One CommunityBetter Living Through Ecological Living – One Community Weekly Progress Update #353
We can create better living through ecological living. Ecological living that includes sustainable approaches to food, energy, housing, education, for-profit and non-profit economic design, social architecture, fulfilled living, and global stewardship practices 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.
One Community is creating and open sourcing and free-sharing the necessary plans to build teacher/demonstration hubs that will demonstrate, share, and evolve all these areas and many 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
OUR MAIN OPEN SOURCE HUBS
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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 29th, 2019 edition (#353) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments:
Better Living Through Ecological Living
One Community Progress Update #353
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HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS
One Community is demonstrating better living through ecological living 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 10th week with the team. This week Oluyomi began the trompe implementation research. His focus was on the history & uses of trompes, the process of air compression in the system, and the design details of the system. Initial outlining of the research needed for the the construction details, cost analysis, and how well it can work with a ram pump was also started.
Began the Trompe 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 #174 of Dean’s work and the focus was adding the window that looks out onto the new rooftop-patio stairway access. You can see some of this ongoing work here.
Added the Window Looking Out Onto the New Rooftop-patio Stairway Access – Click for Earthbag Village
DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS
One Community is demonstrating better living through ecological living 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 the core team working with Ron Huang (Mechanical Engineer) continued with his 33rd week developing and refining the Energy Modeling tutorial needed to achieve our LEED Platinum certification. This consisted of several rounds of revisions and collaborative updates to the content and new imagery and details for the space definition section. You can see some of this work here and we’d say this brings completion of the City Center energy analysis component to 93% complete.
Continued Refining the Energy Modeling Tutorial Needed to Achieve Our LEED Platinum Certification ” Click for HVAC Page
HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS
One Community is demonstrating better living through ecological living 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 continued working on our behind-the-scenes chicken Google Doc. We summarized the time frames from two of the most comprehensive chicken-raising videos we could find (Beginners Guide To Raising Backyard Chickens, and How to Design a Chicken Coop). They cover everything from selection, to raising them, shelter, feed, cleaning, care, etc. You can see some of this work here.
Summarized the Time Frames From Two of the Most Comprehensive Chicken-raising Videos We Could Find – Click for Chicken Page
The core team also continued creating the chicken coop step-by-step building instruction on our behind-the-scenes Google Doc. This week we worked on the wall assembly instructions and tested two different design strategies. You can see some of this work here and we’d say we’re about 85% done.
Worked on the Wall Assembly Instructions and Tested Two Different Design Strategies – Click for Chicken Page
The core team also continued developing the open source permaculture design and DIY Dam Design and Construction content. This week we did the final organization, editing and formatting of the information from Lawton’s videos for the Dam Design case study section. We also began work on Step 2 of the Permaculture Case Study section, “Assess Site Through Observation And Research.” You can see some of this behind-the-scenes work here.
Continued Developing the Open Source Permaculture Design Content, Specifically Organization and Editing ” Click for Page
Mohammad Almuzaial (Civil and Construction Engineer) also continued with his 6th week helping with the Aquapini/Walipini civil engineering details. This week Mohammad finished all 6 botanical gardens interior and exterior elements, adjusted the level of the central pond, adjusted the level of the cool air pipes to be higher than 1m, and rerouted the cool air pipes to run outside the structure.
Minimum cool air elevation difference is now 3′ 4″ (which is higher than 1m), central pond total depth is 10′, and the effective central pond depth is 6′ 8″. You can see some of this work here and we’d say this brings this part of this component to 70% complete.
Continued Helping With the Aquapini/Walipini Civil Engineering Details ” Click for Page
Ali Ghahremannezhad (Mechanical Engineer) also continued with his 4th week as a member of the team and working on the climate batteries for the Aquapini/Walipini structures. This week Ali worked on typical Re number of the flow inside the pipes of the climate battery to determine the range and usual flow types and considering change of properties of air due to temperature change during different seasons. He also started preparing the first simple model for CFD analysis of climate batteries. You can see some of this work here.
Continued Working on the Climate Batteries for the Aquapini/Walipini Structures – Click for Page
HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS
One Community is demonstrating better living through ecological living 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 61st 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 third round of revisions and additions to this room.
Continued Revisions and Additions to the Indigo Room Representing “Social Sciences” – Click for Ultimate Classroom
Ziqian Zheng (Architectural Designer and Drafter) also continued with week 7 as a member of the team and now working on the the Ultimate Classroom. This week Ziqian completed the new roof structure and columns designs. You can see some of this work promoting better living through ecological living here.
Completed New Roof Structure and Columns Designs of Ultimate Classroom – Click for Page
HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS
One Community is demonstrating better living through ecological living 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 created 9 more volunteer ads and brought on 2 new volunteers to restart work on the Highest Good Network software to make meaningful contributions towards the mission of better living through ecological living.
Created 9 More Volunteer Ads and Brought on 2 New Volunteers to Restart Work on the Highest Good Network Software – Click for Page
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BETTER LIVING THROUGH ECOLOGICAL LIVING – 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. Thus, we are promoting better living through ecological living through our various initiatives.
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, i.e., better living through ecological living.
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 such as better living through ecological living.
BETTER LIVING THROUGH ECOLOGICAL 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 better living through ecological living 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. Hence, supporting better living through ecological living.
The specifics of how One Community is accomplishing better living through ecological living 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 and promote better living through ecological living. 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 better living through ecological living.
BETTER LIVING THROUGH ECOLOGICAL LIVING – 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 for better living through ecological living 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 such as our better living through ecological living approach. 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 such as better living through ecological living 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
BETTER LIVING THROUGH ECOLOGICAL LIVING – 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 as better living through ecological living. 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 to promote better living through ecological living.
