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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 sustainable and free-shared solution. 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 sustainable and free-shared solutions. 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 sustainable and free-shared solutions.

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 sustainable and free-shared solutions, 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 sustainable and free-shared solutions. 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 sustainable and free-shared solutions.

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 sustainable and free-shared solutions.

INSPIRING SUSTAINABILITY WITH OPEN SOURCE

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

Our open source model and blueprints engage and inspire people while simultaneously making sustainable living more affordable and easy to replicate, further promoting to create sustainable and free-shared solutions. 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 at the same time contributing to create sustainable and free-shared solutions.

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 create sustainable and free-shared solutions.

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 create sustainable and free-shared solutions. 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 create sustainable and free-shared solutions. 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, also be able to create sustainable and free-shared solutions.

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 create sustainable and free-shared solutions. 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 create sustainable and free-shared solutions.

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 create sustainable and free-shared solutions. 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 alone with ability to create sustainable and free-shared solutions

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 and also create sustainable and free-shared solutions.

Creating a World that Works for Us All – One Community Weekly Progress Update #62

Posted on May 9, 2014 by One Community

CREATING A WORLD THAT WORKS FOR US ALL – HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION @1:43

One Community is intent on creating a world that works for us all – literally, all people, everywhere. We are doing this through open source and free-shared blueprints, tools, tutorials, and DIY approaches for building educational and experiential hubs that teach and spread 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. Here is our weekly progress update (#62) covering our development and accomplishments for the week of April 28, 2014:

Creating a World that Works for Us All
One Community Weekly Progress Update #62

Creating a World that Works for Us All - One Community Weekly Progress Update #62

Watch this video on YouTube

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

CREATING A WORLD THAT WORKS FOR US ALL INTRO @1:04

Finished the Science Subject Molecule (see below)
Began work on the “Spring” lesson plan

CREATING A WORLD THAT WORKS FOR US ALL – HIGHEST GOOD FOOD: @2:39

Added the Aquapini and Zen Aquapini details to the 3-D footprint (see below)
Finalized the 18-hoop house planting plan component of the large-scale gardening system
Finished 50% of our soil amendment strategy details for land preparation in areas with poor soil
Began adding the heirloom beets section of the Â large-scale gardening page (see below)

CREATING A WORLD THAT WORKS FOR US ALL – HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING: @3:48

Calculated maximum peak wattage for the complete Earthbag Village (see below)
Calculated heat reclamation from the showers to the Tropical Atrium (see below)

CREATING A WORLD THAT WORKS FOR US ALL – DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER: @4:48

Began research for the best materials (see below)
James Nance began pricing a radiant floor heating system (see below)
Ben Pollock chose and sourced our kitchen exhaust hood design (see below)
Jennifer Engelmeier completed about 10% of the hardware sourcing for the natural pool design (see below)
Da Ku created a redesign of our transition point for the in-door/out-door pool (see below)
And Karl Harris continued work on the East-view Duplicable City Center Elevations (see below)

CREATING A WORLD THAT WORKS FOR US ALL – HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY: @6:16

Updated our 4-Phases of Global Transformation page (see below)
Updated the six foundational human needs page
We also began researching pro-bono architecture and engineering organizations and posting the areas still needing help with them

CREATING A WORLD THAT WORKS FOR US ALL SUMMARY: @7:04

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CREATING A WORLD THAT WORKS FOR US ALL HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

We are creating a world that works for us all through Highest Good education that is for all ages, applicable in any environment, adaptable to individual needs, far exceeds traditional education standards, and more fun for both the teachers and the students:

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

This last week the core team finished the the Science Subject Molecule. Here it is:

Science Molecule, One Community, Creating a World that Works for Us All

Science Molecule – Click to Visit Page

CREATING A WORLD THAT WORKS FOR US ALL HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

We are creating a world that works for us all through open source sharing 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 the Aquapini and Aesthetic and Diversity-focused Zen Aquapini details to the complete indoor-growing food infrastructure 3-D footprint. Here you can see those new details inside the structures:

Aquapini and Aesthetic and Diversity-focused Zen Aquapini details to the complete indoor-growing food infrastructure 3-D footprint, One Community, Creating a World that Works for Us All

Details Added to the Complete Indoor-growing Food Infrastructure 3-D Footprint

We also finished adding 50% of the diversity details to the heirloom beets section of the large-scale gardening page. When finished we will feature 10 different varieties and include complete sourcing details:

Beets, Large-Scale Gardening, Creating a World that Works for us All, One Community

Heirloom Beets Section – 50% Complete

CREATING A WORLD THAT WORKS FOR US ALL HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

We are creating a world that works for us all through open source sharing 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 calculated maximum peak wattage for the complete Earthbag Village:

Maximum Peak Wattage for the Complete Earthbag Village Calculated

We also calculated the heat reclamation from the showers to the Tropical Atrium generating a maximum possible heat extraction of 11,535 BTU/hr or 81.139 kWh/day:

Possible Heat Reclamation from Showers, Earthbag Village, Creating a World that Works for Us All

Possible Heat Reclamation from Showers to the Tropical Atrium

CREATING A WORLD THAT WORKS FOR US ALL DUPLICABLE CITY HUB PROGRESS

We are creating a world that works for us all through open source sharing a Duplicable and Sustainable City Center that is LEED Platinum certified/Sustainable, can feed 200 people at a time, can provide laundry for over 300 people, beautiful, spacious, saves resources, saves money, and saves space:

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

This last week the core team began the necessary in-depth research for the best materials. Here’s an example of what we are looking at and how we are evaluating them:

Beginning Stages of necessary in-depth research for the best materials, Duplicable City Center, One Community, Creating a World that Works for Us All

Beginning Stages of Necessary In-Depth Research for the Best Duplicable City Center Materials

James Nance with P2S Engineering began pricing the radiant floor heating system:

Radiant Floor Heating, Duplicable City Center, Creating a World that Works for Us All

Radiant Floor Heating System Cost Analysis

Ben Pollock with Webb Food Service Design chose and sourced our kitchen exhaust hood design:

Kitchen Exhaust Hood Design – Duplicable City Center

Jennifer Engelmeier (Eco-pool and Spa Specialist and founder of www.LoveYourPool.com) completed about 10% of the hardware sourcing for the natural pool design:

Hardware Sourcing for the Natural Pool Design – 10% Complete

Da Ku created a redesign of our transition point for the the indoor/outdoor natural pool design. Here is a screenshot and the video with this in motion is in the video blog above:

redesign of transition point for the the indoor/outdoor natural pool design. Duplicable City Center, Creating a World that Works for Us All

Indoor/Outdoor Natural Pool Redesign of Transition Point – See Moving Version of this In the Video Above

Karl Harris (Architect Drafter, Designer, and founder of Harris Design & Technology Services) continued work on the East-view elevations adding windows, pivot doors, and adjusting the 4th floor platform:

Duplicable City Center windows and pivot doors added, and adjusting the 4th floor platform, East-view elevations, One Community, Creating a World that Works for Us All

Continued CAD work on the East-view Elevations

CREATING A WORLD THAT WORKS FOR US ALL HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY

We are creating a world that works for us all through open source sharing 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 updating our 4-Phases of Global Transformation page and the six foundational human needs pages. Here is a screen shot of the 4-Phases of Global Transformation page:

Creating a World that works for everyone, 4-Phases of Global Transformation page and the six foundational human needs page updated, One Community

4-Phases of Global Transformation Page – Click to Visit the Complete 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 a world that works for us all. 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 world that works for us all. 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 world that works for us all.

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 world that works for us all. A replicable model for expansion, building seven self-sufficient village/city prototypes, becoming the world leader in open-source sustainability solutions, and evolving and expanding ALL aspects of sustainable living.

WHY ONE COMMUNITY IS CREATING THIS

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

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

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 world that works for us all.

INSPIRING SUSTAINABILITY WITH OPEN SOURCE

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

Our open source model and blueprints engage and inspire people while simultaneously making sustainable living more affordable and easy to replicate, promoting creating a world that works for us all. 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, at the same time contributing to creating a world that works for us all.

ONE COMMUNITY’S 4-PHASE STRATEGY

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

Phase I: Demonstrating a Better Way

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

Phase II: Open Source Project-Launch Blueprinting

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

Phase III: Inviting the World to Participate

Everything we are open source project-launch blueprinting is designed to invite the world to participate by duplicating it as either individual components or complete teacher/demonstration communities, villages, and cities that will be able to be built almost anywhere in the world, thereby creating a world that works for us all. 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 world that works for us all. We are doing this to create mainstream appeal and our path to achieving this appeal is demonstrating a happier, more affordable, and ecologically friendly model of living that can be built anywhere in the world.

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

WHY OPEN SOURCE

We are creating everything One Community does as open source and free-shared blueprints because we see this as the path to a new Golden Age of creativity, innovation, cooperation, and collaboration for all of humanity, ultimately contributing to creating a world that works for us all. 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 world that works for us all.

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

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

OPEN SOURCE SHARING STRATEGY SPECIFICS

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

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

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

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

SUMMARY

One Community sees the issues of the world as interdependent and interconnected. To address them simultaneously, we are open-source blueprinting a more advanced standard of living by designing holistic, environmentally-regenerative, self-sustaining, adaptable solutions for all areas of sustainability. We will model these within a comprehensive “village/city” which will be built in the southwestern U.S. This teacher/demonstration hub will be a place 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, ultimately creating a world for us all.

One Community Welcomes James Nance and Ben Pollock to the Design Team!

Posted on May 8, 2014 by One Community

One Community is happy to welcome and James Nance and Ben Pollock to the design team:

James Nance – Mechanical Engineer and Project Manager: James is a licensed mechanical engineer and a LEED Accredited Professional with broad experience designing and certifying a variety of different types of facilities, efficient designs, and sustainable projects. He is helping us as part of P2S Engineering with specific experience in comprehensive facility energy modeling. His focus is offering valuable guidance to a sustainable design team as each discipline is integrated into the whole. James’ particular expertise is with modeling, designing, and implementing thermal control systems as it relates to Heating Ventilation and Air Conditioning (HVAC). Applying this diversity and depth of experience with One Community, James is helping us with our goals of building the Duplicable City Center to demonstrate maximum sustainability, duplicability, and achieve LEED Platinum certification.

Ben Pollock – Full Service Restaurant and Kitchen Designer/Senior Project Manager: Ben has 28 years of design and project management experience in the food service and hospitality industry. Ben established his early design career at an award winning firm for more than 16 years, gaining extensive experience in AutoCAD, concept development, space planning, food service equipment design, and architectural and interior design. In 2002, Ben founded Total Concept Designs, Inc. with renowned architect Ardeshir Bahar. Together they provided full service restaurant kitchen and dining design. In 2010, he brought his extensive knowledge and experience to Webb Design. Thoroughly experienced and passionate in all aspects of the design profession, including sustainable food service design, space planning, construction documents, and construction administration, Ben is also a member of the U.S. Green Building Council and the Construction Specifications Institute. As a member of the One Community team, Ben is applying his decades of experience and expertise to the kitchen design and equipment selection for the Duplicable City Center.

WELCOME TO THE TEAM JAMES AND BEN!

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Creating an Open Source Future – One Community Weekly Progress Update #61

Posted on April 28, 2014 by One Community

CREATING AN OPEN SOURCE FUTURE – HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION @1:40

One Community is here to create an open source future for humanity. We are doing this through open source and free-shared blueprints, tools, tutorials, and DIY approaches to living and creating for The Highest Good of All:

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

OUR MAIN OPEN SOURCE HUBS

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

One Community’s physical location will forward this movement as the first of many self-replicating teacher/demonstration communities, villages, and cities to be built around the world. Here is our weekly progress update (#61) covering our development and accomplishments for the week of April 21, 2014:

Creating an Open Source Future
One Community Weekly Progress Update #61

Creating an Open Source Future - One Community Weekly Progress Update #61

Watch this video on YouTube

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

CREATING AN OPEN SOURCE FUTURE INTRO @1:05

Finished another 25% of the Science Subject Molecule (see below)
We also researched 240 images for the English Subject Molecule (behind the scenes)

CREATING AN OPEN SOURCE FUTURE- HIGHEST GOOD FOOD: @2:39

Created final renders for the Aesthetic and Diversity-focused Zen Aquapini Design (see below)
Finished importing roofs into the complete 3-D Aquapini & Walipini layout (see below)
Created version 1.0 of the 18-hoop house planting plan that is a component of the large-scale gardening system (see below)
And we added the diversity details to the heirloom cole crops section of the Â large-scale gardening page – this includes 11 featured cole crops, 23 different varieties total, and complete sourcing details (see below)

CREATING AN OPEN SOURCE FUTURE- HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING: @3:44

Added the systems engineering approach to Earthbag Village construction details to the earthbag village building plans page (see below)

CREATING AN OPEN SOURCE FUTURE – DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER: @4:22

Completed our thermal calculation details and started discussing the details of heating (see below)
Joel Newman sketched next-phase external render perspectives(see below)
Ben Pollock with Webb Food Service Design began working on the kitchen specifics (see below)
And Karl Harris‘ continued work on the CAD elevations shown here (see below)

CREATING AN OPEN SOURCE FUTURE – HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY: @5:39

Created a new Highest Good Innovation and Technology page outlining our technology integration strategy (see below)
Finished the rest of the open source Highest Good Network software 1.0 outline plus five and a half pages of longterm planning for the future of this software

CREATING AN OPEN SOURCE FUTURE SUMMARY: @6:20

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ONE COMMUNITY WEEKLY UPDATE DETAILS

CREATING AN OPEN SOURCE FUTURE HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

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

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

This last week the core team finished another 25% of the Science Subject Molecule:

Science Molecule in progress, One Community, Creating an Open Source Future

Science Molecule – 65% Complete

CREATING AN OPEN SOURCE FUTURE HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

We are creating an open source future through open source sharing Highest Good food that is more diverse, more nutritious, locally grown and sustainable, and part of our open source botanical garden model to support and share bio-diversity:

Learn about the structures: Aquapini & 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 renders you see here for the Aesthetic and Diversity-focused Zen Aquapini Design:

External view of Aesthetic and Diversity-focused Zen Aquapini, One Community, Creating an Open Source Future

Zen Aquapini External Images – Click for Open Source Hub

Zen Aquapini Internal Images, One Community, Creating an Open Source Future

Zen Aquapini Internal Images – Click to Visit Page

We also finished importing roofs into the complete 3-D Aquapini & Walipini layout (see below)

Roofs Imported into 3-D Aquapini & Walipini Layout, One Community, Creating an Open Source Future

Roofs Imported into 3-D Aquapini & Walipini Layout – Click for Open Source Hub

We created version 1.0 of the 18-hoop house planting plan that is a component of the large-scale gardening system. What you see here will be reviewed and discussed further by the team this week. Once agreed upon, we’ll create this in photoshop so it looks better and can be easily edited:

18 Hoop House Planting Plan, One Community, Creating an Open Source Future

18 Hoop House Planting Plan – Click for Large-Scale Gardening Page

We also added the diversity details to the heirloom cole crops section of the large-scale gardening page – this includes 11 featured cole crops, 23 different varieties total, and complete sourcing details (see below)

Diversity Details of Heirloom Cole Crops Section, One Community, Creating an Open Source Future

Heirloom Cole Crops Diversity Details – Click to Visit Page

CREATING AN OPEN SOURCE FUTURE HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

We are creating an open source future through open source sharing 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 added the updated and expanded systems engineering approach to Earthbag Village construction details to the earthbag village building plans page. Here’s a preview.

Image coming…

CREATING AN OPEN SOURCE FUTURE DUPLICABLE CITY HUB PROGRESS

We are creating an open source future through open source sharing a Duplicable and Sustainable City Center that is LEED Platinum certified/Sustainable, can feed 200 people at a time, can provide laundry for over 300 people, beautiful, spacious, saves resources, saves money, and saves space:

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

This last week the core team completed our thermal calculations details for this structure and started discussing the details of heating. Here are the calculations:

Creating an Open Source Future - Duplicable City Center Thermal Calculation Details, One Community

Duplicable City Center Thermal Calculation Details – Click to Visit Page

Ben Pollock with Webb Food Service Design began working on the kitchen specifics, including some updates to the layout that you see here (see below)

Creating an Open Source Future - Ben Pollok, Webb Food Service Design, kitchen specifics updates, Duplicable City Center, One Community

Duplicable City Center Kitchen Specifics Updates – Click to Visit Page

Joel Newman (Architectural Visualization Designer www.FigmentCreation.com) sketched out the rest of our external render perspectives and we started discussing internal render plans:

Creating an Open Source Future - Sketches of external render perspectives, One Community

Sketches of External Render Perspectives – Click to Visit Page

Karl Harris (Architect Drafter, Designer, and founder of Harris Design & Technology Services) continued work on the Duplicable City Center and finished the East-view:

Creating an Open Source Future - East View CAD, Duplicable City Center, One Community

Duplicable City Center East View CAD – Click to Visit Page

CREATING AN OPEN SOURCE FUTURE HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY

We are creating an open source future through open source sharing 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 created a new Highest Good Innovation and Technology page outlining our technology integration strategy. Here’s is a preview of the page:

Creating an Open Source Future - Highest Good Innovation and Technology page, One Community

New Highest Good Innovation and Technology Page – 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

GET INVOLVED

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 an open source 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 creating an open source 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 creating an open source 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: Creating an Open Source 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, creating an open source 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 creating an open source 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, fostering a sense of community and commitment to creating an open source future.

INSPIRING SUSTAINABILITY WITH OPEN SOURCE

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

Our open source model and blueprints engage and inspire people while simultaneously making sustainable living more affordable and easy to replicate, further promoting creating an open source future. 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 at the same time creating an open source 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, contributing to creating an open source future.

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 an open source 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 creating an open source 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.

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 an open source future. 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 an open source future.

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

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

OPEN SOURCE SHARING STRATEGY SPECIFICS

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

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

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

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

SUMMARY

One Community sees the issues of the world as interdependent and interconnected. To address them simultaneously, we are open-source blueprinting a more advanced standard of living by designing holistic, environmentally-regenerative, self-sustaining, adaptable solutions for all areas of sustainability. We will model these within a comprehensive “village/city” which will be built in the southwestern U.S. This teacher/demonstration hub will be a place 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, thereby creating an open source future.

People Making a Difference – One Community Weekly Progress Update #60

Posted on April 24, 2014 by One Community

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

We are a group of people making a difference. Our goal is to help others make a difference too. We are doing this through open source and free-sharing the path and the resources to make it easy enough, affordable enough, and attractive enough to spread Highest Good of All thinking and creation globally:

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 (#60) covering our development and accomplishments for the week of April 14, 2014:

People Making a Difference
One Community Weekly Progress Update #60

People Making a Difference - One Community Weekly Progress Update #60

Watch this video on YouTube

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

PEOPLE MAKING A DIFFERENCE INTRO @1:05

PEOPLE MAKING A DIFFERENCE – HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION @1:50

Finished another 15% of the Science Subject Molecule (see below)
We also researched just under 100 images and created a new literature section for the English Subject Molecule (behind the scenes)

PEOPLE MAKING A DIFFERENCE – HIGHEST GOOD FOOD: @2:48

Added 8 new breakout pages to the open source food forest portal (see below)
Created 3-D terrain for the Aesthetic and Diversity-focused Zen Aquapini Design (see below)
Added diversity and purchasing details to the heirloom carrots section of the Â large-scale gardening page (see below)
Completed sourcing, researching, and choosing the rest of our large-scale gardening plants (over 500) behind the scenes

PEOPLE MAKING A DIFFERENCE – HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING: @4:12

Updated 3-D plant details for the Earthbag Village (see below)
Completed more Earthbag Village dome-home heating calculations and created new heating plan (see below)
Finished the rest of the open source village emergency fire and medical page

PEOPLE MAKING A DIFFERENCE – DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER: @5:16

Began the initial heat calculations for the Duplicable City Center (see below)
Researched a new solar option: www.cogenra.com/product
Karl Harris finished most of the East-view elevations in CAD (see below)

PEOPLE MAKING A DIFFERENCE – HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY: @6:15

Created information sharing archives on our Highest Good Facebook page (see below)
We also finished the last details of the Highest Good Network version 1.0 Requirements document

PEOPLE MAKING A DIFFERENCE SUMMARY: @7:00

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ONE COMMUNITY WEEKLY UPDATE DETAILS

PEOPLE MAKING A DIFFERENCE HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

We are improving life on Earth through Highest Good education that is for all ages, for people making a difference, applicable in any environment, adaptable to individual needs, far exceeds traditional education standards, and more fun for both the teachers and the students:

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

This last week the core team finished another 15% of the Science Subject Molecule. Here it is:

Science Molecule in progress, One Community, People Making a Difference

Science Molecule – 40% Complete

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

YOU CAN ALSO JOIN US THROUGH SOCIAL MEDIA

ONE COMMUNITY WEEKLY UPDATE DETAILS

PEOPLE MAKING A DIFFERENCE HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

We are people making a difference through open source sharing Highest Good food that is more diverse, more nutritious, locally grown and sustainable, and part of our open source botanical garden model to support and share bio-diversity:

Learn about the structures: Aquapini & 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 8 new breakout pages to the open source food forest portal covering each of the sections of the food forest plants in detail. As of this posting, that page has gotten over 1600 Facebook shares.

Food Forest, One Community, People Making a Difference

Food Forest Open Source Portal Breakout Pages – Click to Visit Page

We also created 3-D terrain for the Aesthetic and Diversity-focused Zen Aquapini Design. This terrain will also be used for the earthbag village an other renders:

Zenapini 3-D Terrain

And we added the diversity and purchasing details to the heirloom carrots section of the Â large-scale gardening page – this includes 7 featured carrot types and purchasing details for all 11.

heirloom carrots, large-scale gardening, One Community, People Making a Difference

Large-Scale Gardening Heirloom Carrots Section – Click to Visit Page

PEOPLE MAKING A DIFFERENCE HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

We are people making a difference through open source sharing 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 returned to working on the 3-D details for the earthbag village because we’ve needed to update the planting plan. Here is a collage of that work in progress:

3-D details for the earthbag village, One Community, People Making a Difference

Earthbag Village 3-D Details – Click to Visit Page

We also dove deeper into exploring the options for heating the homes within the Earthbag Village in cooler climates and when focusing on our maximum affordability goals, 2-year plan for village completion, and working with a limited energy allowance. This chart shows the calculations we made to determine that the best approach will be:

Tapestry application for added R-value in the winter and easy removal for passive cooling in the summer
Electric blankets and backup space heaters with a specific energy ration for the coldest nights
Using the consensus process to agree upon and explore other heating and insulation options beyond this foundational strategy once we’ve built the first half of the village and lived in it though a full year of seasons.

In addition to this, the Duplicable City Center will be a constantly maintained environment for large-scale recreation and relaxation. Here are the calculations showing cost, labor, and BTU production comparisons.

Earthbag Village Heating Calculations, One Community, People Making a Difference

Earthbag Village Heating Options – Click to Visit Page

PEOPLE MAKING A DIFFERENCE DUPLICABLE CITY HUB PROGRESS

We are people making a difference through open source sharing a Duplicable and Sustainable City Center that is LEED Platinum certified/Sustainable, can feed 200 people at a time, can provide laundry for over 300 people, beautiful, spacious, saves resources, saves money, and saves space:

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

This last week the core team began the initial heat calculations for this structure. The key determination we need to make is that heating this structure will be possible with 100% off-grid energy in an area where temperatures can reach as low as zero degrees Fahrenheit. Here’s a screenshot of the beginning of this process:

Duplicable City Center HVAC and Power Analysis, One Community, People Making a Difference

Duplicable City Center Initial Heating Calculations – Click to Visit Page

This last week Karl Harris (Architect Drafter, Designer, and founder of Harris Design & Technology Services) finished most of the East-view elevations in CAD:

East-view Elevations in CAD, One Community, People Making a Difference

Duplicable City Center East-view elevations in CAD – Click to Visit Page

PEOPLE MAKING A DIFFERENCE HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY

We are people making a difference through open source sharing 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 created super easy to use information sharing archives on our Highest Good Facebook page. These archives can be added to by anyone, shared with one click, and they cover Food, Energy, Education, Life-hacks, Housing, Energy, Water, and more:

Facebook Archive, One Community, People Making a Difference

Information Sharing Archives on Facebook – 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

GET INVOLVED

WHAT ONE COMMUNITY IS CREATING

One Community is creating a place to grow together and change the world together, empowering people making a difference. 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 and inspiring of those people making a difference.

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, creating a ripple effect of people making a difference.

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 empowering people making a difference.

WHY ONE COMMUNITY IS CREATING THIS

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

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, empowering people making a difference. The following four phases of the strategy we are applying are designed to support each other and accelerate the process globally:

Phase I: Demonstrating a Better Way

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

Phase II: Open Source Project-Launch Blueprinting

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

Phase III: Inviting the World to Participate

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

Phase IV: Universal Appeal and Global Expansion

As One Community continues evolving and establishing ourselves, everything we create and promote will serve as the engine to inspire people to align with the concept of open source and sustainable living for The Highest Good of All, ultimately empowering people to make a difference. 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, providing opportunities for even more people to make a difference.

WHY OPEN SOURCE

We are creating everything One Community does as open source and free-shared blueprints because we see this as the path to a new Golden Age of creativity, innovation, cooperation, and collaboration for all of humanity. Our model is a solution model that creates additional solution creating models enabling people to live and collaborate globally for The Highest Good of All, thus fostering people making a difference. 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 themultimately leading to more people making a difference. The constantly expanding total model will additionally be able to be used in its entirety as the open source project-launch blueprint for a variety of duplicate teacher/demonstration communities, villages, and cities capable of being built virtually anywhere.

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

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

OPEN SOURCE SHARING STRATEGY SPECIFICS

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

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

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

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

SUMMARY

One Community sees the issues of the world as interdependent and interconnected. To address them simultaneously, we are open-source blueprinting a more advanced standard of living by designing holistic, environmentally-regenerative, self-sustaining, adaptable solutions for all areas of sustainability. We will model these within a comprehensive “village/city” which will be built in the southwestern U.S. This teacher/demonstration hub will be a place 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, ultimately creating a model solution that empowers people making a difference.

Creating Global Sustainability – One Community Weekly Progress Update #59

Posted on April 15, 2014 by One Community

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

One Community is purposed for transitioning our planet into creating global sustainability through open source and free-sharing do-it-yourself tools, tutorials, resources, plans, and instructions for all areas of fulfilled and sustainable 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. Here is our weekly progress update (#59) covering our development and accomplishments for the week of April 7, 2014 into creating global sustainability:

Creating Global Sustainability
One Community Weekly Progress Update #59

Global Sustainability - One Community Weekly Progress Update #59

Watch this video on YouTube

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

CREATING GLOBAL SUSTAINABILITY INTRO @1:00

CREATING GLOBAL SUSTAINABILITY – HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION @1:45 Creating Global Sustainability

Finished 25% of the Science Subject Molecule (see below)
Finished the last 10% of the needed English Subject research

CREATING GLOBAL SUSTAINABILITY – HIGHEST GOOD FOOD: @2:40

Created Highest Good food overview poster (see below)
Finished all 3-D plant placements for the Aesthetic and Diversity-focused Zen Aquapini Design
Added 20 plant variety images and descriptions to the large-scale gardening page
Completed sourcing, researching, and choosing over 350 additional specific varieties

CREATING GLOBAL SUSTAINABILITY – HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING: @4:11

Created Highest Good housing overview poster (see below)
Explored thermal lag, loss, and our specific options for heating the Earthbag Village homes (details below)
Finished about 50% of the open source village emergency fire and medical page
Victor Herber designed and checked the stress load capabilities of the vermiculture toilet removable-frame supports (see below)
Philip Gill finished about 70% of the entertainment and dining dome custom furniture design (see below)

CREATING GLOBAL SUSTAINABILITY – DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER: @5:25

Karl Harris‘ continued progress on the SEGO elevations (see below)

CREATING GLOBAL SUSTAINABILITY – HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY: @6:20

Finished 8 more pages of outlining version 1.0 of the custom and open source Highest Good Network (see below)

CREATING GLOBAL SUSTAINABILITY SUMMARY: @6:55

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CREATING GLOBAL SUSTAINABILITY HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

We are improving life on Earth 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, ultimately creating global sustainability:

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 25% of the Science Subject Molecule, advancing our progress towards creating global sustainability:

Science Molecule in progress, One Community, Creating Global Sustainability

Science Molecule – 25% Complete

CREATING GLOBAL SUSTAINABILITY HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

We are here to create global sustainability 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: Aquapini & walipini open source hub
See what we’ll be growing: Gardens & Hoop Houses | Large-scale Structures | Food Forest

This last week the core team created this Highest Good food overview poster:

Highest Good Food, One Community Food, open source food, Creating Global Sustainability

One Community Highest Good Food – Click to Open and Enlarge in a New Window

We also finished all 3-D plant placements for the Aesthetic and Diversity-focused Zen Aquapini Design:

Global Sustainability Food, Aesthetic and Diversity-focused Zen Aquapini Design, One Community, Creating Global Sustainability

Zen Aquapini Sketchup Export

And we added 20 plant variety images and description to the large-scale gardening page. Cole crops, beets, celery, corn, cucumbers, eggplant, alliums, lettuce, peas, tomatoes, radishes, potatoes, squash, capsicum, melons, and parsnips also have complete cultural considerations and planting guidelines included on that page too now… Plus, behind the scenes, we have completed sourcing, researching, and choosing all the specific plant selections for each of these species. This now includes over 350 different varieties that we will now be adding a species at a time to the large-scale gardening page. Here are two examples of new plants added:

Cole Crops

Brassica spp.: kale, broccoli, bok choy, cabbage, brussel sprouts, etc.

Cole Crops

Cole crops are leafy vegetables eaten fresh or cooked, also dried, pickled, and canned. Some forms can be root cellared. The hardiest forms, such as kales can overwinter under mulch. They are highly nutritious, a source of glucosinolates, isothiocyanates and vitamins.

CULTURAL CONSIDERATIONS

- - Brassicas are subject to beetle and caterpillar damage
  - Light fertilization after planting helps early rapid growth
  - Crop rotation is important for brassicas to avoid pest buildup
  - Transplant early spring; hardy types can also be planted in fall
  - Some types such as broccoli and brussel sprouts may provide multiple harvests

PLANTING GUIDELINES

Brassicas are usually set out in spring as transplants. Spacing is 12″ each way or more; it is important to allow enough root room to provide adequate nutrition for each plant, as brassicas tend to be heavy feeders. Organic mulches are very beneficial as they provide nutrition as they break down, plus create conditions for soil biota that help suppress root maggots and fungal diseases.

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

Wikipedia ” Brassica

Specific cole crop varieties coming soon…

Beets (Beta vulgaris)

Beets

Beets are an important vegetable from a dietary standpoint; leafy tops are consumed and roots are eaten raw, cooked, (though will lose about 25% of their folate value when cooked) pickled, and canned. They are a dietary source of betaine (trimethylglycine), an important modified amino acid that helps protect cells against osmotic stress, which assists in DNA formation.

CULTURAL CONSIDERATIONS

- - Beets are generally direct seeded
  - Plant in spring after soil reaches 55F
  - Beets like humus and good drainage
  - Beets like mulch and steady moisture
  - When thinning, pinch off rather than pull

PLANTING GUIDELINES

Plant seeds in well-worked soil in spring and rake in lightly. Keep moist until germination occurs. Once stand is thinned, mulch to conserve soil moisture. Light feedings with compost or earthworm casting teas are beneficial, but avoid excessive nitrogen.

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

Wikipedia ” Beets

Specific beet varieties coming soon…

CREATING GLOBAL SUSTAINABILITY HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

We are here to create global sustainability 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 created this Highest Good housing overview poster:

Highest Good Housing, One Community Housing, Creating Global Sustainability

Highest Good Housing – Click to Open and Enlarge in a New Window

We also explored thermal lag, loss, and our specific options for heating the Earthbag Village homes:

THERMAL LAG

Thermal lag is a time unit assigned to a material that indicates the amount of time it takes to heat up or cool down. Heating a material up depends on how much heat it can absorb (Specific Heat, C_p), the rate at which the heat can penetrate (thermal conductivity, k), the density of the material in question (density, ρ) and the thickness of the material. The Lag from heating one side to the other side heating up as well is the thermal lag expressed by:

This means that when our domes experience cyclical temperatures (day and night, seasonal) the temperature inside the domes lags behind. For our domes, we have calculated a 44-day lag in temperature meaning that the exterior temperature would not reflect the un-heated interior temperature of the dome. You can see this depicted in the image below where the blue line represents the average daily temperature of Page, AZ and the red line is the resultant 44-day lag temperature inside the dome. The green line is what a lag of over a year would look like, which happens to be the same principle that creates the 55°F below-ground temperature people reference as the benefit of building in-ground versus above ground.

Temperature Analysis for Page, AZ (not our location)

The good news is that extremely hot days in the summer would benefit from these cooler interiors. The bad news is that after over 44 days of cold temperatures, the inside of the domes are going to reflect that average cooler temperature. At that point trying to heat the structure becomes hard to predict because you not only have to heat the air in the dome, but the material of the dome itself, and the overall trend of the elements cooling the dome over 44 days is hard to offset.

To put it another way, the thermal mass of the domes resists temperature change much like a heavy thing resists changes in velocity (inertia). Once the temperature outside is pushing that mass colder it takes a lot of energy to push back and keep it warm in the space. The equations that represent the system of thermal properties move into the realm of advanced calculus and show traditional heating and insulating of these spaces would be cost prohibitive for our affordability goals for these initial structures.

Thermal Lag Calculations

Castles Used Wall Tapestries

This has led us to consider more creative options for heating with the goal of creating global sustainability. For instance, what if we could change when the tendency of the material to resist temperature changes is desired verses when it is advantageous? One possible solution comes from the middle ages. Castles are not known to be the homiest of places, especially in the winter. To combat the chill coming off the walls in the winter people put up floor to ceiling drapes and tapestries. These cloths added insulation to the inside of the space and kept heat in the room while reducing the amount of heat that was absorbed by the thermal mass of the castle walls.

Other options being considered are space heaters with energy rationing, parabolic dish heaters or electric blankets (heat the person, not the room), and other creative insulation approaches. As we continue to explore all options, the key criteria we are focusing on are affordability, sustainability, labor needs for implementation, maintenance, and our limited energy supplies when using solar, all aimed at creating global sustainability.

OTHER HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING ACCOMPLISHMENTS

Victor Herber designed and checked the stress/load capabilities of the vermiculture toilet removable-frame supports that you see here. These supports need to be removable so they can be placed on the second tray from the bottom to jack all the trays above it up for easy removal and emptying of the bottom one, thereby facilitating the process of creating global sustainability:

Vermiculture Toilet Tray Designs, One Community, Creating Global Sustainability

Vermiculture Toilet Tray Design Progress

Philip Gill also finished about 70% of the entertainment and dining dome custom furniture design option for the Earthbag Village homes. This design includes built-in seating and an entertainment center, a table for eating or socializing, chifferobe, and ladder access to the loft storage or sleeping area:

Entertainment dome custom furniture design option, One Community, Creating global sustainability

Entertainment Dome Custom Furniture Design – 70% Complete

CREATING GLOBAL SUSTAINABILITY DUPLICABLE CITY HUB PROGRESS

We are here to create global sustainability 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’s visible progress for the Duplicable City Center is complements of Karl Harris‘ (Architect Drafter, Designer, and founder of Harris Design & Technology Services) continued progress on the elevations in CAD:

CAD Elevation examples, Duplicable City Center, One Community, Creating Global Sustainability

Duplicable City Center continued examples of Elevations in CAD

One Community is focusing on components to help people create global sustainability 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
Open source community collaboration and management software: The Highest Good Network

This last week the core team finished 8 more pages of outlining version 1.0 of the custom and open source Highest Good Network software. We are now about 80% complete with this outline so we can return to the creative coding process, ultimately contributing to creating global sustainability. Here is a screenshot of this work in progress and what can be expected from this application:

Highest Good Network software Outline, One Community, Creating Global Sustainability

Highest Good Network Software Outline – 80% Complete

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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 global sustainability. 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 global sustainability. 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 global sustainability.

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 global sustainability, 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 global sustainability. 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 lifestyle to a more enjoyable, fulfilling, healthy, by creating global sustainability.

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 global sustainability.

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 global sustainability.

INSPIRING SUSTAINABILITY WITH OPEN SOURCE

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

Our open source model and blueprints engage and inspire people while simultaneously making sustainable living more affordable and easy to replicate, further promoting creating global sustainability. 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 at the same time contributing to creating global sustainability.

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 creating global sustainability. 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 global sustainability. 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 global sustainability. 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 global sustainability.

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 global sustainability. 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 this for creating global sustainability

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, thereby contributing to creating global 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.

Helping People Make a New Life – One Community Weekly Progress Update #58

Posted on April 12, 2014 by One Community

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One Community is purposed for helping people make a new life through open source and free-sharing do-it-yourself tools, tutorials, resources, plans, and instructions for all areas of fulfilled and sustainable living. Our goal is to leverage the personal and global benefits of this style of living so we can create positive and permanent global transformation for The Highest Good of All:

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

OUR MAIN OPEN SOURCE HUBS

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

One Community’s physical location will forward this movement as the first of many self-replicating teacher/demonstration communities, villages, and cities to be built around the world. Here is our weekly progress update (#58) covering our development and accomplishments for the week of March 31st, 2014, showcasing how we are actively trying to make a new life possible for individuals and communities through our innovative approach to sustainable living:

Helping People Make a New Life
One Community Weekly Progress Update #58

Helping People Make a New Life - One Community Weekly Progress Update #58

Watch this video on YouTube

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

MAKE A NEW LIFE INTRO @1:00

MAKE A NEW LIFE – HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION @1:45

Finished the Health Subject webpage
Finished the English Subject cross-checking with the California Core Standards (behind-the-scenes)
Finished all research for the Science Subject Molecule

MAKE A NEW LIFE – HIGHEST GOOD FOOD: @2:40

Continued progress on the Aesthetic and Diversity-focused Zen Aquapini Design (see below)
Added the roof and created high-quality renders – central area plants are next (see below)
Updated our open source hoop house portal
Created our open source large-scale gardening page and added our first section of content: Beans (see below)

MAKE A NEW LIFE – HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING: @4:32

Bupesh Seethala helped us create new Earthbag Village renders (see below)
Populated our open source architectural file sharing and brainstorming group on Facebook
Created the Earthbag Village fire and emergency medical plan (behind the scenes)
Victor Herber finished the vermiculture toilet structural engineering calculations for the frame (see below)

MAKE A NEW LIFE – DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER: @6:13

Creating a Dining Dome internal render (see below)
Began our work with P2S Engineering on the heating, cooling, and energy specifics for this structure
Karl Harris completed more work on the elevations in CAD. Here are some screenshots of Karl’s work in progress on those details. (see below)

MAKE A NEW LIFE – HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY: @7:16

Created a Highest Good society summary poster (see below)
Finished a complete rewrite and update of our values page covering Love and Connection
Finished a complete rewrite of our values page covering Evolving Sustainability
Updated the Highest Good Network page content and images (see below)

MAKE A NEW LIFE SUMMARY: @8:16

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MAKE A NEW LIFE HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

We are improving life on Earth 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: 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 made more progress on the Aesthetic and Diversity-focused Zen Aquapini Design in 3-D. You can see that here where we added a built-in bench, a table and chairs in the corner, resized the sump and adjusted the water levels, eliminated the water trough around the perimeter, added piping, and added plants on the pond and terraces. This innovative approach to sustainable living spaces is not only enhancing the aesthetics of our environment but also helping people make a new life by providing a harmonious and eco-friendly living experience:

Aesthetic and Diversity-focused Zen Aquapini Design, One Community, Make a new life

Zen Aquapini Sketchup Export – Click to visit page

We then created this new render showing the addition of some of what we’ll be planting in this structure:

Zen Aquapini Render, One Community, Make a New Life

Zen Aquapini Render, Click to visit page

We also created a new open source large-scale gardening page. Behind the scenes we’ve completed the initial research on heirloom carrots, cole crops, beats, celery, corn, cucumbers, and eggplant. On the page we’ve already added the specifics of our organic and heirloom bean selections – 32 different varieties of beans from around the world with 10 featured to show the diversity we’ll be growing, testing, and developing through our open source botanical garden model:

Beans, One Community, large-scale gardening page, Make a New Life

Beans, Large-Scale Gardening – Click to visit page

MAKE A NEW LIFE – HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

We are improving life on Earth 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, ultimately aiding in helping people make a new life:

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 created complete village renders of the plant details added by Bupesh Seethala (Architectural Drafter, Designer, and 3-D Visualizer – BupeshSeethala.com) and the village 3-D design mostly created by Devin Porter (3D Graphics Design Specialist – DevinPorter.com), contributing to the creation of sustainable communities and helping people make a new life:

Make a New Life Earthbag living, One Community, Make a New Life

Earthbag Village Renders of the Plant Plan – Click to visit page

Victor Herber finished the vermiculture toilet structural engineering calculations needed for us to finalize the foundational designs for the removable trays and separate removable tray frames:

Vermiculture Toilet design, One Community, Make a New Life

Vermiculture Toilet Removable Tray Designs – Click to visit page

Here are the calculations:

Vermiculture toilet structural engineering calculations, One Community, Make a New Life

Vermiculture Toilet Structural Engineering Calculations – Click to visit page

MAKE A NEW LIFE – DUPLICABLE CITY HUB PROGRESS

One Community is focusing on components to help people make a new life through a Duplicable and Sustainable City Center that is LEED Platinum certified/Sustainable, can feed 200 people at a time, can provide laundry for over 300 people, beautiful, spacious, saves resources, saves money, and saves space:

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

This last week the core team completed our first internal render of this structure. It shows the Dining Dome with the kitchen in the background and dining in the foreground, providing a glimpse into the transformative space that will serve as a hub for helping people make a new life:

first internal render, duplicable city center, One Community, Make a new Life

First Internal Render of the Duplicable City Center – Click to visit page

Karl Harris (Architect Drafter, Designer, and founder of Harris Design & Technology Services) continued work on the elevations for this structure too. Here is his most recent screenshot of work-in-progress:

CAD Elevation examples, Duplicable City Center, One Community, Make a new Life

Duplicable City Center continued examples of Elevations in CAD – Click to visit page

One Community is focusing on components to help people make a new life 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 created this summary poster for the Buckminster Fuller Challenge that we entered:

One Community Highest Good Society, Make a New Life

Summary Poster – Click to enlarge (then click new image again)

We also update the Highest Good Network page content and images to include these two images:

Time Tracking and Reports Function for All Projects and Project Teams, Make a New Life

Time Tracking and Reports Function for All Projects and Teams – Click to visit page

Integration with the Education Program and All Other Open Source Components, Make a New Life

Integration with the Education Program and All Other Open Source Components – 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

GET INVOLVED

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, helping people make a new life. 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 grow knowledge.

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, helping people make a new life.

WHY ONE COMMUNITY IS CREATING THIS

The One Community self-replicating model is capable of creating a sustainable planet within 30 years. We will achieve this by establishing successful teacher/demonstration hubs on every continent. Villages include designs appropriate for each of the five main types of climates, offering opportunities for individuals to make a new life in a sustainable environment. 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, helping people make a new life. For One Community residents (the Pioneer Team), the idea of creating and sharing the social and recreational experience with visitors is also fun, exciting, fulfilling, and an additional reason why we are creating this.

INSPIRING SUSTAINABILITY WITH OPEN SOURCE

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

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, further aiding in helping people make a new life.

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, ultimately striving to help people make a new life.

COMPREHENSIVE SOLUTION TO HUMANITY’S NEEDS

One Community is open source sharing an evolution of sustainable living that addresses the complete human experience, aimed at helping people make a new life. 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 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 to make a new life for people.

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: Make a New Life by Demonstrating a Better Way

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

Phase II: Make a New Life with 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: Make a New Life by Inviting the World to Participate

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

Phase IV: Make a New Life with Universal Appeal and Global Expansion

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

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

WHY OPEN SOURCE

We are creating everything One Community does as open source and free-shared blueprints because we see this as the path to a new Golden Age of creativity, innovation, cooperation, and collaboration for all of humanity. Our model is a solution model that creates additional solution creating models enabling people to live and collaborate globally for The Highest Good of All, ultimately helping people make a new life. 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, thus aiding in helping people make a new life. It can be duplicated by itself or with other modules, with applications as diverse as the people who want and need them. The constantly expanding total model will additionally be able to be used in its entirety as the open source project-launch blueprint for a variety of duplicate teacher/demonstration communities, villages, and cities capable of being built virtually anywhere.

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

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

OPEN SOURCE SHARING STRATEGY SPECIFICS

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

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

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

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

SUMMARY

One Community sees the issues of the world as interdependent and interconnected. To address them simultaneously, we are open-source blueprinting a more advanced standard of living by designing holistic, environmentally-regenerative, self-sustaining, adaptable solutions for all areas of sustainability. We will model these within a comprehensive “village/city” which will be built in the southwestern U.S. This teacher/demonstration hub will be a place 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.

Creating The World We Want – One Community Weekly Progress Update #57

Posted on March 31, 2014 by One Community

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

One Community is creating the world we want, and helping others to create the world they want too, through open source and free-sharing do-it-yourself tools, tutorials, resources, plans, and instructions for all areas of living needed for positive and permanent global transformation for The Highest Good of All:

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

OUR MAIN OPEN SOURCE HUBS

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

One Community’s physical location will forward this movement as the first of many self-replicating teacher/demonstration communities, villages, and cities to be built around the world, creating the world we want. Here is our weekly progress update (#57) covering our development and accomplishments for the week of March 24th, 2014:

Creating The World We Want
One Community Weekly Progress Update #57

Creating The World We Want - One Community Weekly Progress Update #57

Watch this video on YouTube

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

CREATING THE WORLD WE WANT INTRO @1:00

CREATING THE WORLD WE WANT – HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION @1:41

Finished the rest of the Health Subject subject image (see below)
Finished 40% of the Health Subject webpage
Completed another 10% of the English Subject research – now 90% complete (behind the scenes)
Researched computer science and another 40 images for the Science Subject Molecule – also now 90% complete (behind the scenes)

CREATING THE WORLD WE WANT – HIGHEST GOOD FOOD: @3:04

Continued Zen Aquapini 3-D (see below)
We also created new high-quality renders of the Large-scale Aquapini design (see below)
Began the process of detailing the garden and hoop house planting plan for maximum diversity of heirloom and organic produce capable of feeding over 100 people within 1 year

CREATING THE WORLD WE WANT – HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING: @4:10

Started the specific calculations for heating and cooling of our specific earthdome designs (see below)
Created and populated a new open source architectural file sharing and brainstorming group on Facebook
Restarted 3-D window placement for the complete Earthbag Village (see below)
Devin Porter redesigned the upper walkway of the Tropical Atrium that is the center of the Earthbag Village (see below)

CREATING THE WORLD WE WANT – DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER: @5:28

Finished last needed 3-D details, now these files go into the hands of Joel Newman for more real-to-life renders and P2S Engineering for help with mechanical, electrical, and plumbing engineering details (see below)
Karl Harris also continued work on the elevations in CAD (see below)

CREATING THE WORLD WE WANT SUMMARY: @6:33

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HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

We are creating the world we want and know is possible 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 Health Subject image (and 40% of the webpage). Here it is:

Education For Life, The subject of Health, One Community, Creating the world we want

The Health Subject Image ” Click to visit the Health page with an image you can enlarge

HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

We are creating the world we want and know is possible 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: Aquapini & walipini open source hub
See what we’ll be growing: Aquapini & walipini planting and harvesting | Food Forest | Tropical Atrium P&H

This last week the core team continued progress on the Aesthetic and Diversity-focused Zen Aquapini Design in 3-D. We placed soil, designed the steps around the elevated area pond, added three small pools, the pool under the media beds, and placed the stepping stones, all with the vision of creating the world we want:

3-D Aesthetic and Diversity-focused Zen Aquapini Design, Creating the world we want

Aesthetic and Diversity-focused Zen Aquapini Design ” In Progress

We also created new high-quality renders of the Large-scale Aquapini design:

new high-quality renders of the Large-scale Aquapini design, One Community, Creating the world we want

High-quality Renders of the Large-scale Aquapini Design – Click to visit page

HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

We are creating the world we want and know is possible 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 started the calculations for heating and cooling of our specific earthdome designs, calculating actual BTUs of gain and loss for each part of the structure to determine exactly how many BTUs of heat will need to be added or removed to maintain a 72 degree Fahrenheit temperature in a climate ranging from 0-100 F. Here is what this looks like as it is developing:

calculations for heating and cooling of our specific earthdome designs, One Community, Creating the world we want

Earthdome Calculations for Heating and Cooling

We also took over on 3-D window movement to demonstrate passive solar application for the complete Earthbag Village after our amazing partner Devin Porter (3D Graphics Design Specialist – DevinPorter.com) sadly lost about 12 hours of his work to a computer crash. Here’s the screenshots of the process required for every window that needs to be moved, showcasing our dedication to creating the world we want:

9-Step Process to Window Replacement on Earthbag village, One Community, Creating the World we Want

9-Step Process to Window Replacement for Earthbag Village

Passing the windows to us, Devin finished a redesign of the upper walkway of the Tropical Atrium that is the center of the Earthbag Village. This redesign will provide more sunlight to the back of the structure and allow more grow space for trees that will be able to be planted here:

Tropical Atrium Redesign, One Community, Creating the world we want

Redesign of the Upper Walkway of the Tropical Atrium – Click to visit page

DUPLICABLE CITY HUB PROGRESS

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

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

This last week the core team finished the last needed 3-D details necessary for this structure to move to the hands of Joel Newman for more real-to-life renders and our consultants at P2S Engineering to discuss mechanical, electrical, and plumbing details, ultimately contributing to creating the world we want. Here are a collection of renders showing this work.

3-D details complete and ready for more real-to-life renders, One Community, Creating the world we want

3-D Details complete and ready for more Real-to-Life Renders – Click to visit page

Karl Harris (Architect Drafter, Designer, and founder of Harris Design & Technology Services) also continued his work on the CAD elevations for this structure. Here are screenshot exports of this work continuing:

Continued examples of elevations in CAD for Duplicable City Center, One Community, Creating the world we want

Duplicable City Center continued examples of Elevations in CAD

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WHAT ONE COMMUNITY IS CREATING

One Community is creating a place to grow together and change the world together, all in pursuit of creating the world we want. 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 in creating the world we want.

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, thus perpetuating the ideals of creating the world we want.

BUILDING THE FIRST OF MANY

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

WHY ONE COMMUNITY IS CREATING THIS

The One Community self-replicating model is capable of creating a sustainable planet within 30 years, all in pursuit of Creating the world we want. 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, providing valuable insights into creating the world we want.

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, and an additional reason why we are creating the world we want.

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: Creating the World We Want – Demonstrating a Better Way

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

Phase II: Creating the World We Want – 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: Creating the World We Want – Inviting the World to Participate

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

Phase IV: Creating the World We Want – Universal Appeal and Global Expansion

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

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

WHY OPEN SOURCE

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

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, all in pursuit of creating the world we want. This is all supported and made possible because:

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

OPEN SOURCE SHARING STRATEGY SPECIFICS

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

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

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

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

SUMMARY

One Community sees the issues of the world as interdependent and interconnected. To address them simultaneously, we are open-source blueprinting a more advanced standard of living by designing holistic, environmentally-regenerative, self-sustaining, adaptable solutions for all areas of sustainability. We will model these within a comprehensive “village/city” which will be built in the southwestern U.S. This teacher/demonstration hub will be a place 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, ultimately contributing to creating the world we want.

One Community Welcomes Zia Energía to our Highest Good Collaborative Team!

Posted on March 31, 2014 by One Community

One Community is happy to welcome Zia Enegía to the Highest Good collaboration team!

Zia Energía is a beverage company allocating 100% of profits to planting greater good of all seeds in New Mexico. ZIA Energía believes it is a responsibility to do their part to heal the relationships between humans and ecosystems. They are embodying this with a complete, creative, and courageous renovation of business as we know it. Instead of maximizing returns for just shareholders, Zia Energía is here to “maximize returns for every plant, animal and resource that we share our sacred world with.”

One Community has partnered with Zia Energía because they are an organization that is looking well beyond the next seven generations by building a business that is not only economically sustainable, but also environmentally sustainable, socially just, and exemplary of a the kind of business that is needed to create the world change we both know is possible. Their approach is holistic, focused on quality ingredients and increasingly more eco-friendly packaging, and using their profits to build sustainable housing.

Along with speaking with Ryan, Zia’s CEO, this video convinced One Community that Zia was an organization we wanted to help support:

WELCOME TO THE TEAM ZIA!

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Highest Good Creation – One Community Weekly Progress Update #56

Posted on March 24, 2014 by One Community

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One Community is focused on Highest Good Creation through open source and free-shared DIY blueprints, tools, tutorials, and resources for positive and permanent global transformation to sustainability, self-sufficiency, and helping each other 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, all dedicated to the Highest Good creation. Here is our weekly progress update (#56) covering our development and accomplishments for the week of March 17th, 2014:

Highest Good Creation
One Community Weekly Progress Update #56

Highest Good Creation - One Community Weekly Progress Update #56

Watch this video on YouTube

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

HIGHEST GOOD CREATION INTRO @1:05

HIGHEST GOOD CREATION – HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION @1:37

Finished the first 30% of the Health Subject subject image (see below)
Finished the Art/Music and Trade Skills webpage webpage
Completed another 20% of the English Subject research (behind the scenes – now 80% complete)
Researched another 155 images for the Science Subject Molecule (behind the scenes – now 80% complete)

HIGHEST GOOD CREATION – HIGHEST GOOD FOOD: @1:54

Completed our fourth set of sunlight studies for the aquapini & walipini designs (see below)
We also thoroughly researched supplemental light costs for these structures
Began hydronic heating water calculations
Continued work on the first Zen Aquapini in 3-D creation (see below)

HIGHEST GOOD CREATION – HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING: @4:01

Expanded Systems Engineering approach to building the Earthbag Village: GO HERE

HIGHEST GOOD CREATION – DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER: @5:12

Recreated the entire 4th floor elevator and bathroom walls, bathroom interiors, and stairways (see below)
Finished planting plan
Joel Newman produced a new real-to-life render of this structure (see below)
Karl Harris also provided us with the first examples of the elevations in progress (see below)

HIGHEST GOOD CREATION SUMMARY: @6:25

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

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HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

Our idea of Highest Good creation includes Highest Good education that is for all ages, applicable in any environment, adaptable to individual needs, far exceeds traditional education standards, and more fun for both the teachers and the students:

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

This last week the core team finished the first 30% of the Health Subject subject image, contributing to the creation of resources aimed at promoting the Highest Good creation. Here it is:

Education For Life, The subject of Health, One Community, Highest Good creation

The Subject of Health Image – In Progress

HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

We are creating Highest Good change 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: Aquapini & walipini open source hub
See what we’ll be growing: Aquapini & walipini planting and harvesting | Food Forest | Tropical Atrium P&H

This last week the core team completed the 4th in our series of light studies (go here to see them all) to explore the combination of indirect and direct sunlight that will be available in each area of the aquapini and walipini structures throughout the year, all in pursuit of Highest Good creation:

Walipini Sunlight Study, Highest Good creation

Direct and Indirect Light in Aquapini and Walipini Structures – Click to Enlarge

We also continued 3-D work on the Aesthetic and Diversity-focused Zen Aquapini Design, creating the south-wall terraces, positioning the deep water culture trough, and finishing the West-wall redesign too:

Aesthetic and Diversity-focused Zen Aquapini Design – In Progress

DUPLICABLE CITY HUB PROGRESS

Our idea of Highest Good creation includes a Duplicable and Sustainable City Center that is LEED Platinum certified/Sustainable, can feed 200 people at a time, can provide laundry for over 300 people, beautiful, spacious, saves resources, saves money, and saves space:

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

This last week the core team recreated the entire 4th floor elevator and bathroom walls and redesigned the insides of the bathrooms to match the new CAD layout:

4th floor elevator and bathroom walls recreated, and insides of the bathrooms redesigned, Highest Good creation

Duplicable City Center Redesign of 4th Floor Elevator, Bathroom Walls, and Insides of Bathrooms

We also added windows to the entire South-facing walls of the stairway and elevator area:

Duplicable city center windows, one community, Highest Good creation

South-Facing Windows of the Stairway and Elevator Area added to the Duplicable City Center

Joel Newman (Architectural Visualization Designer www.FigmentCreation.com) finished this new real-to-life render for us:

Duplicable City Center Real-to-Life Render

Karl Harris (Architect Drafter, Designer, and founder of Harris Design & Technology Services) provided us with the first examples of the elevations he is creating for us in CAD. Here is the screenshot of that:

first examples of elevations in CAD for Duplicable City Center, Highest Good creation

Duplicable City Center first Examples of Elevations in CAD

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