Creating a More Sustainable Lifestyle – One Community Weekly Progress Update #129

Creating a more sustainable lifestyle is something most people feel would be beneficial both individually and for the planet. Interestingly enough, most people think of a “sustainable lifestyle” as primarily sustainable food, energy, and housing. We feel adding fulfilled living, Education, sustainable economics and earth stewardship is helpful also, and we’re open sourcing solutions for all 6 of these areas to make implementation easier. Globally collaborating and open sourcing these areas is what we call living and creating for The Highest Good of All:

• • Here’s our project overview
  • Here’s our world-change methodology
  • We are open source and free-sharing do-it-yourself designs for these areas first: (click icons for details)
    

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One Community’s physical location will forward the movement of creating a more sustainable lifestyle as the first of many self-replicating teacher/demonstration communities, villages, and cities to be built around the world. This is the September 13th, 2015 edition (#129) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments:

Creating a More Sustainable Lifestyle
One Community Progress Update #129

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

CREATING A MORE SUSTAINABLE LIFESTYLE INTRO @1:03

CREATING A MORE SUSTAINABLE LIFESTYLE HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION @1:53

• Transferred the next 25% of written content for the Social Relationships Lesson Plan to the website (see below)
• Wrote final 25% of the Social Relationships Lesson Plan behind the scenes
• Completed and added first 50% of the mindmap for the Social Relationships Lesson Plan to the webpage (see below)
• Featured the Quantity and Quality lesson plan across our social media channels, using an image we created (see below)

CREATING A MORE SUSTAINABLE LIFESTYLE HIGHEST GOOD FOOD: @3:09

• Featured open source cassabanana hub across our social media channels using a new social media image we created (see below)
• Researched and added 1 new Brussel Sprouts recipe to the open source cole crops hub and added preparation information to the open source mauka hub (see below)
• Added three new delicious recipes from Sandra Sellani to the Food Self-sufficiency TransitionPlan (see below)

CREATING A MORE SUSTAINABLE LIFESTYLE HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING: @4:20

• Continued revision 2 of the Footers, Foundations and Flooring page for the upcoming crowdfunding campaign (see below)
• Updated the Tropical Atrium Planting and Harvesting Hub with the 3-D interactive from Gilberto and made additional edits (see below)
• Behind the scenes: finished new updates to the paths and plants of the Tropical Atrium in 3D
• Finished an Earthbag Village render update with the updated central ring layout and the new toilet and shower dome roof designs (see below)
• Finished the redesign of the central layout for the Straw Bale Village (Pod 2) central seating (see below)
• Created an initial design for what will be the Straw Bale Village chimney (see below)

CREATING A MORE SUSTAINABLE LIFESTYLE DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER: @5:56

• Continued updating the Sketchup 3-D for the Duplicable City Center (see below)
• Continued working with Mike Hogan to develop version 2.0 of the Control Systems and Automation survey from last week (see below)
• Behind the scenes: Mike Hogan completed the first 50% of a complete rewrite and update of the Control Systems page (see below)
• Gabriel Madeira combined his own work with the work of Flávia Galimberte Bozeda to create a furniture and interior design process book (see below)

CREATING A MORE SUSTAINABLE LIFESTYLE HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY: @7:18

• Finished the final updating of all the past weekly progress blogs to match the rest of the website that’s been updated to be mobile friendly (see below)
• Oz Czerski also helped us further update our website Terms and Conditions, Consultant and Volunteer Agreements, and NDA (see below)
• Vassili Biserov also helped us translate our Fulfilled Living page into both Italian and Russian (see below)

CREATING A MORE SUSTAINABLE LIFESTYLE SUMMARY @8:16

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CREATING A MORE SUSTAINABLE LIFESTYLE HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

One Community is creating a more sustainable lifestyle for people 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 next 25% of the written content for the Social Relationships Lesson Plan to the website bringing that to 75% complete, as you see here:

We also wrote the final 25% of the Social Relationships Lesson Plan behind the scenes, bringing the written portions to 100% complete.

And we completed and added the first 50% of the mindmap for the Social Relationships Lesson Plan to the webpage. You can see that mindmap here:

Finally, we featured the Quantity and Quality lesson plan across our social media channels, using this image that we created:

CREATING A MORE SUSTAINABLE LIFESTYLE HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

One Community is creating a more sustainable lifestyle for people 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 cassabanana hub:

We also researched and added 1 new Brussel Sprouts recipe to the open source cole crops hub:

And we added preparation information to the open source mauka hub. More recipes from our Food Self-sufficiency Transition Plan will be added to each of these individual hubs in the future.

Last but not least, we added three new delicious recipes from Sandra Sellani (Vegan Chef and author of What’s Your BQ?) to the Food Self-sufficiency Transition Plan ” These recipes are: Banana Strawberry Breakfast Pie, Beans and Greens Pasta Salad with White Balsamic Vinaigrette, and Sweet Potato Gorditas with Fresh Salsa.

CREATING A MORE SUSTAINABLE LIFESTYLE HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

One Community is creating a more sustainable lifestyle for people 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 revision 2 of the Footers, Foundations and Flooring page for the upcoming crowdfunding campaign.

This week’s work included finishing the narrative for the “compass” used to create the ideal dome curvature, adding additional compass parts to the tutorial, updating the AutoCAD image, and rewriting the narrative to include dimension specifics.

We’d say we’re now about 20% complete with this final revision behind the scenes.

We also updated the Tropical Atrium Planting and Harvesting Hub with the 3-D interactive from Gilberto of the Graphic Design Intern Team and additional edits:

Behind the scenes we finished new updates to the paths and plants of the Tropical Atrium  in 3D.

And we finished this Earthbag Village render update with the updated central ring layout and the new toilet and shower dome roof designs:

We also finished the redesign you see here of the central layout for the Straw Bale Village (Pod 2) central seating. This layout meets American Disability Act requirements, adds a family seating area, and also a view of the central fireplace and stage from the kid’s playroom:

In addition to this, we created this initial design for what will be the Straw Bale Village chimney that can be separated to make room for use of the central area as a stage when not in use as what we’re designing to be a bio-gas-fueled fire pit.

CREATING A MORE SUSTAINABLE LIFESTYLE DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

One Community is creating a more sustainable lifestyle for people 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 updating the Sketchup 3-D for the Duplicable City Center. This week we finished updating the walking paths and Living Dome floor, plus the Living Dome bathroom appliances and floors on level 1 and 2. We are counting this as another 3% of progress to bring us to 48% complete with the total 3-D update.

We also continued working with Mike Hogan (Automation Systems Developer and Business Systems Consultant) to develop version 2.0 of the Control Systems and Automation survey from last week. What you see below is an example of the initial data and feedback we’ve gathered with this survey that we’ll be presenting to the public in the next couple weeks.

In addition to this and behind the scenes, Mike Hogan completed the first 50% of a complete rewrite and update of the Control Systems page. Here is this work in progress:

Last but not least, Gabriel Madeira (Industrial Design Student with a Technical in Graphic Design) combined his own work with the work of Flávia Galimberte Bozeda (Architecture and Interior Design Student) to create a furniture and interior design process book. What you see below are some of the pages from that book covering furniture, interior design, and other specifics for inside the City Center.

CREATING A MORE SUSTAINABLE LIFESTYLE HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS

One Community is creating a more sustainable lifestyle for people 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 finished the final updating of all the past weekly progress blogs to match the rest of the website that’s been updated to be mobile friendly. This last block of about 10 hours of image, video and text reformatting finally brings us to 100% complete with the entire website update.

Oz Czerski (Lawyer Specializing in Trademark and Copyright Law) also helped us further update our website Terms and Conditions, Consultant and Volunteer Agreements, and NDA. All of these updated documents can be read and downloaded from the Legal Documents and Processes Page.

Vassili Biserov (Writer, Poet and Translator) also helped us translate our Fulfilled Living page into both Italian and Russian:

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WHAT ONE COMMUNITY IS CREATING

One Community is creating a place to grow together and change the world together. 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 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. 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.