the ideals of the long-term sustainable solutions for immediate challenges. 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, furthering the cause of the long-term sustainable solutions for immediate challenges.

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, contributing to the long-term sustainable solutions for immediate challenges.  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, ultimately aiming for long-term sustainable solutions for immediate challenges.

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.

 

COMPREHENSIVE SOLUTION TO HUMANITY’S NEEDS

One Community is open source sharing an evolution of sustainable living that addresses the complete human experience, all in pursuit of long-term sustainable solutions for immediate challenges. We are doing this because we see the solutions for global food, housing, energy, education, social inequality, ethical business practices, earth regenerative practices, and a desire for a more fulfilling living experience as inseparably interconnected. As a comprehensive solution, we are addressing all these areas simultaneously and open source free-sharing everything needed for individual duplication and/or duplication as complete self-replicating teacher/demonstration communities, villages, and cities to be built around the world, all contributing to long-term sustainable solutions for immediate challenges.

As we address and open source share these areas we will establish a living example of the first teacher/demonstration village purposed to teach others the principles of long-term sustainable solutions for immediate challenges. To maximally facilitate duplication, One Community will provide seven duplicable examples and function indefinitely as a place people can visit and a non-profit and open source think tank continuing to further evolve and share solutions in all of the above areas and more. We will also provide hands-on experience and training. Most importantly, growing upon our sustainable foundation, we will endlessly make this comprehensive solution even more widely known and globally accessible, understandable and diversely duplicable, and inspiring and desirable as a model worth duplicating.

 

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: Long-Term Sustainable Solutions for Immediate Challenges by 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: Long-Term Sustainable Solutions for Immediate Challenges with 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: Long-Term Sustainable Solutions for Immediate Challenges by 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: Long-Term Sustainable Solutions for Immediate Challenges with 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.

 

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 the faster we see the world transitioning towards long-term sustainable solutions for immediate challenges.

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 and contributing to long-term sustainable solutions for immediate challenges.
• 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

 

OPEN SOURCE SHARING STRATEGY SPECIFICS

One Community’s open source strategy for long-term sustainable solutions for immediate challenges will evolve 5 primary types of open source content purposed to reach and service as broad an audience as possible. This includes the following mediums of sharing that are being developed to function as standalone resources or in combination with each other:

• Video tutorials
• Audio tutorials
• Live streaming video
• Direct/live interaction
• Written content and downloadable PDFs

Maximum exposure is accomplished through simultaneous implementation of the following strategies:

• Free-shared audio, visual, and PDF downloads
• Scholarship and intern programs for direct learning
• Videoing or live-streaming almost all classes and activities
• Tourism option for involvement in almost all aspects of One Community
• Dedicated and search engine optimized sections of our website for each key area
• Our established infrastructure that simultaneously posts to over 20 social networks

 

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 all aimed at long-term sustainable solutions for immediate challenges.