Global sustainable change will happen once it is demonstrated as easy enough, affordable, and attractive enough. Open source and free-sharing complete sustainable villages that include food, energy, housing, education, economics, and a more fulfilled and enriching way of living is one way to facilitate this. We call this living and creating 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 the movement of global sustainable change as the first of many self-replicating teacher/demonstration communities, villages, and cities to be built around the world. This is the March 13th, 2016 edition (#155) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments:

Global Sustainable Change
One Community Progress Update #155

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

GLOBAL SUSTAINABLE CHANGE INTRO: @1:05

GLOBAL SUSTAINABLE CHANGE HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION: @1:57

• Transferred the second 25% of the written content for the Cooperation and Collaboration Lesson Plan to the website (see below)
• Behind the scenes: Wrote the third 25% of the written part of the Cooperation and Collaboration Lesson Plan
• Completed the second 25% of the mindmap for the Work Lesson Plan (see below)

GLOBAL SUSTAINABLE CHANGE HIGHEST GOOD FOOD: @3:17

• Updated and further developed the work of Ana Flavia Almeida into renders for the Transitory Kitchen (see below)

GLOBAL SUSTAINABLE CHANGE HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING: @4:02

• Put another 10 hours into the behind-the-scenes revision for the Footers, Foundations and Flooring page for the crowdfunding campaign we are developing (see below)
• Jesika Rohrbach began designing the details of the playroom structure of the Tree House Village (see below)
• Dean Scholz further developed what’s necessary for us to create quality Cob Village renders (see below)
• Brianna Johnson continued evolving the renders for the Straw Bale Village (see below)

GLOBAL SUSTAINABLE CHANGE DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER: @5:40

• Continued working on the renders for the Duplicable City Center (see below)
• Bupesh Seethala finished updating the Natural Pool details (see below)
• Iris Hsu continued finalizing the Pipe Couch designs for the Duplicable City Center library (see below)
• Brianna Johnson started working on the pipe shelving for the library (see below)
• Behind the scenes: Mike Hogan and Lucas Tsutsui da Silva continued development of the Control Systems main panel (see below)

GLOBAL SUSTAINABLE CHANGE HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY: @7:28

• Continued working on a complete update of the One Community Business plan (see below)
• Jacky Tustain also continued helping us convert the LEED Certification research done by Matheus Manfredini into a webpage (see below)
• Oz Czerski helped us draw up these first drafts of our trademark infringement letters and then went through the process of editing them with our team (see below)

GLOBAL SUSTAINABLE CHANGE SUMMARY: @8:41

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GLOBAL SUSTAINABLE CHANGE HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

One Community is forwarding global sustainable change 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 last week the core team transferred the second 25% of the written content for the Cooperation and Collaboration Lesson Plan to the website, as you see here. This lesson plan purposed to teach all subjects, to all learning levels, in any learning environment, using the central theme of “Cooperation and Collaboration” is now 50% completed on our website.

Global Sustainable Change ” Cooperation and Collaboration Lesson Plan ” 50% Complete

Behind the scenes, we wrote the third 25% of the written part of the Cooperation and Collaboration Lesson Plan, bringing it to 75% complete.

We also completed the second 25% of the mindmap for the Work Lesson Plan, bringing it to 50% complete, which you see here:

Global Sustainable Change ” Lesson Plan Mindmap for Work ” 50% Complete – Click to Visit Page

GLOBAL SUSTAINABLE CHANGE HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

One Community is forwarding global sustainable change 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 last week the core team updated and further developed the work of Ana Flavia Almeida (Architecture and Urban Planning Student) into these renders for the Transitory Kitchen purposed to feed 50 people in remote locations during sustainable village construction.

Further Developed Ana Flavia Almeida’s Work into Renders for the Transitory Kitchen – Click to Visit

GLOBAL SUSTAINABLE CHANGE HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

One Community is forwarding global sustainable change 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 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 review of the FFF CAD drawings and changing the original horizontal insulation to vertical insulation against the earthbag walls in Section 11. We’d say we are now 72% complete with this total update and rewrite behind the scenes:

Continued Behind-the-Scenes Revision of the Footers, Foundations and Flooring Info ” Click to Visit

Working on the Tree House Village (Pod 7), Jesika Rohrbach (Architectural Drafter, Designer, and 3-D Modeler) also began designing the details of the playroom structure with a screen enclosure added for child safety, and the kitchen structure with wrap around seating, both of which are shown here:

Designed Details of the Tree House Village Playroom Structure and the Kitchen Structure

Dean Scholz, Architectural Designer, further developed what’s necessary for us to create quality Cob Village (Pod 3) renders. Here is update 10 of this work that focused on more shade structure designs, textures, and additional aesthetic details.

Further Developed What’s Necessary to Create Quality Cob Village Renders ” Click to Visit Page

Brianna Johnson (Interior Designer), also continued evolving the renders for the Straw Bale Village (Pod 2). What you see here is the 2nd render of the central recreation space now with new railings, stairs, and kids’ playroom details you can see in the background.

Global Sustainable Change ” Continued Evolving the Renders for the Straw Bale Village

GLOBAL SUSTAINABLE CHANGE DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

One Community is forwarding global sustainable change 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 working on the renders for the Duplicable City Center. What you see here is a Dining Dome render where we worked on textures, ceiling lighting, and table lights in the kitchen/dining area:

Global Sustainable Change ” Continued Working on the Renders for the Duplicable City Center

Bupesh Seethala (Interior Designer) finished updating the Natural Pool details. Here is the updated design incorporating a kids walk-in wading area with a safety wall and adjacent seating for parents in the 4′ deep section.

Global Sustainable Change ” Finished Updating the Natural Pool Details – Click to Visit Page

Iris Hsu (Industrial Designer), continued finalizing the Pipe Couch designs for the Duplicable City Center library working on the renders you see here for the couch assembly instructions.

Global Sustainable Change ” Continued Finalizing Pipe Couch Designs for Duplicable City Center

Iris also returned to the table/chair design and made additional updates there, enlarging the main frame to increase the legroom.

Global Sustainable Change ” Additional Updates to the Table/Chair Design

Brianna Johnson (Interior Designer), also started working on the pipe shelving for the library. What you see here are a couple lights we chose based on her research and design layout 1 integrating these lights.

Global Sustainable Change ” Started Working on the Pipe Shelving for the Library

Behind the scenes Mike Hogan (Automation Systems Developer and Business Systems Consultant) and Lucas Tsutsui da Silva (4th-year Computer Engineering Student) continued development of the Control Systems main panel. What you see here is a combination of a capacitive touch panel Mike purchased for testing, a layout drawing for how it might work, and a faceplate he 3-D printed to further test the layout drawing. For a great video on how capacitive touch sensors work, visit this week’s written blog.

Global Sustainable Change ” Continued Development of the Control Systems Main Panel

Here’s a great video talking about how a capacitive sensor works:

GLOBAL SUSTAINABLE CHANGE HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS

One Community is forwarding global sustainable change 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 continued working on a complete update of the One Community Business plan. What you see here is a spreadsheet designed to provide cost analysis data for the eco-tourism aspect of One Community. We’d say we are about 35% done with the complete rewrite and update:

Behind the Scenes: Continued the Complete Update of the One Community Business Plan

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 6th round of pictures of this LEED Tutorial page developing on the site, continuing with formatting and content editing. We’d say we’re about 70% complete with this tutorial.

Global Sustainable Change ” LEED Tutorial Page Developing on the Site ” Click to Visit

Oz Czerski, Lawyer Specializing in Trademark and Copyright Law, also helped us draw up these first drafts of our trademark infringement letters and then went through the process of editing them with our team. The pink writing are the edited parts and we’ll be open sourcing the final version of these letters on our legal documents page next week.

First Drafts of Our Trademark Infringement Letters Drawn Up and Edited – Click for Legal Page

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INVESTOR PAGES

OVERVIEW | LOCATION | FUNDING

GET INVOLVED

CONSULTANTS | WAYS ANYONE CAN HELP | MEMBERSHIP

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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, create global sustainable change and accelerate the process globally:

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.

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.

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.

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.

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 to create global sustainable change.

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, create global sustainable change 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
• 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

Widespread and lasting sustainability implementation is needed if we are to create a sustainable world. Open source and free-sharing complete sustainable villages that include food, energy, housing, education, economics, and more is one way to facilitate this. We call this living and creating 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. This is the March 6th, 2016 edition (#154) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments:

Widespread and Lasting Sustainability Implementation
One Community Progress Update #154

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

WIDESPREAD AND LASTING SUSTAINABILITY IMPLEMENTATION INTRO: @1:00

WIDESPREAD AND LASTING SUSTAINABILITY IMPLEMENTATION HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION: @1:57

• Transferred the first 25% of the written content for the Cooperation and Collaboration Lesson Plan to the website (see below)
• Behind the scenes: Wrote the second 25% of the written part of the Summer Lesson Plan
• Completed the first 25% of the mindmap for the Work Lesson Plan (see below)

WIDESPREAD AND LASTING SUSTAINABILITY IMPLEMENTATION HIGHEST GOOD FOOD: @3:09

• Added a new recipe for granola (contributed by Naturopathic Doctor Matt Marturano) to the Food Self-sufficiency Transition Plan page (see below)
• Worked on a Sketchup model for the Transitory Kitchen (see below)

WIDESPREAD AND LASTING SUSTAINABILITY IMPLEMENTATION HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING: @4:01

• Put another 10 hours into the behind-the-scenes revision for the Footers, Foundations and Flooring page for the crowdfunding campaign we are developing (see below)
• Began exploring different designs for the patios and walkways for the different Tree House Village recreation space layouts with Jesika Rohrbach (see below)
• Dean Scholz further developed what’s necessary for us to create quality Cob Village renders (see below)
• Brianna Johnson continued evolving the renders for the Straw Bale Village (see below)

WIDESPREAD AND LASTING SUSTAINABILITY IMPLEMENTATION DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER: @5:44

• Continued working on the renders for the Duplicable City Center (see below)
• Bupesh Seethala (Interior Designer) continued to work with the Natural Pool and Spa details (see below)
• Iris Hsu continued finalizing the Pipe Couch designs for the Duplicable City Center library (see below)
• Behind the scenes: Mike Hogan and Lucas Tsutsui da Silva continued development of the Control Systems main panel (see below)
• Neha Verma created this additional access for a root cellar addition to the Duplicable City Center (see below)

WIDESPREAD AND LASTING SUSTAINABILITY IMPLEMENTATION HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY: @7:25

• Continued working on a complete update of the One Community Business plan (see below)
• Began working with Mariam Sargsyan to create a One Community Brand Book (see below)
• Jacky Tustain also continued helping us convert the LEED Certification research done by Matheus Manfredini into a webpage (see below)

WIDESPREAD AND LASTING SUSTAINABILITY IMPLEMENTATION SUMMARY: @8:34

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WIDESPREAD AND LASTING SUSTAINABILITY IMPLEMENTATION HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

One Community is facilitating widespread and lasting sustainability implementation 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 last week the core team transferred 25% of the written content for the Cooperation and Collaboration Lesson Plan to the website, as you see here. This lesson plan is purposed to teach all subjects, to all learning levels, in any learning environment, using the central theme of “Cooperation and Collaboration” is now 100% completely on our website.

Transferred 25% of Written Content for the Cooperation and Collaboration Lesson Plan to the Site

Behind the scenes, we wrote the second 25% of the written part of the Summer Lesson Plan.

We also completed the first 25% of the mindmap for the Work Lesson Plan, which you see here.

Widespread and Lasting Sustainability Implementation ” Work Lesson Plan Mindmap ” 25% Complete

WIDESPREAD AND LASTING SUSTAINABILITY IMPLEMENTATION HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

One Community is facilitating widespread and lasting sustainability implementation 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 last week the core team added a new recipe for granola to the Food Self-sufficiency Transition Plan page. This recipe was contributed by Naturopathic Doctor Matt Marturano (creator of the COHERENT model for comprehensive digestive health).

Widespread and Lasting Sustainability Implementation ” Worked on a Model for Transitory Kitchen

The core team also worked on a Sketchup model for the Transitory Kitchen.

Widespread and Lasting Sustainability Implementation ” Worked on a Model of the Transitory Kitchen

WIDESPREAD AND LASTING SUSTAINABILITY IMPLEMENTATION HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

One Community is facilitating widespread and lasting sustainability implementation 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 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 finishing a huge update of the AutoCAD for the footer, foundation and flooring and updates to section 11 and 12 steps of the content rewrite, both of which can be seen in this image. We’d say we are now 71% complete with this total update and rewrite behind the scenes.

Continued Behind-the-Scenes Revision of the Footers, Foundations and Flooring Info ” Click to Visit

Working on the Tree House Village (Pod 7) with Jesika Rohrbach (Architectural Drafter, Designer, and 3-D Modeler), we also began exploring different designs for the patios and walkways for the different tree house recreation space layouts. You can see the different options Jesika created here.

Began Exploring Different Designs for the Tree House Village Patios and Walkways – Click to Visit Page

Dean Scholz, Architectural Designer, further developed what’s necessary for us to create quality Cob Village (Pod 3) renders. Here is update 9.0 of this work that focused on more shade structure and cob sitting-space design details.

Further Developed What’s Necessary to Create Quality Cob Village Renders ” Click to Visit Page

Brianna Johnson (Interior Designer), also continued evolving the renders for the Straw Bale Village (Pod 2). What you see here is the first render of the central recreation space.

Continued Evolving the Renders for the Straw Bale Village – Click to Visit Page

WIDESPREAD AND LASTING SUSTAINABILITY IMPLEMENTATION DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

One Community is facilitating widespread and lasting sustainability implementation 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 working on the renders for the Duplicable City Center. What you see here are the second-floor Dining Dome renders with additional table lights, flooring, and progress on the shadows, windows and spotlights.

Continued Working on the Renders for the Duplicable City Center – Click to Visit Page

Bupesh Seethala (Interior Designer) continued to work with the Natural Pool and Spa details. Here (middle photo) is exploration of space needed for an equipment room and here (bottom photo) are the new specifics for a children’s wading area.

Widespread and Lasting Sustainability Implementation ” Continued to Work with the Natural Pool

Iris Hsu (Industrial Designer), continued finalizing the Pipe Couch designs for the Duplicable City Center library. The renders you see here would be the 13th generation drawings showing lighter colors, a new table design and the addition of people using these different furniture designs for different purposes.

Continued Finalizing the Pipe Couch Designs for the Duplicable City Center Library – Click to Visit Page

Behind the scenes Mike Hogan (Automation Systems Developer and Business Systems Consultant) and Lucas Tsutsui da Silva (4th-year Computer Engineering Student) continued development of the Control Systems main panel. What you see here is the latest design drawing and several screenshots from our discussion about different types of buttons to simplify and streamline the design.

Continued Development of the Control Systems Main Panel – Click to Visit Page

In addition to this, Neha Verma (Construction Project Manager and Bachelor’s of Architecture) also created this additional access for a root cellar addition to the Duplicable City Center.

Created Additional Access for a Root Cellar Addition to the Duplicable City Center – Click to Visit Page

WIDESPREAD AND LASTING SUSTAINABILITY IMPLEMENTATION HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS

One Community is facilitating widespread and lasting sustainability implementation 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 continued working on a complete update of the One Community Business plan. What you see here is our 5th week of reformatting the plan on a GoogleDoc for easier collaboration and sharing. We’d say we are about 30% done with the complete rewrite and update.

Behind the Scenes: Continued the Complete Update of the One Community Business Plan

We also began working with Mariam Sargsyan (Graphic Designer and Project Manager) to create a One Community Brand Book. Here is her initial outline and plan for the book design, along with some of our team’s notes to help her.

Widespread and Lasting Sustainability Implementation ” Working with Mariam to create a Brand Book

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 5th round of pictures of this LEED Tutorial page developing on the site, continuing with formatting and content editing. We’d say we’re about 60% complete with this tutorial.

Widespread and Lasting Sustainability Implementation ” LEED Tutorial Page Developing on the Site

AND WE PRODUCED THIS WEEKLY UPDATES BLOG – CLICK HERE TO SUBSCRIBE

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INVESTOR PAGES

OVERVIEW | LOCATION | FUNDING

GET INVOLVED

CONSULTANTS | WAYS ANYONE CAN HELP | MEMBERSHIP

CLICK HERE FOR ALL PAST UPDATES

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.

WIDESPREAD AND LASTING SUSTAINABILITY IMPLEMENTATION – 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.

Community-based eco-resource allocation has the potential to create a sustainable planet for all by offering an improved quality of life through cooperative living in sustainable eco-communities. One Community is open sourcing what will be needed to create a global collaboration of these communities 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 the movement of community-based eco-resource allocation as the first of many self-replicating teacher/demonstration communities, villages, and cities to be built around the world. This is the February 28th, 2016 edition (#153) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments:

Community-Based Eco-Resource Allocation
One Community Progress Update #153

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

COMMUNITY-BASED ECO-RESOURCE ALLOCATION INTRO: @1:03

COMMUNITY-BASED ECO-RESOURCE ALLOCATION HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION: @1:57

• Transferred final 25% of the written content for the Work Lesson Plan to the website (see below)
• Behind the scenes: wrote the second 25% of the written part of the Cooperation and Collaboration Lesson Plan
• Completed the final 25% of the mindmap for the Community Lesson Plan (see below)

COMMUNITY-BASED ECO-RESOURCE ALLOCATION HIGHEST GOOD FOOD: @3:02

• 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 (see below)

COMMUNITY-BASED ECO-RESOURCE ALLOCATION HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING: @3:57

• Behind the scenes: Put another 10 hours into the revision for the Footers, Foundations and Flooring page for the upcoming crowdfunding campaign (see below)
• Behind the scenes: Added an additional 7% of edits and content to the Tree House Village (Pod 7) presentation begun by the Intern Team over the summer (see below)
• Dean Scholz further developed what’s necessary for us to create quality Cob Village (Pod 3) renders (see below)
• Brianna Johnson continued evolving the renders for the Straw Bale Village (Pod 2) (see below)

COMMUNITY-BASED ECO-RESOURCE ALLOCATION DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER: @5:39

• Continued the process of learning how to do our own renders for the Duplicable City Center (see below)
• Began working on the Dining Dome second-floor rendering by selecting items and table lights and developing the shadows, floor and background (see below)
• Bupesh Seethala started to work with the Natural Pool and Spa details (see below)
• Behind the scenes: Mike Hogan and Lucas Tsutsui da Silva continued development of the Control Systems main panel (see below)

COMMUNITY-BASED ECO-RESOURCE ALLOCATION HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY: @7:01

• Continued working on a complete update of the One Community Business plan (see below)
• Jacky Tustain also continued helping us convert the LEED Certification research done by Matheus Manfredini into a webpage (see below)

COMMUNITY-BASED ECO-RESOURCE ALLOCATION SUMMARY: @7:53

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COMMUNITY-BASED ECO-RESOURCE ALLOCATION HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

One Community is facilitating community-based eco-resource allocation 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 last week the core team transferred the final 25% of the written content for the Work Lesson Plan to the website, as you see here. This lesson plan purposed to teach all subjects, to all learning levels, in any learning environment, using the central theme of “Work” is now 100% complete on our website.

Community-Based Eco-Resource Allocation ” Work Lesson Plan ” Final 25% Complete ” Click to Visit

Behind the scenes, we wrote the second 25% of the written part of the Cooperation and Collaboration Lesson Plan.

We also completed the final 25% of the mindmap for the Community Lesson Plan, which you see here:

Community Lesson Plan Mindmap ” Complete ” Click to Visit

COMMUNITY-BASED ECO-RESOURCE ALLOCATION – HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

One Community is facilitating community-based eco-resource allocation 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 last week the core team 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 had an additional pioneer proofread and edit the page. The page is now approximately 98% complete.

Continued Work on Streamlined Version of our Food Self-Sufficiency Transition Plan Page

COMMUNITY-BASED ECO-RESOURCE ALLOCATION -HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

One Community is facilitating community-based eco-resource allocation 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 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 reviewing, editing, and inserting title steps for Section 8 (Compass Installation) and Section 9 (Bag Preparation and Filling), including additional narrative added to Section 9. We’d say we are now 70% complete with this total update and rewrite behind the scenes.

Continued Behind-the-Scenes Revision of the Footers, Foundations and Flooring Info ” Click to Visit

Behind the scenes, we also added an additional 7% of edits and content to the Tree House Village (Pod 7) presentation begun by the Intern Team over the summer, including rewriting the text in the final few sections, final formatting and last revisions. You can see an example of this work here, bringing us to 99% finished and the presentation is soon to be added to the site!

Added Additional Edits and Content to Tree House Village – Click to Visit Page

Dean Scholz, Architectural Designer, further developed what’s necessary for us to create quality Cob Village (Pod 3) renders. Here is update 8.0 of this work that focused on the cob bench designs you see here.

Further Developed What’s Necessary to Create Quality Cob Village Renders ” Click to Visit Page

Brianna Johnson (Interior Designer), also continued evolving the renders for the Straw Bale Village (Pod 2). What you see here are initial test renders of the dining area looking North and the exercise facility:

Continued Evolving the Renders for the Straw Bale Village – Click to Visit Page

COMMUNITY-BASED ECO-RESOURCE ALLOCATION – DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

One Community is facilitating community-based eco-resource allocation 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 learning how to do our own renders for the Duplicable City Center. What you see here is the kitchen washing area rendering with our new additions being selecting items, setting lights, and setting materials’ properties.

Continued Learning How to do Our Own Renders for the Duplicable City Center ” Click to Visit Page

We also began working on the Dining Dome second-floor rendering by selecting items and table lights and developing the shadows, floor and background.

Began Working on City Center Dining Dome Second-Floor Rendering – Click to Visit Page

Bupesh Seethala (Interior Designer) also started to work with the Natural Pool and Spa details. Here is a slope analysis and one of the designs we explored (left pic) as we began working on the specifics for a children’s wading area (right pic).

City Center Natural Pool and Spa Slope Analysis and Children’s Wading Area – Click to Visit Page

Behind the scenes Mike Hogan (Automation Systems Developer and Business Systems Consultant) and Lucas Tsutsui da Silva (4th-year Computer Engineering Student) continued development of the Control Systems main panel. What you see here is Lucas recreating Mike’s design and demonstrating that he solved a software problem Mike had been working on for several weeks.

Continued Development of the Control Systems Main Panel – Click to Visit Page

COMMUNITY-BASED ECO-RESOURCE ALLOCATION – HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS

One Community is facilitating community-based eco-resource allocation 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 continued working on a complete update of the One Community Business plan. What you see here is our 4th week of reformatting the plan on a GoogleDoc for easier collaboration and sharing. We’d say we are about 25% done with the complete rewrite and update.

Behind the Scenes: Continued the Complete Update of the One Community Business Plan

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 4th round of pictures of this LEED Tutorial page developing on the site, continuing with formatting and content editing. We’d say we’re about 50% complete with this tutorial.

Community-Based Eco-Resource Allocation ” LEED Tutorial Developing on the Site ” Click to Visit

AND WE PRODUCED THIS WEEKLY UPDATES BLOG – CLICK HERE TO SUBSCRIBE

FOLLOW ONE COMMUNITY’S PROGRESS (click icons for our pages)

 

INVESTOR PAGES

OVERVIEW | LOCATION | FUNDING

GET INVOLVED

CONSULTANTS | WAYS ANYONE CAN HELP | MEMBERSHIP

CLICK HERE FOR ALL PAST UPDATES

COMMUNITY-BASED ECO-RESOURCE ALLOCATION – 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 community-based eco-resource allocation. 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.

COMMUNITY-BASED ECO-RESOURCE ALLOCATION – 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.

COMMUNITY-BASED ECO-RESOURCE ALLOCATION – COMPREHENSIVE SOLUTION TO HUMANITY’S NEEDS

One Community is open source sharing an evolution of sustainable living that addresses the complete human experience and create a community-based eco-resource allocation. 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.

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:

• 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 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:

New-Paradigm Humanitarianism
One Community Progress Update #152

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

• Transferred the third 25% of the written content for the Work Lesson Plan to the website (see below)
• Behind the scenes: wrote the first 25% of the written part of the Summer Lesson Plan
• Completed the third 25% of the mindmap for the Community Lesson Plan (see below)

NEW-PARADIGM HUMANITARIANISM HIGHEST GOOD FOOD: @2:56

• 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 (see below)

NEW-PARADIGM HUMANITARIANISM HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING: @3:49

• Behind the scenes: Put another 10 hours into the revision for the Footers, Foundations and Flooring page for the upcoming crowdfunding campaign (see below)
• Working with Jesika Rohrbach on the Tree House Village, we began planning the location specifics of each unit (see below)
• Dean Scholz further developed what’s necessary for us to create quality Cob Village (Pod 3) renders (see below)
• Brianna Johnson began evolving the renders for the Straw Bale Village (see below)

NEW-PARADIGM HUMANITARIANISM DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER: @5:35

• Continued the process of learning how to do our own renders for the Duplicable City Center (see below)
• Bupesh Seethala created an analysis of the City Center library chairs designed by Iris Hsu (see below)
• Iris Hsu finalized the Pipe Couch designs for the Duplicable City Center library and created renders (see below)
• Behind the scenes: Mike Hogan and Lucas Tsutsui da Silva continued discussion about what the appearance and best functional design should be for the beside-bed Control Systems interface (see below)

NEW-PARADIGM HUMANITARIANISM HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY: @7:01

• Continued working on a complete update of the One Community Business plan (see below)
• Behind the scenes: moved our sites again to a new host, this time to give us more space
• Jacky Tustain also continued helping us convert the LEED Certification research done by Matheus Manfredini into a webpage (see below)

NEW-PARADIGM HUMANITARIANISM SUMMARY: @7:56

• • • How you can most help us right now and how anyone can help

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NEW-PARADIGM HUMANITARIANISM HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

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:

• • • Learn about the components: Education open source hub
    • Learn how the components work together: How to use the Education for Life Program
      

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:

New-Paradigm Humanitarianism ” Work Lesson Plan ” 75% Complete ” Click to Visit Page

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:

New-Paradigm Humanitarianism ” Community Lesson Plan Mindmap ” 75% Complete ” Click to Visit

NEW-PARADIGM HUMANITARIANISM HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

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:

• • • 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

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.

Worked on the Transition Kitchen Page – Created a New Header Image, etc. – Click to Visit Page

NEW-PARADIGM HUMANITARIANISM HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

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:

• • • 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 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.

Continued Behind-the-Scenes Revision of the Footers, Foundations and Flooring Info ” Click to Visit

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.

Began Planning the Location Specifics of Each Unit of the Tree House Village – Click for Page

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.

New-Paradigm Humanitarianism ” Continued Creating Cob Village Renders ” Clic to Visit Page

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.

Straw Bale Village Test Render of the Bathroom Area in the Dining Hall – Click to Visit Page

NEW-PARADIGM HUMANITARIANISM DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

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:

• • • Learn about this building and it’s function: Duplicable City Center Open Source Hub

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. 

Continued Learning How to do Our Own Renders for the Duplicable City Center ” Click to Visit Page

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).

New-Paradigm Humanitarianism ” Created Analysis of the City Center Library Chairs – Click to Visit

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.

New-Paradigm Humanitarianism – Renders for Final Pipe Furniture Designs – Click to Visit City Center

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.

NEW-PARADIGM HUMANITARIANISM HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS

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:

• • • 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 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: Continued the Complete Update of the One Community Business Plan

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.

New-Paradigm Humanitarianism ” LEED Tutorial Page Developing on the Site ” Click to Visit

AND WE PRODUCED THIS WEEKLY UPDATES BLOG – CLICK HERE TO SUBSCRIBE

FOLLOW ONE COMMUNITY’S PROGRESS (click icons for our pages)

 

INVESTOR PAGES

OVERVIEW | LOCATION | FUNDING

GET INVOLVED

CONSULTANTS | WAYS ANYONE CAN HELP | MEMBERSHIP

CLICK HERE FOR ALL PAST UPDATES

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 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.

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.

One Community welcomes Ivan Manzurov to the Graphic Design Team as our newest Volunteer/Consultant!

Graphic Designer: “Born in 1994 in Siberia. Came a long way to remember the true self. Devoted life to making a change with the power of art, and an open soul.” As a One Community volunteer, Ivan helped design and color coordinate all of the icons used throughout the One Community website. You can contact him and view more of his wonderful work on his portfolio site.

WELCOME TO THE TEAM IVAN!

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One Community welcomes Neha Verma to the Architectural Design Team as our newest Volunteer/Consultant!

Construction Project Manager and B. Architect: Neha received her Master’s Degree in Construction Project Management in the United Kingdom and her Bachelor’s Degree in Architecture from India. She has 5+ years of experience in Project Management & Design and versatile exposure and experience spanning multi-storied residential/commercial complexes to bungalows, and combined with Project Management skills for Interior Fitout of Corporate/Retail for prestigious clients. Through synchronizing the design team, project management team, and client, Neha uses her expertise to ensure the design is in line with client(s) expectations and within the allocated budget and timeline. This includes Monitoring and Planning of the project & construction phase, i.e activities scoping, estimation, vendor identification/management, project tracking, risk analysis & mitigation, change management to ensure timely delivery of projects, and more. As a self-motivated leader with efficient team management & problem solving skills to contribute towards the growth of any organization, Neha’s role with One Community is helping build and manage the team working on the Duplicable City Center.

WELCOME TO THE TEAM NEHA!

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Global healing and regeneration are possible if enough people want it and are willing to help create it. Open source solutions coving all areas of sustainable living (food, energy, housing, education, economics, fulfilled living models, Earth stewardship, and other sustainability foundations) can provide options for anyone to help through participation as individuals or a part of a globally collaborative team. One Community calls this a path to living and creating 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 the movement of global healing and regeneration as the first of many self-replicating teacher/demonstration communities, villages, and cities to be built around the world. This is the February 14, 2016 edition (#151) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments:

Global Healing and Regeneration
One Community Progress Update #151

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

GLOBAL HEALING AND REGENERATION INTRO: @1:02

GLOBAL HEALING AND REGENERATION HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION: @1:54

• Transferred the second 25% of the written content for the Work Lesson Plan to the website (see below)
• Behind the scenes: wrote the first 25% of the written part of the Cooperation and Collaboration Lesson Plan (see below)
• Completed the second 25% of the mindmap for the Community Lesson Plan (see below)

GLOBAL HEALING AND REGENERATION HIGHEST GOOD FOOD: @3:06

• 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 (see below)

GLOBAL HEALING AND REGENERATION HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING: @4:07

• Behind the scenes: Put another 10 hours into the revision for the Footers, Foundations and Flooring page for the upcoming crowdfunding campaign (see below)
• Jesika Rohrbach began working on the Tree House Village updates (see below)
• Shilcy Augustine continued developing the Compressed Earth Block Village (Pod 4) massage and treatment room spaces (see below)
• Dean Scholz further developed what’s necessary for us to create quality Cob Village renders (see below)
• Brianna Johnson began evolving the renders for the Straw Bale Village (see below)

GLOBAL HEALING AND REGENRATION DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER: @6:23

• Continued the process of learning how to do our own renders for the Duplicable City Center (see below)
• Bupesh Seethala created design ideas for the faceplate of the visitor room beside-bed control systems interface (see below)
• Iris Hsu continued with these additional Pipe Couch designs for the Duplicable City Center library (see below)
• Behind the scenes: Mike Hogan and Lucas Tsutsui da Silva continued discussion about what the appearance and best functional design should be for the beside-bed Control Systems interface (see below)

GLOBAL HEALING AND REGENERATION HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY: @7:46

• Continued working on a complete update of the One Community Business plan (see below)
• Behind the scenes: moved our sites to a new host to improve functionality
• Jacky Tustain also continued helping us convert the LEED Certification research done by Matheus Manfredini into a webpage (see below)

GLOBAL HEALING AND REGENERATION SUMMARY: @8:45

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GLOBAL HEALING AND REGENERATION HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

One Community is facilitating global healing and regeneration 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 last week the core team transferred the second 25% of the written content for the Work Lesson Plan to the website, as you see here. This lesson plan is purposed to teach all subjects, to all learning levels, in any learning environment, using the central theme of “Work.”

Global Healing and Regeneration – Work Lesson Plan ” 50% Complete ” Click to Visit Page

Behind the scenes, we wrote the first 25% of the written part of the Cooperation and Collaboration Lesson Plan.

We also completed the second 25% of the mindmap for the Community Lesson Plan, which you see here:

Global Healing and Regeneration – Community Lesson Plan Mindmap ” 50% Complete ” Click to Visit

GLOBAL HEALING AND REGENERATION HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

One Community is facilitating global healing and regeneration 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

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 did fine-tune editing/proofreading, and organized the hub page and the links it leads to. The organization and page is now approximately 96% complete.

Worked on Fine-Tune Editing/Proofreading, and Organized the Hub Page ” Click for Main Food Page

GLOBAL HEALING AND REGENERATION HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

One Community is facilitating global healing and regeneration 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 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 finishing the narrative for Gutter Construction, exploring the possibility of rice hulls for insulation to meet code requirements, reviewing and updating the Resources section (#15), and doing another reorganization of the sections of: Municipal/County Involvement, Centerpoint Establishment, and Utilities, Stem Wall, Floor, Foundation and Footer Excavation. We’d say we are now 68% complete with this total update and rewrite behind the scenes.

Continued Behind-the-Scenes Revision of the Footers, Foundations and Flooring Info ” Click to Visit

Working on the Tree House Village (Pod 7), Jesika Rohrbach (Architectural Drafter, Designer, and 3-D Modeler) began focusing on the kitchen updates you see here. These are design updates 4.0 from Jesika and include new shelving and other kitchen equipment specifics, as well as added dining seating.

Global Healing and Regeneration – Began Focusing on the Tree House Village Kitchen Updates

Shilcy Augustine (Architect) also continued developing the Compressed Earth Block Village (Pod 4) massage and treatment room spaces. What you see here are the initial external extension designs for shade and privacy around these areas.

Continued Developing Compressed Earth Block Village Massage and Treatment Room Spaces

Dean Scholz, Architectural Designer, further developed what’s necessary for us to create quality Cob Village (Pod 3) renders. Here is update 6.0 of this work that focused on exploring walkway coverings and doubling the maker’s spaces in both of the North wings to increase the available work space while providing an additional sound buffer for the living spaces attached to these work spaces.

Global Healing and Regeneration – Created Cob Village (Pod 3) Renders – Click to Visit Page

Brianna Johnson (Interior Designer), also began evolving the renders for the Straw Bale Village (Pod 2). What you see here are the first of these including the addition of new colors and a living wall in one of the common spaces.

Continued Working on the City Center Kitchen Renders – Click to Visit Page

GLOBAL HEALING AND REGENERATION DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

One Community is facilitating global healing and regeneration 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 learning how to do our own renders for the Duplicable City Center. What you see here is more of the kitchen rendering with focus on the long lights, spot lights, metal surfaces, shadows, and background landscape.

Continued Working on the City Center Kitchen Renders – Click to Visit Page

Bupesh Seethala (Interior Designer) also created these design ideas for the faceplate of the visitor room beside-bed control systems interface:

Created Design Ideas for the Control Systems Faceplate – Click to Visit Page

Iris Hsu (Industrial Designer), continued with these additional Pipe Couch designs for the Duplicable City Center library. The drawings you see here are her 10th generation drawings focusing on more cushion details and a simplified support for the back.

Continued with the Pipe Couch Designs for the Duplicable City Center Library ” Click for Page

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. Here are images created by Mike for two completely different ways to wire it all.

Continued Work on the Beside-Bed Control Systems Interface ” Click to Visit the Control Systems Page

GLOBAL HEALING AND REGENERATION HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS

One Community is facilitating global healing and regeneration 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 continued working on a complete update of the One Community Business plan. What you see here is our 2nd week of reformatting the plan on a GoogleDoc for easier collaboration and sharing. We’d say we are about 8% done with the complete rewrite and update.

Behind the Scenes: Continued the Complete Update of the One Community Business Plan

Behind the scenes we also moved our sites to a new host to improve functionality.

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 2nd round of pictures of this LEED Tutorial page developing on the site, continuing with formatting and content editing. We’d say we’re about 25% complete with this tutorial.

Global Healing and Regeneration – LEED Tutorial Page Developing on the Site ” Click to Visit

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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 through global Healing and regeneration. 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.

GLOBAL HEALING AND REGENERATION 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.

Making a global difference is something a lot of people would like to do, but don’t know where to start. Open source solutions for food, energy, housing, education, economics, fulfilled living models, Earth stewardship, and other sustainability foundations can provide options for anyone to help through participation as individuals or a part of a globally collaborative team. One Community calls this a path to living and creating 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 the movement of making a global difference as the first of many self-replicating teacher/demonstration communities, villages, and cities to be built around the world. This is the February 7, 2016 edition (#150) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments:

Making a Global Difference
One Community Progress Update #150

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

MAKING A GLOBAL DIFFERENCE INTRO: @1:02

MAKING A GLOBAL DIFFERENCE HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION: @1:54

• Transferred the first 25% of the written content for the Work Lesson Plan to the website (see below)
• Behind the scenes: wrote the final 25% of the written part of the Work Lesson Plan
• Completed the first 25% of the mindmap for the Community Lesson Plan and added the icons to the Community Lesson Plan (see below)

MAKING A GLOBAL DIFFERENCE HIGHEST GOOD FOOD: @3:06

• Completed another round organizing the streamlined version of our Food Self-sufficiency Transition Plan page, which includes contributions provided by Naturopathic Doctor Matt Marturano (see below)

MAKING A GLOBAL DIFFERENCE HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING: @4:01

• Behind the scenes: Put another 10 hours into the revision for the Footers, Foundations and Flooring page for the upcoming crowdfunding campaign (see below)
• Jesika Rohrbach continued working on the Tree House Village (Pod 7) updates (see below)
• Shilcy Augustine continued developing the Compressed Earth Block Village (Pod 4) massage and treatment room spaces (see below)
• Dean Scholz further developed what’s necessary for us to create quality Cob Village (Pod 3) renders (see below)
• Brianna Johnson began exploring color templates and materials for the Straw Bale Village (Pod 2) (see below)

MAKING A GLOBAL DIFFERENCE DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER: @5:49

• Continued the process of learning how to do our own renders for the Duplicable City Center (see below)
• Completed a huge update of the Duplicable City Center open source portal (see below)
• Bupesh Seethala did research into different interface options for the Control Systems faceplate for the visitor rooms’ pallet furniture beds (see below)
• Iris Hsu created additional Pipe Couch designs for the Duplicable City Center library (see below)
• Brianna Johnson took over designing the pipe shelving for the Duplicable City Center library (see below)
• Behind the scenes: Mike Hogan and Lucas Tsutsui da Silva continued discussion about appearance and functional design for the beside-bed Control Systems interface (see below)

MAKING A GLOBAL DIFFERENCE HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY: @7:29

• Began working on a complete update of the One Community Business plan (see below)
• Finished working with Ivan Manzurov to create new icons for all of our pages. This week he created icons for the Highest Good for All component (see below)
• Jacky Tustain began helping us convert LEED Certification research done by Matheus Manfredini into the new LEED Tutorial page (see below)

MAKING A GLOBAL DIFFERENCE SUMMARY: @8:29

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MAKING A GLOBAL DIFFERENCE HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

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

This last week the core team transferred the first 25% of the written content for the Work Lesson Plan to the website, as you see here. This lesson plan is purposed to teach all subjects, to all learning levels, in any learning environment, using the central theme of “Work.”

Making a Global Difference – Work Lesson Plan – 25% Complete – Click to Visit Page

Behind the scenes, we wrote the final 25% of the written part of this same lesson plan, bringing it to 100% complete and ready for the next steps of transferring it to the website.

We also completed the first 25% of the mindmap for the Community Lesson Plan, and we added the icons to the Community Lesson Plan web page. What you see here is the mindmap:

Making a Global Difference – Community Lesson Plan Mindmap – 25% Complete – Click to Visit Page

MAKING A GLOBAL DIFFERENCE HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

One Community is making a global difference 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 last week the core team completed another round 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 further organized the recipes including creating a page for week 4 recipes. The Organization is now approximately 95% complete:

Making a Global Difference – Organized Recipes, Created a Page for Week 4 Recipes ” Click for Page

MAKING A GLOBAL DIFFERENCE HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

One Community is making a global difference 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 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 finishing the narrative for Dome Exterior Finishing and adding title insertions, video title inserts, and the beginning of the step-by-step write-up and review for Section 14: Gutter Construction. We’d say we are now 67% complete with this total update and rewrite behind the scenes.

Making a Global Difference – Revision of the Footers, Foundations and Flooring Info ” Click to Visit Page

Working on the Tree House Village (Pod 7), Jesika Rohrbach (Architectural Drafter, Designers, and 3-D Modeler) continued working on the social and recreational space updates you see here. These are design updates 3.0 from Jesika and include reading spaces, kids’ play spaces, game spaces, and the patios for these tree house spaces.

Making a Global Difference –  Tree House Village Social & Recreational Space Updates – Click to Visit

Shilcy Augustine (Architect) also continued developing the Compressed Earth Block Village (Pod 4) massage and treatment room spaces. What you see here are the layouts we decided on, including sinks and the addition of sliding glass doors for all the south-facing walls.

Continued Developing the Compressed Earth Block Village Massage and Treatment Room Spaces

Dean Scholz, Architectural Designer, further developed what’s necessary for us to create quality Cob Village (Pod 3) renders. Here is update 5.0 of this work that focused on the addition of roads and pathways between the North and South wings.

Further Developed What’s Necessary to Create Quality Cob Village Renders ” Click to Visit Page

Brianna Johnson (Interior Designer), also began exploring color templates and materials for the Straw Bale Village (Pod 2). Here are examples of what we ultimately settled on.

Began Exploring Color Templates and Materials for the Straw Bale Village – Click to Visit Page

MAKING A GLOBAL DIFFERENCE DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

One Community is making a global 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 week the core team continued the process of learning how to do our own renders for the Duplicable City Center. You can see this work-in-progress here, returning to the kitchen with more focus on lights, windows, and materials.

Continued Learning How to do Our Own Renders for the Duplicable City Center ” Click to Visit Page

The core team also completed a huge update of the Duplicable City Center open source portal, improving the formatting and adding updated floor plan exports from AutoCAD. You can see all this great work here, and visit the updated page for clickable and enlargeable images.

Completed a Huge Update of the Duplicable City Center Open Source Portal – Click to Visit Page

Bupesh Seethala (Interior Designer) also did this research into different interface options for the Control Systems faceplate that will be built into the visitor rooms’ pallet furniture beds.

Conducted Research into Different Interface Options for the Control Systems Faceplate – Click to Visit

Iris Hsu (Industrial Designer), continued with these additional Pipe Couch designs for the Duplicable City Center library. The drawings you see here are her 9th generation drawings focusing on ways to support the back and secure the cushions.

Continued with the Pipe Couch Designs for the Duplicable City Center Library ” Click for Page

Brianna Johnson (Interior Designer), also took over designing the pipe shelving for the Duplicable City Center library.

Started Designing the Pipe Shelving for the Duplicable City Center Library – Click to Visit Page

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. Here’s Mike showing a 3-D printed box he made.

Continued Work on the Beside-Bed Control Systems Interface ” Click to Visit the Control Systems Page

MAKING A GLOBAL DIFFERENCE HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS

One Community is making a global 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 began working on a complete update of the One Community Business plan. What you see here is the beginning of reformatting the plan on a GoogleDoc for easier collaboration and sharing. We’d say we are about 2% done with the complete rewrite and update.

Behind the Scenes Began a Complete Update of the One Community Business Plan – Click to Visit Page

We also finished working with Ivan Manzurov (Artist and Illustrator) to create new icons for all of our pages. Here are the icons Ivan created for the Highest Good for All component.

Making a Global Difference – Create New Icons for Highest Good for All Component – Click to Visit

Jacky Tustain (Project Manager) also began helping us convert LEED Certification research done by Matheus Manfredini (Civil Engineering Student and Urban Design Coordinator) into a webpage. Here are the first pictures of this LEED Tutorial page developing on the site, starting with initial formatting and content editing. We’d say we’re about 15% complete with this tutorial.

Making a Global Difference – LEED Tutorial Page Developing on the Site – Click to Visit

AND WE PRODUCED THIS WEEKLY UPDATES BLOG – CLICK HERE TO SUBSCRIBE

FOLLOW ONE COMMUNITY’S PROGRESS (click icons for our pages)

 

INVESTOR PAGES

OVERVIEW | LOCATION | FUNDING

GET INVOLVED

CONSULTANTS | WAYS ANYONE CAN HELP | MEMBERSHIP

CLICK HERE FOR ALL PAST UPDATES

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 making a global difference . 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.

Igniting a new paradigm of sustainable ideas is one path to finally creating a sustainable world that works for everyone. Through open source and new-paradigm solutions for food, energy, housing, education, economics, food, energy, housing, education, economics, Â fulfilled living models, and Earth Stewardship, we can make these ideas affordable enough, easy enough, and demonstrate them as attractive enough so they will replicate, evolve, and expand on their own. One Community calls this a path to living and creating 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. This is the January 31, 2016 edition (#149) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments:

Igniting a New Paradigm of Sustainable Ideas
One Community Progress Update #149

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

IGNITING A NEW PARADIGM OF SUSTAINABLE IDEAS INTRO: @1:04

HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION: @1:56

• Transferred the final 25% of the written content for the Community Lesson Plan to the website (see below)
• Behind the scenes: wrote an additional 25% of the Work Lesson Plan
• Completed the final 25% of the mindmap for the Winter Lesson Plan (see below)

HIGHEST GOOD FOOD: @3:11

• 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 (coming soon)

HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING: @4:02

• Behind the scenes: Put another 10 hours into the revision for the Footers, Foundations and Flooring page for the upcoming crowdfunding campaign (see below)
• Jesika Rohrbach continued working on the Tree House Village (Pod 7) updates (see below)
• Shilcy Augustine continued developing the Compressed Earth Block Village (Pod 4) massage and treatment room spaces (see below)
• Dean Scholz further developed what’s necessary for us to create quality Cob Village (Pod 3) renders (see below)

DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER: @5:37

• Continued the process of learning how to do our own renders for the Duplicable City Center (see below)
• Integrated Bupesh Seethala’s pallet furniture closet changes in AutoCAD (from last week) into 3D models (see below)
• Iris Hsu continued with additional Pipe Couch designs for the Duplicable City Center library (see below)
• Neha Verma assumed leadership of the development aspects of the Duplicable City Center and created the updates for storage and the bathroom entryway area (see below)
• Behind the scenes: Mike Hogan and Lucas Tsutsui da Silva continued discussion about what the appearance and best functional design should be for the beside-bed Control Systems interface (see below)
• Lucas also started building the 2nd prototype of the control system so that he and Mike could continue to test it and correct some programming challenges they’ve encountered (see below)

HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY: @7:09

• Continued our work on the Highest Good Network with Andrew Herman (see below)
• Continued working with Ivan Manzurov to create new icons for all of our pages. This week he created icons for the Highest Good Energy component (see below)
• Working with Oz Czerski we finished the licensing agreements for all our trademarked slogans and logos and added them to our open source Legal Documents page (see below)

IGNITING A NEW PARADIGM OF SUSTAINABLE IDEAS SUMMARY: @8:02

• • • How you can most help us right now and how anyone can help

CLICK HERE IF YOU’D LIKE TO RECEIVE AN EMAIL EACH WEEK WHEN WE RELEASE A NEW UPDATE

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ONE COMMUNITY WEEKLY UPDATE DETAILS

HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

One Community is igniting a new paradigm of sustainable ideas 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 last week the core team transferred the final 25% of the written content for the Community Lesson Plan to the website, as you see here. This lesson plan is purposed to teach all subjects, to all learning levels, in any learning environment, using the central theme of “Community” and it is now 100% complete on the website.

Igniting a New Paradigm of Sustainable Ideas – Community Lesson Plan Complete ” Click to Visit Page

Behind the scenes, we wrote an additional 25% of the Work Lesson Plan, bringing the behind-the-scenes written part of that lesson plan to approximately 75% complete.

We also completed the final 25% of the mindmap for the Winter Lesson Plan, bringing that to 100% complete, as you see here:

Igniting a New Paradigm of Sustainable Ideas  -Winter Lesson Plan Mindmap ” Click to Visit Page

HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

One Community is igniting a new paradigm of sustainable ideas 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 last week the core team 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 further organized the recipes including creating a page for week 3 recipes. The Organization is now approximately 90% complete.

Igniting a New Paradigm of Sustainable Ideas  – Organized Recipes -Week 3 Recipes – Click to Visit

HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

One Community is igniting a new paradigm of sustainable ideas 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 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 finishing researching and adding photos for concrete pouring and screening, elaborating on the narrative, and beginning the narrative for Section 13: Dome Exterior Finishing. We’d say we are now 66% complete with this total update and rewrite behind the scenes, supporting one community is igniting a new paradigm of sustainable ideas.

Igniting a New Paradigm of Sustainable Ideas – Revision – Footers, Foundations Flooring ” Click to Visit

Working on the Tree House Village (Pod 7), Jesika Rohrbach (Architectural Drafter, Designers, and 3-D Modeler) continued working on the updates you see here. This is update 2.0 from Jesika and the focus is on the internal and external specifics of the communal kitchen and dining spaces.

Igniting a New Paradigm of Sustainable Ideas – Aesthetic Details, Floor Plan – Tree House – Click to Enlarge

Shilcy Augustine (Architect) also continued developing the Compressed Earth Block Village (Pod 4) massage and treatment room spaces. What you see here are some of the different layouts we’re discussing.

Igniting a New Paradigm of Sustainable Ideas – Village Massage, Treatment Room Spaces – Click to Visit

Dean Scholz, Architectural Designer, further developed what’s necessary for us to create quality Cob Village (Pod 3) renders. Here is update 4.0 of this work that focused mostly on finding and creating textures for the southeast wing and beginning working on the roads and pathways you see here.

Igniting a New Paradigm of Sustainable Ideas – Developed  Cob Village Renders ” Click to Visit

DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

One Community is igniting a new paradigm of sustainable ideas 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 learning how to do our own renders for the Duplicable City Center. You can see here this work-in-progress here, covering bathroom renders working on textures, mirrors, sink, floor, and more lights in the public bathrooms.

Igniting a New Paradigm of Sustainable Ideas –  Learning How to Render ” Click to Visit

The core team also integrated Bupesh Seethala’s pallet furniture closet changes in AutoCAD (from last week) into the 3D models you see here:

Igniting a New Paradigm of Sustainable Ideas – Integrated Pallet Furniture Closet – Click to Visit

Iris Hsu (Industrial Designer), continued with these additional Pipe Couch designs for the Duplicable City Center library, thereby be successful in igniting a new paradigm of sustainable ideas. The drawings you see here are her 8th generation drawings continuing development of the couch idea with non-backed designs and a couple more options for the fixed back.

Igniting a New Paradigm of Sustainable Ideas – Pipe Couch Designs – Click to Visit

Neha Verma (Construction Project Manager and Bachelor’s of Architecture) also assumed leadership of the development aspects of the Duplicable City Center and created the updates highlighted here for storage and the bathroom entryway area.

Igniting a New Paradigm of Sustainable Ideas – Storage, Bathroom Entryway Area Updates – Click to Visit

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.

Igniting a New Paradigm of Sustainable Ideas – Beside-Bed Control Systems Interface – Click to Visit

Lucas also started building the 2nd prototype of the control system so that he and Mike could continue to test it and correct some programming challenges they’ve encountered.

Igniting a New Paradigm of Sustainable Ideas – 2nd Prototype of the Control System – Click to Visit

HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS

One Community is igniting a new paradigm of sustainable ideas 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 continued our work on the Highest Good Network with Andrew Herman (Software Engineer and Core Member of Futurist Playground). What you see here is brainstorming and outlining on how to integrate customizable options and widgets as well as our exploration into a possible tool for helping with decision making and task allocation.

Igniting a New Paradigm of Sustainable Ideas – Highest Good Network ” Click to Learn About This

We also continued working with Ivan Manzurov (Artist and Illustrator) to create new icons for all of our pages. Here are the icons Ivan created for the Highest Good Energy component.

Igniting a New Paradigm of Sustainable Ideas – Icons for Highest Good Energy Component – Click to Visit

Working with Oz Czerski, Lawyer Specializing in Trademark and Copyright Law, we also finished the licensing agreements for all our trademarked slogans and logos and added them to our open source Legal Documents page.

Igniting a New Paradigm of Sustainable Ideas – Finished Licensing Agreements – Click for Legal

AND WE PRODUCED THIS WEEKLY UPDATES BLOG – CLICK HERE TO SUBSCRIBE

FOLLOW ONE COMMUNITY’S PROGRESS (click icons for our pages)

 

INVESTOR PAGES

OVERVIEW | LOCATION | FUNDING

GET INVOLVED

CONSULTANTS | WAYS ANYONE CAN HELP | MEMBERSHIP

CLICK HERE FOR ALL PAST UPDATES

WHAT ONE COMMUNITY IS CREATING

One Community is creating a place to grow together and how to make a change in the world together and they are Igniting a New Paradigm of Sustainable Ideas 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 on how to make a change in the world.

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 on how to make a change in the world. 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 and learn how to make a change in the world. They will also transform the global lifestyle to a more enjoyable, fulfilling, healthy, and sustainable one, thereby be successful in igniting a new paradigm of sustainable ideas

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 how to make a change in the world and 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.

As One Community continues evolving and establishing ourselves, everything we create and promote will serve as the engine on how to make a change in the world and 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.

SUMMARY

One Community sees the issues of the world as interdependent and interconnected and focus towards. 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 learn how to make a change in the world and 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.

Conscious stewardship of our biosphere has never been more needed or possible. Never in the history of humanity have we had such an amazing ability to globally collaborate on this and share ideas and solutions. Through open source sustainability and consciously living and creating for The Highest Good of All, we have the ability to steward and regenerate our one shared planet for us and all future generations too. This is what One Community is doing:

• 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 24, 2016 edition (#148) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments:

Conscious Stewardship of Our Biosphere
One Community Progress Update #148

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

CONSCIOUS STEWARDSHIP OF OUR BIOSPHERE INTRO: @1:00

HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION: @1:57

• Transferred another 25% of the written content for the Community Lesson Plan to the website (see below)
• Behind the scenes: finished the final written portion of the Community Lesson Plan
• Completed another 25% of the mindmap for the Winter Lesson Plan (see below)

HIGHEST GOOD FOOD: @3:08

• Added the nutritional and caloric targets for all the major food categories that Naturopathic Doctor Matt Marturano calculated for our Food Self-sufficiency Transition Plan (see below)

HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING: @3:52

• Behind the scenes: Put another 10 hours into the revision for the Footers, Foundations and Flooring page for the upcoming crowdfunding campaign (see below)
• Behind the scenes: Added an additional 7% of edits and content to the Tree House Village (Pod 7) presentation begun by the Intern Team over the summer (see below)
• Jesika Rohrbach started adding the aesthetic details and floor plan updates to the Tree House Village (Pod 7) (see below)
• Shilcy Augustine continued developing the Compressed Earth Block Village (Pod 4) classroom and other shared community spaces (see below)
• Dean Scholz further developed what’s necessary for us to create quality Cob Village (Pod 3) renders (see below)

DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER: @5:56

• Continued the process of learning how to do our own renders for the Duplicable City Center (see below)
• Bupesh Seethala built the complete pallet closet in AutoCAD (see below)
• Iris Hsu continued with additional Pipe Couch designs for the Duplicable City Center library (see below)
• Behind the scenes: Mike Hogan developed 2nd-generation design ideas for users to manually interface with the Control Systems through hardware built into the bed design (see below)

HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY: @7:19

• Continued our work on the Highest Good Network with Andrew Herman (see below)
• Working with Oz Czerski, we created 2nd generation draft of the licensing agreement for our trademarked slogans and logos (see below)

CONSCIOUS STEWARDSHIP OF OUR BIOSPHERE SUMMARY: @8:05

• • • How you can most help us right now and how anyone can help

CLICK HERE IF YOU’D LIKE TO RECEIVE AN EMAIL EACH WEEK WHEN WE RELEASE A NEW UPDATE

YOU CAN ALSO JOIN US THROUGH SOCIAL MEDIA

 

ONE COMMUNITY WEEKLY UPDATE DETAILS

HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

One Community is facilitating conscious stewardship of our biosphere 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 last week the core team transferred another 25% of the written content for the Community Lesson Plan to the website, as you see here. This lesson plan is purposed to teach all subjects, to all learning levels, in any learning environment, using the central theme of “Community” and it is now 75% complete on the site.

Conscious Stewardship of Our Biosphere – Community Lesson Plan – 75% Complete ” Click to Visit

Behind the scenes, we finished the final written portion of the Community Lesson Plan.

We also completed another 25% of the mindmap for the Winter Lesson Plan, bringing that to 75% complete wh, as you see here.

Conscious Stewardship of Our Biosphere – Winter Lesson Plan Mindmap – Click to Visit Page

HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

One Community is facilitating conscious stewardship of our biosphere 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 last week for our Food Self-sufficiency Transition Plan page, the core team added the nutritional and caloric targets for all the major food categories that Naturopathic Doctor Matt Marturano (creator of the COHERENT model for comprehensive digestive health) calculated, which you can see here:

Conscious Stewardship of Our Biosphere – Nutritional and Caloric Targets – Click to Visit Page

HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

One Community is facilitating conscious stewardship of our biosphere 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 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 finishing a huge update of the AutoCAD for the footer, foundation and flooring and updates to section 11 and 12 steps of the content rewrite, both of which can be seen in this image. We’d say we are now 65% complete with this total update and rewrite behind the scenes.

Conscious Stewardship of Our Biosphere – Revision of the Footers, Foundations, Flooring ” Click to Visit

Also behind the scenes, we added an additional 7% of edits and content to the Tree House Village (Pod 7) presentation begun by the Intern Team over the summer, including adding live hyperlinks to our website. As part of these updates, we’ve included a section on Conscious Stewardship of Our Biosphere. You can see an example of this work here. The updates to the presentation are now approximately 92% finished and the presentation will be released on our website when the revision process is 100% complete.

Conscious Stewardship of Our Biosphere – Tree House Village – Intern Team ” Click to Visit

In addition to this, and working on the Tree House Village (Pod 7), Jesika Rohrbach (Architectural Drafter, Designers, and 3-D Modeler) started adding the aesthetic details and floor plan updates you see here. These updates include adding a Victorian look and increasing space efficiency, starting with the communal kitchen and social space layouts.

Conscious Stewardship of Our Biosphere – Aesthetic Details & Floor Plan – Tree House – Click to Enlarge

Shilcy Augustine (Architect) also continued developing the Compressed Earth Block Village (Pod 4) classroom and other shared community spaces, which you can see here. This week’s focus on facilitating conscious stewardship of our biosphere and on adding furniture and storage areas to the classroom spaces.

Conscious Stewardship of Our Biosphere – Compressed Earth Block Village – Click to Visit

Dean Scholz, Architectural Designer, further developed what’s necessary for us to create quality Cob Village (Pod 3) renders. Here is update 3.0 of this work that focused mostly on finding and creating textures for the two North wings.

Conscious Stewardship of Our Biosphere – Developed Quality Cob Village Renders – Click to Visit

DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

One Community is facilitating conscious stewardship of our biosphere 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 learning how to do our own renders for the Duplicable City Center. You can see here this work-in-progress covering faucets, wall lights, and counter top materials set up. Our written blog has links to the tutorial videos we are learning from.

Twilight Render Tutorial ” Materials And Studio Lighting
Twilight Render Tutorial SketchUp Section Cuts
Twilight Render Tutorial ” DOF Depth of Field

Conscious Stewardship of Our Biosphere – How to do Own Renders – Duplicable City Center – Click to Visit

Bupesh Seethala, Interior Designer, also built the complete pallet closet in AutoCAD as seen here, checking the details originally designed by the summer Intern Team against the recreation and updates by our core team, and then adding in additional construction details as necessary.

Conscious Stewardship of Our Biosphere – Built the Complete Pallet Closet in AutoCAD – Click to Visit 

Iris Hsu (Industrial Designer), continued with these additional Pipe Couch designs for the Duplicable City Center library facilitating conscious stewardship of our biosphere. The drawings you see here are her 7th generation drawings continuing development of the couch idea, continuing with a simplified design and angled and fixed seat back.

Conscious Stewardship of Our Biosphere – Pipe Couch Designs – Click to Visit

Behind the scenes Mike Hogan (Automation Systems Developer and Business Systems Consultant) developed this 2nd-generation design ideas for users to manually interface with the Control Systems through hardware built into the bed design. Here you see the inside and outside of the design for a removable and replaceable box with a micro-controller that would allow for easy bedside control of all key system elements in the room.

Conscious Stewardship of Our Biosphere – 2nd-Generation Control Systems Design – Click to Visit

HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS

One Community is facilitating conscious stewardship of our biosphere 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 continued our work on the Highest Good Network with Andrew Herman (Software Engineer and Core Member of Futurist Playground). What you see here is brainstorming and outlining on activity types and how to track and organize time and other data in a way that will be useful to dramatically different organizations, in a way that can be customized to diverse needs, but still be useful to the global collaboration of these organizations.

Conscious Stewardship of Our Biosphere – Highest Good Network ” Click to Learn About This

Working with Oz Czerski, Lawyer Specializing in Trademark and Copyright Law, we also created this 2nd generation draft of the licensing agreement for our trademarked slogans and logos.

Conscious Stewardship of Our Biosphere – 2nd Generation Draft Licensing Agreement – Click to Visit

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WHAT ONE COMMUNITY IS CREATING

One Community is creating a place to grow together and how to make a change in the world together and one of our key focus is to create conscious stewardship of our biosphere . 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 on how to make a change in the world.

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 on how to make a change in the world. 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 and learn how to make a change in the world. 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 how to make a change in the world and 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.

As One Community continues evolving and establishing ourselves, everything we create and promote will serve as the engine on how to make a change in the world and 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.

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. Igniting a new paradigm of sustainable ideas epresents a crucial step towards realizing a world that sustains every individual.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 learn how to make a change in the world and 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.