Creating an Ecological Earth – One Community Weekly Progress Update #161

Creating an ecological Earth model to regenerate our planet and meet the food, energy, housing and other needs of all people is now possible. One Community is doing our part to facilitate this through sustainable and self-sufficient teacher/demonstration communities, villages, and hubs:

• 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 April 24th, 2016 edition (#161) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments:

Creating an Ecological Earth
One Community Progress Update #161

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

CREATING AN ECOLOGICAL EARTH INTRO: @1:00

CREATING AN ECOLOGICAL EARTH – HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION: @1:57

• Transferred final 25% of written content for Summer Lesson Plan to website (see below)
• Behind the scenes: wrote first 25% of written part of Courage Lesson Plan (see below)
• Completed final 25% of mindmap for Cooperation and Collaboration Lesson Plan (see below)

CREATING AN ECOLOGICAL EARTH – HIGHEST GOOD FOOD: @2:47

• Finalized and are launching our Transition Kitchen page to the public, which features contributions from Naturopathic Doctor Matt Marturano (see below)
• Shadi Kennedy further developed planting plan specifics of  the Tropical Atrium that is the center of the Earthbag Village (see below)

CREATING AN ECOLOGICAL EARTH – HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING: @3:38

• 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)
• Jesika Rohrbach started designing different loft sleeping area options for Tree House Village living structures (see below)
• Dean Scholz further developed what’s necessary for us to create quality Cob Village renders (see below)

CREATING AN ECOLOGICAL EARTH – DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER: @4:59

• Finished rendering Cupola area of the Duplicable City Center (see below)
• Started work on updates for Duplicable City Center Natural Pool and Spa. The children’s easy-access area was redesigned based on the excellent design work of Bupesh Seethala (see below)
• Iris Hsu continued exploring recycled pipe shelving options for the Duplicable City Center library (see below)
• Added the amazing City Center Control Systems and Electrical Design work from Mike Hogan and Lucas Tsutsui da Silva to the City Center Open Source Hub and Control Systems pages (see below)
• Mike, Lucas, and Jae discussed testing being done to fix an electrical interference problem (see below)
  
• Hoang Bao continued transferring the work of last year’s intern team into the new Duplicable City Center Electrical page (see below)

CREATING AN ECOLOGICAL EARTH – HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY: @7:00

• Completed final edits and reorganization needed for the icons designed by Ivan Manzurov (see below)
• Added the work of Lokesh Gopu to the Highest Good Network software page along with links to the GitHub (see below)
• Jonathan DeAscentis continued development of our Highest Good Network logo (see below)

CREATING AN ECOLOGICAL EARTH SUMMARY: @7:43

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CREATING AN ECOLOGICAL EARTH – HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

One Community is creating an ecological Earth 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 final 25% of the written content for the Summer 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 “Summer” is now 100% completed on our website.

Behind the scenes, we wrote the first 25% of the written part of the Courage Lesson Plan.

We also completed the final 25% of the mindmap for the Cooperation and Collaboration Lesson Plan, bringing it to 100% complete, which you see here:

CREATING AN ECOLOGICAL EARTH – HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

One Community is creating an ecological Earth 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 finalized and launched our Transition Kitchen page to the public. This work is part of the development of our Food Self-sufficiency Transition Plan, which features contributions from Naturopathic Doctor Matt Marturano (creator of the COHERENT model for comprehensive digestive health).

Shadi Kennedy (Artist and Graphic Designer) also further developed the planting plan specifics of the Tropical Atrium that is the center of the Earthbag Village (Pod 1). What you see here are version 2.0 of the two different layout options we’ve decided on:

CREATING AN ECOLOGICAL EARTH – HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

One Community is creating an ecological Earth 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 reviewing the first three poly installations and re-writing the poly foundation to coincide with the floor construction in Section 12 and providing determinations of how to fit EPS to exterior dome shape and cost estimates for Section 14 Subterranean Exterior Ground Finish of Polyethylene Water Barrier and EPS Insulation. We’d say we are now 78% complete with this total update and rewrite behind the scenes.

Working on the Tree House Village (Pod 7), Jesika Rohrbach (Architectural Drafter, Designer, and 3-D Modeler) started designing and exploring different loft sleeping area options for the living structures for this village. You can see these here:

Dean Scholz, Architectural Designer, further developed what’s necessary for us to create quality Cob Village (Pod 3) renders. Here is update 16 of this work that included finishing the natural and do-it-yourself constructed outdoor water feature.

CREATING AN ECOLOGICAL EARTH – DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

One Community is creating an ecological Earth 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 finished rendering the Cupola area of the Duplicable City Center. Here you see 3 most recent rendered scene images for different settings of the Cupola studio.

We also started to work on updates for the Duplicable City Center Natural Pool and Spa. The children’s easy-access area was redesigned as seen here and based on the excellent design work of Bupesh Seethala (Interior Designer). The new design features safety rails, a separation wall between the children and adult areas of the pool, and an 8″, 16″ and 24″ set of stepped areas for children to enjoy.

Iris Hsu (Industrial Designer), also continued exploring recycled pipe shelving options for the Duplicable City Center library. What you see here is round #4 of this work building 3-D examples of the corner shelving options we liked best and starting to see how they’ll look with different shelving for the adjacent walls.

We also added the amazing City Center Control Systems and Electrical Design work from Mike Hogan (Automation Systems Developer and Business Systems Consultant) and Lucas Tsutsui da Silva (4th-year Computer Engineering Student) to the City Center Open Source Hub and Control Systems pages. What you see here are the details of placement for all of the control and automation systems, lights, and electrical for the entire City Center.

In our weekly collaborative call, Mike, Lucas, and Jae discussed testing being done to fix an electrical interference problem happening with long cable runs and wiring Mike is doing to test the control panel design we shared last week. 

Hoang Bao (Software Developer) also continued transferring the work of last year’s intern team into the new Duplicable City Center Electrical page. What you see here is the last 3rd of the complete content live on the new page.

CREATING AN ECOLOGICAL EARTH – HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS

One Community is creating an ecological Earth 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 completed the final edits and reorganization needed for the icons designed by Graphic Designer, Ivan Manzurov. The final icons we worked on are shown here, these are for the Earthbag Village (Pod 1) open source hub.

We also added the work of Lokesh Gopu (Software Engineer) to the Highest Good Network software page along with links to the GitHub. Once complete, this open source software will streamline project tracking and sustainable community collaboration and data sharing around the world.

Related to this, Jonathan DeAscentis (Graphic Designer and Web Developer) continued development of what will be the Highest Good Network logo. What you see here are his 4th round of evolutions:

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WHAT ONE COMMUNITY IS CREATING

One Community is creating an ecological earth place to grow together and change the world together. We are 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 focusing on creating an ecological earth.

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  to advocate for creating an ecological earth.

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 all aimed to create an ecological earth.

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 an ecological earth.

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 focusing on creating an ecological earth. 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.