One CommunityEthical Community Science – One Community Weekly Progress Update #264
Applied ethical community science approaches to global sustainability could regenerate our world and simultaneously address the greatest challenges of our generation. One Community is supporting this by creating open source and free-shared blueprints, tools, tutorials, and DIY instructions for all aspects of community creation and sustainability.
- 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 15th, 2018 edition (#264) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments:
Ethical Community Science
One Community Progress Update #264
Here is the bullet-point list of this last week’s design and progress discussed in detail in the video above:
ETHICAL COMMUNITY SCIENCE INTRO: @0:34
HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING: @6:20
- Michael Hagler and the core team continued working together creating and testing the different layout options for the Compressed Earth Block Village parts of the 7-villages book (see below)
- Shadi Kennedy completed his 3rd week leading the development of the Murphy bed instructions
- Dean Scholz continued with the Cob Village render updates (see below)
- Dan Alleck completed his 18th week working on the Compressed Earth Block Village render additions (see below)
- Mike Kowalski finished his 4th week helping update our Recycled Materials Village renders that are too big for anything but a gaming computer (see below)
- Anvita Kumari Pandey joined the team and completed her 1st week helping with the Duplicable City Enter Materials and Costs (see below)
DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER: @8:01
- Dipti Dhondarkar and the core team continued developing the lighting specifics for the City Center (see below)
- Jin Yu continued her work with behind-the-scenes development of the City Center excavation and construction of the footer and foundation tutorial (see below)
- David Olivero completed his 17th week helping with the HVAC Designs for the Duplicable City Center (see below)
- Yun Lin completed his 3rd week helping with the beam design and calculation aspects of the City Center structural engineering (see below)
HIGHEST GOOD FOOD: @10:00
- Continued working on the Garden Tools list (see below)
- Finished, edited, and formatted the behind-the-scenes narrative and detailed food rollout plan for the initial 3-person survey team (see below)
HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION: @10:35
- Finished first 50% of review, formatting, editing, and content, resources, and imagery additions to the Learning for Life Assessment Format page (see below)
HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY: @11:10
- Worked on beta testing the Highest Good Network software (see below)
- Sowmya Manohar, Shubhra Mittal, Priyanka Singh, and Swathy Jayaseelan continued work on the Highest Good Network software (see below)
ETHICAL COMMUNITY SCIENCE SUMMARY: @12:15
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HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS
One Community is facilitating ethical community science 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:
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- 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
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This week the core team working with Michael Hagler (Senior Graphic Designer and Artist) continued working together creating and testing the different layout options shown here for the Compressed Earth Block Village parts of the 7-villages book we’re developing.
Ethical Community Science – Layout Options for Compressed Earth Block Village – Click for Page
Shadi Kennedy (Artist and Graphic Designer) completed his 3rd week leading the development of the Murphy bed instructions. This week’s focus was building elements for the drawers pages 6.5.1 and 6.5.2 for the nightstands, as shown here.
Ethical Community Science – Continued Working on the Murphy Bed Instructions ” Click to Visit Page
Dean Scholz (Architectural Designer) continued with the Cob Village (Pod 3) render updates. Here is update 109 of Dean’s work focused this week on trying to fix lighting reflection challenges caused by the stainless steel in the kitchen area.
Ethical Community Science – Continued with Cob Village AutoCAD Layout Updates ” Click for Page
Dan Alleck (Designer and Illustrator) completed his 18th week working on the Compressed Earth Block Village render additions. This week he finished the two renders you see here focusing on the central Zone 17 play and relaxation area. These renders are now updated on the website also.
Ethical Community Science – Zone 17 Play Relaxation Area Render – Click for Earth Block Village
Mike Kowalski (Game Developer) finished his 4th week helping update our Recycled Materials Village (Pod 6) renders that are too big for anything but a gaming computer. What you see here are the four renders he finished creating this week. Three of these are now on the site and this 4th one showing a skate park will be added later as part of a collage of related images.
Ethical Community Science – Recycled Materials Village Outdoor Dining Area Render – Click for Page
Ethical Community Science – Recycled Materials Village Outdoor Dining Area Render – Click for Page
Ethical Community Science – Recycled Materials Village Outdoor Exercise Area Render – Click for Page
Ethical Community Science – Recycled Materials Village Outdoor Exercise Area Render – Click for Page
Anvita Kumari Pandey (Civil Engineer) also joined the team and completed her 1st week helping with the Duplicable City Center Materials and Costs. This week’s focus was developing the initial City Center basement and first floor estimation spreadsheet format and line items, some of which you can see here.
Ethical Community Science – Help with the Duplicable City Center Materials and Costs – Click for Page
DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS
One Community is facilitating ethical community science 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:
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- Learn about this building and it’s function: Duplicable City Center Open Source Hub
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This week the core team and Dipti Dhondarkar, (Electrical Engineer), continued developing the lighting specifics for the City Center. This is Dipti’s 70th week volunteering on this task and the focus this week was round 3 of updating the lighting designs and modeling for the ground floor bedrooms, testing different lighting colors and fixture types, and creating a detailed LEED criteria set so we can finish these rooms to LEED Platinum standards.
Ethical Community Science – Continued Work on Lighting Specifics for the City Center ” Click for Page
Jin Yu (Structural Engineering Designer) continued with her work with the behind-the-scenes development of the City Center excavation and construction of the footer and foundation tutorial. This week’s focus was finishing the moisture control section of the tutorial. You can see some of this work-in-progress here.
Ethical Community Science – City Center Excavation, Construction Footer, Foundation ” Click for Page
David Olivero (Mechanical Engineer & Data Scientist) completed his 17th week helping with the HVAC Designs for the Duplicable City Center. This week’s focus was filling out all our HVAC choices in the zone spreadsheet and reviewing the heat recovery vs. makeup air unit strategy for the kitchen.
Ethical Community Science – Continued Help-HVAC Designs for Duplicable City Center – Click for Page
Yun Lin (Bridge Design Engineer) also completed his 3rd week helping with the beam design and calculation aspects of the City Center structural engineering. This week he created version 2.0 of the timber beam design spreadsheet. Now a person can use dropdown menus to choose from industry standard materials lists and the spreadsheet will check to see if the results fall within desired safety standards.
Ethical Community Science – Beam Design, Calculation of City Center Engineering ” Click for Page
HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS
One Community is facilitating ethical community science 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:
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- 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
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This week, the core team continued working on the Garden Tools list by adding even more tools, images, and prices. You can see some of this work here
Ethical Community Science – Continued Working on the Garden Tools List ” Click for Page
The core team also finished, edited, and formatted the behind-the-scenes narrative and detailed food rollout plan for the initial 3-person survey team.
Ethical Community Science – Detailed Food Rollout Plan – Initial 3-Person Survey Team – Click for Page
HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS
One Community is facilitating ethical community science 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:
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- Learn about the components: Education open source hub
- Learn how the components work together: How to use the Education for Life Program
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This week, the core team finished the first 50% of review, formatting and editing content, resources, and imagery additions to the Learning for Life Assessment Format page. You can see some of this work here.
Ethical Community Science – First 50% of Learning for Life Assessment Format Page – Click for Page
HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS
One Community is facilitating ethical community science 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:
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- 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
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This week the core team worked on beta testing the Highest Good Network software. You can see some of this work here.
Ethical Community Science – Beta Testing the Highest Good Network Software – Click for Page
The Highest Good Network software team consists of Sowmya Manohar (Software Engineer, Web Developer & Net Application Developer), Shubhra Mittal (Software Delivery Manager), Priyanka Singh (Software Developer), and Swathy Jayaseelan (Software Developer). This week the team made the ember model table work with the user management details, added profile pic guidelines and autoresizing, added a link to that profile page that takes a person to that person’s time log, changed relationships of Teams and Projects to be separate from each other, modified the reports bar charts to show both current week and previous weeks data in the same chart, and added options for custom time range functionality.
Ethical Community Science – Continued Working on Highest Good Network Software ” Click for Page
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WHAT ONE COMMUNITY IS CREATING
One Community is creating a place to grow together, change the world together and facilitating Ethical Community Science . 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 growth on creating a golden Age for Humanity.
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.
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 Ethical Community Science. 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.
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 facilitate Ethical Community Science and 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.
