Creating a Golden Age for Humanity – Weekly Progress Update #141

Creating a truly sustainable planet would be equivalent to creating a golden age for humanity. Imagine a world where sustainable food, energy, and housing are combined with sustainable and more enriching fulfilled living, education, and economics models to meet the needs of all people, everywhere. Our goal is to contribute to the vision of Creating a Golden Age for Humanity. We call working towards this living and creating for The Highest Good of All:

• 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 thereby support creating a golden age for Humanity. This is the December 6th, 2015 edition (#141) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments:

Creating a Golden Age for Humanity
One Community Progress Update #141

Here is the weekly progress update dedicated to the mission of creating a golden age for humanity and a bullet-point list of this last week’s design and progress discussed in detail in the video above:

CREATING A GOLDEN AGE FOR HUMANITY INTRO: @1:03

HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION: @1:53

• Transferred the first 50% of the written content for the Sustainability Lesson Plan to the website (see below)
• Completed an additional third of the mindmap for the Fall Lesson Plan and added to the webpage (see below)
• Behind the scenes: wrote the final 1/3 of the Sustainability Lesson Plan

HIGHEST GOOD FOOD: @3:10

• Completed another 10% on the organization of the streamlined version of our Food Self-sufficiency Transition Plan page, which includes contributions provided by Naturopathic Doctor Matt Marturano (see below)
• Added three additional recipes from Sandra Sellani to the Food Self-sufficiency Transition Plan (see below)

HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING: @4:23

• Behind the scenes: Put another 10 hours into the revision for the Footers, Foundations and Flooring page for the upcoming crowdfunding campaign (see below)
• Shilcy Augustine continued developing the Compressed Earth Block Village (Pod 4) classroom and other shared community spaces (see below)
• Dean Scholz further developed what’s necessary for us to create quality Cob Village (Pod 3) renders (see below)

DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER: @5:43

• Added 3-D natural pool and spa details as our continued development of the Duplicable City Center 3-D specifics (see below)
• Iris Hsu continued finalizing the Pipe Furniture design renders for the Duplicable City Center library (see below)
• Behind the scenes: Mike Hogan and Lucas Tsutsui da Silva continued work on the the Control Systems design (see below)

HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY: @6:51

• Began working with Ivan Manzurov to create new icons for all of our pages. Ivan also created these logo alternatives for us (see below)
• Lisa Ramos produced alternative font options for our logo that will soon be updated with a new tree and earth (see below)

CREATING A GOLDEN AGE FOR HUMANITY SUMMARY: @9:

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HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

One Community is creating a Golden Age for humanity 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 first 50% of the written content for the Sustainability Lesson Plan to the website, as you see here. This lesson plan is purposed to teach all subjects, to all learning levels, in any learning environment, using the central theme of “Sustainability that helps for creating a golden age for humanity

We also completed an additional third of the mindmap for the Fall Lesson Plan and added it to the webpage. That brings this mindmap to 60% complete, which you can see here that is helpful for creating a golden age for humanity

Behind the scenes, we wrote the final 1/3 of the Sustainability Lesson Plan, bringing the behind-the-scenes written part for that to 100% complete.

HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

One Community is creating a golden age for humanity 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 completed another 10% on the organization of the streamlined version of our Food Self-sufficiency Transition Plan page, which includes contributions provided by Naturopathic Doctor Matt Marturano (creator of the COHERENT model for comprehensive digestive health). The addition of new recipes to our Food Self-sufficiency Transition Plan supports our vision of creating a Golden Age for humanity. This week we worked on organizing recipes on breakout pages for specific weeks. The food transition page organization is now 60% complete behind the scenes.

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: Apple Oat Bread with Cinnamon Glaze, Jackfruit Chili, and Spaghetti Squash with Garlic, Tomato & Basil.

HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

One Community is creating a Golden Age for humanity 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 put another 10 hours into the behind-the-scenes revision for the Footers, Foundations and Flooring page for the upcoming crowdfunding campaign. This week’s focus was another thorough and significant revision of the compass installation and use details. Our revisions to the Footers, Foundations, and Flooring page showcases our commitment to creating a Golden Age for humanity You can see some of this work here and we’d say this brings us to 55% complete with this total rewrite and update.

Shilcy Augustine (Architect) also continued developing the Compressed Earth Block Village (Pod 4) classroom and other shared community spaces, which you can see here:

And Dean Scholz, Architectural Designer, further developed what’s necessary for us to create quality Cob Village (Pod 3) renders. Here is update 2.0 of this work that focused mostly on finding and creating missing textures:

DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

One Community is creating a Golden Age for humanity 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 added 3-D natural pool and spa details as our continued development of the Duplicable City Center 3-D specifics. This included the furniture, aesthetic stone details, and people you see here. We also added additional flooring planning and specifics. With these additions we’d say we are now 80% done with the complete 3-D update and moreover the addition of 3-D natural pool and spa details to the Duplicable City Center supports for creating a Golden Age for humanity.

Iris Hsu (Industrial Designer), continued finalizing the Pipe Furniture design renders for the Duplicable City Center library. The new renders you see here show how the chairs convert to tables, how the designs can be used for storage, labels for the different kinds of wood, and a host of other design-clarification specifics. This reflects the commitment to creating a Golden Age for humanity focusing on duplicate city centers.

Behind the scenes Mike Hogan (Automation Systems Developer and Business Systems Consultant) and Lucas Tsutsui da Silva (4th-year Computer Engineering Student), continued work on the the Control Systems design. Here’s the most recent layout for this:

And here is one of Mike’s clarification drawings that reflects our commitment to creating a Golden Age for humanity

And here are a bunch of pictures of us discussing different chips and components, the way the circuits are created, and exploring how to continue to minimize the space everything requires on the board:

HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS

One Community is creating a Golden Age for humanity 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

One Community’s approach to building a Highest Good society is integral to creating a Golden Age for humanity. This last week the core team began working with Ivan Manzurov (Artist and Illustrator) to create new icons for all of our pages:

Ivan also created these logo alternatives for us:

In addition to this, Lisa Ramos (Graphic Designer) produced these alternative font options for our logo that reflects our commitment to creating a Golden Age for humanity and will soon be updated with the new tree and earth you see here in these examples:

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WHAT ONE COMMUNITY IS CREATING

One Community is creating a place to grow together, change the world together and creating a golden age for humanity . 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 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.

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.). 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. 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.

ONE COMMUNITY’S 4-PHASE STRATEGY

One Community is building solution-creating models designed to create additional solution-creating models to specifically facilitate exponential and sustainable global teacher/demonstration village growth. The following four phases of the strategy we are applying are designed to support each other and accelerate the process globally:

Phase I: Demonstrating a Better Way

We are designing One Community to demonstrate an experience of living that we believe most people will consider to be better because it will be more enjoyable and fulfilling. We also think most people will consider it better because it is made possible specifically through a foundation of sustainable sustainability and a philosophy that is for The Highest Good of All.

Phase II: Open Source Project-Launch Blueprinting

Everything we do we are open source project-launch blueprinting and free-sharing to make it as easy and affordable as possible to duplicate, adapt, and evolve in the manner that suits each individual and/or group’s needs. Free-sharing information like this is our aggressive-exposure engine and an aspect of One Community that will accelerate indefinitely as we continue to build our team, move onto the property, and continuously build and evolve everything that is One Community.

Phase III: Inviting the World to Participate

Everything we are open source project-launch blueprinting is designed to invite the world to participate by duplicating it as either individual components or complete teacher/demonstration communities, villages, and cities that will be able to be built almost anywhere in the world. Additionally, people can join One Community as members, consultants and/or partners, or use the suggestions links on our open source project-launch blueprinting hubs to help with the design, implementation, and evolution process. Scholarships, weekend learning and work crews, and tourism will be foundations of One Community once we have sufficient infrastructure in place to support these options.

Phase IV: Universal Appeal and Global Expansion

As One Community continues evolving and establishing ourselves, everything we create and promote will serve as the engine to inspire people to align with the concept of open source and sustainable living for The Highest Good of All. We are doing this to create mainstream appeal and our path to achieving this appeal is demonstrating a happier, more affordable, and ecologically friendly model of living that can be built anywhere in the world.

Open source project-launch blueprinting it all is how we believe the model will spread and, possibly most importantly, that it will predictably spread even faster in the areas where it is needed most because building restrictions, the cost of land, and materials costs are in most cases lower in these areas.

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 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. 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. 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.