One CommunityEcologically Addressing Society – One Community Weekly Progress Update #355
Ecologically addressing society is a necessary step if we are to address over-consumption patterns and create global sustainability. One Community is helping achieve this through an open source evolution of sustainability that combines enriching and more fulfilled living models, open source education options, and global stewardship practices with sustainable approaches to food, energy, housing, economics 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 January 12th, 2020 edition (#355) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments towards ecologically addressing society:
Ecologically Addressing Society
One Community Progress Update #355
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HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS
One Community is ecologically addressing society 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:
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- 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
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This week Oluyomi “Yomi” Sanyaolu (Technical Writer and Researcher) completed his 12th week with the team. This week Oluyomi continued with the trompe and ram pump implementation research. His focus this week was revising and simplifying his previous work so it is understandable to non-industry professionals and working on explaining a DIY version of a trompe using an excellent resource he found. You can see some of this work here that promotes ecologically addressing society and we’d say this brings the trompe and ram pump research to about 50% complete.
Continued with the Trompe and Ram Pump Implementation Research ” Click for Hydro Energy Page
Dean Scholz (Architectural Designer) also continued helping with the Earthbag Village (Pod 1) 4-dome cluster designs. This week was week #176 of Dean’s work and the focus was finishing most of the remaining work for the railings on the stairway access and around the rooftop-patio. You can see some of this ongoing work here that promotes ecologically addressing society.
Worked on Railings on the Stairway Access and Around the Rooftop-patio – Click for Earthbag Village
And Shadi Kennedy (Artist and Graphic Designer) also completed his 75th week developing the Murphy bed instructions. This week he printed out the complete instructions and made a list of all remaining edits needed. The picture below shows this list and a few screen captures of the walkthrough we did together to confirm everything. We’d say this brings these assembly instructions to about 90% complete.
Printed Out the Complete Instructions and Made a List of All Remaining Edits Needed – Click for Furniture Page
DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS
One Community is ecologically addressing society 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:
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- Learn about this building and it’s function: Duplicable City Center Open Source Hub
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This week Ron Huang (Mechanical Engineer) continued with his 35th week developing and refining the Energy Modeling tutorial needed to achieve our LEED Platinum certification. This week Ron revised the occupancy load in the baseline model and began analyzing the energy increase for using electrical heating for the hot tub. You can see some of this work towards ecologically addressing society and the preliminary results here and we’d say we’re now about 87% complete with the City Center energy analysis component.
Continued Developing and Refining the Energy Modeling Tutorial Needed to Achieve Our LEED Platinum Certification ” Click for Page
HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS
One Community is ecologically addressing society 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:
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- 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
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This week the core team began updating the chickens open source page. This week we built the table of contents and updated all the formatting to include all the upcoming sections, rewrote the “Why Chickens” section, added a “Purchasing and Initial Care” section, added several videos we’ve researched and found helpful, and began updating the “Which Chickens” section. You can see some of this work here that focusses on ecologically addressing society and we’d say we’re about 20% done with the completion of this page.
Began Updating the Chickens Open Source Page – Click to Visit
Related to this, the core team also continued the behind-the-scenes chickens research and organization of information. This week’s focus was assembling, revising, and combining into well-referenced paragraphs the notes we’ve taken on several of the best videos we could find (after hours of researching them) into the various sections that will make up the complete open source page. You can see some of this ongoing process here which promotes ecologically addressing society.
Continued the Behind-the-scenes Chickens Research and Organization of Information – Click for Page
The core team also continued work on the open source chicken coop step-by-step building instructions on our behind-the-scenes google doc to promote ecologically addressing society. We added the felt roof assembly steps and researched and added felt roof (row 6) and wood boards for door (row 42) into Chicken Coop Material List. With this, we’d say we’re now about 89% done.
Continued Work on the Open Source Chicken Coop Step-by-step Building Instructions ” Click for Chickens Page
Mohammad Almuzaial (Civil and Construction Engineer) also continued with his 8th week helping with the Aquapini/Walipini civil engineering details. This week Mohammad continued working on the new site design that addresses the issue of the gravity drainage to the central pool ending so low below grade. This week he came up with two different proposals that would create seating with ADA access around this area while still maintaining the gravity-fed design. You can see some of this work for ecologically addressing society/ work-in-progress here and we’d say this brings this part of this component to 76% complete.
Continued Helping With the Aquapini/walipini Civil Engineering Details ” Click to Visit
Ali Ghahremannezhad (Mechanical Engineer) also continued with his 6th week as a member of the team and working on the climate batteries for the Aquapini/Walipini structures. This week Ali worked on thermal lag and the research that has been done by One Community so far about the thermal mass and thermal lag for climate batteries including the FEA analysis. He also worked on extending the research on soil temperature during the year. References for Ground Temperatures as a Function of Location, Season, and Depth were reviewed.
Ali also worked on improving the 2D model for the climate battery. Dimensions were taken from the current Aquapini floor plan. Some effort was done to create a 2D model that can represent the average behavior of the 3D Aquapini structure and the initial mesh was improved to capture the boundary locations. You can see some of this work here for ecologically addressing society.
Continued Working on the Climate Batteries for the Aquapini/walipini Structures ” Click for Page
HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS
One Community is ecologically addressing society 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. 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
This week Dan Alleck (Designer and Illustrator) completed his 63rd week helping with render additions and finishing work for the rooms in the the Ultimate Classroom. This week he continued revisions and additions to the indigo room representing “Social Sciences.” What you see here are his fifth and final round of revisions and additions that included adding more items to the desks, counters, and windowsills, changing the focus of the teacher, and resizing the central floor map. You can see the final image below and on the Ultimate Classroom page which promotes ecologically addressing society.
Continued Revisions and Additions to the Indigo Room Representing “Social Sciences” ” Click to Visit the Ultimate Classroom
Ziqian Zheng (Architectural Designer and Drafter) also continued with week 9 as a member of the team and now working on the the Ultimate Classroom. This week Ziqian continued development of the Ultimate Classroom by completing several revisions of the skylight and roof designs. The final design minimizes materials and maximizes passive heating and cooling by lowering the roof. moving the skylights to the north-facing roof, and adding clerestory windows to the south-facing roof for winter heating and summer ventilation. You can see some of this work here for the ecologically addressing society model.
Continued Development of the Ultimate Classroom by Completing Several Revisions of the Skylight and Roof Designs – Click for Page
HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS
One Community is ecologically addressing society 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:
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- 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
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This week the core team completed a year-end review of our website traffic, advertising grant results, and search results and behavior. You can see some of these summaries here.
Completed a Year-end Review of Our Website Traffic, Advertising Grant Results, and Search Results and Behavior – Click for Home Page
Jin Hua (Web Marketer and Graphic Designer) completed keyword research and helped us relaunch the donation campaign related to the new donations campaign page.
Completed Keyword Research and Helped Relaunch the Donation Campaign – Click for Donations Page
Deema Ali (Graphic/Video Designer) completed her 7th week designing new versions of the One Community Homepage overview videos. This week Deema implemented feedback on the last revision and made additional adjustments to the earth-in-hand graphic, timing, and the overlay sequence that uses the same effect as the social media sequence. You can see some of this behind-the-scenes work here for the ecologically addressing society model.
Continued Designing New Versions of the One Community Homepage Overview Videos – Click for our Homepage
Tengxiao Wang (Software Engineer) joined the team and completed his first week working on the Highest Good Network software. This week Tengxiao focused on finding the right way to run the HGN React app locally, addressing challenges during the process, and creating an instruction document to help others more easily run the HGN React app locally too. You can see the beginnings of the document here.
Joined the Team and Completed His First Week Working on the Highest Good Network Software – Click to Visit Page
Henry Ng (React Developer) also joined the team and completed his first week working on the Highest Good Network software. This week Henry focused on reviewing all the tech details and app structure for the project, researching MongoDB Atlas because he hadn’t used it before, and Sentry.io. You can see some screenshots related to this work associated with ecologically addressing society below.
Joined the Team and Completed His First Week Working on the Highest Good Network Software – Click for Page
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ECOLOGICALLY ADDRESSING SOCIETY – WHAT ONE COMMUNITY IS CREATING
One Community is creating a place to grow together and change the world together by ecologically addressing society. 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.
ECOLOGICALLY ADDRESSING SOCIETY – 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 the approach of ecologically addressing society 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 the ecologically addressing society model.
ECOLOGICALLY ADDRESSING SOCIETY – WHY OPEN SOURCE
We are creating everything One Community does as open source and free-shared blueprints such as the ecologically addressing society model 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 towards ecologically addressing society.
Every aspect of the ecologically addressing society 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 towards the idea of ecologically addressing society, 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
- 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
ECOLOGICALLY ADDRESSING SOCIETY – 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 such the approach of ecologically addressing society. 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.
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