A Better Way to Live – One Community Weekly Progress Update #193

A better way to live that is also good for each other and our planet is necessary if we are to realistically expect large-scale participation in creating a cooperative and sustainable society. Combining the physical components of sustainability (food, energy, housing) with the emotional components of sustainability (education, Highest Good economic design, social architecture, fulfilled living, global stewardship practices, etc.) is one way to provide this. One Community calls this living and creating for The Highest Good of All and we think it has the potential to positively and permanently change the world for everyone.

• 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 December 4th, 2016 edition (#193) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments:

A Better Way to Live
One Community Progress Update #193

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

A BETTER WAY TO LIVE INTRO: @1:03

A BETTER WAY TO LIVE HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION: @2:00

• Transferred final 25% of the written content for the Consciousness Lesson Plan to the website (see below)
• Behind the scenes: wrote the second 25% section of the Cognition Lesson Plan
• Completed third 25% of the mindmap for the Individuality Lesson Plan (see below)

A BETTER WAY TO LIVE HIGHEST GOOD FOOD: @2:57

• Began to reformat and add sections and anchor links to recipe pages for our Transition Kitchen strategy (see below)

A BETTER WAY TO LIVE HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING: @3:27

• Ashwini Ramesh and the core team put another combined total of 15 hours into the crowdfunding campaign we are developing (see below)
• Completed another large round of revisions for the upcoming 7 villages online book (see below)
• Shilcy Augustine continued with her help creating and testing a standardized color set for all our AutoCAD files (see below)
• Fernando Remolina continued with his 7th week of managing the Vermiculture Bathroom development with the 3rd week of help from Lin Xu (see below)
• Dean Scholz continued helping us create quality Cob Village renders (see below)
• Hamilton Mateca finished his 20th week helping with the Compressed Earth Block Village design details (see below)
• Guy Grossfeld continued with 3D earth block construction for the Compressed Earth Block Village labyrinth meditation walking path (see below)
• Aparna Tandon continued work on the Compressed Earth Block Village external elements and converted Guy’s 3D bench design into the AutoCAD design (see below)
• Yee-Cheng Ho finished her 9th week of helping with the Shipping Container Village renders for the living units (see below)

A BETTER WAY TO LIVE DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER: @6:27

A BETTER WAY TO LIVE HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY: @9:19

• Ashwin Patil and Jennifer Zhou continued developing the new site search engine (see below)
• Yuri Witte completed his 5th week of helping create the music that will accompany the new overview video we are planning (see below)

A BETTER WAY TO LIVE SUMMARY: @10:03

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A BETTER WAY TO LIVE HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

One Community is generating a better way to live 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 the final 25% of the written content for the Consciousness Lesson Plan to the website, as you see here. This lesson plan purposed to teach all subjects, to all learning levels, in any learning environment, using the central theme of “Consciousness” is now 100% completed on our website.

A Better Way to Live – Transferred Final 25% of Consciousness Lesson Plan to Site ” Click to Visit Page

Behind the scenes, we wrote the second 25% section of the written part of the Cognition Lesson Plan.

We also completed the third 25% of the mindmap for the Individuality Lesson Plan, bringing it to 75% complete, which you see here:

A Better Way to Live – Individuality Mindmap ” 75% Complete ” Click to Visit Page

A BETTER WAY TO LIVE HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

One Community is generating a better way to live 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 began to reformat and add sections and anchor links to recipe pages for our Transition Kitchen strategy. You can see a before and after image of a sample of that work here, on the vegan rice recipe page:

Reformatted and Added Sections to Recipe Pages for our Transition Kitchen Strategy -Click to Visit

A BETTER WAY TO LIVE HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

One Community is generating a better way to live 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

The core team and Ashwini Ramesh (Civil Engineer and Project Manager) put another combined total of 15 hours into the crowdfunding campaign we are developing. This week’s focus was the behind-the-scenes content editing for the Site Selection and Preparation page and detailing the AutoCAD images needed for all other sections, as shown here:

Continued Editing the Site Selection and Preparation Page Behind-the-Scenes ” Click to Visit Site

The core team also completed another large round of revisions for the upcoming 7 villages online book. You can see some of these revisions here, including an updated and color version of the Duplicable City Center floor plan, and new imagery and descriptions on the Recycled Materials Village (Pod 6) and Shipping Container Village (Pod 5) spreads.

A Better Way to Live – Continued Revisions for the Upcoming 7 Villages Online Book

Continued Creating and Testing a Standardized Color Set for all our AutoCAD Files – Click to Visit

Fernando Remolina (Industrial Engineer specializing in Project Management) continued with his 7th week of managing the Vermiculture Bathroom development with the 3rd week of help from Lin Xu (Mechanical Engineering Student). This week’s focus, as shown here, was beginning clarifying task assignments and beginning the foundation work with his team.

A Better Way to Live – Continued Managing the Vermiculture Bathroom Development

Dean Scholz (Architectural Designer), continued helping us create quality Cob Village (Pod 3) renders. Here is update 45 of his work creating all the iterations you see here:

Continued Creating Quality Cob Village Renders – Click to Visit Page

…leading up to this final rooftop view looking Southeast render:

A Better Way to Live – Cob Village Final Render – Rooftop View

Hamilton Mateca (AutoCAD and Revit Drafter and Designer) also finished his 20th week helping with the Compressed Earth Block Village (Pod 4) design details. This week’s focus was on testing and updating textures for the bricks, frames, and railings as shown here:

A Better Way to Live – Continued Evolving the Compressed Earth Block Village ” Click to Visit

Guy Grossfeld (Graphic Designer) continued with 3D earth block construction for the Compressed Earth Block Village (Pod 4) labyrinth meditation walking path. This week’s focus was working on the dark-to-light texture pattern shown here and minor layout corrections:

Continued w/ 3D Earth Block Construction for Labyrinth Walking Path ” Click for Compressed Earth

Continued Work on Compressed Earth Block Village External Elements ” Click to Visit Page

Converted Guy’s 3D Bench Design Into the AutoCAD Design – Click for Compressed Earth Block Village

Yee-Cheng Ho (Interior Designer) also finished her 9th week of helping with the Shipping Container Village (Pod 5) renders for the living units. This week’s focus was finishing these two back-to-back single-residence designs created using 3 shipping containers.

Final Renders Finished of Two Back-to-Back Single-Residence Designs Created Using 3 Shipping

A BETTER WAY TO LIVE DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

One Community is generating a better way to live 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

Continued Structural Column Updates for the Kitchen in the Dining Dome ” Click to Visit Page

Worked on Render Position Testing for Outdoor Aspects of Natural Pool Area – Click to Visit Page

Continued Working on Recycled Pipe Shelving for the Duplicable City Center ” Click to Visit Page

Shuna Ni (Masters of Mechanical Engineering and Civil Engineering PhD) also continued working on the City Center structural engineering. This week’s work focused on calculations for the added braces you see here that will support the 4th floor and storage rooms attached to the elevator area.

Continued Work on the City Center Structural Engineering ” Click to Visit Page

Jinxi Feng (Environmental Consultant) also continued her research helping us create an in-depth laundry and dryer machine sustainability analysis. What you see here is her 13th week of behind-the-scenes work on this area of the project. This week’s focus was explaining and graphically showing the water and energy comparisons of conventional washers with Energy Star washers.  

Continued Research for in-Depth Laundry and Dryer Machine Sustainability Analysis ” Click to Visit

Also, Jennifer Zhou (Web Designer) and Ashwin Patil (Web Developer), finished their 4th week of collaboratively working on the open source pipe furniture page. This week’s focus was working on improving the slider image function and finalizing the general layout shown here for the different tutorial sections.

A Better Way to Live – Continued Working on the Pipe Furniture Page – Click to Visit

Ramya Vudi (Electrical Engineer), Shubham Agrawal (Electrical Engineer), and Mike Hogan (Automation Systems Developer and Business Systems Consultant) continued working on the electrical design for the Control and Automation systems. What you see here is this team’s 5th week of work on focusing on research and planning for the control panel size and placement:

Continued on Electrical Design for Control & Automation Systems ” Click for Page

Lucas Tsutsui da Silva (4th-year Computer Engineering Student) also did long cable tests for the Pi2, updated code he’d been testing for functionality, and updated the current requirements spreadsheet to include the total current information for the main controller box.

A Better Way to Live – Continued Working on the Control Systems – Click to Visit Page

And Renan Dantas (Mechanical Engineer) continued with his 3rd week working on creating our next generation of Duplicable City Center section drawings. This week’s focus was primarily on adding more section details, creating a better layer system for the complete structure, and updating the colors for the different layers so everything is easier to see:

Continued Creating our Next Generation of Duplicable City Center Section Drawings ” Click to Visit

A BETTER WAY TO LIVE HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS

One Community is generating a better way to live 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

Ashwin Patil (Web Developer) and Jennifer Zhou (Web Designer) also completed what is, collectively, the 9th week of work developing the new site search engine. This week’s focus was inputting the details for the first half of the Highest Good education section and writing the code for the rest of that same section.

Continued Developing New Site Search Engine ” Click to Visit Home Page

And Yuri Witte (Music Composer and Sound Designer)” completed his 5th week of helping create the music that will accompany the new overview video we are planning. This week’s focus was another new intro, changes in the transitions between the music and where the different intensity builds happen, and adding new drum details. You can here some of the track in the background here and listen to all the progressions on Yuri’s SoundCloud.

Continued Creating Music that Will Accompany the New Overview Video – Click for Yuri’s Soundcloud

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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 while promoting a better way to live. 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 while promoting a better way to live. 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 a better way to live.

A BETTER WAY TO LIVE – BUILDING THE FIRST OF MANY

One Community will be the first teacher/demonstration hub and it will teach about a better way to live. 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 of a better way to live 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 and create a better way to live. 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 a better way to live 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 a better way to live 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.

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 in order to create a better way to live.

Our open source model and blueprints of a better way to live model, 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 the approach of a better way to live that 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 and provides solution on a better way to live. 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 towards a better way to live, 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.

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 about the model of a better way to live. 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 of a better way to live even more widely known and globally accessible, understandable and diversely duplicable, and inspiring and desirable as a model worth duplicating.

GLOBALLY IMPLEMENTABLE REPLICATION MODEL

The more people that are inspired and desiring for themselves what it is that One Community creates, the more demand there will be for spreading the One Community model of a better way to live. This leads to the directing of financial resources and resourceful people where we believe they are needed most: the establishment of additional sustainable communities around the world. We also feel this duplication will specifically happen quickly internationally due to the affordability of overseas land, less restrictive building environments, and the spirit of adventure in many people who really desire to make a difference for those who need it most.

To meet the increasing demand for sustainability that we are contributing to by creating a better way to live, we are also coordinating with manufacturers, education institutions, individuals, and vendors. This is also part of this model to help the world. Its purpose is to facilitate more engagement of the sustainability industry, produce the absolute best possible consumer value, and the most convenient delivery of goods and methodologies for building sustainable living communities and sustainable living components towards a better way to live.

This means we not only provide education and increase needed sustainability resources towards a better way to live, we also address the underlying roadblocks to a sustainable planet by decreasing the cost and simultaneously increasing the demand and generating financial support for global sustainability, philanthropy, and humanitarian movements and organizations.

As the demand for a better way to live increases, so too will the ways to participate. Right now people are participating as consultants or partners donating time to our 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization, and others are more involved as Pioneers of the core team that will be moving to the property. We also have options for people to just follow our progress or participate through internet contribution.

Once the supportive physical infrastructure is about 30% developed, One Community will be ready to additionally expand what we offer to include scholarships, free weekend learning groups, core team members choosing to travel abroad to help others get established too, handling the marketing for all similar models operating for The Highest Good of All, and hosting classes and other sponsored events to promote and demonstrate additional methodologies that will help achieve a better way to live.

We also imagine the high likelihood that our organization will become a foundation that can be trusted as the donation point for distribution of monies to help others to establish this model also.

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, a better way to live, 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 a better way to live.

Every aspect of this model supports itself and contributes to its success by creating a better way to live, 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 about the model of a better way to live 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
• 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 will evolve 5 primary types of open source content purposed to reach and service as broad an audience as possible in order to disseminate information about the model of a better way to live. 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 of a better way to live model 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 that will lead to creating a cooperative future through a better way to live. 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.