Communities as a Path to Global Peace – One Community Weekly Progress Update #323

Why not build communities as a path to global peace? The technology and sustainable resources exist to supply every person what they need to live healthy and happy lives. If we create this as a self-replicating model, it seems like a logical path to global peace. One Community is doing this and including (and open sourcing) the food, energy, housing, education, for-profit and non-profit economic structure, social architecture, fulfilled living models, global stewardship practices, and more to make it possible.

• 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 June 2nd, 2019 edition (#323) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments:

Communities as a Path to Global Peace
One Community Progress Update #323

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

COMMUNITIES AS A PATH TO GLOBAL PEACE INTRO: @0:34

COMMUNITIES AS A PATH TO GLOBAL PEACE HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING: @8:00

• Started research on sustainable insulation options; Denim batts, sheep’s wool batts, and airkrete were the most sustainable we found (see below)
• Core team working with Brian Gilb made more additions to the work breakdown structure for the Earthbag Village and finished the work breakdown structure for the Duplicable City Center and energy components (see below)
• Dean Scholz finished week #161 working on the Earthbag Village; started designing the main entryway, corners, and South wall (see below)
• Shadi Kennedy completed his 53rd week leading the development of the Murphy bed instructions; created the new Procurement List design (see below)

COMMUNITIES AS A PATH TO GLOBAL PEACE DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER: @9:04

• Continued with week 11 of our research into lake and water retention landscape creation as an alternative source of water for the Duplicable City Center Sprinkler and Emergency Systems Designs; working on the contour dam designs and began the ridge point dam designs (see below)
• Anvita Kumari Pandey added the Duplicable City Center sprinkler system pipe details and the fitting specifications and quantities, prices, and images & source urls to the Duplicable City Center Costs spreadsheet (see below)
• James Herrigel completed his 20th and final week researching sustainable materials for the Most Sustainable Adhesives page; researching and adding specific products to the Bostik products section (see below)
• Tanya Griffin, Aubryanne Boyle, and Allie Marsh completed their 23rd week helping with the Duplicable City Center interior design details; outdoor flooring and railing colors and options and sunrise and cupola patio furniture (see below)
• Yuqiao Zhang completed his 2nd week helping finalize the City Center AutoCAD and SketchUp files; updating the library furniture in AutoCAD and adding the dirt-catching grills in SketchUp and AutoCAD (see below)
• Ron Huang continued with week 4th working on the Energy Modeling for our LEED Platinum certification and City Center open source HVAC design tutorial; worked on the building occupancy schedules, input the lighting loads, and calculated the estimated hot water usage based on American Society of Plumbing Engineers (see below)
• Zeyu Zhu completed his 3rd week increasing the capacity and finalizing the rainwater catchment designs for the City Center; ran calculations and cost analysis for the downspouts comparing rectangular and round designs in 3″ and 4″ sizes (see below)

COMMUNITIES AS A PATH TO GLOBAL PEACE HIGHEST GOOD FOOD: @11:29

• Continued developing the mindmap of the permaculture process; sharing this as part of the Open Source Permaculture Design page (see below)

COMMUNITIES AS A PATH TO GLOBAL PEACE HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION: @11:57

• With over 8 years of development invested in the Education for Life component, this part of One Community is now complete enough to no longer focus and report on it with weekly updates. That is, of course, until we move onto the property and continue the development and open sourcing process with teachers and students. Visit the Education section below for links to all the completed elements of this component and details on the final remaining action items for this area of One Community before moving onto the property and fully launching it.
• Continued working on the redesign of the Ultimate Classroom; designed the reading room and removable partition walls, redesigned the separation wall, set storage location for the movable walls, resized the bathrooms, moved bathroom doors, and placed items in the computer classroom (see below)

COMMUNITIES AS A PATH TO GLOBAL PEACE HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY: @13:23

• Rebuilt our the One Community Pledge page to include overviews and better explanations of all our values (see below)
• Brian Gilb continued updating our business plan and project management strategy; initial outlining of our target volunteer market for the marketing plan and starting the project charter for the Highest Good Network software (see below)
• Jin Hua created a video and written tutorial for how to run specific Google Grants reports and solve problems with Google Ads (see below)
• Emilio Nájera continued with his 31st week as part of the marketing team by applying Jin’s tutorial and updating several AdWords campaigns that Google had flagged and paused (see below)

COMMUNITIES AS A PATH TO GLOBAL PEACE SUMMARY: @14:37

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COMMUNITIES AS A PATH TO GLOBAL PEACE: HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

One Community is open sourcing communities as a path to global peace 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 to build communities as a path to global peace: 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 started research on sustainable insulation options. Denim batts, sheep’s wool batts, and airkrete were the most sustainable we found. More detailed research is coming.

The core team working with Brian Gilb (Project Management Professional ” PMP) also made more additions to the work breakdown structure for the Earthbag Village and finished the work breakdown structure for the Duplicable City Center and energy components to build communities as a path to global peace.

Dean Scholz (Architectural Designer) finished week #161 working on the Earthbag Village (Pod 1). This week he started designing the main entryway, corners, and South wall to build communities as a path to global peace.

Shadi Kennedy (Artist and Graphic Designer) also completed his 53rd week leading the development of the Murphy bed instructions. This week Shadi created the new Procurement List design shown here.

COMMUNITIES AS A PATH TO GLOBAL PEACE: DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

One Community is open sourcing communities as a path to global peace 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 for communities as a path to global peace: Duplicable City Center Open Source Hub

This week the core team continued with week 11 of our research into lake and water retention landscape creation as an alternative source of water for the Duplicable City Center Sprinkler and Emergency Systems Designs. This week’s focus was more work on the contour dam designs and starting the ridge point dam designs, some of which you can see here.

Anvita Kumari Pandey (Civil Engineer) added the Duplicable City Center sprinkler system pipe details and the fitting specifications and quantities, prices, and images & source urls to the Duplicable City Center Costs spreadsheet.

James Herrigel (Student Researcher) completed his 20th and final week researching sustainable materials for the Most Sustainable Adhesives page. This week’s focus was researching and adding specific products to the Bostik products section, as shown here.

Tanya Griffin, Aubryanne Boyle, and Allie Marsh (Interior Designers from Lotus Design Pros) completed their 23rd week helping with the Duplicable City Center interior design details. This week’s focus was outdoor flooring and railing colors and options and sunrise and cupola patio furniture.

Yuqiao Zhang (Architectural Designer/Drafter) completed his 2nd week helping finalize the City Center AutoCAD and SketchUp files. This week’s focus was updating the library furniture in AutoCAD and adding the dirt-catching grills in SketchUp and AutoCAD. You can see some of this work here.

And Zeyu Zhu (Mechanical Engineer) also completed his 3rd week increasing the capacity and finalizing the rainwater catchment designs for the City Center. This week he ran calculations and cost analysis for the downspouts comparing rectangular and round designs in 3″ and 4″ sizes.

COMMUNITIES AS A PATH TO GLOBAL PEACE: HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

One Community is open sourcing communities as a path to global peace 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 for communities as a path to global peace: Hoop House Hub | Aquapini & Walipini Open Source Hub
    • See what we’ll be growing for communities as a path to global peace: Gardens & Hoop Houses | Large-scale Structures | Food Forest | TA

This week the core team continued developing the mindmap of the permaculture process. We’ll be sharing this as part of the Open Source Permaculture Design page.

COMMUNITIES AS A PATH TO GLOBAL PEACE: HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

One Community is open sourcing communities as a path to global peace 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 the core team continued working on the redesign of the Ultimate Classroom. This week we designed the reading room and removable partition walls, redesigned the separation wall, and set storage location for the movable walls. We also resized the bathrooms, moved bathroom doors, and placed items in the computer classroom. You can see some of this work-in-progress here.

COMMUNITIES AS A PATH TO GLOBAL PEACE: HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS

One Community is open sourcing communities as a path to global peace 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 rebuilt our One Community Pledge page to include overviews and better explanations of all our values. You can see some of these updates here.

Brian Gilb (Project Management Professional – PMP) also continued with his 7th week of updating our business plan and project management strategy. This week’s focus was initial outlining of our target volunteer market for the marketing plan and starting the project charter for the Highest Good Network software.

Jin Hua (Web and Graphic Designer) created a video and written tutorial for how to run specific Google Grants reports and solve problems with Google Ads.

Then Emilio Nájera (Digital Marketer) continued with his 31st week as part of the marketing team by applying Jin’s tutorial and updating several AdWords campaigns that Google had flagged and paused. 

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WHAT ONE COMMUNITY IS CREATING

One Community is creating a place to grow together and change the world together, contributing to the communities as a path to global peace. 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, fostering the communities as a path to global peace. 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, contributing to the communities as a path to global peace. 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, spearheading the communities as a path to global peace. 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 with the help of the communities as a path to global peace. 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, contributing to the communities as a path to global peace. 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.