Creating a New Earth Paradigm – One Community Weekly Progress Update #174

Creating a new earth paradigm can be accomplished if enough people participate. We can redefine “traditional living” as sustainable living and make current and unsustainable building and living methods history. One way to accelerate the process is gathering like-minded groups together to create and demonstrate open source and sustainable approaches to food, energy, and housing combined with equally conscientious approaches to education, for-profit and non-profit economic design, social architecture, fulfilled living, and global stewardship practices. Combining all this is what One Community calls 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. This is the July 24th, 2016 edition (#174) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments:

Creating a New Earth Paradigm
One Community Progress Update #174

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

CREATING A NEW EARTH PARADIGM INTRO: @1:03

CREATING A NEW EARTH PARADIGM HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION: @1:59

• Transferred first 25% of the written content for Honesty and Integrity Lesson Plan to the website (see below)
• Behind the scenes: wrote the third 25% of the written part of the Honesty & Integrity Lesson Plan
• Completed the first 25% of the mindmap for the Information Lesson Plan (see below)

CREATING A NEW EARTH PARADIGM HIGHEST GOOD FOOD: @2:56

• Doctor Matt Marturano recalculated and made a significant number of changes to the nutrition calculations he created, as part of the development of our Food Self-sufficiency Transition Plan (see below)

CREATING A NEW EARTH PARADIGM HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING: @3:31

• Put another 10 hours into the behind-the-scenes revision for the Footers, Foundations and Flooring page for the crowdfunding campaign we are developing (see below)
• Reformatted and updated the complete Highest Good Housing open source hub and the first 4 village pages (see below)
• Sal Rubio continued working on creating professional do-it-yourself Earthbag Village Murphy Bed furniture assembly instructions (see below)
• Brianna Johnson continued evolving the renders for the Straw Bale Village (see below)
• Dean Scholz further developed what’s necessary for us to create quality Cob Village (Pod 3) renders (see below)
• Guy Grossfeld continued with his 6th week of photoshop work on the renders for the Shipping Container Village (see below)
• Bupesh Seethala created the 2nd version of multiple renders for the Recycled Materials Village (see below)

CREATING A NEW EARTH PARADIGM DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER: @6:32

• Continued developing the Duplicable City Center in 3D and worked on the natural pool and spa area (see below)
• Iris Hsu continued exploring recycled pipe shelving and overhead lighting options for Duplicable City Center library (see below)
• Neha Verma produced the root cellar driveway details and beginnings of a Project Brief that will form the City Center Plans Page when complete (see below)
• Dipti Dhondarkar continued her work on the lighting zones, lumens, and number of lamps needed spreadsheet (see below)
• Haoxuan “Hayes” Lei worked on the live load calculations for the City Center dining dome beams (see below)

CREATING A NEW EARTH PARADIGM HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY: @8:14

• Recolored 2 complete sets of 28 Highest Good housing Icons (see below)
• Updated the Straw Bale Village color board and icon to align with the new icons and existing renders (see below)
• Jennifer Zhou continued her work developing the new website structure we desire for easier and more graphic access to all the One Community open source content (see below)

CREATING A NEW EARTH PARADIGM SUMMARY: @8:52

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CREATING A NEW EARTH PARADIGM HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

One Community is creating a new earth paradigm 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 25% of the written content for the Honesty and Integrity Lesson Plan to the website, as you see here. This lesson plan purposed to teach all subjects, to all learning levels, in any learning environment, using the central theme of “Honesty & Integrity” is now 25% completed on our website. These are geared towards creating a new earth paradigm with sustainability.

Creating a New Earth Paradigm – Honesty and Integrity Lesson Plan ” 25% Complete

Behind the scenes, we wrote the third 25% of the written part of the Honesty & Integrity Lesson Plan.

We also completed the first 25% of the mindmap for the Information Lesson Plan:

Creating a New Earth Paradigm – Information Mindmap ” 25% Complete

CREATING A NEW EARTH PARADIGM HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

One Community is creating a new earth paradigm 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

CREATING A NEW EARTH PARADIGM HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

One Community is creating a new earth paradigm 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 crowdfunding campaign we are developing. This week’s focus was on finishing and stabilizing the end of the stucco with a waterproof barrier and providing a method of securing a flashing backsplash below the end of the stucco to help prevent moisture damage to the structure. We then entered the new information into the narrative in a step-by-step description. We’d say we are now 91% complete with this total update and rewrite behind the scenes.

Creating a New Earth Paradigm – BTS Revision of the Footers, Foundations and Flooring Info

The core team also reformatted and updated the complete Highest Good Housing open source hub and the first 4 village pages. This reformatting included adding new residence and social space details, additional imagery from the design process of each village, an index to the top of each page, What and Why sections to each page, as well as new resources and resource sections.

Creating a New Earth Paradigm – Reformatted and Updated the 1st Four H.G.H Village Pages

Sal Rubio (Industrial Designer) also continued working on creating professional do-it-yourself Earthbag Village Murphy Bed furniture assembly instructions. What you see here is week 9 of this process, with this week’s focus being further development of single-page cutting instructions.

Creating a New Earth Paradigm – Working on Creating DIY Furniture Assembly Instructions

Brianna Johnson (Interior Designer), also continued evolving the renders for the Straw Bale Village (Pod 2). What you see here are two new layouts for the studio living spaces, re-designed to better reflect the sustainability and recreational values of the people who will be living here.

Creating a New Earth Paradigm – Evolving Straw Bale Village Renders

And Dean Scholz, Architectural Designer, further developed what’s necessary for us to create quality Cob Village (Pod 3) renders. Here is update 28 of his work that focused on an additional and new shade structure for the roof and beginning the rooftop grill designs.

Further Developed What’s Necessary to Create Quality Cob Village Renders ” Click to Visit Page

Guy Grossfeld (Graphic Designer) also continued with his 6th week of photoshop work on the renders for the Shipping Container Village (Pod 5). Here you see the final renders of the front perspective…

Shipping Container Final Render of Front Perspective ” Click to Visit Page

…1st floor circulation area:

Shipping Container Final Render of 1st Floor Circulation Area – Click to Visit Page

…computer room:

Shipping Container Final Render of Computer Room ” Click to Visit Page

…library:

Shipping Container Final Render of Library ” Click to Visit Page

….rental room looking in:

Shipping Container Final Render of Rental Room Looking In ” Click to Visit Page

….outdoor meeting and relaxation area:

Shipping Container Final Render of Outdoor Meeting and Relaxation Area ” Click to Visit Page

….northside recreation and dining area:

Northside Recreation and Dining Area ” Click to Visit Page

….and a northside circulation space:

Shipping Container Village Render of a Northside Circulation Space ” Click to Visit Page

In addition to this, Bupesh Seethala (Interior Designer) created the 2nd version of multiple renders for the Recycled Materials Village (Pod 6) including additions to 2 perspectives for the game room, 1 for the gym, 3 for the music room, and 1 for the yoga room:

Creating a New Earth Paradigm – Created the 2nd Version of Renders for Recycled Materials Village

Bupesh also finalized these images looking in and out for the art room…

Recycled Materials Village Final Render Looking In the Art Room – Click to Visit Page

Recycled Materials Village Final Render of Art Room Looking Out – Click to Visit Page

…this one looking out for the gym:

Recycled Materials Village Final Render of the Gym Looking Out – Click to Visit Page

…these two looking in and out for the library and computer room:

Recycled Materials Village Final Render of Library and Computer Room Looking In – Click to Visit Page

Recycled Materials Village Final Render of Library and Computer Room Looking Out – Click to Visit

…and this one for the recreation and social space:

Recycled Materials Village Final Render of Recreation and Social Space – Click to Visit Page

CREATING A NEW EARTH PARADIGM DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

One Community is creating a new earth paradigm 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 in 3D. What you see here are changes made to the dry storage in the dining dome that include the redesigning of the glass sliding doors and walls.

Made Changes to Dry Storage in the Dining Dome – Click to Visit Duplicable City Center

We also set the height of the basement to 8 feet, adjusted the driveway to the cellar to 20%, and we placed the storage shelves and containers in the cellar area.

Creating a New Earth Paradigm – Developing the Duplicable City Center in 3D ” Click to Visit Page

Additionally, we worked on the natural pool and spa area, where we changed the rinsing station privacy screen from a trellis to in-ground bamboo.

Changed the Rinsing Station Privacy Screen from a Trellis to In-Ground Bamboo ” Click to Visit

Iris Hsu (Industrial Designer), also continued exploring recycled pipe shelving and overhead lighting options for the Duplicable City Center library. What you see here is round #12 of this work now focusing on researching and trying different art options for the center of the pipe furniture wall.

Creating a New Earth Paradigm, Exploring Recycled Pipe Shelving and Overhead Lighting Options

Neha Verma (Construction Project Manager and Bachelor’s of Architecture) also produced the root cellar driveway details and beginnings of a Project Brief you see here. The Project Brief will form the City Center Plans Page when complete.

Produced Root Cellar Driveway Details and Beginnings of a Project Brief – Click to Visit

And Dipti Dhondarkar (Electrical Engineer) continued her work on the lighting zones, lumens, and number of lamps needed spreadsheet you see here. This week’s focus was on further defining the zones and adding details related to minimum lumens and percentage-reductions possible for each zone.

Creating a New Earth Paradigm – Work on Lighting Zones, Lumens, and Lamps Needed Spreadsheet

Haoxuan “Hayes” Lei (Structural Engineering Student) also worked on the live load calculations for the City Center dining dome beams.

Creating a new earth paradigm, Worked on Live Load Calculations for City Center Dining Dome Beams

CREATING A NEW EARTH PARADIGM HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS

One Community is creating a new earth paradigm 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 recolored 2 complete sets of 28 Highest Good housing Icons. These were to match the color palettes we’re developing to color coordinate the village interior and exterior color plans with the website and all promotional materials.

Creating a New Earth Paradigm – Recolored 2 Complete Sets of 28 Highest Good Housing Icons

Also this week, we updated the Straw Bale Village color board and icon to align with the new icons and existing renders.

Creating a New Earth Paradigm – Updated the Straw Bale Village Color Board and Icon

Jennifer Zhou (Web Designer) additionally continued her work developing the new website structure we desire for easier and more graphic access to all the One Community open source content. What you see here is week 2 of her work focusing on more details and functionality of the Home Page.

Creating a New Earth Paradigm – Continued Building the New Website Structure

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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 creating a new earth paradigm.

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.

CREATING A NEW EARTH PARADIGM BUILDING THE FIRST OF MANY

One Community will be the first teacher/demonstration hub for creating a new earth paradigm. 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 thus setting a precedent for creating a new earth paradigm.

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.

 

COMPREHENSIVE SOLUTION TO HUMANITY’S NEEDS

One Community is open source sharing an evolution of sustainable living that addresses the complete human experience. 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. 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. 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. This is also part of this model to help the world. Its purpose is to facilitate more engagement of 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, 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.

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. 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.

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