One Community is happy to welcome Zdenek Jurik Â to the One Community Design Team!

Zdenek Jurik – P.E. Structural, Civil and Mechanical Engineer: Zdenek attended college in Pilsen, Czechoslovakia and received his A.A.S. in Mechanical Technology from the Industrial School of Mechanical Engineering, a Diploma in Engineering, Design, Testing and Inspection of Cranes and Steel Construction from the National Institute of Work Safety, and completed additional courses in Material Technology Welding through the National Research Center of Welding. His expertise spans a broad spectrum of engineering calculation and design including ponds, underground water storage, marine public landings, piers, bridges, roads, sites, retaining structures (concrete, stl. piles, wood), and hydrology. He as also created complete structural designs for libraries, hospital additions, education centers, ice skating and tennis sport facilities, banks, residential homes, production buildings and museums, pressure vessels, and dams. Also analysis and design for special aluminum structures (International and North America), cranes, and hoists. He is an expert witness in Structural and Civil Engineering with extensive hands-on experience and knowledge of Autocad, Risa, Enercalc and 3D Finite Element Analysis. As a One Community consultant, Zdenek is helping with the complete engineering details of the aquapini and walipini structures. He is a licensed professional engineer, USA, Corporate member of Dispute Board Federation, Geneva, Switzerland, and President of ABC Engineering P.E. (207-542-9773 / [email protected] /www.abcengineer.com).

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One Community is open source developing and free-sharing options for those who want to participate in creating better examples of food, energy, housing, education, for-profit and non-profit business design, social architecture, fulfilled living, stewardship practices and more… all for The Highest Good of All:

• Here’s our project overview
• Here’s our world-change methodology

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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. Here is our weekly progress update (#46) covering our development and accomplishments for the week of January 6, 2014, about creating better:

Creating Better
One Community Weekly Progress Update #46

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

• Creating Better intro @0:10
• Creating better education
  • Highest Good education: @1:30
  • Highest Good education: Social Sciences Molecule image research is done @1:90
  • Highest Good education: Working on Values image research (10% done) @2:30
  • Highest Good education: Relative Space Lesson Plan is done @2:47
  • Highest Good education: Working on the Matter Lesson Plan (outline is 90% done) @3:38
  • Highest Good education: Welcome Randie Gottlieb to the team @3:56
• Creating better food
  • Highest Good food: @4:30
  • Highest Good food: Food Forest page is complete @5:20
  • Food infrastructure 3-D progress finishing rafts, updating media beds, testing fountains @6:30
  • Food infrastructure initial roof engineering begun thanks to the help of Zdenek Jurik @7:10
  • Highest Good food open source portal redesign now 60% done @7:38
  • Reworked the custom food application design (see notes below) @8:20
• 75% done adding metric system measurements to all our pages @9:50
• Creating better housing
  • Highest Good housing: @10:30
  • Extensive research on Rocket Mass Heaters and alternatives @10:45
  • Hands progressing in the Tropical Atrium center of the Earthbag Village @11:45
• Creating better city center
  • Duplicable City Center: @12:35
  • Duplicable City Center: Bathroom touchups, outlets, doors to Living Dome done @13:00
  • Duplicable City Center: Finishing up the final 1st floor details in CAD  @13:22
  • Duplicable City Center: Initial details of the pool transition point @13:30
• How you can most help us right now and how anyone can help @14:10

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CREATING BETTER FOOD – HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

We are creating better Highest Good food that is more diverse, more nutritious, locally grown and sustainable, and part of our open source botanical garden model to support food self-sufficiency, global collaboration, and bio-diversity :

• Learn about the structures: Aquapini & walipini open source hub
• See what we’ll be growing: Aquapini & walipini planting and harvesting | Food Forest | Tropical Atrium P&H

This last week the team finished the deep water culture rafts, added media bed details, and tested 3 different waterfalls:

Click image to learn what we will grow in these structures

GLOBAL FOOD COLLABORATIVE SOFTWARE

UPDATE: A PLANT APPLICATION WITH THE DETAIL, OPEN SOURCE, AND COLLABORATIVE INPUT 
ABILITY WE DESIRE NOW EXISTS: CLICK HERE FOR THE ENCYCLOPEDIA OF LIFE

One Community is creating better and has amassed vast amounts of information over the past 3 years, and we’re now looking to create a database that will help structure and manage that information. Guy Fraser, our newest collaborative partner, is helping us organize it with the intent to create an open source and globally-usable and updatable plant and food resource. This in turn will enable us to make our information more freely available and manageable to the mainstream. We may also be able to find a way to integrate this in with the ACE Application design and function for seamless data input by all collaborative Highest Good teacher/demonstration hubs.

This last week was a big shift in how this application design was being planned. Here are Guy’s updated outline and strategy notes for creating better:

Phase 1: Create initial search engine

Specifically a web page that has two things: A search box and an interactive pictorial dendogram.

If user has some idea of what they are looking for, they can just enter it in the search box (common name, latin name, flower color, keyword, category [fruit, flower, veg…], etc). Suggestions will appear as they type, and when they select something the dendogram will automatically update to show their selection.

Or, they can just browse/explore the dendogram – this is very useful when you don’t know the name of the plant, you need some visual way to find out what it is… A very rough mockup is show below for illustrative purposes:

Dendogram Mockup

The dendogram is just an interactive way to browse a taxonomy. The orange circles above would be plants – instead of being orange there’d be a photo of the plant in them. The small grey circles (which would be bigger in real version) are parent groups in the taxonomy – they’d have photo of the defining attribute for their associated part of the taxonomy (eg. leaf shape). The blue circles are ‘collapsed’ parts of the taxonomy – click them and they expand out to the grey/orange circles.

Over time, more visual search methods would be added – flower color, fruit finder, and so on. We’d just add to it bit by bit as we get more info available.

Phase 2: Links to external data / searches

In this phase we start adding in links to wikipedia, pubmed, etc. Users can click through to external sites for more information on each plant or part of the taxonomy.

A feature would be added to allow users to suggest specific links, they’d have to provide some metadata about the link (eg. short description, etc).

Where possible, we’d harvest external links as well – eg. scanning pubmed, USDA, etc., and bulk creating specific links with the additional metadata.

Phase 3: Crowdsource photos & macro-morphology

We’d add features that allow users to upload their own photos for plants.

Working with a good photographer, we’d create some “how to” videos to show people how to take great photos of plants (eg. how to get a photo of just the flower on a white background, etc).

As part of this process we’d allow people to define what part of the plant they are photographing: Whole plant, flower, leaf, etc. As such, we’ll start to build up information about the macro-morphology of plants, complete with pictures. And this then allows us to link data to parts of the plant (eg. nutrition for the leaf, medical uses for the root, etc).

Phase 4: Add “Find sellers” / donate options

Add a way for people to donate – either their time (adding more photos / info) or some money (to go towards hosting costs, etc).

Add a way for people to search popular online stores (eg. amazon.com) to see if they can buy a selected plant online. They’d pay the seller, but via referral ID we’d get a cut of the money = like a donation.

We could also add a way for small sellers to get their sites listed (a link to their site) based on geographical location of the end-user for a tiny fee or donation?

Phase 5: Problem solver

Here we add in a problem solver – user can upload photo of the problem they are having, then others can suggest ways to fix it. Rating system allows good solutions to bubble up to the top.

Phase 6: Start adding in meaty data

This is where we start to become the ‘wikipedia of plants’. Rather than just linking to external data, which is in a cacophony of different formats and qualities, we’d start to embed data directly in our site in a much cleaner format.

We’d start with things that average end user will be interested in – such as how to cultivate the plant, how to harvest fruit, and so on. But over time we’d start adding in detailed scientific data as well…

Phase 7: Facilitate mass gathering of scientific data

By now we should have lots of people using the site and lots of great content (photos, links & info). We will also by this time have some idea where users are based geographically, which plants are most popular, etc…

We could do things like chose a state / county and then find labs with required chromatography kit and see if they’d donate some time (eg. over a weekend) so that locals could bring in plants to have them analyzed. We’d provide forms for locals so they could record date/time, geolocation, etc., with each sample. We’d provide packs for schools to get kids involved. We’d show the labs how to upload results to the site (or how to divest that task to the person who brought in the plant sample). Whatever it takes. This sort of thing could be done for soil as well.

As we start to get detailed info in for plants, directly hosted in our site, we can start to summarize that data in the taxonomy – make it easier to spot trends, etc. (Yes, we’d still try and import existing data where possible – eg. USDA, etc).

Ideally we’d want each lab to repeat this process at least twice a year, ideally four times a year, so that we can see how seasons affect the plants. We’d work out what the major costs are and find innovative ways to overcome them to avoid putting too much strain on the labs.

By getting decent metadata about lab results, such as where/when samples were taken, we can start to build up much more detailed info about plants worldwide. For example, we can start to build plant distribution maps:

Hypothetical Plant Distribution Map

We’d be able to compare species analysis based on location, soil type, altitude, season and a whole bunch of other stuff. We’d know where species are growing around the world (we could easily do a data gathering campaign just asking people to list plants in their neighborhood). We might even be able to determine changes to an ecosystem over time – eg. if a group of enthusiasts do an annual audit of plants (or a specific species) in their neighborhood, we’d be able to visualize changes. We’d be able to note that a specific region is missing data and then coordinate with people in that region to go out and find out what’s growing there… List is endless.

In order to do this sort of stuff we need armies of volunteers all over the world – both amateurs and professionals. It’s for this reason that I think we should focus first on becoming the ‘google of plants’ and the needs of ordinary end-users first and foremost. Without them, we’re never going to reach the critical mass needed to do the more advanced stuff on a bigger scale.

Of course, we would also be adding our own data to the site – eg. detailed info on the plants in the food forest, etc.

CREATING BETTER HOUSING – HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

We are creating better housing. Highest Good housing 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 Devin Porter (3D Graphics Design Specialist) fine-tuned the shape of the internal “hands” feature in 3-D for the Tropical Atrium. Here are pictures of the new design and placement (almost complete):

One Community Tropical Atrium 3D Progress – Click to Learn More About this Structure

CREATING BETTER CITY CENTER – DUPLICABLE CITY HUB PROGRESS

We are creating better city center. A Duplicable and Sustainable City Center that is LEED Platinum certified/Sustainable, can feed 200 people at a time, can provide laundry for over 300 people, beautiful, spacious, saves resources, saves money, and saves space:

• Learn about this building and it’s function: Duplicable City Center open source hub

This last week the team finished the final bathroom touchups, added outlets, and added the glass door entryways to the Living Dome:

Duplicable City Center 3-D Progress – Click to visit the Open Source Hub

Rob Gjerde (Swimming Pool Design & Construction Expert and owner of Sorico Design and Consulting) also made progress this last week on the transition point for the indoor/outdoor pool. Here’s an image describing how this area will be closed off in the winter:

Duplicable City Center Natural Pool Indoor/Outdoor Transition-point Door Design

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WHAT ONE COMMUNITY IS CREATING BETTER

One community is creating better. One Community is creating better 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 better 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 better 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 is creating better and 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 BETTER WITH THIS

The One Community self-replicating model is capable of creating better and 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 creating better and 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 better and sharing the social and recreational experience with visitors is also fun, exciting, fulfilling, and an additional reason why we are creating better.

One Community is happy to welcome Dr. Randie Gottlieb to the One Community Education Team!

Dr. Randie Gottlieb – Transformational Educator:  Randie is the head of UnityWorks, an international diversity training firm; co-founder of the Mona Foundation, supporting grassroots educational initiatives around the world; and adjunct professor of Multicultural Education at Heritage University on the Yakama Nation Reservation. She holds degrees in education from Cal State, Boston University and Harvard. Believing that unity is one of the overarching needs of our time, and after work and travel in over 30 countries, Randie saw an urgent need for easy-to-use materials to teach the values of diversity and the benefits of unity. This led to writing her book, Teaching Unity, and the development of a series of workshops and courses on unity in diversity and overcoming prejudice. Randie and One Community share a desire to create a paradigm shift from the widespread view that we are separate races, from entrenched prejudices passed down from previous generations, from the prevailing notion of us and them, to the recognition that we are one human race. With this shared vision, Randie donated her book to One Community and we will be integrating her teaching’s and exercises into the curriculum of the Education for Life Program to help teach these shared values and promote Randie’s amazing book and how to teach and share diversity and unity.

If you’d like to learn more about Randie and her work, go to:

• The Teaching Unity Facebook Page
• The Teaching Unity website for free PowerPoints on unity, diversity and overcoming prejudice
• Constructive Conversations on Race (a $2 download)
• THIS PAGE to buy her book: Teaching Unity

WELCOME TO THE TEAM RANDIE!

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One Community believes we are creating the world we want through our actions and our intent. With this in mind, we are forwarding a new paradigm of action and intent for The Highest Good of All:

• Here’s our project overview
• Here’s our world-change methodology
• We are open source and free-sharing do-it-yourself designs for these areas first: (click icons for details)
  

  CLICK IMAGES BELOW FOR 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, as we are creating the world we want. Here is our weekly progress update (#45) covering our development and accomplishments for the week of December 30th, 2013 to January 5th, 2014:

We are Creating the World We Want
One Community Weekly Progress Update #45

• We are creating the world we want intro @:11
• Overview of this week’s world-changing progress @3:40
• Highest Good education: cross integration of Core Curriculum to Curriculum now complete @6:10
• Highest Good education: Social Sciences image research 90% done @9:20
• Highest Good education: Relative Space lesson plan mindmap is complete @11:40
• Highest Good food: 40 more Food Forest page plants added @14:40
• Food infrastructure 3-D moved pond and hardware, adding in rafts, piping and other details @17:28
• Created Sketchup Plant resource page and tutorial video @19:40
• Highest Good food open source portal now being redesigned @22:22
• Highest Good housing: Hands progressing in the Tropical Atrium center of the Earthbag Village: @23:40
• SEGO Center Duplicable City Hub 4th floor bathrooms and main floor locker area in 3-D @28:10
• Welcome Tyler Gonnsen to the Pioneer team. He’ll be working on the ACE App @5:45
• How you can most help us right now and how anyone can help @30:30

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HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

We are creating the world we want to see 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 team completed the Relative Space lesson plan mindmap. Here is the updated image:

Lesson Plan Mindmap for “Relative & Dimensional Space” – Click to Enlarge

HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

We are creating the world we want through a new world paradigm of 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: Aquapini and walipini open source hub
• See what we’ll be growing: Aquapini and walipini planting and harvesting | Food Forest | Tropical Atrium P&H

This last week the team moved the pond and all hardware down 8 inches and started adding in piping, deep-water culture rafts, and other final details, we continued to emphasize that we are creating the world we want. Here’s a collection of screen shots of these changes including one of the ways we communicate with each other on GoogleDocs:

Click image for the aquapini and walipini open source hub

SKETCHUP PLANTS INSTRUCTIONAL VIDEO AND DATABASE CREATION

We also created a Sketchup Plant resource page and this video that goes with it:

HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

We are creating the world we want through a new world paradigm of 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 and how we are creating the world we want: 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 Devin Porter (3D Graphics Design Specialist) made significant progress on getting the internal “hands” feature in 3-D into the Tropical Atrium. We are creating the world we want with this innovative addition.Here are pictures of the design and placement work in progress:

One Community Tropical Atrium 3-D Hand Positioning Progress – Click to Visit the Overview Page

DUPLICABLE CITY HUB PROGRESS

We are creating the world we want through a new world paradigm through a Duplicable and Sustainable City Center that is LEED Platinum certified/Sustainable, can feed 200 people at a time, can provide laundry for over 300 people, beautiful, spacious, saves resources, saves money, and saves space:

• Learn about this building and it’s function: Duplicable City Center open source hub

This last week the team finished most of the 3-D work on the 4th floor bathrooms and added in lockers to the 1st floor area:

Duplicable City Center 4th Floor Bathrooms and 1st Floor Lockers Developing in 3-D – Click to visit the Open Source Hub

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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 the world we want, 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 creating the world we want by 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, embodying the philosophy of “We are Creating the World We Want”. 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 are creating the world we want 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 and an additional reason why we are creating the world we want.

INSPIRING SUSTAINABILITY WITH OPEN SOURCE

One Community’s four-phase strategy for the creation of solution models “We are Creating the World We Want by using 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, we are creating the world we want. This approach will predictably expand on its own.

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

COMPREHENSIVE SOLUTION TO HUMANITY’S NEEDS

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

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

GLOBALLY IMPLEMENTABLE REPLICATION MODEL

The more people that are inspired and desiring for themselves what it is that One Community creates, the more demand there will be for spreading the One Community model. This leads to the directing of financial resources and resourceful people where we believe they are needed most: the establishment of additional sustainable communities around the world. We are creating the world we want by leveraging the affordability of overseas land, less restrictive building environments, and the spirit of adventure in many people who really desire to make a difference for those who need it most.

To meet the increasing demand for sustainability that we are contributing to, we are coordinating with manufacturers, education institutions, individuals, and vendors. This initiative is part of our broader mission: We are Creating the World We Want. Its purpose is to facilitate more engagement of the sustainability industry, produce the absolute best possible consumer value, and the most convenient delivery of goods and methodologies for building sustainable living communities and sustainable living components.

This means we are creating the world we want by not only providing education and increasing needed sustainability resources, we are also addressing the underlying roadblocks to a sustainable planet by decreasing the cost and simultaneously increasing the demand and generating financial support for global sustainability, philanthropy, and humanitarian movements and organizations.

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

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

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

ONE COMMUNITY’S 4-PHASE STRATEGY

At One Community, we are creating the world we want by, 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, as we are creating the world we want, 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. Here are the constantly expanding hubs for everything we are open sourcing and free-sharing:

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. We are creating the world we want through this inclusive and collaborative approach.

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 creating the world we want, 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.

WE ARE CREATING THE WORLD WE WANT – WHY OPEN SOURCE

We are creating the world we want by ensuring that 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. We are creating the world we want through this adaptable and innovative approach.

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. We are creating the world we want, and this is all supported and made possible because:

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

OPEN SOURCE SHARING STRATEGY SPECIFICS

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

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

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

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

SUMMARY

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

One Community is happy to welcome Tyler Gonnsen to the One Community Pioneer Team!

Software Architecture Consultant, Website and Web Application Developer, B.S. in Software Engineering and Mathematics: Tyler graduated with honors with a Bachelors of Science double major in software engineering and mathematics, a minor in economics, and a certificate in management studies from Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology. During college, he had the opportunity to take leadership positions on real-world projects such as a government district mapping tool, online pet licensing system, community web calendar, and winery e-commerce website. After college, Tyler has consulted on a variety of websites and online applications in the insurance, healthcare, financial, and retail industries. In each engagement, he applies his software engineering experience and knowledge of architectural design principles to effectively deliver value to the client. In addition to software development, Tyler enjoys running, biking, hiking, playing tennis, weightlifting, yoga, nature walks, reading, meditating, vegan cooking, playing strategy games, and practicing Buddhism, minimalism, and frugality to create an awesome lifestyle that is resource-efficient.

As a member of the Pioneer Team, Tyler will first be helping to further design and develop the ACE App Sustainable City Management Software. Click here for Tyler’s complete bio.

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One Community is happy to welcome James Yobe to the One Community Design Team!

James Yobe – Computer Science Major and 3D Graphics Specialist: James is an international student from Malawi, Africa, majoring in Computer Science at Lee College in Baytown, Texas. Additionally, James holds a Level 2 Diploma for IT Practitioners from Leeds, College of Technology, UK, a Certificate in Computer Aided Design from Stockport College, UK, and a Diploma in Computer System Design and Certificate in Computer Programming from the Xerographic Training College in Malawi. James is trained in both 2D and 3D animation, design, modeling, and rendering using 3D Max, Iclone, Photoshop, and Maya. He has developed 3D models and computer animation for a broad diversity of projects including 5 different TV advertisements. James also loves just doing 3D work for fun. To view his work and contact James, visit his accounts on YouTube and Behance. As a member of the One Community team, James is designing the complete Straw Bale Village (Pod 2) in 3D.

HERE ARE SOME EXAMPLES OF JAMES’ WORK ALREADY BEGUN ON POD 2

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One Community’s physical location will forward this movement as the first of many with self-replicating teacher/demonstration communities, villages, and cities to be built around the world for the betterment of society in one community. Here is our weekly progress update (#44) covering our development and accomplishments for the week of December 23, 2013:

• Here’s our project overview
• Here’s our world-change methodology
• We are open source and free-sharing do-it-yourself designs for these areas first: (click icons for details)
  

  CLICK IMAGES BELOW FOR OUR MAIN OPEN SOURCE HUBS
  

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

  

The Betterment of Society
One Community Weekly Progress Update #44

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

• Creating the betterment of society @ 0:10, 4:45
• Overview of this week’s world-changing progress @3:00
• Highest Good Education: Added resource sections to the Math Subject Page @9:25
• Highest Good Education: Finished the Lesson Plans Portal @11:45
• Highest Good Education: Began creation of Relative Space Lesson Plan Mindmap @13:05
• 20 more Food Forest plants added @16:00
• Food infrastructure: LSAQ cinder block and media bed details added in 3D @16:50
• Highest Good Food Planting and Harvesting: Updated fig list with 10 featured figs @19:10
• The Straw Bale Village is evolving now in 3D @22:25
• Duplicable City Hub: Added 3D closets, doors, and bathrooms @23:40
• Duplicable City Hub: Finished 1st floor CAD update @27:00
• How you can most help us right now and how anyone can help @30:00

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HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

We are creating the betterment of society through Highest Good education that is for all ages, applicable in any environment, adaptable to individual needs, far exceeds traditional education standards, and is more fun for both the teachers and the students and the community.

• 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 team began creating the Relative Space mindmap for the lesson plan. Here is an image export of this work in progress:

Relative Space Lesson Plan Mindmap in Progress – Click to Enlarge

HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

We are creating the betterment of society with the 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 biodiversity:

• Learn about the structures: Aquapini and walipini open source hub
• See what we’ll grow in them: Aquapini and walipini planting and harvesting

Images from the team for this last week include this picture of the 3D completion of the cinder blocks plus added supports under the media beds: 

Click image to see what we’ll be growing in these structures

THE BETTERMENT OF SOCIETY: HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

We are creating the betterment of society with Highest Good housing that is artistic and beautiful, more affordable, more space efficient, lasts longer, DIY buildable, and is 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

Images from the team for this last week include this progress on the Straw Bale Village compliments of James Yobe (3D Graphics Specialist) converting the work of of Dave Walen (Architectural Drafter & Designer and owner of Dave Philip Walen Design) into a 3D Max rendering:

One Community Straw Bale Village Beginning to Evolve in 3D – Click for the Open Source Hub with pictures you can enlarge

THE BETTERMENT OF SOCIETY: DUPLICABLE CITY HUB PROGRESS

We are creating the betterment of society through a Duplicable and Sustainable City Center that is LEED Platinum certified/Sustainable, can feed 200 people at a time, can provide laundry for over 300 people, is beautiful, spacious, saves resources, saves money, and saves space:

• Learn about this building and its function: Duplicable City Center open source hub

This last week the team finished 3D space planning for the Living Dome, added doors, added closets, and all the bathroom details:

SEGO Center with Living Dome furniture, doors, closets, and bathrooms – Click to enlarge

Karl Harris (Architect Drafter, Designer, and founder of Harris Design & Technology Services) also began finishing the 1st floor CAD updates to match all the work and updates done in 3D:

Duplicable City Center updated 1st floor CAD export – Click to visit the open source hub

NEW PROMOTIONAL VIDEO

Here’s a new video if you’d like a cute and fun way to share One Community with others.

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WHAT ONE COMMUNITY IS CREATING

THE BETTERMENT OF SOCIETY

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

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

Throughout our design process of creating the betterment of society, 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.

THE BETTERMENT OF SOCIETY: BUILDING THE FIRST OF MANY

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

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

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

INSPIRING SUSTAINABILITY WITH OPEN SOURCE

To achieve the betterment of society, 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. To achieve the betterment of society, we free-share the step-by-step plans people need for duplication, invite people to participate, and demonstrate 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 the betterment of society. While we understand that not everyone believes this is even possible, we are nonetheless bringing together all those that do see this as possible as the non-profit think tank of forward-thinking individuals willing to design, build, and open source project-launch blueprint and free-share it for The Highest Good of All.

COMPREHENSIVE SOLUTION TO HUMANITY’S NEEDS

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

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

GLOBALLY IMPLEMENTABLE REPLICATION MODEL

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

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

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

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

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

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

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:

The Betterment of Society 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.

The Betterment of Society 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.

The Betterment of Society Phase III: Inviting the World to Participate

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

The Betterment of Society 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 and the betterment of society. 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 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

OPEN SOURCE SHARING STRATEGY SPECIFICS

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

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

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

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

SUMMARY

One Community sees the issues of the world as interdependent and interconnected. To create the betterment of society and 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 where people can experience a new way of living and then replicate it with our open source blueprints: creating a model solution that creates additional solution-creating models.

One Community is happy to welcome Victor Herber to the One Community Design Team!

Victor Herber – Mechanical Engineer: Victor received his Master’s Degree in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Zaragoza (Spain) in 2008. Immediately after graduating, Victor started working in the aerospace industry as a structural engineer and, after two years, found himself in Seattle working for Boeing. In addition to his degree, Victor is also certified in Python Programming, Fatigue and Damage Tolerance of Materials, Composite Design, Operations Management, Microeconomics, and Sustainable Means of Transportation. Victor loves enjoying time in nature, nature photography, camping, hiking, and skiing as hobbies. Sharing One Community’s vision of a sustainable world that works for everyone, Victor is bringing his passion for sustainability and his knowledge and experience to help One Community with our vermiculture eco-toilets design.

WELCOME TO THE TEAM VICTOR!

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One Community is creating a new world paradigm for The Highest Good of All:

• Here’s our project overview
• Here’s our world-change methodology
• We are open source and free-sharing do-it-yourself designs for these areas first: (click icons for details)
  

  CLICK IMAGES BELOW FOR 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. Here is our weekly progress update (#43) covering our development and accomplishments for the week of December 16, 2013:

Creating a New World Paradigm
One Community Weekly Progress Update #43

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

• Creating a New World Paradigm @ 0:30, 24:30, 31:00
• Overview of this week’s world-changing progress @4:00
• Highest Good Education Open Source Portal redesigned @6:05
• Education: Relative space lesson plan done and now working on images @8:55
• Education: Continued research on images for Social Sciences @13:20
• New How to Use the Education for Life Program page @17:00
• 25 more Food Forest page plants added @18:05
• Food infrastructure 3D Cinder Block and retaining wall details added @26:40
• SEGO Center Duplicable City Hub 2nd floor moved / Space planning has begun @28:50
• How you can most help us right now and how anyone can help @36:00

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CREATING A NEW WORLD PARADIGM: HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

We consider sustainable and more nutritious food as foundational to creating a new world paradigm. Forwarding this, aquapini and walipini food infrastructure continues to progress in 3D. This week the team finished adjustments to the north-wall terraces and started adding in the deep water culture cinder block details:

Click image to see what we’ll be growing in these structures

CREATING A NEW WORLD PARADIGM: SEGO CENTER DUPLICABLE CITY HUB PROGRESS

The SEGO Duplicable and Sustainable City Center is a launch point for creating a new world housing paradigm. This last week Devin Porter (3D Graphics Design Specialist) completed moving of the entire second floor and our team began 3D space planning and other details for the rooms and bathrooms:

SEGO Center with new 2nd floor and the beginnings of space planning and room details – Click to visit the open source hub

Karl Harris (Architect Drafter, Designer, and founder of Harris Design & Technology Services) also began updating the CAD file to match all the work and updates done in 3D:

SEGO Center CAD being updated – Click to visit the open source hub

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WHAT ONE COMMUNITY IS CREATING

CREATING A NEW WORLD PARADIGM

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

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

Throughout our design process of creating a new world paradigm, 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.

CREATING A NEW WORLD PARADIGM: BUILDING THE FIRST OF MANY

One Community will be the first teacher/demonstration hub for creating a new world paradigm. 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 14

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

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

Even if we don’t achieve our ultimate goal of global transformation and creating a new world paradigm, 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, creating a new world paradigm.

Our open source model and blueprints engage and inspire people while simultaneously making sustainable living more affordable and easy to replicate, creating a new world paradigm. 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, creating a new world paradigm.

COMPREHENSIVE SOLUTION TO HUMANITY’S NEEDS

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

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

GLOBALLY IMPLEMENTABLE REPLICATION MODEL

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

To meet the increasing demand for sustainability that we are contributing to, we are coordinating with manufacturers, education institutions, individuals, and vendors. This is also part of creating a new world paradigm. Its purpose is to facilitate more engagement in the sustainability industry, produce the absolute best possible consumer value, and the most convenient delivery of goods and methodologies for building sustainable living communities and sustainable living components.

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

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

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

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

ONE COMMUNITY’S 4-PHASE STRATEGY

CREATING A NEW WORLD PARADIGM

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:

Creating a New World Paradigm Phase I: Demonstrating a Better Way

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

Creating a New World Paradigm Phase II: Open Source Project-Launch Blueprinting

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

Creating a New World Paradigm Phase III: Inviting the World to Participate

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

Creating a New World Paradigm 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 a new world paradigm 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 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

OPEN SOURCE SHARING STRATEGY SPECIFICS

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

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

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

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

SUMMARY

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

One Community believes that the path to global transformation is they change the world by giving people what they want. We believe a path to global transformation that consists of the elements of living that people want (Highest Good food, Highest Good energy, Highest Good housing, Highest Good education, Highest Good for-profit and non-profit business design, Highest Good social architecture, fulfilled living, stewardship practices and more) will become self-replicating if we make it attractive enough, easy enough, and affordable enough as we change the world.

Our path to doing this is open source creation of do-it-yourself blueprints combined with a living example we will build so people will be able to visit, participate, and experience it as we change the world. Here is our weekly progress update (#42) covering our development and accomplishments for the week of December 9, 2013.

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

Change the World

One Community Weekly Progress Update #42

• Overview of this week’s world-changing progress @2:45
• Giving people what they want as a path to global transformation @8:25
• Education for Life program update @11:50
• Food infrastructure retaining walls done in 3D @18:55
• Food infrastructure pre-engineering starter and testing houses done in 3D @20:50
• We’ve added 11 more complete plant details to the Food Forest page @23:25
• Calculating all Food Infrastructure nursery supply details has begun @25:20
• The point of Highest Good food @26:20
• Formed the necessary partnership with the local fish and game for mussel harvesting @27:25
• Earthbag Village – Philip Gill has finished the first furniture layout @29:10
• Dave Walen wraps up the Straw Bale Village – new section rough below @30:38
• SEGO Center: beginning CAD update – overhaul of floors in progress @32:00
• Welcome to The Evolver Network as our newest partners @35:00
• Objectively measuring the value of fulfilled living and the ACE App @35:15
• How you can most help us right now and how anyone can help @45:20

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ONE COMMUNITY WEEKLY UPDATE DETAILS

CHANGE THE WORLD: HIGHEST GOOD FOOD

Aquapini and walipini food infrastructure continues to progress in 3D. This week the team finished the south-slope retaining walls that will provide maximum growing space and sun exposure to all the aquaponics and north-wall plants.

Aquapini south-sloped wall completed in 3D – Click for the open source design page

We also finished the initial 3D design of the starter-houses that will also be used to test 5 different roofing materials for the south wall.

Initial 3D designs for the R&D starter houses that will also help us test roof materials – Click to Enlarge

CHANGE THE WORLD: HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING

Housing is capable of supporting the world’s population sustainably, ethically, and affordably

CHANGE THE WORLD: EARTHBAG VILLAGE

This last week Philip Gill (Interior and Furniture Designer and Owner of Philip Gill Design), with some help from Devin Porter (3D Graphics Design Specialist), finished the first Earthbag Village furniture designs. Here they are!

Earthbag Village Furniture Designs – Click to visit the open source portal with images you can enlarge

STRAW BALE VILLAGE

Dave Walen (Architectural Drafter & Designer and owner of Dave Philip Walen Design) is wrapping up his outstanding contribution to the Straw Bale Village. Here is a final section rough from him and he’s now working on the several pages of renders we’ll need to communicate the next needed steps to the person we will find to help finish this amazing work:

Straw-bale Village Section Rough – Click to visit the open source portal with images you can enlarge

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WHAT ONE COMMUNITY IS CREATING

CHANGE THE WORLD

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 and change the world. A place based on compassion, kindness, and collaboration. This replicable community will serve as an example of what is possible.

Throughout our design process to change the world, 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.

CHANGE THE WORLD: BUILDING THE FIRST OF MANY

One Community will be the first teacher/demonstration hub to change the world. 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 change the world by establishing successful teacher/demonstration hubs on every continent. Villages include designs appropriate for each of the five main types of climates. They also include options for even the most challenged economies. These hubs will collaborate with one another, share ideas, and resources, and work together as a network to heal the planet. They will also transform the global lifestyle into a more enjoyable, fulfilling, healthy, and sustainable one.

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

Even if we don’t achieve our ultimate goal of global transformation to change the world, 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, and ultimately change the world.

Our open source model and blueprints engage and inspire people while simultaneously making sustainable living more affordable and easy to replicate. To change the world, we free-share the step-by-step plans people need for duplication, invite people to participate, and demonstrate 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, and ultimately change the world..

COMPREHENSIVE SOLUTION TO HUMANITY’S NEEDS

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

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

GLOBALLY IMPLEMENTABLE REPLICATION MODEL

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

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

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

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

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

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

ONE COMMUNITY’S 4-PHASE STRATEGY TO CHANGE THE WORLD

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:

Change The World 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.

Change The World 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.

Change The World 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 the foundations of One Community once we have sufficient infrastructure in place to support these options.

Change The World 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

To change the world, 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 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

OPEN SOURCE SHARING STRATEGY SPECIFICS

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

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

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

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

SUMMARY

One Community sees the issues of the world as interdependent and interconnected. To change the world and address it 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 where people can experience a new way of living and then replicate it with our open source blueprints: creating a model solution that creates additional solution-creating models.