Posted on December 24, 2014 by One Community
Welcoming Emily’s Quotes and our newest Highest Good Collaborator joining our Open Source team:
EmilysQuotes (Vitali) www.emilysquotes.com
EmilysQuotes is a web-site dedicated to the popular inspirational quotes. Their goal is to create and online-share beautiful and attractive quote images on a daily basis because “we believe that it helps most people to stay in a good mood and have a wonderful day. Sharing positive quotes is like sharing happiness, it allows many of us to deal with difficult situations, to gain hope and wisdom and to be kind.” J.K Rowling said it this way, “Happiness can be found, even in the darkest of times, if one only remembers to turn on the light.” We couldn’t agree more, so One Community is working in conjunction with EmilysQuotes to help promote the site and share these messages and quotes as part of our social media outreach associated with sharing our Open Source and Highest Good creation components.
Here is just a small sample of the beautiful and inspirational work at www.emilysquotes.com (click the image for more):
![]() | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() |
Posted on December 19, 2014 by One Community
One Community is creating and open source sharing globally replicable solutions for sustainable living. We are doing this to create complete teacher/demonstration villages that are easy enough, affordable enough, and demonstrate an attractive enough living model that they will become self-replicating. We do this with a consciousness for The Highest Good of All as a path to positive and permanent global transformation:
Click on each icon to be taken to the corresponding Highest Good hub page.
One Community’s physical location will forward this movement as the first of many self-replicating teacher/demonstration communities, villages, and cities to be built around the world. This is the December 19th, 2014 edition (#94) of our weekly progress update detailing the previous week’s development and accomplishments:
Here is the bullet-point list of this last week’s design and progress discussed in detail in the video above:
GLOBALLY REPLICABLE SOLUTIONS @1:00
GLOBALLY REPLICABLE SOLUTIONS: HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION @2:00
GLOBALLY REPLICABLE SOLUTIONS: HIGHEST GOOD FOOD: @3:31
GLOBALLY REPLICABLE SOLUTIONS: HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING: @4:26
GLOBALLY REPLICABLE SOLUTIONS: DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER: @6:10
GLOBALLY REPLICABLE SOLUTIONS: HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY: @7:23
GLOBALLY REPLICABLE SOLUTIONS SUMMARY: @8:02
CLICK HERE IF YOU’D LIKE TO RECEIVE AN EMAIL EACH WEEK WHEN WE RELEASE A NEW UPDATE
One Community is creating globally replicable solutions with 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:
This last week the core team completed the final 75% of the lesson plan mindmap with the central theme of “Movement and Development.” We also completed the second half of the “Movement and Development webpage” that lists the specifics of the lesson plan. You can see both here, complete and ready for use by anyone in any learning environment to teach all subjects, to any learning level within the context of this central theme.
Behind the scenes we finished another 10% of the lesson plan design for “Open Source”, bringing us to 25% done there.
Behind the scenes we also finished a total outline of globally replicable solutions redesign for the Technology and Innovation Molecule.
Behind the scenes we additionally finished the first 60% of the lesson plan design for the lesson with the central theme of “Dreams”
One Community is creating globally replicable solutions with 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:
This last week the core team finished adding an easy-index to the tops of all 35 of our food breakout pages for the open source large-scale gardening archive and tutorial for globally replicable solutions. You can see an example of this here:
We also completed an update and featuring of the food forest open source hub for globally replicable solutions, which is currently our #1 most shared page at over 2,500 shares and likes on FaceBook alone.
One Community is creating globally replicable solutions with Highest Good housing that is artistic and beautiful, more affordable, more space efficient, lasts longer, DIY buildable, and constructed with healthy and sustainable materials:
This last week the core team finished our thermal penetration calculations for the earthbag village dome homes and updated the earthbag heating and cooling page to include our results for globally replicable solutions. These results came within 3% of our initial calculations and confirmed that we are now ready to confidently move on to the stage of testing through experimentation to get empirical data. Here’s the newest calculations and updates to the page:
We also added a What and Why section to the dome home footers, foundation and flooring open source tutorial that is part of the preparation for the crowdfunding campaign.
What and Why Section Added to the Earthbag Construction Footers, Foundation, and Flooring Page – Click to Visit
We also finished the other half of the materials and image updates for the custom murphy bed furniture. These updates are all the corrections needed and uncovered in the materials breakdown we just completed.
Related to that, we’re also finished 80% of the materials cost analysis for the furniture design. You can see it here where we are cost comparing all the different types of wood that could be used.
Behind the scenes we finished the first 15% of the earthdome window and door framing research and content organization and creation for the crowdfunding campaign.
In addition to this, Scott Thomas and his Shadow Ridge Signature Architecture Program team also produced these updates to the complete Earthbag Village evolving in CAD, adding details to the bathrooms, entry to the Tropical Atrium and repositioning the 3 and 6-dome clusters.
One Community is creating globally replicable solutions with 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:
This last week the core team completed the rest of the Building plans for all components section for the Duplicable City Center and featured it. You can now download the CAD and Sketchup files for this structure there.
We also updated the calculations and details on the water collection page for this structure. You can see that here showing how we made our calculations and exactly how much water we expect to be able to collect off of the Duplicable City Center.
One Community is creating globally replicable solutions with 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:
This last week the core team continued the complete redesign of the core pages associated with our homepage. This included the first draft of this image and redesign of our About Us page. This redesign updated this page to simplify it and reorganize it to function as a guide to our extensive website.
In addition to this, we updated and featured our open source Consensus page. Click this image for the updated page:
AND WE PRODUCED THIS WEEKLY UPDATES BLOG – CLICK HERE TO SUBSCRIBE
CONSULTANTS | WAYS ANYONE CAN HELP | MEMBERSHIP
CLICK HERE FOR ALL PAST UPDATES
One Community is creating a place to grow together and change the world together. We are creating a space that helps each other live in integrity with each other and the planet as we strive to be the greatest versions of ourselves. We do this by harmoniously respecting each other, nature, and the rest of our one shared planet.
Our goal is to demonstrate what we feel is the most sustainable, healthy, and fun environment we can create. A place based on compassion, kindness, and collaboration. This replicable community will serve as an example for what is possible.
Throughout our design process we are open sourcing and free-sharing everything needed for construction and replication. This includes what we call “Highest Good” approaches to food, energy, housing, education, for-profit and non-profit economics design, social architecture, fulfilled living, stewardship practices and more. We are creating these resources for implementation as individual components or complete developments called teacher/demonstration hubs. These hubs will help launch additional hubs as awareness and knowledge grow.
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.
The One Community self-replicating model is capable of creating a sustainable planet within 30 years. We will achieve this by establishing successful teacher/demonstration hubs on every continent. Villages include designs appropriate for each of the five main types of climates. They also include options for even the most challenged economies. These hubs will collaborate with one another, share ideas, resources, and work together as a network to heal the planet. They will also transform the global lifestyle to a more enjoyable, fulfilling, healthy, and sustainable one.
The specifics of how One Community is accomplishing this can be found on the One Community Solution Model to Create Solution-creating Models Page. Research supporting and showing the benefits of a model like this can be found on our Research and Resources Articles Archive.
Even if we don’t achieve our ultimate goal of global transformation, a self-replicating teacher/demonstration model like this will take a relatively short period of time to positively affect millions while inspiring millions more. For One Community residents (the Pioneer Team), the idea of creating and sharing the social and recreational experience with visitors is also fun, exciting, fulfilling, and an additional reason why we are creating this.
One Community’s four-phase strategy for the creation of solution models that create solution creating models uses open source blueprints for duplication that simultaneously address all aspects of the human experience (food, energy, housing, education, social inequality and injustice, fulfilled living, etc.). We see these areas as interdependent and requiring a comprehensive solution if humanity is to move ecologically, socially, economically, and permanently towards a truly sustainable future for everyone.
Our open source model and blueprints engage and inspire people while simultaneously making sustainable living more affordable and easy to replicate. By free-sharing the step-by-step plans people need for duplication, inviting people to participate, and demonstrating sustainable teacher/demonstration hubs as a more desirable way of living, the model will predictably expand on its own.
It is this approach we see uniting the world and leading to a new Golden Age for humanity. While we understand that not everyone believes this is even possible, we are nonetheless bringing together all those that do see this as possible as the non-profit think tank of forward-thinking individuals willing to design, build, and open source project-launch blueprint and free-share it for The Highest Good of All.
One Community is open source sharing an evolution of sustainable living that addresses the complete human experience. We are doing this because we see the solutions for global food, housing, energy, education, social inequality, ethical business practices, earth regenerative practices, and a desire for a more fulfilling living experience as inseparably interconnected. As a comprehensive solution, we are addressing all these areas simultaneously and open source free-sharing everything needed for individual duplication and/or duplication as complete self-replicating teacher/demonstration communities, villages, and cities to be built around the world.
As we address and open source share these areas we will establish a living example of the first teacher/demonstration village purposed to teach others. To maximally facilitate duplication, One Community will provide seven duplicable examples and function indefinitely as a place people can visit and a non-profit and open source think tank continuing to further evolve and share solutions in all of the above areas and more. We will also provide hands-on experience and training. Most importantly, growing upon our sustainable foundation, we will endlessly make this comprehensive solution even more widely known and globally accessible, understandable and diversely duplicable, and inspiring and desirable as a model worth duplicating.
Posted on December 16, 2014 by One Community
One Community is happy to welcome Robert Seton to the Highest Good energy Team:
Robert Seton is a Solar Design Engineer specializing in off-grid and battery back-up systems. He studied Electrical Engineering at the University of New South Wales in Sydney and has as Masters Degree in Social Ecology from the University of Western Sydney. He has forty years experience in electrical engineering, solar design, training and project management. His talent for design and long held passion for renewable energy systems has made him a leader in the industry. For many years Robert lead a team of engineers at the largest solar distributor in the United States, Soligent. He left that company to create Solar Hybrid Design to focus and apply from his deeply held belief that energy must be sustainable and renewable for everyone if we are to achieve a healthy global future. Robert has designed wonderful projects around the globe including towns in Africa and Mexico, islands in the Caribbean and Pacific, schools in the Philippines, and homes throughout the Northern Hemisphere. As a One Community partner, Robert is helping with the Highest Good energy solar components of both the earthbag village and the Duplicable City Center.
With Robert, we also welcome his company Solar Hybrid Design to the One Community Highest Good Collaborators team.
Solar Hybrid Design is devoted to and passionate about renewable energy. Their engineers are experts in the area of hybrid design, which is the Smart Grid on a small scale. They see it as the wave of the future and their designers have many years experience designing projects which include photovoltaics, wind power, generator power, solar water pumps, inverters and batteries. The appropriate elements are then designed into integrated renewable power systems. Principal, Robert Seton has had over forty years experience in electrical and solar design, training and project management. His talent for design and long held passion for renewable energy systems has made him a leader in the industry. Employing some of the most respected designers and engineers in the field of renewable energy, Solar Hybrid Design has become a top recommendation for many highly respected manufacturers and distributors because they appreciate the detail of their analysis, know they can trust their product knowledge and integrity, and have come to respect Solar Hybrid Design‘s ability to think outside the box. Solar Hybrid Design creates smart and cost effective solutions for any situation and have joined the One Community Highest Good collaborator’s team to lend their knowledge and assistance to the Highest Good energy solar components of both the earthbag village and the Duplicable City Center.
![]() | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() |
Posted on December 12, 2014 by One Community
Sustainable prosperity means more of what people want in their lives on an ongoing basis. Sustainable infrastructure combined with a cooperative and collaborative living model can provide this. One Community is creating open source tools, tutorial, blueprints, and resources to help people create this for The Highest Good of All:
Click on each icon to be taken to the corresponding Highest Good hub page.
One Community’s physical location will forward this movement as the first of many self-replicating teacher/demonstration communities, villages, and cities to be built around the world. This is the December 12th, 2014 edition (#93) of our weekly progress update detailing the previous week’s development and accomplishments:
Here is the bullet-point list of this last week’s design and progress discussed in detail in the video above:
SUSTAINABLE PROSPERITY INTRO @1:00
SUSTAINABLE PROSPERITY: HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION @2:00
SUSTAINABLE PROSPERITY: HIGHEST GOOD FOOD: @3:17
SUSTAINABLE PROSPERITY: HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING: @4:10
SUSTAINABLE PROSPERITY: DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER: @6:09
SUSTAINABLE PROSPERITY: HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY: @7:16
SUSTAINABLE PROSPERITY SUMMARY: @8:10
CLICK HERE IF YOU’D LIKE TO RECEIVE AN EMAIL EACH WEEK WHEN WE RELEASE A NEW UPDATE
One Community is facilitating sustainable prosperity through Highest Good education that is for all ages, applicable in any environment, adaptable to individual needs, far exceeds traditional education standards, and more fun for both the teachers and the students:
This last week the core team completed the first 25% of the lesson plan mindmap with the central theme of “Movement and Development.” Here it is:
We also completed the first half of the “Movement and Development webpage” that lists the specifics of how to use this lesson and mindmap to teach all subjects to all ages, in any environment, using the central “Movement and Development” theme for sustainable prosperity. Here is a picture of this completed work too:
We also added a new resources section like this to the bottom of all the curriculum and subject pages:
And, behind the scenes, we finished the first 15% of the lesson plan design for “Open Source”
One Community is facilitating sustainable prosperity through Highest Good food that is more diverse, more nutritious, locally grown and sustainable, and part of our open source botanical garden model to support and share bio-diversity:
This last week the core team added another 10% to the new Food Self-sufficiency Transition Plan for sustainable prosperity. This developing page shares the wonderful work of Benjamin Sessions and is about teaching people how to affordably and efficiently prepare food in both temporary and permanent kitchen situations until people can produce their own. This will be essential for sustainable prosperity and initial remote village construction as well as the upcoming crowdfunding campaign:
One Community is facilitating sustainable prosperity through Highest Good housing that is artistic and beautiful, more affordable, more space efficient, lasts longer, DIY buildable, and constructed with healthy and sustainable materials:
This last week the core team added a Why and What section to the dome home electrical page that is part of the preparation for the upcoming crowdfunding campaign for sustainable prosperity:
We also created the first half of the materials and image updates for the custom murphy bed furniture for sustainable prosperity. These updates are fixing non-standard sized components uncovered in the materials breakdown we’ve been working on for the past few weeks.
In addition to this, the core team completed this initial assessment of thermal lag testing and calculations through the earthdome walls. This is only the beginning of this work that nobody (to our knowledge) has ever done. The outermost layer you see is the wall, the next layer in is the air within the wall, and the central area is space we are not measuring because the first 16″ of air measurements will give us the information we need. These calculations are being completed as a precursor to more complex calculations we’ll also be doing on the Earthbag Village central Tropical Atrium. This is important in measuring sustainable prosperity.
Scott Thomas and his Shadow Ridge Signature Architecture Program team also produced these next steps of putting the complete Earthbag Village into CAD:
And the crowdfunding campaign wet dome into CAD:
Last but not least, here’s a previously unshared update from Dave Walen (Architectural Drafter & Designer and owner of Dave Philip Walen Design) showing the first detailed section of the Straw Bale Village (Pod 2) with straight walls instead of curved walls. What you see is two studios and a two-room unit, all designed for easy modification into different floor plans to meet different needs.
One Community is facilitating sustainable prosperity through a Duplicable and Sustainable City Center that is LEED Platinum certified/Sustainable, can feed 200 people at a time, provide laundry for over 300 people, is beautiful, spacious, and saves resources, money, and space:
This last week the core team completed the first 20% of the Building plans for all components section for the Duplicable City Center. This developing page is where we are hosting downloads of all the CAD, Sketchup, and other files so that people will have free access to these files for duplication, modification, and adaptation.
One Community is facilitating sustainable prosperity through a Highest Good society approach to living that is founded on fulfilled living, the study of meeting human needs, Community, and making a difference in the world:
This last week the core team continued the complete redesign of the homepage to streamline and simplify it to better help people understand what we are creating and how it is a viable strategy for global transformation to sustainability. The focus for this week was the Helping Us page updates you can see here. This page now shares clearly and easily all the ways someone can participate in One Community ranging from internet help and support to joining the Pioneer Team.
In addition to this, we also created new social media imagery and featured our Creating Utopia page and our Large-scale Gardening page:
AND WE PRODUCED THIS WEEKLY UPDATES BLOG – CLICK HERE TO SUBSCRIBE
CONSULTANTS | WAYS ANYONE CAN HELP | MEMBERSHIP
CLICK HERE FOR ALL PAST UPDATES
One Community is creating a place to grow together and change the world together. We are creating a space that helps each other live in integrity with each other and the planet as we strive to be the greatest versions of ourselves. We do this by harmoniously respecting each other, nature, and the rest of our one shared planet.
Our goal is to demonstrate what we feel is the most sustainable, healthy, and fun environment we can create. A place based on compassion, kindness, and collaboration. This replicable community will serve as an example for what is possible.
Throughout our design process we are open sourcing and free-sharing everything needed for construction and replication. This includes what we call “Highest Good” approaches to food, energy, housing, education, for-profit and non-profit economics design, social architecture, fulfilled living, stewardship practices and more. We are creating these resources for implementation as individual components or complete developments called teacher/demonstration hubs. These hubs will help launch additional hubs as awareness and knowledge grow.
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.
The One Community self-replicating model is capable of creating a sustainable planet within 30 years. We will achieve this by establishing successful teacher/demonstration hubs on every continent. Villages include designs appropriate for each of the five main types of climates. They also include options for even the most challenged economies. These hubs will collaborate with one another, share ideas, resources, and work together as a network to heal the planet. They will also transform the global lifestyle to a more enjoyable, fulfilling, healthy, and sustainable one.
The specifics of how One Community is accomplishing this can be found on the One Community Solution Model to Create Solution-creating Models Page. Research supporting and showing the benefits of a model like this can be found on our Research and Resources Articles Archive.
Even if we don’t achieve our ultimate goal of global transformation, a self-replicating teacher/demonstration model like this will take a relatively short period of time to positively affect millions while inspiring millions more. For One Community residents (the Pioneer Team), the idea of creating and sharing the social and recreational experience with visitors is also fun, exciting, fulfilling, and an additional reason why we are creating this.
One Community’s four-phase strategy for the creation of solution models that create solution creating models uses open source blueprints for duplication that simultaneously address all aspects of the human experience (food, energy, housing, education, social inequality and injustice, fulfilled living, etc.). We see these areas as interdependent and requiring a comprehensive solution if humanity is to move ecologically, socially, economically, and permanently towards a truly sustainable future for everyone.
Our open source model and blueprints engage and inspire people while simultaneously making sustainable living more affordable and easy to replicate. By free-sharing the step-by-step plans people need for duplication, inviting people to participate, and demonstrating sustainable teacher/demonstration hubs as a more desirable way of living, the model will predictably expand on its own.
It is this approach we see uniting the world and leading to a new Golden Age for humanity. While we understand that not everyone believes this is even possible, we are nonetheless bringing together all those that do see this as possible as the non-profit think tank of forward-thinking individuals willing to design, build, and open source project-launch blueprint and free-share it for The Highest Good of All.
One Community is open source sharing an evolution of sustainable living that addresses the complete human experience. We are doing this because we see the solutions for global food, housing, energy, education, social inequality, ethical business practices, earth regenerative practices, and a desire for a more fulfilling living experience as inseparably interconnected. As a comprehensive solution, we are addressing all these areas simultaneously and open source free-sharing everything needed for individual duplication and/or duplication as complete self-replicating teacher/demonstration communities, villages, and cities to be built around the world.
As we address and open source share these areas we will establish a living example of the first teacher/demonstration village purposed to teach others. To maximally facilitate duplication, One Community will provide seven duplicable examples and function indefinitely as a place people can visit and a non-profit and open source think tank continuing to further evolve and share solutions in all of the above areas and more. We will also provide hands-on experience and training. Most importantly, growing upon our sustainable foundation, we will endlessly make this comprehensive solution even more widely known and globally accessible, understandable and diversely duplicable, and inspiring and desirable as a model worth duplicating.
The more people that are inspired and desiring for themselves what it is that One Community creates, the more demand there will be for spreading the One Community model. This leads to the directing of financial resources and resourceful people where we believe they are needed most: the establishment of additional sustainable communities around the world. We also feel this duplication will specifically happen quickly internationally due to the affordability of overseas land, less restrictive building environments, and the spirit of adventure in many people who really desire to make a difference for those who need it most.
Posted on December 12, 2014 by One Community
One Community is happy to welcome The Free World Charter to the Highest Good Collaborators Team:
The Free World Charter is a statement of principles that has the potential to optimize life on Earth for all species, eradicate poverty and greed, and advance progress. Neither political nor religious, The Free World Charter provides ten short principles capable of “forming the foundation of a new, advanced society that uses no money, is free, fair and sustainable.” The principles are based solely on nature, common sense, and survival. Put forth as “a logical progression out of the failing mechanisms of today’s society, and a natural step in our evolution,” One Community has partnered with The Free World Charter to help promote each other’s messages because we are both organizations with clear missions focused on The Highest Good of All and global sustainability.
![]() | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() |
Posted on December 5, 2014 by One Community
Maximizing sustainability opportunity can be refined to three core components: ease of implementation, affordability, and attractiveness. One Community is simultaneously addressing these three components to facilitate a self-propagating sustainability model for The Highest Good of All:
Click on each icon to be taken to the corresponding Highest Good hub page.
One Community’s physical location will forward this movement as the first of many self-replicating teacher/demonstration communities, villages, and cities to be built around the world. This is the December 5th, 2014 edition (#92) of our weekly progress update detailing the previous week’s development and accomplishments. This work helps One Community’s mission of maximizing sustainability opportunity and reinforces our commitment to better living quality for all people:
Here is the bullet-point list of this last week’s design and progress discussed in detail in the video above:
MAXIMIZING SUSTAINABILITY OPPORTUNITY INTRO @1:00
MAXIMIZING SUSTAINABILITY OPPORTUNITY: HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION @2:11
MAXIMIZING SUSTAINABILITY OPPORTUNITY: HIGHEST GOOD FOOD: @3:26
MAXIMIZING SUSTAINABILITY OPPORTUNITY: HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING: @4:26
MAXIMIZING SUSTAINABILITY OPPORTUNITY: DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER: @5:55
MAXIMIZING SUSTAINABILITY OPPORTUNITY: HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY: @7:03
MAXIMIZING SUSTAINABILITY OPPORTUNITY SUMMARY: @7:51
CLICK HERE IF YOU’D LIKE TO RECEIVE AN EMAIL EACH WEEK WHEN WE RELEASE A NEW UPDATE
One Community is maximizing sustainability opportunity through Highest Good education that is for all ages, applicable in any environment, adaptable to individual needs, far exceeds traditional education standards, and more fun for both the teachers and the students:
This last week the core team finished the final 70% of the lesson plan mindmap with the central theme of “Highest Good.” You can see this below and on the finished webpage where you can now access the necessary details to use this lesson and mindmap to teach all subjects to all ages, in any environment, using the central “Highest Good” theme. This work helps One Community’s mission of maximizing sustainability opportunity and reinforces our commitment to better living quality for all people:
Behind the scenes we also finished the final 60% of the remaining content edits and revisions for the lesson plan with the central theme of “Movement and Development.”
We also researched and outlined another 30 great thinkers and innovators for the Technology and Innovation Molecule.
One Community is maximizing sustainability opportunity through Highest Good food that is more diverse, more nutritious, locally grown and sustainable, and part of our open source botanical garden model to support and share bio-diversity:
This last week the core team added all the large-scale gardening plant links and icons to the soil amendment page, plus a new resources section for maximizing sustainability opportunity. Click the image to be taken to the new section on the page. This work helps One Community’s mission of maximizing sustainability opportunity and reinforces our commitment to better living quality for all people.
We also created this new social media image and featured the page for maximizing sustainability opportunity.
In addition to this, we began creating the website infrastructure to share the outstanding work of our newest partner Benjamin Sessions for maximizing sustainability opportunity. You can see this beginning to take shape here as the temporary kitchen setup and menu page for initial remote village construction as well as the upcoming crowdfunding campaign. This work helps One Community’s mission of maximizing sustainability opportunity and reinforces our commitment to better living quality for all people.
One Community is maximizing sustainability opportunity through Highest Good housing that is artistic and beautiful, more affordable, more space efficient, lasts longer, DIY buildable, and constructed with healthy and sustainable materials:
This last week the core team spent most of our time looking at how heat will move in and around the earth surrounding the Tropical Atrium hot water tank for maximizing sustainability opportunity. We’ve identified how much heat we can store it the thermal mass, now we’re focused on figuring out what the “sweet spot” is for insulation related to cost and labor along with where the insulation will be most effective. What you see here is that insulation directly below the tank is definitely beneficial, but these benefits decrease as you go deeper and nearer the perimeter.
The question is how deep and wide is best when including the cost and labor associated with this too. This work helps One Community’s mission of maximizing sustainability opportunity and reinforces our commitment to better living quality for all people
Our core team also began work this week with Robert Seton of Solar Hybrid Design on working out what we hope will be the final details of our solar infrastructure for maximizing sustainability opportunity. Here is a screenshot showing what equipment we’re discussing and evaluating there.
Scott Thomas and his Shadow Ridge Signature Architecture Program team also progressed with their work putting the complete Earthbag Village into CAD. Here is a collage of screenshots of this work in progress showing some of the bathroom domes and Tropical Atrium central area.
One Community is maximizing sustainability opportunity through a Duplicable and Sustainable City Center that is LEED Platinum certified/Sustainable, can feed 200 people at a time, provide laundry for over 300 people, is beautiful, spacious, and saves resources, money, and space:
This last week the core team completed addition of the Resources and FAQ sections of the Control Systems page. This page is done for now but will continue to evolve and function as a constantly developing tutorial and information resource for the monitoring, setup, maintenance, evolution, and data gathering systems of the Duplicable City Center and the Earthbag Village (Pod 1). This work helps One Community’s mission of maximizing sustainability opportunity and reinforces our commitment to better living quality for all people. Here is a screenshot of the final additions:
One Community is maximizing sustainability opportunity through a Highest Good society approach to living that is founded on fulfilled living, the study of meeting human needs, Community, and making a difference in the world:
This last week the core team began a complete redesign of the homepage that now looks like this:
This redesign is to streamline and simplify this main page of our site to better help people understand what we are creating and how it is a viable strategy for global transformation to sustainability. Here is the newly updated pledge that is one of the three primary pages we are helping people start on so they better understand our project.
In addition to this we also created new social media imagery and featured our Evolving Sustainability page, Highest Good Society page, Resource Based Economy page, and our Duplicable City Center open source hub and page:
AND WE PRODUCED THIS WEEKLY UPDATES BLOG – CLICK HERE TO SUBSCRIBE
CONSULTANTS | WAYS ANYONE CAN HELP | MEMBERSHIP
CLICK HERE FOR ALL PAST UPDATES
One Community is creating a place to grow together and change the world together. We are creating a space that helps each other live in integrity with each other and the planet as we strive to be the greatest versions of ourselves. We do this by harmoniously respecting each other, nature, and the rest of our one shared planet.
Our goal is to demonstrate what we feel is the most sustainable, healthy, and fun environment we can create. A place based on compassion, kindness, and collaboration. This replicable community will serve as an example for what is possible.
Throughout our design process we are open sourcing and free-sharing everything needed for construction and replication. This includes what we call “Highest Good” approaches to food, energy, housing, education, for-profit and non-profit economics design, social architecture, fulfilled living, stewardship practices and more. We are creating these resources for implementation as individual components or complete developments called teacher/demonstration hubs. These hubs will help launch additional hubs as awareness and knowledge grow.
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.
The One Community self-replicating model is capable of creating a sustainable planet within 30 years. We will achieve this by establishing successful teacher/demonstration hubs on every continent. Villages include designs appropriate for each of the five main types of climates. They also include options for even the most challenged economies. These hubs will collaborate with one another, share ideas, resources, and work together as a network to heal the planet. They will also transform the global lifestyle to a more enjoyable, fulfilling, healthy, and sustainable one.
The specifics of how One Community is accomplishing this can be found on the One Community Solution Model to Create Solution-creating Models Page. Research supporting and showing the benefits of a model like this can be found on our Research and Resources Articles Archive.
Even if we don’t achieve our ultimate goal of global transformation, a self-replicating teacher/demonstration model like this will take a relatively short period of time to positively affect millions while inspiring millions more. For One Community residents (the Pioneer Team), the idea of creating and sharing the social and recreational experience with visitors is also fun, exciting, fulfilling, and an additional reason why we are creating this.
One Community’s four-phase strategy for the creation of solution models that create solution creating models uses open source blueprints for duplication that simultaneously address all aspects of the human experience (food, energy, housing, education, social inequality and injustice, fulfilled living, etc.). We see these areas as interdependent and requiring a comprehensive solution if humanity is to move ecologically, socially, economically, and permanently towards a truly sustainable future for everyone.
Our open source model and blueprints engage and inspire people while simultaneously making sustainable living more affordable and easy to replicate. By free-sharing the step-by-step plans people need for duplication, inviting people to participate, and demonstrating sustainable teacher/demonstration hubs as a more desirable way of living, the model will predictably expand on its own.
It is this approach we see uniting the world and leading to a new Golden Age for humanity. While we understand that not everyone believes this is even possible, we are nonetheless bringing together all those that do see this as possible as the non-profit think tank of forward-thinking individuals willing to design, build, and open source project-launch blueprint and free-share it for The Highest Good of All. This work helps One Community’s mission of maximizing sustainability opportunity and reinforces our commitment to better living quality for all people.
One Community is open source sharing an evolution of sustainable living that addresses the complete human experience. We are doing this because we see the solutions for global food, housing, energy, education, social inequality, ethical business practices, earth regenerative practices, and a desire for a more fulfilling living experience as inseparably interconnected. As a comprehensive solution, we are addressing all these areas simultaneously and open source free-sharing everything needed for individual duplication and/or duplication as complete self-replicating teacher/demonstration communities, villages, and cities to be built around the world.
As we address and open source share these areas we will establish a living example of the first teacher/demonstration village purposed to teach others. To maximally facilitate duplication, One Community will provide seven duplicable examples and function indefinitely as a place people can visit and a non-profit and open source think tank continuing to further evolve and share solutions in all of the above areas and more. We will also provide hands-on experience and training.
Most importantly, growing upon our sustainable foundation, we will endlessly make this comprehensive solution even more widely known and globally accessible, understandable and diversely duplicable, and inspiring and desirable as a model worth duplicating. This work helps One Community’s mission of maximizing sustainability opportunity and reinforces our commitment to better living quality for all people.
The more people that are inspired and desiring for themselves what it is that One Community creates, the more demand there will be for spreading the One Community model. This leads to the directing of financial resources and resourceful people where we believe they are needed most: the establishment of additional sustainable communities around the world. We also feel this duplication will specifically happen quickly internationally due to the affordability of overseas land, less restrictive building environments, and the spirit of adventure in many people who really desire to make a difference for those who need it most.
To meet the increasing demand for sustainability that we are contributing to, we are coordinating with manufacturers, education institutions, individuals, and vendors. This is also part of this model to help the world. Its purpose is to facilitate more engagement of the sustainability industry, produce the absolute best possible consumer value, and the most convenient delivery of goods and methodologies for building sustainable living communities and sustainable living components. This work helps One Community’s mission of maximizing sustainability opportunity and reinforces our commitment to better living quality for all people
Posted on December 4, 2014 by One Community
One Community is happy to welcome Benjamin Sessions to the Development Team:
Benjamin Sessions – Strategic Sales and Real Estate Development Entrepreneur: After graduating from the University of Utah in 2005, he and his wife moved to China to focus on investment projects throughout Asia. This experience ignited a passion to travel the world, learn about new cultures, and find business opportunities throughout the globe. Sessions and his wife have traveled to over 40 countries and lived as an expatriate in 3 countries outside of the United States. Sessions volunteers regularly in the community and has served as a board member on multiple not-for-profit corporations that focus on enhancing the quality of life for citizens in his area, Fort Lauderdale, where he serves as the President of his civic association. His passion is cooking and in his free time he regularly seeks out new ways to create delicious and healthy meals. Sessions has taken training courses around the world to learn about different food styles and food culture. He has cooked for large groups and is fairly well versed in a variety of food preferences. Sessions’ assistance as a One Community Consultant is on developing the complete first-year meal plan.
![]() | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() |
Posted on November 28, 2014 by One Community
Ecological resource allocation can be expanded to include all aspects of the human experience. Doing this combines physical sustainability with emotional sustainability. A model that open source shares resources covering and combining both of these areas with a consciousness for The Highest Good of All has a potential to become self-replicating and transform the planet for everyone. This is what One Community is doing:
Click on each icon to be taken to the corresponding Highest Good hub page.
One Community’s physical location will forward this movement as the first of many self-replicating teacher/demonstration communities, villages, and cities to be built around the world. This work helps One Community’s mission of ecological resource allocation and reinforces our commitment to better living quality for all people. This is the November 28th, 2014 edition (#91) of our weekly progress update detailing the previous week’s development and accomplishments:
Here is the bullet-point list of this last week’s design and progress discussed in detail in the video above:
ECOLOGICAL RESOURCE ALLOCATION INTRO @1:00
ECOLOGICAL RESOURCE ALLOCATION: HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION @2:02
ECOLOGICAL RESOURCE ALLOCATION: HIGHEST GOOD FOOD: @3:13
ECOLOGICAL RESOURCE ALLOCATION: HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING: @4:21
ECOLOGICAL RESOURCE ALLOCATION: DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER: @6:14
ECOLOGICAL RESOURCE ALLOCATION: HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY: @7:21
ECOLOGICAL RESOURCE ALLOCATION SUMMARY: @8:26
CLICK HERE IF YOU’D LIKE TO RECEIVE AN EMAIL EACH WEEK WHEN WE RELEASE A NEW UPDATE
One Community is facilitating a global ecological resource allocation model through Highest Good education that is for all ages, applicable in any environment, adaptable to individual needs, far exceeds traditional education standards, and more fun for both the teachers and the students:
This last week the core team finished the first 30% of the lesson plan mindmap with the central theme of “Highest Good” for better ecological resource allocation. This work helps One Community’s mission of ecological resource allocation and reinforces our commitment to better living quality for all people:
And the second half of the webpage sharing the “Highest Good” lesson plan specifics:
Behind the scenes we finished the first 40% of the final content edits and revisions for the lesson plan with the central theme of “Movement and Development” for better ecological resource allocation. All of these lesson plans use the central them to teach all subjects, to all learning levels, and are applicable in any learning environment. This work helps One Community’s mission of ecological resource allocation and reinforces our commitment to better living quality for all people.
One Community is facilitating a global ecological resource allocation model through Highest Good food that is more diverse, more nutritious, locally grown and sustainable, and part of our open source botanical garden model to support and share bio-diversity:
This last week the core team finished the final three breakout pages from the large-scale gardening page for better ecological resource allocation. These included the Cassabanana page, the Bitter Melon page, and the Asparagus page. You can see all three pages below where you can click the images to visit the complete pages for all the detailed plant descriptions, planting guidelines, cultural considerations, and more. These new pages load faster and also give us the space we’ll need to add recipes, gardening tips, harvesting and canning tips, and videos. Contact us if you have any great resources related to any of these plant species.
CLICK IMAGES FOR COMPLETE PAGES | ||
One Community is facilitating a global ecological resource allocation model through Highest Good housing that is artistic and beautiful, more affordable, more space efficient, lasts longer, DIY buildable, and constructed with healthy and sustainable materials:
This last week the core team completed the Tropical Atrium heat retention calculations version 4.0, using yet another new software program. You can see this analysis here as we continue to asses this structures ability to recycle and hold heat from the Earthbag Village used shower-water heat:
We also added all the new custom icons to the upcoming crowdfunding campaign individual page, as you can see here:
We also built the initial foundations for all the associated web pages, including all these beautiful new headers. If you’d like to see what each of these pages is going to look like, you can visit the dome home electrical page by clicking the image below. Behind the scenes, we’ve also finished a massive update of this page and we are now waiting to post it after a review by a new electrician who just joined our Consultant’s team.
We also finished the organizational process for the custom murphy bed furniture. Here you can see that we’ve organized all the pieces into sections and identified exactly how many boards or sheets are needed to cut all the necessary parts. This is all built off of the work of Philip Gill (Interior and Furniture Designer and Owner of Philip Gill Design). Next we’ll be organizing all these details into a purchase order list so we can accurately calculate the cost. This work helps One Community’s mission of ecological resource allocation and reinforces our commitment to better living quality for all people.
Last but not least, Dave Walen (Architectural Drafter & Designer and owner of Dave Philip Walen Design) began putting the Straw Bale Village (Pod 2) updated details from last week into 3-D. Here are a few screenshots of this outstanding work.
One Community is facilitating a global ecological resource allocation model through a Duplicable and Sustainable City Center that is LEED Platinum certified/Sustainable, can feed 200 people at a time, provide laundry for over 300 people, is beautiful, spacious, and saves resources, money, and space:
This last week the core team completed addition of the Outputs section of the Control Systems page is one component that really helps with better ecological resource allocation. You can see this new additions here, completing the foundations of this page that we will be a constantly developing tutorial and information resource for the monitoring, setup, maintenance, evolution, and data gathering systems of the Duplicable City Center and the Earthbag Village (Pod 1). Next we’ll add an FAQ, Summary, and Resources section.
One Community is facilitating a global ecological resource allocation model through a Highest Good society approach to living that is founded on fulfilled living, the study of meeting human needs, Community, and making a difference in the world:
This last week the core team welcomed The Community Planet Foundation to our team on tsÃ…«! If you aren’t already a member, we invite you to check out Community Planet’s page first using the link you see here, then come and connect with our page also using this link.
We also featured and created new social media imagery for our Love Lesson plan page, Remote Internet Setup page, Highest Good food page, creating utopia page, and our open source non-profit open source guide page for better ecological resource allocation. This work helps One Community’s mission of ecological resource allocation and reinforces our commitment to better living quality for all people. You can click the newly created images below to access these pages:
![]() | ![]() | ![]() |
![]() | ![]() |
AND WE PRODUCED THIS WEEKLY UPDATES BLOG – CLICK HERE TO SUBSCRIBE
CONSULTANTS | WAYS ANYONE CAN HELP | MEMBERSHIP
CLICK HERE FOR ALL PAST UPDATES
One Community is creating a place to grow together and change the world together. We are creating a space that helps each other live in integrity with each other and the planet as we strive to be the greatest versions of ourselves. We do this by harmoniously respecting each other, nature, and the rest of our one shared planet.
Our goal is to demonstrate what we feel is the most sustainable, healthy, and fun environment we can create. A place based on compassion, kindness, and collaboration. This replicable community will serve as an example for what is possible.
Throughout our design process we are open sourcing and free-sharing everything needed for construction and replication. This includes what we call “Highest Good” approaches to food, energy, housing, education, for-profit and non-profit economics design, social architecture, fulfilled living, stewardship practices and more. We are creating these resources for implementation as individual components or complete developments called teacher/demonstration hubs. These hubs will help launch additional hubs as awareness and knowledge grow. This work helps One Community’s mission of ecological resource allocation and reinforces our commitment to better living quality for all people.
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.
The One Community self-replicating model is capable of creating a sustainable planet within 30 years. We will achieve this by establishing successful teacher/demonstration hubs on every continent. Villages include designs appropriate for each of the five main types of climates. They also include options for even the most challenged economies. These hubs will collaborate with one another, share ideas, resources, and work together as a network to heal the planet. They will also transform the global lifestyle to a more enjoyable, fulfilling, healthy, and sustainable one.
The specifics of how One Community is accomplishing this can be found on the One Community Solution Model to Create Solution-creating Models Page. Research supporting and showing the benefits of a model like this can be found on our Research and Resources Articles Archive.
Even if we don’t achieve our ultimate goal of global transformation, a self-replicating teacher/demonstration model like this will take a relatively short period of time to positively affect millions while inspiring millions more. For One Community residents (the Pioneer Team), the idea of creating and sharing the social and recreational experience with visitors is also fun, exciting, fulfilling, and an additional reason why we are creating this. This work helps One Community’s mission of ecological resource allocation and reinforces our commitment to better living quality for all people.
One Community’s four-phase strategy for the creation of solution models that create solution creating models uses open source blueprints for duplication that simultaneously address all aspects of the human experience (food, energy, housing, education, social inequality and injustice, fulfilled living, etc.). We see these areas as interdependent and requiring a comprehensive solution if humanity is to move ecologically, socially, economically, and permanently towards a truly sustainable future for everyone.
Our open source model and blueprints engage and inspire people while simultaneously making sustainable living more affordable and easy to replicate. By free-sharing the step-by-step plans people need for duplication, inviting people to participate, and demonstrating sustainable teacher/demonstration hubs as a more desirable way of living, the model will predictably expand on its own.
It is this approach we see uniting the world and leading to a new Golden Age for humanity. While we understand that not everyone believes this is even possible, we are nonetheless bringing together all those that do see this as possible as the non-profit think tank of forward-thinking individuals willing to design, build, and open source project-launch blueprint and free-share it for The Highest Good of All.
One Community is open source sharing an evolution of sustainable living that addresses the complete human experience. We are doing this because we see the solutions for global food, housing, energy, education, social inequality, ethical business practices, earth regenerative practices, and a desire for a more fulfilling living experience as inseparably interconnected. As a comprehensive solution, we are addressing all these areas simultaneously and open source free-sharing everything needed for individual duplication and/or duplication as complete self-replicating teacher/demonstration communities, villages, and cities to be built around the world.
As we address and open source share these areas we will establish a living example of the first teacher/demonstration village purposed to teach others. To maximally facilitate duplication, One Community will provide seven duplicable examples and function indefinitely as a place people can visit and a non-profit and open source think tank continuing to further evolve and share solutions in all of the above areas and more. We will also provide hands-on experience and training. Most importantly, growing upon our sustainable foundation, we will endlessly make this comprehensive solution even more widely known and globally accessible, understandable and diversely duplicable, and inspiring and desirable as a model worth duplicating. This work helps One Community’s mission of ecological resource allocation and reinforces our commitment to better living quality for all people.
The more people that are inspired and desiring for themselves what it is that One Community creates, the more demand there will be for spreading the One Community model. This leads to the directing of financial resources and resourceful people where we believe they are needed most: the establishment of additional sustainable communities around the world. We also feel this duplication will specifically happen quickly internationally due to the affordability of overseas land, less restrictive building environments, and the spirit of adventure in many people who really desire to make a difference for those who need it most.
Posted on November 27, 2014 by One Community
One Community is happy to welcome ReInhabiting The Village to our Highest Good Collaborators team!
ReInhabiting The Village is a Multi-Media Community Resource Hub which includes a graphically rich printed Soft Cover Book, E-book, Functional Workbook, and an Online Resource Directory featuring people, projects and organizations who offer models, information, tools, and templates for holistic living and fostering community resilience.
After years of building a network of allies through festivals, leadership summits, collaborative projects, and community development, there exists a rich body of materials, models, and templates that have been produced, practiced and are now ready to be shared to support other communities to flourish from the experience and insight of our contributing authors.
They are curating over 40 innovative voices of a movement for this LIVING LIBRARY of wisdom, showcasing their particular passions and fields of expertise. This includes featuring Artists, Economists, Permaculture Experts, Facilitators, Educators, Visionaries, Natural Builders, Event Producers, Healers, Indigenous Elders and Thought Leaders, Ecologists, Technology Developers and Community Organizers.
![]() | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() |
Posted on November 21, 2014 by One Community
A more comprehensive and complete sustainability approach has the potential to create a sustainable planet for everyone. Open source sharing and developing all the necessary components of this for The Highest Good of All people and all life is One Community’s path to global transformation:
Click on each icon to be taken to the corresponding Highest Good hub page.
One Community’s physical location will forward this movement as the first of many self-replicating teacher/demonstration communities, villages, and cities to be built around the world. This is the November 21st, 2014 edition (#90) of our weekly progress update detailing the previous week’s development and accomplishments:
Here is the bullet-point list of this last week’s design and progress discussed in detail in the video above:
A MORE COMPREHENSIVE AND COMPLETE SUSTAINABILITY APPROACH INTRO @1:00
A MORE COMPREHENSIVE AND COMPLETE SUSTAINABILITY APPROACH: HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION @2:06
A MORE COMPREHENSIVE AND COMPLETE SUSTAINABILITY APPROACH: HIGHEST GOOD FOOD: @3:34
A MORE COMPREHENSIVE AND COMPLETE SUSTAINABILITY APPROACH: HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING: @4:44
A MORE COMPREHENSIVE AND COMPLETE SUSTAINABILITY APPROACH: DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER: @6:23
A MORE COMPREHENSIVE AND COMPLETE SUSTAINABILITY APPROACH: HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY: @7:39
A MORE COMPREHENSIVE AND COMPLETE SUSTAINABILITY APPROACH SUMMARY: @8:38
CLICK HERE IF YOU’D LIKE TO RECEIVE AN EMAIL EACH WEEK WHEN WE RELEASE A NEW UPDATE
One Community is creating a more comprehensive and complete sustainability approach through Highest Good education that is for all ages, applicable in any environment, adaptable to individual needs, far exceeds traditional education standards, and more fun for both the teachers and the students:
This last week the core team finished the final 50% of the lesson plan mindmap with the central theme of “Opposites” for a more comprehensive and complete sustainability approach. You can see it below. This finishes the final necessary piece of the “Opposites” lesson plan webpage also. This lesson plan is purposed for use by anyone, in any educational environment, working with any age or educational level, to teach any and all subjects within and using this central theme of “Opposites.”
We also finished the first 50% of the lesson plan webpage with the central them of “Highest Good” for a more comprehensive and complete sustainability approach. You can see this here as an example of what all of the 9 completely finished lesson plans look like.
Behind the scenes we’ve also begun researching the greatest minds in history for the subject of Technology and Innovation Molecule.
One Community is creating a more comprehensive and complete sustainability approach through Highest Good food that is more diverse, more nutritious, locally grown and sustainable, and part of our open source botanical garden model to support and share bio-diversity:
This last week the core team finished three more complete breakout pages from the large-scale gardening page to create a more comprehensive and complete sustainability approach. These included the Ulluco page, the Sweet Potato Page, and the Wax Gourd Page. You can see all three pages below where you can click on the images to visit the complete pages with detailed plant descriptions, planting guidelines, cultural considerations, and more. These new pages load faster and also give us the space we’ll need to add recipes, gardening tips, harvesting and canning tips, and videos. Contact us if you have any great resources related to any of these plant species.
CLICK IMAGES FOR COMPLETE PAGES | ||
One Community is creating a more comprehensive and complete sustainability approach through Highest Good housing that is artistic and beautiful, more affordable, more space efficient, lasts longer, DIY buildable, and constructed with healthy and sustainable materials:
This last week the core team further refined the calculations for heat retention in the central Tropical Atrium recreation space that will house the Earthbag Village water storage and recycle the village used shower-water heat using a more comprehensive and complete sustainability approach. We also moved the location of the water storage tank as you can see in the two images here.
We additionally finished creating all the custom icons for the dome home crowdfunding campaign open source details pages for a more comprehensive and complete sustainability approach. You can see all this work here:
We are also down to the last 20-30% of the organizational process for the custom murphy bed furniture for a more comprehensive and complete sustainability approach. Here you can see this immense and complex task continuing as we sort the final pieces into groups. This has also required a few design changes and updates behind the scenes to the source documents that will require us to also update the images on the site.
Dave Walen (Architectural Drafter & Designer and owner of Dave Philip Walen Design) also made significant progress on the Straw Bale Village (Pod 2) plumbing details and garden layout updates. You can see those here with new specifics added to the ponds and individual unit layouts also.
One Community is creating a more comprehensive and complete sustainability approach through a Duplicable and Sustainable City Center that is LEED Platinum certified/Sustainable, can feed 200 people at a time, provide laundry for over 300 people, is beautiful, spacious, and saves resources, money, and space:
This last week the core team completed addition of the Processing section of the Control Systems page for a more comprehensive and complete sustainability approach. You can see these new additions here, bringing us to about 70% completion for this page. This page will be a constantly developing resource for creating a more comprehensive and complete sustainability approach through open source monitoring systems setup, maintenance, evolution, and data gathering and sharing starting with the Duplicable City Center and the Earthbag Village (Pod 1), and expanding as One Community expands.
One Community is creating a more comprehensive and complete sustainability approach through a Highest Good society approach to living that is founded on fulfilled living, the study of meeting human needs, Community, and making a difference in the world:
This last week the core team welcomed Open Source Ecology to our team on tsÃ…«! If you aren’t already a member, we invite you to check out Open Source Ecology’s page first by clicking on the image below, then come and connect with our page also using this link:
In addition to this we also created new social media imagery and featured our Methodology Page for a more comprehensive and complete sustainability approach, which you can see here:
And our Open Source page, which you can see here:
We featured and did this for our open source water-saving shower head resource page with a more comprehensive and complete sustainability approach:
And our open source botanical garden page with a more comprehensive and complete sustainability approach:
AND WE PRODUCED THIS WEEKLY UPDATES BLOG – CLICK HERE TO SUBSCRIBE
CONSULTANTS | WAYS ANYONE CAN HELP | MEMBERSHIP
CLICK HERE FOR ALL PAST UPDATES
One Community is creating a place to grow together and change the world together. We are creating a space that helps each other live in integrity with each other and the planet as we strive to be the greatest versions of ourselves. We do this by harmoniously respecting each other, nature, and the rest of our one shared planet.
Our goal is to demonstrate what we feel is the most sustainable, healthy, and fun environment we can create. A place based on compassion, kindness, and collaboration. This replicable community will serve as an example for what is possible.
Throughout our design process we are open sourcing and free-sharing everything needed for construction and replication. This includes what we call “Highest Good” approaches to food, energy, housing, education, for-profit and non-profit economics design, social architecture, fulfilled living, stewardship practices and more. We are creating these resources for implementation as individual components or complete developments called teacher/demonstration hubs. These hubs will help launch additional hubs as awareness and knowledge grow.
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.
The One Community self-replicating model is capable of creating a sustainable planet within 30 years. We will achieve this by establishing successful teacher/demonstration hubs on every continent. Villages include designs appropriate for each of the five main types of climates. They also include options for even the most challenged economies. These hubs will collaborate with one another, share ideas, resources, and work together as a network to heal the planet. They will also transform the global lifestyle to a more enjoyable, fulfilling, healthy, and sustainable one.
The specifics of how One Community is accomplishing this can be found on the One Community Solution Model to Create Solution-creating Models Page. Research supporting and showing the benefits of a model like this can be found on our Research and Resources Articles Archive.
Even if we don’t achieve our ultimate goal of global transformation, a self-replicating teacher/demonstration model like this will take a relatively short period of time to positively affect millions while inspiring millions more. For One Community residents (the Pioneer Team), the idea of creating and sharing the social and recreational experience with visitors is also fun, exciting, fulfilling, and an additional reason why we are creating this.
One Community’s four-phase strategy for the creation of solution models that create solution creating models uses open source blueprints for duplication that simultaneously address all aspects of the human experience (food, energy, housing, education, social inequality and injustice, fulfilled living, etc.). We see these areas as interdependent and requiring a comprehensive solution if humanity is to move ecologically, socially, economically, and permanently towards a truly sustainable future for everyone.
Our open source model and blueprints engage and inspire people while simultaneously making sustainable living more affordable and easy to replicate. By free-sharing the step-by-step plans people need for duplication, inviting people to participate, and demonstrating sustainable teacher/demonstration hubs as a more desirable way of living, the model will predictably expand on its own.
It is this approach we see uniting the world and leading to a new Golden Age for humanity. While we understand that not everyone believes this is even possible, we are nonetheless bringing together all those that do see this as possible as the non-profit think tank of forward-thinking individuals willing to design, build, and open source project-launch blueprint and free-share it for The Highest Good of All.
One Community is open source sharing an evolution of sustainable living that addresses the complete human experience. We are doing this because we see the solutions for global food, housing, energy, education, social inequality, ethical business practices, earth regenerative practices, and a desire for a more fulfilling living experience as inseparably interconnected. As a comprehensive solution, we are addressing all these areas simultaneously and open source free-sharing everything needed for individual duplication and/or duplication as complete self-replicating teacher/demonstration communities, villages, and cities to be built around the world.
As we address and open source share these areas we will establish a living example of the first teacher/demonstration village purposed to teach others. To maximally facilitate duplication, One Community will provide seven duplicable examples and function indefinitely as a place people can visit and a non-profit and open source think tank continuing to further evolve and share solutions in all of the above areas and more. We will also provide hands-on experience and training. Most importantly, growing upon our sustainable foundation, we will endlessly make this comprehensive solution even more widely known and globally accessible, understandable and diversely duplicable, and inspiring and desirable as a model worth duplicating.
"In order to change an existing paradigm you do not struggle to try and change the problematic model.
You create a new model and make the old one obsolete. That, in essence, is the higher service to which we are all being called."
~ Buckminster Fuller ~
One Community operates under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License.
Use of this website constitutes acceptance and agreement to comply with and be bound by these Terms and Conditions. They apply to the Site and all of One Community’s creations, divisions, and subsidiaries. Please read them here.