Forwarding the Evolution of Sustainability – One Community Weekly Progress Update #163

Forwarding the evolution of sustainability can be accelerated through open source sharing models for self-sufficient eco-villages. For maximum effect, it makes sense to include within these village models approaches for Highest Good food, energy, housing, education, for-profit and non-profit economics design, social architecture, fulfilled living, and stewardship practices and more. We call 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 May 8th, 2016 edition (#163) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments:

Forwarding the Evolution of Sustainability
One Community Progress Update #163

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

FORWARDING THE EVOLUTION OF SUSTAINABILITY INTRO: @1:00

FORWARDING THE EVOLUTION OF SUSTAINABILITY – HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION: @1:56

• Transferred the second 25% of the written content for the Courage Lesson Plan to the website (see below)
• Behind the scenes: wrote the third 25% of the written part of the Courage Lesson Plan
• Completed the second 25% of the mindmap for the Summer Lesson Plan, bringing it to 50% complete (see below)

FORWARDING THE EVOLUTION OF SUSTAINABILITY – HIGHEST GOOD FOOD: @2:46

• Continued working on the renders for the Tropical Atrium that is the center of the Earthbag Village (Pod 1) (see below)
• Began laying out the preliminary outline for our nutrition based buffet-style meals, which features contributions from Naturopathic Doctor Matt Marturano (see below)
• Shadi Kennedy created individual planting plan maps for the Tropical Atrium Planting and Harvesting page (see below)
• Shadi added all the plant details to the Core Team’s Tropical Atrium render (see below)

FORWARDING THE EVOLUTION OF SUSTINABILITY – HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING: @3:57

• 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)
• Dean Scholz further developed what’s necessary for us to create quality Cob Village renders (see below)
• Sal Rubio continued working on creating professional do-it-yourself Earthbag Village Murphy Bed furniture assembly instructions (see below)
• Shilcy Augustine continued developing the Compressed Earth Block Village (Pod 4) massage and treatment room spaces (see below)

FORWARDING THE EVOLUTION OF SUSTAINABLITY – DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER: @5:37

• Shadi Kennedy finalized his work on the updated render scenes for the City Center (see below)
• Behind the scenes: Mike Hogan and Lucas Tsutsui da Silva were joined by Dipti Dhondarkar and Neha Verma on their Control Systems discussion (see below)

FORWARDING THE EVOLUTION OF SUSTAINABLITY – HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY: @6:43

• Completed updating all the icons for all the Highest Good Food sections of the website (see below)
• Added a “how to maintain it” section to both our Open Source and Copyrights page and our Open Source and Trademarks page with the help of Oz Czerski (see below)
• Jonathan DeAscentis continued development of our Highest Good Network logo (see below)

FORWARDING THE EVOLUTION OF SUSTAINABILITY SUMMARY : @7:19

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FORWARDING THE EVOLUTION OF SUSTAINABILITY – HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

One Community is forwarding the evolution of sustainability 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 second 25% of the written content for the Courage 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 “Courage” is now 50% completed on our website.

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

We also completed the second 25% of the mindmap for the Summer Lesson Plan, bringing it to 50% complete, which you see here:

FORWARDING THE EVOLUTION OF SUSTAINABILITY – HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

One Community is forwarding the evolution of sustainability 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 continued working on the renders for the Tropical Atrium that is the center of the Earthbag Village (Pod 1). Here you can see the finished initial render looking northwest. Next step here is PhotoShop colors and additions.

As part of the development of our our Food Self-sufficiency Transition Plan, which features contributions from Naturopathic Doctor Matt Marturano (creator of the COHERENT model for comprehensive digestive health), this week we began laying out the preliminary outline for our nutrition based buffet-style meals.

Shadi Kennedy (Artist and Graphic Designer) also created these individual planting plan maps for the Tropical Atrium Planting and Harvesting page.

Then Shadi added all the plant details to the Core Team’s render, now it shows the Tropical Atrium flourishing with fruit trees, flowers, and other plants from the Tropical Atrium Planting and Harvesting plan.

FORWARDING THE EVOLUTION OF SUSTAINABILITY – HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

One Community is forwarding the evolution of sustainability 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 on continued insertion of backfill steps and steps for raising the poly instruction that are part of Section 10: Construction of Stem Walls and Dome. We also completed further edits of Section 13: Subterranean Exterior Ground Finish of Polyethylene Water Barrier and EPS Insulation. We additionally moved all new green-step headings into the Section 10 doc and inserted newly written narratives. We’d say we are now 80% complete with this total update and rewrite behind the scenes.

Dean Scholz, Architectural Designer, further developed what’s necessary for us to create quality Cob Village (Pod 3) renders. Here is update 18 of this work that is now focused on what you see here, creating quality-render trees like those native to the area we intend to build in.

Sal Rubio (Industrial Designer) also continued working on creating professional do-it-yourself Earthbag Village Murphy Bed furniture assembly instructions. What you see here are week 2 of his process of double checking all our pieces and creating SolidWorks versions of them from the Sketchup pieces we already have.

Shilcy Augustine (Architect) continued developing the Compressed Earth Block Village (Pod 4) massage and treatment room spaces. You can see this work here where her focus is now on the external spaces.

FORWARDING THE EVOLUTION OF SUSTAINABILITY – DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

One Community is forwarding the evolution of sustainability 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 working on the City Center, Shadi Kennedy (Artist and Graphic Designer) finalized his work on the updated render scenes for the rental rooms:

… the loft in the Social Dome:

… and dining area by the Kitchen:

… also these four new images of the rental room and what will be the do-it-yourself pallet furniture:

Behind the scenes Mike Hogan (Automation Systems Developer and Business Systems Consultant) and Lucas Tsutsui da Silva (4th-year Computer Engineering Student) were joined by Dipti Dhondarkar (Electrical Engineer) and Neha Verma (Construction Project Manager). The discussion this week was about how Dipti‘s work with lighting and minimum and optimal lumens will integrate with the Control Systems, aimed at forwarding the evolution of sustainability.

FORWARDING THE EVOLUTION OF SUSTAINABILITY – HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS

One Community is forwarding the evolution of sustainability 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 updating all the icons for all the Highest Good Food sections of the website. What you see here is a collage of some of these icons on a few of the updated pages:

With the help of Oz Czerski, Lawyer Specializing in Trademark and Copyright Law, we also added a “how to maintain it” section to both our Open Source and Copyrights page and our Open Source and Trademarks page.

Jonathan DeAscentis (Graphic Designer and Web Developer) additionally continued development of our Highest Good Network logo. This week’s changes were finalizing the center tree details:

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WHAT ONE COMMUNITY IS CREATING

One Community is creating a place to grow together and change the world together focusing on forwarding the evolution of sustainability. 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, forwarding the evolution of sustainability. A place based on compassion, kindness, and collaboration. This replicable community will serve as an example for what is possible in terms of forwarding the evolution of sustainability.

Throughout our design process we are open sourcing and free-sharing everything needed for construction and replication, thus forwarding the evolution of sustainability. 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, all with a focus on forwarding the evolution of sustainability. 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, aimed at forwarding the evolution of sustainability.

WHY ONE COMMUNITY IS CREATING THIS

The One Community self-replicating model is capable of creating a sustainable planet within 30 years, with a strong focus on forwarding the evolution of sustainability. 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, forwarding the evolution of sustainability. 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, with a emphasis of forwarding the evolution of sustainability.

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, focusing on forwarding the evolution of sustainability.  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 as caretakers of our shared planet.

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 as caretakers of our shared planet, 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 Golden Age for humanity. 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. By engaging as caretakers of our shared planet, we collectively contribute to this vision.