Cooperating With Nature – One Community Weekly Progress Update #267

We should be cooperating with nature rather than destroying it. We can do this using permaculture, sustainable building methods, and sustainable energy infrastructure. One Community is open sourcing cooperative and sustainable tutorials and DIY instructions for these areas as well as for-profit and non-profit economic design, social architecture, fulfilled living, global stewardship practices.

• 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 May 6, 2018 edition (#267) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments:

Cooperating With Nature
One Community Progress Update #267

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

COOPERATING WITH NATURE INTRO: @0:34

HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING: @5:27

DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER: @6:59

• Dipti Dhondarkar and the core team continued developing the lighting specifics for the City Center
• Haoxuan “Hayes” Lei continued work on the City Center structural engineering (see below)
• Yun Lin completed his 5th week helping with the beam design and calculation spreadsheet creation for the City Center structural engineering (see below)
• David Olivero completed his 19th week helping with the HVAC Designs for the Duplicable City Center (see below)
• Anvita Kumari Pandey completed her 4th week helping with the Duplicable City Enter Materials and Costs (see below)
• Dehua Feng joined the team and completed his 1st week working on the fire suppression and safety systems design for the City Center (see below)

HIGHEST GOOD FOOD: @9:10

HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION: @9:53

• Finished the editing and content creation for the Assessment Forms page (see below)

HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY: @10:25

• Sowmya Manohar, Shubhra Mittal, and Swathy Jayaseelan continued work on the Highest Good Network software (see below)

COOPERATING WITH NATURE SUMMARY: @11:26

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HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

One Community is cooperating with nature 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 working on the Murphy bed storage area in 3D. What you see shown here are the most recent test redesigns for this area.

Cooperating With Nature – Continued Work – Murphy Bed Storage Area in 3D – Click for Page

The core team working with Michael Hagler (Senior Graphic Designer and Artist), also completed another round of editing and testing different layout options shown here for the Compressed Earth Block Village parts of the 7-villages book we’re developing. We’d say we’re now 95% complete with this layout’s updates and edits.

Cooperating With Nature – Compressed Earth Block Village Parts of 7-Villages Book – Click for Page

Shadi Kennedy (Artist and Graphic Designer) completed his 6th week leading the development of the Murphy bed instructions. This week Shadi added a new parts page, one more assembly page, and further evolved the standardization and formatting of all the pages. You can see these here as version 3.3 of these designs.

Cooperating With Nature – Continued Working on the Murphy Bed Instructions – Click to Visit Page

Dean Scholz (Architectural Designer) continued with the Cob Village (Pod 3) render updates. Here is update 112 of Dean’s work. This week Dean continued with his 2nd week working on the textures and lighting for this new “Dining Hall View from the 2nd Floor.”

Cooperating With Nature – Continued with Cob Village AutoCAD Layout Updates – Click for Page

Dan Alleck (Designer and Illustrator) completed his 20th week working on the Compressed Earth Block Village render additions. This week he finished adding people and other details to this render of one of the offices in this village.  This render is now updated on the website also.

Cooperating With Nature – Finished Render of an Earth Block Village Office – Click for Page

DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

One Community is cooperating with nature 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 working with Dipti Dhondarkar (Electrical Engineer), continued developing the lighting specifics for the City Center. This is Dipti’s 73rd week volunteering on this task and the focus this week was testing lighting and creating (and adding to the website) this comparison of the different table lamp fixture types that meet our LEED sustainability criteria.

Cooperating With Nature – Continued Developing Lighting Specifics for the City Center – Click for Page

Haoxuan “Hayes” Lei (Structural Engineer) continued work on the City Center structural engineering by finishing his review and additions to the new beam calculation and testing spreadsheets we’ve created. You can see this updated and checked work here.

Cooperating With Nature – Continued Work on City Center Structural Engineering – Click to Visit Page

Yun Lin (Bridge Design Engineer) also completed his 5th week helping with the beam design and calculation spreadsheet creation for the City Center structural engineering. This week he started creating the sawn timber design spreadsheet shown here. He also back checked and provided replies to Hayes’ comments and additions.

Cooperating With Nature – Beam Design, Calculation Spreadsheet Creation for City Center – Click for Page

David Olivero (Mechanical Engineer & Data Scientist) completed his 19th week helping with the HVAC Designs for the Duplicable City Center. This week’s focus was electric boiler quantity and size research and considerations, positioning and sizing of minisplits, and adding column descriptions and additional data to the HVAC tab of the Zonal spreadsheet.

Cooperating With Nature – Continued Help – HVAC Designs for Duplicable City Center – Click for Page

Anvita Kumari Pandey (Civil Engineer) completed her 4th week helping with the Duplicable City Center Materials and Costs. This week’s focus was working on the interior, carpentry, and furniture summary sheets and amending various other material quantities as well. You can see some of this work here.

Cooperating With Nature – Continued Help Duplicable City Center Materials and Costs – Click for Page

Last but not least, Dehua Feng (Civil Engineer) joined the team and completed his 1st week working on the fire suppression and safety systems design for the City Center. This week he reviewed all previous work done on these designs, updated calculations where needed, added two more fire zones, and integrated those two new zones and their information into the calculation processes. You can see some of this work here.

Cooperating With Nature – Began Work on Fire Suppression, Safety Systems Design – Click for Page

HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

One Community is cooperating with nature 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 working on the Garden Tools list by researching and adding the Kubota attachments you can see here.

Cooperating With Nature – Continued Working on the Garden Tools List – Click for Page

The core team also continued writing the behind-the-scenes narrative and detailed food rollout plan for the second landing party group of 20 people. The focus this past week was further researching and developing the initial composting and elevation and climate-appropriate food growing strategies you see here.

Cooperating With Nature – Food Rollout Plan – Second Landing Party Group of 20 – Click for Page

HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

One Community is cooperating with nature 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 week, the core team finished the editing, image, and content creation for the Assessment Forms page. You can see some of this last week’s work here and the page is now about 100% complete except for creation of the assessment form templates.

Cooperating With Nature – Editing, Image, and Content Creation of Assessment Forms – Click to Visit

HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS

One Community is cooperating with nature 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 Highest Good Network software team consisting of Sowmya Manohar (Software Engineer, Web Developer & Net Application Developer), Shubhra Mittal (Software Delivery Manager), and Swathy Jayaseelan (Software Developer) continued their work on the software. This week they fixed issues with refreshing, inactive users, date stamps, and how the software defines the work week when running reports. They also added a navigation bar to the timelog for easy viewing of work weeks, auto-close function for time entry, auto-update when adding time entries, new notification styling, a custom time range function so that reports can be generated for any given period of time, and new 4 weeks and 6 weeks time range functions for reports.

Cooperating With Nature – Continued Work – 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, change the world together and cooperating with nature. 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 for 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 growth on creating a golden Age for Humanity.

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, cooperating with nature 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.  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.

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 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. 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 by cooperating with nature and 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 and sharing even more still and cooperating with nature. 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

SUMMARY

One Community sees the issues of the world as interdependent and interconnected. For cooperating with nature and 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.