Ecological Prosperity – One Community Weekly Progress Update #144

Ecological prosperity is the creation of an abundant and more fulfilling life through ecological living. “Prosperity,” in this context, is the combination of sustainable approaches to food, energy, and housing combined with fulfilled living, open source and free education, and Highest Good economics models to create a way of living that most people would consider better than how they are living now. One Community calls this living and creating for The Highest Good of All:

• 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 December 27th, 2015 edition (#144) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments:

Ecological Prosperity
One Community Progress Update #144

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

ECOLOGICAL PROSPERITY INTRO: @1:02

HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION: @1:58

• Transferred additional 25% of written content for the Winter Lesson Plan to the website (see below)
• Completed second third of the mindmap for the Sustainability Lesson Plan (see below)
• Behind the scenes: Wrote the first 1/4 of the Work Lesson Plan

HIGHEST GOOD FOOD: @3:13

• Completed another round of updating calculations for the organization of the streamlined version of our Food Self-sufficiency Transition Plan page, which includes contributions provided by Naturopathic Doctor Matt Marturano (see below)
• Added three additional recipes from Sandra Sellani to the Food Self-sufficiency Transition Plan (see below)

HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING: @4:20

• Behind the scenes: Put another 10 hours into the revision for the Footers, Foundations and Flooring page for the upcoming crowdfunding campaign (see below)
• Added additional structural design images from the presentation the Intern Team created for the Tree House Village (Pod 7) (see below)

DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER: @5:28

• Worked on the internal design for the natural pool for the Duplicable City Center (see below)
• Started converting our SolidWorks pallet furniture designs (started by the summer Intern Team) into 3-D Sketchup models (see below)
• Bupesh Seethala is converting the SolidWorks pallet furniture designs into AutoCAD (see below)
• Iris Hsu continued finalizing the Pipe Furniture design renders for the Duplicable City Center library (see below)
• Michelle Wu continued working on the designs for the pipe shelving for the library (see below)
• Behind the scenes: Mike Hogan and Lucas Tsutsui da Silva continued work on the the Control Systems design (see below)

HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY: @7:14

• Updated our help wanted page for Software Engineers to work on the Highest Good Network with us. These updates were made possible with the help of Andrew Herman (see below)
• Continued working with Ivan Manzurov to create new icons for all of our pages. This week Ivan created icons for our Highest Good Economics component (see below)
• Oz Czerski helped us by writing the first draft of our licensing agreement for all of our open source and trademarked titles (see below)

ECOLOGICAL PROSPERITY SUMMARY: @8:00

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HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

One Community is developing a model for ecological prosperity 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 an additional 25% of the written content for the Winter Lesson Plan to the website, as you see here. This lesson plan is purposed to teach all subjects, to all learning levels, in any learning environment, using the central theme of “Winter” is now 75% complete on the site.

We also completed the second third of the mindmap for the Sustainability Lesson Plan, bringing that to about 70% complete, which you can see here:

Behind the scenes, we wrote the first 1/4 of the Work Lesson Plan, bringing the behind-the-scenes written part to approximately 25% complete.

HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

One Community is developing a model for ecological prosperity 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 completed another round of updating calculations for the organization of the streamlined version of our Food Self-sufficiency Transition Plan page, which includes contributions provided by Naturopathic Doctor Matt Marturano (creator of the COHERENT model for comprehensive digestive health). This week we added corrected calculations to the website, including required foods for a new category, vegetarians.

We also added three additional recipes from Sandra Sellani (Vegan Chef and author of What’s Your BQ?) to the Food Self-sufficiency Transition Plan ” These recipes are: Apple “Sausage” Tacos, Orange “Chick’n” Lettuce Wraps, and Beefy Kale & Cranberry Salad.

HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

One Community is developing a model for ecological prosperity 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 researching and experimenting with poly versus cotton string for securing stucco netting, blind nail versus finishing nail research for connecting the different courses of earthbags, gutter design, and dome construction crew positions and responsibilities. We’d say this brings us to about 58% complete with this total rewrite and update.

We also added additional structural design images to our web page for the Tree House Village (Pod 7), as you can see here. These images are from the presentation the Intern Team created over the summer.

DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

One Community is developing a model for ecological prosperity 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 worked on the internal design for the natural pool for the Duplicable City Center. What you see here are various 3-D explorations into a walk-in entry to the part of the pool that will be in the center of the City Center. We’d say we are now 95% done with the complete 3-D update.

We also started converting our SolidWorks pallet furniture designs (started by the summer Intern Team) into 3-D Sketchup models. Here is the table that will be included in the City Center visitor rooms:

Bupesh Seethala, Architectural Drafter & Designer, is additionally converting these furniture designs into AutoCAD to support Ecological Prosperity. Here you can see draft 1 of the pallet furniture chair.

Iris Hsu (Industrial Designer), continued finalizing the Pipe Furniture design renders for the Duplicable City Center library in support of Ecological Prosperity. What you see here are some different options for making the seat back adjustable:

Iris also created these construction plans for the pipe chair that converts into a table:

… and Iris also created this last render of this furniture piece being used as both chairs and tables:

Michelle Wu, also an industrial designer, continued working on the designs for the pipe shelving for the library. Here are Michelle’s 2nd generation explorations in to different pipe shelving layouts:

Behind the scenes Mike Hogan (Automation Systems Developer and Business Systems Consultant) and Lucas Tsutsui da Silva (4th-year Computer Engineering Student), continued work on the the Control Systems design. Here’s revision #8 for this:

Also, here is mike showing the first prototype he has wired up and demonstrating the functioning circuits lighting up different LEDs and the software that drives the hardware.

HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS

One Community is developing a model for ecological prosperity 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 updated our help wanted page for Software Engineers to work on the Highest Good Network with us. These updates were made possible with the help of Andrew Herman (Software Engineer and Core Member of Futurist Playground).

We also continued working with Ivan Manzurov (Artist and Illustrator) to create new icons for all of our pages. Here are the icons Ivan created for our Highest Good Economics component:

Oz Czerski, Lawyer Specializing in Trademark and Copyright Law, also helped us by writing this first draft of our licensing agreement for all of our open source and trademarked titles:

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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 and contributing to Ecological Prosperity as well. 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.

ONE COMMUNITY’S 4-PHASE STRATEGY

One Community is building solution-creating models designed to create additional solution-creating models to specifically facilitate exponential and sustainable global teacher/demonstration village growth. The following four phases of the strategy we are applying are designed to support each other and accelerate the process globally:

Phase I: Demonstrating a Better Way

We are designing One Community to demonstrate an experience of living that we believe most people will consider to be better because it will be more enjoyable and fulfilling. We also think most people will consider it better because it is made possible specifically through a foundation of sustainable sustainability and a philosophy that is for The Highest Good of All.

Phase II: Open Source Project-Launch Blueprinting

Everything we do we are open source project-launch blueprinting and free-sharing to make it as easy and affordable as possible to duplicate, adapt, and evolve in the manner that suits each individual and/or group’s needs. Free-sharing information like this is our aggressive-exposure engine and an aspect of One Community that will accelerate indefinitely as we continue to build our team, move onto the property, and continuously build and evolve everything that is One Community.

Phase III: Inviting the World to Participate

Everything we are open source project-launch blueprinting is designed to invite the world to participate by duplicating it as either individual components or complete teacher/demonstration communities, villages, and cities that will be able to be built almost anywhere in the world. Additionally, people can join One Community as members, consultants and/or partners, or use the suggestions links on our open source project-launch blueprinting hubs to help with the design, implementation, and evolution process. Scholarships, weekend learning and work crews, and tourism will be foundations of One Community once we have sufficient infrastructure in place to support these options.

Phase IV: Universal Appeal and Global Expansion

As One Community continues evolving and establishing ourselves, everything we create and promote will serve as the engine to inspire people to align with the concept of open source and sustainable living for The Highest Good of All. We are doing this to create mainstream appeal and our path to achieving this appeal is demonstrating a happier, more affordable, and ecologically friendly model of living that can be built anywhere in the world.

Open source project-launch blueprinting it all is how we believe the model will spread and, possibly most importantly, that it will predictably spread even faster in the areas where it is needed most because building restrictions, the cost of land, and materials costs are in most cases lower in these areas.

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.