Making a Global Difference – One Community Weekly Progress Update #150

Making a global difference is something a lot of people would like to do, but don’t know where to start. Open source solutions for food, energy, housing, education, economics, fulfilled living models, Earth stewardship, and other sustainability foundations can provide options for anyone to help through participation as individuals or a part of a globally collaborative team. One Community calls this a path to 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 the movement of making a global difference as the first of many self-replicating teacher/demonstration communities, villages, and cities to be built around the world. This is the February 7, 2016 edition (#150) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments:

Making a Global Difference
One Community Progress Update #150

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

MAKING A GLOBAL DIFFERENCE INTRO: @1:02

MAKING A GLOBAL DIFFERENCE HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION: @1:54

• Transferred the first 25% of the written content for the Work Lesson Plan to the website (see below)
• Behind the scenes: wrote the final 25% of the written part of the Work Lesson Plan
• Completed the first 25% of the mindmap for the Community Lesson Plan and added the icons to the Community Lesson Plan (see below)

MAKING A GLOBAL DIFFERENCE HIGHEST GOOD FOOD: @3:06

• Completed another round organizing the streamlined version of our Food Self-sufficiency Transition Plan page, which includes contributions provided by Naturopathic Doctor Matt Marturano (see below)

MAKING A GLOBAL DIFFERENCE HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING: @4:01

• Behind the scenes: Put another 10 hours into the revision for the Footers, Foundations and Flooring page for the upcoming crowdfunding campaign (see below)
• Jesika Rohrbach continued working on the Tree House Village (Pod 7) updates (see below)
• Shilcy Augustine continued developing the Compressed Earth Block Village (Pod 4) massage and treatment room spaces (see below)
• Dean Scholz further developed what’s necessary for us to create quality Cob Village (Pod 3) renders (see below)
• Brianna Johnson began exploring color templates and materials for the Straw Bale Village (Pod 2) (see below)

MAKING A GLOBAL DIFFERENCE DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER: @5:49

• Continued the process of learning how to do our own renders for the Duplicable City Center (see below)
• Completed a huge update of the Duplicable City Center open source portal (see below)
• Bupesh Seethala did research into different interface options for the Control Systems faceplate for the visitor rooms’ pallet furniture beds (see below)
• Iris Hsu created additional Pipe Couch designs for the Duplicable City Center library (see below)
• Brianna Johnson took over designing the pipe shelving for the Duplicable City Center library (see below)
• Behind the scenes: Mike Hogan and Lucas Tsutsui da Silva continued discussion about appearance and functional design for the beside-bed Control Systems interface (see below)

MAKING A GLOBAL DIFFERENCE HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY: @7:29

• Began working on a complete update of the One Community Business plan (see below)
• Finished working with Ivan Manzurov to create new icons for all of our pages. This week he created icons for the Highest Good for All component (see below)
• Jacky Tustain began helping us convert LEED Certification research done by Matheus Manfredini into the new LEED Tutorial page (see below)

MAKING A GLOBAL DIFFERENCE SUMMARY: @8:29

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MAKING A GLOBAL DIFFERENCE HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

One Community is making a global difference 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 first 25% of the written content for the Work 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 “Work.”

Behind the scenes, we wrote the final 25% of the written part of this same lesson plan, bringing it to 100% complete and ready for the next steps of transferring it to the website.

We also completed the first 25% of the mindmap for the Community Lesson Plan, and we added the icons to the Community Lesson Plan web page. What you see here is the mindmap:

MAKING A GLOBAL DIFFERENCE HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

One Community is making a global difference 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 organizing 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 further organized the recipes including creating a page for week 4 recipes. The Organization is now approximately 95% complete:

MAKING A GLOBAL DIFFERENCE HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

One Community is making a global difference 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 finishing the narrative for Dome Exterior Finishing and adding title insertions, video title inserts, and the beginning of the step-by-step write-up and review for Section 14: Gutter Construction. We’d say we are now 67% complete with this total update and rewrite behind the scenes.

Working on the Tree House Village (Pod 7), Jesika Rohrbach (Architectural Drafter, Designers, and 3-D Modeler) continued working on the social and recreational space updates you see here. These are design updates 3.0 from Jesika and include reading spaces, kids’ play spaces, game spaces, and the patios for these tree house spaces.

Shilcy Augustine (Architect) also continued developing the Compressed Earth Block Village (Pod 4) massage and treatment room spaces. What you see here are the layouts we decided on, including sinks and the addition of sliding glass doors for all the south-facing walls.

Dean Scholz, Architectural Designer, further developed what’s necessary for us to create quality Cob Village (Pod 3) renders. Here is update 5.0 of this work that focused on the addition of roads and pathways between the North and South wings.

Brianna Johnson (Interior Designer), also began exploring color templates and materials for the Straw Bale Village (Pod 2). Here are examples of what we ultimately settled on.

MAKING A GLOBAL DIFFERENCE DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

One Community is making a global difference 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 continued the process of learning how to do our own renders for the Duplicable City Center. You can see this work-in-progress here, returning to the kitchen with more focus on lights, windows, and materials.

The core team also completed a huge update of the Duplicable City Center open source portal, improving the formatting and adding updated floor plan exports from AutoCAD. You can see all this great work here, and visit the updated page for clickable and enlargeable images.

Bupesh Seethala (Interior Designer) also did this research into different interface options for the Control Systems faceplate that will be built into the visitor rooms’ pallet furniture beds.

Iris Hsu (Industrial Designer), continued with these additional Pipe Couch designs for the Duplicable City Center library. The drawings you see here are her 9th generation drawings focusing on ways to support the back and secure the cushions.

Brianna Johnson (Interior Designer), also took over designing the pipe shelving for the Duplicable City Center library.

Behind the scenes Mike Hogan (Automation Systems Developer and Business Systems Consultant) and Lucas Tsutsui da Silva (4th-year Computer Engineering Student) continued discussion about what the appearance and best functional design should be for the beside-bed Control Systems interface. Here’s Mike showing a 3-D printed box he made.

MAKING A GLOBAL DIFFERENCE HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS

One Community is making a global difference 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 began working on a complete update of the One Community Business plan. What you see here is the beginning of reformatting the plan on a GoogleDoc for easier collaboration and sharing. We’d say we are about 2% done with the complete rewrite and update.

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

Jacky Tustain (Project Manager) also began helping us convert LEED Certification research done by Matheus Manfredini (Civil Engineering Student and Urban Design Coordinator) into a webpage. Here are the first pictures of this LEED Tutorial page developing on the site, starting with initial formatting and content editing. We’d say we’re about 15% complete with this tutorial.

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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 making a global difference . 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. 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 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.