One Community is happy to welcome Scott Thomas and the Shadow Ridge Signature Architecture Program to the Design Team:

Scott Thomas – Instructor of Architectural Design Drafting and Author: Scott has been a secondary and postsecondary educator for over 22 years. He is the owner and principal building designer of Thomas Design Associates LLC and instructor of architectural design drafting for Shadow Ridge High School, Dysart Unified School District, in Surprise, Arizona. He is a member of the Goodheart-Wilcox Author Team and Co-author of Architecture: Residential Drafting and Design by Clois Kicklighter. Scott is a Master Certified Career and Technical Educator (MCCTE) with the Association for Skilled and Technical Sciences (ASTS), Director Emeritus for the American Design Drafting Association (ADDA), and has led three years of national champions in architectural drafting competitions at the SkillsUSA National Leadership and Skills Conference. As a a One Community consultant, Scott is coordinating the design work of lead drafters Lizz Layman and Joshua Alger working on both the Earthbag Village (Pod 1) and the Duplicable City Center.

WELCOME TO THE TEAM SCOTT,
LIZZ, AND JOSHUA!

Shadow Ridge Signature Architecture Program www.dysart.org/srhs

The Signature Architecture Program (SAP) at Shadow Ridge High School in Surprise, AZ is a four year Program of Architectural Study in Residential, Commercial, Structural Steel Detailing/Modeling, Civil, and GIS. SAP students can obtain college dual-credit through Glendale Community College (Maricopa Community College District) for 12 semester hours of college credit in Architectural Design Drafting. Numerous international corporations support the SAP as a member of the SAP International Corporate Business Partners (ICBP) such as Softplan Systems, Inc., Design Data Corp., Siemens Corp., ESRI Corp., Goodheart-Willcox Publisher, Inc., and Thomas Design Associates. The SAP is also the current 2014-2015 SkillsUSA National Champions (Gold Medal) in Architectural Design Drafting. The Shadow Ridge Architecture team led by Scott Thomas are collaborative partners with One Community working on the Earthbag Village (Pod 1) and the Duplicable City Center.

WELCOME TO THE TEAM SHADOW RIDGE!

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Humanity has the ability of creating the golden age of peace, harmony, stability, and prosperity. The clear path One Community sees to creating this Golden Age is through open source and replicable models for all aspect of sustainable and Highest Good 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 October 31st, 2014 edition (#87) of our weekly progress update detailing the previous week’s development and accomplishments:

Creating the Golden Age
One Community Weekly Progress Update #87

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

CREATING THE GOLDEN AGE INTRO @1:00

CREATING THE GOLDEN AGE – HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION @1:58

• Finished the first 50% of the lesson plan webpage with the central theme of “Opposites.” (see below)
• Added new expandability and application instructions to all our existing lesson plan pages (see below)

CREATING THE GOLDEN AGE – HIGHEST GOOD FOOD: @3:14

• Created large-scale gardening page breakout page for Potatoes
• Created large-scale gardening page breakout page for Squash
• Created large-scale gardening page breakout page for Peppers

CREATING THE GOLDEN AGE – HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING: @4:20

• Finished our new crowdfunding campaign header (see below)
• We also updated our crowdfunding campaign overview page images (see below)
• Finished another 15% of the dome home DIY plumbing instructional (now 30% complete)
• Scott Howard finished final edits to the open source plaster page (see below)

CREATING THE GOLDEN AGE – DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER: @5:36

• Added first 75% of LEED details to the Duplicable City Center lighting plan page (see below)
• Set up the first 10% of the Control Systems page (see below)

CREATING THE GOLDEN AGE – HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY: @6:55

• Completed 3rd rewrite and extensive content update of the Fulfilled Living page (see below)
• Created project-needs descriptions for colleges interested in helping (see below)
• Added GoodShop to our Internet Help Page and Ways Anyone Can Help Page (see below)

CREATING THE GOLDEN AGE SUMMARY: @8:09

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

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CREATING THE GOLDEN AGE – HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

One Community is creating the Golden Age 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 50% of the lesson plan webpage with the central theme of “Opposites.” You can see this first half of the lesson plan below for creating the golden age. When complete, this will be our 9th finished lesson plan built on these central themes that teach all subjects to all learning levels and ages. Visit our Lesson Plans for Life webpage for the other finished pages:

Creating the Golden Age – Opposites Lesson Plan 50% Complete – Click to Visit Page

We also added these disclaimers to all our existing lesson plan pages to help people understand how adaptable the lesson plans are to any environment and/or learning and design preference by either students or teachers which helps in creating the golden age.

Creating the Golden Age – Lesson Plan Disclaimers Added to All Lesson Plans

CREATING THE GOLDEN AGE – HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

One Community is creating the Golden Age 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 essential for creating the golden age. These included the Potatoes page, the Squash page, and the Peppers page. You can see all three pages here and you can click the individual 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
Potatoes Breakout Page	Squash Breakout Page	Peppers Breakout Page

CREATING THE GOLDEN AGE – HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

One Community is creating the Golden Age 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 finished our new crowdfunding campaign header that really clearly depicts what it is we’re creating and why we are creating the golden age. This header will be at the top of each of the 15 open source tutorial pages.

Creating the Golden Age – Crowdfunding Campaign Header – Click to Visit Page

In addition to this, we updated our crowdfunding campaign overview page with expandable pictures of what we’re intending for each of the three domes:

Crowdfunding Campaign Overview Page Updated with Expandable Pictures – Click to Visit

Behind the scenes we finished another 15% of the dome home DIY plumbing instructional, bringing us to 30% complete there.

Also, Scott Howard (Sustainable Building Expert and owner of Earthen Hand Natural Building) finished feedback and final edits to the natural plaster section of the open source plaster page and our team integrated those and shared that page for the first time. Here is a picture of the section Scott contributed to that page:

Creating the Golden Age – Final Edits to Open Source Plaster Page – Click to Visit

CREATING THE GOLDEN AGE – DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

One Community is creating the Golden Age through a Duplicable and Sustainable City Center that is LEED Platinum certified/Sustainable, can feed 200 people at a time, provide laundry for over 300 people, is beautiful, spacious, and saves resources, money, and space:

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

This last week the core team added the first 75% of the lighting plan overview details to the Duplicable City Center lighting plan page which is essential in creating the golden age. You can see those details here and visit the lighting page for additional pictures and other specifics related to our lighting plan purposed to contribute to LEED Platinum certification for this structure:

Lighting Plan Overview Details Added to the Duplicable City Center Lighting Plan Page – Click to Visit

We also set up the first 10% of the Control Systems page that will share complete 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).

Creating the Golden Age – Control Systems Page – 10% Complete – Click to Visit

CREATING THE GOLDEN AGE – HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS

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

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

This last week the core team completed our 3rd rewrite and extensive content update of the Fulfilled Living page that describes why we consider a fulfilled living model as absolutely essential to our global transformation model capable of creating a global Golden Age though building self-replicating teacher/demonstration communities, villages, and cities. Here is a screenshot of the updated page:

Creating the Golden Age – Extensive Content Update of the Fulfilled Living Page – Click to Visit

Behind the scenes we’ve also been in communication with several colleges interested in adding our project to the options available to their graduate students. Here are examples of the work we’ve done to assist with this by creating detailed outlines of how students can help us in creating the golden age. We’ve got one more of these to finish before we start really focusing on this source of help.

Creating the Golden Age – Project-Needs Descriptions for Colleges Interested in Helping

Last but not least, we added GoodShop options for helping raise money for One Community to our Internet Help Page and Ways Anyone Can Help Page and contribute towards creating the golden age. What you see here is the internet help page that also shares other ways people can help One Community with a time investment of anywhere from 30 seconds to 30 minutes.

GoodShop Options Added to our Internet Help Page and Ways Anyone Can Help 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

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.

One Community is ecologically addressing humanity’s foundations through self-sufficient and self-propagating teacher/demonstration communities, villages, and cities purposed to teach and share For The Highest Good of All approaches to all aspects of 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 the ecologically addressing humanity’s foundations movement as the first of many self-replicating teacher/demonstration communities, villages, and cities to be built around the world. This is the October 24th, 2014 edition (#86) of our weekly progress update detailing the previous week’s development and accomplishments:

Ecologically Addressing Humanity’s Foundations
One Community Weekly Progress Update #86

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

ECOLOGICALLY ADDRESSING HUMANITY’S FOUNDATIONS – INTRO @1:00

ECOLOGICALLY ADDRESSING HUMANITY’S FOUNDATIONS – HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION @1:57

• Finished the final 50% of the Love Lesson Plan mindmap (see below)
• Behind the scenes we finished the first half of image research for the Opposites Lesson Plan

ECOLOGICALLY ADDRESSING HUMANITY’S FOUNDATIONS – HIGHEST GOOD FOOD: @2:57

• Finished large-scale gardening breakout page for Peas (see below)
• Finished large-scale gardening breakout page for Tomatoes (see below)
• Finished large-scale gardening breakout page for Radishes (see below)

ECOLOGICALLY ADDRESSING HUMANITY’S FOUNDATIONS – HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING: @4:04

• Finished real-to-life 3-dome cluster layout and landscaping design and render (see below)
• Finished the final formatting and details for the dome home DIY electrical page (see below)
• Began lumber and parts organization for first dome home furniture design (see below)
• Added the Highest Good energy rollout discussion details for 400+ people (see below)
• Updated the two pairto images and details as we cut our energy costs by 30% (see below)
• Dave Walen made more Straw Bale Village (Pod 2) progress (see below)

ECOLOGICALLY ADDRESSING HUMANITY’S FOUNDATIONS = DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER: @6:20

• Added the cost analysis details to the hydronic setup details page (see below)
• Added a comprehensive FAQ section to the hydronic setup page (see below)
• Behind the scenes we finished lighting needs calculations and 1.0 design for LEED Platinum requirements

ECOLOGICALLY ADDRESSING HUMANITY’S FOUNDATIONS – HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY: @7:33

• We joined Goodshop and added them to our donations page (see below)
• Featured Goodshop as an Ethosolution
• Partnered with Goodshop as a Highest Good Collaborator

ECOLOGICALLY ADDRESSING HUMANITY’S FOUNDATIONS – SUMMARY: @8:35

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

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ECOLOGICALLY ADDRESSING HUMANITY’S FOUNDATIONS – HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

One Community is ecologically addressing humanity’s foundations 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 Love Lesson Plan mindmap that you can see here. This completes the Love Lesson Plan webpage and lesson that teaches all subjects to all ages in the context of the central theme of “Love”.

Ecologically Addressing Humanity’s Foundations – Completed Love Lesson Plan Mindmap

Behind the scenes we also finished the first half of image research for the Opposites Lesson Plan.

ECOLOGICALLY ADDRESSING HUMANITY’S FOUNDATIONS – HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

One Community is ecologically addressing humanity’s foundations 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 Peas page, the Tomatoes page, and the Radishes page. Click below 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
Peas Breakout Page	Tomatoes Breakout Page	Radishes Breakout Page

ECOLOGICALLY ADDRESSING HUMANITY’S FOUNDATIONS – HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

One Community is ecologically addressing humanity’s foundations 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 finished this real-to-life 3-dome cluster layout and landscaping render for the domes we’ll be building as part of the crowdfunding campaign. This is the first render showing the landscaping and placement of the 150 square foot dome between the two 200 square foot domes.

Real-to-Life 3 Dome Cluster Layout and Landscaping Render – Click to Visit Page

Related to this, we also finished the final formatting and additional details for the last 10% of the earthbag construction dome home energy infrastructure DIY instructional webpage! You can see that here and you can visit the link to this newly completed page for complete details and links to the crowdfunding campaign page with descriptions of all the other components we’ll be open sourcing too.

Earthbag Construction Dome-Home Electrical Systems Webpage – Click to Visit

We also started putting together the lumber and parts purchasing details for the first custom dome-home furniture design. You can see this here where we are sorting like pieces with like pieces to identify the most efficient lumber and parts purchasing plan. Details on this furniture are on the open source custom furniture page where you can see the other designs by Philip Gill that will also be for the complete earthbag village domes.

Lumber and Parts Purchasing Details for Custom Dome-Home Furniture Design – Click to Visit Page

In addition to this, we added the Highest Good energy rollout and phasing-in discussion details for off-grid sustaining of 400+ people in off-grid eco-villages.

Energy Rollout and Phasing-in Details for 400+ People – Click to Visit Page

And we updated the two pairto images and details with additional energy efficiency changes we made that have made it possible for us to cut our energy costs by 30%! This is the updated chart showing how much specific components of One Community will contribute to peak wattage needs:

Emergency Power PEAK Wattage Needs Assessment

This is the updated chart that shows how much specific components of One Community will contribute to total energy needs:

Emergency Power TOTAL Wattage Needs Assessment

The point of these two charts is to show that components like the heat pump and boiler draw the most power from the perspective of total daily needs because they are running consistently. Individual heaters and water heaters are the top two contributors to peak wattage (energy spikes) though because they draw a lot of power at one time. The general trend is still that those items high on one chart are also high on the other chart, but the details will vary and this can be extremely helpful to understand and consider in emergency power situations.

Dave Walen (Architectural Drafter & Designer and owner of Dave Philip Walen Design) also made significant progress on the next generation of the Straw Bale Village (Pod 2) designs. What you see here is his video of this progress:

Here is an updated CAD cross-section also:

Ecologically Addressing Humanity’s Foundations – Straw Bale Village CAD Cross-Section – Click to Visit

ECOLOGICALLY ADDRESSING HUMANITY’S FOUNDATIONS – DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

One Community is ecologically addressing humanity’s foundations through a Duplicable and Sustainable City Center that is LEED Platinum certified/Sustainable, can feed 200 people at a time, provide laundry for over 300 people, is beautiful, spacious, and saves resources, money, and space:

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

This last week the core team added the cost analysis details to the property-wide hydronic setup details page. You can see that here:

Ecologically Addressing Humanity’s Foundations – Hydronic Cost Analysis Chart – Click to Visit

We also added a comprehensive FAQ section to the hydronic setup page:

Ecologically Addressing Humanity’s Foundations – FAQ Section of Hydronic Setup Page – Click to Visit

Behind the scenes we finished calculating the specifics for our lighting needs so we can meet LEED Platinum requirements and laid out the first version of the complete lighting plan.

ECOLOGICALLY ADDRESSING HUMANITY’S FOUNDATIONS – HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS

One Community is ecologically addressing humanity’s foundations 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 joined Goodshop and Goodsearch. Now people can help us raise money just by surfing the web or shopping at your favorite stores when you signup and click through Goodshop. You will see they are now added to our donations page where clicking the link gives a person access to the 5000+ stores working with Goodshop, Goodshop discounts and coupons, and learning how Goodshop has raised over 11 million dollars for non-profits around the world.

In addition to joining Goodshop and search, we also featured Goodshop as an Ethosolution. You can visit the Goodshop Ethosolution page to learn the history of the program, other ways they are raising money for non-profits, and more. On top of all this, we’ve also partnered with Goodshop  and now list them on our Highest Good Collaborator’s page.

Here they are added to our donations page:

Ecologically Addressing Humanity’s Foundations – GoodSearch Added to our Website – Click to Visit

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

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GET INVOLVED

CONSULTANTS | WAYS ANYONE CAN HELP | MEMBERSHIP

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WHAT ONE COMMUNITY IS CREATING

One Community is creating a place to grow together and change the world together by ecologically addressing humanity’s foundations. 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.

ECOLOGICALLY ADDRESSING HUMANITY’S FOUNDATIONS – 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 by ecologically addressing humanity’s foundations. 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.

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

One Community is upgrading the human story through open source and free-shared sustainability elements that can be combined to build self-sufficient and self-propagating teacher/demonstration communities, villages, and cities purposed to create even more open source and free-shared sustainability elements:

• 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 October 17th, 2014 edition (#85) of our weekly progress update detailing the previous week’s development and accomplishments:

Upgrading the Human Story
One Community Weekly Progress Update #85

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

UPGRADING THE HUMAN STORY INTRO @1:00

UPGRADING THE HUMAN STORY – HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION @1:58

• Finished another 25% of the Love Lesson Plan mindmap (see below)
• Finished the final 50% of the Love Lesson Plan webpage (see below)
• Researched and added another 20 resources to the free online education resources page (see below)
• Behind the scenes we also finished the first 70% of the Movement Lesson Plan

UPGRADING THE HUMAN STORY – HIGHEST GOOD FOOD: @3:30

• Finished large-scale gardening breakout Alliums page (see below)
• Finished large-scale gardening breakout Lettuce page (see below)

UPGRADING THE HUMAN STORY – HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING: @4:29

• Finished another 15% of the dome home energy infrastructure instructional webpage (see below)
• Added the energy rollout and phasing-in details for 100-400 people to the open source energy hub (see below)
• Updated the open source custom furniture page with the new Murphy bed bed parts images we created (see below)

UPGRADING THE HUMAN STORY – DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER: @6:26

• Finished the final 50% of the property-wide hydronic setup details page (see below)

UPGRADING THE HUMAN STORY – HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY: @7:35

• Updated and featured the Foundations of Fulfillment page (see below)

UPGRADING THE HUMAN STORY SUMMARY: @8:09

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

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UPGRADING THE HUMAN STORY – HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

One Community is upgrading the human story 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 another 25% of the Love Lesson Plan mindmap that you can see here:

Upgrading the Human Story – Lesson Plan Mindmap for “Love” ” In Progress – Click to Visit Page

We also finished the rest of the Love Lesson Plan webpage. Even without the mindmap completed, anyone can now use this lesson plan page to teach all learning levels, pre-K through college, any subject, and all within the context of the central theme of Love! If you look at this and have suggestions for making it even better, contact us through the links on the page.

Upgrading the Human Story – Final Portion of Love Lesson Plan Webpage – Click to Visit

We also researched and added another 20 resources to the free online education resources page. This page, as you can see here, is now to our knowledge the most comprehensive list of free online resources in the world. With the free resources on this page a person of any age can learn virtually anything they want from math and science to how to fix things, write computer programs, and more.

Upgrading the Human Story – Free Online Education Resources Page – Click to Visit

Behind the scenes we also finished the first 50% of the Movement Lesson Plan.

UPGRADING THE HUMAN STORY – HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

One Community is upgrading the human story through Highest Good food that is more diverse, more nutritious, locally grown and sustainable, and part of our open source botanical garden model to support and share bio-diversity:

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

This last week the core team completed two more breakout pages from the large-scale gardening page. These included the Alliums page and all its details you see here plus the Lettuce page. Both with detailed descriptions, planting guidelines, cultural considerations, and this new format that loads faster and gives us the space we’ll need to add recipes, gardening tips, harvesting and canning tips, videos and more. Contact us if you have any great resources related to either of these plant species.

CLICK IMAGES FOR COMPLETE PAGES
Alliums Breakout Page – Click to Visit	Lettuce Breakout Page – Click to Visit

UPGRADING THE HUMAN STORY – HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

One Community is upgrading the human story 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 finished final formatting and additional details for another 15% of the earthbag construction dome home energy infrastructure instructional webpage component of the upcoming crowdfunding campaign. This brings us to 90% complete there. The images you see repeating are for the instructional videos we’ll be adding as part of the crowdfunding campaign to complete this as the most detailed and comprehensive dome-home electrical instructional available. Here’s the new content:

Upgrading the Human Story – Dome Home Instructional Page – Click to Visit

We also finished two layout designs for the 150 square-foot dome. You can see these two different layouts here. These layouts and the 150 square-foot dome design are purposed to maximize space use and affordability while providing a structure that would fall below the 150 square-foot permitting cutoff in many counties.

Upgrading the Human Story – 150 square-foot Dome Design Layout 1 – Click for Page

Upgrading the Human Story – 150 square-foot Dome Design Layout 2 – Click for Page

In addition to this, we added the energy rollout and phasing-in details for 100-400 people creating off-grid village energy infrastructure. You can see see this here and the rest of the phase-in details for 10-20 people and 20-50 people and 50-100 people are on the open source hub.

Upgrading the Human Story – Energy Rollout and Phasing-in Details for 100-400 People – Click to Visit

We also updated the open source custom furniture page with the now completed Murphy bed BED parts images that you can see here. This brings us to 100% complete with all the parts overview images and plans for this custom furniture design by Philip Gill for the complete earthbag village domes. We are now working on creating the parts and lumber purchasing list.

Murphy Bed BED Parts Images – Click Any Image for Furniture Page

DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

One Community is upgrading the human story 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 final 50% of the property-wide hydronic setup details page that you can see here. This covers all the details of setting up remote hot water heating systems for portable showers and the initial building teams for teacher/demonstration hubs with a short discussion of how the components will later be integrated into the Duplicable City Center and other permanent structures.

Upgrading the Human Story – Property-Wide Hydronic Setup Details Page – Click to Visit

UPGRADING THE HUMAN STORY – HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS

One Community is upgrading the human story 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 the Foundations of Fulfillment page that you see here. This page discusses the foundational emotional needs that drive human happiness and how the teacher/demonstration community, village, and city model is purposed to specifically meet all of these needs.

Upgrading the Human Story – Foundations of Fulfillment 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.

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.

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.

One Community is building an open source foundation for revolutionizing the sustainability industry through self-sufficient and self-propagating teacher/demonstration communities, villages, and cities living and creating for The Highest Good of All:

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

OUR MAIN OPEN SOURCE HUBS

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

One Community’s physical location will forward this movement as the first of many self-replicating teacher/demonstration communities, villages, and cities to be built around the world. This is the October 10th, 2014 edition (#84) of our weekly progress update detailing the previous week’s development and accomplishments:

Revolutionizing the Sustainability Industry
One Community Weekly Progress Update #84

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

REVOLUTIONIZING THE SUSTAINABILITY INDUSTRY INTRO @1:00

REVOLUTIONIZING THE SUSTAINABILITY INDUSTRY – HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION @2:01

• Finished the first 25% of the Love Lesson Plan mindmap (see below)
• Finished the first 5o% of the Love Lesson Plan webpage (see below)
• Finished the final 50% of the Signs Lesson Plan webpage (see below)
• Behind the scenes we finished another 20% of the Recreation lesson plan – now 70% done

REVOLUTIONIZING THE SUSTAINABILITY INDUSTRY – HIGHEST GOOD FOOD: @3:22

• Finished large-scale gardening breakout Corn page (see below)
• Finished large-scale gardening breakout Cucumbers page (see below)
• Finished large-scale gardening breakout Eggplants page (see below)

REVOLUTIONIZING THE SUSTAINABILITY INDUSTRY – HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING: @4:26

• Finished another 25% of the dome energy infrastructure instructional webpage (see below)
• Behind the scenes we’re now done with 15% of the plumbing instructional
• Added the energy rollout and phasing-in details for 50-100 people (see below)
• Completed peak wattage and total energy contributions assessments (see below)
• Dave Walen began a redesign of the Straw Bale Village (Pod 2) (see below)

REVOLUTIONIZING THE SUSTAINABILITY INDUSTRY – DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER: @6:31

• Completed the final Duplicable City Center 3-D video (see below)
• Finished the first 50% of the property-wide hydronic setup details page (see below)

REVOLUTIONIZING THE SUSTAINABILITY INDUSTRY – HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY: @7:59

• Updated and featured our World Change Strategy Overview page (see below)

REVOLUTIONIZING THE SUSTAINABILITY INDUSTRY SUMMARY: @8:36

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

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REVOLUTIONIZING THE SUSTAINABILITY INDUSTRY – HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

One Community is building the foundations for revolutionizing the sustainability industry 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 Love Lesson Plan behind the scenes, then we finished the first 25% of the related mind map, and we got the first 50% of the webpage created. You can see all of this work here:

Revolutionizing the Sustainability Industry – Love Mindmap and Lesson Plan in Progress – Click to Visit

We also finished the final 50% of the Signs Lesson Plan webpage teaching all subjects to all ages using the central theme of Signs and Symbols. This page is open source and usable right now in any educational environment. Here’s the new additions:

Revolutionizing the Sustainability IndustrySigns and Symbols Lesson Plan (Final 50%) – Click for Page

Behind the scenes we also finished another 20% of the lesson plan design with the central theme of “Recreation” bringing us to 70% done there.

REVOLUTIONIZING THE SUSTAINABILITY INDUSTRY – HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

One Community is building the foundations for revolutionizing the sustainability industry 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 Corn page, the Cucumber page, and the Eggplant page. All with detailed descriptions, planting guidelines, cultural considerations, and this new format that loads faster and gives us the space we’ll need to add recipes, gardening tips, harvesting and canning tips, videos and more. Contact us if you have any great resources related to either of these plant species. Here are snapshots of the three pages:

CLICK IMAGES FOR COMPLETE PAGES
Corn Breakout Page	Cucumber Breakout Page	Eggplant Breakout Page

REVOLUTIONIZING THE SUSTAINABILITY INDUSTRY – HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

One Community is building the foundations for revolutionizing the sustainability industry 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 finished final formatting and additional details for another 25% of the earthbag construction dome home energy infrastructure instructional webpage component of the upcoming crowdfunding campaign. This brings us to 75% complete here and, when we’re complete, this will be the most detailed and comprehensive dome-home electrical instructional available.

Earthbag Construction Dome Home Energy Infrastructure Instructional Webpage – Click to Visit Page

Behind the scenes we’re also now done with 15% of the plumbing instructional that will be equally as detailed.

In addition to this, we added the energy rollout and phasing-in details for 50-100 people creating off-grid village energy infrastructure. You can see see this here and the rest of the phase-in details for 10-20 people and 20-50 people are on the complete page:

Revolutionizing the Sustainability IndustryEnergy Rollout and Phasing-in Details for 50-100 People

We also completed an assessment of all components in the sustainable village models and their individual peak wattage contributions that you can see here:

Revolutionizing the Sustainability Industry – Emergency Power Peak Wattage Pairto

We combined this with this new assessment of the total energy contributions. All of this was to assist with our strategy in the event of a power emergency. If you want to read about it, complete explanations are in the new FAQ section of the Highest Good Energy page that can be reached directly by clicking on either image:

Revolutionizing the Sustainability Industry – Emergency Power Total Wattage Needs Assessment

Dave Walen (Architectural Drafter & Designer and owner of Dave Philip Walen Design) also began a redesign of the Straw Bale Village (Pod 2) to eliminate the rounded walls to make this village model significantly easier and more affordable to build. Here is this redesign:

Revolutionizing the Sustainability Industry – Straw Bale Village (Pod 2) Design Update in Progress

REVOLUTIONIZING THE SUSTAINABILITY INDUSTRY – DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

One Community is building the foundations for revolutionizing the sustainability industry 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 final Duplicable City Center 3-D video renders for revolutionizing the sustainability industry and wrapped up the video with last week’s still renders. Here is the complete video showing this structure in 3-D from start to finish:

We also finished the first 50% of the property-wide hydronic setup details page that you can see here. This covers setting up the hot water heating systems for portable showers and the initial building teams with a short discussion of how the components will later be integrated into the Duplicable City Center and other permanent structures.

Revolutionizing the Sustainability Industry – Hydronic Setup Details Page in Progress – Click to Visit

REVOLUTIONIZING THE SUSTAINABILITY INDUSTRY – HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS

One Community is building the foundations for revolutionizing the sustainability industry 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 World Change Strategy Overview page that is the simplest overview of what it is we are creating and why. It outlines our 4-phase strategy that we are implementing and how we see this as a path to a new era of cooperation, collaboration, innovation, creativity, sustainability, and increased peace and happiness for all of humanity. Here is a screenshot of part of the page, click it for the complete page:

Revolutionizing the Sustainability Industry – World Change Strategy Overview 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.

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.

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.

One Community is creating a model for self-replicating community-based sustainable infrastructure that is open source and 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 October 3rd, 2014 edition (#83) of our weekly progress update detailing the previous week’s development and accomplishments:

Community-based Sustainable Infrastructure
One Community Weekly Progress Update #83

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

COMMUNITY-BASED SUSTAINABLE INFRASTRUCTURE INTRO @1:00

COMMUNITY-BASED SUSTAINABLE INFRASTRUCTURE – HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION @1:59

• Finished the final 25% of the Signs Lesson Plan mindmap (see below)
• Finished the first 50% of the complete Signs Lesson Plan webpage (see below)
• Behind the scenes we also finished another 50% of lesson plan design with the central theme of “Love,” bringing us to 80% complete there

COMMUNITY-BASED SUSTAINABLE INFRASTRUCTURE – HIGHEST GOOD FOOD: @3:12

• Finished the large-scale gardening breakout page for beets (see below)
• Finished the large-scale gardening breakout page for celery (see below)

COMMUNITY-BASED SUSTAINABLE INFRASTRUCTURE – HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING: @4:12

• Finished all the images for the dome home energy infrastructure webpage (see below)
• Behind the scenes we began the plumbing instructional
• Finished the open source energy rollout and phasing-in details for 20-50 people (see below)
• Added a huge Frequently Asked Questions section to the COMMUNITY-BASED SUSTAINABLE INFRASTRUCTURE – Highest Good Energy page (see below)
• Finished the final 30% of the Murphy bed wall overview image creation (see below)

COMMUNITY-BASED SUSTAINABLE INFRASTRUCTURE – DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER: @5:54

• Finished walking-path and landscaping details and 6 renders (see below)
• Finished the first 20% of the property-wide hydronic setup details page

COMMUNITY-BASED SUSTAINABLE INFRASTRUCTURE – HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY: @7:10

• Updated and featured our Highest Good Economics page that you can see here detailing our strategies for combining a resource based economy with for-profit, non-profit, and entrepreneurial models (see below)

COMMUNITY-BASED SUSTAINABLE INFRASTRUCTURE SUMMARY: @7:45

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

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

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ONE COMMUNITY WEEKLY UPDATE DETAILS

COMMUNITY-BASED SUSTAINABLE INFRASTRUCTURE – HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

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

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

This last week the core team finished the final 25% of the Signs Lesson Plan mindmap and the first 50% of the complete lesson plan webpage. This page is designed to teach all subjects to any age using the central theme of “Signs and Symbology.” It is also purpose for indefinite expansion and evolution as part of the global collaborative. If you read this page and have ideas to add, use the “Suggestions” link on the page to send them to us and help us make it better.

Community-based Sustainable Infrastructure – Signs and Symbols: Mindmap and 50% Completed Page

Behind the scenes we also finished another 50% of lesson plan design with the central theme of “Love,” bringing us to 80% complete there.

COMMUNITY-BASED SUSTAINABLE INFRASTRUCTURE – HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

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

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

This last week the core team finished two more complete breakout pages from the large-scale gardening page. These included this beets page with all the featured beets and details you see below plus this celery page below. This new format is designed to load faster and give us the space to add recipes, gardening tips, harvesting and canning tips, videos and more. Contact us if you have any great resources related to either of these plant species.

Community-based Sustainable Infrastructure – New Beet and Celery Breakout Pages – Click Images to Visit

COMMUNITY-BASED SUSTAINABLE INFRASTRUCTURE – HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

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

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

This last week the core team finished all the images and descriptions you can see here for the open source earthbag construction dome home energy infrastructure instructional webpage component of the upcoming crowdfunding campaign. When we’re complete, this will be the most detailed and comprehensive dome-home electrical instructional available. Click the image below to see how the page is developing:

Earthbag Construction Dome Home Energy Infrastructure Instructional Webpage – Click for Page

Behind the scenes we’ve also begun the plumbing instructional that will be equally as detailed.

In addition to this, we added the energy rollout and phasing-in details through the “First Wave” village construction team of 20-50 people. We added these to the “Landing Party” details we forgot to share last week. You can see both of these here, detailing how to set up initial power, and then begin large-scale infrastructure implementation for a Highest Good and Global Stewardship self-replicating teacher/demonstration hub.

Community-based Sustainable Infrastructure – Energy Infrastructure Implementation Details

We also added a huge Frequently Answered Questions section to the Highest Good Energy page. Here it is:

Community-based Sustainable Infrastructure – Frequently Answered Questions section

Lastly, we also finished the final 30% of the Murphy bed wall, changing area, and storage component images that you can see here. This brings us to 100% complete with these parts overview images and plans for this custom furniture design by Philip Gill (Interior and Furniture Designer and Owner of Philip Gill Design) for the complete earthbag village domes:

Community-based Sustainable Infrastructure – Murphy Bed Wall, Changing Area, and Storage Images

COMMUNITY-BASED SUSTAINABLE INFRASTRUCTURE – DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

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

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

This last week the core team finished walking-path and landscaping details so we could create these 9 Duplicable City Center renders showing this structure and all its completed details. The inside of this structure is as detailed in 3-D as the outside and you can visit the open source hub for a complete video-build progression and walkthrough.

Community-based Sustainable Infrastructure – Duplicable City Center from All Angles – Click for Page

Behind the scenes, we also finished the first 20% of the property-wide hydronic setup details page that we’ll share next week.

COMMUNITY-BASED SUSTAINABLE INFRASTRUCTURE – HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS

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

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

This last week the core team updated and featured our Highest Good Economics page that you can see here detailing our strategies for combining a resource based economy with for-profit, non-profit, and entrepreneurial models:

Community-based Sustainable Infrastructure – Highest Good Economics 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)

 

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OVERVIEW | LOCATION | FUNDING

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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.

COMMUNITY-BASED SUSTAINABLE INFRASTRUCTURE – 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.

COMMUNITY-BASED SUSTAINABLE INFRASTRUCTURE 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 Community-based Sustainable Infrastructure in 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.

ONE COMMUNITY’S 4-PHASE STRATEGY

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

Phase I: Community-based Sustainable Infrastructure – Demonstrating a Better Way

We are designing One Community to demonstrate an experience of living that we believe most people will consider to be better because it will be more enjoyable and fulfilling. We also think most people will consider it better because it is made possible specifically through a foundation of sustainable sustainability and a philosophy that is for The Highest Good of All.

Phase II: Community-based Sustainable Infrastructure – Open Source Project-Launch Blueprinting

Everything we do we are open source project-launch blueprinting and free-sharing to make it as easy and affordable as possible to duplicate, adapt, and evolve in the manner that suits each individual and/or group’s needs. Free-sharing information like this is our aggressive-exposure engine and an aspect of One Community that will accelerate indefinitely as we continue to build our team, move onto the property, and continuously build and evolve everything that is One Community.

Phase III: Community-based Sustainable Infrastructure – Inviting the World to Participate

Everything we are open source project-launch blueprinting is designed to invite the world to participate by duplicating it as either individual components or complete teacher/demonstration communities, villages, and cities that will be able to be built almost anywhere in the world. Additionally, people can join One Community as members, consultants and/or partners, or use the suggestions links on our open source project-launch blueprinting hubs to help with the design, implementation, and evolution process. Scholarships, weekend learning and work crews, and tourism will be foundations of One Community once we have sufficient infrastructure in place to support these options.

Phase IV: Community-based Sustainable Infrastructure – Universal Appeal and Global Expansion

As One Community continues evolving and establishing ourselves, everything we create and promote will serve as the engine to inspire people to align with the concept of open source and sustainable living for The Highest Good of All. We are doing this to create mainstream appeal and our path to achieving this appeal is demonstrating a happier, more affordable, and ecologically friendly model of living that can be built anywhere in the world.

Open source project-launch blueprinting it all is how we believe the model will spread and, possibly most importantly, that it will predictably spread even faster in the areas where it is needed most because building restrictions, the cost of land, and materials costs are in most cases lower in these areas.

WHY OPEN SOURCE

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

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 replicate the purpose of community-based sustainable infrastructure within our open source blueprints: creating a model solution that creates additional solution-creating models.

One Community is facilitating complete global regeneration through open source and free-shared blueprints covering all aspects of sustainable living and creating for The Highest Good of All:

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

OUR MAIN OPEN SOURCE HUBS

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

One Community’s physical location will forward this movement as the first of many self-replicating teacher/demonstration communities, villages, and cities to be built around the world. This is the September 26th, 2014 edition (#82) of our weekly progress update detailing the previous week’s development and accomplishments:

Complete Global Regeneration
One Community Weekly Progress Update #82

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

COMPLETE GLOBAL REGENERATION INTRO @1:00

COMPLETE GLOBAL REGENERATION – HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION @1:58

• Finished another 25% of the Signs Lesson Plan mindmap – 75% done now (see below)
• Created the foundations of the 30+ other lesson plan pages (see below)
• Behind the scenes we also finished a rewrite of the Signs Lesson Plan
• Behind the scenes we also finished the first 10% of lesson plan design with the central theme of “Love”

COMPLETE GLOBAL REGENERATION – HIGHEST GOOD FOOD: @3:20

• Finished Carrot breakout page (see below)
• Finished Cole Crops breakout page (see below)

COMPLETE GLOBAL REGENERATION -HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING: @4:13

• Added shelving, lights, and other details to laundry, bathroom, and kitchen dome design (see below)
• Began earthbag construction dome home energy infrastructure webpage (see below)
• Adding the energy rollout and phasing-in details for the village construction team “landing party” (see below)
• Finished another 30% of the Murphy bed wall, changing area, and storage component images  (see below)

COMPLETE GLOBAL REGENERATION -DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER: @5:47

• Completed the final 3-D updates (see below)
• Behind the scenes, finished the rest of the property-wide hydronic setup details (see below)

COMPLETE GLOBAL REGENERATION -HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY: @7:02

• Updated and featured our open source conflict resolution policy and process (see below)

COMPLETE GLOBAL REGENERATION SUMMARY: @7:35

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

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

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COMPLETE GLOBAL REGENERATION – HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

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

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

This last week the core team finished another 25% of the Signs Lesson Plan mindmap which you can see below. This mindmap and the lesson plan that goes with it teaches all subjects to all learning levels in the context of “signs and symbolism.”

Complete Global Regeneration – Signs and Symbols Mindmap – Now 75% Complete

We also created the foundations of the 30+ other lesson plan pages that you can see linked to here. The general formatting for all these pages is now complete on the site so that we can more easily input the content as we finish it.

Complete Global Regeneration – Finished Setting Up All Lesson Plan Pages – Click to Visit

Behind the scenes we also finished a rewrite of the Signs Lesson Plan and the first 10% of the lesson plan design with the central theme of “Love.”

COMPLETE GLOBAL REGENERATION –  HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

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

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

This last week the core team finished two more complete breakout pages from the large-scale gardening page. These included the Carrot page with all the featured carrots and details you see here plus the Cole Crops page. This new format is designed to load faster and give us the space to add recipes, gardening tips, harvesting and canning tips, videos and more.

New Carrot and Cole Crops Breakout Pages – Click Images to Visit their Respective Pages

COMPLETE GLOBAL REGENERATION –  HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

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

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

This week the core team finished adding shelving, lights, and other details to the upcoming crowdfunding campaign laundry, bathroom, and kitchen dome:

Complete Global Regeneration – Laundry, Bathroom, and Kitchen Dome Progress – Click for Page

We also finished enough of the electrical planning specifics for this campaign to begin putting together the beginnings of the earthbag construction dome home electrical infrastructure webpage that you can see here.

Complete Global Regeneration – Electrical Planning Specifics Begun – Click to Visit Page

We also finished adding the energy rollout and phasing-in details for the “landing party” for a village construction team. From a complete global regeneration standpoint, these added details cover an initial team of 10-20 people to land anywhere in the world, set up power, and prepare to build a Highest Good  and Global Stewardship self-replicating teacher/demonstration hub.

Complete Global Regeneration – Energy Rollout and Phasing-in Details – Click to Visit Page

And we also finished another 30% of the Murphy bed wall, changing area, and storage component images that you can click the icons below to see. This brings us to 70% complete with these parts overview images and plans for this custom furniture design by Philip Gill (Interior and Furniture Designer and Owner of Philip Gill Design) for the complete earthbag village domes.

Complete Global Regeneration – Next-step Murphy Bed Images – Click to Visit Page

COMPLETE GLOBAL REGENERATION – DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

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

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

This last week the core team completed another long series of 3-D design updates including swapping doors, adding railings and the AC units, extending the storage areas, and adding trees.

Complete Global Regeneration – Duplicable City Center 3-D Design Updates – Click to Visit Page

Behind the scenes, we also finished the rest of the property-wide hydronic setup details that you can see here. We’re now ready to start building these onto the site.

Complete Global Regeneration – Property-Wide Hydronic Setup Google Doc

COMPLETE GLOBAL REGENERATION – HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS

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

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

This last week the core team updated and featured our open source conflict resolution policy and process that you can see here. This conflict resolution process works in conjunction with One Community’s consensus trainings, feedback format, and conscious and conscientious language skills components.

Complete Global Regeneration – Conflict Resolution Process – Click to Visit Page

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.

ONE COMMUNITY’S 4-PHASE STRATEGY

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

Phase I: Demonstrating a Better Way

We are designing One Community to demonstrate an experience of living that we believe most people will consider to be better because it will be more enjoyable and fulfilling. We also think most people will consider it better because it is made possible specifically through a foundation of sustainable sustainability and a philosophy that is for The Highest Good of All.

Phase II: Open Source Project-Launch Blueprinting

Everything we do we are open source project-launch blueprinting and free-sharing to make it as easy and affordable as possible to duplicate, adapt, and evolve in the manner that suits each individual and/or group’s needs. Free-sharing information like this is our aggressive-exposure engine and an aspect of One Community that will accelerate indefinitely as we continue to build our team, move onto the property, and continuously build and evolve everything that is One Community.

Phase III: Inviting the World to Participate

Everything we are open source project-launch blueprinting is designed to invite the world to participate by duplicating it as either individual components or complete teacher/demonstration communities, villages, and cities that will be able to be built almost anywhere in the world. Additionally, people can join One Community as members, consultants and/or partners, or use the suggestions links on our open source project-launch blueprinting hubs to help with the design, implementation, and evolution process. Scholarships, weekend learning and work crews, and tourism will be foundations of One Community once we have sufficient infrastructure in place to support these options.

Phase IV: Universal Appeal and Global Expansion

As One Community continues evolving and establishing ourselves, everything we create and promote will serve as the engine to inspire people to align with the concept of open source and sustainable living for The Highest Good of All. We are doing this to create mainstream appeal and our path to achieving this appeal is demonstrating a happier, more affordable, and ecologically friendly model of living that can be built anywhere in the world.

Open source project-launch blueprinting it all is how we believe the model will spread and, possibly most importantly, that it will predictably spread even faster in the areas where it is needed most because building restrictions, the cost of land, and materials costs are in most cases lower in these areas.

WHY OPEN SOURCE

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

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

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

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

SUMMARY

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

One Community is building a Highest Good Society model for creating positive and permanent global transformation 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 September 19th, 2014 edition (#81) of our weekly progress update detailing the previous week’s development and accomplishments:

Building a Highest Good Society Model
One Community Weekly Progress Update #81

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

BUILDING A HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY MODEL INTRO @1:00

BUILDING A HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY MODEL – HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION @1:40

• Finished another 25% of the Signs Lesson Plan mindmap (see below)
• Researched and added another 40 resources to our free online education resources page (see below)
• Behind the scenes we finished another 30% of the lesson plan design with the central theme of “Recreation”
• Behind the scenes we finished the first 15% of the lesson plan design with the central theme of “Energy”

BUILDING A HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY MODEL – HIGHEST GOOD FOOD: @3:04

• Finished our first large-scale gardening details page: beans (see below)

BUILDING A HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY MODEL – HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING: @3:55

• Finished redesign 3.0 for the crowdfunding campaign laundry, bathroom, and kitchen dome (see below)
• Finished first 20% of the redesign and updating details on the Highest Good energy page (see below)
• Behind the scenes, now 95% done with the final electrical details needed for the dome home crowdfunding campaign do-it-yourself page we’ll build over the next few weeks
• Finished the first 40% of the Murphy bed wall, changing area, and storage component image (see below)
• Scott Howard helped us update and add pictures to the open source plaster page (see below)

BUILDING A HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY MODEL – DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER: @5:39

• James Nance finished version 3.0 of our exhaust and venting details (see below)
• Karl Harris finished the elevations in CAD and updated the 3rd floor storage areas (see below)

BUILDING A HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY MODEL – HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY: @6:48

• Updated, featured, and added to the Fulfilled Living page (see below)

BUILDING A HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY MODEL SUMMARY: @7:39

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

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BUILDING A HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY MODEL –  HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

One Community is building a Highest Good society 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 another 25% of the Signs Lesson Plan mindmap which you can see here. The lesson plan that goes with this mindmap teaches all subjects to all learning levels in the context of “signs and symbolism”:

Building a Highest Good Society Model – Signs and Symbols Mindmap in Progress – Click to Visit

We also researched and added another 40 resources to our free online education resources page and then we reorganized the page into different sections to make it easier to use. To our knowledge, we now have the most comprehensive online free education resource available:

Building a Highest Good Society Model – Updated Free Education Resource Page – Click to Visit

Behind the scenes we also finished another 30% of the lesson plan design with the central theme of “Recreation” – bringing us to 50% total completion there.

We additionally finished the first 15 % of the lesson plan design with the central theme of “Energy”.

BUILDING A HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY MODEL –  HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

One Community is building a Highest Good society 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 our first complete breakout page from the large-scale gardening page. This page covers beans and the new format is designed to load faster and give us the space to add recipes, gardening tips, harvesting and canning tips, videos and more!

Building a Highest Good Society Model – New Beans Breakout Page – Click to Visit

BUILDING A HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY MODEL – HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

One Community is building a Highest Good society 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 the different village models: 7 Sustainable Village Models
• Visit the open source portals for the first two: Earthbag Village OS Hub | Straw Bale Village OS Hub

This last week the core team finished another redesign for the upcoming crowdfunding campaign laundry, bathroom, and kitchen dome. This newest design moved everything so we can put the electrical and plumbing in the central wall and is very close to what we believe will be the final design:

Laundry, Bathroom, and Kitchen Dome Redesign ” Click for Crowdfunding Page

We also finished the first 20% of the redesign of the complete energy rollout and phasing-in plan for all of One Community. This begins a total redesign of the Highest Good energy open source hub to share the specifics of setting up and phasing in off-grid energy infrastructure for 20 people all the way up to 400+ people:

Building a Highest Good Society Model – New Format for the Highest Good Energy Page – Click to Visit

Behind the scenes, we’re now also 95% done with the final electrical details needed for the dome home crowdfunding campaign do-it-yourself page we’ll build over the next few weeks.

We also finished the first 40% of the Murphy bed wall, changing area, and storage component image. This image is the parts overview image and introduction to the construction plans for this custom furniture design by Philip Gill (Interior and Furniture Designer and Owner of Philip Gill Design) for the complete earthbag village domes:

Building a Highest Good Society Model – New Murphy Bed Main Wall Image – Click to Visit Page

Last but not least, working with Scott Howard (Sustainable Building Expert and owner of Earthen Hand Natural Building), we updated all the information and added all the beautiful pictures you see here for the open source plaster page. This page is a fantastic open source resource covering natural and traditional methods of weather proofing structures:

Building a Highest Good Society Model – Updated Eco-Plaster Page – Click to Visit

BUILDING A HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY MODEL – DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

One Community is building a Highest Good society 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 week James Nance (Mechanical Engineer and Project Manager with P2S Engineering) finished version 3.0 of our exhaust and venting details that you can see here:

Building a Highest Good Society Model – New Exhaust and Venting Details – Click for Main Hub

Karl Harris (Architect Drafter, Designer, and founder of Harris Design & Technology Services) also added stairs into the 2nd floor in north elevation, added the corridor, walls, and elevator stairs on the 3rd floor in the west elevation. Karl also finished his CAD updates with final 3rd floor wall fixes to increase available storage. Here you can see the updated north elevation on the left and the redesigned 3rd floor on the right:

Building a Highest Good Society Model – Final Duplicable City Center CAD Updates

BUILDING A HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY MODEL – HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS

One Community is building a Highest Good society 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 updated, featured, and added the pie chart you see here to the Fulfilled Living page. This chart shows how the average person spends their life right now and the updates to the page explain how this relates to One Community and our approach to global transformation:

New Image Covering the Average Person’s Life Right Now – Click for the Fulfilled Living Page

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

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

 

INVESTOR PAGES

OVERVIEW | LOCATION | FUNDING

GET INVOLVED

CONSULTANTS | WAYS ANYONE CAN HELP | MEMBERSHIP

CLICK HERE FOR ALL PAST UPDATES

WHAT ONE COMMUNITY IS CREATING

One Community is creating a place to grow together and change the world together. 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.

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.

One Community is purposed to forward regenerative human progress through open source models covering every aspect of sustainable living and creating for The Highest Good of All:

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

OUR MAIN OPEN SOURCE HUBS

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

One Community’s physical location will forward this movement as the first of many self-replicating teacher/demonstration communities, villages, and cities to be built around the world. This is the September 12th, 2014 edition (#80) of our weekly progress update detailing the previous week’s development and accomplishments:

Regenerative Human Progress
One Community Weekly Progress Update #80

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

REGENERATIVE HUMAN PROGRESS  INTRO @1:00

REGENERATIVE HUMAN PROGRESS – HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION @1:37

• Finished the first 25% of the Signs Lesson Plan mindmap (see below)
• Finished the final 60% of the Harmony Lesson Plan webpage (see below)
• Behind the scenes (BTS) we also finished 30% of the lesson plan design with the central theme of “Recreation”

REGENERATIVE HUMAN PROGRESS – HIGHEST GOOD FOOD: @2:57

• Featured 6 new Asparagus on the large-scale gardening page (see below)

REGENERATIVE HUMAN PROGRESS – HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING: @3:52

• Finished the final 30% of the earthbag footers, foundation, and flooring tutorial page (see below)
• BTS finished another 70% of the electrical details page for the crowdfunding campaign– 80% done
• Updated our main crowdfunding campaign page with an outline of all the pages to come (see below)
• Switched the laundry, bathroom, and kitchen dome to 200 sq. ft. and created two designs (see below)
• Philip Gill helped us finish the redesign of the bed portion of the Murphy Bed custom furniture design (see below)

REGENERATIVE HUMAN PROGRESS – DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER: @5:50

• Updated the complete Duplicable City Center 3-D Sketchup file to match the CAD floor plan (see below)
• Finished the first 20% of the property-wide hydronic setup details (see below)
• Assessed long-term energy storage options (see below)
• James Nance finished 50% of the laundry heat recovery research (see below)

REGENERATIVE HUMAN PROGRESS – HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY: @7:52

• Updated and simplified One Community’s Policies and Procedures (see below)

REGENERATIVE HUMAN PROGRESS SUMMARY: @8:56

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

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REGENERATIVE HUMAN PROGRESS HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

One Community is forwarding regenerative human progress 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 Signs Lesson Plan mindmap which you can see here. The lesson plan for this is complete behind the scenes and will teach all subjects to all learning levels in the context of “signs and symbolism.”

Regenerative Human Progress – Signs and Symbols Mindmap – 25% Complete

We also finished the final 60% of the Harmony Lesson Plan webpage. You can see the new additions here and click the image for the complete page:

Regenerative Human Progress – Harmony Lesson Plan Webpage – Click to Visit Complete Page

Behind the scenes we also finished 30% of the lesson plan design with the central theme of “Recreation.”

REGENERATIVE HUMAN PROGRESS – HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

One Community is forwarding regenerative human progress through Highest Good food that is more diverse, more nutritious, locally grown and sustainable, and part of our open source botanical garden model to support and share bio-diversity:

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

This last week the core team completed adding the 6 featured Asparagus you see here to the large-scale gardening page. Visit the complete page for purchasing details, cultural considerations, and planting guidelines for these and over 400 other food plants.

Regenerative Human Progress – Asparagus Diversity Details – Click to Visit Page

REGENERATIVE HUMAN PROGRESS – HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

One Community is forwarding regenerative human progress through Highest Good housing that is artistic and beautiful, more affordable, more space efficient, lasts longer, DIY buildable, and constructed with healthy and sustainable materials:

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

This last week the core team finished the final 30% of the earthbag construction footers, foundation, and flooring tutorial page you see below. This is all part of preparation for our upcoming crowdfunding campaign and the first fully outlined and completed example with video placeholders showing the comprehensiveness and detail we are committed to providing with our open source creative process.

Earthbag Construction Tutorial Page – Click to Visit Complete Page

Related to this and behind the scenes, we’ve also finished another 70% of the electrical details page that will eventually look just like the page above. We are now 80% done there.

And we updated our main crowdfunding campaign page with an outline of all the other pages to come:

New Outline for Crowdfunding Campaign Page – Click to Visit

We also switched the crowdfunding campaign laundry, bathroom, and kitchen dome from the 150 square foot dome to one of the 200 square foot domes and created the two layouts you see developing here:

Crowdfunding Campaign Dome Layouts – Click to Learn More, Regenerative Human Progress

Lastly, Philip Gill (Interior and Furniture Designer and Owner of Philip Gill Design) finished a redesign of the bed portion of the Murphy bed dome-home furniture design. We mis-reported last week that we were done with all of the Murphy Bed measurements and parts and we still had this one that needed to be redone due to an error we discovered. After Philip fixed the error, we then redid all the measurements and individual parts pictures. Here is a collage of some of these:

Murphy Bed Dome-Home Furniture Design – Click to Visit Page, Regenerative Human Progress

REGENERATIVE HUMAN PROGRESS – DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

One Community is forwarding regenerative human progress through a Duplicable and Sustainable City Center that is LEED Platinum certified/Sustainable, can feed 200 people at a time, provide laundry for over 300 people, is beautiful, spacious, and saves resources, money, and space:

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

This last week the core team updated the complete Duplicable City Center 3-D Sketchup file to match the CAD floor plan that was recently updated compliments of Karl Harris (Architect Drafter, Designer, and founder of Harris Design & Technology Services). This meant adding the boiler room and updating all four floors surrounding the elevator that needed to be expanded.

Duplicable City Center 3-D in Sketchup – Click to Visit, Regenerative Human Progress

We also finished the first 20% of the property-wide hydronic setup details and did another complete overhaul on the energy plan phase-in process starting with 20 and working to 400+ people. Here is a picture of our hydronic setup googledoc in progress:

Hydronic Setup Google Doc – Click for Duplicable City Center Page

Evolving the energy details behind the scenes included an assessment of energy storage options showing the relationship of time needing to store energy (on the left) to kWh needing to be stored to make different options viable. For our first 400 people, it appears batteries remain our best bet since we will not need to store sufficient energy to make one of the less conventional energy storage methods more affordable or sustainable than batteries:

Assessment of Energy Storage Options – Click to Visit, Regenerative Human Progress

Behind the scenes, James Nance (Mechanical Engineer and Project Manager with P2S Engineering) finished about 50% of the work and research needed to see if integrating a heat recovery unit into the One Community eco-laundry dryer exhaust will make sense. This is a picture of one of one of the fan components we’re evaluating as part of that possible system.

Eco-Laundry Heat Recovery Research – Click to Visit the Page, Regenerative Human Progress

REGENERATIVE HUMAN PROGRESS – HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS

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

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

This last week the core team completely updated and simplified our Policies and Procedures in relation to accountability. This is after two weeks of team discussion and adaptation reflecting on over a year and a half of experience with the current system. The update included increasing the minimum weekly tangible contribution for Pioneers from 4 hours to 5 and streamlining and simplifying our accountability and consequences process for not contributing the minimum time and/or missing mandatory weekly team calls. Here is a screenshot of the updated page:

Policies and Procedures 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.

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.

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.

One Community is developing sustainable, modifiable, and adaptable community building models 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 September 5th, 2014 edition (#79) of our weekly progress update detailing the previous week’s development and accomplishments:

Sustainable, Modifiable, and Adaptable Community Building
One Community Weekly Progress Update #79

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

SUSTAINABLE, MODIFIABLE, AND ADAPTABLE COMMUNITY BUILDING INTRO @1:00

SUSTAINABLE, MODIFIABLE, AND ADAPTABLE COMMUNITY BUILDING – HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION @1:48

• Finished another 30% of the Harmony Lesson Plan webpage (see below)
• Researched and added more resources to our open source and free-shared on-line education resources archive (see below)
• Created a web design tutorial for those interested in helping us with the Lesson Plans for Life

SUSTAINABLE, MODIFIABLE, AND ADAPTABLE COMMUNITY BUILDING – HIGHEST GOOD FOOD: @3:35

• Adding the diversity details to the Bitter melon section of the large-scale gardening page (see below)
• Added Achocha, also known as the “Bolivian Cucumber,” to the large-scale gardening page (see below)

SUSTAINABLE, MODIFIABLE, AND ADAPTABLE COMMUNITY BUILDING – HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING: @4:24

• Completed another 30% of the earthbag construction footers, foundation, and flooring tutorial page (see below)
• Behind the scenes, we finished the tools and initial outline of the electrical details page (now 10% done)
• Behind the scenes, we completed another 15% of the total energy infrastructure rollout details (now 75% done)
• Finished the measurements and parts details for the rest of the Murphy bed dome-home furniture design (see below)

SUSTAINABLE, MODIFIABLE, AND ADAPTABLE COMMUNITY BUILDING – DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER: @6:17

• Completed an additional 30 seconds of the Duplicable City Center 3-D video (see below)
• Updated the complete Duplicable City Center open source hub (see below)
• Behind the scenes: completing another 10% of the control systems research (90% total complete)

SUSTAINABLE, MODIFIABLE, AND ADAPTABLE COMMUNITY BUILDING – HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY: @8:20

• Rewrote our Welcome to the Team page (see below)

SUSTAINABLE, MODIFIABLE, AND ADAPTABLE COMMUNITY BUILDING SUMMARY: @9:28

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

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SUSTAINABLE, MODIFIABLE, AND ADAPTABLE COMMUNITY BUILDING HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

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

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

This last week the core team finished another 30% of the Harmony Lesson Plan webpage, bringing us to 40% complete there:

Harmony Lesson Plan Webpage – 30% Complete – Click to Visit

We also researched and added another huge group of resources to our open source and free-shared on-line education resources archive (now containing nearly 100 resources) and including the graphic below that we feel really does a beautiful job of describing why One Community is creating open source lesson plans and all the other all-ages all-subjects components of the Highest Good Education program:

Why Homeschooling is a Good Idea – Click for Educational Resources

Behind the scenes we also created a web-design tutorial for those interested in helping us with the Lesson Plans for Life components.

SUSTAINABLE, MODIFIABLE, ADAPTABLE COMMUNITY BUILDING HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

One Community is developing sustainable, modifiable, and adaptable community building through Highest Good food that is more diverse, more nutritious, locally grown and sustainable, and part of our open source botanical garden model to support and share bio-diversity:

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

This last week the core team finished adding the diversity details to the Bitter melon section of the large-scale gardening page where we featured the 4 you see here along with purchasing details, cultural considerations, and planting guidelines:

Bitter Melon Diversity Details – Click to Visit Page

We also added the ah-cha-cha Achocha, also known as the “Bolivian Cucumber,” to the site:

Achocha Diversity Details – Click to Visit Page

SUSTAINABLE, MODIFITABLE, AND ADAPTABLE COMMUNITY BUILDING HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

One Community is developing sustainable, modifiable, and adaptable community building through Highest Good housing that is artistic and beautiful, more affordable, more space efficient, lasts longer, DIY buildable, and constructed with healthy and sustainable materials:

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

This last week the core team completed another 30% of the earthbag construction footers, foundation, and flooring tutorial page you see below. This brings us to about 70% of the way complete with this page. The tool section is done, excavation section is done, the footer section is done, the foundation section is done, and now all that remains is final editing and picture and video additions to the flooring and FAQ sections. This is all part of our developing crowdfunding campaign and the world image you see repeating is where we’ll be adding extensive tutorial videos as part of that campaign:

Earthbag Construction Footers, Foundation, and Flooring Tutorial Page – Click to Visit

Related to this and behind the scenes, we’ve also finished the tools and initial outline of the electrical details page that will eventually look just like the one above. That page is now 10% done.

Also behind the scenes, we completed another 15% of the total energy infrastructure rollout details for off-grid community creation for 50-400+ people, bringing us to 75% complete there.

And we finished the measurements and parts details for the rest of the Murphy bed dome-home furniture design. The picture here is from our GoogleDocs in-progress. It is truly just a tiny snapshot and fraction of the actual document which is HUGE… taking the custom furniture designs by Philip Gill Â (Interior and Furniture Designer and Owner of Philip Gill Design) for the earthbag village domes and dome home crowdfunding campaign and preparing them all for complete do-it-yourself building and assembly instructions:

Details Complete for Murphy Bed Dome-Home Furniture Design – Click to Visit Page

SUSTAINABLE, MODIFIABLE, AND ADAPTABLE COMMUNITY BUILDING DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

One Community is developing sustainable, modifiable, and adaptable community building through a Duplicable and Sustainable City Center that is LEED Platinum certified/Sustainable, can feed 200 people at a time, provide laundry for over 300 people, is beautiful, spacious, and saves resources, money, and space:

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

This last week the core team completed another 30 seconds of the Duplicable City Center 3-D video. Now that we’re near the end of the video is it focusing on sharing the beautiful details of this structure to give people a perspective of what it will be like to walk around in it. Here is the video completed as far as we’ve gotten it done thus far:

We also updated the complete Duplicable City Center open source hub with the video, our newly completed CAD floor plan (updated compliments of Karl Harris of Harris Design & Technology Services), and a sizable bunch of additions to the page’s FAQ section:

Duplicable City Center Open Source Hub – Click to Visit Page

Behind the scenes we completing another 10% of the control systems research bringing us to 90% total completion of the exploration of all the software and hardware options available for monitoring, management, and automation of everything from energy and water to internet usage. We’ve shown pictures of this action item in past weeks and hope to start creating the final and professional open source resource in the next couple of weeks.

SUSTAINABLE, MODIFIABLE, AND ADAPTABLE COMMUNITY BUILDING HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS

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

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

This last week the core team completely rewrote our Welcome to the Team page. The purpose of this page and rewrite being to even better clarify the expectations and desires of both One Community and all our collaborative partners so we can create massive win-win relationships as people join our team. This is all part of a major push our organization is completing to put in place the infrastructure necessary to more efficiently welcome and work with more and more people… a building process we are actively engaging like never before and expect to accelerate dramatically with our crowdfunding campaign. Here’s the new page:

Welcome to the Team 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, along with a goal to create sustainable, modifiable, and adaptable community building. We are creating a space that helps each other live in integrity with each other and the planet as we strive to be the greatest versions of ourselves. We do this by harmoniously respecting each other, nature, and the rest of our one shared planet.

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

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

SUSTAINABLE, MODIFIABLE AND ADAPTABLE COMMUNITY BUILDING THE FIRST OF MANY

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

WHY ONE COMMUNITY IS CREATING THIS

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

The specifics of how One Community is accomplishing this can be found on the One Community Solution Model to Create Solution-creating Models Page. Research supporting and showing the benefits of a model like this can be found on our Research and Resources Articles Archive, further reinforcing the importance of creating a sustainable, modifiable, and adaptable community building.

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

ONE COMMUNITY’S 4-PHASE STRATEGY

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

Phase I: Demonstrating a Better Way

We are designing One Community to demonstrate an experience of living that we believe most people will consider to be better because it will be more enjoyable and fulfilling. We also think most people will consider it better because it is made possible specifically through a foundation of sustainable sustainability and a philosophy that is for The Highest Good of All, ultimately contributing to creating a sustainable, modifiable, and adaptable community building.

Phase II: Open Source Project-Launch Blueprinting

Everything we do we are open source project-launch blueprinting and free-sharing to make it as easy and affordable as possible to duplicate, adapt, and evolve in the manner that suits each individual and/or group’s needs. Free-sharing information like this is our aggressive-exposure engine and an aspect of One Community that will accelerate indefinitely as we continue to build our team, move onto the property, and continuously build and evolve everything that is One Community.

Phase III: Inviting the World to Participate

Everything we are open source project-launch blueprinting is designed to invite the world to participate by duplicating it as either individual components or complete teacher/demonstration communities, villages, and cities that will be able to be built almost anywhere in the world, thereby creating a sustainable, modifiable, and adaptable community building. Additionally, people can join One Community as members, consultants and/or partners, or use the suggestions links on our open source project-launch blueprinting hubs to help with the design, implementation, and evolution process. Scholarships, weekend learning and work crews, and tourism will be foundations of One Community once we have sufficient infrastructure in place to support these options.

Phase IV: Universal Appeal and Global Expansion

As One Community continues evolving and establishing ourselves, everything we create and promote will serve as the engine to inspire people to align with the concept of open source and sustainable living for The Highest Good of All, further creating a sustainable, modifiable, and adaptable community building. We are doing this to create mainstream appeal and our path to achieving this appeal is demonstrating a happier, more affordable, and ecologically friendly model of living that can be built anywhere in the world.

Open source project-launch blueprinting it all is how we believe the model will spread and, possibly most importantly, that it will predictably spread even faster in the areas where it is needed most because building restrictions, the cost of land, and materials costs are in most cases lower in these areas.

WHY OPEN SOURCE

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

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

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

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

SUMMARY

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