Making Utopia a Reality – One Community Weekly Progress Update #229

It is interesting to observe the stigma against mentioning utopia, or making utopia a reality on Earth, when war, destruction, and the newest multi-billion dollar casino are accepted as part of our current reality. The fact is, however, that amazing things are being created and for any utopian vision to happen, all it needs is to be something that is accessible to everyone and accomplishable with resources available to average people. A viable society or civilization such as this should address human needs from a perspective of fulfilled living as well as sustainable food, energy, and construction practices to combine internal/emotional needs with external/survival needs and provide sustainability for the complete human experience structured for The Highest Good of All.

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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. This is the August 13th, 2017 edition (#229) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments:

Making Utopia a Reality
One Community Progress Update #229

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

MAKING UTOPIA A REALITY INTRO: @0:34

MAKING UTOPIA A REALITY: HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING: @5:54

MAKING UTOPIA A REALITY: DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER: @8:11

• Completed the final round of revisions for the DIY Pipe Furniture page (see below)
• Finished adding the rest of the text to the PV Solar micro-grid tutorial (see below)
• Dipti Dhondarkar continued with her 45th week of work on the lighting specifics for the City Center (see below)
• Vamsi Pulugurtha completed initial heat loss into the ground report as part of the City Center Heating and Cooling open source hub (see below)

MAKING UTOPIA A REALITY: HIGHEST GOOD FOOD: @9:27

• Continued editing the Food Self-sufficiency Transition Plan pages, and created the new Food Procurement and Storage Plan page (see below)

MAKING UTOPIA A REALITY: HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION: @9:56

• Continued the process of a final proofreading and editing of all 52 lesson plans (see below)
• Added our research from last week to the Montessori page and updated all that page’s formatting (see below)

MAKING UTOPIA A REALITY: HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY: @10:43

• Updated and expanded our social media reach by setting up and including another 8 networks in our list of those we post to each week (see below)
• Invested several more hours finishing developing the spreadsheet showing where all our collaborators and volunteers are from (see below)
• Updated our profile and other details necessary to gain Platinum status on GuideStar and added a footer GuideStar link that will take you to our profile there (see below)
• Sowmya Manohar working on the Highest Good Network software began adding Ember views on the My Account page for displaying Details and Edit modes (see below)
• Vivian Rodrigues finished translating the Open Source page in Portuguese (see below)

MAKING UTOPIA A REALITY SUMMARY: @12:09

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MAKING UTOPIA A REALITY: HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

One Community is making utopia a reality 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 updated the header and other website graphics related to the Compressed Earth Block Village master render from last week.

MAKING UTOPIA A REALITY: DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

One Community is making utopia a reality 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 completed the final round of revisions for the DIY Pipe Furniture page. These included reorganizing the order of the sections and many of the images, adding the open source files to the open source folders, updating the table of contents links, and beginning the creation process for the final header and social media images.

The core team also finished adding the rest of the text to the PV Solar micro-grid tutorial. You can see some of the final additions here.

Dipti Dhondarkar, (Electrical Engineer) continued with her 45th week of work on the lighting specifics for the City Center. This week’s focus was adding additional chair and table details to the Social Dome. These extra details created program errors and so we’re exploring lesser approaches.

Vamsi Pulugurtha (Mechanical Engineer) also completed this initial heat loss into the ground report as part of the City Center Heating and Cooling open source hub.

MAKING UTOPIA A REALITY: HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

One Community is making utopia a reality 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 continued editing the Food Self-sufficiency Transition Plan pages, and created the new Food Procurement and Storage Plan page, as you see here.

MAKING UTOPIA A REALITY: HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

One Community is making utopia a reality 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 continued the process of a final proofreading and editing of all 52 lesson plans. This week we completed the Cognition Lesson Plan and the Cosmos Lesson Plan. This brings us to 44 of 52 finished, which is 84.6% completion.

The core team also added our research from last week to the Montessori page and updated all that page’s formatting, you can see some of that work here.

MAKING UTOPIA A REALITY: HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS

One Community is making utopia a reality 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 week the core team updated and expanded our social media reach by setting up and including another 8 networks in our list of those we post to each week. You can see the complete list here.

The core team also invested several more hours finishing developing the spreadsheet showing where all our collaborators and volunteers are from. This information is needed for the new graphic and video we’re creating to highlight the global nature of our team.

And we updated our profile and other details necessary to gain Platinum status on GuideStar and added a footer GuideStar link that will take you to our profile there.

In addition to this, Sowmya Manohar (Software Engineer, Web Developer & Net Application Developer) working on the Highest Good Network software began adding Ember views on the My Account page for displaying Details and Edit modes. You can see some of this work here.

And Vivian Rodrigues (Translator) also continued helping translate our overview pages. This week she finished the Open Source page as shown here in Portuguese.

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WHAT ONE COMMUNITY IS CREATING

One Community is dedicated to making utopia a reality by 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, making utopia a reality. A place based on compassion, kindness, and collaboration. This replicable community will serve as an example of what is possible.

Throughout our design process of making utopia a reality, 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, making utopia a reality. 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 making utopia a reality by 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, and resources, and work together as a network to heal the planet. They will also transform the global lifestyle into 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, making utopia a reality. Research supporting and showing the benefits of a model like this can be found in 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, making utopia a reality. 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, making utopia a reality, that simultaneously addresses 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, making utopia a reality. 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, making utopia a reality. 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, making utopia a reality. 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, making utopia a reality. 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, making utopia a reality. 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, making utopia a reality. This is also part of this model to help the world. Its purpose is to facilitate more engagement in 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, but 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, making utopia a reality.

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.

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, making utopia a reality.

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.

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:

Making Utopia a Reality 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.

Making Utopia a Reality 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.

Making Utopia a Reality 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. 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.

Making Utopia a Reality 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.