Eco-communities, COVID-19 and Other Potential Pandemics – One Community Weekly Progress Update #367

Let’s talk about eco-communities, COVID-19 and other potential pandemics. In this week’s video we discuss how we expect people living in environments like One Community would be happier, healthier, and safer than most of the rest of the world right now. The discussion includes what pandemic preparation, mitigation, containment, and recovery would look like in a “Highest Good of All” living environment like One Community.

• 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

WHAT ONE COMMUNITY IS CREATING : ECO-COMMUNITIES, COVID-19 AND OTHER POTENTIAL PROBLEMS 

One Community is creating a place to grow together and change the world together, concurrently explaining why issues related to eco-communities, COVID-19 and other potential pandemics are important. 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 of why issues related to eco-communities, COVID-19 and other potential pandemics are important and showcase 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 that answers why issues related to eco-communities, COVID-19 and other potential pandemics are important. 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 that explains why issues related to eco-communities, COVID-19 and other potential pandemics are important. 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 contribute to the question of why issues related to eco-communities, COVID-19 and other potential pandemics are important, positively affecting 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.

OUR MAIN OPEN SOURCE HUBS

Click on each icon to be taken to the corresponding Highest Good hub page.

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 5th, 2020 edition (#367) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments, explaining about Eco-communities, COVID-19 and other potential pandemics:

Eco-communities, COVID-19 and Other Potential Pandemics
One Community Progress Update #367

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HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS – ECO-COMMUNITIES, COVID-19 AND OTHER POTENTIAL PANDEMICS

Thinking about Eco-communities, COVID-19 and Other Potential Pandemics, One Community is developing comprehensive community models with 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 week the core team continued developing the open source permaculture design content with a focus on completing the Energy, Housing, and Education Infrastructure details of the Phased Rollout Table shown below.

Dean Scholz (Architectural Designer) continued helping with the Earthbag Village (Pod 1) 4-dome cluster designs. This week was week #184 of Dean’s work and the focus this week was texturing another dome, texturing the door for the main entry, and the door access to the hot tub area. You can see pictures of these updates below.

Ziqian Zheng (Architectural Designer and Drafter) also continued working on the Earthbag Village walkthrough and completed week 21 as a volunteer designer with our team. This week’s focus was closing all the village doors, changing the video timing, adding more interior details to the Tropical Atrium, and adding textures, people, and other details to the furnished interior views of the living structures. You can see some of the screenshots from the updated walkthrough here.

DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS – ECO-COMMUNITIES, COVID-19 AND OTHER POTENTIAL PANDEMICS

Thinking about Eco-communities, COVID-19 and Other Potential Pandemics, One Community is developing comprehensive community models with 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 adding all the best water-saving faucet accessories we could find to the Most Sustainable Faucets and Faucet Accessories page. We also added Amazon links for all the products they sell, allowing easy access for reading reviews and purchasing. This completes this tutorial.

Radhieka Nagpal (Volunteer Researcher) also completed her 7th week researching the Most Sustainable Building Materials: Carpet, Flooring, Wood, Etc. This week Radhieka started benchmarking the types of flooring to better assign ranks to them. She researched into the manufacturing process and installation process to evaluate the carbon footprint for each and also added important updates to the descriptions as well. She did this for Cork, Linoleum, Bamboo, Tiles, Concrete, and Carpet, and slightly updated the introduction as well. You can see some of this work-in-progress below.

HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS – ECO-COMMUNITIES, COVID-19 AND OTHER POTENTIAL PANDEMICS

Thinking about Eco-communities, COVID-19 and Other Potential Pandemics, One Community is developing comprehensive community models with 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 began researching rabbits and compiling our findings on the behind-the-scenes research Google Doc. This week’s focus was researching rabbit food options, hutches and runs. We will construct our own hutches and runs. Most runs available for purchase are not very sturdy. We will build to the quality of our other fencing with regards to the rabbit exercise area.

The core team also continued working on the open source chicken coop step-by-step building instructions on our behind-the-scenes google doc. This week’s focus was more work on the door assembly instructions. Specifically, finishing pages 50-55: “Step 13. Installing a Door Handle and Door Latch” and finishing fixing the hinge problem we identified last week and included in 42 though 49 of the instructions. We’d say we’re now about 91% done with these plans.

HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS – ECO-COMMUNITIES, COVID-19 AND OTHER POTENTIAL PANDEMICS

Thinking about Eco-communities, COVID-19 and Other Potential Pandemics, One Community is developing comprehensive community models with 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. This component of One Community is about 95% complete with only the Open Source School Licensing and Ultimate Classroom construction and assembly details remaining to be finished.

With over 8 years of work invested in the process, the sections below are all complete until we move onto the property and continue the development and open sourcing process with teachers and students – a development process that is built directly into the structure of the education program and everything else we’re creating too:

• Program Overview: Education Open Source Hub
• How the components work together: How to use the Education for Life Program
  
• Lesson Plans for Life – Lesson Plans How-to
• Foundations of Outstanding Leaders, Teachers, and Communicators
• Curriculum for Life
• Teaching Strategies for Life
• Learning Tools and Toys for Life
• Evaluation and Evolution

This week Dan Alleck (Designer and Illustrator) completed his 71st week helping with render additions and finishing work for the rooms in the Ultimate Classroom. This week he continued work on the yellow room. This room is about the subject of Math and various empowering character traits. What you see here is Dan’s 6th round additions focused on finding and adding more learning aids and books to the shelving, plus the plant on the right. This brings this room to about 90% complete.

HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS – ECO-COMMUNITIES, COVID-19 AND OTHER POTENTIAL PANDEMICS

Thinking about Eco-communities, COVID-19 and Other Potential Pandemics, One Community is developing comprehensive community models with 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 Henry Ng (React Developer) completed his 9th week with the team and working on the Highest Good Network software. This week Henry returned to building the API for adding tasks to the Work Breakdown Structure by using the WBS ID. This is so the tasks will load to the interface and be sorted by IDs. The data is displayed as icons, and buttons are used to send quick information to the users. New mouseover text shows what each button represents also. You can see some of this work below.

Siddharth Gore (Senior Software Engineer I) also completed his 9th week as a member of the volunteer team also working on the Highest Good Network software. This week Siddharth worked on the Modal component of react native mobile app. Now one Modal can be reused across the app changing message texts and button values for tasks which require user confirmation. He also looked into Google Sheets API for using data (alerts) that can be read from a spreadsheet and displayed on the website and time tracking tool portal and mobile application. You can see some of this work below.

Wen Zhang (Software Engineer) completed her 3rd week as a volunteer working on the Highest Good Network software. This week Wen helped finalize the HGN Functionality Documentation. She also completed the 2nd-to-final drafts of the HGN React Design Doc, Workflow and Github Doc, and Codebase Rules & Conventions Doc.

And Alvaro Hernandez (Open Source Tech Consultant, Developer) completed his 2nd week as a member of the Highest Good Network software team. This week Alvaro made his first pull request to fix a small error, started to work on a unit test for the leaderboard, started a new doc to document code and command formatting, and another one to explore a style template for documentation. He also helped with feedback on all the other Documentation docs. You can see some of this work below.

SUMMARY – ECO-COMMUNITIES, COVID-19 AND OTHER POTENTIAL PROBLEMS 

One Community sees the issues of the world as interdependent and interconnected. To address them simultaneously, and support the process of biohacking our future, 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.

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