More Good Things in Life – One Community Weekly Progress Update #317

More good things in life seems like a worthwhile goal. Sustainability can support this by reducing our living expenses. Community can support this by better meeting our emotional needs. One Community is designing open source and free-shared teacher/demonstration hubs to demonstrate and share both as replicable components of a global collaboration 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

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, achieving more good things in life. This is the April 21st, 2019 edition (#317) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments:

More Good Things in Life
One Community Progress Update #317

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

MORE GOOD THINGS IN LIFE INTRO: @0:34

MORE GOOD THINGS IN LIFE – HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING: @7:10

• Dean Scholz continued working on the Earthbag Village; finishing the housing dome structures and working on the new doors and above-door window designs (see below)
• Shadi Kennedy completed his 47th week leading the development of the Murphy bed instructions; creating a new “Pro Tip” icon (see below)
• Hemanth Kotaru completed his 33rd week helping with the structural engineering research and calculations for the Earthbag Village (see below)

MORE GOOD THINGS IN LIFE – DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER: @8:30

• Continued the process of 3D modeling the new Duplicable City Center interior design details for the library (see below)
• Created a template and started testing different colors combinations for the sun graphic we’d like on the City Center Library wall and Social Dome floor (see below)
• Redid the AutoCAD lighting specifics for the City Center Library to match the recent interior design updates (see below)
• Dipti Dhondarkar continued with her 112th week volunteering by re-modeling the library in DIALux to test these new furniture layouts and developing the lighting designs (see below)
• Anvita Kumari Pandey continued helping with the Duplicable City Center Costs; researching new LED bulb options and continued updating the paint, primer, and sealer costs and area calculations (see below)
• Tanya Griffin, Aubryanne Boyle, and Allie Marsh (Interior Designers from Lotus Designs) completed their 17th week helping with the Duplicable City Center interior design details (see below)
• Sneha Dongre continued with her 10th week helping with the Duplicable City Center structural details (see below)
• Elizabeth Kahn began researching the most sustainable hand dryer options for the upcoming most sustainable hand dryer options page (see below)

MORE GOOD THINGS IN LIFE – HIGHEST GOOD FOOD: @10:54

• Continued writing the behind-the-scenes narrative and detailed food rollout plan for the various stages of development (see below)
• Guy Grossfeld completed his 15th week working on creating an open source icon and symbol set for our permaculture designs (see below)

MORE GOOD THINGS IN LIFE – HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION: @11:47

• With over 8 years of development invested in the Education for Life component, this part of One Community is now complete enough to no longer focus and report on it with weekly updates. That is, of course, until we move onto the property and continue the development and open sourcing process with teachers and students. Visit the Education section below for links to all the completed elements of this component and details on the final remaining action items for this area of One Community before moving onto the property and fully launching it.

MORE GOOD THINGS IN LIFE – HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY: @12:53

• Core team working with Brian Gilb continued with our 2nd week of updating our business plan and editing related content to simplify several of associated overview pages (see below)
• Emilio Nájera created the campaigns for the Sustainable Community Building, Taking care of Earth, Water-Saving Toilets, and Water-Saving Shower Heads (see below)
• Jin Hua helped review Emilio’s work and created another tutorial video to help Emilio continue to refine the ads as he posts them (see below)

MORE GOOD THINGS IN LIFE SUMMARY: @14:05

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HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

One Community is helping people achieve more good things in life 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 week, Dean Scholz (Architectural Designer) continued working on the Earthbag Village (Pod 1), in pursuit of more good things in life. Here is weekly update #155 from Dean. This week’s focus, as shown in these images, was finishing the housing dome structures and working on the new doors and above-door window designs.

Shadi Kennedy (Artist and Graphic Designer) also completed his 47th week leading the development of the Murphy bed instructions, in favor of more good things in life. This week’s focus was creating a new “Pro Tip” icon that will include a QR code for additional web and video tutorials for improving the designs and another round of additions and updates to the electrical details. You can see some of this work here.

Hemanth Kotaru (Structural Engineer) completed his 33rd week helping with the structural engineering research and calculations for the Earthbag Village (Pod 1), contributing to more good things in life. This week he added cost analysis details for the nails that pass the engineering tests and finished the final version of the tutorial for the nail and rebar selection and spacing tool by adding cell number references and final content details. You can see this behind-the-scenes work here.

DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

One Community is helping people achieve more good things in life 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 3D modeling the new Duplicable City Center interior design details for the library, dedicated to more good things in life. This week we updated the texture for the brown sofa’s pillows to leather, changed the color of the green bean bag to red, and added books to the bookshelves on the right side. We also added a 1″ divider between the floor colors and placed different color pads on the bench.

HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

One Community is helping people achieve more good things in life 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 writing the behind-the-scenes narrative and detailed food rollout plan, in favor of more good things in life. We continued revising our goat care details by reviewing “Our Daily Goat Routine at Chick-a-Woof Ranch” video that focuses primarily on one farm’s daily goat routine, and then transcribing the steps and adding them to our Goggle Doc. You can see some of this behind-the-scenes work here.

Guy Grossfeld (Graphic Designer) also completed his 15th week working on creating an open source icon and symbol set for our permaculture designs. This week he finished final edits and additions to wrap up his part of this open source component.

HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

One Community is building the foundations for how humanity creates a sustainable world 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. This component of One Community is about 95% complete with only the Open Source School Licensing and Ultimate Classroom construction and assembly details remaining to be finished. We’ll report on the final two elements to be finished as we develop them.

With over 8 years of work invested in the process, the sections below are all complete until we move onto the property and continue the development and open sourcing process with teachers and students – a development process that is built directly into the structure of the education program and everything else we’re creating too:

• Program Overview: Education Open Source Hub
• How the components work together: How to use the Education for Life Program
  
• Lesson Plans for Life – Lesson Plans How-to
• Foundations of Outstanding Leaders, Teachers, and Communicators
• Curriculum for Life
• Teaching Strategies for Life
• Learning Tools and Toys for Life
• Evaluation and Evolution

HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS

One Community is helping people achieve more good things in life 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 working with Brian Gilb (Project Management Professional – PMP) continued with our 2nd week of updating our business plan and editing related content to simplify several of associated overview pages, contributing to more good things in life. This week’s focus was rewriting the Values page and writing draft 1 of the SWOT Analysis, Open Source Library Charter, and Village Construction Charter. You can see some of this behind-the-scenes work here.

Emilio Nájera (Digital Marketer) also continued with his 27th week as part of the marketing team. This week’s focus was creating the campaigns for the Sustainable Community Building, Taking care of Earth, Water-Saving Toilets, and Water-Saving Shower Heads. You can see some of this work here.

And Jin Hua (Web and Graphic Designer) helped review Emilio’s work and created another tutorial video to help Emilio continue to refine the ads as he posts them.

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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 more good things in life. 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 more good things in life.

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 more good things in life. 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 more good things in life.

WHY ONE COMMUNITY IS CREATING THIS

The One Community self-replicating model is capable of creating a sustainable planet within 30 years through more good things in life. 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 more good things in life. 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 more good things in life.

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 more good things in life.  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 more good things in life.

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 more good things in life. 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 more good things in life.

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 more good things in life. 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: More Good Things in Life 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: More Good Things in Life 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: More Good Things in Life 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: More Good Things in Life 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 more good things in life.

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 more good things in life.
• 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 more good things in life 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 more good things in life.