Highest Good for All Progress – One Community Weekly Progress Update #7

Here is the One Community Highest Good for All progress update (#7) for the week of 4/8/2013 including the video overview, most recent architectural images, links to the most recently completed pages, and more! 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.

• Here’s our project overview
• Here’s our world-change methodology
• We are open source and free-sharing do-it-yourself designs for these areas first: (click icons for details)
• CLICK IMAGES BELOW FOR OUR MAIN OPEN SOURCE HUBS
  

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

  

Highest Good For All Progress
One Community Weekly Progress Update #7

 

HIGHEST GOOD FOR ALL PROGRESS – FOOD UPDATE

This last week for One Community has been heavily focused on food infrastructure progress. Doug Stenhouse (Architect and Water Color Artist) spent the whole week adapting, updating, and finalizing the site layout for all the aquapini, zen aquapini, and walipini structures. These final designs went through three major iterations and redesigns:

HIGHEST GOOD FOR ALL PROGRESS – SUSTAINABLE FOOD INFRASTRUCTURE SITE PLAN LAYOUT #1

This first iteration was an indicator that we had too many retaining walls and needed to improve our ability to move around the site and structures for maintenance and ease of use.

HIGHEST GOOD FOR ALL PROGRESS – SUSTAINABLE FOOD INFRASTRUCTURE SITE PLAN LAYOUT #2

This second iterations was true brilliance from Doug! This general design is ultimately what we ended up going with but we wanted to move the solar panels off the water, increase the insulation of the earth around the corners of the subterranean structures, increase seating for the amphitheater this design provides, and we realized we could use the same sloping and planting of the earth to eliminate almost all of the driveway retaining walls.

HIGHEST GOOD FOR ALL PROGRESS – SUSTAINABLE FOOD INFRASTRUCTURE FINAL SITE PLAN / LAYOUT

Here is the final layout of the structures including a cross section drawing looking South. This final design features:

• ADA accessible
• Water collection from all surfaces
• Easy vehicle access for food removal from all structures
• Elimination of almost all retaining walls by replacing them with sloped areas
• Sufficient distance between all structures to avoid shading of other structures
• Easy foot travel (with small climb) from any point to any other point in or around the layout
• Easy lateral expandability in support of our open source goals for adaptability to individual needs
• Central pond for water storage, aesthetic benefit, edible water plants, and wading/swimming
• Storage area for tools and equipment between the 2 Zen Aquapinis
• Plans for a removable dock to assist with functionality for this space as an amphitheater

HIGHEST GOOD FOR ALL PROGRESS – ZEN AQUAPINI DESIGNS

Doug also completed the Zen Aquapini designs based off the ongoing and amazing consulting of Avery Ellis (Aquaponics Specialist and owner/operator of Integrated Aquaponics). In support of our open source goals, these combination aquapinis are purposed to provide a food production system that will be both functional and a beautiful place to relax or entertain people which in turn contributes to the highest good for all progress.

Our goal with these is maximum food diversity and inspiring people to build these in their backyard as a way to produce a volume and diversity of food for all their family and friends (and several additional families) while also creating an aesthetically pleasing place to go and sit “in nature” even when it’s cold and uncomfortable outside. Notable features include:

• Built-in water collection and storage
• Integration of ground-based growing and aquaponics
• Sloped South wall for maximum sun penetration in the winter
• In-ground design for easier temperature control and lower above-ground profile
• Built in water collection and storage for the entire structure

HIGHEST GOOD FOR ALL PROGRESS – ZEN AQUAPINI GROW ZONES

We’re still designing the “zen” and beauty aspects of this structure but here are the grow zones we have to work with:

• 4 Trees (darker green)
• Media Beds (light green): 4 @ 8′ x 4′  = 128 sq feet of MB growing space
• Deep Water Culture (blue): 11 rafts @ 4′ x 4′ = 176 sq feet of DWC growing space
• Sloped Garden Area (Yellow): 600 sq feet (62′ x 9′ + 1/2 of a 10′ x 10′ square)
• Drip System Garden Area (white): 48′ x 10′ = 480 sq feet
• Corner Creeper Grow Zone (orange): 20′ x 1′ = 20 sq feet
• Pond Surface Area: 50 sq feet
• Sloped roof growing area (magenta): approximately 10′ x 16′ = 160 sq feet (not included in total below)

 TOTAL GROWING SPACE PER ZEN AQUAPINI: 1454 square feet

 CLICK HERE FOR COMPLETE DETAILS ON THE OPEN SOURCE HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PORTAL

HIGHEST GOOD FOR ALL PROGRESS – OPEN SOURCE COMMUNITY TIME USE APPLICATION

We also completed our first blog (of 3) about our path to the design of our open source and free-shared time tracking and assessment application. It’s been 2 years in the coming, over 6 months of development, 3 months of beta testing, and continues to evolve.

READ THE ACE APP BLOG #1 | CHECK OUT THE ACE APP

HIGHEST GOOD FOR ALL PROGRESS – OPEN SOURCE EDUCATION FOR LIFE UPDATES

This past week we additionally completed the research for two more pages of the Education for Life Program and completed the web design for two pages too. Here are the two pages that are completed as part of the open source education hub for highest good for all progress:

COMMUNICATION AND LANGUAGE SKILLS | SHARING, GIVING, & RECEIVING

HIGHEST GOOD FOR ALL PROGRESS – SEGO CENTER CITY HUB UPDATES

Karl Harris (Architect Drafter, Designer, and founder of Harris Design & Technology Services) and Charles McLean (Architecture & Urban Agriculture Designer, Professor, and owner of OM Greengroup) also completed the following for the Â SEGO Center City Hub:

• 4th floor bathrooms
• Space planning of the hallway by Social Dome bathrooms
• Cleaning closet addition and access through the Library

All that remains now is the addition of one more emergency exit and we’ll then be back to focusing on 3D renderings of everything while our partners at P2S Engineering are working on what we need to build the SEGO Center as a LEED Platinum certified building.

More info on this component:

SEGO CENTER CITY HUB OVERVIEW | SEGO CENTER DETAILS & OPEN SOURCE HUB

AND WE PRODUCED THIS WEEKLY UPDATES BLOG – CLICK HERE TO SUBSCRIBE

FOLLOW ONE COMMUNITY’S PROGRESS (click icons for our pages)

 

INVESTOR PAGES

OVERVIEW | LOCATION | FUNDING

GET INVOLVED

CONSULTANTS | WAYS ANYONE CAN HELP | MEMBERSHIP

CLICK HERE FOR ALL PAST UPDATES

HIGHEST GOOD FOR ALL PROGRESS – 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 , all for the highest good for all progress. 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.

HIGHEST GOOD FOR ALL PROGRESS – BUILDING THE FIRST OF MANY

One Community will be the first teacher/demonstration hub for the highest good for all progress. 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.

 

HIGHEST GOOD FOR ALL PROGRESS – 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, all for the highest good for all progress. 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 in highest good for all progress, 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.

 

HIGHEST GOOD FOR ALL PROGRESS – 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 in favor of the highest good for all progress.

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.

 

HIGHEST GOOD FOR ALL PROGRESS – COMPREHENSIVE SOLUTION TO HUMANITY’S NEEDS

One Community is open source sharing an evolution of sustainable living that addresses the complete human experience while explaining the highest good for all progress. We are doing this because we see the solutions for global food, housing, energy, education, social inequality, ethical business practices, earth regenerative practices, and a desire for a more fulfilling living experience as inseparably interconnected. As a comprehensive solution, we are addressing all these areas simultaneously and open source free-sharing everything needed for individual duplication and/or duplication as complete self-replicating teacher/demonstration communities, villages, and cities to be built around the world.

As we address and open source share these areas we will establish a living example of the first teacher/demonstration village purposed to teach others. To maximally facilitate duplication, One Community will provide seven duplicable examples and function indefinitely as a place people can visit and a non-profit and open source think tank continuing to further evolve and share solutions in all of the above areas and more. We will also provide hands-on experience and training. Most importantly, growing upon our sustainable foundation, we will endlessly make this comprehensive solution even more widely known and globally accessible, understandable and diversely duplicable, and inspiring and desirable as a model worth duplicating.

 

HIGHEST GOOD FOR ALL PROGRESS – GLOBALLY IMPLEMENTABLE REPLICATION MODEL

The more people that are inspired and desiring for themselves what it is that One Community creates, the more demand there will be for spreading the One Community model and the better the highest good for all progress will be. This leads to the directing of financial resources and resourceful people where we believe they are needed most: the establishment of additional sustainable communities around the world. We also feel this duplication will specifically happen quickly internationally due to the affordability of overseas land, less restrictive building environments, and the spirit of adventure in many people who really desire to make a difference for those who need it most.

To meet the increasing demand for sustainability that we are contributing to, we are coordinating with manufacturers, education institutions, individuals, and vendors. This is also part of this model to help the world. Its purpose is to facilitate more engagement of the sustainability industry, produce the absolute best possible consumer value, and the most convenient delivery of goods and methodologies for building sustainable living communities and sustainable living components.

This means we not only provide education and increase needed sustainability resources, we also address the underlying roadblocks to a sustainable planet by decreasing the cost and simultaneously increasing the demand and generating financial support for global sustainability, philanthropy, and humanitarian movements and organizations.

As demand increases, so too will the ways to participate. Right now people are participating as consultants or partners donating time to our 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization, and others are more involved as Pioneers of the core team that will be moving to the property. We also have options for people to just follow our progress or participate through internet contribution, and all this contribute to highest good for all progress in One Community.

Once the supportive physical infrastructure is about 30% developed, One Community will be ready to additionally expand what we offer to include scholarships, free weekend learning groups, core team members choosing to travel abroad to help others get established too, handling the marketing for all similar models operating for The Highest Good of All, and hosting classes and other sponsored events to promote and demonstrate additional methodologies.

We also imagine the high likelihood that our organization will become a foundation that can be trusted as the donation point for distribution of monies to help others to establish this model also.

 

HIGHEST GOOD FOR ALL PROGRESS – 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 for highest good for all progress 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 while striving for the highest good for all progress.

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 aiming for the highest good for all progress. 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.