Sustainable civilization design and implementation can be accomplished through open source sustainability components covering and combining food, energy, housing, education, economics, recreation, and stewardship practices. Self-replicating and self-sustainable teacher/demonstration models that make all components easier, more affordable, and more attractive to implement can accelerate the process by inspiring and educating people with a complete living model. One Community calls this living and creating for The Highest Good of All:

• Here’s our project overview
• Here’s our world-change methodology
• Here’s how this becomes self-replicating
• Here’s how we are open source and free-sharing all the do-it-yourself designs

OUR MAIN OPEN SOURCE HUBS

Click on each icon to be taken to the corresponding Highest Good hub page.

One Community’s physical location will forward this movement as the first of many self-replicating teacher/demonstration communities, villages, and cities to be built around the world. This is the June 7th, 2015 edition (#117) of our weekly progress update detailing the previous week’s development and accomplishments:

Sustainable Civilization
Design and Implementation
One Community Weekly Progress Update #117

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

SUSTAINABLE CIVILIZATION DESIGN AND IMPLEMENTATION INTRO @1:05

SUSTAINABLE CIVILIZATION DESIGN AND IMPLEMENTATION HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION @2:00

• Transferred the second 25% of the content for the Communication lesson plan to the website (see below)
• Behind the scenes: wrote the first part of our lesson plan with the central theme of “Freedom“
• Finished next 25% of the image creation for the “Communication” lesson plan mind map (see below)

SUSTAINABLE CIVILIZATION DESIGN AND IMPLEMENTATION HIGHEST GOOD FOOD: @3:15

• Finished the final social media imagery and featured our open source potatoes hub (see below)
• Researched and added two additional recipes to the open source peppers hub (see below)
• Added three new recipes from Sandra Sellani to the Food Self-sufficiency Transition Plan (see below)

SUSTAINABLE CIVILIZATION DESIGN AND IMPLEMENTATION HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING: @4:22

• Updated over 40 more images for final instructions of the custom furniture assembly for the Earthbag Village and the upcoming crowdfunding campaign. We also created an additional 24-page “Bed Materials List” document (see below)
• Added the second 50% of our research to the waterproofing strategy page for the earth dome structures (see below)
• Moved another 20% of Antonio Zambianco’s earth dome loft structural engineering calculations to the website (see below)
• Jorge Antonio Ricardo finished the 3-D printing needs for a 3-dome cluster (see below)
• Song Dong created the first round of reciprocating roof designs for vermiculture bathroom and communal shower domes (see below)
• Sayonara Batista de Oliveira completed a week of researching the benefits and challenges of shipping container construction. Details added to the new Shipping Container Village (Pod 5) page (see below)
• Nelli Levental created a more detailed drawing of the music-inspired communal living structure for the Cob Village (Pod 3) (see below)
• Renata Maehara developed the Cob Village (Pod 3) progressions (see below)

SUSTAINABLE CIVILIZATION DESIGN AND IMPLEMENTATION DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER: @6:38

• Mayke Balbino completed the first outline of the Duplicable City Center time projections spreadsheet (see below)
• Mike Hogan created the next steps for developing the Control Systems designs (see below)

SUSTAINABLE CIVILIZATION DESIGN AND IMPLEMENTATION HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY: @7:22

• Began the massive process (in coordination with Jin Hua) of updating our entire website to be mobile friendly (see below)
• Behind the scenes: Binru Chen continued to update the for-profit and nonprofit income and balance statement details that will soon be part of the tax considerations and strategy page (see below)

SUSTAINABLE CIVILIZATION DESIGN AND IMPLEMENTATION SUMMARY: @8:22

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SUSTAINABLE CIVILIZATION DESIGN AND IMPLEMENTATION – HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

One Community is facilitating sustainable civilization design and implementation through the Highest Good education that is for all ages, applicable in any environment, adaptable to individual needs, far exceeds traditional education standards, and is more fun for both the teachers and the students:

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

This last week the core team transferred the second 25% of the content for the Communication lesson plan to the website. This means that this lesson plan, which teaches all subjects, to all learning levels, using the central theme of Communication, is now 50% complete on our website:

Communication Lesson Plan ” 50% Complete ” Click to Visit Page

Behind the scenes, we wrote the first part of our lesson plan with the central theme of “Freedom” – which now brings that to 25% complete.

We also finished the next 25% of the image creation for the “Communication” lesson plan mind map, which you can see here, which brings that mindmap to 50% complete:

“Communication” Lesson Plan Mind Map ” 50% Complete ” Click to Visit Page

SUSTAINABLE CIVILIZATION DESIGN AND IMPLEMENTATION – HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

One Community is facilitating sustainable civilization design and implementation through Highest Good food that is more diverse, more nutritious, locally grown, and sustainable, and part of our open source botanical garden model to support and share bio-diversity:

• Learn about the structures: Hoop House Hub | Aquapini & Walipini Open Source Hub
• See what we’ll be growing: Gardens & Hoop Houses | Large-scale Structures | Food Forest | TA

This last week the core team finished the final social media imagery and featured our open source potatoes hub:

Featured Potatoes Hub with New Social Imagery – Click to Visit

We also researched and added two additional recipes to the open source peppers hub, which you can see here. More recipes from our Food Self-sufficiency Transition Plan that feature peppers will be added here in the future:

Added 2 Pepper Recipes ” Click to Visit the Open Source Pepper Hub

Last but not least, we added three new recipes from Sandra Sellani (Vegan Chef and author of What’s Your BQ?) to the Food Self-sufficiency Transition Plan – These recipes are: Coconut Pecan & Apricot Granola, Beet & Asparagus Salad, and Creamy Asparagus Soup. Yum!

3 New Vegan Recipes Added to Food Self-sufficiency Transition Plan Page ” Click to Visit

SUSTAINABLE CIVILIZATION DESIGN AND IMPLEMENTATION – HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

One Community is facilitating sustainable civilization design and implementation through Highest Good housing that is artistic and beautiful, more affordable, more space efficient, lasts longer, DIY buildable, and constructed with healthy and sustainable materials:

• Learn about: Our Upcoming Crowdfunding Campaign
• Learn about the different village models: 7 Sustainable Village Models
• Visit the open source portals for the first two: Earthbag Village OS Hub | Straw Bale Village OS Hub

This last week the core team updated over 40 more images for final instructions of the custom furniture assembly for the Earthbag Village and the upcoming crowdfunding campaign. We also created an additional 24-page “Bed Materials List” document. This brings image review and updates to 100% complete for these instructions.

Open Source Murphy Bed Furniture Assembly Details ” Click to Visit Page

We also added the second 50% of our research to the waterproofing strategy page for the earth dome structures. We estimate this brings the page to 75% complete… additional graphics and links are next.

Dome-Home Waterproofing Strategy Page 75% Complete ” Click to Visit

And we moved another 20% of the earth dome loft structural engineering calculations to the website. This open source work was completed by Antonio Zambianco (Civil Engineering Student) and is now 80% complete on the site:

Loft Calculations for Earthbag Village and Upcoming Crowdfunding Campaign Domes ” 80% Complete

Jorge Antonio Ricardo (Mechanical Engineering Student) finished the 3-D printing needs for a 3-dome cluster and we are now waiting on a quote to print an 8″ by 8″ version of this structure showing how it can be built as one dome, as 3 domes, with or without a kitchen and bathroom dome, and/or as an ADA compliant structure with wheelchair access.

3-Dome Structures Divided into Pieces that can be 3-D Printed ” Click to Visit Earthbag Village Portal

Song Dong (M.S. in Mechanical Engineering) also created this first round of reciprocating roof designs for the vermiculture bathroom and communal shower domes:

First Round of Roof Designs for Vermiculture Bathroom and Communal Shower Domes – Click to Visit

Sayonara Batista de Oliveira (4th-year Architecture and Urban Planning Student) also completed a week of researching the benefits and challenges of shipping container construction. You can see the details of Sayonara’s work here, added by the Core Team to the new Shipping Container Village (Pod 5) page:

Researched Benefits and Challenges of Shipping Container Construction ” Click to Visit Page

Nelli Levental (Graphic Designer and College Professor) also created this more detailed drawing of the music-inspired communal living structure for the Cob Village (Pod 3):

Music-Inspired Communal Living Structure Drawing for Cob Village – Click to Visit Page

Renata Maehara (Civil Engineering student) then developed the Cob Village (Pod 3) progressions you see here, building off of Nelli and Sayonnara’s work:

Cob Village (Pod 3) Progressions – Click to Visit Page

SUSTAINABLE CIVILIZATION DESIGN AND IMPLEMENTATION – DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

One Community is facilitating sustainable civilization design and implementation through a Duplicable and Sustainable City Center that is LEED Platinum certified/Sustainable, can feed 200 people at a time, provide laundry for over 300 people, is beautiful, spacious, and saves resources, money, and space:

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

This last week Mayke Balbino (Architecture and Urban Design Student) completed the first outline of the Duplicable City Center time projections spreadsheet:

First Outline of Duplicable City Center Time Projections Spreadsheet – Click to Visit Page

Mike Hogan (Automation Systems Developer and Business Systems Consultant) also created the next steps you see here for developing the Control Systems designs. We’d say we’re done with about the first 30% of the research and organization process:

Research and Organization for Developing the Control Systems Designs – Click to Visit Page

SUSTAINABLE CIVILIZATION DESIGN AND IMPLEMENTATION – HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS

One Community is facilitating sustainable civilization design and implementation through a Highest Good society approach to living that is founded on fulfilled living, the study of meeting human needs, Community, and making a difference in the world:

• Read the Highest Good society overview: Highest Good Society
• Learn about the model for fulfilled living and sharing: A Day in the Life
• Learn about the 4 economic models: RBE | For-profit | Non-profit | Entrepreneurship
• Learn about our open source community collaboration and management software: The Highest Good Network

This last week the core team, working in coordination with Jin Hua (Internet Marketing Expert and Web Developer), began the massive process of updating our entire website to be mobile friendly. This included updating our theme, fixing all our homepage images and videos, and all our primary menus. We’d say we are now about 20% done with this complete website overhaul:

Began the Massive Process of Updating Entire Website to be Mobile Friendly – 20% Complete

Behind the scenes, Binru Chen (Accountant Specializing in Audit and Financial Reporting) has continued to update the for-profit and nonprofit income and balance statement details that will soon be part of the tax considerations and strategy page. This work is part of the Highest Good Economics component of building teacher/demonstration hubs. We’d say this work is now about 50% complete behind the scenes and 20% complete on the site:

Behind-the-Scenes For-Profit and Nonprofit Income and Balance Statement Details – Click to Visit

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WHAT ONE COMMUNITY IS CREATING

One Community is creating a place to grow together and change the world together. We are committed to sustainable civilization design and implementation. We are creating a space that helps each other live in integrity with each other and the planet as we strive to be the greatest versions of ourselves. We do this by harmoniously respecting each other, nature, and the rest of our one shared planet.

Our goal is to demonstrate what we feel is the most sustainable, healthy, and fun environment we can create. A place based on compassion, kindness, and collaboration. This replicable community will serve as an example of sustainable civilization design and implementation.

Throughout our design process, we are open sourcing and free-sharing everything needed for construction and replication. Sustainable civilization design and implementation 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 of sustainable civilization design and implementation. 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 goal by establishing successful teacher/demonstration centers on every continent for sustainable civilization design and implementation. Villages include designs appropriate for each of the five main types of climates. They also include options for even the most challenged economies. These hubs will collaborate with one another, share ideas, and resources, and work together as a network to heal the planet. They will also transform the global lifestyle into a more enjoyable, fulfilling, healthy, and sustainable one.

The specifics of how One Community is accomplishing sustainable civilization design and implementation can be found on the One Community Solution Model to Create Solution-creating Models Page. Research supporting and showing the benefits of a model like this can be found in our Research and Resources Articles Archive.

Even if we don’t achieve our ultimate goal of 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 carrying out sustainable civilization design and implementation.

INSPIRING SUSTAINABILITY WITH OPEN SOURCE

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

Our open source model and blueprints engage and inspire people while simultaneously making sustainable living more affordable and easy to replicate. By free-sharing the step-by-step plans people need for duplication, inviting people to participate, and demonstrating sustainable teacher/demonstration hubs as a more desirable way of living, the model will predictably expand on its own. This is also our macro approach for sustainable civilization design and implementation.

Our approach to sustainable civilization design and implementation unites the world and leads to a new Golden Age for humanity. While we understand that not everyone believes this is even possible, we are nonetheless bringing together all those that do see this as possible as the non-profit think tank of forward-thinking individuals willing to design, build, and open source project-launch blueprint and free-share it for The Highest Good of All.

COMPREHENSIVE SOLUTION TO HUMANITY’S NEEDS

One Community is open source sharing an evolution of sustainable living that addresses the complete human experience. We are doing this because we see the solutions for global food, housing, energy, education, social inequality, ethical business practices, earth regenerative practices, and a desire for a more fulfilling living experience as inseparably interconnected. Sustainable civilization design and implementation is a comprehensive solution, we are addressing all these areas simultaneously and open source free-sharing everything needed for individual duplication and/or duplication as complete self-replicating teacher/demonstration communities, villages, and cities to be built around the world.

As we solve and open source shares our sustainable civilization design and implementation we will establish a living example of the first teacher/demonstration village purposed to teach others. To maximally facilitate duplication, One Community will provide seven duplicable examples and function indefinitely as a place people can visit and a non-profit and open source think tank continuing to further evolve and share solutions in all of the above areas and more. We will also provide hands-on experience and training. Most importantly, growing upon our sustainable foundation, we will endlessly make this comprehensive solution even more widely known and globally accessible, understandable and diversely duplicable, and inspiring and desirable as a model worth duplicating.

GLOBALLY IMPLEMENTABLE REPLICATION MODEL

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

To meet the increasing demand that we are contributing to, we are coordinating with manufacturers, education institutions, individuals, and vendors. This is also part of this model to help the world. Its purpose is to facilitate more engagement in the sustainability industry, produce the absolute best possible consumer value, and the most convenient delivery of goods and methodologies to become an important part of the design and implementation of sustainable civilization.

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

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

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

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

Engineering our own green future is possible and beneficial for all people and life on our planet. For the first time in the history of humanity, open source sustainability components can be developed and globally shared and produced. Putting these open source ideas together as a self-replicating and self-sustainable teacher/demonstration model can further this idea and goal even more by inspiring and educating people with a complete living model. We see this as The Highest Good of All and having the ability to create a New Golden Age of cooperation, collaboration, innovation, creativity, sustainable living, and increased happiness for everyone and everything on this planet:

• 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 May 24th, 2015 edition (#116) of our weekly progress update detailing the previous week’s development and accomplishments:

Engineering Our Own Green Future
One Community Weekly Progress Update #116

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

ENGINEERING OUR OWN GREEN FUTURE – INTRO @1:00

ENGINEERING OUR OWN GREEN FUTURE – HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION @2:00

• Transferred the first 25% of the content for the Communication lesson plan to the website (see below)
• Behind the scenes: wrote the final 25% of our lesson plan with the central theme of “Communication“
• Paige Allison Donatelli finished the first 25% of the image creation for the “Outer Space” lesson plan mind map (see below)
• Featured new “Movement and Development” lesson plan image across social media that Paige helped us create (see below)

ENGINEERING OUR OWN GREEN FUTURE – HIGHEST GOOD FOOD: @3:28

• Finished the final social media imagery and featured our open source radishes hub and our open source tomatoes hub (see below)
• Researched and added two additional recipes to the open source potatoes hub (see below)
• Added three new recipes from Sandra Sellani to the Food Self-sufficiency Transition Plan (see below)

ENGINEERING OUR OWN GREEN FUTURE – HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING: @4:37

• Updated over 20 pages of the custom furniture for the final instruction set for the Earthbag Village and the upcoming crowdfunding campaign (see below)
• Added 50% of our research to the waterproofing strategy page for the earth dome structures (see below)
• Moved another 25% of the earth dome loft structural engineering calculations to the website (see below)
• Sheng Xu finished his final round of SolidWorks design specifics for the 3-dome cluster of the upcoming crowdfunding campaign (see below)
• Jorge Antonio Ricardo began work on dividing the 3-dome cluster into pieces that can be 3-D printed to show its modular components (see below)
• Song Dong finished the first round of elevation and cross-section modeling of the 3-dome structures in AutoCAD (see below)
• Sayonara Batista de Oliveira completed a week of researching the benefits and challenges of cob construction. Her work was added to the new Cob Village (Pod 3) page (see below)
• Sayonara also created these design ideas for the new Cob Village (Pod 3) (see below)
• Nelli Levental completed her second round of Cob Village (Pod 3) sketches (see below)
• The Architecture and Planning Team members from Team Brazil created their second series of designs of the Shipping Container Village (Pod 5) (see below)

ENGINEERING OUR OWN GREEN FUTURE – DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER: @7:16

• Mayke Balbino completed revision 4 of the Duplicable City Center designs in AutoCAD (see below)
• Behind the scenes: Lucas Silva completed extensive research into different Control Systems sensors and controllers (see below)
• Mike Hogan also helped organize the necessary Control Systems design criteria

ENGINEERING OUR OWN GREEN FUTURE – HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY: @8:21

• Vassili Biserov finished translating our Highest Good of All webpage into Russian (see below)
• Behind the scenes: Binru Chen helped us create open source for-profit and not-for-profit income statements that will soon be part of the tax considerations and strategy page (see below)
• Finalized and added the Community Member agreement to the One Community legal page. This is the work of Yusuf Sulayman (see below)

and more…

ENGINEERING OUR OWN GREEN FUTURE SUMMARY: @9:21

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ENGINEERING OUR OWN GREEN FUTURE – HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

One Community is engineering our own green future through Highest Good education that is for all ages, applicable in any environment, adaptable to individual needs, far exceeds traditional education standards, and is more fun for both the teachers and the students:

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

This last week the core team transferred the first 25% of the content for the Communication lesson plan to the website, including all of the icons and some of the written content. This lesson plan teaches all subjects, to all learning levels, using the central theme of Communication.

Communication Lesson Plan ” 25% Complete ” Click to Visit Page

Behind the scenes, we wrote the final 25% of our lesson plan with the central theme of “Communication” – which now brings that to 100% complete.

Paige Allison Donatelli (Graphic Designer and Owner Operator of Namaste Living in a Material World) finished the first 25% of the image creation for the “Outer Space” lesson plan mind map, which you can see here:

“Outer Space” Lesson Plan Mind Map – 25% Complete – Click to Visit Page

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

“Movement and Development” Lesson Plan Featured ” Click to Visit Page

ENGINEERING OUR OWN GREEN FUTURE – HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

One Community is engineering our own green future through Highest Good food that is more diverse, more nutritious, locally grown and sustainable, and part of our open source botanical garden model to support and share bio-diversity:

• Learn about the structures: Hoop House Hub | Aquapini & Walipini Open Source Hub
• See what we’ll be growing: Gardens & Hoop Houses | Large-scale Structures | Food Forest | TA

This last week the core team finished the final social media imagery and featured our open source radishes hub:

Featured Radishes Hub with New Social Media Imagery ” Click to Visit

And we did this for our open source tomatoes hub:

Featured Tomatoes Hub with New Social Media Imagery ” Click to Visit

We also researched and added two additional recipes to the open source potatoes hub, which you can see here. More recipes from our Food Self-sufficiency Transition Plan that feature potatoes will be added here in the future.

Added 2 Potato Recipes ” Click to Visit the Open Source Potato Hub

Last but not least, we added three new recipes from Sandra Sellani (Vegan Chef and author of What’s Your BQ?) to the Food Self-sufficiency Transition Plan – These recipes are: Oat flour Pancakes with Mango Puree, Pesto Pasta Salad with Arugula, and a Creamy Fennel Coconut Soup:

3 New Vegan Recipes Added to Food Self-sufficiency Transition Plan Page ” Click to Visit

ENGINEERING OUR OWN GREEN FUTURE – HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

One Community is engineering our own green future through Highest Good housing that is artistic and beautiful, more affordable, more space efficient, lasts longer, DIY buildable, and constructed with healthy and sustainable materials:

• Learn about: Our Upcoming Crowdfunding Campaign
• Learn about the different village models: 7 Sustainable Village Models
• Visit the open source portals for the first two: Earthbag Village OS Hub | Straw Bale Village OS Hub

This last week the core team updated over 20 pages of the custom furniture for the final instruction set for the Earthbag Village and the upcoming crowdfunding campaign. This is the final image review and update series and this series of updates brings us to 30% complete:

Open Source Murphy Bed Furniture Assembly Details – Click to Visit Page

We also added 50% of our research to the waterproofing strategy page for the earth dome structures. This brings the page to about 40% complete:

Dome-Home Waterproofing Strategy Page 40% Complete – Click to Visit

And we moved another 25% of the earth dome loft structural engineering calculations to the website. This open source work was completed by Antonio Zambianco (Civil Engineering Student) and is now 60% complete on the site:

Loft Calculations for Earthbag Village and Upcoming Crowdfunding Campaign Domes ” 60% Complete

Sheng Xu (Mechanical Design Engineer) also finished his final round of SolidWorks design specifics for the 3-dome cluster of the upcoming crowdfunding campaign that prepared these domes for structural calculations and 3-D printing:

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

Jorge Antonio Ricardo (Mechanical Engineering Student) then began work on dividing this structure into pieces that can be 3-D printed to show its modular components. These pieces include a roof option:

3-Dome Structures Divided into Pieces that can be 3-D Printed – Click to Visit Earthbag Village Portal

Song Dong (M.S. in Mechanical Engineering) also finished the first round of elevation and cross section modeling of these 3-dome structures in AutoCAD:

1st Round of Elevation and Cross Section Modeling of 3-dome Structures in AutoCAD – Click to Visit

Sayonara Batista de Oliveira (4th-year Architecture and Urban Planning Student) also completed a week of researching the benefits and challenges of cob construction. You can see the details of Sayonara’s work here, added by the Core Team to the new Cob Village (Pod 3) page:

Researched Benefits and Challenges of Cob Construction – Click to Visit Page

Sayonara also created these design ideas for the new Cob Village (Pod 3):

Design Ideas for Cob Village – Click to Visit Page

Nelli Levental (Graphic Designer and College Professor) additionally completed her second round of Cob Village (Pod 3) sketches. What you see here are 4 distinct aesthetics purposed to create an artist’s village. Each structure represents a different artistic discipline. This work helps One Community’s mission of engineering our own green future and reinforces our commitment to better living quality for all people:

Second Round of Cob Village (Pod 3) Sketches – Click to Visit Page

The Architecture and Planning Team from Team Brazil also created their second series of designs of the Shipping Container Village (Pod 5). The primary focus of these changes was moving the entire 2nd and 3rd floor forward and reorganizing it to maximize passive solar:

Second Series of Shipping Container Village (Pod 5) ” Click to Visit Page

ENGINEERING OUR OWN GREEN FUTURE – DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

One Community is engineering our own green future 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 its function: Duplicable City Center Open Source Hub

This last week Mayke Balbino (Architecture and Urban Design Student) completed revision 4 of the Duplicable City Center designs in AutoCAD. This included new bathroom designs that eliminated the need for an entry door, new locations for water fountains, new second floor table layouts in the dining dome, some slope additions to the 3rd floor, and more cupola edits to the 4th floor.

Revision 4 Duplicable City Center in AutoCAD ” Click to Enlarge

Behind-the-scenes, Lucas Silva (4th-year Computer Engineering Student) completed extensive research into different Control Systems sensors and controllers. You can see this work here:

Research into Control Systems Sensors and Controllers for Duplicable City Center

Mike Hogan (Automation Systems Developer and Business Systems Consultant) also helped organize the necessary Control Systems design criteria. We’d say we’re done with about the first 20% of the research and organization process. This work helps One Community’s mission of engineering our own green future and reinforces our commitment to better living quality for all people.

ENGINEERING OUR OWN GREEN FUTURE – HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS

One Community is engineering our own green future 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 of engineering our own green future: Highest Good Society
• Learn about the model for fulfilled living and sharing of engineering our own green future: 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 of engineering our own green future: The Highest Good Network

This week Vassili Biserov (Writer, Poet and Translator) finished translating our Highest Good of All webpage into Russian! This is our first page to be translated into this language. This work helps One Community’s mission of engineering our own green future and reinforces our commitment to better living quality for all people:

Highest Good of All Page Translated into Russian – Click to Visit Page

Behind the scenes, Binru Chen (Accountant Specializing in Audit and Financial Reporting) has helped us create open source for-profit and not-for-profit income statements that will soon be part of the tax considerations and strategy page. This work is part of the Highest Good Economics component of building teacher/demonstration hubs. We’d say this work is now about 40% complete behind the scenes and 20% complete on the site.

We also finalized and added the Community Member agreement to the One Community legal page. This is the work of Yusuf Sulayman (Lawyer and member of the Nigerian Bar Association), added as an open source template for others wishing to form similar agreements with their incoming members. This work helps One Community’s mission of engineering our own green future and reinforces our commitment to better living quality for all people.

Community Member Agreement Added to Legal 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. We are creating a space that helps each other live in integrity with each other and the planet as we strive to be the greatest versions of ourselves. We do this by harmoniously respecting each other, nature, and the rest of our one shared planet.

Our goal is to demonstrate what we feel is the most sustainable, healthy, and fun environment we can create. A place based on compassion, kindness, and collaboration. This replicable community will serve as an example of what is possible. This work helps One Community’s mission of engineering our own green future and reinforces our commitment to better living quality for all people.

Throughout our design process, we are open sourcing and free-sharing everything needed for construction and replication. This includes what we call “Highest Good” approaches to food, energy, housing, education, for-profit and non-profit economics design, social architecture, fulfilled living, stewardship practices, and more. We are creating these resources for implementation as individual components or complete developments called teacher/demonstration hubs. These hubs will help launch additional hubs as awareness and knowledge grow.

BUILDING THE FIRST OF MANY

One Community will be the first teacher/demonstration hub. It will function as an experiential-learning model that facilitates mass participation to address humanity’s most pressing challenges through: A replicable model for expansion, building seven self-sufficient village/city prototypes, becoming the world leader in open-source sustainability solutions, and evolving and expanding ALL aspects of sustainable living. This work helps One Community’s mission of engineering our own green future and reinforces our commitment to better living quality for all people.

One Community welcomes Fernando Bitencourt to the Structural Design Team as our newest member of Team Brazil!

4th-year Civil Engineering/Construction Engineering Management Student: Fernando speaks four languages, including Portuguese (native), English (fluent), Spanish (basic) and French (basic) and has good skills in leadership, communication and teamwork. He also has knowledge and experience with calculation softwares like Ftool and AutoCAD. Fernando grew up doing volunteer work in his hometown, first representing his high school and then being part of Interact Club, where he developed his above listed skills. Fernando wishes to gain experience in his field and also in volunteer work, and that’s why he sees One Community as a unique chance to apply those desires. As a member of the One Community Intern Team, Fernando applies his knowledge of Structural Engineering, the most interesting Civil Engineering area in his opinion, and he brings his desire to build a sustainable world.

WELCOME TO THE TEAM FERNANDO!

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One Community welcomes Adolpho Maia to the Mechanical Engineering Team as our newest member of Team Brazil!

5th-year Mechanical Engineering Student: Adolpho is in a Brazilian exchange program called Science Without Borders, where he came to the USA to learn new technologies, gain experience, become fluent speaking English, and explore and learn about a different culture. He is currently living in California and studying mechanical engineering at California State University Long Beach. He has one year of experience working in a school furniture factory as a mechanical engineering intern, a production inspector, and as a machine programmer. Adolpho has finished an entrepreneurship course and is also a member of Theta Chi Fraternity where he learned how to work as a group and how group dynamics work when there are a lot of people working on the same thing. Adolpho is currently fluent in English, has listening and comprehension skills in Spanish, and is a beginner in Italian. He believes that sustainability and wanting to change the world is something that starts within ourselves; first of all with the desire to do something, and then putting time and effort into it – and what could possibly be better than using what our planet gives to us, without destroying it. Adolpho’s focus as a member of the One Community team is on design and structural analysis for the vermiculture toilet designs.

WELCOME TO THE TEAM ADOLPHO!

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One Community welcomes Joao Bernardes to the Hydraulics Team as our newest member of Team Brazil!

4th-year Civil Engineering Student: Joao is a Civil Engineering student at Universidade Federal de Uberlandia (UFU), which is a renowned and accredited Brazilian university. He is currently studying at California State University, Long Beach as part of an exchange program called Science Without Borders on behalf of CAPES and the Brazilian Government. Back in Brazil, Joao worked with management and monitoring of civil engineering works and hydraulic projects at the university. He has knowledge and experience with softwares such as Revit, AutoCAD, and AutoCAD Civil 3D. In addition, Joao participated in Civil Engineering’s Academic Board as Treasurer, where he gained experience with cash management and strengthened his sense of teamwork, as well as planning and organization skills. Joao speaks three languages (Portuguese, English and Spanish) and considers himself to be communicative with a great sense of leadership and teamwork. Ever since he was a child, Joao has had a great desire to make a difference in people’s lives. Now he sees that he can do this by applying his knowledge in sustainable projects that will help people and contribute to world change. With One Community, Joao joins the Hydraulics Team designing for the 7 Sustainable Village Models.

WELCOME TO THE TEAM JOAO!

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One Community welcomes Renata Maehara to the Design Team as our newest member of Team Brazil!

4th-year Civil Engineering Student and Lead Drafter: Renata currently studies at California State University, Long Beach as an exchange student. She speaks three languages; Portuguese (native), English (advanced) and French (intermediate). During her high school she did a Technical Civil Construction course with habilitation on Management, Architectural Projecting and Rationalization of the construction. This course introduced Renata to the construction area and had her working as an intern draftsman in an architecture office for one year before entering college. This experience improved Renata’s skills in teamwork, planning, organization and AutoCAD, Revit, and 3D Max softwares. It also gave her the opportunity to interact with professionals in the construction field and it amplified her interest and knowledge in this area. This influenced Renata to make Civil Construction Sustainability her priority of studies from the beginning of college. As a volunteer member of the One Community Intern Team, Renata sees the opportunity to learn and gain more professional and personal experience while applying her knowledge helping with the design and development of the Duplicable City Center and the Cob Village.

WELCOME TO THE TEAM RENATA!

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One Community welcomes Roberto Santos to the Hydraulics Team as our newest member of Team Brazil!

Roberto is a 3rd-year Civil Engineering Brazilian Exchange Student currently at California State University, Long Beach. His native language is Portuguese, and he also speaks English (advanced) and French (basic). Roberto is very skilled with the software AutoCAD and Revit. Since his childhood he liked to create and develop new things, and this is why he has chosen to be an engineer and take the opportunity to come to study in the US. This experience gave him the chance to be in contact with a new culture and gain a new perspective of the world. Back at his University in Brazil (Federal University of Uberlandia), he was a co-founder of the Civil Engineering Junior Enterprise of his university and also the director of quality. In this position he was responsible for the organization and continuous development of the Junior Enterprise. Being part of this company taught him teamwork skills and to be determined. He also worked with the project and design of the water distribution system of a small city. Now, as a volunteer of One Community, he brings his skills and experience for further development as a member of the Hydraulics Team designing for the 7 Sustainable Village Models.

WELCOME TO THE TEAM ROBERTO!

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One Community welcomes Victor Oliveira to the Architecture Team as our newest member of Team Brazil!

3rd-year Architecture and Urban Planning Student: Victor is an undergraduate student from Universidade Federal de Viçosa in Brazil, and he always designs with a focus on functionality, aesthetics, and sustainability. Since he was a child, Victor always had an interest in building things and changing spaces. When his older brother was admitted to a course of Architecture and showed Victor the world of architecture, he decided to study Architecture and Urban Planning, too. In college, Victor discovered his passion for 3D modeling and technical drawings. He recognized that making people understand and visualize the project idea is as important as designing it and developed a wide variety of software knowledge including Revit, AutoCAD, 3DsMax, Illustrator, and Photoshop. Victor also enjoys working groups, and in Viçosa he once lived with three other architecture students, which contributed to his development and experience through collaborative exchange and suggestions on the projects everyone was working on. Coming from a big city in Brazil, Victor became interested in sustainability when he saw people wasting natural resources and clearing forests. Victor believes that in order to improve the quality of life man needs nature and must take care of it. He brings this belief and his passion for design and visualization to the design team working on the 7 Sustainable Village Models.

WELCOME TO THE TEAM VICTOR!

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One Community welcomes Raquel Alves to the Architecture Team as our newest member of Team Brazil!

3rd-year Architecture and Urban Planning Student: Raquel is a Brazilian student who has 3 years experience studying Architecture and Urban Planning. She has worked with architects in her city doing freelance work and projects that have intensely developed her skills with 3D modeling softwares like Sketchup, Revit, 3DS Max and AutoCAD. Raquel’s passion is visual representations of projects, seeing this is as important as the concept and the creation part of the project. Working in groups is another skill that Raquel excels at, with almost all of her projects in Brazil being made with a team. She likes to share ideas and learn with others. Studying Urban Design in 2014 at SCAD (Savannah College of Art and Design) has added to her passion for design and she won 2nd Place in a competition, “Urban Cities Competition,” transforming abandoned grain silos into usable, energy efficient, and versatile living spaces. Focusing on sustainability and recycling to create and develop ideas, Raquel is helping develop and create beautiful visualizations of village models 4-7.

WELCOME TO THE TEAM RAQUEL!

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One Community welcomes Samantha Freitas to the Architecture Team as our newest member of Team Brazil!

3rd-year Architecture and Interior Design Student: Samantha enrolled in a five-year architecture and urban planning program, and is currently participating in a one-year exchange program at Savannah College of Art and Design. Samantha has worked as a volunteer since high school and also has a degree in Linguistics. She is looking to improve her skills not only in architecture but also in interior design because she thinks architecture should be thorough and designed harmoniously with interior design thinking. Samantha advocates that design be accessible to all, creating a more beautiful, healthy, and sustainable world. As a member of the One Community design team working on the 7 Sustainable Village Models, Samantha is excited to put into practice everything she believes about accessible design while learning with designers and collaborators from many areas.

WELCOME TO THE TEAM SAMANTHA!

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