In the pursuit of improving life on Earth, One Community is building open source and free-shared DIY blueprints, tools, tutorials, and resources for for everyone and everything through a philosophy of 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 for improving life on Earth 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 (#55) covering our development and accomplishments for the week of March 10th, 2014:

Improving Life on Earth
One Community Weekly Progress Update #55

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

IMPROVING LIFE ON EARTH INTRO @1:00

IMPROVING LIFE ON EARTH – HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION @1:42

• Finished the Art/Music and Trade Skills subject image (see below)
• Completed 90% of the Art/Music and Trade Skills webpage
• Completed the rest of the Health Subject research (topic and images behind the scenes)
• Researched another 225 images for the Science Subject Molecule (behind the scenes)

IMPROVING LIFE ON EARTH – HIGHEST GOOD FOOD: @2:53

• Completed more light studies for the aquapinis and walipinis (see below)
• Began putting the first Zen Aquapini into 3-D, which you can see on the written blog (see below)
• Added all the goat breed specifics, feed costs, and other resource details to the open source goats page

IMPROVING LIFE ON EARTH – HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING: @3:47

• Finished the Systems Engineering approach to building the Earthbag Village: GO HERE
  
• Created a new open source furniture portal for sharing the custom earthdome home furniture
• Philip Gill finished the first layout plans for earthdome home recreation spaces (see below)
• Victor Herber also continued calculations and design progress on the vermiculture toilet designs (see below)
• Bupesh Seethala finished about 50% of the 3-D plant placement for the complete outer ring of the Earthbag Village (see below)

IMPROVING LIFE ON EARTH – DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER: @5:55

• Completed pillar, roof, door, bathroom, and storage details (see below)
• Completed another 20% of the planting plan for this structure (70% done)
• Joel Newman began adding our plant selections to the real-to-life renders of this structure (see below)

IMPROVING LIFE ON EARTH SUMMARY: @7:08

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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:

• 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 Art/Music and Trade Skills subject image (and 90% of the webpage). They have taken a significant step towards fulfilling their mission to improve life on earth. Here it is:

Improving Life on Earth: Art/Music and Trade Skills Subject Image – Click to visit the Arts and Trades page with an image you can enlarge

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: Aquapini & walipini planting and harvesting | Food Forest | Tropical Atrium P&H

This last week the core team completed more light studies to explore exactly how much direct sunlight each area of the aquapini and walipini structures will get throughout the year. Understanding sunlight patterns can contribute valuable insights to improving life on earth by optimizing agricultural practices and enhancing sustainable food production. Here are the results of those studies (showing direct sunlight only) broken down by season:

Improving Life on Earth – Seasonal Direct Sunlight Study – Aquapini and Walipini

Here are the results for the entire year:

Improving Life on Earth – Yearly Direct Sunlight Study – Aquapini and Walipini

We also began putting the first elements of the Aesthetic and Diversity-focused Zen Aquapinis into 3-D:

Improving Life on Earth – Zen Aquapini Design 3-D in progress

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:

• 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 Philip Gill (Interior and Furniture Designer and Owner of Philip Gill Design) began working on the two furniture designs you see below. These are optional designs for adding a recreation and/or dining dome. Configuration 1 (the images on the left) takes off on the children/student model and uses the built-in bookcases as the back for a TV/entertainment stand on one side and fold out or trundle bed/sofa on the other, with the same chifferobe and two desks at the back. There is also a single ‘armchair’ that folds out into a single bed. One of the purposes behind this configuration is to provide sleeping space for guests, thereby improving life on earth.

In the second one (images on the right), Philip has created a curved sofa that can be configured with either a low coffee table (also in the pictures on the left) or a more substantial dining/conference table around which the users can put additional chairs. It also includes the chifferobe and the TV/entertainment unit, thus contributing to improving life on earth through fostering connections and well-being.

Optional Furniture Designs for adding a Recreation and/or Dining Dome

Victor Herber also continued work on the vermiculture toilet designs. Vermiculture is a solution for improving like on earth in human waste processing. Here you can see the most recent calculations:

Improving Life on Earth – Most Recent Vermiculture Toilet Calculations

Also some of the design details taking shape in the form of specifics related to exploring weld points, how the trays will be guided, and our first iteration of how the trays will be able to be jacked up for removal of the bottom one:

Vermiculture Toilet Tray Designs

Bupesh Seethala finished about 50% of the 3-D plant placement for the outer ring of the Earthbag Village. Earthbag construction is a part of our housing component for improving life on earth. You can see her work in the collage below.

Improving Life on Earth – 3-D Plant Placement – Outer Ring – Earthbag Village – 50% complete

DUPLICABLE CITY HUB PROGRESS

We are improving life on Earth 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 the addition of needed support pillars throughout the building:

Improving Life on Earth – Additional Needed Support Pillars throughout the Duplicable City Center

We also added in a new roof to the elevator and stair area to the 4th floor, a bunch of door and bathroom details, and a small floor addition and stair-access storage area:

Other Duplicable City Center updates for the week of 3-10-14

Joel Newman (Architectural Visualization Designer www.FigmentCreation.com) continues to create the real-to-life renders and has also started adding in the sketchup plants we researched to match our planting plan, further contributing to improving life on earth through sustainable design and green infrastructure initiatives.

Improving Life on Earth – Continued Creation of Real-to-Life Renders of Duplicable City Center

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

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OVERVIEW | LOCATION | FUNDING

GET INVOLVED

CONSULTANTS | WAYS ANYONE CAN HELP | MEMBERSHIP

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WHAT ONE COMMUNITY IS CREATING

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

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

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

BUILDING THE FIRST OF MANY

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

WHY ONE COMMUNITY IS CREATING THIS

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

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

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

INSPIRING SUSTAINABILITY WITH OPEN SOURCE

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

Our open source model and blueprints engage and inspire people while simultaneously making sustainable living more affordable and easy to replicate. By free-sharing the step-by-step plans people need for duplication, inviting people to participate, and demonstrating sustainable teacher/demonstration hubs as a more desirable way of living, the model will predictably expand on its own.

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

ONE COMMUNITY’S 4-PHASE STRATEGY

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

Phase I: Improving Life on Earth 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: Improving Life on Earth 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: Improving Life on Earth 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: Improving Life on Earth 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, thus improving life on earth.

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, ultimately contributing to improving life on Earth.

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 improving life on Earth. 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, further improving life on earth. 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 benefits and improving life on earth.

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, thus improving life on earth. We will model these within a comprehensive “village/city” which will be built in the southwestern U.S. This teacher/demonstration hub will be a place people can experience a new way of living and then replicate it with our open source blueprints: creating a model solution that creates additional solution-creating models.

One Community is building sustainable communities through open source and free-shared DIY blueprints, tools, tutorials, and resources 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, helping forward the movement of building sustainable communities. Here is our weekly progress update (#54) covering our development and accomplishments for the week of March 3rd, 2014, dedicated to this topic of building sustainable communities:

Building Sustainable Communities
One Community Weekly Progress Update #54

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

BUILDING SUSTAINABLE COMMUNITIES INTRO @1:00

HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION @1:42

• Completed another 25% of the Art/Music and Trade Skills subject image (see below)
• Now 80% done with the Health Subject research (topic and images behind the scenes)
• Researched another 250 images for the Science Subject Molecule (we think we’re about 50% done)
• Added an additional online resources section to the Math Subject page
• Created a written and video tutorial on image research and theme mindmap creation

HIGHEST GOOD FOOD: @2:53

• Completed skylight 3-D simulations on the Aquapini & Walipini designs (see below)
• David Sweet finished putting the first Zenapini layouts into CAD (see below)
• Bupesh Seethala is also about 50% done with the Large-scale Aquapini in 3DS Max  (see below)

HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING: @3:36

• Victor Herber simplified the vermiculture toilet designs and reduced the costs (see below)

DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER: @5:32

• Completed a long list of added miscellaneous 3-D details (see below)
• 50% Complete with the planting plan for this structure
• Doug Stenhouse also finished the watercolor render of the Duplicable City Center (see below)
• Joel Newman has started creating the landscaping for the real-to-life render (see below)
• Karl Harris finished the final Duplicable City Center layout in CAD (see below)

BUILDING SUSTAINABLE COMMUNITIES SUMMARY: @6:46

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

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ONE COMMUNITY WEEKLY UPDATE DETAILS

HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

We are building sustainable communities 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 completed another 25% of the Art/Music and Trade Skills subject image:

Art/Music and Trade Skills Subject Image – Almost Complete

HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

We are building sustainable communities 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 used in building sustainable communities: Aquapini & walipini open source hub
• See what we’ll be growing while building sustainable communities: Aquapini & walipini planting and harvesting | Food Forest | Tropical Atrium P&H

This last week the core team completed skylight simulations on the Aquapini & Walipini design parts of our model for building sustainable communities, testing the difference between flush skylights, horizontal skylights, 50% versus 100% solar penetration, and the addition of reflective surfaces versus non-reflective surfaces. The results as shown below show that flush skylights combined 100% solar penetration and the addition of reflective surfaces will maximize sunlight in these structures and increase this sunlight where we want it most: against the North wall.

David Sweet (Architect – DSweet.biz) finished putting the first Zenapini layouts into CAD and now we’re going to start putting this into 3D so we can work out some additional needed details, for building sustainable communities. Here are the before and after images:

Before and After Pictures of the First Zenapini Layouts in CAD

Bupesh Seethala (Architectural Drafter, Designer, and 3-D Visualizer – BupeshSeethala.com) is also about 50% done with the Large-scale Aquapini in 3DS Max, thus supporting the process of building sustainable communities:

Large-scale Aquapini in 3DS Max – 50% Complete

HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

We are building sustainable communities 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, which will help in building sustainable communities: 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 Victor Herber (Mechanical Engineer) managed to eliminate about 40% of our materials, building sustainable communities, while simplifying the entire design and also making it easier to empty. What you see here is a steel framework that will hold removable aluminum 3’x7′ trays. The steel structure will be able to be lifted with jacks to remove the bottom tray, and the bottom steel support framework, lower all the other trays with the jacks, and then empty the tray place it and the support framework back on the top.

Vermiculture Design Progress

DUPLICABLE CITY HUB PROGRESS

We are building sustainable communities 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, used in building sustainable communities, and it’s function: Duplicable City Center open source hub

This last week the core team completed a long list of added 3-D details including doors to the 1st and 2nd floor storage areas, safety railings, and new bathroom locations. It is to be holding and building sustainable communities:

Duplicable City Center Added 3-D Details

We also redid the railings to match the new stair designs:

Railings that Match the New Stair Designs

We are also now done with about 50% of the complete internal and external planting plan for this structure, which is to supporting in building sustainable communities:

Internal and External Planting Plan – 50% Complete

Douglas Simms Stenhouse (Architect and Water Color Artist) finished the final watercolor rendering of the Duplicable City Center, to be holding and building sustainable communities:

Duplicable City Center Watercolor by Douglas Simms Stenhouse – Click to Enlarge

Joel Newman (Architectural Visualization Designer www.FigmentCreation.com) has continued with beautiful progress on the real-to-life render of this building, responsible for building sustainable communities. Here was his first render of the week:

Duplicable City Center Real-to-Life Render

Next Joel turned to creating the environment that is to be building sustainable communities, in which the building will be placed in the final images. Starting with the Google Earth file of the actual property, he created a height map image showing terrain in shades of grey with white as the highest elevation, and black is the lowest:

Height Map Image Showing Terrain

He then loaded this into a terrain generator which created geometry like this:

Terrain Generator Photo

Once this terrain was created, he was able to place a camera on it and start adding ground textures and vegetation and such, supporting the process of building sustainable communities. Here is the beginning of this:

Ground Textures and Vegetation

Then, taking the original render and putting it together with the terrain he created this. A true architecture model to support building sustainable communities:

Duplicable City Center Render with Added Terrain

Karl Harris (Architect Drafter, Designer, and founder of Harris Design & Technology Services) finished the final Duplicable City Center layout, which aids in building sustainable communities, in CAD including updating the central area to match design changes made in 3D, some additional support pillar placement, more redesign details for the storage areas, stairway and mezzanine level touchups in the Dining Dome, emergency exit touchups, and more. Now he’ll be moving on to CAD elevations and window specifics, which is to support us in building sustainable communities:

Final Duplicable City Center Layout in CAD-Click to go to open source hub and click photo there to enlarge

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

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

 

INVESTOR PAGES

OVERVIEW | LOCATION | FUNDING

GET INVOLVED

CONSULTANTS | WAYS ANYONE CAN HELP | MEMBERSHIP

CLICK HERE FOR ALL PAST UPDATES

WHY ONE COMMUNITY IS CREATING THIS

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

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

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

INSPIRING SUSTAINABILITY WITH OPEN SOURCE

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

Our open source model and blueprints engage and inspire people while simultaneously making sustainable living more affordable and easy to replicate. By free-sharing the step-by-step plans people need for duplication, inviting people to participate, and demonstrating sustainable teacher/demonstration hubs as a more desirable way of living, the model will predictably expand on its own.

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

ONE COMMUNITY’S 4-PHASE STRATEGY

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

Phase I: Demonstrating a Better Way

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

Phase II: Open Source Project-Launch Blueprinting

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

Phase III: Inviting the World to Participate

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

Phase IV: Universal Appeal and Global Expansion

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

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

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.

One Community is happy to welcome Joel Newman to the One Community Graphic Design Team!

Joel Newman – Architectural Visualization Designer: Joel has had a focus on architecture and design from a very early age, growing up in a household with a furniture designer/finish carpenter and a painter. In childhood, he routinely drew floor plans for “dream houses” on scraps of paper and built forts in the woods to match them, although perhaps not exactly to scale. In later years, Joel studied psychology at the University of Puget Sound and digital media production at the University of Idaho. After college, he worked for many years managing a chain of one-hour photo labs. Joel currently works in an industrial design studio by day and by night runs Figment, a project dedicated to bringing imagination to life in the form of photographs of things that don’t yet exist. In his spare time Joel is an avid hiker and road-tripper, and loves to wander around the Pacific Northwest exploring the mountains and woods. As a One Community partner and consultant, Joel is creating the real-to-life renders of the Duplicable City Center.

WELCOME TO THE TEAM JOEL!

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One Community is creating sustainable global transformation through open source and free-shared global-transformation blueprints 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, helping to create sustainable global transformation. Here is our weekly progress update (#53) covering our development and sustainable global transformation accomplishments for the week of February 24th, 2014:

Sustainable Global Transformation
One Community Weekly Progress Update #53

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

HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION @1:42

• Completed another 25% of the Art/Music and Trade Skills subject image (see below)
• Finished the rest of the Values Subject web page
• Completed 20% of the Health Subject research (topic and images behind the scenes)
• Now 60% complete with the English Subject research (topic and images behind the scenes)

HIGHEST GOOD FOOD: @2:49

• Ran more sunlight simulations on the Aquapini & Walipini designs (see below)
• Continued designing the passive cooling labyrinth in 3-D (see below)
• Completed sunlight calculations comparing the current Tropical Atrium design to a 50% glazing (see below)
• Zdenek Jurik continued engineering on the Aquapini & Walipini roof design (see below)
• David Sweet completed a 3rd roof plan for the skylights (see below)
• Bupesh Seethala shared the first real-to-life 3D render of the complete phase I food infrastructure (see below)

HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING: @4:17

• Completed the rest of the planting plan for the complete outer ring of the Earthbag Village  (see below)
• Victor Herber made more huge progress on the vermiculture toilet engineering (see below)
• Philip Gill  also updated the murphy bed dome home custom furniture design to have an 8′ ceiling (see below)

DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER: @5:56

• Completed 3-D details for the aesthetic features around the indoor/outdoor swimming pool (see below)
• Completed a redesign of the first 3 floors of stairs to match Karl’s work from last week (see below)
• Completed the rest of the Duplicable City Center Open Source Portal redesign
• Douglas Simms Stenhouse finished the final pre-painting drawing for the duplicable city center (see below)
• Joel Newman has begun real-to-life renders of what this building is going to look like (see below)
• Completed the rest of the new natural pool and eco-hot tub open source page, (see below)
• Karl Harris finished another redesign of the 4th floor and the roof (see below)

SUSTAINABLE GLOBAL TRANSFORMATION SUMMARY: @7:57

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HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

We are creating sustainable global transformation 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 Art/Music and Trade Skills subject image.

Arts and Trades Molecule In Progress

HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

We are creating sustainable global transformation 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 ran more sunlight simulations on the Aquapini & Walipini designs to test our newest skylight layout.

We also finished designing the passive cooling labyrinth in 3-D:

Passive Cooling Labyrinth

And completed sunlight calculations comparing the current Tropical Atrium design to a 50% glazing with insulating shutters design:

Tropical Atrium Heat Calculations

* Note: “Extra” denotes more than the amount of BTUs needed to keep the TA at temperature given perfect thermal mass and transfer at night. Thermal mass capacity needs to be the absolute value of the night BTUs needed.

Zdenek Jurik (P.E. Structural, Civil and Mechanical Engineer and founder of ABC Engineering) continued engineering on the Aquapini & Walipini roof design and has been able to safely reduce the roof beam sizes (and their associated costs) from 16″ to 12″.

Engineering on Aquapini & Walipini Roof Design In Progress

David Sweet (Architect – DSweet.biz) completed the 3rd roof plan for the skylights – getting closer and closer to what we’ll actually be using:

3rd Roof Plan for the Skylights

Bupesh Seethala (Architectural Drafter, Designer, and 3-D Visualizer – BupeshSeethala.com) shared the first real-to-life 3D render of the central pond component of the complete phase I food infrastructure, the foundation of our model for sustainable global transformation:

Real-To-Life 3D Render of Central Pond In Progress

HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

We are creating sustainable global transformation through Highest Good housing that is artistic and beautiful, more affordable, more space efficient, lasts longer, DIY buildable, and constructed with healthy and sustainable materials:

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

This last week the core team completed the rest of the planting plan for the complete outer ring of the Earthbag Village, the first village we’ll construct as part of our sustainable global transformation housing model:

Planting Plan for Outer Ring of the Earthbag Village

Victor Herber (Mechanical Engineer) also made more huge progress on the vermiculture toilet engineering which you can see here, further aiding in our goal of sustainable global transformation through ecological human waste processing. The plan now is a steel framework that will support aluminum trays 3′ wide by 7′ long. This will allow us to use the lighter (and much easier to remove and empty) aluminum trays while maintaining the needed structural integrity of the foundational tray system by using heavier steel:

Vermiculture Toilet Engineering Stress Calculations

Vermiculture Toilet Engineering Materials Assessment

Philip Gill (Interior and Furniture Designer and Owner of Philip Gill Design) also updated the murphy bed dome home custom furniture design to have an 8′ ceiling, providing us with more loft room and a design consistent with the Student’s Shared Room furniture design and the Children’s Shared Room furniture designs (see below).

Murphy Bed with added Loft for Dome Home

DUPLICABLE CITY HUB PROGRESS

We are creating sustainable global transformation 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 3-D details for the aesthetic rock and swimming pool features around the indoor/outdoor swimming pool:

3-D Details for the Aesthetic Rock and Waterfall Natural Swimming Pool Features

We also completed a redesign of the first 3 floors of stairs to match Karl’s work from last week:

Duplicable City Center Stairs Developing in 3D

Douglas Simms Stenhouse (Architect and Water Color Artist) finished the final pre-painting drawing for the Duplicable City Center a component of our sustainable global transformation, rendering that will be replacing the current drawing at the top of all the new duplicable city center pages. Here is a picture of this pre-rendering from Doug:

Duplicable City Center Pre-painting Sketch

Joel Newman (Architectural Visualization Designer www.FigmentCreation.com) has also begun work on real-to-life renders of the Duplicable City Center:

Real-to-Life Renders of the Duplicable City Center In Progress

Along with all this, we completed the rest of the new (natural pool and eco-hot tub) open source page and Jennifer Engelmeier (Eco-pool and Spa Specialist and founder of www.LoveYourPool.com) is now 50% of the way done with pricing out all the natural pool hardware originally selected in collaboration with (Swimming Pool Design & Construction Expert and owner of Sorico Design and Consulting).

Pool Construction Cost Summary In Progress

Last but not least, Karl Harris finished another redesign of the 4th floor including a 2nd women’s bathroom stall and a new roof design to match the design of the existing cupola roof:

Duplicable City Center Women’s Bathroom Stall and New Roof Redesign

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SUSTAINABLE GLOBAL TRANSFORMATION – WHAT ONE COMMUNITY IS CREATING

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

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 achieving a sustainable global transformation.

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 growth on sustainable global transformation.

SUSTAINABLE GLOBAL TRANSFORMATION – 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.

SUSTAINABLE GLOBAL TRANSFORMATION – 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 that will educate people on sustainable global transformation. Villages include designs appropriate for each of the five main types of climates. They also include options for even the most challenged economies. These hubs will collaborate with one another, share ideas, resources, and work together as a network to heal the planet. They will also transform the global lifestyle to a more enjoyable, fulfilling, healthy, and sustainable one.

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

Even if we don’t achieve our ultimate goal of sustainable 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.

SUSTAINABLE GLOBAL TRANSFORMATION – INSPIRING SUSTAINABILITY WITH OPEN SOURCE

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

Our open source model and blueprints engage and inspire people while simultaneously making sustainable living more affordable and easy to replicate. By free-sharing the step-by-step plans people need for duplication, inviting people to participate, and demonstrating sustainable teacher/demonstration hubs as a more desirable way of living, the model will predictably expand on its own, and therefore fostering a sustainable global transformation.

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

SUSTAINABLE GLOBAL TRANSFORMATION – 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 of sustainable global transformation 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 in attaining sustainable global transformation. Free-sharing information like this is our aggressive-exposure engine and an aspect of One Community that will accelerate indefinitely as we continue to build our team, move onto the property, and continuously build and evolve everything that is One Community.

Phase III: Inviting the World to Participate

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

Phase IV: Universal Appeal and Global Expansion

As One Community continues evolving and establishing ourselves, everything we create and promote will serve as the engine to inspire people to align with the concept of open source and sustainable living for The Highest Good of All. We are doing this to create a 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 of sustainable global transformation 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.

One Community is developing open source and free-shared blueprints for creating a global difference for The Highest Good of All:

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

  CLICK IMAGES BELOW FOR OUR MAIN OPEN SOURCE HUBS
  

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

  

One Community’s physical location will forward this movement as the first of many self-replicating teacher/demonstration communities, villages, and cities to be built around the world. Here is our weekly progress update (#52) covering our development and accomplishments for the week of February 17th, 2014:

Creating a Global Difference
One Community Weekly Progress Update #52

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

CREATING A GLOBAL DIFFERENCE INTRO @1:00

HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION @1:45

• Completed 25% of the Art/Music and Trade Skills subject image (see below)
• Completed 70% of the Values Subject web page
• Now 40% done with the complete Science Subject research – topic and images
• Completed the rest of the new Social Sciences Complete Subject web page

HIGHEST GOOD FOOD: @2:52

• Food infrastructure roof and passive cooling design 3-D progress (see below)
• Completed a Duplicable City Center sun study (see below)
• Finished the open source Hoop House Page
• Zdenek Jurik has made progress engineering the new roof design (see below)
• David Sweet completed another roof plan for the skylights (see below)
• Bupesh Seethala is now creating real-to-life 3D models of the complete phase I food infrastructure (see below)

HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING: @4:13

• Started detailing a systems engineering approach to the earthbag village
• We also completed about 50% of the outer ring Earthbag Village planting plan (behind the scenes)
• Devin Porter has begun moving the windows in 3-D for the outer ring – 20% done with that
• Victor Herber has also made huge progress on the vermiculture toilet engineering (see below)
• Philip Gill also provided complete details for all of the Earthbag Village custom furniture designs he’s completed (see below)

DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER: @5:48

• Completed 3-D details for the library (see below)
• We also completed the initial 3-D layout for the outdoor aspect of the indoor/outdoor pool (see below)
• Along with this we completed about 50% of the new natural pool and eco-hot tub open source page
• Now 60% done with the Duplicable City Center Open Source Portal redesign (behind the scenes)
• Karl Harris finished a complete redesign of all four floors of stairs

OTHER PROGRESS: @7:17

• Global Food Collaborative software progress by Guy Fraser and Chad Parker (see below)
• New homepage created for the open source city operations software (see below)

CREATING A GLOBAL DIFFERENCE SUMMARY: @8:26

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HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

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

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

This last week the team completed 25% of the Art/Music and Trade Skills subject image. Here is where we’re at so far:

Arts and Trades Visual Representation in Progress – Click for the Complete Page

HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

We are creating a global difference 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 started putting the new food infrastructure roof design into 3D along with the passive cooling designs that we are exploring:

Aquapini Roof and Cooling Design in 3-D – Click for the Highest Good Food Open Source Portal

We also put together a sun study for the Duplicable City Center planting plan. This is purposed to help us in our plant selection choices for in and around this building:

Zdenek Jurik (P.E. Structural, Civil and Mechanical Engineer and founder of ABC Engineering) has made progress engineering the new roof design we’ve all agreed on. Here is a screenshot:

Aquapini Engineering Viewed from Below – Click for the Aquapini and Walipini Open Source Portal

David Sweet (Architect – DSweet.biz) completed another roof plan for us to evaluate the skylights with this new roof too through its revolutionizing design. Here is what that looks like:

Aquapini Skylight Plan 2.0 – Click for the Aquapini and Walipini Open Source Portal

Bupesh Seethala (Architectural Drafter, Designer, and 3-D Visualizer – BupeshSeethala.com) is now  through real-to-life 3D models of the complete phase I food infrastructure. Here’s what this looks like as it is developing:

Aquapini and Complete Food Infrastructure Layout Evolving in 3DS Max – Click for the Open Source Hub

HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

We are creating a global difference 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 Victor Herber (Mechanical Engineer) made huge progress on the vermiculture toilet engineering, identifying the stresses we can expect from the weight within these structures using several different design approaches. Here’s what this looks like:

Vermiculture Toilet Engineering Calculations in Progress – Click to Enlarge

Philip Gill (Interior and Furniture Designer and Owner of Philip Gill Design) also provided complete and detailed descriptions for the features of the custom furniture he’s designed for the earth dome homes. Here they are with related image collages:

MURPHY BED DESIGN

This first furniture design is meant to accommodate up to two adults. In this version, it contains a queen-sized Murphy Bed, built-in nightstands, shelving, and a combination closet/dressing area. A full-sized bed option is also planned for those wishing to conserve space or perhaps for a single person living alone in a dome. The design is truly revolutionizing.

When folded down, the bed provides comfortable and spacious sleeping for two. When the bed is up, the underside displays a picture-frame design that is both decorative and functional. Decorative in that it enlivens what would otherwise be a plain surface with a pleasing design, and functional in that also disguises a fold-down worktable large enough for two adults to be working on their laptops, one at either end, at the same time, through its efficient design.

The overhang above contains three recessed lights that provide illumination on the table to work, and at bedtime (with the bed folded down) to read in bed. On either side of the Murphy Bed are built-in drawers that double as storage and nightstands with built-in down-lights and shelves above. Behind and to both sides, each adult has his or her own personal closet/storage/dressing area, and on one side, there’s a ladder that leads to the loft above that could be storage, a small play room, or even a guest bed area.

Murphy Bed Custom Furniture for the Earthbag Village – Click to Learn About the Village

CHILDREN’S SHARED-ROOM DESIGN

This second furniture configuration provides two single beds suitable for children (though not toddlers) up to their teenage years. Below each bed are ample storage drawers on wheels and/or gliders and, behind the bed against the wall, a built-in bookcase with adjustable shelves that takes advantage of otherwise wasted space left by the bed against the curved wall.

Each child has his or her own desk with a pencil drawer and a desk chair, and together they share a chifferobe for hanging clothes and other storage. Completing the set is a ladder on casters that provides means to the loft storage above. The children’s shared-room designs continue our goal for all ages.

Children’s Custom Furniture for the Earthbag Village – Click to Learn About the Village

STUDENT’S SHARED-ROOM DESIGN

The third furniture configuration is designed with two students in mind, ranging from high school through college or university. It is basically the same as the children’s configuration above, but it adds an additional rolling file cabinet/storage unit on wheels. It also has a folding top that opens to an approximately 2′ x 2′ table space.

By placing the cabinet on wheels, students can move it anywhere in the dome for their personal use, allowing them to work on their laptops while sitting on their bed for instance. On the front side of the rolling cabinet there is one small and two large drawers for storage, and one file drawer that accommodates standard letter-sized pages. On the back side, it contains a small, six-inch deep locking cabinet door that allows students to secure personal belongings through the innovatory design.

Student’s Custom Furniture for the Earthbag Village – Click to Learn About the Village

These custom furniture designs can be built in a variety of wood finishes or paint colors. Regardless of the finish an individual chooses, they will be built using sustainable woods, low-VOC paints and varnishes, and other similar materials.

DUPLICABLE CITY HUB PROGRESS

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

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

This last week the team completed 3-D details for the library, adding in furniture, a waterfall, and building the custom shelving details for the city:

Duplicable City Center Library Developing in 3-D – Click for the Open Source Hub

We also completed the initial 3-D layout for the outdoor aspect of the indoor/outdoor natural pool which is a wading pond and bio-filter for the swimming area, that is in the center of this structure:

Duplicable City Center Outdoor Natural Pond/Bio filter – Click for the Natural Pool Page

OTHER PROGRESS

Two other areas that progressed this within last week are areas we haven’t reported on in a while. The first is the Global Food Collaborative software partners Guy Fraser and Chad Parker are working on. Here’s a couple screenshots showing they are now focusing on building the open source botanical taxonomy and plant list to start, looking to continue creating a global difference:

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

Global Food Collaborative

The other exciting area of progress in creating a global difference- we’re reporting on is the custom open source city operations software. The core team is now completely revamping this software and this is the first screenshot we have to share after weeks of work. In this example, you can see the “Highest Good Network” group (which is the parent/top-level group of the application). From here you’ll be able to navigate between sub-groups using the arrows next to the group title, view members, and click on people’s images for their profile. 

One Community Software – Click to Visit the Open Source Hub

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CONSULTANTS | WAYS ANYONE CAN HELP | MEMBERSHIP

CLICK HERE FOR ALL PAST UPDATES

CREATING A GLOBAL DIFFERENCE – WHAT ONE COMMUNITY IS CREATING

One Community is creating a place to grow together and change the world together. We are creating a space that helps each other live in integrity with each other and the planet as we strive to be the greatest versions of ourselves. We are creating a global difference 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 a global 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 growth on creating a global difference.

CREATING A GLOBAL 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 of creating a global difference 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.

CREATING A GLOBAL 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 that will spread awareness on creating a global difference. Villages include designs appropriate for each of the five main types of climates. They also include options for even the most challenged economies. These hubs will collaborate with one another, share ideas, resources, and work together as a network to heal the planet. They will also transform the global lifestyle to a more enjoyable, fulfilling, healthy, and sustainable one.

The specifics of how One Community is creating a global difference 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 in creating a global 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.

CREATING A GLOBAL DIFFERENCE – INSPIRING SUSTAINABILITY WITH OPEN SOURCE

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

Our open source model and blueprints engage and inspire people while simultaneously making sustainable living more affordable and easy to replicate. This will make it easier for those who would like to join us in creating a global difference.  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 of creating a global difference that we see uniting the world and leading to a new Golden Age for humanity. While we understand that not everyone believes this is even possible, we are nonetheless bringing together all those that do see this as possible as the non-profit think tank of forward-thinking individuals willing to design, build, and open source project-launch blueprint and free-share it for The Highest Good of All.

CREATING A GLOBAL DIFFERENCE – GLOBALLY IMPLEMENTABLE REPLICATION MODEL

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

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

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

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

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

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

CREATING A GLOBAL 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. The following four phases of the strategy we are applying are designed to support each other and accelerate the process of creating a global difference 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. This will help people in participating in Creating a Global 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 towards creating a global difference 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 of creating a global difference 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.

CREATING A GLOBAL 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 that will help us in creating a global difference. 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 into creating a global difference.

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

The most profound part about creating a global difference 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

CREATING A GLOBAL DIFFERENCE – 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 in the process of creating a global difference. 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 of creating a global difference 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
• Our established infrastructure that simultaneously posts to over 20 social networks

One Community is happy to welcome Amira Kessem to the One Community Design Team!

Amira Kessem – Mechanical Engineering Student: Amira spent her childhood in an alternative school called a “democratic school,” where she experienced first hand what life can be like when people have an abundance of free time and resources. This has made her passionate about changing the world in that direction. She chose to study engineering because she believes it is a way in which she can make a difference, and she volunteers for One Community for the same reason. She is studying Mechanical Engineering at the Technion in Israel and following an energy track focus with a desire to get a job developing renewable energy technologies. Current courses include dynamics, differential equations, materials engineering, solid mechanics, and thermodynamics. As a One Community partner, Amira is helping with the vermiculture eco-toilets designs.

WELCOME TO THE TEAM AMIRA!

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One Community is creating open source and free-shared blueprints to build a global collaboration of sustainable communities working together for The Highest Good of All:

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

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One Community’s physical location will take the movement of forwarding a global collaboration of sustainable communities 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 (#51) covering our development and accomplishments for the week of February 10th, 2014:

Forwarding a Global Collaboration of Sustainable Communities
One Community Weekly Progress Update #51

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

FORWARDING A GLOBAL COLLABORATION OF SUSTAINABLE COMMUNITIES INTRO @1:00

FORWARDING A GLOBAL COLLABORATION OF SUSTAINABLE COMMUNITIES HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION @1:42

• Completed the Values Subject visual representation (see below)
• Completed 100% of the Art/Music and Trade Skill Subject image research
• Completed 70% of the Science Subject topic research
• Completed 75% of the new Social Sciences Complete Subject web page
• Completed 50% of the English Subject research and image selection

FORWARDING A GLOBAL COLLABORATION OF SUSTAINABLE COMMUNITIES HIGHEST GOOD FOOD: @2:53

• Finished adding all the Tropical Atrium plants, trees, and slopes by the pathway in 3-D (see below)
• David Sweet completed initial roof plan, layout, and cross section in CAD (see below)

FORWARDING A GLOBAL COLLABORATION OF SUSTAINABLE COMMUNITIES HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING: @3:36

• Added new realistic renders to the Earthbag Village Open Source Portal (see below)
• Completed a shower water experiment (posted here) to determine what we can expect in the way of shower water heat retention for use as an additional heat source for the Tropical Atrium
• Completed detailed water and energy needs for the earthbag village (posted here)
• Bupesh Seethalla completed final 3-D plant updates to the Earthbag Village central ring (see below)
• Devin Porter completed the rest of the earthbag village in 3-D
• Philip Gill finished more details on the 2nd set of furniture designs for the Earthbag Village (see below)

FORWARDING A GLOBAL COLLABORATION OF SUSTAINABLE COMMUNITIES DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER: @5:32

• Completed more 3-D details (see below)
• Completed 40% of the Duplicable City Center Open Source Portal redesign (behind the scenes)
• Karl Harris finished a redesign of all 4 storage areas adjacent to the stairs, plus the 4th floor bathrooms (see below)

FORWARDING A GLOBAL COLLABORATION OF SUSTAINABLE COMMUNITIES SUMMARY: @6:46

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FORWARDING A GLOBAL COLLABORATION OF SUSTAINABLE COMMUNITIES: HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

We are forwarding a global collaboration of sustainable communities through Highest Good education that is for all ages, applicable in any environment, adaptable to individual needs, far exceeds traditional education standards, and more fun for both the teachers and the students:

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

This last week the team completed the Values Subject visual representation:

Education for Life – Completed Values Subject “Molecule” (click to enlarge)

FORWARDING A GLOBAL COLLABORATION OF SUSTAINABLE COMMUNITIES: HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

We are forwarding a global collaboration of sustainable communities 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 finished adding all the Tropical Atrium plants, trees, and slopes by the pathway in 3-D:

Tropical Atrium in 3-D with Added Plants – Click for the Open Source Planting and Harvesting Page

David Sweet (Architect – DSweet.biz) also completed the Large-scale Aquapini initial roof plan, CAD floor plan, and cross section in CAD:

Forwarding a Global Collaboration of Sustainable Communities – Aquapini CAD Export 2-10-14

FORWARDING A GLOBAL COLLABORATION OF SUSTAINABLE COMMUNITIES: HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

We are forwarding a global collaboration of sustainable communities 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 took the combined work of Bupesh Seethalla (BupeshSeethala.com) and Devin Porter (DevinPorter.com) and created our first realistic renders to the Earthbag Village:

Earthbag Village Central Ring and Tropical Atrium Render – 2/20/14 (click to enlarge)

Devin Porter (DevinPorter.com) also completed the full Earthbag Village layout in 3-D:

Forwarding a Global Collaboration of Sustainable Communities – Complete Earthbag Village Layout

Philip Gill (Interior and Furniture Designer and Owner of Philip Gill Design) also finished the 2nd set of furniture for the Earthbag Village:

Forwarding a Global Collaboration of Sustainable Communities – Earthbag Village furniture designs

FORWARDING A GLOBAL COLLABORATION OF SUSTAINABLE COMMUNITIES: DUPLICABLE CITY HUB PROGRESS

We are forwarding a global collaboration of sustainable communities through a Duplicable and Sustainable City Center that is LEED Platinum certified/Sustainable, can feed 200 people at a time, can provide laundry for over 300 people, beautiful, spacious, saves resources, saves money, and saves space:

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

This last week the team completed the spa, indoor/outdoor natural pool transition, fixed a conflict we had with the rinse-off showers, removed windows and added doors to the south-facing cupola, and installed elevator doors to all 4 levels:

Duplicable City Center 3-D Export: 2-10-14 (click to enlarge)

Karl Harris (Architect Drafter, Designer, and founder of Harris Design & Technology Services) also redesigned and added access to the storage and elevator machinery room on all 4 floors. He also redesigned the 4th floor bathrooms:

SEGO Center Storage Room Update CAD Export 2-10-14 – Click for the Open Source Hub

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FORWARDING A GLOBAL COLLABORATION OF SUSTAINABLE COMMUNITIES: WHAT ONE COMMUNITY IS CREATING

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

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

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

BUILDING THE FIRST OF MANY

One Community will be forwarding a global collaboration of sustainable communities and create 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.

FORWARDING A GLOBAL COLLABORATION OF SUSTAINABLE COMMUNITIES: WHY ONE COMMUNITY IS CREATING THIS

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

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

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

FORWARDING A GLOBAL COLLABORATION OF SUSTAINABLE COMMUNITIES: 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 forwarding a global collaboration of sustainable communities.

Our open source model and blueprints engage and inspire people while simultaneously making sustainable living more affordable and easy to replicate. By free-sharing the step-by-step plans people need for duplication, inviting people to participate, and demonstrating sustainable teacher/demonstration hubs as a more desirable way of living, the model will predictably expand on its own.

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

FORWARDING A GLOBAL COLLABORATION OF SUSTAINABLE COMMUNITIES: COMPREHENSIVE SOLUTION TO HUMANITY’S NEEDS

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

As we address and open source share these areas we will be forwarding a global collaboration of sustainable communities and 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.

FORWARDING A GLOBAL COLLABORATION OF SUSTAINABLE COMMUNITIES: GLOBALLY IMPLEMENTABLE REPLICATION MODEL

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

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

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

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

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

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

FORWARDING A GLOBAL COLLABORATION OF SUSTAINABLE COMMUNITIES: ONE COMMUNITY’S 4-PHASE STRATEGY

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

Phase I: Demonstrating a Better Way

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

Phase II: Open Source Project-Launch Blueprinting

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

Phase III: Inviting the World to Participate

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

Phase IV: Universal Appeal and Global Expansion

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

Open source project-launch blueprinting it all is how we believe the model will spread and, possibly most importantly, that it will predictably spread even faster in the areas where it is needed most because building restrictions, the cost of land, and materials costs are in most cases lower in these areas. The aim of forwarding a global collaboration of sustainable communities at its center.

FORWARDING A GLOBAL COLLABORATION OF SUSTAINABLE COMMUNITIES: WHY OPEN SOURCE

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

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

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

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

FORWARDING A GLOBAL COLLABORATION OF SUSTAINABLE COMMUNITIES: 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

FORWARDING A GLOBAL COLLABORATION OF SUSTAINABLE COMMUNITIES: SUMMARY

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

One Community is happy to welcome Bupesh Seethala  to the One Community Design Team!

Bupesh Seethala – Architectural Drafter & Designer, BS Electrical and Electronic Engineering: Bupesh has a year and half hands-on experience working with licensed architects performing interior and exterior design for both residential and commercial spaces. He is skilled in 3DS Max, V-ray, Photoshop, Sketchup, Aftereffects and AutoCAD. With designing and illustrating as his greatest passion, Bupesh is living in India and available for freelance planning. Right now he is looking for a job where he can work on modern and organic architecture to get some present-time global exposure as a Architectural Drafter and Designer. As a One Community partner, Bupesh has helped with the Sketchup plant placement and layout for the complete Earthbag Village and is also helping create realistic renders for the complete Phase I food infrastructure.

WELCOME TO THE TEAM BUPESH!

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One Community is open sourcing sustainable civilizations for The Highest Good of All:

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

  CLICK IMAGES BELOW FOR OUR MAIN OPEN SOURCE HUBS
  

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

  

One Community’s physical location will forward this movement as the first of many self-replicating teacher/demonstration communities, villages, and cities to be built around the world. Here is our weekly progress update (#50) covering our development and accomplishments for the week of February 3rd, 2014:

Open Sourcing Sustainable Civilizations
One Community Weekly Progress Update #50

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

OPEN SOURCING SUSTAINABLE CIVILIZATIONS INTRO @1:00

OPEN SOURCING SUSTAINABLE CIVILIZATIONS HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION @1:42

• Completed 25% of the Values Subject visual representation (see below)
• Completed 50% of the Art/Music and Trade Skill Subject image research
• Completed 50% of the new Social Sciences Complete Subject web page

OPEN SOURCING SUSTAINABLE CIVILIZATIONS HIGHEST GOOD FOOD: @2:29

• Calculated Tropical Atrium Solar Heat Gain with respect to azimuth direction for 90 deg windows (see below)
• 30% done adding Tropical Atrium plants in 3-D (see below)
• Re-Calculated 60 degree South wall for the Large-scale Aquapini with 50% East-West walls
• Calculated the utility of water as a thermal mass including quantity and temperature
• Calculated sun declination to size the Tropical Atrium South wall glazing

OPEN SOURCING SUSTAINABLE CIVILIZATIONS HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING: @4:14

• Completed Earthbag Village central Tropical Atrium walkway redesign in 3-D  (see below)
• Completed the Straw Bale Village open source portal redesign
• Bupesh Seethalla completed the first round of plant additions to the Earthbag Village central ring (see below)
• Philip Gill began adding details to the 2nd set of furniture designs for the Earthbag Village (see below)

OPEN SOURCING SUSTAINABLE CIVILIZATIONS DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER: @4:57

• Completed internal sliding glass door framing and library hallway doors in 3-D  (see below)
• Completed 30% of the Duplicable City Center Open Source Portal redesign (behind the scenes)
• Karl Harris finished a redesign of the 3rd to 4th floor stairs (see below)
• Rob Gjerde finished the natural pool design and complete hardware plan (see below)

OPEN SOURCING SUSTAINABLE CIVILIZATIONS: @6:12

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OPEN SOURCING SUSTAINABLE CIVILIZATIONS HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

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

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

This last week the team began work on the Values Subject Molecule. Here is where we’re at so far:

One Community Open Source Education for Life: The Subject of Values – Click to Enlarge

OPEN SOURCING SUSTAINABLE CIVILIZATIONS HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

We are open sourcing sustainable civilizations including Highest Good food that is more diverse, more nutritious, locally grown and sustainable, and part of our open source botanical garden model to support and share bio-diversity:

• Learn about the structures: 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 finished about 30% of the 3-D plant additions for the Tropical Atrium:

Tropical Atrium Planting 3-D Export (2-14-2014) – Click for the Planting and Harvesting Details Page

We also calculated the Tropical Atrium Solar Heat Gain with respect to azimuth direction for 90 deg windows. Here are some screen shots of what that looked like:

Solar Heat Gain with Respect to Azimuth Direction for 90 Deg Windows – Click To Visit Page

OPEN SOURCING SUSTAINABLE CIVILIZATIONS HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

We are open sourcing sustainable civilizations including Highest Good housing that is artistic and beautiful, more affordable, more space efficient, lasts longer, DIY buildable, and constructed with healthy and sustainable materials:

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

This last week the core team also redesigned the Tropical Atrium walkways in 3-D to lower them sufficiently to allow for landscaping up to these paths so we won’t need safety railings.

Tropical Atrium Walkway Update in 3-D – 2/7/2014 – Click for the Open Source Hub

Bupesh Seethalla completed the first round of plant additions to the Earthbag Village central ring also using the Sketchup Plants Page:

Earthbag Village with Plants – 3-D Export: 2/14/2014 – Click to Enlarge

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

Earth Dome Home Furniture Design #2 in Progress (2/7/2014 export) – Click to Enlarge

OPEN SOURCING SUSTAINABLE CIVILIZATIONS DUPLICABLE CITY HUB PROGRESS

We are open sourcing sustainable civilizations including a Duplicable and Sustainable City Center that is LEED Platinum certified/Sustainable, can feed 200 people at a time, can provide laundry for over 300 people, beautiful, spacious, saves resources, saves money, and saves space:

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

This last week the team completed all the internal sliding glass door framing and library hallway doors in 3-D:

Duplicable City Center Export: 2-7-2014 – Click for the Open Source Hub

Rob Gjerde (Swimming Pool Design & Construction Expert and owner of Sorico Design and Consulting) also finished the pool design and complete hardware plan. Now Jennifer Engelmeier (Eco-pool and Spa Specialist and founder of www.LoveYourPool.com) is pricing everything for us. We’ll be adding the complete page to the website as part of the Duplicable City Center Open Source Portal redesign happening now. Here are some of the results of Rob’s work:

Natural Pool and Eco Hot Tub (2-7-2014) – Click for the Open Source Hub

Karl Harris (Architect Drafter, Designer, and founder of Harris Design & Technology Services) also fixed the Dining Dome stairs, moved the Dining Dome exit door, fixed the loft area in CAD so it matches Sketchup, added in the elevator to the 4th floor, and redesigned the 4th floor stairs:

SEGO Center 4th Floor Stair Redesign in CAD

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WHAT ONE COMMUNITY IS CREATING

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

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

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

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 through open sourcing sustainable civilizations. We will achieve this by establishing successful teacher/demonstration hubs on every continent. Villages include designs appropriate for each of the five main types of climates. They also include options for even the most challenged economies. These hubs will collaborate with one another, share ideas, resources, and work together as a network to heal the planet. They will also transform the global lifestyle to a more enjoyable, fulfilling, healthy, and sustainable one.

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

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

INSPIRING SUSTAINABILITY WITH OPEN SOURCE

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

Our open source model and blueprints engage and inspire people while simultaneously making sustainable living more affordable and easy to replicate. By free-sharing the step-by-step plans people need for duplication, inviting people to participate, and demonstrating sustainable teacher/demonstration hubs as a more desirable way of living, the model of open sourcing sustainable civilizations will predictably expand on its own.

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

COMPREHENSIVE SOLUTION TO HUMANITY’S NEEDS

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

As we address and open source share these areas we will establish a living example of the first teacher/demonstration village purposed to teach others about open sourcing sustainable civilizations. 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.

GLOBALLY IMPLEMENTABLE REPLICATION MODEL

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

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

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

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

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

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

ONE COMMUNITY’S 4-PHASE STRATEGY

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

Phase I: Demonstrating a Better Way

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

Phase II: Open Source Project-Launch Blueprinting

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

Phase III: Inviting the World to Participate

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

Phase IV: Universal Appeal and Global Expansion

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

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.

One Community is here to help teach people how to make a change in the world while helping themselves and living for The Highest Good of All:

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

  CLICK IMAGES BELOW FOR OUR MAIN OPEN SOURCE HUBS
  

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

  

One Community’s physical location will forward this movement as the first of many self-replicating teacher/demonstration communities, villages, and cities to be built around the world. Here is our weekly progress update (#49) covering our development and accomplishments for the week of January 27, 2014:

How to Make a Change in the World
One Community Weekly Progress Update #49

Here is the bullet-point list of this last week’s design and progress discussed in detail in the “how to make a change in the world” video above:

HOW TO MAKE A CHANGE IN THE WORLD INTRO @1:00

HOW TO MAKE A CHANGE IN THE WORLD – HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION @1:47

• Completed the Values image research
• Completed the Art/Music and Trade Skills content research
• Completed the Social Sciences Molecule (see below)
• Completed the open source Matter and Materials Lesson Plan page

HOW TO MAKE A CHANGE IN THE WORLD – HIGHEST GOOD FOOD: @3:22

• Finished the starter house research that we’ll be posting on the Hoop House Page
• Tested a 5th Large-scale Aquapini roof and wall design (see below)
• Updated the open source Sketchup Plant database page

HOW TO MAKE A CHANGE IN THE WORLD – HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING: @5:15

• Straw Bale Village open source portal redesign is now 70% done
• Earthbag Village central Tropical Atrium 3-D terrace specifics and pathways (see below)
• Completed the Earthbag Village central ring planting plan on paper (see below)
• Philip Gill has progressed the 2nd set of furniture designs for the Earthbag Village (see below)
• Victor Herber has progressed the vermiculture toilet engineering (see below)

HOW TO MAKE A CHANGE IN THE WORLD – DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER: @8:24

• Completed final 3-D window additions and 3-D Pool Details (see below)
• Karl Harris finished the resizing of all the dome wall thicknesses (see below)

OTHER ANNOUNCEMENTS: @9:24

• The Highest Good Business Open Source Portal redesign is now complete
• The Highest Good of All Comprehensive Stewardship Portal redesign is now complete

HOW TO MAKE A CHANGE IN THE WORLD SUMMARY: @10:08

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HOW TO MAKE A CHANGE IN THE WORLD

HOW TO MAKE A CHANGE IN THE WORLD – HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

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

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

This last week the team finished the complete Social Sciences Molecule:

The Subjects of Social Sciences – Click for the page with an image you can enlarge

HOW TO MAKE A CHANGE IN THE WORLD – HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

We are teaching people how to make a change in the world 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 ran calculations on a 5th roof and wall design for the aquapinis & walipinis. All of these except the “full greenhouse” include shutters that we will build to cover all glazed areas at night:

Comparison of a 5th possible roof and wall design for the aquapinis – click for the Open Source Hub

HOW TO MAKE A CHANGE IN THE WORLD – HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

We are teaching people how to make a change in the world 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 took the 3-D work of Devin Porter (3D Graphics Design Specialist) for the hands in the Tropical Atrium center of the Earthbag Village and we began adding in the terraces, paths, and other details:

Tropical Atrium Terraced Growing Areas, Paths, Benches, and Stairs

This last week the core team completed the Earthbag Village central ring planting plan on paper. Details for each of these plants can be found on the Food Forest Page. The 3-D source for all of these plants is on the Sketchup Plants Page. Permaculture is definitely a key tool we’re applying for how to make a change in the world.  Here’s the planting plan for the central ring of the village:

Earthbag Village Planting Plan Completed on Paper – Click to Enlarge

Philip Gill (Interior and Furniture Designer and Owner of Philip Gill Design) continues to develop the 2nd furniture layout for the Earthbag Village homes. There are two similar designs with the first being for children or a summer camp type of situation. It features two single beds and storage drawers underneath, two desks, two desk chairs, a chifferobe and a ladder to the loft/storage above.

The second is for interns or colleges students and has all the same elements as the first, but with added storage, file drawers on wheels (to come), and work-space tops that fold out for working, eating, etc. This way students can also sit at their bed and work or they could roll these together to create one bigger worktable.

Earthbag Village Furniture Design 2 Developing – Click Image for the Open Source Hub

Here is Victor Herber’s (Mechanical Engineer) most recent progress on the vermiculture toilet designs, sustainably processing human waste as a path for how to make a change in the world:

Vermiculture Toilet Specifications 2/6/14 Progress – Click Image for the Open Source Page

HOW TO MAKE A CHANGE IN THE WORLD – DUPLICABLE CITY HUB PROGRESS

We are teaching people how to make a change in the world through a Duplicable and Sustainable City Center that is LEED Platinum certified/Sustainable, can feed 200 people at a time, can provide laundry for over 300 people, beautiful, spacious, saves resources, saves money, and saves space:

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

This last week the team finished adding the final two windows to the social dome (for natural lighting in the hallways) and also added in bench and stair details to the indoor and outdoor pool. Sustainably building as a path for how to make a change in the world:

One Community Duplicable City Center – 2/5/14 3-D Export – Click for the Open Source Hub

Karl Harris (Architect Drafter, Designer, and founder of Harris Design & Technology Services) also finished the resizing of all dome wall thicknesses in CAD to reflect the accurate thickness of just 5 and 5/16″!

Duplicable City Center CAD Export 2/6/2014 – Click for the Open Source Hub

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WHAT ONE COMMUNITY IS CREATING

One Community is creating a place to grow together and work together on how to make a change in the world. 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 basing how to make a change in the world  on compassion, kindness, and collaboration. This replicable community will serve as an example for what is possible.

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

BUILDING THE FIRST OF MANY

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

WHY ONE COMMUNITY IS CREATING THIS

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

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

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

INSPIRING SUSTAINABILITY WITH OPEN SOURCE

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

Our open source model and blueprints engage and inspire people while simultaneously making sustainable living more affordable and easy to replicate. By free-sharing the step-by-step plans people need for duplication, inviting people to participate, and demonstrating sustainable teacher/demonstration hubs as a more desirable way of living, the model will predictably expand on its own.

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

ONE COMMUNITY’S 4-PHASE STRATEGY

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

Phase I: Demonstrating a Better Way

We are designing One Community to demonstrate an experience of living that we believe most people will consider to be better because it will be more enjoyable and fulfilling. We also think most people will consider it better because it is made possible specifically through a foundation of sustainable sustainability and a philosophy shares how to make a change in the world 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 in our case, desire for how to make a change in the world). Free-sharing information like this is our aggressive-exposure engine and an aspect of One Community that will accelerate indefinitely as we continue to build our team, move onto the property, and continuously build and evolve everything that is One Community. Here are the constantly expanding hubs for everything we are open sourcing and free-sharing:

Phase III: Inviting the World to Participate

Everything we are open source project-launch blueprinting is designed to invite the world to participate by duplicating it as either individual components or complete teacher/demonstration communities, villages, and cities that will be able to be built almost anywhere in the world. Additionally, people can join One Community as members, consultants and/or partners, or use the suggestions links on our open source project-launch blueprinting hubs to help with the design, implementation, and evolution of the process for how to make a change in the world.

Scholarships, weekend learning and work crews, and tourism will be foundations of One Community once we have sufficient infrastructure in place to support these options.

Phase IV: Universal Appeal and Global Expansion

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

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

WHY OPEN SOURCE

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

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 and teaching others how to make a change in the world too.

The most profound part of this model for how to make a change in the world 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, the more we’ll be successful. 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 for how to make a change in the world 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 how to make a change in the world by seeing the world’s challenges 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.