Community-Based Eco-Infrastructure – One Community Weekly Progress Update #134

Community-Based Eco-Infrastructure is an approach to living that is capable of simultaneously addressing global hunger, homelessness, poverty, social injustice, education, economics, and more. One Community’s approach to developing the necessary foundations for this is open source sustainability solutions combining food, energy, and housing with ecocentric models for fulfilled living, education, sustainable economics and earth stewardship.

COMPREHENSIVE SOLUTION TO HUMANITY’S NEEDS : COMMUNITY-BASED ECO-INFRASTRUCTURE

One Community is open source sharing an evolution of sustainable living that addresses the complete human experience. We are doing this because we see the solutions for global food, housing, energy, education, social inequality, ethical business practices, earth regenerative practices, and a desire for a more fulfilling living experience as inseparably interconnected. As a comprehensive solution, we are addressing all these areas simultaneously and open source free-sharing everything needed for individual duplication and/or duplication as complete self-replicating teacher/demonstration communities, villages, and cities to be built around the world.

As we address and open source share these areas we will establish a living example of the first teacher/demonstration village purposed to teach others. To maximally facilitate duplication, One Community will provide seven duplicable examples and function indefinitely as a place people can visit and a non-profit and open source think tank continuing to further evolve and share solutions in all of the above areas and more. We will also provide hands-on experience and training. Most importantly, growing upon our sustainable foundation, we will endlessly make this comprehensive solution even more widely known and globally accessible, understandable and diversely duplicable, and inspiring and desirable as a model worth duplicating.

• 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, embracing a community-based eco-infrastructure. 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 a community-based eco-infrastructure 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. 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 supports a community-based eco-infrastructure. 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. One Community is dedicated to the mission of establishing a community-based eco-infrastructure, striving to create a more sustainable, healthy, and fulfilling way of life for all.

Even if we don’t achieve our ultimate goal of global transformation, a self-replicating teacher/demonstration model like this will contribute to a community-based eco-infrastructure, 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

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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, showcasing community-based eco-infrastructure. This is the October 18th, 2015 edition (#134) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments, supporting a community-based eco-infrastructure:

Community-Based Eco-Infrastructure
One Community Progress Update #134

Here is the bullet-point list of this last week’s design and progress discussed in detail in the video above focused on advancing our goals for community-based eco-infrastructure:

Community-Based Eco-Infrastructure INTRO: @1:02

COMMUNITY-BASED ECO-INFRASTRUCTURE – HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION: @2:00

• Transferred final 50% of the written content for the Creativity Lesson Plan to the website (see below)
• Behind the scenes: wrote the final 1/2 of the Emotional States Lesson Plan (see below)
• Completed and added the first 50% of the mindmap for the Creativity Lesson Plan to the webpage (see below)

COMMUNITY-BASED ECO-INFRASTRUCTURE – HIGHEST GOOD FOOD: @3:15

• Finished the final social media imagery and featured our open source arracacha hub (see below)
• Added three additional recipes from Sandra Sellani to the Food Self-sufficiency Transition Plan (see below)

COMMUNITY-BASED ECO-INFRASTRUCTURE – HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING: @4:10

• Continued what we hope will be the final revision of the Footers, Foundations and Flooring page for the upcoming crowdfunding campaign (see below)
• Added the 5 new village renders to the Highest Good housing page and updated all the descriptions there (see below)
• Began posting the website content for the dome home window and door framing tutorial for the upcoming crowdfunding campaign (see below)
• Sayonara Batista de Oliveira finished the second round of beautiful renders of the Straw Bale Village and is also creating these 2-D perspectives for the complete Village 2 presentation (see below)
• Completed about one third of the written portion of the edits on the presentation the Intern Team created for the Tree House Village (Pod 7) (see below)

COMMUNITY-BASED ECO-INFRASTRUCTURE – DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER: @5:55

• Continued updating the Sketchup 3-D for the Duplicable City Center (see below)
• Iris Hsu continued developing and evolving the Pipe Furniture designs (see below)
• Continued transferring and editing the updates from Mike Hogan to the Control Systems and Automation page (see below)
• Behind the scenes: Lucas Tsutsui da Silva, working under Mike’s guidance, continued developing the Control System connector board (see below)

COMMUNITY-BASED ECO-INFRASTRUCTURE – HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY: @7:15

• Continued editing and formatting the wonderful work of Oz Czerski. This included a final round of followup edits to the Open Source and Copyrights tutorial setting up the initial layout details and imagery for the Open Source Trademarking tutorial page (see below)

Community-Based Eco-Infrastructure SUMMARY: @7:50

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COMMUNITY-BASED ECO-INFRASTRUCTURE : HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

One Community is developing Community-Based Eco-Infrastructure 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 50% of the written content for the Creativity Lesson Plan to the website. This lesson plan purposed to teach all subjects, to all learning levels, in any learning environment, using the central theme of “Creativity” is now 100% complete.

Behind the scenes, we also wrote the final 1/2 of the Emotional States Lesson Plan, bringing that to 100% complete:

And finally, we completed and added the first 50% of the mindmap for the Creativity Lesson Plan to the webpage:

COMMUNITY-BASED ECO-INFRASTRUCTURE : HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

One Community is developing Community-Based Eco-Infrastructure 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 finished the final social media imagery and featured our open source arracacha hub:

We also added three additional recipes from Sandra Sellani (Vegan Chef and author of What’s Your BQ?) to the Food Self-sufficiency Transition Plan ” These recipes are: Autumn Muesli, Sloppy Sliders & Slaw, and Italian Wedding Soup.

COMMUNITY-BASED ECO-INFRASTRUCTURE : HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

One Community is developing Community-Based Eco-Infrastructure 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 continued what we hope will be the final revision of the Footers, Foundations and Flooring page for the upcoming crowdfunding campaign. This week included continued development of the new french drain water collection design to further reduce materials costs and increase longevity. What you see here is the newest hand drawing of where this design has evolved to.

We also added the 5 new village renders to the Highest Good housing page and updated all the descriptions there. You can see these new additions here and read more about each village by visiting the page and clicking the images to be taken to the detailed page on each village.

In addition to this, we began posting the website content for the dome home window and door framing tutorial for the upcoming crowdfunding campaign. What you see here is the beginning of this work showing the tools and materials details. We’d say we’re now about 15% done with this new page creation.

On the Straw Bale Village (Pod 2), Sayonara Batista de Oliveira (4th-year Architecture and Urban Planning Student) finished the second round of beautiful renders of this village, updating the images to fix some shading and other structural details. Sayonara is also creating 2-D perspectives for the complete Village 2 presentation we are working on:

Last but not least, we completed about one third of the written portion of the edits on the presentation the Intern Team created for the Tree House Village (Pod 7). The complete edits to that project are now about 50% finished and the presentation will be released on our website when the revision process is 100% complete.

COMMUNITY-BASED ECO-INFRASTRUCTURE : DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

One Community is developing Community-Based Eco-Infrastructure 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 its function: Duplicable City Center Open Source Hub

This week the core team continued updating the Sketchup 3-D for the Duplicable City Center. This week we added extensive details to the kitchen area to match the AutoCAD layout. Once done and double checked, we’ll be able to create beautiful renders of these areas. We’d say we are now 60% done with this 3-D work.

Iris Hsu (Industrial Designer), continued developing and evolving the Pipe Furniture designs. What you see here are the 4th generation concept designs for the chairs, tables, and couches that will be in the Duplicable City Center library.

We also continued transferring and editing the updates from Mike Hogan (Automation Systems Developer and Business Systems Consultant) to the Control Systems and Automation page. This week we added our privacy policy and updated the FAQ. You can see this work here and we’d say we are about 75% complete with the total page redesign.

Behind the scenes Lucas Tsutsui da Silva (4th-year Computer Engineering Student), working under Mike’s guidance, continued developing the Control System connector board. The image you see here shows the latest design evolutions as Lucas and Mike start working on the specifics of minimizing space requirements and detailing how everything will fit together.

COMMUNITY-BASED ECO-INFRASTRUCTURE : HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS

One Community is developing Community-Based Eco-Infrastructure 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 continued editing and formatting the wonderful work of Oz Czerski (Lawyer Specializing in Trademark and Copyright Law). This included a final round of followup edits to the Open Source and Copyrights tutorial setting up the initial layout details and imagery for the Open Source Trademarking tutorial page that you see here. We’d say we’re 50% complete with the Trademarking tutorial.

SUMMARY – COMMUNITY-BASED ECO-INFRASTRUCTURE

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.

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