Conservation Cooperatives – One Community Weekly Progress Update #300

One Community is an all-volunteer nonprofit creating the open source plans and DIY foundations for a global network of conservation cooperatives.

• 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 December 23, 2018 edition (#300) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments:

Conservation Cooperatives
One Community Progress Update #300

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

CONSERVATION COOPERATIVES: INTRO: @0:34

CONSERVATION COOPERATIVES: HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING: @6:07

CONSERVATION COOPERATIVES: DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER: @7:52

CONSERVATION COOPERATIVES: HIGHEST GOOD FOOD: @9:42

• Continued adding more content to the open source Apiary page (see below)

CONSERVATION COOPERATIVES: HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION: @10:34

• 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.

CONSERVATION COOPERATIVES: HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY: @11:21

• Continued the process of fixing our database structure and testing our corrections (see below)
• Emilio Nájera researched keywords for four more of our top-level food-related pages: Goats, Rabbits, Chickens, and finishing the research for the Apiary Bee Yard (see below)
• Highest Good Network software team consisting of Shubhra Mittal, Jordan Miller, and Tyler Calvert continued developing the software (see below)

CONSERVATION COOPERATIVES: SUMMARY: @12:44

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CONSERVATION COOPERATIVES: HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

One Community is open sourcing conservation 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 design updates to the open source Murphy bed furniture assembly instructions. The focus this week was testing the new wall design in 3D and making update suggestions. You can see some of this work-in-progress here.

Continued Design Updates to Open Source Murphy Bed Furniture Assembly Instructions

And the core team created the initial setup for the new page sharing our research into the most sustainable toilet options.

Created Initial Setup for Page Sharing Our Research Into the Most Sustainable Toilet Options

Hemanth Kotaru (Structural Engineer) completed his 28th week helping with the structural engineering research and calculations for the Earthbag Village (Pod 1). This week’s focus was another round of new nail stress tests. You can see some of this work-in-progress here.

Continued w/Structural Engineering Research and Calculations for Earthbag Village – Click To Visit

Anvita Kumari Pandey (Civil Engineer) also completed her 29th week volunteering and now helping with the Earthbag Village Materials and Costs. This week she did more work on the Tropical Atrium materials quantities, prices, and buying options. She also further developed the single-dome cost analysis and quantity calculations, some of which you can see here.

Continued Working on the Earthbag Village Cost Analysis – Click for Page

Dean Scholz (Architectural Designer) continued working on the Earthbag Village (Pod 1). Here is weekly update #142 from Dean. His focus this week was beginning the process of modeling all the new designs in 3D. You can see the beginnings of this work here.

Continued Updating the Earthbag Village Designs – Click for Page

And Elizabeth Kahn (Environmental Consultant) completed her 3rd week researching and writing the content for the most sustainable toilet options. This week she wrote the first draft for the tutorial sharing the results of all her past two weeks of research. You can see some of this work-in-progress here.

Continued Researching the Most Sustainable Toilet Options – Click to Visit

CONSERVATION COOPERATIVES: DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

One Community is open sourcing conservation 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, the core team continued developing the Duplicable City Center Sprinkler and Emergency Systems Design page. This week we created and added new preliminary design imagery and finished the parts and calculation processes for the Cost Analysis sections. You can see some of this work here.

Continued Developing the Duplicable City Center Sprinkler and Emergency Systems Design Page

Dipti Dhondarkar (Electrical Engineer) also continued developing the lighting specifics for the City Center. This is Dipti’s 109th week volunteering on this task and the focus this week was finishing updating all the layers and adding the final missing lights for the Dining Dome main wall, Social Dome, and Living Dome rooms. You can see some of this work here.

Continued Developing the Lighting Specifics for the City Center – Click for Page

Tanya Griffin, Aubryanne Boyle, and Allie Marsh (Interior Designers from Lotus Designs) also completed their 3rd week helping with the Duplicable City Center interior design details. This week they started integrating and testing in 3D all the furniture, floor patterning, and color selections discussed since the last update. You can see some of this work here.

Continued Helping With the Duplicable City Center Interior Design Details – Click for Page

Anvita Kumari Pandey(Civil Engineer) also continued updating the Duplicable City Center Materials and Costs details by adding the pipe cost analysis for the Sprinkler and Emergency Systems Design. You can see some of this work here. 

Continued Updating the Duplicable City Center Materials and Costs Details – Click to Visit

And James Herrigel (Student Researcher) also completed his 3rd week researching the best, safest, and most sustainable paints, carpet, and other building materials by researching the W.E.L.L. Standards system. He identified which components are applicable to our project, identified resources, and completed about 75% of his full review and report. You can see some of this work here.

Continued Researching the Safest and Most Sustainable Paints, Carpet, and Other Building Materials

CONSERVATION COOPERATIVES: HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

One Community is open sourcing conservation 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

This week, the core team continued adding more content to the open source Apiary page. We rebuilt the menus, added in two new resource and book sections, and finished the section on checking local codes. You can see some of this work here.

Continued Adding More Content to the Open Source Apiary Page – Click to Visit

CONSERVATION COOPERATIVES: HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

One Community is building the foundations for how humanity creates a sustainable world 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:

• 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

Highest Good Education: All Subjects | All Learning Levels | Any age

CONSERVATION COOPERATIVES: HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS

One Community is open sourcing conservation 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 the core team continued the process of fixing our database structure and testing our corrections. What you see here are some screenshots of the fixes still needing to be addressed on our staging site. 

Continued Process of Fixing Our Database Structure and Testing Our Corrections

Emilio Nájera (Digital Marketer) also continued with his 10th week as part of the marketing team. This week he researched keywords for four more of our top-level food-related pages: Goats, Rabbits, Chickens, and finishing the research for the Apiary Bee Yard.

Researched Keywords for Four More of our Top-level Food-related Pages – Click to Visit Site Map Page

In addition to this, the Highest Good Network software team consisting of Shubhra Mittal (Software Delivery Manager), Jordan Miller (Web Developer), and Tyler Calvert (Full-stack Software Engineer) continued developing the software. This week the team completed the ability to assign teams and projects to users, added the ability for users to manage their social links, added the ability for admins to manage user’s admin links, fixed the issue of multiple submit calls being issued to the server, wrote unit test cases for the leaderboard and header components, and refactored the complete form component. You can see some of this work here.

Continued Developing the Highest Good Network Software – Click for Page

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WHAT ONE COMMUNITY IS CREATING

One Community is creating a place to grow together and change the world together, incorporating conservation cooperatives. 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, integrating conservation cooperatives. A place based on compassion, kindness, and collaboration. This replicable community will serve as an example of what is possible.

Throughout our design process, we are open sourcing and free-sharing everything needed for construction and replication, including conservation cooperatives. 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.

CONSERVATION COOPERATIVE: BUILDING THE FIRST OF MANY

One Community will be the first teacher/demonstration hub, integrating conservation cooperatives. 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 integration of conservation cooperatives. 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, and resources, and work together as a network to heal the planet. They will also transform the global lifestyle into 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 in our Research and Resources Articles Archive, including information on conservation cooperatives.

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, including the integration of conservation cooperatives. 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.

INSPIRING SUSTAINABILITY WITH OPEN SOURCE

One Community’s four-phase strategy for the creation of solution models that create solution creating models uses open source blueprints for duplication that simultaneously address all aspects of the human experience (food, energy, housing, education, social inequality and injustice, fulfilled living, etc.), integrating conservation cooperatives. We see these areas as interdependent and requiring a comprehensive solution if humanity is to move ecologically, socially, economically, and permanently towards a truly sustainable future for everyone.

Our open source model and blueprints engage and inspire people while simultaneously making sustainable living more affordable and easy to replicate, incorporating conservation cooperatives. By free-sharing the step-by-step plans people need for duplication, inviting people to participate, and demonstrating sustainable teacher/demonstration hubs as a more desirable way of living, the model will predictably expand on its own.

It is this approach we see uniting the world and leading to a new Golden Age for humanity. While we understand that not everyone believes this is even possible, we are nonetheless bringing together all those that do see this as possible as the non-profit think tank of forward-thinking individuals willing to design, build, and open source project-launch blueprint and free-share it for The Highest Good of All, incorporating conservation cooperatives.

COMPREHENSIVE SOLUTION TO HUMANITY’S NEEDS

One Community is open source sharing an evolution of sustainable living that addresses the complete human experience, incorporating conservation cooperatives. 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, integrating conservation cooperatives. 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.

GLOBALLY IMPLEMENTABLE REPLICATION MODEL

The more people that are inspired and desiring for themselves what it is that One Community creates, the more demand there will be for spreading the One Community model, incorporating conservation cooperatives. This leads to the directing of financial resources and resourceful people where we believe they are needed most: the establishment of additional sustainable communities around the world. We also feel this duplication will specifically happen quickly internationally due to the affordability of overseas land, less restrictive building environments, and the spirit of adventure in many people who really desire to make a difference for those who need it most.

To meet the increasing demand for sustainability that we are contributing to, we are coordinating with manufacturers, education institutions, individuals, and vendors, integrating conservation cooperatives. This is also part of this model to help the world. Its purpose is to facilitate more engagement in the sustainability industry, produce the absolute best possible consumer value, and the most convenient delivery of goods and methodologies for building sustainable living communities and sustainable living components.

This means we not only provide education and increase needed sustainability resources, but we also address the underlying roadblocks to a sustainable planet by decreasing the cost and simultaneously increasing the demand and generating financial support for global sustainability, philanthropy, and humanitarian movements and organizations, incorporating conservation cooperatives.

As demand increases, so too will the ways to participate. Right now people are participating as consultants or partners donating time to our 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization, and others are more involved as Pioneers of the core team that will be moving to the property, engaging in conservation cooperatives We also have options for people to just follow our progress or participate through internet contribution.

Once the supportive physical infrastructure is about 30% developed, One Community will be ready to additionally expand what we offer to include scholarships, free weekend learning groups, core team members choosing to travel abroad to help others get established too, handling the marketing for all similar models operating for The Highest Good of All, and hosting classes and other sponsored events to promote and demonstrate additional methodologies, incorporating conservation cooperatives.

We also imagine the high likelihood that our organization will become a foundation that can be trusted as the donation point for the distribution of monies to help others establish this model.