Creating a More Enriching Lifestyle – One Community Weekly Progress Update #78

One Community is creating a more enriching lifestyle model by combining physical and emotional sustainability. We are doing this to create positive and permanent global transformation and our guiding philosophy is to live, design, and share 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. This is the August 29th, 2014 edition (#78) of our weekly progress update detailing the previous week’s development and accomplishments:

Creating a More Enriching Lifestyle
One Community Weekly Progress Update #78

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

CREATING A MORE ENRICHING LIFESTYLE INTRO @1:00

CREATING A MORE ENRICHING LIFESTYLE – HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION @1:41

• Satyanna Luken helped us redesign the Ultimate Classroom page (see below)
• Finished the first 10% of Harmony Lesson Plan webpage
• Behind the scenes we finished 40% of the lesson plan with the central theme of “Creativity”

CREATING A MORE ENRICHING LIFESTYLE – HIGHEST GOOD FOOD: @2:54

• Added the diversity details of the Wax Gourd & Winter Melon sections to the large-scale gardening page (see below)
• Added the diversity details of the Cassabanana section of the large-scale gardening page (see below)

CREATING A MORE ENRICHING LIFESTYLE – HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING: @3:42

• Completed another 25% of the earthbag construction footers, foundation, and flooring tutorial page (see below)
• Completed another 20% of the total energy infrastructure rollout details (see below)
• Philip Gill helped us redesign the Murphy Bed end tables and we updated the main image (see below)

CREATING A MORE ENRICHING LIFESTYLE – DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER: @4:55

• This week the core team completed this additional 30 seconds of the Duplicable City Center 3-D video (see video above)
• Completed another 20% of the control systems research for this structure and the complete first village model. This brings us to 80% total completion of the necessary research into all the software and hardware options available for monitoring, management, and automation of everything from energy and water to internet usage.
• Karl Harris finished a complete redesign of the Duplicable City Center elevator specifics and added a boiler room in CAD (see below)

CREATING A MORE ENRICHING LIFESTYLE – HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY: @6:25

• Updated our progress page covering all the areas we’re seeking help (see below)
• Updated our Who We Are and Who We Are Looking For page (see below)

CREATING A MORE ENRICHING LIFESTYLE SUMMARY: @7:01

• How you can most help us right now and how anyone can help

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CREATING A MORE ENRICHING LIFESTYLE HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

One Community is creating a more enriching lifestyle for everyone 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 redesigned the Ultimate Classroom page with the help of two weeks of interviews with Satyanna Luken (Author, Montessori Teacher, and founder of Imagine Wisdom Education (I-WE)). This redesign took all of Satyana’s input and suggestions and combined them with our months of additional research into the classroom designs and methodologies of Montessori, Â Waldorf, Â Orff, Â Reggio, Multi-Intelligences, Bloom’s Taxonomy, and Study Tech. Here’s a snapshot of what this redesign looks like:

CREATING A MORE ENRICHING LIFESTYLE HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

One Community is creating a more enriching lifestyle for everyone 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 adding the diversity details to the Wax Gourd and Winter Melon sections of the large-scale gardening page where we featured the 4 your see here:

We also added Cassabanana to the page with the 2 you see featured here. Cultural considerations, purchasing details, and planting guidelines can also be found on the large-scale gardening page:

CREATING A MORE ENRICHING LIFESTYLE HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

One Community is creating a more enriching lifestyle for everyone 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 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 completed another 25% of the earthbag construction footers, foundation, and flooring tutorial page you see below. This brings us to about 40%  complete with this page and you can now start to really see the level of detail we’re providing. The world image you see repeating here is where we’ll be adding extensive tutorial videos as part of the crowdfunding campaign.

We also completed another 20% of the total energy infrastructure rollout details for off-grid community creation for 50-400+ people. What you see here are the new additions happening behind the scenes in our GoogleDocs before being put through a final thorough check and edit as we add it to the website:

Philip Gill (Interior and Furniture Designer and Owner of Philip Gill Design) also helped us redesign part of the Murphy Bed end tables. Our team then updated the main image you see here with all his additions. This design will also be part of the crowdfunding campaign:

CREATING A MORE ENRICHING LIFESTYLE DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

One Community is creating a more enriching lifestyle for everyone 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 last week Karl Harris (Architect Drafter, Designer, and founder of Harris Design & Technology Services) finished a complete redesign of the Duplicable City Center elevator specifics in CAD, requiring expansion of the space needs and an associated redesign of all 4 floors. He also added a necessary 10′ by 20′ boiler room. Here is the updated floor plan:

CREATING A MORE ENRICHING LIFESTYLE HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS

One Community is creating a more enriching lifestyle for everyone 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 updated our progress page covering all the areas we’re seeking help, and the specifics of our design process and areas of focus that you can see here:

We also updated our Who We Are and Who We Are Looking For page describing the specific skill sets our project and our team embody and seek to work with:

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WHAT ONE COMMUNITY IS CREATING

One Community is creating a place to grow together and change the world together, along with a goal to be creating a more enriching lifestyle. 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, serving as an example for what is possible in terms of creating a more enriching lifestyle. 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 grow, furthering the cause of creating a more enriching lifestyle.

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: creating a more enriching lifestyle, 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, thus creating a more enriching lifestyle. 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, further reinforcing the importance of creating a more enriching lifestyle.

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, thus fostering a sense of community and commitment to creating a more enriching lifestyle.

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, ultimately contributing to creating a more enriching lifestyle.

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, thereby creating a more enriching lifestyle. 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, further creating a more enriching lifestyle. 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, ultimately contributing to creating a more enriching lifestyle. 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, thereby contributing to creating a more enriching lifestyle.

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, ultimately leading to creating a more enriching lifestyle. 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.