One Community is sustainable paradigm building through a comprehensive and holistic approach to sustainable, proactive, and regenerative living for The Highest Good of All:

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

OUR MAIN OPEN SOURCE HUBS

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

One Community’s physical location will forward this movement as the first of many self-replicating teacher/demonstration communities, villages, and cities to be built around the world. This is the June 20th, 2014 edition (#68) of our weekly progress update detailing the previous week’s developments and accomplishments:

Sustainable Paradigm Building
One Community Weekly Progress Update #68

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

SUSTAINABLE PARADIGM BUILDING INTRO @1:00

SUSTAINABLE PARADIGM BUILDING – HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION @1:39

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

SUSTAINABLE PARADIGM BUILDING SUMMARY: @7:44

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

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SUSTAINABLE PARADIGM BUILDING HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

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

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

This last week the core team finished the addition of a Technology and Innovation lesson plan section for each of our three finished lesson plan mindmaps, here’s an example of what the completed Time Page now looks like and we’ve got the same level of detail for both a Matter and Materials lesson plan and a Relative and Dimensional Space lesson plan:

Updated Time Lesson Plan Page – Click to Visit

SUSTAINABLE PARADIGM BUILDING HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

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

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

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

Organic Alliums Diversity Details – Click to Visit Page

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

Lettuce Diversity Details – Click to Visit Page

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

New Soil Amendment Page Additions – Click to Visit Page

SUSTAINABLE PARADIGM BUILDING HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

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

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

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

3-Dome Cluster Build Site

Here are pictures of the site up-close:

3-Dome Cluster Build Site Close-up View

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

Research of Existing On-line Free-shared Plans

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

Completed Water Heating and Cooling Webpage – Click to Visit

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

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

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

Dome-home Furniture Plan Action List – Click to Enlarge

SUSTAINABLE PARADIGM BUILDING DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

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

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

This last week the core team added Da Ku‘s (Mechanical Engineer) completed natural pool indoor/outdoor transition point videos, materials list, thermal calculations and downloadable CAD file to the open source natural pool page:

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

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

Pool Hardware Links Updated

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

Duplicable City Center Bathroom Redesign in CAD

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

West Elevations Evolving in CAD – Click for Complete Page

SUSTAINABLE PARADIGM BUILDING HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS

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

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

This last week the core team completed a rewrite and redesign of our core values page discussing Freedom and what it means to the environment we are creating along with how we use this value in our decision making process. Here’s what this looks like:

Freedom Page Rewritten – Click to Visit

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

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INVESTOR PAGES

OVERVIEW | LOCATION | FUNDING

GET INVOLVED

CONSULTANTS | WAYS ANYONE CAN HELP | MEMBERSHIP

CLICK HERE FOR ALL PAST UPDATES

WHAT ONE COMMUNITY IS CREATING

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

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

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

BUILDING THE FIRST OF MANY

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

WHY ONE COMMUNITY IS CREATING THIS

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

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

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

ONE COMMUNITY’S 4-PHASE STRATEGY

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

Phase I: Demonstrating a Better Way

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

Phase II: Open Source Project-Launch Blueprinting

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

Phase III: Inviting the World to Participate

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

Phase IV: Universal Appeal and Global Expansion

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

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

WHY OPEN SOURCE

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

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

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

• We have the team to produce an extensive quality and diversity of tools and resources

• It gives us the opportunity to broaden the concept of sustainability and make it more desirable

• Areas we open source expand our ability to evolve even faster through global collaboration

• Each new area open sourced expands our target audience, advancing our world changing goals

• The more we show our ability to share what we are creating, the more others will benefit and want to join this movement and mimic the part we are playing in it

SUMMARY

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

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

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

Here is an example of Hajjar’s work:

WELCOME TO THE TEAM HAJJAR!

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One Community is solutioneering our future with open source approaches to food, energy, housing, education, for-profit and non-profit economic design, social architecture, fulfilled living, stewardship practices and more. Our purpose for doing this is to demonstrate living and creating for The Highest Good of All as a path to positive and permanent global transformation:

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

OUR MAIN OPEN SOURCE HUBS

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

One Community’s physical location will forward this movement as the first of many self-replicating teacher/demonstration communities, villages, and cities to be built around the world. Here is our weekly progress update (#67) covering our development and accomplishments for the week of June 2nd, 2014:

Solutioneering Our Future
One Community Weekly Progress Update #67

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

SOLUTIONEERING OUR FUTURE INTRO @1:00

SOLUTIONEERING OUR FUTURE – HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION @1:42

• Finished the addition of a Technology and Innovation branch to each of our 3 posted lesson plan mindmaps (see below)
• Researched and added another 10% of the Khan Academy links to our Math page – 70% complete
• Behind the scenes: Now 60% done with the lesson plan with the core theme of “Signs”

SOLUTIONEERING OUR FUTURE – HIGHEST GOOD FOOD: @2:58

• Added diversity details to the organic eggplant section of the large-scale gardening page (see below)
• Priced out all the necessary heavy equipment for the large-scale garden preparation (behind the scenes)
• Finished another 25% of our large-scale soil amendment strategy webpage (see below)

SOLUTIONEERING OUR FUTURE – HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING: @4:03

• Finished the initial outline of our open source water heating and cooling webpage (see below)
• Began our labor calculations for the 3-dome home cluster crowdfunding campaign (see below)
• Finished the research necessary to narrow our internet choices down to two (see below)

SOLUTIONEERING OUR FUTURE – DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER: @5:08

• Da Ku finished the natural pool indoor/outdoor transition point redesign (see below)
• Karl Harris added the stairs, walls, and cupola details for the north-view CAD elevations (see below)

SOLUTIONEERING OUR FUTURE – HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY: @6:13

• Guy Fraser completed an extensive analysis of wordpress as a platform for collaboration (see below)

SOLUTIONEERING OUR FUTURE SUMMARY: @7:00

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

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SOLUTIONEERING OUR FUTURE HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

We are solutioneering our future including Highest Good education that is for all ages, applicable in any environment, adaptable to individual needs, far exceeds traditional education standards, and more fun for both the teachers and the students:

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

This last week the core team finished the addition of a Technology and Innovation branch to each of our three finished lesson plan mindmaps that you can see here:

Click to Visit Pages

SOLUTIONEERING OUR FUTURE HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

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

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

This last week the core team finished adding the diversity details to the organic eggplant section of the large-scale gardening page featuring 8 different varieties of eggplant from around the world plus 1 more. The page now offers over 130 finished plants with cultural considerations, planting guidelines, complete sourcing details and more. Here is a snapshot of the eggplant details that are new:

Organic Eggplant Section Complete – Click to Visit Page

We also finished another 25% of our large-scale soil amendment strategy webpage, bringing us to 75% completion of that open source guide for soil reparation in areas needing it:

Soil Amendment Strategy Webpage – Click to Visit Page

SOLUTIONEERING OUR FUTURE HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

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

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

This last week the core team finished the initial outline of our open source water heating and cooling webpage sharing the details of our research into this crucial city creation element. This image is an overview of what we learned and the page we are finishing will share complete details of why a combination of a solar collector combined with the cost of a heat pump will more than pay for themselves in a fairly short time through electricity savings:

Water Heating and Cooling Initial Outline – Click for Complete Page

We also spoke with the county for the property where we’ll be building the 3-dome cluster for the crowdfunding campaign we are creating and began our detailed labor calculations for this build. Here is a snapshot of this work in progress that we will share in detail once we all agree it is complete:

Earthbag Village Construction Chart – Click for Earthbag Village OS Hub

Lastly, we’re getting closer and closer to finalizing the internet strategy that will be necessary to share everything we are creating. Connection options.

Solutioneering Internet

Listed from best to worst, the internet options for any location are:

1. Physical connection of high-speed internet line (Fiber, Cable, T3, DSL)
2. High-speed wireless internet service
3. DIY wireless internet service (purchasing area/rights near property that can access high-speed physical connection and establish wireless point-to-point link onto property)
4. Satellite internet connection

This simple list is the result of hours of research determining that the details of the first two options are really what an organization open source and free-sharing as much as we are will need. Here are the specifics of the two options:

1. Physical data connection, options include:
   1. Buried cabling between buildings/zones (buried at least 1m down)
      1. Fiber optic cable (up to ~40 Gbps), around $0.75/ft
         1. Single-mode (20km+)
         2. Multi-mode (up to 300m)
      2. Coax cable (up to ~10 Gbps), up to 100m, around $0.15/ft
      3. Ethernet cable (up to ~1 GBps),  up to 75m, around $0.10/ft
   2. Wireless ‘Point-to-Point’/’Line-of-Sight’ connection system (up to ~1.4 Gbps), around $2000/connection, plus cost of tower and cable connections

The first option is 10-40x better and the option we are now seeking to confirm if a realistic implementation option exists for our remote location. Stay tuned as our research continues.

SOLUTIONEERING OUR FUTURE DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

One Community is solutioneering our future including a Duplicable and Sustainable City Center that is LEED Platinum certified/Sustainable, can feed 200 people at a time, provide laundry for over 300 people, is beautiful, spacious, and saves resources, money, and space:

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

This last week week Da Ku (Mechanical Engineer) finished the natural pool indoor/outdoor transition point redesign including a materials list and the video and design specifics you see here showing two plexiglass doors that will open. This two-door system creates an additional space in the middle to improve insulative properties and allow for easy cleaning of both sides of the plexiglass to keep them clean and easy to see through. Here is the best summary image and more images are on the natural pool page:

Duplicable City Center Natural Pool Indoor/Outdoor Transition Point – Click for the Complete Page

Karl Harris (Architect Drafter, Designer, and founder of Harris Design & Technology Services) also added the stairs, walls, and cupola details for the north-view CAD elevations:

Stairs, Walls and Cupola Details Added for the North-view CAD Elevations – Click to Visit Page

SOLUTIONEERING OUR FUTURE HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS

One Community is solutioneering our future including a Highest Good society approach to living that is founded on fulfilled living, the study of meeting human needs, Community, and making a difference in the world:

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

This last week Guy Fraser (Software Developer and Information Architect) completed an extensive analysis of wordpress (the same platform this website is created on) as a platform for collaboration for both the Highest Good Network and the global plant database that Guy has been working on for months. Here is a screenshot of the page that the core team created to share his research and findings so others can benefit from this too:

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

Can WordPress be Used for Collaboration Webpage – Click to Visit Page

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

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

 

INVESTOR PAGES

OVERVIEW | LOCATION | FUNDING

GET INVOLVED

CONSULTANTS | WAYS ANYONE CAN HELP | MEMBERSHIP

CLICK HERE FOR ALL PAST UPDATES

WHAT ONE COMMUNITY IS CREATING

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

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

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

BUILDING THE FIRST OF MANY

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

WHY ONE COMMUNITY IS CREATING THIS

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

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

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

ONE COMMUNITY’S 4-PHASE STRATEGY

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

Phase I: Demonstrating a Better Way

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

Phase II: Open Source Project-Launch Blueprinting

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

Phase III: Inviting the World to Participate

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

Phase IV: Universal Appeal and Global Expansion

As One Community continues evolving and establishing ourselves, everything we create and promote will serve as the engine to inspire people to align with the concept of open source and sustainable living for The Highest Good of All, further solutioneering our future. 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.

SUMMARY

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

One Community is happy to welcome Public Architecture to the Highest Good Collaborators Team:

Public Architecture is a national charitable organization based in San Francisco. It engages architecture and design firms, nonprofits, and manufacturers to commit to design for the public good through its nationally recognized 1% program; it acts to bring about positive community change through public-interest design initiatives and pro bono design service grants; and it shares the potential of design to change the world through advocacy and outreach. As a One Community partner, the 1% program uses its matching system (and offers the same service to all 501(c)(3) nonprofits) to find designers providing pro bono services to match with our design service needs covering all aspects of Highest Good Housing and the Duplicable City Center.

WELCOME TO THE TEAM PUBLIC ARCHITECTURE!

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One Community is happy to welcome Mike Creedy to the Consultants Team:

Mike Creedy – Earthbuilder, Electrical Engineer, and Commercial Mushroom Farmer: Mike was born in Wales and immigrated to Namibia when he was 7 years old. After leaving school he apprenticed as an electrician at De Beers diamond mines followed by a four year electrical engineering college degree in South Africa and two more years at Cape Town university enrolled in the electrical field again. He then joined a commercial mushroom farm and spent 6 years there working up to farm manager before returning to De Beers on the engineering side. 5 years later he moved back to his senior school town and spent 10 years in the position of city electrical engineer. Mike immigrated to Florida in 1996 and took up citizenship five years later. In 2011 Mike started building a dome home and, thanks to all the engineering background, was able to do all the work in-house. Mike is passionate about vegetarianism (40 years), hügels, organic veggie home growing, creating biodynamic and colloidal compost, and sustainability in general. Sharing One Community’s values to create and open source share for the benefit of all of humanity, Mike joined the Consultants and Partner’s team, shared the details of his own project, and continues to share his experience and input as needed to help us with the open source earthbag village (and any other sustainability aspects he has experience in).

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One Community is utilizing a whole-systems approach for world change by broadening sustainability beyond food, energy, and housing to include education, for-profit and non-profit economics design, social architecture, fulfilled living, stewardship practices and more:

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

OUR MAIN OPEN SOURCE HUBS

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

Whole-systems Approach for World Change 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 (#66) covering our development and accomplishments for the week of May 26th, 2014:

Whole-Systems Approach for World Change
One Community Weekly Progress Update #66

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

WHOLE-SYSTEMS APPROACH FOR WORLD CHANGE INTRO @1:00

WHOLE-SYSTEMS APPROACH FOR WORLD CHANGE – HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION @1:49

• Finished the English Subject molecule (see below)
• Researched and added another 20% of links from our Math page to the Khan Academy (60% complete)
• Behind the scenes we finished the Happiness themed lesson plan and began the lesson plan with the core theme of “Signs”

WHOLE-SYSTEMS APPROACH FOR WORLD CHANGE – HIGHEST GOOD FOOD: @2:58

• Created the final 3-D renders of the complete aquapini and walipini footprint (see below)
• Added the 18-hoop house planting maps to the the large-scale gardening page
• Added the diversity details to the organic cucumber section of the large-scale gardening page (see below)
• Now 50% done with our large-scale soil amendment strategy webpage

WHOLE-SYSTEMS APPROACH FOR WORLD CHANGE – HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING: @4:26

• Finished the earthbag home heating and cooling page
• Began outlining a strategy for crowdfunding the building and complete open source sharing of a 3-dome home cluster (see below)
• Outlined version 1.0 of our remote internet plan (see below)
• Finished our tank versus tankless water heater comparison research for the earthbag village communal showers (see below)

WHOLE-SYSTEMS APPROACH FOR WORLD CHANGE – DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER: @5:22

• James Nance outlined all the heating zones (see below)
• Ben Pollock detailed kitchen canning and preserving and dishwashing sections and more equipment (see below)

WHOLE-SYSTEMS APPROACH FOR WORLD CHANGE – HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY: @6:38

• Updated the details of our core value of Diversity page (see below)

WHOLE-SYSTEMS APPROACH FOR WORLD CHANGE SUMMARY: @7:15

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WHOLE-SYSTEMS APPROACH FOR WORLD CHANGE HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

We are creating whole-systems approach for world change including Highest Good education that is for all ages, applicable in any environment, adaptable to individual needs, far exceeds traditional education standards, and more fun for both the teachers and the students:

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

This last week the core team finished the English Subject molecule! Here it is:

English Molecule – Click to Visit Page

WHOLE-SYSTEMS APPROACH FOR WORLD CHANGE HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

We are creating whole-systems approach for world change including Highest Good food that is more diverse, more nutritious, locally grown and sustainable, and part of our open source botanical garden model to support and share bio-diversity:

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

This last week the core team created the final 3-D renders of the complete aquapini and walipini footprint. Here is a series showing this in-ground growing and aquaponics concept that will include 6 different internal growing environments, recreational spaces, water collection off of all structures, a central water pond for storage, and a central amphitheater for hosting recreational and educational events:

Final 3-D Renders of the Complete Aquapini and Walipini Footprint – Click to Visit Page

We also finished adding the diversity details to the organic cucumber section of the large-scale gardening page that now offers 10 different varieties of cucumbers from around the world, 7 beautifully featured, and complete sourcing details for all of these and the other food plants already on this page:

Organic Cucumber Diversity Details – Click to Visit Page

WHOLE-SYSTEMS APPROACH FOR WORLD CHANGE HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

We are creating whole-systems approach for world change including Highest Good housing that is artistic and beautiful, more affordable, more space efficient, lasts longer, DIY buildable, and constructed with healthy and sustainable materials:

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

This last week the core team began outlining a strategy for crowdfunding the building and open source sharing of a 3-dome home cluster. We’ll be building it in West Virginia and the campaign will provide complete building plans, multimedia building instructions for all components, opportunities to join the team for hands-on learning, and more. All of which will be a stepping stone to the construction of the complete Earthbag Village. We will continue to share weekly update details on our progress as we detail the rest of our plan and complete all the necessary plans, videos, labor projections, materials lists, etc. etc.

3-Dome Home Cluster for Upcoming Crowdfunding Campaign – Click to Visit Page

We also finished outlining version 1.0 of our remote internet plan. Here is a screenshot of this GoogleDoc:

Version 1.0 of Remote Internet Plan

And finished our tank versus tankless water heater comparison research for the earthbag village communal showers showing a heatpump with a simple solar collector as the best choice by far for heating water in off-grid situations like ours where energy costs can significantly raise the total water heating costs because they are directly tied to needing more energy infrastructure. Here is the cost to implement combined with cost to power chart that will soon be included on a complete page sharing all the specifics of our work and research into sustainable and ecological water heating for remote locations:

WHOLE-SYSTEMS APPROACH FOR WORLD CHANGE DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

We are creating whole-systems approach for world change including a Duplicable and Sustainable City Center that is LEED Platinum certified/Sustainable, can feed 200 people at a time, provide laundry for over 300 people, is beautiful, spacious, and saves resources, money, and space:

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

This last week week James Nance (Mechanical Engineer and Project Manager with P2S Engineering) continued work on the heating plan for the Duplicable City Center – here are the results of our collaborative outline for all the separate controllable heating zones for floors 1 and 2. Each of the zones outlined will allow us separate heating control so we can maximize the efficiency of this building based on use and season.

Heating Zones – 1st Floor

Heating Zones – 2nd Floor

Ben Pollock (Full Service Restaurant and Kitchen Designer/Senior Project Manager with Webb Food Service Design) also made huge progress on the kitchen details including specifics for the canning and preserving and dishwashing sections plus all the food serving areas. He also confirmed the specific details for the sprayers, heat boosters, and dishwashers. Here is the updated layout:

Kitchen Specifics Added – Click to Visit Page

Here are the specifics of the equipment Ben chose:

Specifics for the Sprayers, Heat Boosters, and Dishwashers

WHOLE-SYSTEMS APPROACH FOR WORLD CHANGE HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS

We are creating whole-systems approach for world change including a Highest Good society approach to living that is founded on fulfilled living, the study of meeting human needs, Community, and making a difference in the world:

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

This last week the core team completely updated the details of our core value of Diversity page covering how diversity is foundational to our organization’s world-change goals and philosophy and how we use this value in our internal decision making process:

Diversity Page – Click to Visit Page

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WHAT ONE COMMUNITY IS CREATING

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

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

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

BUILDING THE FIRST OF MANY

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

WHY ONE COMMUNITY IS CREATING THIS

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

The specifics of how One Community is accomplishing this can be found on the One Community Solution Model to Create Solution-creating Models Page. Research supporting and showing the benefits of a model like this can be found on our Research and Resources Articles Archive, further reinforcing the importance of creating whole-systems approach for world change.

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

ONE COMMUNITY’S 4-PHASE STRATEGY

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

Phase I: Demonstrating a Better Way

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

Phase II: Open Source Project-Launch Blueprinting

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

Phase III: Inviting the World to Participate

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

Phase IV: Universal Appeal and Global Expansion

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

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

WHY OPEN SOURCE

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

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

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

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

SUMMARY

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

One Community is happy to welcome Da Ku to the design team:

Da Ku – Mechanical Engineer: Da Ku received his Master’s Degreee in Mechanical Engineering from University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and his Bachelor’s Degree in Civil Engineering from Zhejiang Univeristy in Hangzhou, China. He is skilled in 3D modeling softwares (SolidWorks, ProE), and FEA packages (ANSYS, Abaqus, etc). Mechanical design and analysis experience, as well as hands on experience conform his passion for making real things that work. He is currently looking for a job in California as a Mechanical Engineer. As a One Community partner, Da Ku helped with the designs, thermal and structural analysis of the transition door for the Duplicable City Center eco-pool and spa and the earthbag village structural engineering.

WELCOME TO THE TEAM DA KU!

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One Community is open sourcing the complete process of zero-waste regenerative community building as a path to global transformation for The Highest Good of All:

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

OUR MAIN OPEN SOURCE HUBS

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

One Community’s physical location will forward this movement as the first of many self-replicating teacher/demonstration communities, villages, and cities to be built around the world. Here is our weekly progress update (#65) covering our development and accomplishments for the week of May 19th, 2014:

Zero-waste Regenerative Community Building
One Community Weekly Progress Update #65

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

ZERO-WASTE REGENERATIVE COMMUNITY BUILDING INTRO @1:00

ZERO-WASTE REGENERATIVE COMMUNITY BUILDING – HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION @1:44

• Finished the indigo ring and all of the linguistics section for the English Subject molecule (see below)
• Researched and added another 20% of links from our Math page to the Khan Academy (40% complete)
• Finished creation of our free online education resource guide webpage (see below)
• Behind the scenes we finished the Spring lesson plan and 30% of the lesson plan with the core theme of happiness

ZERO-WASTE REGENERATIVE COMMUNITY BUILDING – HIGHEST GOOD FOOD: @3:02

• Finished adding sitting areas, trees, and other external accents to the 3-D aquapini and walipini footprint (see below)
• Finished the professional planting plans for the 18 Hoop-houses we’ll be starting with (see below)
• Adding the diversity details to the organic corn section of the large-scale gardening page (see below)
• Behind the scenes, we’ve also finished our large-scale soil amendment strategy details – page coming

ZERO-WASTE REGENERATIVE COMMUNITY BUILDING – HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING: @4:25

• Finished first 15% of the earthbag home heating and cooling page (see below)
• Began researching and comparing tank water heaters to tankless water heaters for the communal showers

ZERO-WASTE REGENERATIVE COMMUNITY BUILDING – DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER: @5:19

• James Nance helped with water heating and heater research (see below)
• Da Ku finished the natural pool transition point door engineering calculations needed for the hinges (see below)
• Karl Harris finished up correcting the windows for the North-view elevation drawings (see below)

ZERO-WASTE REGENERATIVE COMMUNITY BUILDING – HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY: @6:33

• Updated the consensus as a core value page
• Updated the consensus for groups of 200+ page
• Updated the details on consensus training
• Updated the where we are now in our consensus process page (see below for all details)

ZERO-WASTE REGENERATIVE COMMUNITY BUILDING SUMMARY: @7:11

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

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ZERO-WASTE REGENERATIVE COMMUNITY BUILDING HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

We are zero-waste regenerative community building through Highest Good education that is for all ages, applicable in any environment, adaptable to individual needs, far exceeds traditional education standards, and more fun for both the teachers and the students:

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

This last week the core team finished the indigo ring and all of the linguistics section for the English Subject molecule:

Indigo Ring and Linguistics Section Complete for English Subject Molecule

We also finished creation of our free online education resource guide webpage covering all the best free online education resources we’ve found

Completed Free Online Education Resource Guide Webpage – Click to Visit Page

ZERO-WASTE REGENERATIVE COMMUNITY BUILDING HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

We are zero-waste regenerative community building through Highest Good food that is more diverse, more nutritious, locally grown and sustainable, and part of our open source botanical garden model to support and share bio-diversity:

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

This last week the core team finished adding sitting areas, trees, and other external accents to the 3-D aquapini and walipini footprint. Here’s this work completed before we make final renders:

External Accents Added to the 3-D Aquapini and Walipini Footprint – Click to Visit Page

We also finished the professional planting plans for the 18 Hoop-houses we’ll be starting with. Here’s all of them in one image and you can click the image to be taken to the large-scale gardening page for individual images you can enlarge:

Professional Planting Plans for the 18 Hoop-houses – Click to Visit Page

On top of this, we finished adding the diversity details to the organic corn section of the large-scale gardening page that now offers 36 different varieties of corn from around the world, 8 beautifully featured, and complete sourcing details for all of them:

Corn Diversity Details – Click to Visit Page

ZERO-WASTE REGENERATIVE COMMUNITY BUILDING HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

We are zero-waste regenerative community building through Highest Good housing that is artistic and beautiful, more affordable, more space efficient, lasts longer, DIY buildable, and constructed with healthy and sustainable materials:

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

This last week the core team began putting together the earthbag home heating and cooling page. Thus far we’re about 15% done and the page in progress looks like this:

Earthbag Home Heating and Cooling Page 15% Complete – Click to Visit Page

ZERO-WASTE REGENERATIVE COMMUNITY BUILDING DUPLICABLE CITY HUB PROGRESS

We are zero-waste regenerative community building 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 James Nance (Mechanical Engineer and Project Manager with P2S Engineering) working in conjunction with the core team working on the earthbag village, expanded the water heater research and evaluation we’d planned for the Duplicable City Center. Here are cut sheets for all the electric water heater options of the Duplicable City Center:

Water Heater Research – Click to Visit Page

Da Ku (Mechanical Engineer) finished the natural pool transition-point door engineering calculations needed for the hinges. Here is his process:

Da Ku’s question: Since the plexiglass is heavier than an ordinary wood door, is a normal hinge for the door strong enough for our transition door ?

First, Da Ku tried to calculate the stress of the hinge of an ordinary wood door (his bedroom door). He measured the dimensions of the hinge and the door, and modeled it in ANSYS. The result was 1.7e8 Pa for maximum Von-Mises stress, around the contact position with the hinge axis.

Then, he input the model of the transition door (2 inch thick), which is more than twice the weight of the bedroom door (taken into account the buoyancy force). In this case the stress is of course much bigger, near the yielding strength of steel. So Da Ku added 2 more hinges in addition to the original 2 hinges. As a result it gives 1.2e8 Pa for maximum Von-Mises stress, less than the bedroom door hinge.

His conclusion is that we just need to use 2 more hinges and we will be fine.

Da Ku also did some online research into hinges and rust and saw that stainless steel might be good for our case, since some stainless steel can stay rust-free even in water. His next step here will be to ask someone who sells stainless hinges next time he goes to home Depot or Lowe’s.

Also, Karl Harris finished correcting the windows for the North-view elevation drawings:

Windows Corrected for the North-view Elevation Drawings – Click to Visit Page

ZERO-WASTE REGENERATIVE COMMUNITY BUILDING HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY

We are zero-waste regenerative community building through a Highest Good society approach to living that is founded on fulfilled living, the study of meeting human needs, Community, and making a difference in the world:

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

This last week the core team completely updated the details of all our consensus pages including the consensus as a core value page, consensus for groups of 200+ page, details on consensus training, and where we are now in our consensus process page. Here’s a collage of these pages that you can click to be taken to the main page we’d recommend for anyone starting on their journey to understanding the consensus process:

Completely Updated Details of All Our Consensus Pages – Click to Visit Main Page

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INVESTOR PAGES

OVERVIEW | LOCATION | FUNDING

GET INVOLVED

CONSULTANTS | WAYS ANYONE CAN HELP | MEMBERSHIP

CLICK HERE FOR ALL PAST UPDATES

WHAT ONE COMMUNITY IS CREATING

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

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

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

BUILDING THE FIRST OF MANY

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

WHY ONE COMMUNITY IS CREATING THIS

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

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

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

ONE COMMUNITY’S 4-PHASE STRATEGY

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

Phase I: Demonstrating a Better Way

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

Phase II: Open Source Project-Launch Blueprinting

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

Phase III: Inviting the World to Participate

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

Phase IV: Universal Appeal and Global Expansion

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

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

WHY OPEN SOURCE

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

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

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

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

SUMMARY

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

One Community is addressing the foundations of holistic, regenerative, and self-sufficient living (food, energy, housing, education, for-profit and non-profit economics design, social architecture, fulfilled living, stewardship practices and more) as a path to jump-starting sustainable civilizations. Specifically, we are open source and free-sharing all the blueprints, tools, tutorials, and DIY approaches to these areas for The Highest Good of All:

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

OUR MAIN OPEN SOURCE HUBS

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

One Community’s physical location will forward this movement as the first of many self-replicating teacher/demonstration communities, villages, and cities to be built around the world. Here is our weekly progress update (#64) covering our development and accomplishments for the week of May 12th, 2014:

Jump-starting Sustainable Civilizations
One Community Weekly Progress Update #64

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

JUMP-STARTING SUSTAINABLE CIVILIZATIONS INTRO @1:00

JUMP-STARTING SUSTAINABLE CIVILIZATIONS – HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION @1:41

• Researched and added the first 20% of links from Khan Academy to our Math page.
• Finished researching and creating a free online education resource guide (not formatted yet)

JUMP-STARTING SUSTAINABLE CIVILIZATIONS – HIGHEST GOOD FOOD: @2:44

• Added stairs, berms, railings, and external elements to the complete aquapini and walipini 3-D footprint in 3-D (see below)
• 60% done with the professional planting plans for the 18-hoop houses (see below)
• We also finished the diversity details to the heirloom celery section of the Â large-scale gardening page (see below)
• 90% done with our soil amendment strategy details; added mushroom cultivation specifics and composting details (behind the scenes)

JUMP-STARTING SUSTAINABLE CIVILIZATIONS – HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING: @4:26

• Began our equipment schedule for the entire village and the Duplicable City Center (see below)
• We also began in-depth research on remote internet installation for the complete property

JUMP-STARTING SUSTAINABLE CIVILIZATIONS – DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER: @5:10

• Created the open source duplicable city center kitchen page
• Rick Ruggles and Jennifer Engelmeier calculated our power supply needs for the open source natural pool and spa (see below)
• Da Ku finished his initial calculations for heat loss for the swimming pool (see below)
• And Karl Harris redesigned our dome windows in CAD (see below)

JUMP-STARTING SUSTAINABLE CIVILIZATIONS – HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY: @6:40

• Completely rewrote our Communication values page (see below)
• Guy Fraser began WordPress research for the global plant collaborative database (see below)

JUMP-STARTING SUSTAINABLE CIVILIZATIONS SUMMARY: @7:25

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JUMP-STARTING SUSTAINABLE CIVILIZATIONS HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

We are jump-starting sustainable civilizations through Highest Good education that is for all ages, applicable in any environment, adaptable to individual needs, far exceeds traditional education standards, and more fun for both the teachers and the students:

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

This last week the core team researched and added the first 20% of links from our Math page to the open source and free-shared Khan Academy educational program for teaching it all:

Khan Academy Links Added to Math Page – Click to Visit Page

JUMP-STARTING SUSTAINABLE CIVILIZATIONS HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

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

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

This last week the core team added stairs, berms, the central pond railing, and fixed some piping issues in the aquapini and walipini footprint in 3-D:

Piping Issues Fixed and Stairs, Berms, and central pond railing added in the Aquapini and Walipini

We also added a diversity of aesthetic external recreational spaces:

Aesthetic External Recreational Spaces Added

In addition to this we are now about 60% done with the professional planting plans for the 18-hoop houses we’ll be starting with. 4 remain to be detailed but the rest are complete with the specific areas for the growing zones placed and only labels for the specific plants remaining to be added:

Professional Planting Plans for the 18-Hoop Houses are 60% complete

We also finished the diversity details to the heirloom celery section of the Â large-scale gardening page that now offers 18 different varieties of celery from around the world, 9 featured varieties, and complete sourcing details for all of them:

Heirloom Celery Section Complete – Click to Visit Page

JUMP-STARTING SUSTAINABLE CIVILIZATIONS HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

One Community is jump-starting sustainable civilizations through Highest Good housing that is artistic and beautiful, more affordable, more space efficient, lasts longer, DIY buildable, and constructed with healthy and sustainable materials:

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

This last week the core team began our equipment schedule for the Earthbag Village and the Duplicable City Center. This document will evolve until we’ve actually built the entire village. We’re creating it now as we continue to get specific on our energy needs. The work helps One community’s mission of Jump-starting sustainable civilizations  and reinforces our commitment to a better living quality for all people. Here is version 1.0:

Began Equipment Schedule for the Earthbag Village and the Duplicable City Center

JUMP-STARTING SUSTAINABLE CIVILIZATIONS DUPLICABLE CITY HUB PROGRESS

One Community is jump-starting sustainable civilizations with 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:

Rick Ruggles (Pool Water Health Specialist with Hayward Pool Products) working in conjunction Jennifer Engelmeier (Eco-pool and Spa Specialist and founder of www.LoveYourNaturalPool.com) calculated our power supply needs for the open source natural pool and spa. Here are those calculations:

Power Supply Needs for the Open Source Natural Pool and Spa Calculated – Click to Visit Page

Da Ku finished his initial calculations for heat loss for the swimming pool that look like this:

Assuming the room temperature is 72 F(22 C), indoor pool 60 F(15 C), outdoor temperature 20 F(-7 C), outdoor pool 32 F(0 C).

1. Convection heat loss

The heat loss by convection is done using heat transfer coefficient according to the equation: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heat_transfer_coefficient

The door is treated as two separate parts (above part in air and below part in water), and we calculated these two parts respectively.

1.1 coefficients:

Da treated indoor part as natural convection, and outdoor water also as natural convection, outdoor air as forced convection (since there might be wind).

Air: the heat transfer coefficient is around 1.7 W/(m^2*K) for 1 inch thick door, and 1.4 for 2 inch thick door.

Water: the heat transfer coefficient is around 5 W/(m^2*K) for 1 inch thick door, and 3 for 2 inch thick door.

Da did not find a nice way for the forced convection coefficient for air, so he just use the range 10-100 W/(m^2*K) from wikipedia, and found that the result is not very sensitive to this range.

He also found online that the heat conductivity for plexiglass is around 1.7-2.0 W/(m*K).

1.2 results:

Substitute the above coefficients into the equations and add the heat loss for air and water, get around 109 W heat loss for 1 inch door, 73 W heat loss for 2 inch door.

2. Radiation heat loss

Then Da tried to calculate the heat loss by radiation. The air and the outdoor ambient radiation are neglected, he only considered the outer pool, inner dome, floor and inner pool. The resultant radiation heat loss is around 286 W, mainly due to the indoor ambient and inner pool, they make about half and a little less than half of the total, the floor contributes a little more than 5%, the outer pool is negligible.

Karl Harris (Architect Drafter, Designer, and founder of Harris Design & Technology Services) also redesigned our dome windows in CAD after discovering errors in his previous elevation designs showing them:

Redesigned Dome Windows in CAD – Click to Visit Page

JUMP-STARTING SUSTAINABLE CIVILIZATIONS HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY

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

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

This last week the core team completely rewrote our Communication page, adding in specifics about what this core value means to us and how we use it in our decision making and ongoing development process. The work helps One community’s mission of Jump-starting sustainable civilizations  and reinforces our commitment to a better living quality for all people:

Communications Page Completely Rewritten – Click to Visit Page

Guy Fraser Â (Computer Programmer and Information Architect) also completed a massive amount of research on how we may be able to use WordPress to build our global plant collaborative database. Here’s his progress report:

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

Spent most of the day hunting for plugins and found some absolutely amazing WordPress add ons.

In particular, this one: http://codecanyon.net/item/wordpress-content-types-generator/4717991

That provides a visual editor for creating custom taxonomies – genus, species, etc. Now do-able 🙂 It creates all the user interface (eg. fields, editors, lists, everything!), database, everything needed to make it work as if it was a standard part of WordPress, which is HUGE. And then it provides custom page type editor as well. So we can define custom WordPress page types for each level of the hierarchy, and anything else that’s needed.

You then get new menu in the WordPress admin area for editing the taxonomy and content, just like the Pages or Posts sections, but with the stuff we define.

There are also lots of plugins for adding additional field types. Here’s one of them: http://www.advancedcustomfields.com/

The next stage will be to find some way of getting front-end editing integrated with BuddyPress groups <” this is the missing piece of the puzzle, everything else is do-able with existing plugins.

I’ve been chatting to a developer in India that might be up for that challenge. I’ll also see if I can get in touch with the UserPress team (wiki for WordPress) and see if I can nudge them in a similar direction. The WordPress core team are also working on a front-end editor: http://github.com/avryl/wp-front-end-editor – so basically lots of different projects all heading in the same direction and sooner or later one of them will succeed.

There’s also a Geo my WP plugin which adds geolocation data to all content = instant way to map where specific plants are, and then do location/distance based searches.

We’d have most of the infrastructure for the search engine as well by the time these things are done. But to facilitate mass data acquisition we’d need to make it much easier for people to contribute…

Enter this bad boy: http://apppresser.com/ – was chatting to them recently and they are working on a BuddyPress module which means that we would be able to create and maintain native mobile apps for the site, complete with push notifications. And those apps have the ability to integrate with phone camera, GPS, etc… So botanists could simply take a photo of a plant and then enter it’s botanical name and hit “Send” = instantly update the website, including geo location and photo. In fact, anyone could do that = help build up global database of plants (“The NSA of plants”)…

I’ve also been chatting to these folks: http://zapper.com/ – specifically about the possibility of getting a custom field type in WordPress that integrates with their service. In English: People could photo the QR code on a plant label and be taken directly to that plant on the website (or mobile app!), automatically being logged in to the site if necessary. Point and click accession management 🙂

Then we could use plugins like this to show timeline of a plant: http://codecanyon.net/item/wordpress-ultimate-timeline/7411135 and when it spawns a new plant there’d be an entry linking to the page for that plant etc.

Oh, and when updates are made to anything they’d be reported in the BuddyPress activity stream to notify people, possibly even triggering BuddyPress notifications to people who have ‘subscribed’ to updates for that plant.

There are also plugins that take content from one site and publish it on another site (or Facebook, twitter, google+, etc) – so if a botanical garden (or whatever) wanted a dedicated site that shows stuff specific to them that would be possible too.

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INVESTOR PAGES

OVERVIEW | LOCATION | FUNDING

GET INVOLVED

CONSULTANTS | WAYS ANYONE CAN HELP | MEMBERSHIP

CLICK HERE FOR ALL PAST UPDATES

WHAT ONE COMMUNITY IS CREATING

One Community is creating a place to grow together and change the world together. We are creating a space that helps each other live in integrity with each other and the planet as we strive to be the greatest versions of ourselves, jump-starting sustainable civilizations.. 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, ultimately jump-starting sustainable civilizations. This replicable community will serve as an example for what is possible.

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

BUILDING THE FIRST OF MANY

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

WHY ONE COMMUNITY IS CREATING THIS

The One Community self-replicating model is capable of creating a sustainable planet within 30 years. We will achieve this by establishing successful teacher/demonstration hubs on every continent, thus jump-starting sustainable civilizations. 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, jump-starting sustainable civilizations.

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

ONE COMMUNITY’S 4-PHASE STRATEGY

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

Phase I: Demonstrating a Better Way

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

Phase II: Open Source Project-Launch Blueprinting

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

Phase III: Inviting the World to Participate

Everything we are open source project-launch blueprinting is designed to invite the world to participate by duplicating it as either individual components or complete teacher/demonstration communities, villages, and cities that will be able to be built almost anywhere in the world, thereby jump-starting sustainable civilizations. 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. The work helps One community’s mission of Jump-starting sustainable civilizations  and reinforces our commitment to a better living quality for all people.

Phase IV: Universal Appeal and Global Expansion

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

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

WHY OPEN SOURCE

We are creating everything One Community does as open source and free-shared blueprints because we see this as the path to a new Golden Age of creativity, innovation, cooperation, and collaboration for all of humanity, ultimately contributing to jump-starting sustainable civilizations. 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. The work helps One community’s mission of Jump-starting sustainable civilizations and reinforces our commitment to a better living quality for all people.

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, therebyjump-starting sustainable civilizations. The work helps One community’s mission ofJump-starting sustainable civilizations  and reinforces our commitment to a better living quality for all people.

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, jump-starting sustainable civilizations. This is all supported and made possible because:

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

SUMMARY

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

One Community is happy to welcome Rick Ruggles to the design team:

Rick Ruggles – Swimming Pool Consultant: Rick has been in the pool and spa industry for over 14 years. He currently teaches classes for Hayward Pool Products to pool professionals on how to install, use, maintain, and repair dozens of types of pool/spa equipment. Rick is also an instructor for the National Swimming Pool Foundation and The Foundation for Pool and Spa Industry Education. He holds many certifications, including Certified Pool Operator, Certified Pool Inspector, Certified Energy Auditor, Certified Aquatic Equipment Installer, and Certified Chemical Automation Technician, as well as a BS degree in International Business. As a One Community consultant, Rick is helping the natural pool team spec pool and spa equipment for the Duplicable City Center eco-pool and spa to create the most energy efficient and low-chemical pool possible that still provides totally safe and healthy pool/spa water.

WELCOME TO THE TEAM RICK!

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