Solution Cooperatives – One Community Weekly Progress Update #292

One Community is developing open source and free-shared plans for a global network of self-replicating solution cooperatives in the form of teacher/demonstration hubs working together to achieve global sustainability. The open source and DIY plans we’re developing cover all aspects of construction, maintenance, and replication with sustainable approaches to food, energy, housing, education, for-profit and non-profit economic design, social architecture, fulfilled living, global stewardship practices, and more.

• 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 October 28, 2018 edition (#292) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments:

Solution Cooperatives
One Community Progress Update #292

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

SOLUTION COOPERATIVES INTRO: @0:34

SOLUTION COOPERATIVES – HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING: @7:35

SOLUTION COOPERATIVES – DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER: @8:39

• Continued working in Sketchup on the Duplicable City Center Dining Dome roof (see below)
• Continued adding the LEED heating and air conditioning details to the City Center HVAC Design page (see below)
• Core team working with Dipti Dhondarkar, continued developing the lighting specifics for the City Center (see below)
• Aparna Tandon continued with her 3rd week helping with the design and evaluation details for applying the WELL Building Standards➢ to the Duplicable City Center (see below)
• Dehua Feng completed his 25th week working on the fire suppression and safety systems designs for the Duplicable City Center Sprinkler and Emergency Systems open source hub (see below)

SOLUTION COOPERATIVES – HIGHEST GOOD FOOD: @10:47

• Did a final review of the Apiary hive setup parts and equipment and added both to the website (see below)
• Continued writing the behind-the-scenes narrative and detailed food rollout plan for the various stages of development (see below)

SOLUTION COOPERATIVES – HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION: @11:31

• With over 8 years of development invested in the Education for Life component, this part of One Community is now complete enough to no longer focus and report on it with weekly updates. That is, of course, until we move onto the property and continue the development and open sourcing process with teachers and students. Visit the Education section below for links to all the completed elements of this component and details on the final remaining action items for this area of One Community before moving onto the property and fully launching it.

SOLUTION COOPERATIVES – HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY: @12:36

• Finished updating the final 7 of our help wanted pages for volunteers (see below)
• Jin Hua continued collaboration on our new online marketing strategy and our related grant by creating two more keyword tutorial videos (see below)
• Emilio Nájera researched keywords for “Industrial Designer,” â€œGraphic/Web Designer,” and â€œProject Manager.” (see below)
• Highest Good Network software team consisting of Sowmya Manohar and Shubhra Mittal continued developing the software (see below)

SOLUTION COOPERATIVES SUMMARY: @14:02

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SOLUTION COOPERATIVES – HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

One Community is developing  solution cooperatives 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

SOLUTION COOPERATIVES – DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

One Community is developing solution cooperatives 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 working in Sketchup on the Duplicable City Center Dining Dome roof. We added triangle labels and measured all triangles sides, and determined the angles between the triangle and horizon for each row. We also worked on the structure for the Social Dome, and started working on the windows for the Living Dome. You can see some of this work here.

The core team also continued adding the LEED heating and air conditioning details to the City Center HVAC Design page. This week we finished the second half of the “LEED HVAC-related Indoor Environmental Quality Credits Explained” section. You can see some of this work here and this brings the addition of these details to 100% complete.

And the core team working with Dipti Dhondarkar (Electrical Engineer) also continued developing the lighting specifics for the City Center. This is Dipti’s 101st week volunteering on this task for solution cooperatives, and the focus this week was finishing the remaining 50% of the Social Dome lighting tests using different colored lights so we could create and add to the website the graphic shown here. This completes these tests for the entire structure.

Aparna Tandon (Architect) also continued with her 3rd week helping with the design and evaluation details for applying the WELL Building Standards➢ to the Duplicable City Center. This week she researched and identified the LEED features that contribute in achieving the WELL standards and identified the features applicable to Duplicable City Center. You can see some of this work here.

Dehua Feng (Civil Engineer) also completed his 25th week working on the fire suppression and safety systems designs for the Duplicable City Center Sprinkler and Emergency Systems open source hub for solution cooperatives. This week he finished all the spreadsheet calculation updates for Zones C and D, created the parts list for the complete system, and resized the reservoir. You can see some of this work here.

SOLUTION COOPERATIVES – HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

One Community is developing solution cooperatives 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 did a final review of the Apiary hive setup parts and equipment and added both to the website.

The core team also continued writing the behind-the-scenes narrative and detailed food rollout plan for the various stages of development for solution cooperatives. This week we continued the research of chicken coops and viewed step-by-step instruction videos for building hoop pens, simple, portable houses for small poultry flocks. You can see some of this work here.

SOLUTION COOPERATIVES – HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

One Community is building the foundations for how humanity creates a sustainable 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. This component of One Community is about 95% complete with only the Open Source School Licensing and Ultimate Classroom construction and assembly details remaining to be finished. We’ll report on the final two elements to be finished as we develop them.

With over 8 years of work invested in the process, the sections below are all complete until we move onto the property and continue the development and open sourcing process with teachers and students – a development process that is built directly into the structure of the education program and everything else we’re creating too:

• Program Overview: Education Open Source Hub
• How the components work together: How to use the Education for Life Program
  
• Lesson Plans for Life – Lesson Plans How-to
• Foundations of Outstanding Leaders, Teachers, and Communicators
• Curriculum for Life
• Teaching Strategies for Life
• Learning Tools and Toys for Life
• Evaluation and Evolution

SOLUTION COOPERATIVES – HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS

One Community is developing solution cooperatives 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 updating the final 7 of our help wanted pages for volunteers. You can see some of this work here.

Jin Hua (Marketing Specialist and Web and Graphic Designer) also continued collaboration on our new online marketing strategy and our related grant by creating two more keyword tutorial videos. You can see some screenshots of these here.

Emilio Nájera (Digital Marketer) also continued with his 3rd week helping the marketing team. This week’s Emilio researched keywords for “Industrial Designer,” â€œGraphic/Web Designer,” and â€œProject Manager.”

And the Highest Good Network software team consisting of Sowmya Manohar (Software Engineer, Web Developer & Net Application Developer), and Shubhra Mittal (Software Delivery Manager) continued developing the software for solution cooperatives. This week they completed adding the time-archive functionality, the delete time entries functionality, set up a parallel development environment, fixed a bug that made a user unable to update their email address, fixed an issue with names not appearing correctly in emails for blue badges, and an issue of auto-assignment of blue squares not triggering as per the schedule. You can see some of this work 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 with solution cooperatives. 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 through solution cooperatives.

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, supported by solution cooperatives, will help launch additional hubs as awareness and knowledge grow.

BUILDING THE FIRST OF MANY

One Community will be the first teacher/demonstration hub through self-replicating solution cooperatives. 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. This approach will foster the development of solution cooperatives.

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. The establishment of solution cooperatives will be integral to achieving these aims.