Better Living Through Comprehensive Sustainability – One Community Weekly Progress Update #346

We can create better living through comprehensive sustainability. Truly comprehensive sustainability includes sustainable approaches to food, energy, housing, education, for-profit and non-profit economic design, social architecture, fulfilled living, global stewardship practices, and more. By putting these components together we can reduce our living expenses, increase our free time, reduce transportation costs and time, and provide a broader diversity of social and recreational activities for ourselves and others.

• 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 November 10th, 2019 edition (#346) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments:

Better Living Through Comprehensive Sustainability
One Community Progress Update #346

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BETTER LIVING THROUGH COMPREHENSIVE SUSTAINABILITY – HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

One Community is demonstrating better living through comprehensive sustainability 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 began construction of the Earthbag Engineering Page. This week we created the initial formatting and sections covering What, Why, and the Process Summary.

And the core team continued updating the Murphy bed electrical in SketchUp 3D. We added four missing outlets, rerouted a blue wire next to the entry door, and revised the separated circuits groups with the latest updates. We also modified the support board for reclining while sitting in the bed and set the measurements for the location and dimension of this board and the back-area storage light. All these changes were made with the goal of better living through comprehensive sustainability.

Oluyomi Sanyaolu (Technical Writer and Researcher) completed his 3rd week with the team by starting a new project focused on cost analysis of external Earthbag Village components. This week’s focus was Hydro and Wind energy components, comparing the prices of different components of each power production system and writing brief introductions for both sections. These efforts align with our commitment to better living through comprehensive sustainability.

And Shadi Kennedy (Artist and Graphic Designer) also completed his 72nd week developing the Murphy bed instructions. This week’s focus was a first draft of integrating the core team’s suggested changes to the fold-down support board and electrical boards, furthering our mission of better living through comprehensive sustainability.

BETTER LIVING THROUGH COMPREHENSIVE SUSTAINABILITY – DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

One Community is demonstrating better living through comprehensive sustainability 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 began updating the City Center Water Rainwater Catchment Design open source hub. This week we finished the initial formatting setup, table of contents links, and the first four sections shown here, embracing the principle of better living through comprehensive sustainability.

And Ron Huang (Mechanical Engineer) continued with his 27th week working on the Energy Modeling for our LEED Platinum certification and City Center open source HVAC design tutorial. This week’s focus was continued development of the final energy model report for LEED, better living through comprehensive sustainability.

Sneha Dongre (Structural Engineer) also continued with her 29th week helping with the Duplicable City Center structural details. This week she continued watching videos and reading articles to help her learn the RISA 3D software we’re now choosing for the timber design for this structure, ensuring better living through comprehensive sustainability.

BETTER LIVING THROUGH COMPREHENSIVE SUSTAINABILITY – HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

One Community is demonstrating better living through comprehensive sustainability 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

The core team also updated the rabbit hutch material list and added the rabbit tractor material list for one and three tractors. You can see some of this work here. This effort is part of our ongoing commitment to better living through comprehensive sustainability.

In addition, the core team continued developing the behind-the-scenes open source permaculture design content. This week we completed the behind-the-scenes first draft of Steps 4 (Detailed Design) and 5 (Implementation and Evaluation), striving for better living through comprehensive sustainability. You can see some of this work here.

And last but not least, Ziqian Zheng (Architectural Designer and Drafter) joined the team and began work on finishing the development of the Transition Kitchen designs. This week he focused on the floor plan, sections, and roof plan, ensuring they embody the principle of better living through comprehensive sustainability.

BETTER LIVING THROUGH COMPREHENSIVE SUSTAINABILITY – HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

One Community is demonstrating better living through comprehensive sustainability 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, emphasizing better living through comprehensive sustainability.:

• 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

BETTER LIVING THROUGH COMPREHENSIVE SUSTAINABILITY – HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS

One Community is demonstrating better living through comprehensive sustainability 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 added reference links to all of the Work Breakdown Structure action items, emphasizing better living through comprehensive sustainability.

The core team also finished our open source tutorial about patents and how they relate to better living through comprehensive sustainability.

And the core team working with Emilio Nájera (Digital Marketer) also wrote new ads for all our volunteer campaigns and continued fine tuning the Donations campaigns, some of which you can see here, promoting better living through comprehensive sustainability.

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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, fostering better living through comprehensive sustainability.

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.

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 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.

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.

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
• 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. 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.