Creating an Age of Ecology – One Community Weekly Progress Update #215

Creating an age of ecology and sustainability is arguably the next great accomplishment for humanity. We now have the technology and ability to do this if enough people want it. One Community is open sourcing and free-sharing a replicable teacher/demonstration sustainability hub to help with this.

• 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 the movement of creating an age of ecology as the first of many self-replicating teacher/demonstration communities, villages, and cities to be built around the world. This is the May 7th, 2017 edition (#215) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments:

Creating an Age of Ecology
One Community Progress Update #215

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

CREATING AN AGE OF ECOLOGY INTRO: @1:03

CREATING AN AGE OF ECOLOGY HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION: @1:59

• Completed the first 25% of three mindmaps: Fulfilled Living, Consensus and Decision Making, and Contribution (see below)
• Continued process of a final proofreading and editing of all 52 lesson plans (see below)
• Guy Grossfeld continued adding people and elements from the Learning Tools and Toys research to create updated renders of the Ultimate Classroom Yellow Room and Purple Room (see below)

CREATING AN AGE OF ECOLOGY HIGHEST GOOD FOOD: @3:09

• Created 2 new images to the Food Bars and Food Self-sufficiency Transition Plan pages (see below)

CREATING AN AGE OF ECOLOGY HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING: @3:37

• Created 33 new pages related to the open source hubs from each of the 7 villages (see below)
• Continued creating the demo set of structures and layouts for the standardized AutoCAD layers and line-weights template and tutorial (see below)
• Updated these section-cut views of the Murphy bed inside one of the student domes (see below)
• Added Photoshop edits and details to open bed view of the Murphy bed from last week and updated view of the children’s shared room furniture design (see below)
• Ashwini Ramesh created a work breakdown for the Earthbag Village and related crowdfunding campaign we are developing (see below)
• Alena Thompson completed her 12th week helping with the Net-zero Communal Bathroom Designs (see below)
• Christian Ojeda completed his 13th week helping with the heat-recycling Communal Eco-shower and Vermiculture Bathroom designs (see below)
• Ashwin Patil continued helping develop the new Search Engines for our site (see below)
• Dean Scholz continued helping us create quality Cob Village renders (see below)
• Aparna Tandon continued work on the Compressed Earth Block Village external elements (see below)
• Guy Grossfeld helped create this new 3D tree texture for the Tree House Village (see below)

CREATING AN AGE OF ECOLOGY DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER: @6:14

• Created 6 new pages and updated the Duplicable City Center main open source hub (see below)
• Ramya Vudi and Shubham Agrawal continued their work on the City Center energy details with Mike Hogan (see below)
• Jin Yu continued writing content for the City Center Footers, Foundation, and Flooring tutorial (see below)
• Vamsi Pulugurtha completed his 3rd week of work helping with the City Center basement finite element analysis (see below)

CREATING AN AGE OF ECOLOGY HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY: @7:36

• Updated entire website to a new level of internet safety by adding an SSL certificate, updating all URLs to https vs http, and fixing all non-secure elements throughout the site (see below)
• Sowmya Manohar and Jono Lewis completed their collective 3rd week of work on the The Highest Good Network (see below)

CREATING AN AGE OF ECOLOGY SUMMARY: @8:13

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CREATING AN AGE OF ECOLOGY HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

One Community is creating an age of ecology 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 completed the first 25% of three mindmaps, which are for the Fulfilled Living Lesson Plan, Consensus and Decision Making Lesson Plan, and the Contribution Lesson Plan, as you can see here:

And continued the process of a final proofreading and editing of all 52 lesson plans. This week we completed the Relative and Dimensional Space Lesson Plan, Signs and Symbols Lesson Plan, and the Social Relationships Lesson Plan. This brings us to 16 of 52 finished, which is 30.7% completion.

Guy Grossfeld (Graphic Designer) also continued adding people and elements from the Learning Tools and Toys research we’ve done to create these updated renders of the Ultimate Classroom Yellow Room:

…. and this one of the Violet Room:

CREATING AN AGE OF ECOLOGY HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

One Community is creating an age of ecology 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 created 2 new images for the Food Bars and Food Self-sufficiency Transition Plan pages, as you see here:

CREATING AN AGE OF ECOLOGY HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

One Community is creating an age of ecology 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

CREATING AN AGE OF ECOLOGY DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

One Community is creating an age of ecology 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 created 6 new pages and updated the Duplicable City Center main open source hub to include them all. You can see examples of this work here:

Ramya Vudi (Electrical Engineer) and Shubham Agrawal (Electrical Engineer) continued their work on the City Center energy details with Mike Hogan (Automation Systems Developer and Business Systems Consultant. What you see here is version 2.0 of the wind energy design and implementation tutorial developing behind the scenes.

Jin Yu (Structural Engineering Designer) also completed her 11th week working on the concrete foundation details. This week’s focus was writing more content for the City Center Footers, Foundation, and Flooring tutorial. You can see examples of this behind-the-scenes work here.

Vamsi Pulugurtha (Mechanical Engineer) also completed his 3rd week of work helping with the City Center basement finite element analysis. This week’s focus was the initial heat transfer specifics for the boiler room, as shown here:

CREATING AN AGE OF ECOLOGY HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS

One Community is creating an age of ecology 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 core team updated our entire website to a new level of internet safety by adding an SSL certificate, updating all URLs to httpS vs http, and fixing all non-secure elements throughout the site.

Sowmya Manohar (Software Engineer, Web Developer & Net Application Developer) and Jono Lewis (Software Developer) also completed their collective 3rd week of work on the The Highest Good Network. This week’s focus, as you can see here, was working on the login page, function for adding new users, and testing the initial database structure.

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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 into creating an age of ecology.

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

OPEN SOURCE SHARING STRATEGY SPECIFICS

One Community’s open source strategy will evolve 5 primary types of open source content purposed to reach and service as broad an audience as possible. This includes the following mediums of sharing that are being developed to function as standalone resources or in combination with each other:

• Video tutorials
• Audio tutorials
• Live streaming video
• Direct/live interaction
• Written content and downloadable PDFs

Maximum exposure is accomplished through simultaneous implementation of the following strategies:

• Free-shared audio, visual, and PDF downloads
• Scholarship and intern programs for direct learning
• Videoing or live-streaming almost all classes and activities
• Tourism option for involvement in almost all aspects of One Community
• Dedicated and search engine optimized sections of our website for each key area
• Our established infrastructure that simultaneously posts to over 20 social networks

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.