Making the World Work for Everyone – One Community Weekly Progress Update #276

What better goal is there than making the world work for everyone? We now have the technology and resources to sustainably provide food, energy, and housing for every person on the planet. We can provide more fulfilling lifestyles, sustainable economic models, and more empowering and free-thinking education models too. One Community is designing and open sourcing these solutions and more as self-replicating teacher/demonstration communities, villages, and cities with the ability to create a world that works for everyone within our lifetime.

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• 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, making the world work for everyone. This is the July 8, 2018 edition (#276) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments:

Making the World Work for Everyone
One Community Progress Update #276

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

MAKING THE WORLD WORK FOR EVERYONE INTRO: @0:34

MAKING THE WORLD WORK FOR EVERYONE – HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING: @7:48

• Hemanth Kotaru completed his 15th week helping with the structural engineering research and calculations for the Earthbag Village (see below)
• Mike Kowalski continued working on the Earthbag Village renders and successfully finished the initial merge of our three primary village and landscaping files (see below)
• Shadi Kennedy completed his 14th week leading the development of the Murphy bed instructions (see below)
• Dean Scholz continued with the Cob Village render updates (see below)
• Michael Hagler finished two updated versions of the Cob Village introduction and summary spreads for the 7-villages book (see below)
• Dan Alleck completed his 22nd week working on the Compressed Earth Block Village render additions (see below)

MAKING THE WORLD WORK FOR EVERYONE – DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER: @9:49

• Began rebuilding the City Center geodesic dome in 3D to reflect our simpler design (see below)
• Finished the City Center basement and root cellar storage redesign in Sketchup (see below)
• Updated the floor plans on the City Center main open source hub and Eco-kitchen pages (see below)
• Created three overview images that will be used as part of the 7-Villages books were creating (see below)
• Dipti Dhondarkar and the core team continued developing the lighting specifics for the City Center (see below)
• Dipti ran initial tests for the hallway areas (see below)
• Haoxuan “Hayes” Lei continued work on the City Center structural engineering (see below)
• Anvita Kumari Pandey completed her 12th week helping with the Duplicable City Center Materials and Costs (see below)
• Dehua Feng completed his 10th week working on the fire suppression and safety systems designs for the City Center (see below)

MAKING THE WORLD WORK FOR EVERYONE – HIGHEST GOOD FOOD: @12:08

• Returned to developing the Permaculture Design open source hub (see below)

MAKING THE WORLD WORK FOR EVERYONE – HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION: @12:37

• Finished rebuilding and writing the content for the Collaborative Team Roles and Training page (see below)

MAKING THE WORLD WORK FOR EVERYONE – HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY: @13:12

MAKING THE WORLD WORK FOR EVERYONE SUMMARY: @13:32

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HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

One Community is making the world work for everyone 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 past week, Hemanth Kotaru (Structural Engineer) completed his 15th week helping with the structural engineering research and calculations for the Earthbag Village (Pod 1), making the world work for everyone. This week’s focus was researching bond beam use and other stabilization approaches for permitted construction in seismic zones.

Structural Engineering Research and Calculations for the Earthbag Village – Click for Page

Mike Kowalski (Game Developer) finished his 12th week helping update our renders that are too big for anything but a gaming computer, in pursuit of making the world work for everyone. This week Mike continued working on the Earthbag Village (Pod 1) and successfully finished the initial merge of our three primary village and landscaping files. You can see a couple of his test renders here.

Finished Initial Merge of our 3 Primary Village and Landscaping Files – Click for Page

Also, Shadi Kennedy (Artist and Graphic Designer) completed his 14th week leading the development of the Murphy bed instructions, contributing to making the world work for everyone. This week Shadi further developed the pages you see here for assembling the back storage area component. This work-in-progress included creation of several new pages, adding steps to existing pages, and several parts updates.

Continued Leading the Development of the Murphy Bed Instructions ” Click for Page

Dean Scholz (Architectural Designer) continued with the Cob Village (Pod 3) render updates also. Here is update 121 of Dean’s work showing this final section view of one of the Cob Village living units. This image is now on the website also.

Continued Cob Village Render Updates ” Click for Page

Michael Hagler (Senior Graphic Designer and Artist) also finished these two updated versions of the Cob Village (Pod 3) introduction and summary spreads for the 7-villages book. These are both on the website now also.

Two Updated Versions of Cob Village Introduction and Summary Spreads for the 7-Villages Book

Dan Alleck (Designer and Illustrator) completed his 22nd week working on the Compressed Earth Block Village render additions, dedicated to making the world work for everyone. This week he began work on this render of one of the living units by replacing the ceiling, outdoor details, and adding in initial people and room elements.

Continued Working on Compressed Earth Block Village Render Additions – Click for Page

DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

One Community is creating sustainable patterns 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 began rebuilding the City Center geodesic dome in 3D to reflect our simpler design, double check our beam lengths, and work to minimize the number of different beam lengths needed for DIY construction of a structure this large and complex.

Began Rebuilding the City Center Geodesic Dome in 3D – Click for Page

Finished the City Center Basement and Root Cellar Storage Redesign in SketchUp – Click for Page

The core team also updated the floor plans on the City Center main open source hub and Eco-kitchen pages, some of which you can see here.

Updated Floor Plans on the City Center Main Open Source Hub – Click for City Center

And the core team created these three overview images that will be used as part of the 7-Villages books were creating. They show the City Center control systems and initial plumbing and electrical systems designs.

Created 3 Overview Images for Part of the 7-Villages Book We’re Creating – Click for Housing Page

The core team working with Dipti Dhondarkar (Electrical Engineer) also continued developing the lighting specifics for the City Center, making the world work for everyone. This is Dipti’s 84th week volunteering on this task and the focus this week was a new round of lighting tests for the public bathrooms, some of which you can see here.

Continued Developing the Lighting Specifics for the City Center ” Click for Page

Dipti also ran initial tests for the hallway areas. You can see some of this work here.

Ran Initial Tests for Lighting of City Center Hallway Areas – Click for Page

Haoxuan “Hayes” Lei (Structural Engineer) continued work on the City Center structural engineering by redoing the beam layout and labeling system to what you see here.

Updated City Center Beam Layout and Labeling System – Click for City Center Engineering Page

Anvita Kumari Pandey (Civil Engineer) completed her 12th week helping with the Duplicable City Center Materials and Costs, in pursuit of making the world work for everyone. This week’s focus was changes in furniture selection for the cupola, Living Dome lighting cost analysis, review and changes to the kitchen equipment costs,  adding all equipment images, and standardizing the dome structural members. You can see some of this work here.

Continued Helping with the Duplicable City Center Materials and Costs ” Click for Page

Last but not least, Dehua Feng (Civil Engineer) completed his 10th week working on the fire suppression and safety systems designs for the City Center. This week he focused mostly on pressure requirement calculations and updates along with related changes to the zones and piping layouts, some of which you can see here.

Continued Work on Fire Suppression and Safety Systems Design for the City Center ” Click for Page

HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

One Community is making the world work for everyone 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 week, the core team returned to developing the Permaculture Design open source hub. We created and added a new header image, SWOT Analysis section, and added all the permaculture graphics finished so far.

Returned to Developing the Permaculture Design Open Source Hub – Click to Visit

HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

One Community is making the world work for everyone 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 week, the core team finished rebuilding and writing the content for the Collaborative Team Roles and Training page so it is as complete and comprehensive as all the other pages of the Evaluation and Evolution component of the Learning for Life program. You can some of this newly finished page here.

Finished Rebuilding and Writing Content for Collaborative Team Roles and Training Page – Visit

HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS

One Community is making the world work for everyone 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

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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, committed to making the world work for everyone. 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 in terms of making the world work for everyone.

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, all aimed at making the world work for everyone. 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 for the making the world work for everyone.

WHY ONE COMMUNITY IS CREATING THIS

The One Community self-replicating model is capable of creating a sustainable planet within 30 years through the making the world work for everyone. 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, further promoting the ideals of the making the world work for everyone. 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, furthering the cause of the making the world work for everyone.

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, contributing to the making the world work for everyone.  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, ultimately aiming for making the world work 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, all in pursuit of making the world work for everyone. 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, all contributing to making the world work for everyone.

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 the principles of making the world work for everyone. 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.

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: Making the World Work for Everyone by 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: Making the World Work for Everyone with 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: Making the World Work for Everyone by 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: Making the World Work for Everyone with 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.

WHY OPEN SOURCE

We are creating everything One Community does as open source and free-shared blueprints because we see this as the path to a new Golden Age of creativity, innovation, cooperation, and collaboration for all of humanity. Our model is a solution model that creates additional solution creating models enabling people to live and collaborate globally for The Highest Good of All. The easier we make everything we do, the faster we see the world transitioning the faster we see the world transitioning towards making the world work for everyone.

Every aspect of this model supports itself and contributes to its success, from the sustainable food, energy, and homes, to the social architecture, One Community Education Program, and open source sharing model itself. Each piece can be accessed, evolved, and even re-birthed as something completely new. It can be duplicated by itself or with other modules, with applications as diverse as the people who want and need them. The constantly expanding total model will additionally be able to be used in its entirety as the open source project-launch blueprint for a variety of duplicate teacher/demonstration communities, villages, and cities capable of being built virtually anywhere.

The most profound part is: the more we open source share, the more we help move everyone forward, the more people know about what we are doing and can participate, and the more successful and capable we are of project-launch blueprinting and sharing even more still. This is all supported and made possible because:

• We have the team to produce an extensive quality and diversity of tools and resources
• It gives us the opportunity to broaden the concept of sustainability and make it more desirable
• Areas we open source expand our ability to evolve even faster through global collaboration
• Each new area open sourced expands our target audience, advancing our world changing goals and contributing to making the world work for everyone.
• The more we show our ability to share what we are creating, the more others will benefit and want to join this movement and mimic the part we are playing in it

OPEN SOURCE SHARING STRATEGY SPECIFICS

One Community’s open source strategy for making the world work for everyone will evolve 5 primary types of open source content purposed to reach and service as broad an audience as possible. This includes the following mediums of sharing that are being developed to function as standalone resources or in combination with each other:

• Video tutorials
• Audio tutorials
• Live streaming video
• Direct/live interaction
• Written content and downloadable PDFs

Maximum exposure is accomplished through simultaneous implementation of the following strategies:

• Free-shared audio, visual, and PDF downloads
• Scholarship and intern programs for direct learning
• Videoing or live-streaming almost all classes and activities
• Tourism option for involvement in almost all aspects of One Community
• Dedicated and search engine optimized sections of our website for each key area
• Our established infrastructure that simultaneously posts to over 20 social networks

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 all aimed at making the world work for everyone.