New-paradigm humanitarianism is a model for creating a sustainable world that benefits everyone. Through sustainable and open source solutions for food, energy, housing, education, economics, fulfilled living models, Earth stewardship, and more, people can live sustainably and improve their own lives while also helping to create a better planet and life for others. One Community calls this a path to living and creating for The Highest Good of All:
Click on each icon to be taken to the corresponding Highest Good hub page.
One Community’s physical location will forward the movement of new-paradigm humanitarianism as the first of many self-replicating teacher/demonstration communities, villages, and cities to be built around the world. This is the February 21, 2016 edition (#152) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments:
Here is the bullet-point list of this last week’s design and progress discussed in detail in the video above:
NEW-PARADIGM HUMANITARIANISM INTRO: @1:03
NEW-PARADIGM HUMANITARIANISM HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION: @1:54
NEW-PARADIGM HUMANITARIANISM HIGHEST GOOD FOOD: @2:56
NEW-PARADIGM HUMANITARIANISM HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING: @3:49
NEW-PARADIGM HUMANITARIANISM DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER: @5:35
NEW-PARADIGM HUMANITARIANISM HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY: @7:01
NEW-PARADIGM HUMANITARIANISM SUMMARY: @7:56
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One Community is facilitating new-paradigm humanitarianism 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 last week the core team transferred the third 25% of the written content for the Work Lesson Plan to the website, as you can see here:
Behind the scenes, we wrote the first 25% of the written part of the Summer Lesson Plan.
We also completed the third 25% of the mindmap for the Community Lesson Plan, which you see here:
One Community is facilitating new-paradigm humanitarianism 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:
We completed another round of 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 worked on the transition kitchen page. The food hub renovation is now approximately 97% complete.
One Community is facilitating new-paradigm humanitarianism 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:
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 editing and inserting title steps for Section 5: Centerpoint Re-establishment; Reviewing, editing, and inserting title steps for Section 6 Footer Construction; and reviewing, editing, and inserting title steps and adding introduction for Section 7: Polyethylene Installation. Also the new Sketchup drawing you just saw for the dome-home excavation details. We’d say we are now 69% complete with this total update and rewrite behind the scenes.
Working on the Tree House Village (Pod 7) with Jesika Rohrbach (Architectural Drafter, Designer, and 3-D Modeler), we also began planning the specifics of which units will be where. Taking the images you see on the left and forming the plan below and the updated map on the right.
Dean Scholz, Architectural Designer, further developed what’s necessary for us to create quality Cob Village (Pod 3) renders. Here is update 7.0 of this work that focused on more details for the increased size of the maker’s spaces in both of the North wings, plus designs for recreational shade structures and sitting spaces.
Brianna Johnson (Interior Designer), also began evolving the renders for the Straw Bale Village (Pod 2). What you see here is a test render of the bathroom area in the dining hall.
One Community is facilitating new-paradigm humanitarianism 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:
This week the core team continued the process of learning how to do our own renders for the Duplicable City Center. What you see here is the kitchen getting close to complete with fixed window materials settings, stainless steel materials, and floor updates.
Bupesh Seethala (Interior Designer) also created this analysis of the City Center library chairs designed by Iris Hsu (Industrial Designer), using a larger person than we did to identify possible legroom issues (top 4 pics). We then took this design on the bottom left and proposed changes to correct this issue (bottom right).
Iris Hsu (Industrial Designer), finalized the Pipe Couch designs for the Duplicable City Center library and created these renders showing what the final design looks like and the diversity of ways these couches can be arranged.
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. This week’s work included creating a criteria chart to compare priorities for the design and researching and discussing more types of knobs and buttons.
One Community is facilitating new-paradigm humanitarianism 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:
This last week the core team continued working on a complete update of the One Community Business plan. What you see here is our 3rd week of reformatting the plan on a GoogleDoc for easier collaboration and sharing. We’d say we are about 15% done with the complete rewrite and update.
Behind the scenes we also moved our sites again to a new host, this time to give us more space.
Jacky Tustain (Project Manager) also continued helping us convert the LEED Certification research done by Matheus Manfredini (Civil Engineering Student and Urban Design Coordinator) into a webpage. Here are the 3rd round of pictures of this LEED Tutorial page developing on the site, continuing with formatting and content editing. We’d say we’re about 40% complete with this tutorial.
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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 and supporting new-paradigm humanitarianism. 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.