Blueprint for Global Cooperatives – One Community Weekly Progress Update #366

One Community is creating an open source blueprint for global cooperatives. This includes the tools, tutorials, data, and costs needed for global replication. These sustainable and self-sufficient eco-communities will function as teacher/demonstration hubs to help others replicate them even easier.

• 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

WHAT ONE COMMUNITY IS CREATING

One Community is creating a place to grow together and change the world together, concurrently explaining why blueprint for global cooperatives are important. 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 of why blueprint for global cooperatives are important and showcase 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 that answers why open blueprint for global cooperatives are important. 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 that explains why blueprint for global cooperatives are important. 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 contribute to the question of why blueprint for global cooperatives are important, positively affecting 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.

OUR MAIN OPEN SOURCE HUBS

Click on each icon to be taken to the corresponding Highest Good hub page.

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 March 29th, 2020 edition (#366) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments, explaining why blueprint for global cooperatives  are important:

Blueprint for Global Cooperatives
One Community Progress Update #366

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HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS – BLUEPRINT FOR GLOBAL COOPERATIVES

One Community is creating a blueprint for global cooperatives 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 continued with what we hope will be the 2nd-to-final review of the Murphy bed instructions. This week we finished the review by completing the rest of cut sheets plan. Parts added to the plan this week included the rest needed for the Benches & Table, Nightstands, and Storage. You can see pictures of the finished cut sheets below and we’re now onto final integration of all the needed edits to the actual assembly instructions.

Dean Scholz (Architectural Designer) continued helping with the Earthbag Village (Pod 1) 4-dome cluster designs. This week was week #183 of Dean’s work and the focus this week was continuing to texture the domes, texturing the main stairway entry, and testing out different stairway options for access to the rooftop patio. You can see pictures of these updates below.

And Ziqian Zheng (Architectural Designer and Drafter) also continued working on the Earthbag Village and completed week 2o as a volunteer designer with our team. This week’s focus was adding furniture to the top of the Tropical Atrium, furniture to the living structures, and fixing broken or incomplete building elements. You can see some of the screenshots from the updated walkthrough here.

DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS – BLUEPRINT FOR GLOBAL COOPERATIVES

One Community is creating a blueprint for global cooperatives 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 Radhieka Nagpal (Volunteer Researcher) completed her 6th week researching the Most Sustainable Building Materials: Carpet, Flooring, Wood, Etc. This week, Radhieka researched further into other types of sustainable flooring and integrated what she found to benchmarked them based on Health & Safety, Sustainability, Cost, Practicality/do-it-yourself application, and Durability. She considered the full lifecycle of these products to have a well-rounded perspective on each flooring type. This was done for bamboo, linoleum, tiles, concrete and carpet. You can see some of this work-in-progress below.

Isha Chadalavada (Volunteer Researcher) also completed her 1st week developing the content for the Food Waste Recycling section of the Best Small and Large-scale Recycling, Reuse, and Repurposing Options page. This week she completed the open source section, overview of food waste section, and preliminary research of various types of small-scale recycling options like worm composting, hot composting, and in-vessel composting. You can see some of this behind-the-scenes work in progress below.

HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS – BLUEPRINT FOR GLOBAL COOPERATIVES

One Community is creating a blueprint for global cooperatives 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

HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS – BLUEPRINT FOR GLOBAL COOPERATIVES

One Community is creating a blueprint for global cooperatives 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 70th week helping with render additions and finishing work for the rooms in the Ultimate Classroom. This week he continued work on the yellow room. This room is about the subject of Math and the character traits of peaceful leadership, sharing, self esteem, respect for others, self-control, self-discipline, calmness, and initiative. What you see here is Dan’s 5th round additions focused on finding and adding toys and books to the shelving and floor. This brings this room to about 85% complete.

HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS – BLUEPRINT FOR GLOBAL COOPERATIVES

One Community is creating a blueprint for global cooperatives 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 Tengxiao Wang (Software Engineer) completed his 11th week working on the Highest Good Network software. This week Tengxiao implemented a new version of the progress bar on the Time Log page. Now the color changes to match the Leaderboard and the length is determined by the absolute value instead of percentage. Stripes are added to the bar when a volunteer hasn’t completed his or her weekly committed hours.

Simon Xiong (Programmer) completed his 8th and final week working on the Highest Good Network software. This week he worked on finishing as much as he could of the HGN Unit Test and HGN Documentation with the other members of the team. This included clarifying concepts on documents, making and integrating suggestions for improvement, and outlining the remaining tasks for completion. Screenshots of some of this work are below.

Henry Ng (React Developer) also completed his 8th week with the team and working on the Highest Good Network software. This week Henry used the backend to work with the Work Breakdown Structure (WBS). He created a function to add the WBS to a project. He also created a new interface for the WBS based on the WBS converted to excel files. This was a challenge in UX Design (User Experience) because he had to design something new but based on the current interface with the Excel files. To accomplish this he did research on WBS design using MS Project Software. You can see some of this work below.

Siddharth Gore (Senior Software Engineer I) completed his 8th week as a member of the volunteer team also working on the Highest Good Network software. This week Siddharth worked on the Add Project Member and Remove Project Member functionality for the mobile app. He also refactored some code to make it better. You can see some of the results of this work below.

Wen Zhang (Software Engineer) completed her 2nd week as a volunteer working on the Highest Good Network software. This week Wen continued adding content to the Unit Testing Doc, and followed up with comments & suggestions. Wen answered questions raised by other team members, helped with the error messages, finalized the Unit Testing Doc, and created an improved strategy to address vulnerabilities of the Github repo by adding protection rules for the master branch and development branch. In addition to this, Wen continued working on the draft of HGN App Design Doc and Workflow & Github Doc, based on the outlines she completed last week.

And Alvaro Hernandez (Open Source Tech Consultant, Developer) joined the Highest Good Network software team and completed his first week as a volunteer. This week his main tasks were helping with the new documentation guidelines we are creating. He gave reviewed, tested, and gave feedback to Unit Testing documentation, HGN Documentation, and Instructions for Running the HGN React App Locally by providing clarifying links and a newcomer perspective. He also set up his local development environment for further Unit Testing development. You can see some of this work below.

SUMMARY – BLUEPRINT FOR GLOBAL COOPERATIVES

One Community sees the issues of the world as interdependent and interconnected. To address them simultaneously, and support the process of biohacking our future, 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.

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