One Community is happy to welcome Global Dome Homes to the Highest Good Collaborators Team:

Global Dome Homes (Hajjar) www.globaldomehomes.com

Global Dome Homes is an organization devoted to revolutionizing the way we build. Inventor and natural builder Hajjar Gibran created and perfected the Global Dome Homes method of construction using his testing site at Miracle Springs in the jungle of northeastern Thailand. There he created picturesque and durable structures that have excited international attention. Operating under the belief that a safe and beautiful place to live is a basic human right, Global Dome Homes is making access to this essential need as widely available as possible in a way that doesn’t take a toll on our environment. Their path to doing this is through open sourced plans to allow others to construct their own homes using their intuitive, inexpensive, and eco-friendly design, while continuing to offer construction workshops as Hajjar has already done all over the world. The organization is also in the process of creating designs for implementation in disaster relief and disaster prone areas, as well as making their buildings available for social projects and eco-villages around the world. In the spirit of Hajjar’s famous ancestor Kahlil Gibran, Global Dome Homes seeks to offer one of the tools for a full and harmonious life for whoever wants to build a safe place for themselves and their families. As a One Community collaborator, Global Dome Homes will be helping One Community build and open source share comparing an aircrete dome to an earthbag dome as an alternative option for the complete Earthbag Village.

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One Community is advancing the standard of living by providing a path for people to do-it-yourself create the standard of living that they want. We are developing this through an evolution of sustainability that is open sourcing all the necessary DIY plans and steps for living and collaboratively 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 August 1st, 2014 edition (#74) of our weekly progress update detailing the previous week’s development and accomplishments:

Advancing the Standard of Living
One Community Weekly Progress Update #74

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

ADVANCING THE STANDARD OF LIVING INTRO @1:00

ADVANCING THE STANDARD OF LIVING – HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION @1:36

• • • Finished 50% of the Spring-themed lesson plan webpage (see below)
    • Added another 20% to our open source online education resources page
    • Completed the first 60% of the images and descriptions for the English Subject page (see below)
    • Behind the scenes we finished the final 10% of the lesson plan with the core them of  “Harmony”

ADVANCING THE STANDARD OF LIVING – HIGHEST GOOD FOOD: @2:47

• • • Finished adding the diversity details to the Turnips section of the large-scale gardening page (see below)
    • Finished adding the diversity details to the Oca section of the large-scale gardening page (see below)

ADVANCING THE STANDARD OF LIVING – HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING: @3:42

• • • Finished first 25% of the Murphy bed furniture measurements and plans for instructions (see below)
    • Added lodging and camping option details to our crowdfunding campaign webpage (see below)
    • Amira Kessem finished traditional plaster research for the open source plaster page (details below)
    • Scott Howard also began contributing eco-plaster information for this new open source plaster page

ADVANCING THE STANDARD OF LIVING – DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER: @5:01

• • • Added another 30 seconds of scenes to the Duplicable City Center construction in 3-D video (see below)
    • More heat pump analysis done and added to our open source sustainable water heating page (see below)

ADVANCING THE STANDARD OF LIVING – HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY: @7:01

• • • Completed a new win-win page about our definition of creating win-win partnerships (see below)
    • Updated our core value of Spirituality page (see below)

ADVANCING THE STANDARD OF LIVING SUMMARY: @7:43

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

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ADVANCING THE STANDARD OF LIVING HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

One Community is advancing the standard of living 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 finished 50% of the Spring-themed lesson plan webpage that teaches all subjects to all learning levels in the context of the central theme of “Spring”:

Spring-themed Lesson Plan Webpage – 50% Complete – Click to Visit Page

And we completed the first 60% of the images and descriptions for the English Subject page:

English Subject Page – 60% Complete – Click to Visit Page

ADVANCING THE STANDARD OF LIVING HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

One Community is advancing the standard of living 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 adding the diversity details to the heirloom and organic Turnips section of the large-scale gardening page. We added 9 and featured the only two that had enough available online information to create feature details:

Turnip Diversity Details – Click to Visit Page

We also completed the details for Oca, an Andes root vegetable that looks like the 10 you see featured here. Click the image to visit the page with complete cultural considerations, planting guidelines, and sourcing and purchasing details.

Oca Diversity Details – Click to Visit Page

ADVANCING THE STANDARD OF LIVING HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

One Community is advancing the standard of living 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 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 began measuring and inventorying all the components of the Murphy bed furniture design for the earthbag village domes. What you see here is the first 25% of this process for the end cabinets that will then prepare us to create detailed wood and parts purchasing lists, building instructions, and then, as part of our upcoming crowdfunding campaign, complete finished examples, timelapse videos, and video construction tutorials. Here is a collage of what we’ve completed so far:

Murphy Bed End Table Furniture Specifics – Click for Open Source Furniture Page

Related to the crowdfunding campaign, we also added lodging and camping option details to our crowdfunding campaign webpage:

Lodging and Camping Details Added to Crowdfunding Campaign – Click to Visit Page

Amira Kessem (Mechanical Engineering Student in Israel) also finished several weeks of research into traditional plasters that you can see posted in it’s raw form on our new open source plaster page. We’ve also added the beginnings of eco and natural plaster details compliments of Scott Howard (Sustainable Building Expert and Owner of Earthen Hand Natural Building). Click this image to be taken to the page being being created that already hosts much of this information:

Open Source Plaster Page – Click to Visit

ADVANCING THE STANDARD OF LIVING DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

One Community is advancing the standard of living 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 added another 30 seconds of scenes to the Duplicable City Center construction in 3-D video that showcases over 2 years of 3-D design work. Here it is with a series of additional still images acting as fillers at the end of the video to show the earlier development of this structure while we continue to work on the rest of the 3-D video components:

We also continued our exploration and analysis of heat pump efficiency and benefits. What you see here is a chart of the benefits of a specific heat pump we are evaluating when used in combination with a solar water heater, heat exchanger re-capturing heat from used shower water, or other method. It is comparing this to a tankless water heater. The bottom of this chart is the incoming water temperature using one of the pre-mentioned methods and the Coefficient of Performance on the left is how many more times the energy efficiency is of the heat pump versus the tankless water heater. Visit our open source sustainable water heating page for more explanation of this image:

Heat Pump Efficiency – Click to Visit Page

ADVANCING THE STANDARD OF LIVING HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS

One Community is advancing the standard of living 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 a new win-win page showing all the areas One Community is currently working on and sharing how we define creating win-win collaborative partnerships:

Win-Win Page – Click to Visit

We also updated our core value of Spirituality page that discusses One Community’s diversity focused and non-ideological approach to spirituality and how we use this value in our decision making process:

Updated the Core Value of Spirituality Page – Click to Visit

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

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WHAT ONE COMMUNITY IS CREATING

One Community is creating a place to grow together and change the world together, along with a goal to be advancing the standard of living. 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, serving as an example for what is possible in terms of advancing the standard of living. 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, furthering the cause of advancing the standard of living.

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: Advancing the standard of living, 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, thus advancing the standard of living. 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, further reinforcing the importance of advancing the standard of living.

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, thus fostering a sense of community and commitment to advancing the standard of living.

ONE COMMUNITY’S 4-PHASE STRATEGY

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

Phase I: 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, ultimately contributing to advancing the standard of living.

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, thereby advancing the standard of living. 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, further advancing the standard of living. 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, ultimately contributing to advancing the standard of living. 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.

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, thereby contributing to advancing the standard of living.

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, ultimately leading to advancing the standard of living. 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

SUMMARY

One Community sees the issues of the world as interdependent and interconnected. To address them simultaneously, we are open-source blueprinting a more advanced standard of living by designing holistic, environmentally-regenerative, self-sustaining, adaptable solutions for all areas of sustainability. We will model these within a comprehensive “village/city” which will be built in the southwestern U.S. This teacher/demonstration hub will be a place people can experience a new way of living and then replicate it with our open source blueprints: creating a model solution that creates additional solution-creating models.

One Community is designing new approaches to persistent global challenges by creating open source, sustainable, adaptable, and do-it-yourself blueprints and tutorials 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 July 25th, 2014 edition (#73) of our weekly progress update detailing the previous week’s development and accomplishments:

Designing New Approaches to
Persistent Global Challenges
One Community Weekly Progress Update #73

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

DESIGNING NEW APPROACHES TO PERSISTENT GLOBAL CHALLENGES INTRO @1:00

DESIGNING NEW APPROACHES TO PERSISTENT GLOBAL CHALLENGES – HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION @1:38

• Finished the Spring-themed lesson plan mindmap (see below)
• Behind the scenes we also finished the final 20% of the Opposites lesson plan
• Also another 20% of the lesson plan with the core theme of “Harmony” – now 90% complete

DESIGNING NEW APPROACHES TO PERSISTENT GLOBAL CHALLENGES – HIGHEST GOOD FOOD: @2:52

• Added diversity details to the Parsnips section of the large-scale gardening page (see below)
• Added diversity details to the Parsley section of the large-scale gardening page (see below)

DESIGNING NEW APPROACHES TO PERSISTENT GLOBAL CHALLENGES – HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING: @3:46

• Finished two months of work on the open source internet setup page (see below)
• Updated all the 3-D renders throughout the earthbag village sections of the website (see below)
• Added detailed launch-steps overview to our crowdfunding campaign webpage (see below)
• Da Ku finished the necessary engineering calculations for the earthbag village homes (see below)

DESIGNING NEW APPROACHES TO PERSISTENT GLOBAL CHALLENGES – DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER: @5:21

• Updated our master energy schedule (see below)
• Finished first few scenes of the Duplicable City Center construction in 3D video (see below)
• Karl Harris added the addition of windows to cupola and a 2nd entrance the Social Dome/West elevation drawings (see below)

DESIGNING NEW APPROACHES TO PERSISTENT GLOBAL CHALLENGES – HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY: @6:53

• Finished a complete redesign and update of all content on the Contribution page (see below)

DESIGNING NEW APPROACHES TO PERSISTENT GLOBAL CHALLENGES SUMMARY: @7:29

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DESIGNING NEW APPROACHES TO PERSISTENT GLOBAL CHALLENGES HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

One Community is designing new approaches to persistent global challenges 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 finished the Spring-themed lesson plan mindmap you can see here. We also set up the basics of the webpage for this open source lesson plan:

Lesson Plan Mindmap for “Spring” – Click to Visit Complete Page

DESIGNING NEW APPROACHES TO PERSISTENT GLOBAL CHALLENGES HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

One Community is designing new approaches to persistent global challenges 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 adding the diversity details to the heirloom and organic Parsnips section of the large-scale gardening page. We added 13 different parsnips and featured the 11 you see here along with also adding planting guidelines, cultural considerations, and purchasing details for them all:

Parsnip Diversity Details – Click to Visit Page

We also completed doing this for Parsley too, adding 16 varieties total and additional details for the 9 you see featured here:

Parsley Diversity Details – Click to Visit Page

DESIGNING NEW APPROACHES TO PERSISTENT GLOBAL CHALLENGES HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

One Community is designing new approaches to persistent global challenges 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 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 added remote internet rollout specifics for off grid communities of 400+ people to our open source internet setup page. We also added a resources section. The page is now a complete and comprehensive open source guide that is the product of over 2 months of research and work. Here is a snapshot of the newest additions:

Internet Rollout Specifics for 400+ People ” Click to Visit Page

We also updated all the 3-D renders throughout the earthbag village sections of the website compliments of the work of Devin Porter (3D Graphics Design Specialist – DevinPorter.com) and Bupesh Seethala (Architectural Drafter, Designer, and 3-D Visualizer – BupeshSeethala.com). This is a huge website update that includes the new pictures you see here of the complete village, 3-dome clusters, 6-dome clusters, ADA compliant 3-dome clusters, and the Tropical Atrium:

Complete Earthbag Village Including the Planting Plan – Click to Visit Page

In addition to this, we added an overview of the steps required for us to launch our complete crowdfunding campaign to our crowdfunding campaign webpage. These steps are a summary of over 80 hours of  much more specific and behind-the-scenes planning and team organization as we continue to check off all the necessary action items to complete this campaign:

Crowdfunding Action Steps – Click to Visit Page

Da Ku (Mechanical Engineer) also finished the necessary engineering calculations for the earthbag village structures we’ll be building, which you can see here:

Engineering Calculations for the Earthbag Village Structures

What you are seeing is that the maximum compression stress (16 psi) is much lower than the strength, which showed these structures are strong when Da Ku ran the numbers using both the mechanical properties of low standard concrete (Young’s Modulus 2.2*10^10 Pa) and the experiments on earthbags from our partners at EarthbagBuilding.com (Young’s Modulus 2*10^7 Pa). We also looked at testing of polypropylene earthbags and found strengths of 43.06 psi, 57.84 psi, and 311 psi – plus other people’s results from the EarthbagBulding.com website that also confirmed strengths greater than 200 psi. While everyone should do their own calculations to confirm these numbers, we feel confident building with this approach.

DESIGNING NEW APPROACHES TO PERSISTENT GLOBAL CHALLENGES DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

One Community is designing new approaches to persistent global challenges 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 completed a significant update to our master energy schedule for the Duplicable City Center and complete earthbag village. Here’s a screen capture of all these details:

Designing New Approaches to Persistent Global Challenges – Master Energy Schedule Updated

We also completed the first few scenes of the Duplicable City Center construction in 3D video that you can see here. This video is being created to showcase the results of over 2 years of design work and will be over 4 minutes long when complete:

Karl Harris (Architect Drafter, Designer, and founder of Harris Design & Technology Services) also finished a recreation of about 6 weeks of work lost due to a computer crash two weeks ago, and added the addition of windows to cupola and a 2nd entrance to the Social Dome/West elevation. This image is all the restored details plus the new additions. (see below)

Windows and 2nd Entrance Additions in CAD – Click for Main Page

DESIGNING NEW APPROACHES TO PERSISTENT GLOBAL CHALLENGES HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS

One Community is designing new approaches to persistent global challenges 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 complete redesign and update of all content on the core value of Contribution page that describes the One Community model for global contribution combined with creating individual freedom and a more fulfilled living experience:

Complete Redesign and Update of Community Contribution Page – Click to Visit

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

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GET INVOLVED

CONSULTANTS | WAYS ANYONE CAN HELP | MEMBERSHIP

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WHAT ONE COMMUNITY IS CREATING

One Community is creating a place to grow together and change the world together, along with a goal to be designing new approaches to persistent global challenges. 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, serving as an example for what is possible in terms of designing new approaches to persistent global challenges. 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, furthering the cause of designing new approaches to persistent global challenges.

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: designing new approaches to persistent global challenges, 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

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: Creating global sustainability, 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, designing new approaches to persistent global challenges. 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, further reinforcing the importance of designing new approaches to persistent global challenges.

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, thus fostering a sense of community and commitment to designing new approaches to persistent global challenges.

ONE COMMUNITY’S 4-PHASE STRATEGY

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

Phase I: 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, ultimately contributing to designing new approaches to persistent global challenges.

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, thereby designing new approaches to persistent global challenges. 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, further designing new approaches to persistent global challenges. 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, ultimately contributing to designing new approaches to persistent global challenges. 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.

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, thereby contributing to designing new approaches to persistent global challenges.

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, ultimately leading to designing new approaches to persistent global challenges. 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

SUMMARY

One Community sees the issues of the world as interdependent and interconnected. To address them simultaneously, we are open-source blueprinting a more advanced standard of living by designing holistic, environmentally-regenerative, self-sustaining, adaptable solutions for all areas of sustainability. We will model these within a comprehensive “village/city” which will be built in the southwestern U.S. This teacher/demonstration hub will be a place people can experience a new way of living and then replicate it with our open source blueprints: creating a model solution that creates additional solution-creating models.

One Community is creating holistic transformational change by simultaneously addressing all the foundations of a sustainable civilization and open source and free-sharing the results 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 July 18th, 2014 edition (#72) of our weekly progress update detailing the previous week’s development and accomplishments:

Creating Holistic Transformational Change
One Community Weekly Progress Update #72

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

CREATING HOLISTIC TRANSFORMATIONAL CHANGE INTRO Â @1:00 HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION @1:42

• • • Finished the first 25% of the Spring-themed lesson plan mindmap (see below)
    • Finished the second 50% of content to the Happiness Lesson plan webpage (complete – see below)
    • Behind the scenes: Finished another 30% of the “Harmony” lesson plan (70% complete – see below)

CREATING HOLISTIC TRANSFORMATIONAL CHANGE – HIGHEST GOOD FOOD: @2:54

• • • Added diversity details for heirloom and organic Peppers to the large-scale gardening page (see below)
    • Added diversity details for heirloom and organic Melons to the large-scale gardening page (see below)

CREATING HOLISTIC TRANSFORMATIONAL CHANGE – HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING: @3:49

• • • Added remote internet rollout specifics for 100-400 people to our open source internet setup page (see below)
    • Created a new off-grid sustainable water heating research overview video (see below)
    • Added property specifics and updated build-site images to our new crowdfunding campaign webpage (see below)
    • Devin Porter helped us create these new renders of complete earthbag village (see below)

CREATING HOLISTIC TRANSFORMATIONAL CHANGE – DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER: @5:25

• • • Chose royalty-free music for an upcoming Duplicable City Center video (see below)
    • James Nance of P2S Engineering helped us begin exploring the specific LEED Platinum lighting wattage limitations for the Duplicable City Center Lighting plan, our kitchen air exchanger specifics, plus heat exchanger and capture options for used dishwashing water heat, grease hood heat, and laundry exhaust heat

CREATING HOLISTIC TRANSFORMATIONAL CHANGE – HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY: @7:02

• • • Completed further updates to the core values pages covering Communication, Diversity, and Freedom
    • Finished about 25% of the redesign and update of the core value of Contribution page (see below)
    • Created the graphic designer image and page and added more job posting specifics to all of the pages on the complete Helping Create One Community page (see below)

CREATING HOLISTIC TRANSFORMATIONAL CHANGE SUMMARY: @8:04

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

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CREATING HOLISTIC TRANSFORMATIONAL CHANGE HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

One Community is creating holistic transformational 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 finished the last 25% of the image research for the Spring-themed lesson plan mindmap and designed the first 25% of the image itself:

Spring Mindmap – 25% Complete

We also finished adding the last 50% of content to the Happiness Lesson plan webpage, which is now complete. Here is a screenshot of the new content added there:

Happiness Lesson Plan Complete – Click for Complete Page

CREATING HOLISTIC TRANSFORMATIONAL CHANGE HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

One Community is creating holistic transformational 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 finished adding the diversity details to the heirloom and organic Peppers section of the large-scale gardening page. We added 24 different peppers and featured the 17 you see here along with also adding planting guidelines, cultural considerations, and purchasing details for them all:

Pepper Diversity Details – Click to Visit Page

We also completed the same details for the Melons section, adding 28 different species of melons, planting guidelines, complete purchasing details, etc. and the 10 you see featured here:

Melon Diversity Details – Click to Visit Page

CREATING HOLISTIC TRANSFORMATIONAL CHANGE HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

One Community is creating holistic transformational 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 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 added remote internet rollout specifics for 100-400 people plus a Frequently Answered Questions section to our open source internet setup page for remote community creation:

Internet Rollout Specifics for 100-400 People – Click to Visit Page

We also created this new off-grid sustainable water heating research overview video and added it to our open source sustainable water heating page:

And we added property specifics and updated build site images to our new crowdfunding campaign webpage. Related to this upcoming campaign we also added details to that page about what it will provide, finished local lodging options research, and got clarity from the county on heating needs, window needs, and inspection details. Here are the new property photos:

Updated Build-Site Images – Click to Visit Page

We also created these new renders of the complete earthbag village thanks to the help of Devin Porter:

New Renders of the Complete Earthbag Village – Click to Visit Page

CREATING HOLISTIC TRANSFORMATIONAL CHANGE DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

One Community is creating holistic transformational 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 last week the core team completed researching royalty-free music for an upcoming Duplicable City Center video that will feature the complete construction of this structure in 3D. Here is a collage of what we’ll be showing the development of in the upcoming video and you can hear a clip of the music and see an example of the beginnings of what is coming in the Duplicable City Center section of the video update at the top of the page:

Duplicable City Center Collage Showing the End Result We’ll Built to in the Upcoming Video

CREATING HOLISTIC TRANSFORMATIONAL CHANGE HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS

One Community is creating holistic transformational 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 finished about 25% of the redesign and update of the core value of Contribution page:

Contribution Page – 25% Complete – Click to Visit

And we created another job posting image and page and added more job posting specifics to all of the pages that can be accessed from the complete Helping Create One Community page:

Graphic Designer Job Posting Image Created – Click to Visit Page

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

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WHAT ONE COMMUNITY IS CREATING

One Community is creating a place to grow together and change the world together, along with a goal to be creating holistic transformational change. 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, serving as an example for what is possible in terms of creating holistic transformational change. 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, furthering the cause of creating holistic transformational change.

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: creating holistic transformational change, 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, creating holistic transformational change. 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, further reinforcing the importance of creating holistic transformational change.

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, thus fostering a sense of community and commitment to creating holistic transformational change.

ONE COMMUNITY’S 4-PHASE STRATEGY

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

Phase I: 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, ultimately contributing to creating holistic transformational change.

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, thereby creating holistic transformational change. 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, further creating holistic transformational change. 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, ultimately contributing to creating holistic transformational change. 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.

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, thereby contributing to creating holistic transformational change.

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, ultimately leading to creating holistic transformational change. 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

SUMMARY

One Community sees the issues of the world as interdependent and interconnected. To address them simultaneously, we are open-source blueprinting a more advanced standard of living by designing holistic, environmentally-regenerative, self-sustaining, adaptable solutions for all areas of sustainability. We will model these within a comprehensive “village/city” which will be built in the southwestern U.S. This teacher/demonstration hub will be a place people can experience a new way of living and then replicate it with our open source blueprints: creating a model solution that creates additional solution-creating models.

One Community is happy to welcome Tan Nguyen to the Design Team:

Tan D. Nguyen ” Electronic Engineer: Tan completed his Bachelor Degree of Electronic and Telecommunications at HCM City University of Technical Education (Vietnam) and his Master Degree of Electrical and Electronic at Swinburne University (Australia). Beside the electrical and electronic knowledge obtained from University, his major skills were enhanced by doing 3 electronic projects in University and a research project focused on ear diagnostics in a hospital in Australia. His Master Degree complete, Tan now works as a laboratory tutor at Swinburne University, Australia and is focusing on 3D design using 3DS Max, Sketchup, and Solidworks. As a One Community partner, Tan is helping with the earthbag village design elements of the eco-showers and water heating and cooling components. 

WELCOME TO THE TEAM TAN!

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One Community is here to help create a better quality of life for all people and life on this planet. This means simultaneously addressing and open source sharing solutions to hunger, homelessness, unsustainable energy practices, social injustice and inequality, education, and more while also providing a more fulfilled living experience and diverse sustainability elements. 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.

A Better Quality of Life for All 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 July 11th, 2014 edition (#71) of our weekly progress update detailing the previous week’s development and accomplishments:

A Better Quality of Life for All
One Community Weekly Progress Update #71

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

A BETTER QUALITY OF LIFE FOR ALL INTRO @1:00

A BETTER QUALITY OF LIFE – HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION @1:40

• Finished the last 40% needed for the complete subject of Science page (see below)
• Finished adding the first 50% of content to the Happiness Lesson plan webpage (see below)
• Behind the scenes we finished 40% of the lesson plan with the core them of “Harmony”
• Behind the scenes we finished 75% of the image research for the “Spring” lesson plan

A BETTER QUALITY OF LIFE – HIGHEST GOOD FOOD: @3:00

• Finished adding the diversity details to Potatoes section of the large-scale gardening page (see below)
• Finished adding the diversity details to the Squash section too (see below)

A BETTER QUALITY OF LIFE – HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING: @3:50

• Added rollout specifics for 0-20, 20-50, and 50-100 people to our open source internet setup page (see below)
• Added more water heating system design specifics to the open source sustainable water heating page (see below)
• Behind the scenes we put in another 20-30 hours on the detailed action list for the upcoming 3DomeCluster crowdfunding and began creating the webpage for it

A BETTER QUALITY OF LIFE – DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER: @4:50

• Updated the open source large-scale kitchen page with new images, downloadable layout details, and cut sheets (see below)
• Joel Newman provided what we need to begin creation of the Duplicable City Center Lighting Page (see below)
• Karl Harris also continued work on the CAD elevations adding the specifics discussed below (see below)
• James Nance provided the first set of bathroom venting plans for this structure (see below)

A BETTER QUALITY OF LIFE – HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY: @6:44

• Redesigned and updated the Fulfilled Living page (see below)
• Created 3 more job posting pages, custom images, and updated our complete Helping Create One Community page (see below)

A BETTER QUALITY OF LIFE FOR ALL SUMMARY: @7:25

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

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A BETTER QUALITY OF LIFE FOR ALL HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

One Community is open sourcing a better quality of life for all 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 finished the last 40% needed for the complete subject of Science page (see below)

Last 40% of Science Page Completed – Click to Visit Page

We also finished adding the first 50% of content to the Happiness Lesson plan webpage:

Happiness Lesson Plan 50% Complete – Click to Visit Page

A BETTER QUALITY OF LIFE FOR ALL HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

One Community is open sourcing a better quality of life for all 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 adding the diversity details to the heirloom and organic Potatoes section of the large-scale gardening page. We added 17 different potatoes and featured the 10 you see here:

Completed Potatoes Diversity Details – Click to Visit Page

We also finished adding the diversity details to the Squash section, adding 20 different squash, complete purchasing details, planting guidelines and cultural considerations and featuring the 10 squash you see here:

Completed Squash Diversity Details – Click to Visit Page

A BETTER QUALITY OF LIFE FOR ALL HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

One Community is open sourcing a better quality of life for all 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 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 added remote internet rollout specifics for 0-20, 20-50, and 50-100 people to our open source internet setup page:

Remote Internet Rollout Specifics Added for 0-20, 20-50, and 50-100 People – Click to Visit Page

We also added these water heating system specifics to the open source sustainable water heating page:

New Water Heating System Specifics – Click to Visit Page

A BETTER QUALITY OF LIFE FOR ALL DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

One Community is open sourcing a better quality of life for all 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 large-scale kitchen page with updated images and downloadable layout details and cut sheets for all the equipment thanks to the work that is compliments of Ben Pollock (Full Service Restaurant and Kitchen Designer/Senior Project Manager with Webb Food Service Design):

Updated Open Source Large-Scale Kitchen Page – Click to Visit

We also began converting the outstanding design work of Joel Newman (Architectural Visualization Designer www.FigmentCreation.com) into the new Duplicable City Center Lighting Page you see here:

New Lighting Page – Click to Visit

Karl Harris (Architect Drafter, Designer, and founder of Harris Design & Technology Services) added in the corridor on the South-side and West-view, corridor windows on the North-view, railing to the patio, and the stairs in the North-view of the CAD elevations:

CAD Elevations Updated – Click to Visit Page

James Nance (Mechanical Engineer and Project Manager with P2S Engineering) also provided the first set of bathroom venting plans for this structure (see below)

1st Set of Bathroom Venting Plans

A BETTER QUALITY OF LIFE FOR ALL HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS

One Community is open sourcing a better quality of life for all 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 completely redesigned and updated our core value of Fulfilled Living page to share what this value means to One Community and how we use this value in decision making:

Fulfilled Living Page Updated – Click to Visit

We also created 3 more job posting pages, custom images, and updated our complete Helping Create One Community page by adding these new images and links to the specific job description pages:

3 More Job Posting Pages Created – Click to Visit the Helping Us Page

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, along with a goal to be creating a better quality of life for all. 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, serving as an example for what is possible in terms of creating a better quality of life for all. 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, furthering the cause of creating a better quality of life for all

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: Creating a better quality of life for all, 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, thus creating a better quality of life for all. 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, further reinforcing the importance of creating a better quality of life for all.

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, thus fostering a sense of community and commitment to creating a better quality of life for all.

INSPIRING SUSTAINABILITY WITH OPEN SOURCE

One Community’s four-phase strategy for the creation of solution models that create solution creating models uses open source blueprints for duplication that simultaneously address all aspects of the human experience (food, energy, housing, education, social inequality and injustice, fulfilled living, etc.). We see these areas as interdependent and requiring a comprehensive solution if humanity is to move ecologically, socially, economically, and permanently towards a truly sustainable future for everyone, ultimately contributing to creating a better quality of life for all.

Our open source model and blueprints engage and inspire people while simultaneously making sustainable living more affordable and easy to replicate, further promoting creating a better quality of life for all. 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 at the same time contributing to creating a better quality of life for all.

ONE COMMUNITY’S 4-PHASE STRATEGY

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

Phase I: 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, ultimately contributing to creating a better quality of life for 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, thereby creating a better quality of life for all. 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, further creating a better quality of life for 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.

Practical utopia creation means evolving sustainability to comprehensively address the foundations of the complete human experience with ecological and duplicable solutions for improving all areas, and open source sharing this 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.

Practical Utopia Creation 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 July 4th, 2014 edition (#70) of our weekly progress update detailing the previous week’s development and accomplishments:

Practical Utopia Creation
One Community Weekly Progress Update #70

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

PRACTICAL UTOPIA CREATION INTRO @1:00

PRACTICAL UTOPIA CREATION – HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION @1:38

• Finished the Happiness Lesson plan mindmap (see below)
• Finished adding another 30% of the subject specifics for the subject of Science page (see below)
• Behind the scenes we finished 80% of the lesson plan with the core theme of “Opposites”

PRACTICAL UTOPIA CREATION – HIGHEST GOOD FOOD: @2:51

• Added diversity details to the Radishes section of the large-scale gardening page (see below)

PRACTICAL UTOPIA CREATION – HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING: @3:40

• Finished internet setup specifics for first 50 residents (see below)
• Spoke to our county about our septic needs for the crowdfunding campaign
• 3 members of our team continue to develop the 3-Dome crowdfunding Master Plan (70% done)
• Philip Gill began the process of dissecting the first dome home furniture design (see below)

PRACTICAL UTOPIA CREATION – DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER: @4:44

• Ben Pollock finished the rest of the the large-scale kitchen equipment specifics (see below)
• Karl Harris added the corridor and 4th floor bathroom roof, the corridor and walls, and the cupola roof to the CAD elevations (see below)

PRACTICAL UTOPIA CREATION – HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY: @5:54

• Updated our complete Helping Create One Community page with job posting images and links to 9 new pages (see below)

PRACTICAL UTOPIA CREATION SUMMARY: @6:26

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

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ONE COMMUNITY WEEKLY UPDATE DETAILS

PRACTICAL UTOPIA CREATION HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

One Community is engaging the process of practical utopia creation 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 finished the Happiness Lesson plan mindmap you see below. This mindmap is the overview of the lesson plan for teaching all subjects to all ages in the context of the central theme of Happiness:

Happiness Mindmap – Click to Visit Page

We also finished adding another 30% of the subject specifics for the subject of Science page, bringing us to 60% completion now with this also:

Subject of Science Page in Progress – Click to Visit Page

PRACTICAL UTOPIA CREATION HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

One Community is engaging the process of practical utopia creation 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 the diversity purchase details to the heirloom and organic Radishes section of the large-scale gardening page. The 10 featured radishes are listed below and the purchasing details are on the complete page:

Heirloom and Organic Radishes – Click for Complete Page

PRACTICAL UTOPIA CREATION HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

One Community is engaging the process of practical utopia creation 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 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 finished the One Community internet setup guide through our first 50 residents and began the open source page you see here to share why we’ve chosen to go with point to point service instead of fiber:

Remote Internet Page – Click to Visit

Philip Gill (Interior and Furniture Designer and Owner of Philip Gill Design) has also begun the process you can see here of dissecting the first furniture design, which is the Murphy Bed design, so we can create detailed materials lists and construction plans for it:

Dissecting the First Dome Home Furniture Design – Click to Visit Page

PRACTICAL UTOPIA CREATION DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

One Community is engaging the process of practical utopia 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

Ben Pollock (Full Service Restaurant and Kitchen Designer/Senior Project Manager with Webb Food Service Design) finished the rest of the the large-scale kitchen equipment specifics you can see below, modifying the pantry to fit the equipment and adding in the final large and small cooking and serving equipment selection details.

Large-Scale Kitchen Equipment Specifics Complete – Click to Visit Page

Karl Harris (Architect Drafter, Designer, and founder of Harris Design & Technology Services) also continued work on the CAD elevations adding the corridor and 4th floor bathroom roof, the corridor and walls, and the cupola roof to the West view seen here:

CAD Elevations – Click to Visit Page

PRACTICAL UTOPIA CREATION HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS

One Community is engaging the process of practical utopia creation 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 created 9 job posting pages, custom images, and updated our complete Helping Create One Community page while also adding these images and links to the specific job description pages:

9 Job Posting Pages Created – 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, ultimately contributing to practical utopia creation. 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, inspiring practical utopia creation.

Throughout our design process we are open sourcing and free-sharing everything needed for construction and replication, empowering practical utopia creation. 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,serving as a practical utopia creation. 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, embracing practical utopia creation. 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 through practical utopia creation. 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, thus contributing to practical utopia creation. 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, ultimately fostering practical utopia creation.

ONE COMMUNITY’S 4-PHASE STRATEGY

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

Phase I: 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, further promoting practical utopia creation. 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, ultimately contributing to practical utopia creation. The easier we make everything we do, the faster we see the world transitioning.

Every aspect of this model supports itself and contributes to its success, from the sustainable food, energy, and homes, to the social architecture, One Community Education Program, and open source sharing model itself. Each piece can be accessed, evolved, and even re-birthed as something completely new. It can be duplicated by itself or with other modules, with applications as diverse as the people who want and need them. The constantly expanding total model will additionally be able to be used in its entirety as the open source project-launch blueprint for a variety of duplicate teacher/demonstration communities, villages, and cities capable of being built virtually anywhere.

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

• We have the team to produce an extensive quality and diversity of tools and resources
• It gives us the opportunity to broaden the concept of sustainability and make it more desirable
• Areas we open source expand our ability to evolve even faster through global collaboration
• Each new area open sourced expands our target audience, advancing our world changing goals
• 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

SUMMARY

One Community sees the issues of the world as interdependent and interconnected. To address them simultaneously, we are open-source blueprinting a more advanced standard of living by designing holistic, environmentally-regenerative, self-sustaining, adaptable solutions for all areas of sustainability. We will model these within a comprehensive “village/city” which will be built in the southwestern U.S. This teacher/demonstration hub will be a place people can experience a new way of living and then replicate it with our open source blueprints: creating a model solution that creates additional solution-creating models.

One Community is creating world game-changing solutions through a comprehensive and holistic approach to sustainable, proactive, and regenerative living 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 June 27th, 2014 edition (#69) of our weekly progress update detailing the previous week’s development and accomplishments:

World Game-Changing Solutions
One Community Weekly Progress Update #69

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

WORLD GAME-CHANGING SOLUTIONS INTRO @1:00

WORLD GAME-CHANGING SOLUTIONS – HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION @1:43

• Began working on the Happiness Lesson plan (see below)
• Finished adding the rest of the Khan Academy open source education links to our Math subject page
• Finished adding all icons and 30% of the subject specifics to the subject of Science page (see below)
• Behind the scenes we finished the last details of the lesson plan with the core theme of “Signs” and began the lesson plan with the core them of “Opposites”

WORLD GAME-CHANGING SOLUTIONS – HIGHEST GOOD FOOD: @3:04

• Added the diversity details of the Peas to the large-scale gardening page (see below)
• Added the diversity details of the Tomatoes to the large-scale gardening page (see below)
• We also finished the rest of our large-scale soil amendment strategy webpage

WORLD GAME-CHANGING SOLUTIONS – HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING: @4:12

• Began the detailed equipment and tools inventory and needs lists for the crowdfunding campaign (see below)
• Researched temporary shelter structures we’ll be needing for the crowdfunding campaign (see below)
• Hajjar Gibran created the outline for complete DIY aircrete home construction (see below)

WORLD GAME-CHANGING SOLUTIONS – DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER: @5:28

• Completed a utility analysis to evaluate the needed flow rates for our hot water needs (see below)
• Began extensive research into Magnesium Oxide board as a possible sustainable plywood alternative
• Began discussing elevator details (see below)
• Joel Newman began outlining the lighting plan for this structure (see below)
• P2S Engineering helped coordinate draft 3 of our floor heating plan (see below)
• Ben Pollock finished about 70% of the large-scale kitchen equipment specifics (see below)

WORLD GAME-CHANGING SOLUTIONS – HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY: @7:28

• Rewrite and redesign of our core values page for Personal Growth (see below)

WORLD GAME-CHANGING SOLUTIONS SUMMARY: @7:46

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

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WORLD GAME-CHANGING SOLUTIONS HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

One Community is creating world game-changing solutions 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 began working on the Happiness Lesson plan mindmap for teaching all subjects to all ages in the context of the central theme of happiness:

Happiness Lesson Plan Mindmap in Progress – Click to Visit Page

We also finished adding the rest of the icon images and about 30% of the subject specifics that correlate with those icons for the subject of Science page:

Subject of Science Page in Progress – Click to Visit

WORLD GAME-CHANGING SOLUTIONS HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

One Community is creating world game-changing solutions 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 | Tropical Atrium

This last week the core team finished adding the diversity details to the organic Peas sections with 10 peas and the 9 featured that you see featured here. If you visit the large-scale gardening page you will also see we’ve added complete purchasing details, planting guidelines, cultural considerations, and more:

Organic Peas Diversity Details – Click to Visit Page

We also added the specifics for 25 Tomatoes, including the 10 that you can see featured here:

Organic Tomatoes Diversity Details – Click to Visit Page

WORLD GAME-CHANGING SOLUTIONS HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

One Community is creating world game-changing solutions 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 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 began confirming the specifics of the detailed equipment and tools inventory and needs lists you see here for the 3-dome cluster crowdfunding campaign we are creating:

Detailed Equipment and Tools Inventory in Progress – Click for Complete Page

We also researched the temporary shelter structures we’ll be needing:

Temporary Shelter Structure Research

Related to this, we also announced our partnership with Hajjar Gibran (Designer, Builder, and Author) who is helping us add a do-it-yourself aircrete dome to the 3-dome cluster campaign so we can include and compare aircrete dome-home permitted blueprints, materials lists, tools lists like you saw before, DIY building instructions, video tutorials, and more to go along with the earthbag home plans. Here is the building list for what we’ll be completing and open source sharing with Hajjar’s help:

Aircrete Building List for 3-Dome Cluster Campaign

WORLD GAME-CHANGING SOLUTIONS DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

One Community is creating world game-changing solutions 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 put together a utility analysis to evaluate the needed flow rates for our hot water needs:

Heat Pump Utility Chart – Click to Visit Page

We also had multiple conversations with KONE elevators, listed by Newsweek as the 12th greenest company in the world, and producers of the EcoSpace elevator you see here:

KONE Ecospace Elevator

Joel Newman (Architectural Visualization Designer www.FigmentCreation.com) began outlining the lighting plan for the Duplicable City Center with an extensive amount of detail that we will be turning into an open source webpage. Here is a small preview of this work:

Preview of Lighting Plan

Also, Devin of Uponor, through coordination with James Nance (Mechanical Engineer and Project Manager with P2S Engineering) completed the next draft of our radiant floor heating plan, adding in equipment specifics and the schedule you see here:

Radiant Floor Heating Plan Draft

Last, but definitely not least, Ben Pollock with Webb Food Service Design finished about 70% of the large-scale kitchen equipment specifics you can see here:

Kitchen Equipment Specifics in Progress

WORLD GAME-CHANGING SOLUTIONS HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS

One Community is creating world game-changing solutions 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 working completed a rewrite and redesign of our core values page discussing creating a culture of personal growth as a foundation of global transformation, what the core value of growth means to us, and how we use this value in our decision making process. Here’s a screenshot of this work:

Personal Growth Page – 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, along with a goal to be creating world game-changing solutions. 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, serving as an example for what is possible in terms of creating world game-changing solutions. 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, furthering the cause of world game-changing solutions.

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: Creating World Game-Changing Solutions, 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, thus world game-changing solutions. 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, further reinforcing the importance of creating world game-changing solutions.

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, thus fostering a sense of community and commitment to creating world game-changing solutions.

ONE COMMUNITY’S 4-PHASE STRATEGY

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

Phase I: 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, ultimately contributing to creating world game-changing solutions.

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, thereby creating world game-changing solutions. 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, further creating world game-changing solutions. 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, ultimately contributing to creating world game-changing solutions. 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.

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, thereby contributing to world game-changing solutions.

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, ultimately leading to creating world game-changing solutions. 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

SUMMARY

One Community sees the issues of the world as interdependent and interconnected. To address them simultaneously, we are open-source blueprinting a more advanced standard of living by designing holistic, environmentally-regenerative, self-sustaining, adaptable solutions for all areas of sustainability. We will model these within a comprehensive “village/city” which will be built in the southwestern U.S. This teacher/demonstration hub will be a place people can experience a new way of living and then replicate it with our open source blueprints: creating a model solution that creates additional solution-creating models.

One Community is sustainable paradigm building through a comprehensive and holistic approach to sustainable, proactive, and regenerative living 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 June 20th, 2014 edition (#68) of our weekly progress update detailing the previous week’s developments and accomplishments:

Sustainable Paradigm Building
One Community Weekly Progress Update #68

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

SUSTAINABLE PARADIGM BUILDING INTRO @1:00

SUSTAINABLE PARADIGM BUILDING – HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION @1:39

• Added Technology and Innovation lesson plan section for each of our three finished lesson plan pages:
  • Time Page (see below)
  • Matter and Materials Page
  • Relative and Dimensional Space Page
• Added 90% of the images to the complete subject of Science page
• Finished  another 30% of the lesson plan with the core theme of “Signs” (B.T.S.: 90% done total)
• Finished the final 20% of the lesson plan with the core theme of “Happiness” (B.T.S.: 100% done)
• Seeking people to help develop lesson plans

SUSTAINABLE PARADIGM BUILDING – HIGHEST GOOD FOOD: @2:59

• Added diversity for Alliums and Lettuce sections of the large-scale gardening page (see below)
• Finished another 15% of our large-scale soil amendment strategy webpage – 90% done (see below)

SUSTAINABLE PARADIGM BUILDING – HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING: @4:04

• Visited the upcoming crowdfunding site for the 3-dome cluster (see below)
• Researched all existing on-line free-shared plans (see below)
• Completed our open source water heating and cooling webpage (see below)
• Added thermal loss specifics & global ground temp. avs to the dome heating & cooling page (see below)
• Philip Gill completed the dome-home furniture plan action list for crowdfunding campaign (see below)

SUSTAINABLE PARADIGM BUILDING – DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER: @5:29

• Added natural pool indoor/outdoor transition point videos, materials list, thermal calcs and downloadable CAD file to the indoor/outdoor pool page (see below)
• Jennifer Engelmeier and team helped us update the pool page and hardware details (see below)
• Karl Harris redesigned our bathroom to be ADA compliant and completed about 50% of the West elevation CAD drawings (see below)

SUSTAINABLE PARADIGM BUILDING – HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY: @7:01

• Redesigned and rewrote our Freedom values page (see below)
• Removed Flash from all our key videos so that countries and people with older computers will be able to view them

SUSTAINABLE PARADIGM BUILDING SUMMARY: @7:44

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SUSTAINABLE PARADIGM BUILDING HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

One Community is sustainable paradigm building 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 finished the addition of a Technology and Innovation lesson plan section for each of our three finished lesson plan mindmaps, here’s an example of what the completed Time Page now looks like and we’ve got the same level of detail for both a Matter and Materials lesson plan and a Relative and Dimensional Space lesson plan:

Updated Time Lesson Plan Page – Click to Visit

SUSTAINABLE PARADIGM BUILDING HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

One Community is sustainable paradigm building 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 | Tropical Atrium

This last week the core team finished adding the diversity details to the organic alliums section with 34 total alliums and 8 featured:

Organic Alliums Diversity Details – Click to Visit Page

We also added the diversity details to the lettuce sections 18 lettuces and specific details for the 9 that you can see featured here:

Lettuce Diversity Details – Click to Visit Page

We also finished another 15% of our large-scale soil amendment strategy webpage, adding all of the planting specifics and bringing us to 90% completion of this open source guide for soil reparation in areas needing it:

New Soil Amendment Page Additions – Click to Visit Page

SUSTAINABLE PARADIGM BUILDING HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

One Community is sustainable paradigm building 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 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 visited the site and took these pictures of where we will be building the 3-dome cluster as part of our crowdfunding campaign to open source share complete home plans, furniture plans, building tutorials, and more for earthbag construction. Here are pictures of the site from a distance:

3-Dome Cluster Build Site

Here are pictures of the site up-close:

3-Dome Cluster Build Site Close-up View

We also completed research of all existing on-line free-shared plans showing there is definitely a need for what we will be adding to the industry and global open source archive. What’s available is extremely limited. Here is a sample of all we could find:

Research of Existing On-line Free-shared Plans

Our open source water heating and cooling webpage is now complete. We share why we’ll be going with a combination of a solar-run heat pump and a solar collector.

Completed Water Heating and Cooling Webpage – Click to Visit

And, thanks to public feedback, we added thermal loss specifics and global ground temperature averages to the dome-home heating and cooling page. Here are the thermal loss specifics:

Earthdome Heating and Cooling Equations – Click to Visit the Complete Page

Philip Gill (Interior and Furniture Designer and Owner of Philip Gill Design) continues to develop the 2nd furniture layout for the Earthbag Village homes. This last week he added textures and started detailing the specific furniture pieces.

Dome-home Furniture Plan Action List – Click to Enlarge

SUSTAINABLE PARADIGM BUILDING DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

One Community is sustainable paradigm building 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 added Da Ku‘s (Mechanical Engineer) completed natural pool indoor/outdoor transition point videos, materials list, thermal calculations and downloadable CAD file to the open source natural pool page:

Newly Added Natural Pool Indoor/Outdoor Transition Point Details – Click for Complete Page

Jennifer Engelmeier of www.LoveYourNaturalPool.com, working in conjunction with our partner Rick Ruggles of Hayward Pool Products and Rob Gjerde of Sorico Design and Consulting helped us to update all our hardware links on the website and continued evolving the master materials list you see here:

Pool Hardware Links Updated

Also, Karl Harris (Architect Drafter, Designer, and founder of Harris Design & Technology Services) redesigned our resident bathroom in the Kitchen dome to be ADA compliant:

Duplicable City Center Bathroom Redesign in CAD

And completed about 50% of the West elevations CAD drawings you can see here:

West Elevations Evolving in CAD – Click for Complete Page

SUSTAINABLE PARADIGM BUILDING HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS

One Community is sustainable paradigm building 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 completed a rewrite and redesign of our core values page discussing Freedom and what it means to the environment we are creating along with how we use this value in our decision making process. Here’s what this looks like:

Freedom Page Rewritten – 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, along with a goal to be creating a sustainable paradigm building. 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, serving as an example for what is possible in terms of creating a sustainable paradigm building. 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, furthering the cause of creating a sustainable paradigm building.

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: Creating a Sustainable Paradigm building, 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, thus creating a sustainable paradigm building. 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, further reinforcing the importance of creating a sustainable paradigm building.

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, thus fostering a sense of community and commitment to creating a sustainable paradigm building.

ONE COMMUNITY’S 4-PHASE STRATEGY

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

Phase I: 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, ultimately contributing to creating a sustainable paradigm building.

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, thereby creating a sustainable paradigm building. 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, further creating a sustainable paradigm building. 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, ultimately contributing to creating a sustainable paradigm building. 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.

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, thereby contributing to creating a sustainable paradigm building.

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, ultimately leading to creating a sustainable paradigm building. 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

SUMMARY

One Community sees the issues of the world as interdependent and interconnected. To address them simultaneously, we are open-source blueprinting a more advanced standard of living by designing holistic, environmentally-regenerative, self-sustaining, adaptable solutions for all areas of sustainability. We will model these within a comprehensive “village/city” which will be built in the southwestern U.S. This teacher/demonstration hub will be a place people can experience a new way of living and then replicate it with our open source blueprints: creating a model solution that creates additional solution-creating models.

One Community is happy to welcome Hajjar Gibran to the Design Team:

Hajjar Gibran – Innovative Designer, Builder, Author and Spiritual Guide: Hajjar abandoned his career in engineering after the tragic death of his brother compelled him to follow his spiritual calling. After decades of inner exploration and personal transformation he created the Gibran Method for Spiritual Empowerment. In 2009, Simon and Schuster and a dozen other foreign publishers published his book The Return of The Prophet, the award winning sequel to The Prophet by his great uncle Kahlil Gibran. Hajjar then created The Gibran Center, a community health retreat in one of the poorest regions of rural Thailand. Adjacent to the center he started a volunteer run school to offer a better life to the local children who otherwise get caught in the sex industry. While creating The Gibran Center, Hajjar developed an efficient, low-cost, ecological way of building beautiful domes. A video and articles of a dome home he built with his brother-in-law have gone viral on the internet creating a global demand. In 2014 he created Global Dome Homes with a vision to support One Community and other sustainable development projects, as well as provide low cost housing for people in need the world over.

Here is an example of Hajjar’s work:

WELCOME TO THE TEAM HAJJAR!

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