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IMPROVING LIFE ON OUR PLANET – 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 by improving life on our 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 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 such as improving life on our planet.

IMPROVING LIFE ON OUR PLANET – WHY ONE COMMUNITY IS CREATING THIS

The One Community self-replicating model for improving life on our planet 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 the mission of improving life on our planet 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 improving life on our planet model.

IMPROVING LIFE ON OUR PLANET – 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 which will help in improving life on our planet. Our model is a solution model that creates additional solution creating models enabling people to live and collaborate globally for The Highest Good of All. The easier we make everything we do, the faster we see the world transitioning.

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

The most profound part is: the more we open source share, the more we help move everyone forward towards improving life on our planet, 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

IMPROVING LIFE ON OUR PLANET – 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 such as the model of improving life on our planet.

Eco-future Design – One Community Weekly Progress Update #357

Posted on January 26, 2020 by Rachna Malav

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One Community is creating eco-future design templates covering sustainable and replicable approaches to food, energy, housing, education, for-profit and non-profit economic design, social architecture, fulfilled living, global stewardship practices, and more. Everything we create is open source and free-shared and modularly replicable. Combined, these components will be used to build a global collaboration of teacher/demonstration hubs to help others further duplicate and improve these eco-future designs.

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

OUR MAIN OPEN SOURCE HUBS

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

One Community’s physical location will forward this movement as the first of many self-replicating teacher/demonstration communities, villages, and cities to be built around the world. This is the January 26th, 2020 edition (#357) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments towards the creation of eco-future design templates:

Eco-future Design
One Community Progress Update #357

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HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

One Community is improving life on our planet 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: Our Upcoming Crowdfunding Campaign
  - 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 week the core team began what we hope will be the 2nd-to-final review of the Murphy bed instructions. This week’s focus was starting to go through the list of parts areas needing checking, comparing parts lists to the model and the instructions, and identifying errors and suggesting how to fix them.

Murphy bed instructions, Eco-Future Design, One Community Weekly Progress Update #357

Began the 2nd-to-final Review of the Murphy Bed Instructions – Click for Earthbag Village Furniture Page

Oluyomi “Yomi” Sanyaolu (Technical Writer and Researcher) also completed his 14th week with the team. This week Oluyomi continued with the trompe and ram pump implementation research. This week he completed the DIY tutorial for building a ramp pump system, worked out the cost analysis totaling less than $100 and with most parts easily purchased form your local Home Depot, and expanded the section of the trompe focusing on its applications which included wastewater treatment, mining and agriculture. You can see some of this work here towards the creation of eco-future design templates and we’d say this brings the trompe and ram pump research to about 90% complete.

trompe and ram pump implementation research, Eco-Future Design, One Community Weekly Progress Update #357

Continued With the Trompe and Ram Pump Implementation Research – Click for Hydro Energy Page

And Shadi Kennedy (Artist and Graphic Designer) also completed his 77th week developing the Murphy bed instructions. This week he focused on reviewing all the renders and working on creating a system for communicating which ones are needed and where within the instructions, so they can be easily inserted and updated in the future. The pictures below are examples of some of the pages this work is updating and we’d say this brings these assembly instructions to about 93% complete.

Continued Developing the Murphy Bed Instructions – Click for Earthbag Village Furniture Page

DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

One Community is developing eco-future design plans through a Duplicable and Sustainable City Center that is LEED Platinum certified/Sustainable, can feed 200 people at a time, provide laundry for over 300 people, is beautiful, spacious, and saves resources, money, and space:

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

This week Ron Huang (Mechanical Engineer) continued with his 37th week developing and refining the Energy Modeling tutorial needed to achieve our LEED Platinum certification. This week Ron continued with more work on the revised schedules and calculations related to the proposed energy plant schematics. You can see some of this work here towards the creation of eco-future design templates and we’d say we’re now about 92% complete with the City Center energy analysis component.

Energy Modeling tutorial, Eco-Future Design, One Community Weekly Progress Update #357

Continued Developing and Refining the Energy Modeling Tutorial Needed to Achieve Our LEED Platinum Certification – Click for Page

HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

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

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

This week the core team continued working on our behind-the-scenes chicken Google Doc. We summarized and organized the food and water needs section, discussed the food types and rations most suitable for the types and ages of chickens chosen, took notes on chick starter foods and the introduction of treats, associating your voice when providing treats, and the importance of immediately introducing your new chicks to drinking water by directly dipping their bills in the water. We started final editing of the shelter details too. You can see some of this work here towards the creation of eco-future design templates.

Chickens, Eco-Future Design, One Community Weekly Progress Update #357

Continued Working on Our Behind-the-scenes Chicken Google Doc – Click for Chickens Page

And the core team continued developing the open source permaculture design content. This week’s focus was further development of Step 2 of the Permaculture Case Study section, “Assess Site Through Observation And Research.” This week we brainstormed and rewrote and reformatted the section so that it will include how we’re applying this step to all the main components of our project, not just food. You can see some of this behind-the-scenes work here towards the creation of eco-future design templates.

open source permaculture design, Eco-Future Design, One Community Weekly Progress Update #357

Continued Developing the Open Source Permaculture Design Content – Click for Page

The core team working with Stefanie Dean (Researcher) also continued with development of the Transition Food Self-sufficiency Plan menu creation. This week’s focus was additional recipe research and consideration and further developing and refining the structure and function for all of the data spreadsheet you see in the pictures below.

Transition Food, Self-sufficiency Plan Menu Creation, Eco-Future Design, One Community Weekly Progress Update #357

Continued With Development of the Transition Food Self-sufficiency Plan Menu Creation – Click for Page

Mohammad Almuzaial (Civil and Construction Engineer) also continued with his 10th week helping with the Aquapini/Walipini civil engineering details. This week he removed all the unrequired railings from the pond seating area, added railings to the four stairs going down to the pond area, searched native plants that we might add in the site, and added a playground, volleyball court, picnic and grill area, and seating/events area to the upper areas. You can see some of this work-in-progress here towards the creation of eco-future design templates and we’d say this brings this part of this component to 84% complete.

Aquapini/Walipini civil engineering details, Eco-Future Design, One Community Weekly Progress Update #357

Continued Helping With the Aquapini/walipini Civil Engineering Details – Click to Visit

Ali Ghahremannezhad (Mechanical Engineer) additionally continued with his 8th week as a member of the team and working on the climate batteries for the Aquapini/Walipini structures. This week Ali worked on obtaining more accurate boundary conditions to use them for the 2D simulation of the climate battery for aquapinis and walipinis. A simple geometry for the greenhouse and the soil beneath it is assumed. Higher depth of the soil (50ft) is modeled considering the point that we can make sure the soil temperature remains constant throughout the year. Detailed convection and solar load were calculated based on the ceilings direction with respect to the Sun and slope of the ceiling.

A specific case was also designed for average conditions of a greenhouse at Los Angeles in January. You can see some of this behind-the-scenes work here towards the creation of eco-future design templates.

climate batteries for the Aquapini/Walipini structures, Eco-Future Design, One Community Weekly Progress Update #357

Continued Working on the Climate Batteries for the Aquapini/walipini Structures – Click for Page

HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

One Community is developing eco-future design plans through Highest Good education that is for all ages, applicable in any environment, adaptable to individual needs, far exceeds traditional education standards, and more fun for both the teachers and the students. This component of One Community is about 95% complete with only the Open Source School Licensing and Ultimate Classroom construction and assembly details remaining to be finished. With over 8 years of work invested in the process, the sections below are all complete until we move onto the property and continue the development and open sourcing process with teachers and students – a development process that is built directly into the structure of the education program and everything else we’re creating too:

Program Overview: Education Open Source Hub
How the components work together: How to use the Education for Life Program
Lesson Plans for Life – Lesson Plans How-to
Foundations of Outstanding Leaders, Teachers, and Communicators
Curriculum for Life
Teaching Strategies for Life
Learning Tools and Toys for Life
Evaluation and Evolution

This week Dan Alleck (Designer and Illustrator) completed his 64th week helping with render additions and finishing work for the rooms in the the Ultimate Classroom. This week he began revisions and additions to the red room representing health, mindfulness, and music. What you see here is his first round of revisions and additions that included adding people, instruments, and wall posters.

Ultimate Classroom, Red Room, Eco-Future Design, One Community Weekly Progress Update #357

Began Revisions and Additions to Red Room Representing Health, Mindfulness, and Music – Click for Page

Deema Ali (Graphic/Video Designer) also completed her 9th week as a member of the team by helping with another of the Ultimate Classroom renders. What you see here is a view looking south and her initial additions of plants, books, and backpacks in the entryway, and more people.

Ultimate Classroom, Eco-Future Design, One Community Weekly Progress Update #357

Added Plants, Books, Backpacks and People in the Ultimate Classroom – Click for Page

Ziqian Zheng (Architectural Designer and Drafter) continued with week 11 as a member of the team. This week Ziqian continued development of the Ultimate Classroom by adding more people, books, and other objects and creating test video walkthroughs. You can see some of this work here towards the creation of eco-future design templates.

Continued on the Ultimate Classroom by Adding More People and Books and Creating Test Video Walkthroughs – Click for Page

HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS

One Community is developing eco-future design plans through a Highest Good society approach to living that is founded on fulfilled living, the study of meeting human needs, Community, and making a difference in the world:

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

Tengxiao Wang (Software Engineer) completed his 3rd week working on the Highest Good Network software. This week Tengxiao continued to work on the authentication module. He reorganized the relevant Redux actions, reducers and root component. He also repeatedly tested the Login, Header and Logout component and fixed bugs to make them more reliable. All the authentication related service calls have now been migrated to Redux.

Highest Good Network Software, Eco-Future Design, One Community Weekly Progress Update #357

Continued to Work on the Authentication Module of the Highest Good Network Software – Click for Page

Henry Ng (React Developer) also completed his 3rd week with the team and working on the Highest Good Network software. This week Henry designed the Projects Page structure, created rows to display projects with the ability for the user to edit the project name, toggle the active status, view all the members of the project, and view all the WBS entries for the project by going to the WBS page. He also developed Delete and Active functions, and updated the quantity to the dashboard. You can see screenshots related to this work below towards the creation of eco-future design templates.

Continued Working on the Highest Good Network Software – Click for Page

And last but not least, Siddharth Gore (Senior Software Engineer I) completed his 2nd week as a member of the volunteer team also working on the Highest Good Network software. This week Siddharth continued working on the User Profile Section adding UI for hours contributed and volunteer’s start and end Date. He also was able to get the admin and personal links from the database and display them into their respective sections. You can see some of this work here towards the creation of eco-future design templates.

Continued Working on the User Profile Section of the Highest Good Network Software – Click for Page

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ECO-FUTURE DESIGN TEMPLATES – 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 replication of eco-future design templates. 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 such as creating eco-future design templates.

ECO-FUTURE DESIGN TEMPLATES – WHY ONE COMMUNITY IS CREATING THIS

The One Community self-replicating model for eco-future design templates 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 eco-future design templates 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 eco-future design templates.

ECO-FUTURE DESIGN TEMPLATES – 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 for creating eco-future design templates is a solution model that creates additional solution creating models enabling people to live and collaborate globally for The Highest Good of All. The easier we make everything we do, the faster we see the world transitioning.

Every aspect of this eco-future design 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 towards an eco-future design, 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

ECO-FUTURE DESIGN TEMPLATES – 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 such as creating eco-future design templates. 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 these eco-future design templates with our open source blueprints: creating a model solution that creates additional solution-creating models.

Stewarding Our One Shared Planet – One Community Weekly Progress Update #356

Posted on January 19, 2020 by Rachna Malav

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It seems we’ve reached the time where stewarding our one shared planet should be a top priority. One Community thinks the best way to help support this is modular and open source solutions for individual and large-scale implementation of sustainability. So we are creating free-shared tools, tutorials, and DIY resources for replicable and sustainable food, energy, housing, education, for-profit and non-profit economic design, social architecture, and fulfilled living models.

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

OUR MAIN OPEN SOURCE HUBS

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

One Community’s physical location will forward this movement as the first of many self-replicating teacher/demonstration communities, villages, and cities to be built around the world. This is the January 19th, 2020 edition (#356) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments for stewarding our one shared planet:

Stewarding Our One Shared Planet
One Community Progress Update #356

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HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

One Community is stewarding our one shared planet 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: Our Upcoming Crowdfunding Campaign
  - 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 week the core team created the initial layout and content additions for the new “Wind Energy Infrastructure Cost Analysis” section on the Wind Energy Setup and Maintenance page. You can see some of this work in progress here for stewarding our one shared planet and we’d say we’re about 70% complete with this section.

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Created Initial Layout and Content Additions for New “Wind Energy Infrastructure Cost Analysis” Section – Click for Wind Energy Setup and Maintenance Page

Oluyomi “Yomi” Sanyaolu (Technical Writer and Researcher) completed his 13th week with the team. This week Oluyomi continued with the trompe and ram pump implementation research. Oluyomi completed the design details and DIY tutorial for creating a mini-trompe system. This included a cost analysis for the simple DIY trompe of approximately $158 USD. Lastly, he researched and wrote the first draft explaining what a ram pump is and how it works. You can see some of this work here for stewarding our one shared planet and we’d say this brings the trompe and ram pump research to about 60% complete.

trompe and ram pump implementation research, Stewarding Our One Shared Planet, One Community Weekly Progress Update #356

Completed the Design Details and DIY Tutorial for Creating a Mini-Trompe System – Click for Hydro Energy Page

Dean Scholz (Architectural Designer) also continued helping with the Earthbag Village (Pod 1) 4-dome cluster designs. This week was week #177 of Dean’s work and the focus was finishing the rest of the work on the railings around the rooftop-patio and working on the doorway that will access the spa. You can see some of this ongoing work here that promotes stewarding our one shared planet.

Earthbag Village, Stewarding Our One Shared Planet, One Community Weekly Progress Update #356

Continued Helping With the Earthbag Village 4-dome Cluster Designs – Click for Page

And Shadi Kennedy (Artist and Graphic Designer) also completed his 76th week developing the Murphy bed instructions. This week he made the final edits needed to send this to the core team for final testing with 3D assembly. What you see here are some of the newer pages created as part of the final review and the list of everything needing to be reviewed/confirmed by the core team. We’d say this brings these assembly instructions to about 92% complete.

Murphy Bed Instructions, Stewarding Our One Shared Planet, One Community Weekly Progress Update #356

Continued Developing the Murphy Bed Instructions – Click for Earthbag Village Furniture Page

DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

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

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

This week Ron Huang (Mechanical Engineer) continued with his 36th week developing and refining the Energy Modeling tutorial needed to achieve our LEED Platinum certification. This week Ron completed the baseline model using the revised occupancy loads and electrical heating for the hot tub and began updating the proposed model with the revised changes. You can see some of this work here for stewarding our one shared planet and we’d say we’re now about 90% complete with the City Center energy analysis component.

Energy Modeling tutorial, Stewarding Our One Shared Planet, One Community Weekly Progress Update #356

Continued Developing and Refining the Energy Modeling Tutorial Needed to Achieve Our LEED Platinum Certification – Click for Page

Gevork Asatryan (Electrical MEP Engineer) also joined the team and helped write the first draft of the Basis of Design (BOD) we’ll be using to create the final Duplicable City Center electrical designs. You can some of this behind-the-scenes work here for stewarding our one shared planet.

Duplicable City Center Electrical Designs, Stewarding Our One Shared Planet, One Community Weekly Progress Update #356

Helped Write First Draft of Basis of Design We’ll Be Using to Create the Final Duplicable City Center Electrical Designs – Click for Page

HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

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

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

This week the core team continued work on the open source chicken coop step-by-step building instruction on our behind-the-scenes google doc. This week’s focus was working on the door assembly instructions and fixing a hinge problem we identified. We’d say we’re now about 90% done with these.

Chicken coop, Stewarding Our One Shared Planet, One Community Weekly Progress Update #356

Continued Work on the Open Source Chicken Coop Step-by-step Building Instructions – Click for Chickens Page

And the core team continued developing the open source permaculture design content. This week’s focus was continued work on Step 2 of the Permaculture Case Study section, “Assess Site Through Observation And Research.” This week we began developing the base map and explaining the rollout process, along with how our 1-year of observation phase differs from that of typical permaculture implementations. You can see some of this behind-the-scenes work here for stewarding our one shared planet.

open source permaculture design, Stewarding Our One Shared Planet, One Community Weekly Progress Update #356

Continued Developing the Open Source Permaculture Design Content – Click for Page

Mohammad Almuzaial (Civil and Construction Engineer) also continued with his 9th week helping with the Aquapini/Walipini civil engineering details. This week he redesigned and remodeled the pond area to produce the following results:

Pond diameter is 24’ 8”
Pond water level is only 9” below level
The difference between stepped seating areas is about 10”
Paths width is 4’ 2”
Seating area fits 78 people (chairs) not including the ADA row
All paths and railings are according to codes and ADA requirements

You can see some of this work-in-progress here for stewarding our one shared planet and we’d say this brings this part of this component to 80% complete.

Aquapini/Walipini civil engineering details, Stewarding Our One Shared Planet, One Community Weekly Progress Update #356

Continued Helping With the Aquapini/walipini Civil Engineering Details – Click to Visit

Ali Ghahremannezhad (Mechanical Engineer) additionally continued with his 7th week as a member of the team and working on the climate batteries for the Aquapini/Walipini structures. This week Ali worked on the soil thermal properties for use in the first model for the climate battery. He also worked on the first 2D model of the climate battery to study the airflow inside the room and the pipes as well as the transfer between the pipes and the soil. For the first model simplifying assumptions are made for initial evaluation.

More accurate assumptions will be considered later. Results show the fan is correctly functioning in the simulations and initiates the flow inside the climate battery. Also, the transfer of heat is correctly captioned at the interior of the pipe and the soil domains. You can see some of this behind-the-scenes work here for stewarding our one shared planet.

Aquapini/walipini Structures, Stewarding Our One Shared Planet, One Community Weekly Progress Update #356

Continued Working on the Climate Batteries for the Aquapini/walipini Structures – Click for Page

And Stefanie Dean (Researcher) joined the team and completed her first week helping with the Transition Food Self-sufficiency Plan and menu creation. This week she began recipe build out by creating a framework on how to propose recipe recommendations to obtain manager approval and developed an updated initial recipe format to complete final recipe builds in preparation for adding them to the website. You can see some of this behind the scenes work here for stewarding our one shared planet.

Transition Food Self-sufficiency Plan, Menu Creation, Stewarding Our One Shared Planet, One Community Weekly Progress Update #356

Began Helping With the Transition Food Self-sufficiency Plan and Menu Creation – Click for Page

HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

One Community is stewarding our one shared planet through Highest Good education that is for all ages, applicable in any environment, adaptable to individual needs, far exceeds traditional education standards, and more fun for both the teachers and the students. This component of One Community is about 95% complete with only the Open Source School Licensing and Ultimate Classroom construction and assembly details remaining to be finished.

With over 8 years of work invested in the process, the sections below are all complete until we move onto the property and continue the development and open sourcing process with teachers and students – a development process that is built directly into the structure of the education program and everything else we’re creating too:

Program Overview: Education Open Source Hub
How the components work together: How to use the Education for Life Program
Lesson Plans for Life – Lesson Plans How-to
Foundations of Outstanding Leaders, Teachers, and Communicators
Curriculum for Life
Teaching Strategies for Life
Learning Tools and Toys for Life
Evaluation and Evolution

This week Ziqian Zheng (Architectural Designer and Drafter) continued with week 10 as a member of the team. This week Ziqian continued development of the Ultimate Classroom by adding opaque natural-lighting windows and skylights to the bathroom area and finishing the overhead storage areas. You can see some of this work here for stewarding our one shared planet.

the Ultimate Classroom, Stewarding Our One Shared Planet, One Community Weekly Progress Update #356

Ziqian Continued Development of the Ultimate Classroom – Click for Page

HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS

One Community is stewarding our one shared planet through a Highest Good society approach to living that is founded on fulfilled living, the study of meeting human needs, Community, and making a difference in the world:

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

This week Deema Ali (Graphic/Video Designer) completed her 8th week designing the new version of the One Community Homepage overview video. This week Deema continued to make revisions to the One Community Overview video by reviewing and integrating core team feedback, adjusting/retiming composition scenes, replacing and adjusting the placement of imagery, adjusting transition sequences, layering video clips, and reviewing and making final touches to version 8 of the video. You can see some of this behind-the-scenes work here for stewarding our one shared planet and we’d say we are now about 90% complete with this video.

One Community Homepage, Overview Video, Stewarding Our One Shared Planet, One Community Weekly Progress Update #356

Continued Designing the New Version of the One Community Homepage Overview Video – Click for Homepage

Tengxiao Wang (Software Engineer) completed his 2nd week working on the Highest Good Network software. This week Tengxiao started modifying components to connect them with Redux, which would make sharing data between components easier. He finished the modification on Login and Header this week and you can see some examples of this work here demonstrating the idea of stewarding our one shared planet.

Highest Good Network Software, Stewarding Our One Shared Planet, One Community Weekly Progress Update #356

Continued Working on the Highest Good Network Software – Click for Page

Henry Ng (React Developer) also completed his 2nd week with the team and working on the Highest Good Network software. This week Henry completed an Entity Relationship Diagram for the HGN database, coding conventions, and restructured the source code. He also successfully ran the database and source code. You can see some screenshots related to this work below focusing on stewarding our one shared planet .

Continued Working on the Highest Good Network Software – Click for Page

And last but not least, Siddharth Gore (Senior Software Engineer I) joined the volunteer team and completed his first week working on the Highest Good Network software. This week he completed the ability for a user to upload their own photo for their profile, the ability for a user to edit their name associated with their own profile, and the phone number “Publicly Visible or Not” box/option. He also refactored the code and made sure the libraries are up to date and started working on the ability for a user to edit their professional title for their profile. You can see some of this work here towards stewarding our one shared planet.

Began Working on the Highest Good Network Software – Click for Page

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STEWARDING OUR ONE SHARED PLANET – 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 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.

STEWARDING OUR ONE SHARED PLANET – 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 by stewarding our one shared planet.

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 stewarding our one shared planet model.

STEWARDING OUR ONE SHARED PLANET – 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 for stewarding our one shared planet is a solution model that creates additional solution creating models enabling people to live and collaborate globally for The Highest Good of All. The easier we make everything we do, the faster we see the world transitioning.

Every aspect of stewarding our one shared planet 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 towards stewarding our one shared planet, 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

STEWARDING OUR ONE SHARED PLANET – 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 such as stewarding our one shared planet. 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.

Ecologically Addressing Society – One Community Weekly Progress Update #355

Posted on January 12, 2020 by Rachna Malav

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Ecologically addressing society is a necessary step if we are to address over-consumption patterns and create global sustainability. One Community is helping achieve this through an open source evolution of sustainability that combines enriching and more fulfilled living models, open source education options, and global stewardship practices with sustainable approaches to food, energy, housing, economics and more.

Here’s our project overview

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

OUR MAIN OPEN SOURCE HUBS

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

One Community’s physical location will forward this movement as the first of many self-replicating teacher/demonstration communities, villages, and cities to be built around the world. This is the January 12th, 2020 edition (#355) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments towards ecologically addressing society:

Ecologically Addressing Society
One Community Progress Update #355

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HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

One Community is ecologically addressing society 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: Our Upcoming Crowdfunding Campaign
  - 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 week Oluyomi “Yomi” Sanyaolu (Technical Writer and Researcher) completed his 12th week with the team. This week Oluyomi continued with the trompe and ram pump implementation research. His focus this week was revising and simplifying his previous work so it is understandable to non-industry professionals and working on explaining a DIY version of a trompe using an excellent resource he found. You can see some of this work here that promotes ecologically addressing society and we’d say this brings the trompe and ram pump research to about 50% complete.

trompe and ram pump implementation research, Ecologically Addressing Society, One Community Weekly Progress Update #355

Continued with the Trompe and Ram Pump Implementation Research – Click for Hydro Energy Page

Dean Scholz (Architectural Designer) also continued helping with the Earthbag Village (Pod 1) 4-dome cluster designs. This week was week #176 of Dean’s work and the focus was finishing most of the remaining work for the railings on the stairway access and around the rooftop-patio. You can see some of this ongoing work here that promotes ecologically addressing society.

Earthbag Village, Ecologically Addressing Society, One Community Weekly Progress Update #355

Worked on Railings on the Stairway Access and Around the Rooftop-patio – Click for Earthbag Village

And Shadi Kennedy (Artist and Graphic Designer) also completed his 75th week developing the Murphy bed instructions. This week he printed out the complete instructions and made a list of all remaining edits needed. The picture below shows this list and a few screen captures of the walkthrough we did together to confirm everything. We’d say this brings these assembly instructions to about 90% complete.

Murphy Bed, Earthbag Village, Ecologically Addressing Society, One Community Weekly Progress Update #355

Printed Out the Complete Instructions and Made a List of All Remaining Edits Needed – Click for Furniture Page

DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

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

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

This week Ron Huang (Mechanical Engineer) continued with his 35th week developing and refining the Energy Modeling tutorial needed to achieve our LEED Platinum certification. This week Ron revised the occupancy load in the baseline model and began analyzing the energy increase for using electrical heating for the hot tub. You can see some of this work towards ecologically addressing society and the preliminary results here and we’d say we’re now about 87% complete with the City Center energy analysis component.

Energy Modeling tutorial, Ecologically Addressing Society, One Community Weekly Progress Update #355

Continued Developing and Refining the Energy Modeling Tutorial Needed to Achieve Our LEED Platinum Certification – Click for Page

HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

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

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

This week the core team began updating the chickens open source page. This week we built the table of contents and updated all the formatting to include all the upcoming sections, rewrote the “Why Chickens” section, added a “Purchasing and Initial Care” section, added several videos we’ve researched and found helpful, and began updating the “Which Chickens” section. You can see some of this work here that focusses on ecologically addressing society and we’d say we’re about 20% done with the completion of this page.

Chickens, Ecologically Addressing Society, One Community Weekly Progress Update #355

Began Updating the Chickens Open Source Page – Click to Visit

Related to this, the core team also continued the behind-the-scenes chickens research and organization of information. This week’s focus was assembling, revising, and combining into well-referenced paragraphs the notes we’ve taken on several of the best videos we could find (after hours of researching them) into the various sections that will make up the complete open source page. You can see some of this ongoing process here which promotes ecologically addressing society.

Continued the Behind-the-scenes Chickens Research and Organization of Information – Click for Page

The core team also continued work on the open source chicken coop step-by-step building instructions on our behind-the-scenes google doc to promote ecologically addressing society. We added the felt roof assembly steps and researched and added felt roof (row 6) and wood boards for door (row 42) into Chicken Coop Material List. With this, we’d say we’re now about 89% done.

chicken coop step-by-step building instructions, Ecologically Addressing Society, One Community Weekly Progress Update #355

Continued Work on the Open Source Chicken Coop Step-by-step Building Instructions – Click for Chickens Page

Mohammad Almuzaial (Civil and Construction Engineer) also continued with his 8th week helping with the Aquapini/Walipini civil engineering details. This week Mohammad continued working on the new site design that addresses the issue of the gravity drainage to the central pool ending so low below grade. This week he came up with two different proposals that would create seating with ADA access around this area while still maintaining the gravity-fed design. You can see some of this work for ecologically addressing society/ work-in-progress here and we’d say this brings this part of this component to 76% complete.

Aquapini/Walipini civil engineering details, Ecologically Addressing Society, One Community Weekly Progress Update #355

Continued Helping With the Aquapini/walipini Civil Engineering Details – Click to Visit

Ali Ghahremannezhad (Mechanical Engineer) also continued with his 6th week as a member of the team and working on the climate batteries for the Aquapini/Walipini structures. This week Ali worked on thermal lag and the research that has been done by One Community so far about the thermal mass and thermal lag for climate batteries including the FEA analysis. He also worked on extending the research on soil temperature during the year. References for Ground Temperatures as a Function of Location, Season, and Depth were reviewed.

Ali also worked on improving the 2D model for the climate battery. Dimensions were taken from the current Aquapini floor plan. Some effort was done to create a 2D model that can represent the average behavior of the 3D Aquapini structure and the initial mesh was improved to capture the boundary locations. You can see some of this work here for ecologically addressing society.

Climate Batteries for the Aquapini/walipini Structures, Ecologically Addressing Society, One Community Weekly Progress Update #355

Continued Working on the Climate Batteries for the Aquapini/walipini Structures – Click for Page

HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

One Community is ecologically addressing society through Highest Good education that is for all ages, applicable in any environment, adaptable to individual needs, far exceeds traditional education standards, and more fun for both the teachers and the students. This component of One Community is about 95% complete with only the Open Source School Licensing and Ultimate Classroom construction and assembly details remaining to be finished. With over 8 years of work invested in the process, the sections below are all complete until we move onto the property and continue the development and open sourcing process with teachers and students – a development process that is built directly into the structure of the education program and everything else we’re creating too:

Program Overview: Education Open Source Hub
How the components work together: How to use the Education for Life Program
Lesson Plans for Life – Lesson Plans How-to
Foundations of Outstanding Leaders, Teachers, and Communicators
Curriculum for Life
Teaching Strategies for Life
Learning Tools and Toys for Life
Evaluation and Evolution

This week Dan Alleck (Designer and Illustrator) completed his 63rd week helping with render additions and finishing work for the rooms in the the Ultimate Classroom. This week he continued revisions and additions to the indigo room representing “Social Sciences.” What you see here are his fifth and final round of revisions and additions that included adding more items to the desks, counters, and windowsills, changing the focus of the teacher, and resizing the central floor map. You can see the final image below and on the Ultimate Classroom page which promotes ecologically addressing society.

the Ultimate Classroom, Ecologically Addressing Society, One Community Weekly Progress Update #355

Continued Revisions and Additions to the Indigo Room Representing “Social Sciences” – Click to Visit the Ultimate Classroom

Ziqian Zheng (Architectural Designer and Drafter) also continued with week 9 as a member of the team and now working on the the Ultimate Classroom. This week Ziqian continued development of the Ultimate Classroom by completing several revisions of the skylight and roof designs. The final design minimizes materials and maximizes passive heating and cooling by lowering the roof. moving the skylights to the north-facing roof, and adding clerestory windows to the south-facing roof for winter heating and summer ventilation. You can see some of this work here for the ecologically addressing society model.

Continued Development of the Ultimate Classroom by Completing Several Revisions of the Skylight and Roof Designs – Click for Page

HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS

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

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

This week the core team completed a year-end review of our website traffic, advertising grant results, and search results and behavior. You can see some of these summaries here.

Website Traffic, Advertising Grant Results, Ecologically Addressing Society, One Community Weekly Progress Update #355

Completed a Year-end Review of Our Website Traffic, Advertising Grant Results, and Search Results and Behavior – Click for Home Page

Jin Hua (Web Marketer and Graphic Designer) completed keyword research and helped us relaunch the donation campaign related to the new donations campaign page.

New donations campaign page, Ecologically Addressing Society, One Community Weekly Progress Update #355

Completed Keyword Research and Helped Relaunch the Donation Campaign – Click for Donations Page

Deema Ali (Graphic/Video Designer) completed her 7th week designing new versions of the One Community Homepage overview videos. This week Deema implemented feedback on the last revision and made additional adjustments to the earth-in-hand graphic, timing, and the overlay sequence that uses the same effect as the social media sequence. You can see some of this behind-the-scenes work here for the ecologically addressing society model.

One Community Homepage Overview Videos, Ecologically Addressing Society, One Community Weekly Progress Update #355

Continued Designing New Versions of the One Community Homepage Overview Videos – Click for our Homepage

Tengxiao Wang (Software Engineer) joined the team and completed his first week working on the Highest Good Network software. This week Tengxiao focused on finding the right way to run the HGN React app locally, addressing challenges during the process, and creating an instruction document to help others more easily run the HGN React app locally too. You can see the beginnings of the document here.

Highest Good Network Software, Ecologically Addressing Society, One Community Weekly Progress Update #355

Joined the Team and Completed His First Week Working on the Highest Good Network Software – Click to Visit Page

Henry Ng (React Developer) also joined the team and completed his first week working on the Highest Good Network software. This week Henry focused on reviewing all the tech details and app structure for the project, researching MongoDB Atlas because he hadn’t used it before, and Sentry.io. You can see some screenshots related to this work associated with ecologically addressing society below.

Joined the Team and Completed His First Week Working on the Highest Good Network Software – Click for Page

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ECOLOGICALLY ADDRESSING SOCIETY – WHAT ONE COMMUNITY IS CREATING

One Community is creating a place to grow together and change the world together by ecologically addressing society. 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 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.

ECOLOGICALLY ADDRESSING SOCIETY – 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 the approach of ecologically addressing society can be found on the One Community Solution Model to Create Solution-creating Models Page. Research supporting and showing the benefits of a model like this can be found 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 the ecologically addressing society model.

ECOLOGICALLY ADDRESSING SOCIETY – WHY OPEN SOURCE

We are creating everything One Community does as open source and free-shared blueprints such as the ecologically addressing society model 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 towards ecologically addressing society.

Every aspect of the ecologically addressing society 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 towards the idea of ecologically addressing society, 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

ECOLOGICALLY ADDRESSING SOCIETY – 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 such the approach of ecologically addressing society. 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 Welcomes Mohammad Almuzaial to the Engineering Team!

Posted on January 12, 2020 by One Community

One Community welcomes Mohammad Almuzaial to the Engineering Team as our newest Volunteer/Consultant!

Mohammad holds a Bachelor in Architectural Engineering and Master of Science in Civil Engineering. He earned his master’s degree from USC and is a LEED GA and has 4 years of experience in the construction industry as a construction project engineer. Mohammad joined the One Community team to help finish the landscaping, walkways, drainage, and other civil engineering details for the Aquapini and Walipini structures.

WELCOME TO THE TEAM MOHAMMAD!

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One Community Welcomes Ziqian Zheng to the Design Team!

Posted on January 5, 2020 by One Community

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One Community welcomes Ziqian Zheng to the Design Team as our newest Volunteer/Consultant!

Ziqian earned his Masters of Architecture degree and M.S. in Architectural Study from University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Ziqian is also working on getting his LEED GA. With a long lasting passion for architectural design, Ziqian desires to apply his skills to improve society through design. With these goals, Ziqian joined the One Community design team and helped finalize the Transition Kitchen designs in AutoCAD and SketchUp and created a video walkthrough, created version 2 of the Ultimate Classroom roof design in SketchUp, a video walkthrough, and the complete structure in AutoCAD, and, if time allows, will be helping with the Pallet Furniture designs and then AutoCAD plans for several structures within the Earthbag Village.

WELCOME TO THE TEAM ZIQIAN!

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Strategic Sustainable Village Creation – One Community Weekly Progress Update #354

Posted on January 5, 2020 by Rachna Malav

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The One Community model for strategic sustainable village creation is open sourcing and free-sharing everything needed to build a global cooperative of sustainable teacher/demonstration hubs. These hubs will teach others how to build even more teacher/demonstration hubs while expanding their open-source sustainable food, energy, housing, education, for-profit and non-profit economic design, social architecture, fulfilled living, global stewardship practices, and more.

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

OUR MAIN OPEN SOURCE HUBS

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

One Community’s physical location will forward this movement as the first of many self-replicating teacher/demonstration communities, villages, and cities to be built around the world. This is the January 5th, 2020 edition (#354) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments towards a strategic sustainable village creation:

Strategic Sustainable Village Creation
One Community Progress Update #354

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HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

One Community is developing open source plans for strategic sustainable village creation 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: Our Upcoming Crowdfunding Campaign
  - 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 week Oluyomi “Yomi” Sanyaolu (Technical Writer and Researcher) completed his 11th week with the team. This week Oluyomi continued with the trompe and ram pump implementation research. His focus was primarily on watching videos to develop a better understanding of how both devices work so he could devise a way to use them in conjunction with each other. YouTube was the most useful source of information (which is very limited) and you can see some screenshots here from this research.

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Continued with the Trompe and Ram Pump Implementation Research – Click for Page

Dean Scholz (Architectural Designer) also continued helping with the Earthbag Village (Pod 1) 4-dome cluster designs. This week was week #175 of Dean’s work and the focus was adding the railings to the stairway access to the rooftop-patio and emergency-fire-exit windows to the loft areas. You can see some of this ongoing work here for a strategic sustainable village creation.

Earthbag Village, Strategic Sustainable Village Creation, One Community Weekly Progress Update #354

Continued Helping With the Earthbag Village 4-dome Cluster Designs – Click for Page

DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

One Community is developing open source plans for strategic sustainable village creation through a Duplicable and Sustainable City Center that is LEED Platinum certified/Sustainable, can feed 200 people at a time, provide laundry for over 300 people, is beautiful, spacious, and saves resources, money, and space:

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

This week the core team working with Ron Huang (Mechanical Engineer) continued with his 34th week developing and refining the Energy Modeling tutorial needed to achieve our LEED Platinum certification. This week Ron created a graphical zonal layout, collaborated to further revise and clarify details in the final report, and identified several areas needing updates to create an accurate and finalized final report and model. You can see some of this work here for a strategic sustainable village creation and the updates we identified as being needed have set up back a bit and we’d say we’re now about 85% complete with the City Center energy analysis component.

Energy Modeling tutorial, Strategic Sustainable Village Creation, One Community Weekly Progress Update #354

Continued Developing and Refining the Energy Modeling Tutorial Needed to Achieve Our LEED Platinum Certification – Click for Page

The core team also began using this work to create the Optimizing Energy Performance (1-18 Points) section of the Duplicable City Center Heating and Cooling page. This week we created the table of contents and related web outline as well as the sections covering Creating the Model for Analysis, Running the Analysis, Defining the Structure’s Spaces, Lighting, Occupancy, Plug Loads, and Reducing the Energy Needs for Ventilation. You can see most of this work for a strategic sustainable village creation here and we’d say this brings this section of the page to about 10% complete.

Optimizing Energy Performance, Duplicable City Center, Heating and Cooling, Strategic Sustainable Village Creation, One Community Weekly Progress Update #354

Began Creating the Optimizing Energy Performance Section of the Duplicable City Center Heating and Cooling Page – Click to Visit

HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

One Community is developing open source plans for strategic sustainable village creation through Highest Good food that is more diverse, more nutritious, locally grown and sustainable, and part of our open source botanical garden model to support and share bio-diversity:

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

This week the core team continued creating the chicken coop step-by-step building instruction on our behind-the-scenes google doc. This week’s focus was finishing building the frames for the walls and completing steps for building the roof. You can see some of this work for a strategic sustainable village creation here and we’d say we’re about 87% done.

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Focused on Finishing Building the Frames for the Walls and Completing Steps for Building the Roof – Click for Chickens Page

And the core team finished edits, revisions, and formatting for the Sustainable Food Nutrition Calculations page.

Sustainable Food, Sustainable Food Nutrition Calculations, Strategic Sustainable Village Creation, One Community Weekly Progress Update #354

Finished Edits, Revisions, and Formatting for the Sustainable Food Nutrition Calculations Page – Click to Visit

Mohammad Almuzaial (Civil and Construction Engineer) also continued with his 7th week helping with the Aquapini/Walipini civil engineering details. This week Mohammad continued working on the new site design that addresses the issue of the gravity drainage to the central pool ending so low below grade. Changing the design this past week included topography points modification, slopes change, retrofiting the walkways around the pond and their slopes, remodeling the pond and reconnecting the pipes into the pond and testing various ADA walkway options that would connect to additional seating around the upper perimeter. You can see some of this work work-in-progress here and we’d say this brings this part of this component to 73% complete.

Aquapini/Walipini civil engineering details, Strategic Sustainable Village Creation, One Community Weekly Progress Update #354

Continued Helping With the Aquapini/walipini Civil Engineering Details – Click to Visit

Ali Ghahremannezhad (Mechanical Engineer) also continued with his 5th week as a member of the team and working on the climate batteries for the Aquapini/Walipini structures. This week Ali worked on completing the study on typical Re numbers inside the climate battery pipes to determine the flow types. Seasonal temperature changes in different states and extreme conditions based on the minimum and maximum temperatures were considered. Ali also worked on developing a 2D model for CFD analysis of the aquapinis/walipinis and continued writing and revising the related content. You can see some of this work for a strategic sustainable village creation here.

Aquapini/walipini Structures, Strategic Sustainable Village Creation, One Community Weekly Progress Update #354

Continued Working on the Climate Batteries for the Aquapini/walipini Structures – Click for Page

HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

One Community is developing open source plans for strategic sustainable village creation through Highest Good education that is for all ages, applicable in any environment, adaptable to individual needs, far exceeds traditional education standards, and more fun for both the teachers and the students. This component of One Community is about 95% complete with only the Open Source School Licensing and Ultimate Classroom construction and assembly details remaining to be finished.

With over 8 years of work invested in the process, the sections below are all complete until we move onto the property and continue the development and open sourcing process with teachers and students – a development process that is built directly into the structure of the education program and everything else we’re creating too:

Program Overview: Education Open Source Hub
How the components work together: How to use the Education for Life Program
Lesson Plans for Life – Lesson Plans How-to
Foundations of Outstanding Leaders, Teachers, and Communicators
Curriculum for Life
Teaching Strategies for Life
Learning Tools and Toys for Life
Evaluation and Evolution

This week Dan Alleck (Designer and Illustrator) completed his 62nd week helping with render additions and finishing work for the rooms in the the Ultimate Classroom. This week he continued revisions and additions to the indigo room representing “Social Sciences.”

What you see here are his fourth round of revisions and additions that included wall poster fixes, moving the background child, changing the focus of the foreground child, adding the central floor map toy, and other minor adjustments to shadows and other details.

Strategic Sustainable Village Creation – the Ultimate Classroom

Continued Revisions and Additions to the Indigo Room Representing “Social Sciences” – Click to Visit the Ultimate Classroom

Ziqian Zheng (Architectural Designer and Drafter) also continued with week 8 as a member of the team and now working on the the Ultimate Classroom. This week Ziqian continued development of the Ultimate Classroom by completing the first version walkthrough video and skylight design. You can see some of this work for a strategic sustainable village creation here.

Completed the First Version Walkthrough Video and Skylight Design of the Ultimate Classroom – Click to Visit

HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS

One Community is developing open source plans for strategic sustainable village creation through a Highest Good society approach to living that is founded on fulfilled living, the study of meeting human needs, Community, and making a difference in the world:

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

This week the core team created the initial setup of our Patreon account. We’ll be using this account to further build awareness of our projects such as a strategic sustainable village creation and raise ongoing funds for upgrading our website server and other related web expenses.

Patreon, Strategic Sustainable Village Creation, One Community Weekly Progress Update #354

Created the Initial Setup of Our Patreon Account – Click to Visit

The core team also started fixing a Google/Mobile preview issue someone discovered and ended up spending over 7 hours improving our site speed and fixing other site errors, creating a cleaner favicon, and improving our page loading speed. As just one example, our Homepage loading speed dropped from 7.18 seconds to 2.59. You can see some of this work for strategic sustainable village creation here.

Strategic Sustainable Village Creation – fixing a Google/Mobile preview issue

Started Fixing a Google/mobile Preview Issue Someone Discovered – Click to Visit our Homepage

Deema Ali (Graphic/Video Designer) also completed her 6th week designing new versions of the One Community Overview videos. This week Deema added a lens flare visual effect to the “that it works” text to make it stand out more, made the sequence at 1:19 longer so it’s more readable with still some room for the social media sequence, and created a new montage template with the labels to better visualize how the finished sequence will unfold. You can see some of this behind-the-scenes work for a strategic sustainable village creation here.

One Community Overview videos, Strategic Sustainable Village Creation, One Community Weekly Progress Update #354

Continued Designing New Versions of the One Community Overview Videos – Click to Visit our Homepage

Last but not least, Alexandru-Claudiu Radulescu (Growth Hacker and fellow community builder) joined the team and researched platforms to extend our marketing reach and get funding, outlined our initial ideas for the Patreon tiers of rewards, and did an initial outline for a new 90-second promo clip we’ll be creating together. You can see some of this behind the scenes work towards a strategic sustainable village creation here.

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Joined the Team and Researched Platforms to Extend Our Marketing Reach and Get Funding – Click for Patreon Page

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STRATEGIC SUSTAINABLE VILLAGE CREATION – 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 such as a strategic sustainable village creation.

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.

STRATEGIC SUSTAINABLE VILLAGE CREATION – 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 a strategic sustainable village creation 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 strategic sustainable village creation, it 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 a strategic sustainable village creation.

STRATEGIC SUSTAINABLE VILLAGE CREATION – 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 for strategic sustainable village creation is a solution model that creates additional solution creating models enabling people to live and collaborate globally for The Highest Good of All. The easier we make everything we do, the faster we see the world transitioning.

Every aspect of the strategic sustainable village creation 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 such as strategic sustainable village creation. 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

STRATEGIC SUSTAINABLE VILLAGE CREATION – 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 such as a strategic sustainable village creation. 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.

No-Waste Communities – One Community Weekly Progress Update #352

Posted on December 22, 2019 by Rachna Malav

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No-waste communities are one way to reduce the global buildup of trash. Through community collaboration we can create and share more comprehensive and innovative purchasing strategies, reuse models, and recycling and disposal options. What we learn can then be open sourced and free-shared to help evolve and diversify the ideas into other environments too. Problem solving and sharing solutions like this is one component of what One Community is calling 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

No-Waste Communities – One Community

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 of having no-waste communities as the first of many self-replicating teacher/demonstration communities, villages, and cities to be built around the world. This is the December 22nd, 2019 edition (#352) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments:

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HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

One Community is designing no-waste 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: Our Upcoming Crowdfunding Campaign
  - 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 week the core team began building the new Hydro Energy Setup and Maintenance page. We created the basic page structure, table of contents, and social media imagery and descriptions. You can see some of this work here.

Hydro Energy Setup and Maintenance, No-Waste Communities, Reduce Waste, One Community Weekly Progress Update #352

Began Building the New Hydro Energy Setup and Maintenance Page – Click to Visit

This week Oluyomi “Yomi” Sanyaolu (Technical Writer and Researcher) completed his 9th week with the team, continuing cost analysis of the external Earthbag Village components. This week Yomi edited the wind and hydro power chapters by including more products for comparisons and to achieve more accurate estimations for price per kW. He also added the recommendations for different sized applications for both wind and hydro turbines. You can see some of this behind-the-scenes work here.

Earthbag Village, No-Waste Communities, One Community Weekly Progress Update #352

Continued Cost Analysis of the External Earthbag Village Components – Click for Page

Dean Scholz (Architectural Designer) also continued helping with the Earthbag Village (Pod 1) 4-dome cluster designs. This week was week #173 of Dean’s work and the focus was continuing to test and develop the rooftop-patio stairway access. You can see some of this ongoing work here.

Continued Helping With the Earthbag Village 4-Dome Cluster Designs – Click for Page

DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

One Community is designing no-waste communities through a Duplicable and Sustainable City Center that is LEED Platinum certified/Sustainable, can feed 200 people at a time, provide laundry for over 300 people, is beautiful, spacious, and saves resources, money, and space:

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

This week the core team working with Ron Huang (Mechanical Engineer) continued with his 32nd week developing and refining the Energy Modeling tutorial needed to achieve our LEED Platinum certification. This week Ron added space definitions, include plug loads and occupancy graphics, and continued working together with the core team to refine and clarify the content. You can see some of this work here and we’d say this brings completion of the City Center energy analysis component to 90% complete.

Energy Modeling tutorial, No-Waste Communities, One Community Weekly Progress Update #352

Continued Refining the Energy Modeling Tutorial Needed to Achieve Our LEED Platinum Certification – Click for HVAC Page

HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

One Community is designing no-waste 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: Hoop House Hub | Aquapini & Walipini Open Source Hub
  - See what we’ll be growing: Gardens & Hoop Houses | Large-scale Structures | Food Forest | TA

This week the core team continued working on our behind-the-scenes chicken Google Doc for the specific chicken breeds that will be best for our project. We cleaned up our the doc by deleting all the individual tables for each breed, summarized them in a few sentences, and worked on revising the rest of the content too. We identified our top 9 videos that will be broken down into time frames regarding the chicken coop and run construction. You can see some of these developments here.

chicken breeds, No-Waste Communities, One Community Weekly Progress Update #352

Continued Working on Our Behind-the-scenes Chicken Google Doc for Our Specific Chicken Breeds – Click for Page

And the core team finalized the rabbit hutch assembly instructions by doing a final review and edit, creating new imagery, creating the imagery that will be used to share it on the website, and creating the open source directory.

Rabbit Hutch Assembly Instructions, No-Waste Communities, One Community Weekly Progress Update #352

Finalized the Rabbit Hutch Assembly Instructions – Click for Page

In addition, the core team continued developing the open source permaculture design content, specifically the Case Study section. This week we added content and further revised Step 1 (Assess Resources and Identify Needs) and added a new Step 0 about familiarizing yourself with the roots of the permaculture process. You can see some of this behind-the-scenes work here.

Open Source Permaculture Design, No-Waste Communities, One Community Weekly Progress Update #352

Continued Developing the Open Source Permaculture Design Content, Specifically the Case Study Section – Click for Page

Mohammad Almuzaial (Civil and Construction Engineer) also continued with his 5th week helping with the Aquapini/Walipini civil engineering details. This week Mohammad input actual land coordination to obtain actual climate data to perform thermal analysis, adjusted the structures cool-air inlet heights, and finished all 4 structures’ exterior shells including: Walls, Roofs, Floors, Doors, Skylights, and Exterior Glazing. He also started modeling the interior of the botanical gardens and completed the large-scale production aquapini interior terrace levels & planter soil retaining walls and interior water storage walls & levels. You can see some of this work here and we’d say this brings this part of this component to 65% complete.

Aquapini/Walipini civil engineering details, No-Waste Communities, One Community Weekly Progress Update #352

Continued Helping With the Aquapini/Walipini Civil Engineering Details – Click for Page

Ali Ghahremannezhad (Mechanical Engineer) also continued with his 3rd week as a member of the team and working on the climate batteries for the Aquapini/Walipini structures. This week Ali worked on improving the previous transient thermal 1D model. A new dehumidification model was also added to the current model. This new model accounts for the relative humidity and humidity ratio of the air at the inlet and outlet of the climate battery, and determines the rate of condensed water inside the pipes. You can see some of this work here.

Aquapini/Walipini Structures, Transient Thermal 1D Model, No-Waste Communities, One Community Weekly Progress Update #352

Worked on Improving the Previous Transient Thermal 1D Model for the Aquapini/Walipini Structures – Click for Page

HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

One Community is designing no-waste 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. This component of One Community is about 95% complete with only the Open Source School Licensing and Ultimate Classroom construction and assembly details remaining to be finished. With over 8 years of work invested in the process, the sections below are all complete until we move onto the property and continue the development and open sourcing process with teachers and students – a development process that is built directly into the structure of the education program and everything else we’re creating too:

Program Overview: Education Open Source Hub
How the components work together: How to use the Education for Life Program
Lesson Plans for Life – Lesson Plans How-to
Foundations of Outstanding Leaders, Teachers, and Communicators
Curriculum for Life
Teaching Strategies for Life
Learning Tools and Toys for Life
Evaluation and Evolution

This week Dan Alleck (Designer and Illustrator) completed his 60th week helping with render additions and finishing work for the rooms in the the Ultimate Classroom. This week he continued revisions and additions to the indigo room representing “Social Sciences.” What you see here are his second round of revisions and additions to this room.

the Ultimate Classroom, No-Waste Communities, One Community Weekly Progress Update #352

Continued Revisions and Additions to the Indigo Room Representing “Social Sciences” – Click for Page

Ziqian Zheng (Architectural Designer and Drafter) also continued with week 6 as a member of the team now working on the the Ultimate Classroom. This week Ziqian continued development of the Ultimate Classroom by completing the floor plan in AutoCAD and beginning rendering for a video walkthrough.

Completed the Ultimate Classroom Floor Plan in AutoCAD and Began Rendering for a Video Walkthrough – Click for Page

HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS

One Community is designing no-waste communities through a Highest Good society approach to living that is founded on fulfilled living, the study of meeting human needs, Community, and making a difference in the world:

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

This week Emilio Nájera (Digital Marketer) continued work on our volunteer and donation campaigns. This week he started creating the keyword list for the Earthbag Engineering Page. You can see some of this work here.

Earthbag Engineering, No-Waste Communities, One Community Weekly Progress Update #352

Started Creating the Keyword List for the Earthbag Engineering Page – Click to Visit

Deema Ali (Graphic/Video Designer) also completed her 5th week designing new versions of the One Community Overview videos. This week Deema continued to tweak and revise the main One Community Overview video. She created a new composite and added new clips and new transitions. You can see some of this behind-the-scenes work for no-waste communities here.

One Community Overview Videos, No-Waste Communities, One Community Weekly Progress Update #352

Created a New Composite and Added New Clips and New Transitions for the One Community Overview Videos – Click for Home Page

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INVESTOR PAGES

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NO-WASTE COMMUNITIES – 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 such as no-waste communities. 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 of no-waste communities 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 such as no-waste communities.

NO-WASTE COMMUNITIES – WHY ONE COMMUNITY IS CREATING THIS

The One Community self-replicating model is capable of creating a sustainable planet within 30 years. We will achieve this by establishing successful teacher/demonstration hubs on every continent. Villages include designs appropriate for each of the five main types of climates. They also include options for even the most challenged economies. These hubs will collaborate with one another, share ideas, resources, and work together as a network to heal the planet and have no-waste communities. They will also transform the global lifestyle to a more enjoyable, fulfilling, healthy, and sustainable one. One such transformation is creation of no-waste communities.

The specifics of how One Community is accomplishing the goal of creating no-waste communities 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 including no-waste communities, 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 no-waste communities.

NO-WASTE 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 for no-waste communities 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. No-Waste communities is one such effort.

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 to help promote no-waste communities.

The most profound part is: the more we open source share, the more we help move everyone forward to create more no-waste communities, 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

NO-WASTE 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 such as no-waste communities. 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.

Building the Sustainable Future That’s Possible – One Community Weekly Progress Update #351

Posted on December 15, 2019 by Rachna Malav

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Building the sustainable future that’s possible has never been as needed and accessible as it is now. We’re helping make it even more accessible and possible by designing and open source and free-sharing tools, tutorials, and DIY instructions for self-replicating teacher/demonstration hubs that include all aspects of sustainability. Food, energy, housing, education, for-profit and non-profit economic design, social architecture, fulfilled living, global stewardship practices, and more are included. We call this 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

Building the Sustainable Future That’s Possible

OUR MAIN OPEN SOURCE HUBS

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One Community’s physical location will forward this movement as the first of many self-replicating teacher/demonstration communities, villages, and cities to be built around the world. This is the December 15th, 2019 edition (#351) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments towards building the sustainable future that’s possible:

Building the Sustainable Future That’s Possible
One Community Progress Update #351

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HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

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

- - Learn about: Our Upcoming Crowdfunding Campaign
  - 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 week the core team began building the new Sustainable Roadways, Walkways, and Landscaping page to contribute their efforts towards building the sustainable future that’s possible. We created the basic page structure, table of contents, and social media imagery and descriptions. You can see some of this work here contributing to the mission of building the sustainable future that’s possible.

Sustainable Roadways, Walkways, and Landscaping, Building the Sustainable Future That's Possible, One Community Weekly Progress Update #351

Building the New Sustainable Roadways, Walkways, and Landscaping Page – Click to Visit

And Oluyomi Sanyaolu (Technical Writer and Researcher) completed his 8th week with the team, continuing cost analysis of external Earthbag Village components. This week Oluyomi added images in the introduction of each section, a detailed paragraph description of the four roadway material options, and discussion of the compatibility of the wind and hydro power turbine compatibility for home (small scale) and community-sized (medium to large scale) usage.

You can see some of this behind-the-scenes work here contributing to the mission of building the sustainable future that’s possible.

Earthbag Village, Building the Sustainable Future That's Possible, One Community Weekly Progress Update #351

Continued Cost Analysis of External Earthbag Village Components – Click for Page

Dean Scholz (Architectural Designer) also continued helping with the Earthbag Village (Pod 1) 4-dome cluster designs. This week was week #172 and the focus was testing and working on alternate 3D designs for the stairway that will provide rooftop access. This is necessary because the 2D designs did not account for the fact that the dome curves away from the stairs.

Focused on Testing and Working on Alternate 3D Designs for the Stairway – Click for Earthbag Village

DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

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

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

This week the core team and Anvita Kumari Pandey (Civil Engineer) continued research to find the right LED lights for installation overhead and along the City Center patio areas. Anvita researched lumen requirements for patios and outdoor areas and the core team reviewed this, made selections, and made related AutoCAD and spreadsheet updates. We’d say we are now about 85% complete with the lighting selection details. See below to learn about the team’s contributions towards building the sustainable future that’s possible.

City Center, Building the Sustainable Future That's Possible, One Community Weekly Progress Update #351

Continued Research to Find the Right LED Lights for Installation Overhead and Along the City Center Patio Areas – Click for Page

HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

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

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

This week the core team continued compiling narratives and adding info and photos to our behind-the-scenes chicken Google Doc for the specific chicken breeds that will be best for our project. We also added a few chicken resources such as this video regarding what to ask breeders before buying your chickens. You can see some of these behind-the-scenes developments here showcasing the team’s contribution towards building the sustainable future that’s possible.

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Continued Compiling Narratives for Our Chosen Chicken Breeds – Click for Page

The core team also continued creating the chicken coop step-by-step building instructions on our behind-the-scenes google doc. You can see some of this work here contributing to the mission of building the sustainable future that’s possible and we’d say we’re about 80% done.

chicken coop step-by-step building instructions, Building the Sustainable Future That's Possible, One Community Weekly Progress Update #351

Continued Creating the Chicken Coop Step-by-step Building Instructions on Our Behind-the-scenes Google Doc – Click for Page

In addition, the core team continued developing the DIY Dam Design and Construction by organizing notes from Geoff Lawton’s videos on the topic and highlighting the information that should be added to the open source tutorial page. Thus, contributing meaningfully to the mission of building the sustainable future that’s possible.

DIY Dam Design and Construction, Building the Sustainable Future That's Possible, One Community Weekly Progress Update #351

Continued Developing the DIY Dam Design and Construction by Organizing Notes From Geoff Lawton’s Videos – Click for Dam Design Page

Ziqian Zheng (Architectural Designer and Drafter) continued with week 5 of his work on the Transition Kitchen designs. This week Ziqian finished his part of the development of the Transition Kitchen by wrapping up the AutoCAD drawings, SketchUp model, and demo video.

We’d say this brings this component to 95% complete, all that remains is final review of the cost analysis and integration of everything into the website. We will also create detailed assembly instructions, but that will be a new action item.

Mohammad Almuzaial (Civil and Construction Engineer) also continued with his 4th week helping with the Aquapini/Walipini civil engineering details. This week Mohammad redesigning the drainage system using PVC pipes, laid out trench French Drains, laid out the structure’s vent pipes, and outlined the drainage & ventilation components.

Details used for this round of revisions are as follows: Minimum pipes slope: 1/2″ / 12”, French Drain Slope: 1/8” / 12”, Drainage & ventilation components: <140> LF 8” PVC pipe, <395> LF 4” PVC pipe, <180> LF 4” PVC perforated pipe, <7> 8” PVC Tees, <9> 8” PVC Elbows, <13> 4” PVC Elbows, <7> 8” – 4” PVC Transitions, <6> 12×12 Catch Basins, <4> 22×22 Catch Basins. You can see some of this work here and we’d say this brings this part of this component to 55% complete.

Aquapini/Walipini civil engineering details, Building the Sustainable Future That's Possible, One Community Weekly Progress Update #351

Continued Helping With the Aquapini/Walipini Civil Engineering Details – Click for Page

Ali Ghahremannezhad (Mechanical Engineer) also continued with his 2nd week as a member of the team and working on the climate batteries for the Aquapini/Walipini structures. This week Ali worked on developing a new transient 1D model for the climate battery. The advantage of this model compared to the previous version is that the transient profile of the soil temperature can be calculated as a function of time and no iterations are required for this purpose.

Aquapini/Walipini structures, Building the Sustainable Future That's Possible, One Community Weekly Progress Update #351

Worked on Developing a New Transient 1D Model for the Climate Battery for the Aquapini/Walipini Structures – Click for Page

HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

One Community is building the sustainable future that’s possible through Highest Good education that is for all ages, applicable in any environment, adaptable to individual needs, far exceeds traditional education standards, and more fun for both the teachers and the students. This component of One Community is about 95% complete with only the Open Source School Licensing and Ultimate Classroom construction and assembly details remaining to be finished.

With over 8 years of work invested in the process, the sections below are all complete until we move onto the property and continue the development and open sourcing process with teachers and students – a development process that is built directly into the structure of the education program and everything else we’re creating too:

Program Overview: Education Open Source Hub
How the components work together: How to use the Education for Life Program
Lesson Plans for Life – Lesson Plans How-to
Foundations of Outstanding Leaders, Teachers, and Communicators
Curriculum for Life
Teaching Strategies for Life
Learning Tools and Toys for Life
Evaluation and Evolution

Building the Sustainable Future That's Possible, Highest Good education, open source education, progressive education, One Community education, forward-thinking education, learning skills

Highest Good Education: All Subjects | All Learning Levels | Any Age – Click image for the open source hub

HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS

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

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

This week Emilio Nájera (Digital Marketer) continued work on our volunteer and donation campaigns. This week he reviewed and analyzed the current state of the campaigns in order to get ideas for future improvement. You can see some of this work here.

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Continued Work on Our Volunteer and Donation Campaigns – Click for Helping Page

Deema Ali (Graphic/Video Designer) also completed her 4th week designing new versions of the One Community Overview videos. This week Deema implemented new revisions to the One Community Overview video, added new clips, and created a new collage sequence in the video. You can see some of this behind-the-scenes work here.

One Community Overview videos, Building the Sustainable Future That's Possible, One Community Weekly Progress Update #351

Continued Designing New Versions of the One Community Overview Videos – Click for Home Page

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