A Sustainable World is Possible – One Community Weekly Progress Update #165

A sustainable world is possible if enough people want it and are willing to take action to help create it. Demonstrating a sustainable world as easier, more affordable, and a more enjoyable way of living are dependable approaches to increasing both desire and involvement. Open source and free-shared methods for sustainable food, energy, and housing combined with Highest Good approaches to education, for-profit and non-profit economics design, social architecture, fulfilled living, and stewardship practices will help. We call this living and creating for The Highest Good of All:

• 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 May 22nd, 2016 edition (#165) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments:

A Sustainable World is Possible
One Community Progress Update #165

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

A SUSTAINABLE WORLD IS POSSIBLE INTRO @1:03

A SUSTAINABLE WORLD IS POSSIBLE – HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION: @1:57

• Transferred the final 25% of the written content for the Courage Lesson Plan to the website (see below)
• Behind the scenes: wrote the second 25% of the written part of the Information Lesson Plan
• Completed the final 25% of the mindmap for the Summer Lesson Plan (see below)

A SUSTAINABLE WORLD IS POSSIBLE – HIGHEST GOOD FOOD: @2:50

• Continued working on the renders for the Tropical Atrium that is the center of the Earthbag Village (see below)
• Shadi Kennedy began creating images for the tree aspects of the Tropical Atrium Planting and Harvesting plan (see below)
• Doctor Matt Marturano calculated the daily requirements and preparation instructions for root vegetables as part of the development of our Food Self-sufficiency Transition Plan (see below)

A SUSTAINABLE WORLD IS POSSIBLE – HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING: @4:00

• Put another 10 hours into the behind-the-scenes revision for the Footers, Foundations and Flooring page for the crowdfunding campaign we are developing (see below)
• Brianna Johnson continued evolving the renders for the Straw Bale Village (see below)
• Zachary Melin continued updating the Tree House Village (Pod 7) book created by last year’s intern Team (see below)
• Dean Scholz further developed what’s necessary for us to create quality Cob Village renders (see below)

A SUSTAINABLE WORLD IS POSSIBLE – DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER: @5:43

• Shadi Kennedy finished final details for the City Center renders of the cupola (see below)
• Iris Hsu continued exploring recycled pipe shelving options for the Duplicable City Center library (see below)

A SUSTAINABLE WORLD IS POSSIBLE – HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY: @6:43

• Completed updating icons for all the Highest Good Society sections of the website (see below)
• Jonathan DeAscentis continued development of our Highest Good Network logo (see below)
• Steven Paslawsky created new icons options for our social media links as well as icon ideas for our open source copyrights, trademarks, and patenting pages (see below)

A SUSTAINABLE WORLD IS POSSIBLE SUMMARY @7:33

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A SUSTAINABLE WORLD IS POSSIBLE – HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

One Community believes a sustainable world is possible 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 Courage 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 “Courage” is now 100% completed on our website.

Courage Lesson Plan – Final 25% Complete – Click to Visit Page

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

We also completed the final 25% of the mindmap for the Summer Lesson Plan, bringing it to 100% complete, which you see here:

Summer Mindmap – Now Complete – Click to Visit Page

A SUSTAINABLE WORLD IS POSSIBLE – HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

One Community believes a sustainable world is possible 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 last week the core team continued working on the renders for the Tropical Atrium that is the center of the Earthbag Village (Pod 1). Here you can see the finished render looking southeast and showing the hand terraces and trees there. Next step here is PhotoShop colors and additions.

Render for the Tropical Atrium Looking Southeast – Click to Visit Page

We also completed these two renders of this structure:

Render for the Tropical Atrium – Open Front View – Click to Visit Page

Continued Working on Renders for the Tropical Atrium – Roof Render

Shadi Kennedy (Artist and Graphic Designer) also began creating these images for the tree aspects of the Tropical Atrium Planting and Harvesting plan. The purpose of these is to show the layering of these trees and how this has been done to maximize sunlight availability for all of them.

Images for Tree Aspects of Tropical Atrium Planting and Harvesting plan

As part of the development of our our Food Self-sufficiency Transition Plan, this week Naturopathic Doctor Matt Marturano (creator of the COHERENT model for comprehensive digestive health), calculated and wrote out the daily requirements and preparation instructions for root vegetables for our meal plans with a vision, a sustainable world is possible.

Calculated Daily Requirements and Prep. Instructions for Root Vegetables

A SUSTAINABLE WORLD IS POSSIBLE – HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

One Community believes a sustainable world is possible 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 last week the core team put another 10 hours into the behind-the-scenes revision for the Footers, Foundations and Flooring page for the crowdfunding campaign we are developing. This week we organized, wrote new narratives, and included additional info to steps 1-37 of Section 10 Construction of Stem Walls and Dome. Additionally we added scissors, chalkline, and chalk, to Section 1 Tools and Materials list, along with photos of each item and usage explanation. We also edited and added additional info to Section 13: Subterranean Exterior Ground Finish of EPS insulation and Polyethylene Water Barrier for exterior EPS installations. We’d say we are now 82% complete with this total update and rewrite behind the scenes.

Behind-the-Scenes Revision of the Footers, Foundations and Flooring Info

Brianna Johnson (Interior Designer), also continued evolving the renders for the Straw Bale Village (Pod 2). What you see here is her render of the large-scale communal kitchen.

Continued Evolving the Renders for the Straw Bale Village – Click to Visit Page

Zachary Melin (Graphic Designer) also continued updating the Tree House Village (Pod 7) book created by last year’s intern Team. What you see here is Zachary’s process of redoing the Vision page, Master Plan page, some background images and the Sustainable Design intro page.

Continued Updating the Tree House Village Book – Click to Visit

Dean Scholz, Architectural Designer, further developed what’s necessary for us to create quality Cob Village (Pod 3) renders. Here is update 20 of this work that focused this week on creating more plants and beginning to place them appropriately.

Further Developed What’s Necessary to Create Quality Cob Village Renders

A SUSTAINABLE WORLD IS POSSIBLE – DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

One Community believes a sustainable world is possible 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 Shadi Kennedy (Artist and Graphic Designer) finished the final details for the City Center renders of the cupola that tops this structure. These renders show this part of the building functioning as a classroom, a multi-media room and a wellness space.

Finished Final details for the City Center renders of the Cupola – Click to Visit

City Center Cupola – Click to Visit Page

City Center Cupola – Functioning as a Classroom – Click to Visit Page

City Center Cupola – Functioning as a Multimedia Room – Click to Visit Page

City Center Cupola – Functioning as a Multimedia Room – Click to Visit Page

City Center Cupola – Functioning as a Yoga Room – Click to Visit Page

Iris Hsu (Industrial Designer), also continued exploring recycled pipe shelving options for the Duplicable City Center library. What you see here is round #6 of this work building more 3-D examples of the corner shelving option we ended up choosing and different approaches for integrating these designs with the shelving the adjacent walls.

Exploring Recycled Pipe Shelving Options for Duplicable City Center library

A SUSTAINABLE WORLD IS POSSIBLE – HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS

One Community believes a sustainable world is possible 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 last week the core team completed updating all the icons for all the Highest Good Society sections of the website. What you see here are these icons added now to the Highest Good Society open source portal and collaborative resource and information hub. All the Highest Good Society pages you see linked here have also been updated.

Updated Icons for Highest Good Society Sections on the Website – Click to Visit

Jonathan DeAscentis (Graphic Designer and Web Developer) additionally continued development of our Highest Good Network logo as shown here. This week’s changes were exploring different options for the separation of the words from the top and the bottom and finalizing that we want rings, which aligns with our belief that a sustainable world is possible.

Continued Development of our Highest Good Network Logo – Click to Visit

Steven Paslawsky (Graphic Designer) also created these new icons options for our social media links as well as these icon ideas for our open source copyrights, trademarks, and patenting pages, along with a couple others.

Created New Icon Options for Social Media & Several Pages – Click to Visit

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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. We do this by harmoniously respecting each other, nature, and the rest of our one shared planet. A sustainable world is possible, and our efforts are directed towards proving this.

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. By showing that a sustainable world is possible, we aim to inspire others to join our mission.

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, further proving that a sustainable world is possible.

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. This will be a living testament that a sustainable world is possible.

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, continually reinforcing that a sustainable world is possible.

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. Through these experiences, we show the world that a sustainable world is possible.