Creating the Golden Age – One Community Weekly Progress Update #87

Humanity has the ability of creating the golden age of peace, harmony, stability, and prosperity. The clear path One Community sees to creating this Golden Age is through open source and replicable models for all aspect of sustainable and Highest Good living:

• 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 October 31st, 2014 edition (#87) of our weekly progress update detailing the previous week’s development and accomplishments:

Creating the Golden Age
One Community Weekly Progress Update #87

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

CREATING THE GOLDEN AGE INTRO @1:00

CREATING THE GOLDEN AGE – HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION @1:58

• Finished the first 50% of the lesson plan webpage with the central theme of “Opposites.” (see below)
• Added new expandability and application instructions to all our existing lesson plan pages (see below)

CREATING THE GOLDEN AGE – HIGHEST GOOD FOOD: @3:14

• Created large-scale gardening page breakout page for Potatoes
• Created large-scale gardening page breakout page for Squash
• Created large-scale gardening page breakout page for Peppers

CREATING THE GOLDEN AGE – HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING: @4:20

• Finished our new crowdfunding campaign header (see below)
• We also updated our crowdfunding campaign overview page images (see below)
• Finished another 15% of the dome home DIY plumbing instructional (now 30% complete)
• Scott Howard finished final edits to the open source plaster page (see below)

CREATING THE GOLDEN AGE – DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER: @5:36

• Added first 75% of LEED details to the Duplicable City Center lighting plan page (see below)
• Set up the first 10% of the Control Systems page (see below)

CREATING THE GOLDEN AGE – HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY: @6:55

• Completed 3rd rewrite and extensive content update of the Fulfilled Living page (see below)
• Created project-needs descriptions for colleges interested in helping (see below)
• Added GoodShop to our Internet Help Page and Ways Anyone Can Help Page (see below)

CREATING THE GOLDEN AGE SUMMARY: @8:09

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

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CREATING THE GOLDEN AGE – HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

One Community is creating the Golden Age 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 finished the first 50% of the lesson plan webpage with the central theme of “Opposites.” You can see this first half of the lesson plan below for creating the golden age. When complete, this will be our 9th finished lesson plan built on these central themes that teach all subjects to all learning levels and ages. Visit our Lesson Plans for Life webpage for the other finished pages:

We also added these disclaimers to all our existing lesson plan pages to help people understand how adaptable the lesson plans are to any environment and/or learning and design preference by either students or teachers which helps in creating the golden age.

CREATING THE GOLDEN AGE – HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

One Community is creating the Golden Age 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 three more complete breakout pages from the large-scale gardening page essential for creating the golden age. These included the Potatoes page, the Squash page, and the Peppers page. You can see all three pages here and you can click the individual images to visit the complete pages for all the detailed plant descriptions, planting guidelines, cultural considerations, and more. These new pages load faster and also give us the space we’ll need to add recipes, gardening tips, harvesting and canning tips, and videos. Contact us if you have any great resources related to any of these plant species.

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Potatoes Breakout Page	Squash Breakout Page	Peppers Breakout Page

CREATING THE GOLDEN AGE – HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

One Community is creating the Golden Age 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 finished our new crowdfunding campaign header that really clearly depicts what it is we’re creating and why we are creating the golden age. This header will be at the top of each of the 15 open source tutorial pages.

In addition to this, we updated our crowdfunding campaign overview page with expandable pictures of what we’re intending for each of the three domes:

Behind the scenes we finished another 15% of the dome home DIY plumbing instructional, bringing us to 30% complete there.

Also, Scott Howard (Sustainable Building Expert and owner of Earthen Hand Natural Building) finished feedback and final edits to the natural plaster section of the open source plaster page and our team integrated those and shared that page for the first time. Here is a picture of the section Scott contributed to that page:

CREATING THE GOLDEN AGE – DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

One Community is creating the Golden Age 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 the core team added the first 75% of the lighting plan overview details to the Duplicable City Center lighting plan page which is essential in creating the golden age. You can see those details here and visit the lighting page for additional pictures and other specifics related to our lighting plan purposed to contribute to LEED Platinum certification for this structure:

We also set up the first 10% of the Control Systems page that will share complete control and monitoring systems setup, maintenance, evolution, and data gathering and sharing covering water and electricity use for the Duplicable City Center and the Earthbag Village (Pod 1).

CREATING THE GOLDEN AGE – HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS

One Community is creating the Golden Age 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 our 3rd rewrite and extensive content update of the Fulfilled Living page that describes why we consider a fulfilled living model as absolutely essential to our global transformation model capable of creating a global Golden Age though building self-replicating teacher/demonstration communities, villages, and cities. Here is a screenshot of the updated page:

Behind the scenes we’ve also been in communication with several colleges interested in adding our project to the options available to their graduate students. Here are examples of the work we’ve done to assist with this by creating detailed outlines of how students can help us in creating the golden age. We’ve got one more of these to finish before we start really focusing on this source of help.

Last but not least, we added GoodShop options for helping raise money for One Community to our Internet Help Page and Ways Anyone Can Help Page and contribute towards creating the golden age. What you see here is the internet help page that also shares other ways people can help One Community with a time investment of anywhere from 30 seconds to 30 minutes.

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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.

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.

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

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.