One Community is happy to welcome Robert Seton to the Highest Good energy Team:

Robert Seton is a Solar Design Engineer specializing in off-grid and battery back-up systems. He studied Electrical Engineering at the University of New South Wales in Sydney and has as Masters Degree in Social Ecology from the University of Western Sydney. He has forty years experience in electrical engineering, solar design, training and project management. His talent for design and long held passion for renewable energy systems has made him a leader in the industry. For many years Robert lead a team of engineers at the largest solar distributor in the United States, Soligent. He left that company to create Solar Hybrid Design to focus and apply from his deeply held belief that energy must be sustainable and renewable for everyone if we are to achieve a healthy global future. Robert has designed wonderful projects around the globe including towns in Africa and Mexico, islands in the Caribbean and Pacific, schools in the Philippines, and homes throughout the Northern Hemisphere. As a One Community partner, Robert is helping with the Highest Good energy solar components of both the earthbag village and the Duplicable City Center.

With Robert, we also welcome his company Solar Hybrid Design to the One Community Highest Good Collaborators team.

Solar Hybrid Design is devoted to and passionate about renewable energy. Their engineers are experts in the area of hybrid design, which is the Smart Grid on a small scale. They see it as the wave of the future and their designers have many years experience designing projects which include photovoltaics, wind power, generator power, solar water pumps, inverters and batteries. The appropriate elements are then designed into integrated renewable power systems. Principal, Robert Seton has had over forty years experience in electrical and solar design, training and project management. His talent for design and long held passion for renewable energy systems has made him a leader in the industry. Employing some of the most respected designers and engineers in the field of renewable energy, Solar Hybrid Design has become a top recommendation for many highly respected manufacturers and distributors because they appreciate the detail of their analysis, know they can trust their product knowledge and integrity, and have come to respect Solar Hybrid Design‘s ability to think outside the box. Solar Hybrid Design creates smart and cost effective solutions for any situation and have joined the One Community Highest Good collaborator’s team to lend their knowledge and assistance to the Highest Good energy solar components of both the earthbag village and the Duplicable City Center.

WELCOME TO THE TEAM ROBERT

AND SOLAR HYBRID DESIGN!

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Sustainable prosperity means more of what people want in their lives on an ongoing basis. Sustainable infrastructure combined with a cooperative and collaborative living model can provide this. One Community is creating open source tools, tutorial, blueprints, and resources to help people create 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.

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 December 12th, 2014 edition (#93) of our weekly progress update detailing the previous week’s development and accomplishments:

Sustainable Prosperity
One Community Weekly Progress Update #93

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

SUSTAINABLE PROSPERITY INTRO @1:00

SUSTAINABLE PROSPERITY: HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION @2:00

• Completed the first 25% of “Movement and Development” lesson plan mindmap (see below)
• Completed the first half of the “Movement and Development webpage” (see below)
• Added a new resources section to the bottom of all the curriculum and subject pages (see below)
• Behind the scenes, we finished the first 15% of the lesson plan design for “Open Source”

SUSTAINABLE PROSPERITY: HIGHEST GOOD FOOD: @3:17

• Added another 10% to the new Food Self-sufficiency Transition Plan (see below)

SUSTAINABLE PROSPERITY: HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING: @4:10

• Added a Why and What section to the dome home electrical page (see below)
• Completed the first half of the materials and image updates for the custom murphy bed furniture (see below)
• Completed the initial assessment of thermal lag for the Earthbag Village domes (see below)
• Scott Thomas and his Shadow Ridge Signature Architecture Program team also produced these next steps of putting the complete Earthbag Village and the crowdfunding campaign wet dome into CAD (see below)
• Dave Walen contributed the first detailed section of the Straw Bale Village (Pod 2) in CAD (see below)

SUSTAINABLE PROSPERITY: DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER: @6:09

• Completed the first 20% of the Building Plans for All Components page for this structure (see below)

SUSTAINABLE PROSPERITY: HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY: @7:16

• Continued homepage redesign focusing on the Helping Us page (see below)
• Created new social media imagery and featured our Creating Utopia page and our Large-scale Gardening page (see below)

SUSTAINABLE PROSPERITY SUMMARY: @8:10

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

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SUSTAINABLE PROSPERITY

HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

One Community is facilitating sustainable prosperity 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 completed the first 25% of the lesson plan mindmap with the central theme of “Movement and Development.” Here it is:

Movement and Development Mindmap 25% Done – Click to Visit Page

We also completed the first half of the “Movement and Development webpage” that lists the specifics of how to use this lesson and mindmap to teach all subjects to all ages, in any environment, using the central “Movement and Development” theme for sustainable prosperity. Here is a picture of this completed work too:

Movement and Development Page 50% Done – Click to Visit

We also added a new resources section like this to the bottom of all the curriculum and subject pages:

New Resource Section Added to Education Pages – Click for Education Open Source Hub

And, behind the scenes, we finished the first 15% of the lesson plan design for “Open Source”

SUSTAINABLE PROSPERITY

HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

One Community is facilitating sustainable prosperity 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 another 10% to the new Food Self-sufficiency Transition Plan for sustainable prosperity. This developing page shares the wonderful work of Benjamin Sessions and is about teaching people how to affordably and efficiently prepare food in both temporary and permanent kitchen situations until people can produce their own. This will be essential for sustainable prosperity and initial remote village construction as well as the upcoming crowdfunding campaign:

Food Self-sufficiency Transition Plan – Click to Visit Page

SUSTAINABLE PROSPERITY

HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

One Community is facilitating sustainable prosperity 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 sustainable prosperity: Our Upcoming Crowdfunding Campaign
• Learn about the different sustainable prosperity 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 a Why and What section to the dome home electrical page that is part of the preparation for the upcoming crowdfunding campaign for sustainable prosperity:

Dome Home Electrical Page in Progress – Click to Visit

We also created the first half of the materials and image updates for the custom murphy bed furniture for sustainable prosperity. These updates are fixing non-standard sized components uncovered in the materials breakdown we’ve been working on for the past few weeks.

Murphy Bed Image Updates – 50% Complete – Click to Visit Page

In addition to this, the core team completed this initial assessment of thermal lag testing and calculations through the earthdome walls. This is only the beginning of this work that nobody (to our knowledge) has ever done. The outermost layer you see is the wall, the next layer in is the air within the wall, and the central area is space we are not measuring because the first 16″ of air measurements will give us the information we need. These calculations are being completed as a precursor to more complex calculations we’ll also be doing on the Earthbag Village central Tropical Atrium. This is important in measuring sustainable prosperity.

Scott Thomas and his Shadow Ridge Signature Architecture Program team also produced these next steps of putting the complete Earthbag Village into CAD:

Earthbag Village Evolving in CAD – Click to Visit Page

And the crowdfunding campaign wet dome into CAD:

Crowdfunding Campaign Wet Dome in CAD – Click to Visit Page

Last but not least, here’s a previously unshared update from Dave Walen (Architectural Drafter & Designer and owner of Dave Philip Walen Design) showing the first detailed section of the Straw Bale Village (Pod 2) with straight walls instead of curved walls. What you see is two studios and a two-room unit, all designed for easy modification into different floor plans to meet different needs.

Strawbale Village Detailed Section – Click to Visit Page

SUSTAINABLE PROSPERITY

SUSTAINABILITY PORDUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

One Community is facilitating sustainable prosperity 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 the first 20% of the Building plans for all components section for the Duplicable City Center. This developing page is where we are hosting downloads of all the CAD, Sketchup, and other files so that people will have free access to these files for duplication, modification, and adaptation.

Building Plans for all Components Section – Click to Visit Page

HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS

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

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

This last week the core team continued the complete redesign of the homepage to streamline and simplify it to better help people understand what we are creating and how it is a viable strategy for global transformation to sustainability. The focus for this week was the Helping Us page updates you can see here. This page now shares clearly and easily all the ways someone can participate in One Community ranging from internet help and support to joining the Pioneer Team.

Updated Helping Us Page – Click to Visit

In addition to this,  we also created new social media imagery and featured our Creating Utopia page and our Large-scale Gardening page:

Click for the Creating Utopia Page

Click for the Large-scale Gardening 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. We are creating a space that helps each other live in integrity with each other and the planet as we strive to be the greatest versions of ourselves. We do this by harmoniously respecting each other, nature, and the rest of our one shared planet.

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

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

BUILDING THE FIRST OF MANY SUSTAINABLE PROSPERITY

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

WHY ONE COMMUNITY IS CREATING THIS

The One Community self-replicating model is capable of creating a sustainable planet within 30 years. We will achieve this by establishing successful teacher/demonstration hubs on every continent. Villages include designs appropriate for each of the five main types of climates. They also include options for even the most challenged economies. These hubs will collaborate with one another, share ideas, resources, and work together as a network to heal the planet. They will also transform the global lifestyle to a more enjoyable, fulfilling, healthy, and sustainable one.

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

Even if we don’t achieve our ultimate goal of global transformation, a self-replicating teacher/demonstration model like this will take a relatively short period of time to positively affect millions while inspiring millions more.  For One Community residents (the Pioneer Team), the idea of creating and sharing the social and recreational experience with visitors is also fun, exciting, fulfilling, and an additional reason why we are creating this.

INSPIRING SUSTAINABILITY WITH OPEN SOURCE

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

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

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

COMPREHENSIVE SOLUTION TO HUMANITY’S NEEDS

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

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

GLOBALLY IMPLEMENTABLE REPLICATION MODEL

The more people that are inspired and desiring for themselves what it is that One Community creates, the more demand there will be for spreading the One Community model. This leads to the directing of financial resources and resourceful people where we believe they are needed most: the establishment of additional sustainable communities around the world. 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.

One Community is happy to welcome The Free World Charter to the Highest Good Collaborators Team:

The Free World Charter is a statement of principles that has the potential to optimize life on Earth for all species, eradicate poverty and greed, and advance progress. Neither political nor religious, The Free World Charter provides ten short principles capable of “forming the foundation of a new, advanced society that uses no money, is free, fair and sustainable.” The principles are based solely on nature, common sense, and survival. Put forth as “a logical progression out of the failing mechanisms of today’s society, and a natural step in our evolution,” One Community has partnered with The Free World Charter to help promote each other’s messages because we are both organizations with clear missions focused on The Highest Good of All and global sustainability.

WELCOME TO THE TEAM FREE WORLD CHARTER!

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Maximizing sustainability opportunity can be refined to three core components: ease of implementation, affordability, and attractiveness. One Community is simultaneously addressing these three components to facilitate a self-propagating sustainability model 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 December 5th, 2014 edition (#92) of our weekly progress update detailing the previous week’s development and accomplishments. This work helps One Community’s mission of maximizing sustainability opportunity and reinforces our commitment to better living quality for all people:

Maximizing Sustainability Opportunity
One Community Weekly Progress Update #92

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

MAXIMIZING SUSTAINABILITY OPPORTUNITY INTRO @1:00

MAXIMIZING SUSTAINABILITY OPPORTUNITY: HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION @2:11

• Finished the final 70% of “Highest Good” mindmap (see below)
• Behind the scenes we finished the final 60% of the “Movement and Development” final edits
• Researched and outlined another 30 great thinkers and innovators for the Technology and Innovation Molecule

MAXIMIZING SUSTAINABILITY OPPORTUNITY: HIGHEST GOOD FOOD: @3:26

• Added all the large-scale gardening plant links and icons and a new resources section to the soil amendment page (see below)
• Created initial website infrastructure for the temporary kitchen setup and menu page beginning the integration of the content and research provided by Benjamin Sessions (see below)

MAXIMIZING SUSTAINABILITY OPPORTUNITY: HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING: @4:26

• More Tropical Atrium calculations (see below)
• Robert Seton of Solar Hybrid Design helping us with our energy infrastructure (see below)
• Scott Thomas and Shadow Ridge progressed with the Earthbag Village (see below)

MAXIMIZING SUSTAINABILITY OPPORTUNITY: DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER: @5:55

• Added the Resources and FAQ sections to the Control Systems page (see below)

MAXIMIZING SUSTAINABILITY OPPORTUNITY: HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY: @7:03

• Began redesign of our homepage with the updated pledge (see below)
• Created new social media imagery and featured our Evolving Sustainability page, Highest Good Society page, Resource Based Economy page, and our Duplicable City Center open source hub and page (see below)

MAXIMIZING SUSTAINABILITY OPPORTUNITY SUMMARY: @7:51

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

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HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

One Community is maximizing sustainability opportunity 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 final 70% of the lesson plan mindmap with the central theme of “Highest Good.” You can see this below and on the finished webpage where you can now access the necessary details to use this lesson and mindmap to teach all subjects to all ages, in any environment, using the central “Highest Good” theme. This work helps One Community’s mission of maximizing sustainability opportunity and reinforces our commitment to better living quality for all people:

Highest Good Mindmap – Click to Visit Page

Behind the scenes we also finished the final 60% of the remaining content edits and revisions for the lesson plan with the central theme of “Movement and Development.”

We also researched and outlined another 30 great thinkers and innovators for the Technology and Innovation Molecule.

HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

One Community is maximizing sustainability opportunity 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 all the large-scale gardening plant links and icons to the soil amendment page, plus a new resources section for maximizing sustainability opportunity. Click the image to be taken to the new section on the page. This work helps One Community’s mission of maximizing sustainability opportunity and reinforces our commitment to better living quality for all people.

New Plant Links and Icons on Soil Amendment Page – Click to Visit

We also created this new social media image and featured the page for maximizing sustainability opportunity.

Soil Amendment Social Media Image – Click to Visit Page

In addition to this, we began creating the website infrastructure to share the outstanding work of our newest partner Benjamin Sessions for maximizing sustainability opportunity. You can see this beginning to take shape here as the temporary kitchen setup and menu page for initial remote village construction as well as the upcoming crowdfunding campaign. This work helps One Community’s mission of maximizing sustainability opportunity and reinforces our commitment to better living quality for all people.

Food Self-sufficiency Transition Plan – Click to Visit Page

HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

One Community is maximizing sustainability opportunity 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 spent most of our time looking at how heat will move in and around the earth surrounding the Tropical Atrium hot water tank for maximizing sustainability opportunity. We’ve identified how much heat we can store it the thermal mass, now we’re focused on figuring out what the “sweet spot” is for insulation related to cost and labor along with where the insulation will be most effective. What you see here is that insulation directly below the tank is definitely beneficial, but these benefits decrease as you go deeper and nearer the perimeter.

The question is how deep and wide is best when including the cost and labor associated with this too. This work helps One Community’s mission of maximizing sustainability opportunity and reinforces our commitment to better living quality for all people

Tropical Atrium Heat Calcs – Click to Visit Page

Our core team also began work this week with Robert Seton of Solar Hybrid Design on working out what we hope will be the final details of our solar infrastructure for maximizing sustainability opportunity. Here is a screenshot showing what equipment we’re discussing and evaluating there.

Solar Hardware Being Evaluated – Click to Visit Page

Scott Thomas and his Shadow Ridge Signature Architecture Program team also progressed with their work putting the complete Earthbag Village into CAD. Here is a collage of screenshots of this work in progress showing some of the bathroom domes and Tropical Atrium central area.

Earthbag Village – CAD in Progress – Click to Visit Page

DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

One Community is maximizing sustainability opportunity 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 addition of the Resources and FAQ sections of the Control Systems page. This page is done for now but will continue to evolve and function as a constantly developing tutorial and information resource for the monitoring, setup, maintenance, evolution, and data gathering systems of the Duplicable City Center and the Earthbag Village (Pod 1). This work helps One Community’s mission of maximizing sustainability opportunity and reinforces our commitment to better living quality for all people. Here is a screenshot of the final additions:

Resources and FAQ Sections of Finished Control Systems Page – Click to Visit

HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS

One Community is maximizing sustainability opportunity through a Highest Good society approach to living that is founded on fulfilled living, the study of meeting human needs, Community, and making a difference in the world:

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

This last week the core team began a complete redesign of the homepage that now looks like this:

Complete Redesign of Homepage – Click to Visit

This redesign is to streamline and simplify this main page of our site to better help people understand what we are creating and how it is a viable strategy for global transformation to sustainability. Here is the newly updated pledge that is one of the three primary pages we are helping people start on so they better understand our project.

Updated One Community Pledge – Click to Visit Full Pledge

In addition to this we also created new social media imagery and featured our Evolving Sustainability page, Highest Good Society page, Resource Based Economy page, and our Duplicable City Center open source hub and page:

Click to Visit our Evolving Sustainability Page	Click to Visit our Highest Good Society Page
Click to Visit our Resource Based Economy Page	Click to Visit our Duplicable City Center OS Hub

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

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INVESTOR PAGES

OVERVIEW | LOCATION | FUNDING

GET INVOLVED

CONSULTANTS | WAYS ANYONE CAN HELP | MEMBERSHIP

CLICK HERE FOR ALL PAST UPDATES

WHAT ONE COMMUNITY IS CREATING

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

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

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

BUILDING THE FIRST OF MANY

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

WHY ONE COMMUNITY IS CREATING THIS

The One Community self-replicating model is capable of creating a sustainable planet within 30 years. We will achieve this by establishing successful teacher/demonstration hubs on every continent. Villages include designs appropriate for each of the five main types of climates. They also include options for even the most challenged economies. These hubs will collaborate with one another, share ideas, resources, and work together as a network to heal the planet. They will also transform the global lifestyle to a more enjoyable, fulfilling, healthy, and sustainable one.

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

Even if we don’t achieve our ultimate goal of global transformation, a self-replicating teacher/demonstration model like this will take a relatively short period of time to positively affect millions while inspiring millions more.  For One Community residents (the Pioneer Team), the idea of creating and sharing the social and recreational experience with visitors is also fun, exciting, fulfilling, and an additional reason why we are creating this.

INSPIRING SUSTAINABILITY WITH OPEN SOURCE

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

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

It is this approach we see uniting the world and leading to a new Golden Age for humanity. While we understand that not everyone believes this is even possible, we are nonetheless bringing together all those that do see this as possible as the non-profit think tank of forward-thinking individuals willing to design, build, and open source project-launch blueprint and free-share it for The Highest Good of All. This work helps One Community’s mission of maximizing sustainability opportunity and reinforces our commitment to better living quality for all people.

COMPREHENSIVE SOLUTION TO HUMANITY’S NEEDS

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

As we address and open source share these areas we will establish a living example of the first teacher/demonstration village purposed to teach others. To maximally facilitate duplication, One Community will provide seven duplicable examples and function indefinitely as a place people can visit and a non-profit and open source think tank continuing to further evolve and share solutions in all of the above areas and more. We will also provide hands-on experience and training.

Most importantly, growing upon our sustainable foundation, we will endlessly make this comprehensive solution even more widely known and globally accessible, understandable and diversely duplicable, and inspiring and desirable as a model worth duplicating. This work helps One Community’s mission of maximizing sustainability opportunity and reinforces our commitment to better living quality for all people.

GLOBALLY IMPLEMENTABLE REPLICATION MODEL

The more people that are inspired and desiring for themselves what it is that One Community creates, the more demand there will be for spreading the One Community model. This leads to the directing of financial resources and resourceful people where we believe they are needed most: the establishment of additional sustainable communities around the world. 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 for sustainability that we are contributing to, we are coordinating with manufacturers, education institutions, individuals, and vendors. This is also part of this model to help the world. Its purpose is to facilitate more engagement of the sustainability industry, produce the absolute best possible consumer value, and the most convenient delivery of goods and methodologies for building sustainable living communities and sustainable living components. This work helps One Community’s mission of maximizing sustainability opportunity and reinforces our commitment to better living quality for all people

One Community is happy to welcome Benjamin Sessions to the Development Team:

Benjamin Sessions – Strategic Sales and Real Estate Development Entrepreneur: After graduating from the University of Utah in 2005, he and his wife moved to China to focus on investment projects throughout Asia. This experience ignited a passion to travel the world, learn about new cultures, and find business opportunities throughout the globe.  Sessions and his wife have traveled to over 40 countries and lived as an expatriate in 3 countries outside of the United States. Sessions volunteers regularly in the community and has served as a board member on multiple not-for-profit corporations that focus on enhancing the quality of life for citizens in his area, Fort Lauderdale, where he serves as the President of his civic association.  His passion is cooking and in his free time he regularly seeks out new ways to create delicious and healthy meals.  Sessions has taken training courses around the world to learn about different food styles and food culture.  He has cooked for large groups and is fairly well versed in a variety of food preferences. Sessions’ assistance as a One Community Consultant is on developing the complete first-year meal plan.

WELCOME TO THE TEAM BENJAMIN!

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Ecological resource allocation can be expanded to include all aspects of the human experience. Doing this combines physical sustainability with emotional sustainability. A model that open source shares resources covering and combining both of these areas with a consciousness for The Highest Good of All has a potential to become self-replicating and transform the planet for everyone. This is what One Community is doing:

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

OUR MAIN OPEN SOURCE HUBS

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

One Community’s physical location will forward this movement as the first of many self-replicating teacher/demonstration communities, villages, and cities to be built around the world. This work helps One Community’s mission of ecological resource allocation and reinforces our commitment to better living quality for all people. This is the November 28th, 2014 edition (#91) of our weekly progress update detailing the previous week’s development and accomplishments:

Ecological Resource Allocation
One Community Weekly Progress Update #91

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

ECOLOGICAL RESOURCE ALLOCATION INTRO @1:00

ECOLOGICAL RESOURCE ALLOCATION: HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION @2:02

• Finished the first 30% of the lesson plan mindmap for “Highest Good” (see below)
• Finished the second half of the webpage for the “Highest Good” lesson plan (see below)
• Behind the scenes we finished the first 40% of final content edits for the “Movement and Development” lesson plan

ECOLOGICAL RESOURCE ALLOCATION: HIGHEST GOOD FOOD: @3:13

• Finished large-scale gardening breakout page for Cassabanana (see below)
• Finished large-scale gardening breakout page for Bitter Melon (see below)
• Finished large-scale gardening breakout page for Asparagus (see below)

ECOLOGICAL RESOURCE ALLOCATION: HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING: @4:21

• Tropical Atrium heat retention calculations version 4.0 (see below)
• Added all new custom icons to the crowdfunding campaign page (see below)
• Built the initial foundations for all the crowdfunding campaign pages (see below)
• Finished the organizational process for the custom murphy bed furniture (see below)
• Dave Walen began putting the Straw Bale Village (Pod 2) updated details into 3-D (see below)

ECOLOGICAL RESOURCE ALLOCATION: DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER: @6:14

• Completed addition of the Outputs for the Control Systems page (see below)

ECOLOGICAL RESOURCE ALLOCATION: HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY: @7:21

• Welcomed The Community Planet Foundation to our team on tsÃ…«! (see below)
• Featured and created new social media imagery for our Love Lesson plan page, Remote Internet Setup page, Highest Good food page, creating utopia page, and our open source non-profit open source guide page too (see below)

ECOLOGICAL RESOURCE ALLOCATION SUMMARY: @8:26

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HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

One Community is facilitating a global ecological resource allocation model 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 first 30% of the lesson plan mindmap with the central theme of  “Highest Good” for better ecological resource allocation. This work helps One Community’s mission of ecological resource allocation and reinforces our commitment to better living quality for all people:

Highest Good Mindmap – 30% Complete – Click to Visit Page

And the second half of the webpage sharing the “Highest Good” lesson plan specifics:

2nd Half of Highest Good Lesson Plan – Click to Visit Page – Ecological resource allocation

Behind the scenes we finished the first 40% of the final content edits and revisions for the lesson plan with the central theme of “Movement and Development” for better ecological resource allocation. All of these lesson plans use the central them to teach all subjects, to all learning levels, and are applicable in any learning environment. This work helps One Community’s mission of ecological resource allocation and reinforces our commitment to better living quality for all people.

HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

One Community is facilitating a global ecological resource allocation model 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 three breakout pages from the large-scale gardening page for better ecological resource allocation. These included the Cassabanana page, the Bitter Melon page, and the Asparagus page. You can see all three pages below where you can click the images to visit the complete pages for all the detailed plant descriptions, planting guidelines, cultural considerations, and more. These new pages load faster and also give us the space we’ll need to add recipes, gardening tips, harvesting and canning tips, and videos. Contact us if you have any great resources related to any of these plant species.

CLICK IMAGES FOR COMPLETE PAGES
Cassabanana Breakout Page – Click to Visit	Bitter Melon Breakout Page – Click to Visit	Asparagus Breakout Page – Click to Visit

HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

One Community is facilitating a global ecological resource allocation model 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 completed the Tropical Atrium heat retention calculations version 4.0, using yet another new software program. You can see this analysis here as we continue to asses this structures ability to recycle and hold heat from the Earthbag Village used shower-water heat:

Tropical Atrium Heat Retention – Click to Visit Page

We also added all the new custom icons to the upcoming crowdfunding campaign individual page, as you can see here:

New Crowdfunding Icons – Click to Visit Page

We also built the initial foundations for all the associated web pages, including all these beautiful new headers. If you’d like to see what each of these pages is going to look like, you can visit the dome home electrical page by clicking the image below. Behind the scenes, we’ve also finished a massive update of this page and we are now waiting to post it after a review by a new electrician who just joined our Consultant’s team.

Crowdfunding Campaign Headers – Click to Visit Dome Home Electrical Page

We also finished the organizational process for the custom murphy bed furniture. Here you can see that we’ve organized all the pieces into sections and identified exactly how many boards or sheets are needed to cut all the necessary parts. This is all built off of the work of Philip Gill (Interior and Furniture Designer and Owner of Philip Gill Design). Next we’ll be organizing all these details into a purchase order list so we can accurately calculate the cost. This work helps One Community’s mission of ecological resource allocation and reinforces our commitment to better living quality for all people.

Custom Murphy Bed Furniture – Click to Visit Page

Last but not least, Dave Walen (Architectural Drafter & Designer and owner of Dave Philip Walen Design) began putting the Straw Bale Village (Pod 2) updated details from last week into 3-D. Here are a few screenshots of this outstanding work.

Straw Bale Village Details – Click to Visit Page

DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

One Community is facilitating a global ecological resource allocation model 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 addition of the Outputs section of the Control Systems page is one component that really helps with better ecological resource allocation. You can see this new additions here, completing the foundations of this page that we will be a constantly developing tutorial and information resource for the monitoring, setup, maintenance, evolution, and data gathering systems of the Duplicable City Center and the Earthbag Village (Pod 1). Next we’ll add an FAQ, Summary, and Resources section.

Outputs section of the Control Systems Page – Click to Visit

HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS

One Community is facilitating a global ecological resource allocation model 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 welcomed The Community Planet Foundation to our team on tsÃ…«! If you aren’t already a member, we invite you to check out Community Planet’s page first using the link you see here, then come and connect with our page also using this link.

The Community Planet Foundation on TsÃ…« – Click to Visit Their Page

We also featured and created new social media imagery for our Love Lesson plan page, Remote Internet Setup page, Highest Good food page, creating utopia page, and our open source non-profit open source guide page for better ecological resource allocation. This work helps One Community’s mission of ecological resource allocation and reinforces our commitment to better living quality for all people. You can click the newly created images below to access these pages:

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

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

Throughout our design process we are open sourcing and free-sharing everything needed for construction and replication. This includes what we call “Highest Good” approaches to food, energy, housing, education, for-profit and non-profit economics design, social architecture, fulfilled living, stewardship practices and more. We are creating these resources for implementation as individual components or complete developments called teacher/demonstration hubs. These hubs will help launch additional hubs as awareness and knowledge grow. This work helps One Community’s mission of ecological resource allocation and reinforces our commitment to better living quality for all people.

BUILDING THE FIRST OF MANY

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

WHY ONE COMMUNITY IS CREATING THIS

The One Community self-replicating model is capable of creating a sustainable planet within 30 years. We will achieve this by establishing successful teacher/demonstration hubs on every continent. Villages include designs appropriate for each of the five main types of climates. They also include options for even the most challenged economies. These hubs will collaborate with one another, share ideas, resources, and work together as a network to heal the planet. They will also transform the global lifestyle to a more enjoyable, fulfilling, healthy, and sustainable one.

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

Even if we don’t achieve our ultimate goal of global transformation, a self-replicating teacher/demonstration model like this will take a relatively short period of time to positively affect millions while inspiring millions more.  For One Community residents (the Pioneer Team), the idea of creating and sharing the social and recreational experience with visitors is also fun, exciting, fulfilling, and an additional reason why we are creating this. This work helps One Community’s mission of ecological resource allocation and reinforces our commitment to better living quality for all people.

INSPIRING SUSTAINABILITY WITH OPEN SOURCE

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

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

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

COMPREHENSIVE SOLUTION TO HUMANITY’S NEEDS

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

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

GLOBALLY IMPLEMENTABLE REPLICATION MODEL

The more people that are inspired and desiring for themselves what it is that One Community creates, the more demand there will be for spreading the One Community model. This leads to the directing of financial resources and resourceful people where we believe they are needed most: the establishment of additional sustainable communities around the world. 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.

One Community is happy to welcome ReInhabiting The Village to our Highest Good Collaborators team!

Click to Visit ReInhabiting The Village’s New Facebook Page!

ReInhabiting The Village is a Multi-Media Community Resource Hub which includes a graphically rich printed Soft Cover Book, E-book, Functional Workbook, and an Online Resource Directory featuring people, projects and organizations who offer models, information, tools, and templates for holistic living and fostering community resilience.

After years of building a network of allies through festivals, leadership summits, collaborative projects, and community development, there exists a rich body of materials, models, and templates that have been produced, practiced and are now ready to be shared to support other communities to flourish from the experience and insight of our contributing authors.

CLICK HERE TO VISIT AND SUPPORT
REINHABITING THE VILLAGE’S CROWDFUNDING CAMPAIGN

They are curating over 40 innovative voices of a movement for this LIVING LIBRARY of wisdom, showcasing their particular passions and fields of expertise. This includes featuring Artists, Economists, Permaculture Experts, Facilitators, Educators, Visionaries, Natural Builders, Event Producers, Healers, Indigenous Elders and Thought Leaders, Ecologists, Technology Developers and Community Organizers.

WELCOME TO THE TEAM
REINHABITING THE VILLAGE!

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A more comprehensive and complete sustainability approach has the potential to create a sustainable planet for everyone. Open source sharing and developing all the necessary components of this for The Highest Good of All people and all life is One Community’s path to global transformation:

• 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 November 21st, 2014 edition (#90) of our weekly progress update detailing the previous week’s development and accomplishments:

One Community Weekly Progress Update #90

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

A MORE COMPREHENSIVE AND COMPLETE SUSTAINABILITY APPROACH INTRO @1:00

A MORE COMPREHENSIVE AND COMPLETE SUSTAINABILITY APPROACH: HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION @2:06

• Finished the final 50% of the lesson plan mindmap with the central theme of “Opposites.” (see below)
• Finished the first 50% of the lesson plan webpage with the central them of “Highest Good.” (see below)
• Behind the scenes we began researching the greatest minds in history for the Technology and Innovation Molecule

A MORE COMPREHENSIVE AND COMPLETE SUSTAINABILITY APPROACH: HIGHEST GOOD FOOD: @3:34

• Finished the large-scale gardening breakout Ulluco page (see below)
• Finished the large-scale gardening breakout Sweet Potato Page (see below)
• Finished the large-scale gardening breakout Wax Gourd Page (see below)

A MORE COMPREHENSIVE AND COMPLETE SUSTAINABILITY APPROACH: HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING: @4:44

• Further refined the calculations for heat retention in the central Tropical Atrium (see below)
• Moved the location of the water storage tank (see below)
• Finished creating all the custom icons for the crowdfunding campaign (see below)
• Finished down to the last 20-30% of the organizational process for the custom murphy bed furniture (see below)
• Dave Walen also made significant progress on the Straw Bale Village (Pod 2) (see below)

A MORE COMPREHENSIVE AND COMPLETE SUSTAINABILITY APPROACH: DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER: @6:23

• Completed addition of the Processing section of the Control Systems page (see below)

A MORE COMPREHENSIVE AND COMPLETE SUSTAINABILITY APPROACH: HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY: @7:39

• Welcomed Open Source Ecology to our team on tsÃ…«!
• Created new social media imagery and featured our Methodology Page (see below)
• Created new social media imagery and featured our Open Source page (see below)
• Created new social media imagery and featured our open source water-saving shower head resource page (see below)
• Created new social media imagery and featured our open source botanical garden page (see below)

A MORE COMPREHENSIVE AND COMPLETE SUSTAINABILITY APPROACH SUMMARY: @8:38

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A MORE COMPREHENSIVE AND COMPLETE SUSTAINABILITY APPROACH – HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

One Community is creating a more comprehensive and complete sustainability approach 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 final 50% of the lesson plan mindmap with the central theme of “Opposites” for a more comprehensive and complete sustainability approach. You can see it below. This finishes the final necessary piece of the “Opposites” lesson plan webpage also. This lesson plan is purposed for use by anyone, in any educational environment, working with any age or educational level, to teach any and all subjects within and using this central theme of “Opposites.”

Opposites Mindmap – Click to Visit Page

We also finished the first 50% of the lesson plan webpage with the central them of “Highest Good” for a more comprehensive and complete sustainability approach. You can see this here as an example of what all of the 9 completely finished lesson plans look like.

Highest Good of All Lesson Plan Page – Click to Visit

Behind the scenes we’ve also begun researching the greatest minds in history for the subject of Technology and Innovation Molecule.

A MORE COMPREHENSIVE AND COMPLETE SUSTAINABILITY APPROACH – HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

One Community is creating a more comprehensive and complete sustainability approach 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 three more complete breakout pages from the large-scale gardening page to create a more comprehensive and complete sustainability approach. These included the Ulluco page, the Sweet Potato Page, and the Wax Gourd Page. You can see all three pages below where you can click on the images to visit the complete pages with detailed plant descriptions, planting guidelines, cultural considerations, and more. These new pages load faster and also give us the space we’ll need to add recipes, gardening tips, harvesting and canning tips, and videos. Contact us if you have any great resources related to any of these plant species.

CLICK IMAGES FOR COMPLETE PAGES
Ulluco Breakout Page	Sweet Potatoes Breakout Page	Wax Gourd/Winter Melon Page

A MORE COMPREHENSIVE AND COMPLETE SUSTAINABILITY APPROACH – HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

One Community is creating a more comprehensive and complete sustainability approach 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 further refined the calculations for heat retention in the central Tropical Atrium recreation space that will house the Earthbag Village water storage and recycle the village used shower-water heat using a more comprehensive and complete sustainability approach. We also moved the location of the water storage tank as you can see in the two images here.

New Position for Tropical Atrium Watertank – Click to Visit Page

New Position for Tropical Atrium Watertank – Click to Visit Page

We additionally finished creating all the custom icons for the dome home crowdfunding campaign open source details pages for a more comprehensive and complete sustainability approach. You can see all this work here:

Icons for Crowdfunding Campaign – Click to Visit Page

We are also down to the last 20-30% of the organizational process for the custom murphy bed furniture for a more comprehensive and complete sustainability approach. Here you can see this immense and complex task continuing as we sort the final pieces into groups. This has also required a few design changes and updates behind the scenes to the source documents that will require us to also update the images on the site.

Custom Murphy Bed Furniture – Click to Visit Page

Dave Walen (Architectural Drafter & Designer and owner of Dave Philip Walen Design) also made significant progress on the Straw Bale Village (Pod 2) plumbing details and garden layout updates. You can see those here with new specifics added to the ponds and individual unit layouts also.

Straw Bale Village Models – Click to Visit Page

A MORE COMPREHENSIVE AND COMPLETE SUSTAINABILITY APPROACH – DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

One Community is creating a more comprehensive and complete sustainability approach 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 addition of the Processing section of the Control Systems page for a more comprehensive and complete sustainability approach. You can see these new additions here, bringing us to about 70% completion for this page. This page will be a constantly developing resource for creating a more comprehensive and complete sustainability approach through open source monitoring systems setup, maintenance, evolution, and data gathering and sharing starting with the Duplicable City Center and the Earthbag Village (Pod 1), and expanding as One Community expands.

Processing Section of Control Systems Page – Click to Visit

A MORE COMPREHENSIVE AND COMPLETE SUSTAINABILITY APPROACH – HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS

One Community is creating a more comprehensive and complete sustainability approach 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 welcomed Open Source Ecology to our team on tsÃ…«! If you aren’t already a member, we invite you to check out Open Source Ecology’s page first by clicking on the image below, then come and connect with our page also using this link:

Open Source Ecology on TsÃ…« – Click to Visit Page

In addition to this we also created new social media imagery and featured our Methodology Page for a more comprehensive and complete sustainability approach, which you can see here:

Methodology Page – Click to Visit

And our Open Source page, which you can see here:

Open Source Page – Click to Visit

We featured and did this for our open source water-saving shower head resource page with a more comprehensive and complete sustainability approach:

Shower Head Resource Page – Click to Visit

And our open source botanical garden page with a more comprehensive and complete sustainability approach:

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

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

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

BUILDING THE FIRST OF MANY

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

WHY ONE COMMUNITY IS CREATING THIS

The One Community self-replicating model is capable of creating a sustainable planet within 30 years. We will achieve this by establishing successful teacher/demonstration hubs on every continent. Villages include designs appropriate for each of the five main types of climates. They also include options for even the most challenged economies. These hubs will collaborate with one another, share ideas, resources, and work together as a network to heal the planet. They will also transform the global lifestyle to a more enjoyable, fulfilling, healthy, and sustainable one.

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

Even if we don’t achieve our ultimate goal of global transformation, a self-replicating teacher/demonstration model like this will take a relatively short period of time to positively affect millions while inspiring millions more.  For One Community residents (the Pioneer Team), the idea of creating and sharing the social and recreational experience with visitors is also fun, exciting, fulfilling, and an additional reason why we are creating this.

INSPIRING SUSTAINABILITY WITH OPEN SOURCE

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

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

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

COMPREHENSIVE SOLUTION TO HUMANITY’S NEEDS

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

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

A large enough team effort towards creating a better world for us all is guaranteed to succeed. One Community is building that team and creating open source tools, tutorials, and resources so anyone, anywhere, can participate in the way that they want to. We call this living and creating for The Highest Good of All and it is purposed to build the better-world-for-us-all team as fast as possible:

• 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 November 14th, 2014 edition (#89) of our weekly progress update detailing the previous week’s development and accomplishments:

Creating a Better World for Us All
One Community Weekly Progress Update #89

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

CREATING A BETTER WORLD FOR US ALL INTRO @1:00

CREATING A BETTER WORLD FOR US ALL – HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION @1:54

• Finished the second 25% of the “Opposites” mindmap – 50% done now (see below)
• Behind the scenes we finished 70% of the “Highest Good” lesson plan
• Behind the scenes we finished 50% of the “Recreation” lesson plan – 70% complete now
• Behind the scenes we finished the first 30% of image research for the “Creativity” lesson plan

CREATING A BETTER WORLD FOR US ALL – HIGHEST GOOD FOOD: @3:16

• Finished the large-scale gardening page breakout Turnips page (see below)
• Finished the large-scale gardening page breakout Oca page (see below)
• Finished the large-scale gardening page breakout Mashua page (see below)

CREATING A BETTER WORLD FOR US ALL – HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING: @4:24

• Continued calculations for heat retention in the central Tropical Atrium (see below)
• Behind the scenes we are 80% done with a dome home electrical page update
• Behind the scenes we finished another 20% the dome home plumbing content – now 90% done there
• Continued organizing all the parts for both of the custom murphy bed furniture (see below)

CREATING A BETTER WORLD FOR US ALL – DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER: @6:12

• Finished the “Inputs” section of the Control Systems page (see below)

CREATING A BETTER WORLD FOR US ALL – HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY: @7:28

• This week the core team joined tsÃ…«! (see below)

CREATING A BETTER WORLD FOR US ALL SUMMARY: @8:34

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

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CREATING A BETTER WORLD FOR US ALL – HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

One Community is creating a better world for us 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 second 25% of the lesson plan mindmap with the central theme of “Opposites.” You can see it below and visit the “Opposites” lesson plan webpage where the written part of the lesson plan is already done and ready for use by anyone, in any educational environment, working with any age or educational level, to teach any and all subjects within and using this central theme of “Opposites” for creating a better world for us all.

Opposites Mindmap – 50% Complete – Click to Visit Page

Behind the scenes we also finished 70% of the lesson plan outline with the central theme of “Highest Good” and another 50% of the image research for the lesson plan with the central theme of “Recreation and Relaxation” – bringing us to 70% complete there. Also behind the scenes, we finished the first 30% of image research with the lesson plan with the central theme of “Creativity.”

CREATING A BETTER WORLD FOR US ALL – HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

One Community is creating a better world for us 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 three more complete breakout pages from the large-scale gardening page that helps in creating a better world for us all. These included the Turnips page, the Oca page, and the Mashua page. You can see all three pages below and you can click them to visit the individual pages for all the specifics including plant descriptions, planting guidelines, cultural considerations, and more. These new pages load faster and also give us the space we’ll need to add recipes, gardening tips, harvesting and canning tips, and videos. Contact us if you have any great resources related to any of these plant species and help us in creating a better world for us all.

CLICK IMAGES FOR COMPLETE PAGES
Turnips Breakout Page	Oca Breakout Page	Mashua Breakout Page

CREATING A BETTER WORLD FOR US ALL – HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

One Community is creating a better world for us 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: Our Upcoming Crowdfunding Campaign
• Learn about the different village models: 7 Sustainable Village Models
• Visit the open source portals for the first two: Earthbag Village OS Hub | Straw Bale Village OS Hub

This last week the core team continued calculations for heat retention in the central Tropical Atrium recreation space that will house the Earthbag Village water storage and recycle the village used shower-water heat creating a better world for us all. The images here are projected heat transfer calculations through the walls at different projected times of year and at different temperatures.

Projected Heat Transfer Calculations through the Tropical Atrium Wall at Different Times of Year

Heat Transfer Calculations through the Tropical Atrium Wall at Different Temperatures – Click to Visit

This image is us working with a new software we hope will allow us to calculate the total thermal mass and manipulate all the variables of the center of this structure.

Beginnings of Total Thermal Mass Calculations for the Entire Central Earth Containment

Behind the scenes we are 80% done with a big update for the crowdfunding campaign open source dome home electrical page that includes necessary additions and changes in response to the open source dome home plumbing content. We’ve finished another 20% of this also – bringing us to 90% done there.

In addition to this, we continued organizing all the parts for both of the custom murphy bed furniture. Here you can see the additions of the top and bottom components of the main murphy bed wall, along with a couple closeup renders as we keep disassembling it virtually, organizing all the parts by size, and making necessary adjustments to non-standard-wood-size components for creating a better world for us all.

Custom Murphy Bed Furniture – Click to Visit Page

CREATING A BETTER WORLD FOR US ALL – DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

One Community is creating a better world for us 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: Read More

Replicable Highest Good creation has the potential to build a bridge between pragmatism and idealism and positively change the world for all of us. One Community is facilitating this process with open source approaches to all aspects of sustainable and Highest Good of All living:

• 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 November 7th, 2014 edition (#88) of our weekly progress update detailing the previous week’s development and accomplishments:

Replicable Highest Good Creation
One Community Weekly Progress Update #88

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

REPLICABLE HIGHEST GOOD CREATION INTRO @1:00

REPLICABLE HIGHEST GOOD CREATION – HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION @1:57

• Finished the first 25% of the lesson plan mindmap with the central theme of “Opposites” (see below)
• We also finished the final 50% of the complete “Opposites” lesson plan webpage (see below)
• Behind the scenes we finished image research for the “Movement” lesson plan
• Behind the scenes we finished 20% of the image research for the “Recreation” lesson plan

REPLICABLE HIGHEST GOOD CREATION – HIGHEST GOOD FOOD: @3:14

• Finished large-scale gardening breakout page for Melons (see below)
• Finished large-scale gardening breakout page for Parsnips (see below)
• Finished large-scale gardening breakout page for Parsley (see below)

REPLICABLE HIGHEST GOOD CREATION – HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING: @4:20

• Began working on village Tropic al Atrium water storage details (see below)
• Finished another 40% of the crowdfunding campaign details for the dome home plumbing (see below)
• Set up the first 10% of the upcoming open source plumbing design webpage (see below)
• Organized the custom murphy bed furniture end tables and bed bottom parts (see below)
• Scott Thomas and Team began working on the Earthbag Village shower and toilet domes (see below)

REPLICABLE HIGHEST GOOD CREATION – DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER: @6:00

• Finished adding the additional 25% of the new lighting plan details to the webpage (see below)
• Completed another 20% of the Control Systems page (30% done now – see below)

REPLICABLE HIGHEST GOOD CREATION – HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY: @7:27

• Updated and featured the For The Highest Good of All page (see below)

REPLICABLE HIGHEST GOOD CREATION SUMMARY: @8:02

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

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REPLICABLE HIGHEST GOOD CREATION – HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

One Community is facilitating replicable and Highest Good 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 first 25% of the lesson plan mindmap with the central theme of “Opposites” for the replicable highest good creation Here it is:

Opposites Mindmap – 25% Complete – Click to Visit Page

We also finished the final 50% of the complete “Opposites” lesson plan webpage. You can see that below. This open source lesson page can be used immediately by anyone in any educational environment, working with any age or educational level, to teach any and all subjects within and using the context of “Opposites” facilitating replicable highest good creation.

“Opposites” Lesson Plan Webpage – Click to Visit

Behind the scenes we also finished image research for the lesson plan with the central theme of “Movement” and the 20% we have completed of the lesson plan with the central theme of “Recreation” for replicable highest good creation.

REPLICABLE HIGHEST GOOD CREATION – HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

One Community is facilitating replicable and Highest Good 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 finished three more complete breakout pages from the large-scale gardening page. These included the Melons page, the Parsnips page, and the Parsley page. You can see all three pages below and you can click on the images to visit the complete pages for all the detailed plant descriptions, planting guidelines, cultural considerations, and more. These new pages load faster and also give us the space we’ll need to add recipes, gardening tips, harvesting and canning tips, and videos. Contact us if you have any great resources related to any of these plant species that helps in replicable highest good creation.

CLICK IMAGES FOR COMPLETE PAGES
Melons Breakout Page	Parsnips Breakout Page	Parsley Breakout Page

REPLICABLE HIGHEST GOOD CREATION – HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

One Community is facilitating replicable and Highest Good 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: 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 began working on the details for the central Tropical Atrium recreation space that will house the Earthbag Village water storage and recycle the village used shower-water heat. The four images you see below show the water reservoir and the beginning calculations and designs for how we’ll be insulating the below-ground aspects of the inside of this structure to turn the entire area into a giant thermal mass.

Central Tropical Atrium Evolving Water Storage and Heating Details – Click to Visit Open Source Hub

Behind the scenes we also finished another 40% of the crowdfunding campaign details for the open source dome home plumbing facilitating replicable highest good creation. We’re now 70% done there. We also set up the first 10% of the upcoming webpage you can see here:

Dome Home Plumbing Webpage – Click to Visit

In addition to this we continued organizing all the parts for both of the custom murphy bed furniture. Here you can see both end tables color coded and organized by size along with the bottom of the bed itself being organized the same way:

Replicable Highest Good Creation – Custom Murphy Bed Furniture Parts – Click to Visit Page

Last but not least, our newest consultant Scott Thomas and his Shadow Ridge Signature Architecture Program team began working on the Earthbag Village shower and toilet domes. Here are the initial bathroom concept images along with draft 1 of the initial communal shower design.

Earthbag Village Shower and Toilet Plan Concept CAD Evolutions 1.0 – Click to Visit Page

REPLICABLE HIGHEST GOOD CREATION – DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

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

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

This last week the core team finished the additional 25% of the lighting plan overview details for the Duplicable City Center lighting plan page facilitating replicable highest good creation. You can see those details here and click the image to visit the lighting plan page for additional pictures and other specifics. The goal of this lighting plan is to help us achieve LEED Platinum certification for this structure.

Replicable Highest Good Creation – Lighting Plan Overview Details – Click to Visit Page

We also completed another 20% of the Control Systems page. You can see these new additions below, bringing us to 30% completion of this page that will share the control and monitoring systems setup, maintenance, evolution, and data gathering and sharing covering water and electricity use for the Duplicable City Center and the Earthbag Village (Pod 1) that helps in facilitating replicable highest good creation:

Replicable Highest Good Creation – New Control Systems Page – Click to Visit

REPLICABLE HIGHEST GOOD CREATION – HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS

One Community is facilitating replicable and Highest Good 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 updated and featured our page that we feel is most specific to the idea of replicable Highest Good creation: our For The Highest Good of All page. Highest Good creation and thinking is our #1 value and this page discusses how we use this value in decision making and as a foundation for world change.

Replicable Highest Good Creation – For The Highest Good of All Page – Click to Visit

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

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

 

INVESTOR PAGES

OVERVIEW | LOCATION | FUNDING

GET INVOLVED

CONSULTANTS | WAYS ANYONE CAN HELP | MEMBERSHIP

CLICK HERE FOR ALL PAST UPDATES

WHAT ONE COMMUNITY IS CREATING

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

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

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

BUILDING THE FIRST OF MANY

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

WHY ONE COMMUNITY IS CREATING THIS

The One Community self-replicating model is capable of creating a sustainable planet within 30 years. We will achieve this by establishing successful teacher/demonstration hubs on every continent. Villages include designs appropriate for each of the five main types of climates. They also include options for even the most challenged economies. These hubs will collaborate with one another, share ideas, resources, and work together as a network to heal the planet. They will also transform the global lifestyle to a more enjoyable, fulfilling, healthy, and sustainable one.

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

Even if we don’t achieve our ultimate goal of global transformation, a self-replicating teacher/demonstration model like this will take a relatively short period of time to positively affect millions while inspiring millions more.  For One Community residents (the Pioneer Team), the idea of creating and sharing the social and recreational experience with visitors is also fun, exciting, fulfilling, and an additional reason why we are creating this.

WHY OPEN SOURCE

We are creating everything One Community does as open source and free-shared blueprints because we see this as the path to a new Golden Age of creativity, innovation, cooperation, and collaboration for all of humanity. Our model is a solution model that creates additional solution creating models enabling people to live and collaborate globally for The Highest Good of All. The easier we make everything we do, the faster we see the world transitioning.

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.