Making a Positive Difference – One Community Weekly Progress Update #99

If making a positive difference is presented as easy enough, affordable enough, and attractive enough, it will predictably gain mainstream support and spread on its own. One Community is creating open source food, energy, housing, education, economic, fulfilled living, and earth stewardship components and combining them as a replicable Highest Good society model for people interested in making a positive difference with how they live. We are designing these to be built as a complete and globally-replicable Highest Good of All teacher/demonstration hubs.

• 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

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 January 23th, 2015 edition (#99) of our weekly progress update detailing the previous week’s development and accomplishments:

Making a Positive Difference
One Community Weekly Progress Update #99

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

MAKING A POSITIVE DIFFERENCE INTRO @1:00

MAKING A POSITIVE DIFFERENCE: HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION @1:58

• Finished image research and first 50% of the “Human Body” lesson plan (see below)
• Behind the scenes completed another 30% of the “Human Body” lesson plan itself (now 60% complete)
• Added the complete explanations for the Lesson Plans How-to tutorial page sections (see below)

MAKING A POSITIVE DIFFERENCE: HIGHEST GOOD FOOD: @3:19

• Researched and added two resources sections to the open source beans hub (see below)
• Researched and added two resources sections to the open source beets hub (see below)
• Researched and added two resources sections to the open source celery hub (see below)
• Researched and added two resources sections to the open source lettuce hub (see below)
• Researched and added two resources sections to the open source corn hub (see below)
• Benjamin Sessions helped us begin adding images to the Food Self-sufficiency Transition Plan page (now about 20% done – see below)

MAKING A POSITIVE DIFFERENCE: HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING: @4:17

• Finished another 5% of the Open Source Murphy bed furniture assembly details behind the scenes (10% done – see below)
• Behind the scenes: finished the first 10% of the earthdome window and door framing reformatting
• Completed website addition of video outline specifics for the Site Clearing, Preparation, and Maintenance (see below)
• Samuel Soroaster created the initial draft of our updated bathroom design (see below)

MAKING A POSITIVE DIFFERENCE: DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER: @5:51

• Jennifer Engelmeier helped us add another 50% to hardware components of the open source eco-pool design page (see below)

MAKING A POSITIVE DIFFERENCE: HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY: @6:54

• Created new social media imagery and updated and featured our Lesson Plans for Life page (see below)
• Created new social media imagery and updated and featured our our Honesty and Integrity page (see below)
• Added new icon links to our website making it easier to volunteer, donate, shop, and find these updates (see below)

MAKING A POSITIVE DIFFERENCE SUMMARY: @7:40

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MAKING A POSITIVE DIFFERENCE

HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

One Community is making a positive 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 of making a positive difference: Education open source hub
• Learn how the components work together: How to use the Education for Life Program
  

This last week the core team finished all the image research and initial design work for the first 50% of the “Human Body” lesson plan mind map on making a positive difference you see here:

Behind the scenes we also completed another 30% of the “Human Body” lesson plan design itself – bringing us to 60% making a positive difference complete.

This last week we also added the complete explanations you see here for the Lesson Plans How-to tutorial page. These descriptions on making a positive difference go with the image we created the week before to teach people all the components of the lesson plan pages. This brings the Lesson Plans How-to page to about 50% complete. Next will be providing several complete and detailed lesson plan examples and an FAQ.

MAKING A POSITVE DIFFERENCE

HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

One Community is making a positive difference through Â 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 making a positive difference 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 researched and added two resources sections to the open source beans hub, the open source beets hub, the open source celery hub, the open source lettuce hub, and the open source corn hub:

Click for Beans Page

Click for Beets Page

Click for Celery Page

Click for Lettuce Page

Click for Corn Page

We also began adding images to the excellent work Benjamin Sessions has been doing for the Food Self-sufficiency Transition Plan that is now about 20% done on the website:

MAKING A POSITIVE DIFFERENCE

HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

One Community is making a positive difference through Â 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 making a positive difference: 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 continued laying out the specifics for the Open Source Murphy bed furniture assembly details. You can see a behind-the-scenes image of this work in progress here. We estimate we are now 10% complete with what is needed in making a positive difference for the website:

Also behind the scenes, we finished the first 10% of the earthdome window and door framing reformatting details needed before moving these specifics to the website. Both the Murphy bed furniture and earthdome window and door framing details are part of the upcoming crowdfunding campaign on making a positive difference

Also for that campaign, we completed website addition of the total video outline specifics for the Site Clearing, Preparation, and Maintenance section of the site:

In addition to this, Samuel Soroaster (Permaculturalist and sustainable designer from Green New World), created this initial draft of our updated bathroom design for 2 of the 4 toilet domes in the Earthbag Village. This design will incorporate increased water collection, reuse of greywater to flush the toilets, and provide an alternative to the vermiculture design we’ll use for the other two bathrooms, thus, making a positive difference.

DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

One Community is making a positive 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 last week the core team added another 50% to hardware components of the open source eco-pool design page thanks to the information and specifics provided by Jennifer Engelmeier, our Eco-pool and Spa Specialist and founder of www.LoveYourNaturalPool.com

MAKING A POSTIVE DIFFERENCE

HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS

One Community is making a positive 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 created new social media imagery and updated and featured our Lesson Plans for Life page that shares the 12 lesson plans we’ve completed and the additional 30 we’re still working on. We also added social media imagery for our Honesty and Integrity core values page sharing how we use this value in our decision making process and strategy for global change.

Click for Lesson Plans for Life Page

Click for Honesty and Integrity Page

We also added new icon links to our website making it easier to volunteer, donate, shop, and find these updates. Here’s what these new icons look like:

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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. 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.

 

COMPREHENSIVE SOLUTION TO HUMANITY’S NEEDS

One Community is open source sharing an evolution of sustainable living that addresses the complete human experience. 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.

 

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. 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.