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WHAT ONE COMMUNITY IS CREATING

One Community is creating objective and measurable global transformation 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, creating objective and measurable global transformation.

Throughout our design process of creating objective and measurable global transformation, 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 to create objective and measurable global transformation. 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 objective and measurable global transformation within 30 years. We will achieve this by establishing successful teacher/demonstration hubs on every continent. Villages include designs appropriate for each of the five main types of climates. They also include options for even the most challenged economies. These hubs will collaborate with one another, share ideas, and resources, and work together as a network to heal the planet. They will also transform the global lifestyle into a more enjoyable, fulfilling, healthy, and sustainable one.

The specifics of how One Community is accomplishing the objective and measurable global transformation 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 in our Research and Resources Articles Archive.

Even if we don’t achieve our ultimate goal of objective and measurable 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 about the objective and measurable global transformation that creates 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, and ultimately creating objective and measurable global transformation. 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 to achieve objective and measurable global transformation.

COMPREHENSIVE SOLUTION TO HUMANITY’S NEEDS

One Community is open source sharing an evolution of sustainable living and creating objective and measurable global transformation 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 and accelerate objective and measurable global transformation, One Community will provide seven duplicable examples and function indefinitely as a place people can visit and a non-profit and open source think tank continuing to further evolve and share solutions in all of the above areas and more. We will also provide hands-on experience and training. Most importantly, growing upon our sustainable foundation, we will endlessly make this comprehensive solution even more widely known and globally accessible, understandable and diversely duplicable, and inspiring and desirable as a model worth duplicating.

GLOBALLY IMPLEMENTABLE REPLICATION MODEL

The more people that are inspired and desiring for themselves what it is that One Community creates, the more demand there will be for spreading the One Community model. This leads to the directing of financial resources and resourceful people where we believe they are needed most: the establishment of additional sustainable communities around the world, thereby achieving objective and measurable global transformation. We also feel this duplication will specifically happen quickly internationally due to the affordability of overseas land, less restrictive building environments, and the spirit of adventure in many people who desire to make a difference for those who need it most.

To meet the increasing demand for sustainability that we are contributing to, we are coordinating with manufacturers, education institutions, individuals, and vendors. This is also part of this model to help with objective and measurable global transformation. Its purpose is to facilitate more engagement of the sustainability industry, produce the absolute best possible consumer value, and the most convenient delivery of goods and methodologies for building sustainable living communities and sustainable living components.

This means we not only provide education and increase needed sustainability resources, but we also address the underlying roadblocks to a sustainable planet by decreasing the cost and simultaneously increasing the demand and generating financial support for global sustainability, philanthropy, and humanitarian movements and organizations.

As demand increases, so too will the ways to participate. Right now people are participating as consultants or partners donating time to our 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization, and others are more involved as Pioneers of the core team that will be moving to the property. We also have options for people to just follow our progress or participate through internet contribution, implementing objective and measurable global transformation.

Once the supportive physical infrastructure is about 30% developed, One Community will be ready to additionally expand what we offer to include scholarships, free weekend learning groups, core team members choosing to travel abroad to help others get established too, handling the marketing for all similar models operating for The Highest Good of All, and hosting classes and other sponsored events to promote and demonstrate additional methodologies.

We also imagine the high likelihood that our organization will become a foundation that can be trusted as the donation point for the distribution of monies to help others to establish this model also, thereby accelerating the global transformation.

ONE COMMUNITY’S 4-PHASE STRATEGY

One Community is building solution-creating models designed to create additional solution-creating models to specifically facilitate exponential and sustainable global teacher/demonstration village growth. The following four phases of the strategy we are applying are designed to support each other and accelerate the global transformation process:

Creating Objective and Measurable Global Transformation 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.

Creating Objective and Measurable Global Transformation 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.

Creating Objective and Measurable Global Transformation 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, work crews, and tourism will be foundations of One Community once we have sufficient infrastructure in place to support these options.

Creating Objective and Measurable Global Transformation 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 objective and measurable global transformation.

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 and the foundation of objective and measurable global transformation for a variety of duplicate teacher/demonstration communities, villages, and cities capable of being built virtually anywhere.

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

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

OPEN SOURCE SHARING STRATEGY SPECIFICS

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

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

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

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

SUMMARY

One Community sees the issues of the world as interdependent and interconnected. To address them simultaneously, we are open-source blueprinting a more advanced standard of living by designing holistic, environmentally regenerative, self-sustaining, adaptable solutions for all areas of sustainability, creating objective and measurable global transformation. 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 where people can experience a new way of living and then replicate it with our open source blueprints: creating a model solution that creates additional solution-creating models.

One Community Welcomes Da Feng To The Engineering Team!

Posted on April 19, 2015 by One Community

One Community welcomes Da Feng to the Highest Good Engineering Team as our newest Partner/Consultant!

Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering Student: After receiving his bachelor’s degree in Automotive Engineering from Beijing Institute of Technology, Da began working on his MS degree at USC. He has experience from multiple mechanical projects ranging from mechanical devices to industrial robots. Growing up with encyclopedias as his most loved books, Da learned about nature and how beautiful it is around the world and has been motivated and driven by a love of nature ever since. Respecting the variation of ecosystems, Da wants to find an adaptable plan for different ones and is contributing his skill and knowledge in both 3D modeling and finite element analysis to the Duplicable City Center to help achieve this goal as part of the One Community team.

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One Community Welcomes Antonio Zambianco To The Engineering Team

Posted on April 19, 2015 by One Community

One Community welcomes Antonio Zambianco to the Highest Good Engineering Team as our newest member of Team Brazil!

4th-year Civil Engineering Student, Structural Team Lead: Antonio speaks three languages, including Portuguese (native), English (fluent) and Spanish (advanced) and presents a spirit of leadership, ease in communication (and teamwork), and knowledge of essential design and calculation software like Ftool, AutoCAD, Revit and SAP2000. Always very religious, Antonio grew up with the desire to help people and now sees One Community as an opportunity to further apply this desire. As a member of the One Community Intern Team, Antonio brings his knowledge of Structural Engineering, an area in which he has given specific emphasis and completed important related research, and his will to make the world a better place through eco-sustainability. Primary areas of focus include structural calculations and design assistance for both the Duplicable City Center and the Earthbag Village structures.

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One Community Welcomes Mandy Leetch to the Education Team!

Posted on April 17, 2015 by One Community

One Community welcomes Mandy Leetch to the Highest Good Education Team as our newest Partner / Consultant!

Developmental Psychology, Eco-Psychology, Family Systems Theory and Sustainability Education Specialist: With ten years of early childhood teaching experience working with children and families, Mandy is particularly interested in finding ways to help society to support the healthy functioning of children and families. She has her BA in developmental psychology from Lesley University and is currently pursuing advanced degrees in counseling psychology and sustainability education from Prescott College. She believes that appropriate developmental practices including psycho-education and ecological holism help all people develop the necessary skills for interacting with others in a way that is compassionate and respectful of their developmental needs. Her areas of interest and research include the lifelong ontogenic process of living a happy life, the harmonious re-connection of the human species with the Earth, as well as child and family centered life philosophies to raise resilient and creative children. When she’s not researching, she’s working in local food justice and urban farming, trying her hand at homesteading, or making art dolls. As a One Community Consultant, Mandy is lending her extensive knowledge and experience to develop a comprehensive evaluation/assessment and mutual feedback model for students and their teachers who use the One Community open source education program.

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One Community Welcomes Vassili Biserov to the Translation Team!

Posted on April 13, 2015 by One Community

One Community welcomes Vassili Biserov to the Translation Team as our newest Partner/Consultant!

Writer, Poet and Translator: First and foremost a poet, Vassili took part in the last two editions of 100 Thousands Poets for Change that have taken place in Bologna. Vibra, one of Vas’ poems in a different language, was judged as worthy of mention in a poetry competition called ‘Attraverso l’Italia’. Vas first started translating by translating a French songwriter, Leo Ferré, into Italian when he was in high school. After that he translated the entire phonographic testament of him, he began to translate a Russian songwriter, Vladimir Vyzotskij, whom he translated more than 400 songs into Italian. Vas has organized and led a Poetic Literary Circle, a group purposed to perform readings in houses, parks and squares and taken part in ‘La Gabotte,’ a group of poets with whom he produced a CD with 13 tracks, one for each poet. He is also a reiki practitioner with the 2nd level of Karuna reiki. As a One Community Partner, Vas is helping to translate the pages of the One Community site that he finds most helpful and inspirational into Italian. Here’s just one example: https://onecommunityglobal.org/case-a-cerchio-portale-open-source/

WELCOME TO THE TEAM VASSILI!

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One Community Welcomes Mateus Barretto to the Infrastructure Design Team!

Posted on April 13, 2015 by One Community

One Community welcomes Mateus Barretto to the Infrastructure Design Team!

Mateus is a 3rd-Year Civil Engineering/Construction Engineering student who also has a LEED 101 certificate. He is graduating in Civil Engineering in Brazil and is currently studying abroad at California State Long Beach. In his last job as an intern he helped the architects with the architectural projects and the engineers with managing the construction of the buildings and with hydraulics and electrical projects in the office. This has helped Mateus develop knowledge and experience with important softwares like AutoCAD 2D, Revit and Sketchup. His main field of study in civil engineering is Hydraulics with specific interest in the reuse of water for the benefits of helping the environment by avoiding waste, and also by helping people have easy and safe water for irrigation. Mateus feels strongly that we can create a sustainable society where people work together and he brings this belief, his passion for hydraulics, and his knowledge to the hydraulics team working on the Duplicable City Center and the seven village models.

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Sustainable Global Education Blueprint – One Community Weekly Progress Update #110

Posted on April 12, 2015 by One Community

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Creating a sustainable global education blueprint that will teach people how to live sustainably anywhere in the world can be accomplished. To truly meet the goals of all people, everywhere, this model will combine physical sustainability (food, energy, housing, etc.) and emotional sustainability (education, economics, recreation, etc.). Open source and free-sharing these as a complete model can make this lifestyle an accessible reality for everyone. One Community is doing this as a path to a sustainable global education blueprint 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-replication teacher/demonstration communities, villages, and cities to be built around the world. This is the April 12th, 2015 edition (#110) of our weekly progress update detailing the previous week’s development and accomplishments:

Sustainable Global Education Blueprint
One Community Weekly Progress Update #110

Sustainable Global Education Blueprint - One Community Weekly Progress Update #110

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Here is the bullet-point list of last week’s design and progress discussed in detail about the sustainable global education blueprint in the video above:

SUSTAINABLE GLOBAL EDUCATION BLUEPRINT INTRO @1:00

HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION @1:57

Transferred first 25% of written section and images for the “Open Source” lesson plan to the website (see below)
Behind the scenes: wrote another 25% of “Open Source” lesson plan
Behind the scenes: wrote first 25% of lesson plan with central theme of “Nature“
Added final 70% of the violet section to the Technology and Innovation Molecule webpage (see below)
Paige Allison Donatelli finished another 25% of the image creation for the Open Source lesson mindmap (see below)
Paige also helped us create a new image for the “Happiness” lesson plan (see below)

HIGHEST GOOD FOOD: @3:40

Finished the final social media imagery and featured our open source corn hub and our food forest herb plantings hub (see below)
Researched and added the recipes to the open source potatoes hub
Added two new tasty recipes from Sandra Sellani (see below)

HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING: @4:52

Behind the scenes: continued laying out the specifics for the Open Source Murphy bed furniture assembly details (67% complete – see below)
Behind the scenes: finished another 5% of the earthdome loft construction tutorial specifics (60% complete – see below)
Scott Thomas and his Shadow Ridge Signature Architecture Program team finished their part of the work putting the complete Earthbag Village components together in AutoCAD (see below)
Sheng Xu finished his third round of SolidWorks design specifics for the 3-dome cluster of the upcoming crowdfunding campaign (see below)
Nelli Levental created the second concept sketches for the earthship village (Pod 6)

DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER: @7:11

Updated the open source indoor/outdoor natural pool and eco-spa page with the plumbing design specifics of Rob Gjerde (see below)
Mateus Barretto finished the calculations for the Duplicable City Center water catchment specifics (see below)

HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY: @7:58

Finished creation of the Ocean Preservation page of the People’s Agenda 21 site (see below)
Finished creation of the Biotechnology Management page of the People’s Agenda 21 site (see below)
Vassili Biserov finished the first translation of one of our pages into another language: The Open Source Hoop House Construction Page (see below)

SUSTAINABLE GLOBAL EDUCATION BLUEPRINT SUMMARY: @8:57

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SUSTAINABLE GLOBAL EDUCATION BLUEPRINT HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

One Community is forwarding a sustainable global education blueprint 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 section and images for the “Open Source” lesson plan to the website – which you can see here:

Sustainable Global Education Blueprint, Open Source Lesson plan in progress, One Community

Open Source Lesson Plan ” 25% Complete ” Click to Visit Page

Behind the scenes we also wrote another 25% of this lesson plan, bringing it to 50% written completion.

Also behind the scenes, we wrote the first 25% of our next lesson plan with the central theme of “Nature“.

We also added the final 70% of the violet section to the Technology and Innovation Molecule webpage, which you can see here. This molecule is now 98% complete, with a few additional points to be researched and added to provide more sustainable global education blueprint examples.

Sustainable Global Education Blueprint, Technology and Innovation, One Community

Final 70% of Violet Section Added to Technology and Innovation Page ” Click to Visit

Paige Allison Donatelli (Graphic Designer and Owner Operator of Namaste Living in a Material World) finished another 25% of the image creation for the Open Source lesson mindmap, which you can see here. That brings this mindmap to 50% complete:

Sustainable Global Education Blueprint, Open Source mindmap in progress, One Community

Mindmap for “Open Source” Lesson Plan ” 50% Complete ” Click to Visit Page

Paige also helped us create this new image for the “Happiness” lesson plan, which we featured this week across our social media channels:

Sustainable Global Education Blueprint, Happiness Lesson Plan Meme Facebook

Happiness Lesson Plan Featured – Click to Visit Page

SUSTAINABLE GLOBAL EDUCATION BLUEPRINT HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

One Community is establishing a sustainable global education blueprint 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 finished the final social media imagery and featured our open source corn hub:

Sustainable Global Education Blueprint, Corn 640, One Community

Featured our Corn Page with New Social Media Imagery ” Click to Visit

And we did this for our food forest herb plantings hub too:

Sustainable Global Education Blueprint, Food forest herb planting guide, One Community

Featured our Food Forest Herb Plantings Page with New Social Media Imagery ” Click to Visit

We also researched and added the final major component to the open source potatoes hub: RECIPES! You can see these new additions here. These first recipe lists will grow as our food experts continue the process of designing the Food Self-sufficiency Transition Plan for remote village construction.

Sustainable Global Education Blueprint, Potato recipes, One Community

Added the Potato Recipes ” Click to Visit the Open Source Potato Hub

In addition to this, we added two new tasty recipes from Sandra Sellani (Vegan Chef and author of What’s Your BQ?) to the Food Self-sufficiency Transition Plan: Tortilla Salad and Lentil and Brown Rice Stuffed Red Pepper Salad.

Sustainable Global Education Blueprint, Vegan Recipes, One Community

Tortilla Salad Added to Food Self-sufficiency Transition Plan Page ” Click to Visit

Lentil & Brown Rice Stuffed Red Pepper Salad Added to Food Self-Sufficiency Transition Plan Page

SUSTAINABLE GLOBAL EDUCATION BLUEPRINT HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

One Community is establishing a sustainable global education blueprint 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 continued progress on the assembly specifics for the Open Source Murphy bed furniture. This work is happening behind the scenes and what you see here will be part of the Earthbag Village and the upcoming crowdfunding campaign. This week we finished cutting lumber and labeling pieces for two back shelves and begin exploring a new shelving and ladder design. We estimate we are now 67% complete with this behind-the-scenes work.

Sustainable Global Education Blueprint, Murphy bed furniture behind the scenes, One Community

Murphy Bed Furniture Assembly Details Developing Behind-the-scenes ” Click to Visit Furniture Page

Also, behind the scenes, we finished another 5% of the earthdome loft construction tutorial specifics. This work included lining out details for deck install and looking at possible need to change spacing of joists, sorting out screw sizes, and creating what was needed for an engineer to run loft structural calculations. We’re now 60% complete with this behind-the-scenes work.

Scott Thomas and his Shadow Ridge Signature Architecture Program team finished their part of the work putting the complete Earthbag Village components together in AutoCAD. Here is the 2D layout of the complete village created from our 3D Sketchup files:

Sustainable Global Education Blueprint, Earthbag Village in AutoCAD, One Community

Complete Earthbag Village Being Placed into AutoCAD ” Click to Visit Page

Sheng Xu (Mechanical Design Engineer) also finished his third round of SolidWorks design specifics for the 3-dome cluster of the upcoming crowdfunding campaign. This work included adding the door and window specifics. The colored dots you see above the windows and doors are recycled bottles for adding additional artistic and colored natural lighting:

Sustainable Global Education Blueprint, 3-Dome Cluster Solidworks, One Community

3-Dome Cluster into Solidworks (3rd Round) ” Click for Upcoming Crowdfunding Campaign Page

Nelli Levental (Graphic Designer and College Professor) also created these second concept sketches for the earthship village (Pod 6) featuring a stacked design of two levels providing 40 units… this then evolved into a straight design that will take better advantage of passive solar…. and look like this if built into a hill…. These 2-level earthship inspired designs are expandable and will have a central large-scale kitchen, several shared common spaces, and start with sufficient housing for 60-80 people.

Sustainable Global Education Blueprint, Earthship in progress, One Community

Concept Sketches and Designs for Earthship Village (Pod 6) ” Click to Visit Highest Good Housing Page

SUSTAINABLE GLOBAL EDUCATION BLUEPRINT DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

One Community is establishing a sustainable global education blueprint 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 last week the core team updated the open source indoor/outdoor natural pool and eco-spa page with the plumbing design specifics of Rob Gjerde (Pool Design & Construction Expert and owner of Sorico Design and Consulting). You can see these additions here:

Sustainable Global Education Blueprint, Natural pool, One Community

Sustainable Global Education Blueprint, Natural Pool, and Eco-Spa Page Updated – Click to Visit Page

Mateus Barretto (Civil Engineering Student specializing in Hydraulics) also finished the calculations for the Duplicable City Center water catchment specifics including pipe sizing and selection that you can see here:

Sustainable Global Education Blueprint, water catchment, One Community

Calculations for the Duplicable City Center Water Catchment Specifics

SUSTAINABLE GLOBAL EDUCATION BLUEPRINT HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS

One Community is establishing a sustainable global education blueprint 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 finished the creation of the Ocean Preservation page of the People’s Agenda 21 site. This page covers resources for anyone interested in proactive action for protecting and preserving our oceans:

Sustainable Global Education Blueprint, Ocean Preservation, PA21, One Community

Sustainable Global Education Blueprint, Ocean Preservation Page Complete ” Click to Visit

We also finished the creation of the Biotechnology Management page of the People’s Agenda 21 site. This page covers resources for anyone interested in proactive action with biotechnology in relation to food, supporting human health, protecting the environment and more:

Sustainable Global Education Blueprint, Biotechnology and Management, PA21, One Community

Sustainable Global Education Blueprint, Biotechnology and Management Page Complete

Last but not least, Vassili Biserov (Writer, Poet, and Translator) finished the first translation of one of our pages into another language: The Open Source Hoop House Construction Page. You can see this page and all of Vassili’s wonderful work here:

Sustainable Global Education Blueprint, Hoop house page translated to Italian, One Community

The Open Source Hoop House Page Translated into Italian – Click to Visit Page

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One Community Welcomes Philo Jewett to the Web Development Team!

Posted on April 11, 2015 by One Community

One Community welcomes Philo Jewett to the Web Development Team as our newest Pioneer Member!

Web Designer & Photoshop Expert, Videographer, Internet Marketer, and Education Designer/Teacher: Philo has a diversity of experience in artistic creation, marketing and teaching that provides him a unique and effective approach to situations and challenges in his environment. Combining a growing set of web-design skills with his expert Photoshop skills, a program he has been passionately and artistically using for the last 5 years, Philo creates beautiful and thought provoking images and content to educate and inspire people to action. With an eye for design and a history of internet marketing, Philo has mastered the foundations of web design and the honed his skills using the complete tool set of Photoshop to paint, create and develop concepts, do touch-up work, and work with all the delicate intricacies of producing images that are beautiful, moving, and compelling.

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Strategic Sustainable Lifestyle Creation – One Community Weekly Progress Update #109

Posted on April 5, 2015 by One Community

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Strategic Sustainable lifestyle creation makes sense to include both physical sustainability (food, energy, housing, etc.) and emotional sustainability (education, economics, recreation, etc.). Combining and open source and free-sharing these as a complete model can make this lifestyle an accessible reality for everyone. One Community is doing this as a path to global transformation through Strategic Sustainable lifestyle creation and 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 implementing strategic sustainable lifestyle creation . This is the April 5th, 2015 edition (#109) of our weekly progress update detailing the previous week’s development and accomplishments:

Strategic Sustainable Lifestyle Creation
One Community Weekly Progress Update #109

Strategic Sustainable Lifestyle Creation - One Community Weekly Progress Update #109

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

STRATEGIC SUSTAINABLE LIFESTYLE CREATION INTRO @1:04

STRATEGIC SUSTAINABLE LIFESTYLE CREATION HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION @2:00

Transferred final 50% of the written design for the “Civilization ” lesson plan to the website (see below)
Added the final 35% of the indigo section and 30% of the violet section to the Technology and Innovation Molecule webpage (see below)
Paige Allison Donatelli finished 25% of the image creation for the Open Source lesson mindmap (see below)
Paige also helped us create this new image for the “Spring” lesson plan, which we featured this week across our social media channels (see below)

STRATEGIC SUSTAINABLE LIFESTYLE CREATION HIGHEST GOOD FOOD: @3:50

Finished the final social media imagery and featured our open source celery hub and our food forest shrub plantings hub (see below)
Researched and added the recipes to the open source lettuce hub and the open source squash hub (see below)
Added an amazing vegan recipe from Sandra Sellani (see below)

STRATEGIC SUSTAINABLE LIFESTYLE CREATION HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING: @5:07

Behind the scenes: continued laying out the specifics for the Open Source Murphy bed furniture assembly details (65% complete – see below)
Behind the scenes: finished another 20% of the earthdome loft construction tutorial specifics (55% complete – see below)
Scott Thomas and his Shadow Ridge Signature Architecture Program team began putting the complete Earthbag Village components together in AutoCAD (see below)
Sheng Xu finished his second round of SolidWorks design specifics for the 3-dome cluster of the upcoming crowdfunding campaign (see below)
Nelli Levental created this first concept sketch for the earthship village (Pod 6) featuring a stacked design of 40 units (see below)
Added AutoCAD and design work of Dave Walen to the Straw Bale Village (Pod 2) open source hub (see below)

STRATEGIC SUSTAINABLE LIFESTYLE CREATION DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER: @7:17

Robert Seton produced baseline production calculations, battery specifics calculations, and initial electric load comparisons for the phase I solar infrastructure (see below)

STRATEGIC SUSTAINABLE LIFESTYLE CREATION HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY: @7:56

Finished rebuilding all the menus and finished the “Radioactive Wastes” chapter rewrite on the People’s Agenda 21 site (see below)
Created the beginnings of a new legal page purposed to open source share the legal processes and documents required for our non-profit and for-profit entities (see below)
Finished weeks of edits and updates to our non-profit bylaws, thanks to the amazing help of Yusuf Sulayman (see below)

STRATEGIC SUSTAINABLE LIFESTYLE CREATION SUMMARY: @8:54

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STRATEGIC SUSTAINABLE LIFESTYLE CREATION HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

One Community is supporting a systemic approach to total sustainability through Strategic Sustainable lifestyle creation and 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 50% of the written design and images for the “Civilization ” lesson plan to the website – which you can see here:

Civilization lesson plan final half, One Community, Strategic Sustainable lifestyle creation

Strategic Sustainable Lifestyle Creation Civilization Lesson Plan – 2nd Half Complete – Click to Visit

We also added the final 35% of the indigo section and 30% of the violet section to the Technology and Innovation Molecule webpage, which you can see here. Violet includes informational overviews and links that provide details about companies and brands that have had the greatest impacts on humanity in regards to technology and innovation have researched on Strategic Sustainable lifestyle creation.

Technology and innovation in progress, One Community-Strategic Sustainable lifestyle creation

Indigo Section and 30% of Violet Section Added to Technology and Innovation Page – Click to Visit

Paige Allison Donatelli (Graphic Designer and Owner Operator of Namaste Living in a Material World) finished 25% of the image creation for the Open Source lesson mindmap. When complete on the site, this lesson plan will teach all subjects, to all learning levels, in any learning environment using the central Open Source Sharing theme:

Lesson plan mindmap for Open Source, in progress, One Community- Strategic Sustainable lifestyle creation

Mindmap for “Open Source” Lesson Plan – 25% Complete – Click to Visit

Paige also helped us create this new image for the “Spring” lesson plan, which we featured this week across our social media channels:

Spring Lesson Plan meme, One Community- Strategic Sustainable lifestyle creation

Strategic Sustainable Lifestyle Creation – Spring Lesson Plan Featured ” Click to Visit Page

STRATEGIC SUSTAINABLE LIFESTYLE CREATION HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

One Community is supporting a systemic approach to total sustainability through Strategic Sustainable lifestyle creation 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 finished the final social media imagery and featured our open source celery hub:

Celery Facebook meme, One Community-Strategic Sustainable lifestyle creation

Featured our Celery Page with New Social Media Imagery ” Click to Visit

And we did this for our food forest shrub plantings hub too:

Food Forest Shrub Plantings meme, One Community- Strategic Sustainable lifestyle creation

Featured our Food Forest Shrub Plantings Page with New Social Media Imagery ” Click to Visit

We also researched and added the final major component to the open source lettuce hub: RECIPES! You can see these new additions here:

Lettuce Recipes, One Community- Strategic Sustainable lifestyle creation

Added the Lettuce Recipes ” Click to Visit the Open Source Lettuce Hub

We also did this for the open source squash hub. These first recipe lists will grow as our food experts continue the process of designing the Food Self-sufficiency Transition Plan for remote village construction:

Squash Recipes, One Community- Strategic Sustainable lifestyle creation

Added the Squash Recipes ” Click to Visit the Open Source Squash Hub

In addition to this, we added a delicious Mango & Blood Orange Smoothie recipe (from Sandra Sellani (Vegan Chef and author ofWhat’s Your BQ?) to the Food Self-sufficiency Transition Plan page:

Mango and blood orange smoothie, One Community recipes- Strategic Sustainable lifestyle creation

Mango & Blood Orange Smoothie Added to Food Self-sufficiency Transition Plan Page ” Click to Visit

STRATEGIC SUSTAINABLE LIFESTYLE CREATION HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

One Community is supporting a systemic approach to total sustainability through Strategic Sustainable lifestyle creation 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 continued progress on the assembly specifics for the Open Source Murphy bed furniture. This work is happening behind the scenes and what you see here will be part of the Earthbag Village and the upcoming crowdfunding campaign helping promote Strategic Sustainable lifestyle creation. This week we finished assembly instructions for the upper, middle, and lower drawers of the nightstands. What you see here is all this behind-the-scenes work-in-progress and we estimate we are now 65% complete with what is needed for the website.

murphy bed behind the scenes, One Community-Strategic Sustainable lifestyle creation

Open Source Murphy Bed Furniture Assembly Details Developing Behind-the-scenes ” Click to Visit

Also, behind the scenes, we finished another 20% of the earthdome loft construction tutorial specifics. This work included inserting new steps and rearranging the order, adding more construction details, reviewing and altering the hatch design, and updating the video list & sequence. We’re now 55% complete with this behind-the-scenes work:

earthdome loft construction behind the scenes, One Community- Strategic Sustainable lifestyle creation

Earthdome Loft Construction Tutorial Developing Behind the Scenes ” Click to Visit

Scott Thomas and his Shadow Ridge Signature Architecture Program team began putting the complete Earthbag Village components together in AutoCAD. You can see 1/2 of the village placed here in CAD:

Earthbag Village autoCAD, One Community- Strategic Sustainable lifestyle creation

Strategic Sustainable Lifestyle Creation – 1/2 of Earthbag Village into AutoCAD – Click to Visit Page

Sheng Xu (Mechanical Design Engineer) also finished his second round of SolidWorks design backed by Strategic Sustainable lifestyle creation specifics for the 3-dome cluster of the upcoming crowdfunding campaign. What you see is the addition of accurate artistic elements that will be around the doors and windows, as well as smoothing of all the corners:

3-Dome Cluster Solidworks, One Community- Strategic Sustainable lifestyle creation

3-Dome Cluster into Solidworks (2nd Round) ” Click for Upcoming Crowdfunding Campaign Page

Nelli Levental (Graphic Designer and College Professor) also created this first concept sketch for the earthship village (Pod 6) featuring a stacked design of 40 units:

Earthship Sketch, One Community- Strategic Sustainable lifestyle creation

Strategic Sustainable Lifestyle Creation – Concept Sketch for Earthship Village (Pod 6) – Click to Visit

And, last but not least, the core team added the amazing AutoCAD and design work of Dave Walen (Architectural Drafter & Designer and owner of Dave Philip Walen Design) to the Straw Bale Village (Pod 2) open source hub. You can see these new additions here and read all about this village on the webpage:

Straw Bale Village in AutoCAD, One Community- Strategic Sustainable lifestyle creation

Strategic Sustainable Lifestyle Creation – AutoCAD and Design Work added to Straw Bale Village Page

STRATEGIC SUSTAINABLE LIFESTYLE CREATION DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

One Community is supporting a systemic approach to total sustainability employing the Strategic Sustainable lifestyle creation 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 last week Robert Seton (Solar Design Engineer and Owner of Solar Hybrid Design) produced these baseline production calculations, battery specifics calculations, and initial electric load comparisons for the phase I solar infrastructure, bringing us one huge step closer to what we need to finalize these specifics on the site.

Solar Production, One Community- Strategic Sustainable lifestyle creation

Baseline Production Calculations for Phase I Solar Infrastructure – Click for Highest Good Energy Page

Battery Calculations, One Community- Strategic Sustainable lifestyle creation

Battery Calculations for Phase I Solar Infrastructure – Click for Highest Good Energy Page

Electric Load, One Community- Strategic Sustainable lifestyle creation

Electric Load for Phase I Solar Infrastructure – Click for Highest Good Energy Page

STRATEGIC SUSTAINABLE LIFESTYLE CREATION HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS

One Community is supporting a systemic approach to total sustainability through Strategic sustainable lifestyle creation and 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 finished rebuilding all the menus and finished the “Radioactive Wastes” chapter rewrite on the People’s Agenda 21 site. This new page offers education and resources for any individual or local-level community interested in being proactive about addressing radioactive waste challenges:

Radioactive Wastes Chapter PA21, One Community- Strategic Sustainable lifestyle creation

Strategic Sustainable Lifestyle Creation – “Radioactive Wastes” Page Complete – Click to Visit

The core team also created the beginnings of this new legal page purposed to open source share the legal processes and documents required for our non-profit and for-profit entities:

Legal Page in progress, One Community- Strategic Sustainable lifestyle creation

Strategic Sustainable Lifestyle Creation – New Open Source Legal Page in Progress – Click to Visit

And, thanks to the amazing help of Yusuf Sulayman (Lawyer and member of the Nigerian Bar Association), we were able to finish weeks of edits and updates to our non-profit bylaws that can now be viewed and downloaded from the new legal page:

Bylaws, One Community- Strategic Sustainable lifestyle creation

Strategic Sustainable Lifestyle Creation – Updated Bylaws ” Click for the Legal Page

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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.) through Strategic Sustainable lifestyle creation. 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 proving the impact of Strategic Sustainable lifestyle creation.

It is this approach we see uniting the world and leading to a new Golden Age for humanity aided by Strategic Sustainable lifestyle creation . 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.

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.

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One Community Welcomes Nelli Levental to the Design and Development Team!

Posted on March 31, 2015 by One Community

One Community welcomes Nelli Levental to the Design and Development Team!

Nelli Levental ” MFA of Graphic Design and College Professor: Nelli is an Artist, Functional Designer, Educator and a proud mom of two mature individuals. She has a diverse background, growing up in the Former Soviet Union, getting an extensive education in Fine Art, continuing into Book Design and, after immigrating to the US, becoming a Graphic Designer specializing in Functional Design. She has experience in teaching Art to both adults and children and Graphic and Architectural Design to College students. Nelli has also enjoyed exploring the world and learning about different cultures, living in Moldova, Russia, and the US and having traveled to France, Spain, Canada and Uganda. She is practicing Sivananda Yoga and likes creatively solving problems. As a One Community Consultant, Nelli is helping oversee the development of both the Shipping Container Village (Village #5) and the Earthship Village (Village #6).

WELCOME TO THE TEAM NELLI!

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