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WHAT ONE COMMUNITY IS CREATING

One Community is creating a place to grow together and change the world together, helping humanity. 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, helping humanity. A place based on compassion, kindness, and collaboration. This replicable community will serve as an example of what is possible.

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

WHY ONE COMMUNITY IS CREATING THIS

The One Community self-replicating model is capable of creating a sustainable planet within 30 years, helping humanity. 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, and resources, and work together as a network to heal the planet. They will also transform the global lifestyle into a more enjoyable, fulfilling, healthy, and sustainable one.

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

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

INSPIRING SUSTAINABILITY WITH OPEN SOURCE

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

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

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

COMPREHENSIVE SOLUTION TO HUMANITY’S NEEDS

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

As we address and open source share these areas we will establish a living example of the first teacher/demonstration village purposed to teach others, helping humanity. To maximally facilitate duplication, One Community will provide seven duplicable examples and function indefinitely as a place people can visit and a non-profit and open source think tank continuing to further evolve and share solutions in all of the above areas and more. We will also provide hands-on experience and training. Most importantly, growing upon our sustainable foundation, we will endlessly make this comprehensive solution even more widely known and globally accessible, understandable and diversely duplicable, and inspiring and desirable as a model worth duplicating.

GLOBALLY IMPLEMENTABLE REPLICATION MODEL

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

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

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

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

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

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

Open Source Communities – One Community Weekly Progress Update #287

Posted on September 23, 2018 by One Community

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

Open source communities can positively impact life for people all over the world by demonstrating and sharing how to DIY-replicate sustainable approaches to food, energy, housing, education, Highest Good economic design, social architecture, fulfilled living, global stewardship practices, and more. One Community is supporting this as a path to global sustainability by developing what is needed to form and lead a global network of self-replicating teacher/demonstration hubs that will cooperatively create even more of these open source plans and resources.

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 September 23, 2018 edition (#287) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments:

Open Source Communities
One Community Progress Update #287

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

OPEN SOURCE COMMUNITIES: INTRO: @0:34

OPEN SOURCE COMMUNITIES: HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING: @7:37

Continued design updates to the open source Murphy bed furniture assembly instructions (see below)
Brainstormed and created an outline for a new Earthbag Village construction option that will allow for individualized and expanded designs of the standard homes in this village (see below)
Created new imagery and updated all the Highest Good housing graphics used during the introductions to these weekly updates (see below)
Shadi Kennedy completed his 22nd week leading the development of the Murphy bed instructions (see below)

OPEN SOURCE COMMUNITIES: DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER: @9:09

Core team working with D i pti Dhondarkar continued developing the lighting specifics for the City Center (see below)
Organized the City Center structural engineering details completed to this point and started the process of building the next team to finish what remains (see below)
Began updating the Pallet Furniture open source hub with complete cost analysis details (see below)
Dehua Feng completed his 21st week working on the fire suppression and safety systems designs for the Duplicable City Center Sprinkler and Emergency Systems open source hub (see below)

OPEN SOURCE COMMUNITIES: HIGHEST GOOD FOOD: @10:31

Continued writing the behind-the-scenes narrative and detailed food rollout plan for the various stages of development (see below)

OPEN SOURCE COMMUNITIES: HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION: @11:08

With over 8 years of development invested in the Education for Life component, this part of One Community is now complete enough to no longer focus and report on it with weekly updates. That is, of course, until we move onto the property and continue the development and open sourcing process with teachers and students. Visit the Education section below for links to all the completed elements of this component and details on the final remaining action items for this area of One Community before moving onto the property and fully launching it (see below)

OPEN SOURCE COMMUNITIES: HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY: @11:54

Highest Good Network software team consisting of Sowmya Manohar and Shubhra Mittal continued development of this software (see below)

OPEN SOURCE COMMUNITIES: SUMMARY: @12:38

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ONE COMMUNITY WEEKLY UPDATE DETAILS

OPEN SOURCE COMMUNITIES: HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

One Community is helping create open source 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 continued design updates to the open source Murphy bed furniture assembly instructions. The focus this week was integrating a new cheaper and easier hardware strategy for securing the bed and making it so it lowers slowly and safely, and updates to the hinge details of the new table and bench designs. You can see some of this work-in-progress here.

Murphy Bed Furniture, Open Source Communities, One Community Weekly Progress Update #287

Continued Design Updates to Open Source Murphy Bed Furniture Assembly Instructions

The core team also brainstormed and created an outline for a new Earthbag Village construction option that will allow for individualized and expanded designs of the standard homes in this village. You can see some of this work-in-progress here.

Earthbag Village, Open Source Communities, One Community Weekly Progress Update #287

Finished the Initial Outline for a New Earthbag Village Construction Option – Click for Page

And the core team created new imagery and updated all the Highest Good housing graphics used during the introductions to these weekly updates. You can see some of these updates here and you can watch the beginning of this video to see the complete update details.

Highest Good housing graphics, Open Source Communities, One Community Weekly Progress Update #287

Created New Imagery and Updated all the Highest Good Housing Graphics – Click for Page

Shadi Kennedy (Artist and Graphic Designer) also completed his 22nd week leading the development of the Murphy bed instructions. This week he created the new parts layout and duplicated it on all the section pages, changed all the references to all the parts throughout, double checked final sizes by making digital parts at a 1:1 scale, and created all the cutting maps for the ¼, ¾ & 1-inch pieces. You can see some of this work-in-progress here.

Continued Development of Murphy Bed Furniture Assembly Instructions – Click for Furniture Page

OPEN SOURCE COMMUNITIES: DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

One Community is helping create open source 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

The core team working with D i pti Dhondarkar (Electrical Engineer) also continued developing the lighting specifics for the City Center. This is Dipti’s 95th week volunteering on this task and the focus this week was testing several different lighting options for the library to settle on these final fixture and placement choices so we could create the graphic here that is now on the website also.

Duplicable City Center Lighting, Open Source Communities, One Community Weekly Progress Update #287

Continued Developing the Lighting Specifics for the City Center – Click for Page

The core team also organized the City Center structural engineering details completed to this point and started the process of building the next team to finish what remains.

Structural Engineering, Open Source Communities, One Community Weekly Progress Update #287

Organized the City Center Structural Engineering Details – Click for Page

And the core team began updating the Pallet Furniture open source hub by adding a table of contents, organizing all the data we have so far, and adding the completed cost analysis details. You can see some of this new work here.

Pallet Furniture, Open Source Communities, One Community Weekly Progress Update #287

Began Updating the Pallet Furniture Open Source Hub – Click for Page

Dehua Feng (Civil Engineer) also completed his 21st week working on the fire suppression and safety systems designs for the Duplicable City Center Sprinkler and Emergency Systems open source hub. This week he began the process of updating the AutoCAD, spreadsheets, and tutorial with a design that will be more cost effective. You can see some of this work here.

Duplicable City Center Sprinkler and Emergency Systems, Open Source Communities, One Community Weekly Progress Update #287

Continued Work on Fire Suppression and Safety Systems Design for the City Center – Click for Page

OPEN SOURCE COMMUNITIES: HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

One Community is helping create open source 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 writing the behind-the-scenes narrative and detailed food rollout plan for the various stages of development. This week’s focus was continuing the proofreading of the Food Self-sufficiency Transition Plan page and completing the edits for the Transition Kitchen page behind the scenes. You can see some of this work here.

Highest Good Food, Open Source Communities, One Community Weekly Progress Update #287

Continued Writing the Behind-the-Scenes Narrative and Detailed Food Rollout Plan – Click for Page

OPEN SOURCE COMMUNITIES: HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

One Community is building the foundations for how humanity creates a sustainable world through Highest Good education that is for all ages, applicable in any environment, adaptable to individual needs, far exceeds traditional education standards, and more fun for both the teachers and the students. 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. We’ll report on the final two elements to be finished as we develop them.

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

Highest Good education, open source education, progressive education, One Community education, forward-thinking education, learning skills, Open Source Communities

Highest Good Education: All Subjects | All Learning Levels | Any Age – Click image to Visit

OPEN SOURCE COMMUNITIES: HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS

One Community is helping create open source 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, the Highest Good Network software team consisting of Sowmya Manohar (Software Engineer, Web Developer & Net Application Developer) and Shubhra Mittal (Software Delivery Manager) also continued development of this software. This week they implemented the ability for Administrators to edit the date of work and implemented a Force Password Change template and logic. You can see some of this work here.

Highest Good Network, Open Source Communities, One Community Weekly Progress Update #287

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

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WHAT ONE COMMUNITY IS CREATING

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

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

Throughout our design process, we are open sourcing and free-sharing everything needed for construction and replication, in collaboration with open source communities. 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.

OPEN SOURCE COMMUNITIES: BUILDING THE FIRST OF MANY

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

WHY ONE COMMUNITY IS CREATING THIS

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

The specifics of how One Community is accomplishing this can be found on the One Community Solution Model to Create Solution-creating Models Page, in collaboration with open source communities. Research supporting and showing the benefits of a model like this can be found in 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 open source communities.

INSPIRING SUSTAINABILITY WITH OPEN SOURCE

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

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

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

COMPREHENSIVE SOLUTION TO HUMANITY’S NEEDS

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

As we address and open source share these areas we will establish a living example of the first teacher/demonstration village purposed to teach others within open source communities. To maximally facilitate duplication, One Community will provide seven duplicable examples and function indefinitely as a place people can visit and a non-profit and open source think tank continuing to further evolve and share solutions in all of the above areas and more. We will also provide hands-on experience and training. Most importantly, growing upon our sustainable foundation, we will endlessly make this comprehensive solution even more widely known and globally accessible, understandable and diversely duplicable, and inspiring and desirable as a model worth duplicating.

GLOBALLY IMPLEMENTABLE REPLICATION MODEL

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

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

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

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

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

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

Affordable Sustainability – One Community Weekly Progress Update #286

Posted on September 16, 2018 by One Community

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

Affordable sustainability is necessary if mainstream implementation is going to happen. Such implementation has the benefit to positively impact the life of everything on our planet and One Community is supporting and forwarding this movement through open source and do-it-yourself plans for sustainable food, energy, housing, education, for-profit and non-profit economic design, social architecture, fulfilled living, global stewardship practices, and more. 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

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 September 16, 2018 edition (#286) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments:

Affordable Sustainability
One Community Progress Update #286

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

AFFORDABLE SUSTAINABILITY: INTRO: @0:34

AFFORDABLE SUSTAINABILITY: HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING: @7:44

Continued testing the open source Murphy bed furniture assembly instructions (see below)
Made significant updates to the open source plaster page (see below)
Shadi Kennedy completed his 21st week leading the development of the Murphy bed instructions (see below)
Mike Kowalski finished his 20th week helping update our renders that are too big for anything but a gaming computer, redoing 3 Earthbag Village renders (see below
Edited several other of Mike’s images and added them to the Earthbag Village and Tropical Atrium open source hubs (see below)
Hemanth Kotaru completed his 21st week helping with the structural engineering research and calculations for the Earthbag Village (see below)
Dean Scholz continued working on the Earthbag Village (see below)

AFFORDABLE SUSTAINABILITY: DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER: @9:52

Core team working with D i pti Dhondarkar continued developing the lighting specifics for the City Center (see below)
Dehua Feng completed his 20th week working on the fire suppression and safety systems designs for the Duplicable City Center Sprinkler and Emergency Systems open source hub (see below)
Haoxuan “Hayes” Lei finished his last week working on the City Center structural engineering (see below)
Anvita Kumari Pandey completed her 22nd week volunteering by working on final details for the Duplicable City Center Materials and Costs and beginning work updating the Earthbag Village Materials and Costs (see below)

AFFORDABLE SUSTAINABILITY: HIGHEST GOOD FOOD: @11:19:

Continued writing the behind-the-scenes narrative and detailed food rollout plan for the various stages of development (see below)

AFFORDABLE SUSTAINABILITY: HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION: @12:07

Wrote initial script and started creating the graphics for what will replace our regular Highest Good education updates in the videos and website now that this component is pretty much complete until we move onto the property and develop it further with teachers and students (see below)
Added more resources, a new table of contents, and instructions for using the “Find Function” to the Free Online Education Resources page (see below)

AFFORDABLE SUSTAINABILITY: HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY: @12:50

Jin Hua, working with the core team continued collaboration on our new online marketing strategy (see below)
Highest Good Network software team consisting of Sowmya Manohar and Shubhra Mittal returned to development (see below)

AFFORDABLE SUSTAINABILITY: SUMMARY: @14:12

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

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ONE COMMUNITY WEEKLY UPDATE DETAILS

AFFORDABLE SUSTAINABILITY: HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

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

- - Learn about: 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 continued testing the open source Murphy bed furniture assembly instructions. The focus this week was final testing of the back storage and changing area and we redesigned the fold-down bed and fold out tables and benches. You can see some of this work-in-progress here.

Murphy Bed furniture, Affordable Sustainability, One Community Weekly Progress Update #286

Continued Testing the Murphy Bed Furniture Assembly Instructions – Click for Page

The core team also made significant updates to the open source plaster page by adding more resources, updating the table of contents, and adding instructions for how to create wheat paste.

open source plaster page, Affordable Sustainability, One Community Weekly Progress Update #286

Made Significant Updates to Open Source Plaster Page – Click to Visit

Shadi Kennedy (Artist and Graphic Designer) also completed his 21st week leading the development of the Murphy bed instructions. This week he continued development of the initial bed box assembly instruction and started final revisions for the Clothing and Storage section now that the core team finished the final assembly testing of this area using Sketchup 3D. You can see some of this work-in-progress here.

Continued Development of Murphy Bed Furniture Assembly Instructions – Click for Furniture Page

Mike Kowalski (Game Developer) finished his 20th week helping update our renders that are too big for anything but a gaming computer. This week Mike redid these 3 Earthbag Village (Pod 1) renders with all closed doors and made fixes to the trees and lighting.

Earthbag Village, Affordable Sustainability, One Community Weekly Progress Update #286

Redid 3 Renders with all Closed Doors and Fixes to Trees and Lighting – Click for Earthbag Village

The core team then edited these and several other of Mike’s images and added them to the Earthbag Village and Tropical Atrium open source hubs. You can see some of these new additions here.

Housing, Affordable Sustainability, One Community Weekly Progress Update #286

Edited Images and Added to the Earthbag Village and Tropical Atrium – Click for Tropical Atrium

Hemanth Kotaru (Structural Engineer) completed his 21st week helping with the structural engineering research and calculations for the Earthbag Village (Pod 1). This week’s focus was interpreting the results of all his research on the engineering details of the different kinds of earth that can be used to fill the bags, finding more resources, and starting to create the calculations spreadsheet.

Continued Helping with Structural Engineering Research and Calculations for Earthbag Village

Dean Scholz (Architectural Designer) also continued working on the Earthbag Village (Pod 1). Here is weekly update #130 from Dean, his focus this week was section views of the group table and spa components, progressing the new 6-dome cluster layouts, and finishing the 3-dome elevations.

Continued Working on the Earthbag Village – Click for Page

AFFORDABLE SUSTAINABILITY: DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

One Community is facilitating affordable sustainability 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

The core team working with D i pti Dhondarkar (Electrical Engineer) also continued developing the lighting specifics for the City Center. This is Dipti’s 94th week volunteering on this task and the focus this week was these floor-by-floor overview lighting renders that are now on the website also.

Building Overview Lighting Tests, Duplicable City Center, Affordable Sustainability, One Community Weekly Progress Update #286

Continued Developing the Lighting Specifics for the City Center – Click for Page

Dehua Feng (Civil Engineer) also completed his 20th week working on the fire suppression and safety systems designs for the Duplicable City Center Sprinkler and Emergency Systems open source hub. This week he finished the calculation updates for all the remaining zones, updated all the references for the tutorial, and calculated the reservoir size needed to support the system. You can see some of this work here.

Duplicable City Center Sprinkler and Emergency Systems open source hub, Affordable Sustainability, One Community Weekly Progress Update #286

Continued Work on Fire Suppression and Safety Systems Design for the City Center – Click for Page

Haoxuan “Hayes” Lei (Structural Engineer) also finished his last week working on the City Center structural engineering. What you see here are the wrapup documents sharing what has been completed and what still remains to be done by the next volunteer team.

fire suppression and safety systems designs for the Duplicable City Center Sprinkler and Emergency Systems open source hub, Affordable Sustainability, One Community Weekly Progress Update #286

Finished His Last Week Working on the City Center Structural Engineering – Click for Page

Last but not least, Anvita Kumari Pandey (Civil Engineer) completed her 22nd week volunteering by working on final details for the Duplicable City Center Materials and Costs and beginning work updating the Earthbag Village Materials and Costs with the same level of detail – some of which you can see here.

Duplicable City Center Materials and Costs, Affordable Sustainability, One Community Weekly Progress Update #286

Continued Working on Duplicable City Center Materials and Costs – Click for Page

AFFORDABLE SUSTAINABILITY: HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

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

- - Learn about the structures: 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 writing the behind-the-scenes narrative and detailed food rollout plan for the various stages of development. We continued our comprehensive review of the complete 20-person food rollout and implementation details. This included further integration of our related webpages, information on “How to Stockpile Compost Material”, a very simple brown/green composting explanation for the novice gardener, and beginning edits for the Transition Kitchen page. You can see some of this work here.

Highest Good Food, Affordable Sustainability, One Community Weekly Progress Update #286

Continued Writing the Behind-the-Scenes Narrative and Detailed Food Rollout Plan – Click for Page

HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

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

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

This week, the core team wrote the initial script and started creating the graphics for what will replace our regular Highest Good education updates in the videos and website now that this component is pretty much complete until we move onto the property and develop it further with teachers and students.

Highest Good education, Affordable Sustainability, One Community Weekly Progress Update #286

Wrote Initial Script and Started Creating Graphics – Click for Education Page

We also added more resources, a new table of contents, and instructions for using the “Find Function” to the Free Online Education Resources page.

Free Online Education Resources page, Affordable Sustainability, One Community Weekly Progress Update #286

Added More Resources and Content to Free Online Education Resources Page – Click to Visit

AFFORDABLE SUSTAINABILITY: HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS

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

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

This week Jin Hua (Web and Graphic Designer) working with the core team continued collaboration on our new online marketing strategy by updating our Adwords details, creating the sped-up tutorial you see running here in the background and teaching how to better do keyword research to improve it even more, and running reports to evaluate our updated marketing approach for these updates versus how we were doing it before.

new online marketing strategy, Affordable Sustainability, One Community Weekly Progress Update #286

Continued Collaboration on Our New Online Marketing Strategy – Click for Home Page

The Highest Good Network software team consisting of Sowmya Manohar (Software Engineer, Web Developer & Net Application Developer) and Shubhra Mittal (Software Delivery Manager) also returned to development. This week they upgraded the HGNApp from CircleCI 1.0 to 2.0 and enabled email deployment notifications, investigated the cause for the HGN timer counting two seconds at a time and disabled it for now, and added functionality for auto-refreshing when status changes are made to Active/Inactive in user management page. You can see some of this work here.

Highest Good Network, Affordable Sustainability, One Community Weekly Progress Update #286

Returned to Working on the Highest Good Network Software – Click for Page

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

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

INVESTOR PAGES

OVERVIEW ● LOCATION ● FUNDING

GET INVOLVED

WHAT ONE COMMUNITY IS CREATING

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

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

Throughout our design process, we are open sourcing and free-sharing everything needed for construction and replication, guided by principles of affordable sustainability. 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.

AFFORDABLE SUSTAINABILITY: BUILDING THE FIRST OF MANY

One Community will be the first teacher/demonstration hub. It will function as an experiential-learning model that facilitates mass participation to address humanity’s most pressing challenges through: 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, all rooted in principles of affordable sustainability.

WHY ONE COMMUNITY IS CREATING THIS

The One Community self-replicating model is capable of creating a sustainable planet within 30 years, driven by principles of affordable sustainability. 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, and resources, and work together as a network to heal the planet. They will also transform the global lifestyle into a more enjoyable, fulfilling, healthy, and sustainable one.

The specifics of how One Community is accomplishing affordable sustainability 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 in 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 affordable sustainability.

INSPIRING SUSTAINABILITY WITH OPEN SOURCE

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

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

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

COMPREHENSIVE SOLUTION TO HUMANITY’S NEEDS

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

As we address and open source share these areas we will establish a living example of the first teacher/demonstration village purposed to teach others, rooted in principles of affordable sustainability. To maximally facilitate duplication, One Community will provide seven duplicable examples and function indefinitely as a place people can visit and a non-profit and open source think tank continuing to further evolve and share solutions in all of the above areas and more. We will also provide hands-on experience and training. Most importantly, growing upon our sustainable foundation, we will endlessly make this comprehensive solution even more widely known and globally accessible, understandable and diversely duplicable, and inspiring and desirable as a model worth duplicating.

GLOBALLY IMPLEMENTABLE REPLICATION MODEL

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

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

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

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

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

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

Global Sustainability Methodology – One Community Weekly Progress Update #285

Posted on September 9, 2018 by One Community

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

One Community is creating a global sustainability methodology built on open source DIY designs for sustainable food, energy, housing, education, for-profit and non-profit economic design, social architecture, fulfilled living, global stewardship practices, and more. We are doing this as a path to global sustainability through a global network of self-replicating teacher/demonstration hubs that will cooperatively create even more open source plans and resources.

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 September 9, 2018 edition (#285) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments:

Global Sustainability Methodology
One Community Progress Update #285

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

GLOBAL SUSTAINABILITY METHODOLOGY: INTRO: @0:34

GLOBAL SUSTAINABILITY METHODOLOGY: HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING: @6:24

Integrated the finished 7-villages book into the website and updated all the village pages with the new graphics and downloadable PDFs (see below)
Continued testing the open source Murphy bed furniture assembly instructions (see below)
Shadi Kennedy completed his 20th week leading the development of the Murphy bed instructions (see below)
Mike Kowalski created 3 additional Earthbag Village renders (see below)
Hemanth Kotaru completed his 20th week helping with the structural engineering research and calculations for the Earthbag Village (see below)
Dean Scholz continued working on the Earthbag Village (see below)
Dan Alleck completed his 26th week working on the Compressed Earth Block Village render additions (see below)

GLOBAL SUSTAINABILITY METHODOLOGY: DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER: @8:41

Added the 7-villages book into the Duplicable City Center open source hub (see below)
Core team working with Dipti Dhondarkar continued developing the lighting specifics for the City Center (see below)
Anvita Kumari Pandey completed her 21st week helping with the Duplicable City Center Materials and Costs (see below)
Dehua Feng completed his 19th week working on the fire suppression and safety systems designs for the Duplicable City Center Sprinkler and Emergency Systems open source hub (see below)

GLOBAL SUSTAINABILITY METHODOLOGY: HIGHEST GOOD FOOD: @10:14

Continued writing the behind-the-scenes narrative and detailed food rollout plan for the various stages of development (see below)

GLOBAL SUSTAINABILITY METHODOLOGY: HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION: @10:52

Finished adding all the graphics and final formatting updates for the Information Maintenance and Sharing – Taking Your Learning With You page (see below)

GLOBAL SUSTAINABILITY METHODOLOGY: HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY: @11:32

Reviewed and updated all the videos for the Conscious and Uplifting Music Project and added the list to Spotify (see below)
Our Executive Director attended the Climate Reality training and became a trained member of the Climate Reality Corps (see below)

GLOBAL SUSTAINABILITY METHODOLOGY SUMMARY: @11:

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

YOU CAN ALSO JOIN US THROUGH SOCIAL MEDIA

ONE COMMUNITY WEEKLY UPDATE DETAILS

GLOBAL SUSTAINABILITY METHODOLOGY: HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

One Community is supporting our global sustainability methodology 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 integrated the finished 7-villages book into the website and updated all the village pages with the new graphics and downloadable PDFs. You can see some of this work here.

7-villages book, Global Sustainability Methodology, One Community Weekly Progress Update #285

Integrated Finished 7-Villages Book into the Website – Click for Page

This week the core team also continued testing the open source Murphy bed furniture assembly instructions. We removed parts that will not be in the new design, designed all the new parts, and made corrections for the floating shelf. In addition, we created the first render with the new table and bed in the ‘up’ position, table down, and the bed down. You can see some of this work-in-progress here.

Global Sustainability Methodology, Continued Testing the Murphy Bed Furniture Assembly Instructions

Continued Testing the Murphy Bed Furniture Assembly Instructions – Click for Page

Shadi Kennedy (Artist and Graphic Designer) also completed his 20th week leading the development of the Murphy bed instructions. This week he integrated changes needed from our 3D testing of the storage section instructions and worked on the parts list and initial layout for the bed frame, some of which you can see here.

Murphy bed instructions, Global Sustainability Methodology, One Community Weekly Progress Update #285

Continued Development of Murphy Bed Furniture Assembly Instructions – Click for Furniture Page

Mike Kowalski (Game Developer) finished his 19th week helping update our renders that are too big for anything but a gaming computer. This week Mike created the 3 additional Earthbag Village (Pod 1) renders you see here.

Earthbag Village renders, Global Sustainability Methodology, One Community Weekly Progress Update #285

Created 3 Earthbag Village Renders – Click for Page

Hemanth Kotaru (Structural Engineer) completed his 20th week helping with the structural engineering research and calculations for the Earthbag Village (Pod 1). This week’s focus was finishing the research on the engineering details of the different kinds of earth that can be used to fill the bags. You can see some of the results of this research here.

Earthbag Village, structural engineering research and calculation, Global Sustainability Methodology, One Community Weekly Progress Update #285

Continued Helping with Structural Engineering Research and Calculations for Earthbag Village

Dean Scholz (Architectural Designer) also continued working on the Earthbag Village (Pod 1). Here is weekly update #129 from Dean, his focus this week was working on the group table and spa component details and beginning work on the 6-dome cluster options that include the bathrooms. You can see some of this work here.

Earthbag Village, Global Sustainability Methodology, One Community Weekly Progress Update #285

Continued Working on the Earthbag Village – Click for Page

Dan Alleck (Designer and Illustrator) additionally completed his 26th week working on the Compressed Earth Block Village render additions. This week he finished this final Earth Block Village 2nd-floor Outdoor Perspective looking East render. This is the final render for this village, which is now on the website too.

Earth Block Village, Global Sustainability Methodology, One Community Weekly Progress Update #285

Final Earth Block Village 2nd-Floor Outdoor Perspective Looking East Render – Click to Visit

GLOBAL SUSTAINABILITY METHODOLOGY: DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

One Community is supporting our global sustainability methodology 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 added the 7-villages book into the Duplicable City Center open source hub and updated all the related imagery and downloadable PDFs.

Duplicable City Center, Global Sustainability Methodology, One Community Weekly Progress Update #285

Added 7-Villages Book into Duplicable City Center Open Source Hub – Click to Visit

The core team working with D i pti Dhondarkar (Electrical Engineer) also continued developing the lighting specifics for the City Center. This is Dipti’s 93rd week volunteering on this task and the focus this week was final lighting selection, placement and testing for the Central Pool and Spa Area to produce and add to the website the graphic shown here.

Duplicable City Center Lighting, Global Sustainability Methodology, One Community Weekly Progress Update #285

Continued Developing the Lighting Specifics for the City Center – Click for Page

Anvita Kumari Pandey (Civil Engineer) completed her 21st week helping with the Duplicable City Center Materials and Costs. This week she made corrections to the drywall cost analysis and updated the related images, added electrical lighting into the final cost analysis sheet, and corrected formatting issues throughout the document – some of which you can see here.

Duplicable City Center Materials and Costs, Global Sustainability Methodology, One Community Weekly Progress Update #285

Continued Working on Duplicable City Center Materials and Costs – Click for Page

Dehua Feng (Civil Engineer) also completed his 19th week working on the fire suppression and safety systems designs for the Duplicable City Center Sprinkler and Emergency Systems open source hub. This week he added labels to all the elevation drops in AutoCAD and updated the spreadsheet with these elevation drops and checked all the related calculations for Zones A, B, C, D, E, F, and H. You can see some of this work here.

Duplicable City Center Sprinkler and Emergency Systems, Global Sustainability Methodology, One Community Weekly Progress Update #285

Continued Work on Fire Suppression and Safety Systems Design for the City Center – Click for Page

GLOBAL SUSTAINABILITY METHODOLOGY: HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

One Community is supporting our global sustainability methodology 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 writing the behind-the-scenes narrative and detailed food rollout plan for the various stages of development. We continued reviewing and editing of the compost set up and hoop house sections, and then began a comprehensive review of the complete 20-person food rollout and implementation details. You can see some of this work here.

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Food Rollout Plan, Global Sustainability Methodology, One Community Weekly Progress Update #285

Continued Writing the Behind-the-Scenes Narrative and Detailed Food Rollout Plan – Click for Page

GLOBAL SUSTAINABILITY METHODOLOGY: HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

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

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

This week, the core team finished adding all the graphics and final formatting updates for the Information Maintenance and Sharing – Taking Your Learning With You page. Brining this page to 100% complete finishes all of the education program design details until we’re ready to implement it on the property. Now only the final Ultimate Classroom design details remain.

Information Maintenance and Sharing, Global Sustainability Methodology, One Community Weekly Progress Update #285

Graphics and Formatting of the Information Maintenance and Sharing – Click to Visit

GLOBAL SUSTAINABILITY METHODOLOGY: HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS

One Community is supporting our global sustainability methodology 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 reviewed and updated all the videos for the Conscious and Uplifting Music Project, and added the list to Spotify. You can see some of this work here.

Conscious music project, Global Sustainability Methodology, One Community Weekly Progress Update #285

Reviewed and Updated all Videos for the Conscious and Uplifting Music Project – Click to Visit Page

Our Executive Director also attended the Climate Reality training and became a trained member of the Climate Reality Corps. You can see some of the pictures from this 2200-person event here.

Climate Reality Training, Global Sustainability Methodology, One Community Weekly Progress Update #285

Attended the Climate Reality Training and Became a Trained Member of the Climate Reality Corps

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

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

INVESTOR PAGES

OVERVIEW ● LOCATION ● FUNDING

GET INVOLVED

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, guided by global sustainability methodology.

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 of what is possible, guided by global sustainability methodology.

Throughout our design process, we are open sourcing and free-sharing everything needed for construction and replication, following a global sustainability methodology. 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, operating in alignment with a global sustainability methodology. It will function as an experiential-learning model that facilitates mass participation to address humanity’s most pressing challenges through: A replicable model for expansion, building seven self-sufficient village/city prototypes, becoming the world leader in open-source sustainability solutions, and evolving and expanding ALL aspects of sustainable living.

WHY ONE COMMUNITY IS CREATING THIS

The One Community self-replicating model is capable of creating a sustainable planet within 30 years, guided by a global sustainability methodology. 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, and resources, and work together as a network to heal the planet. They will also transform the global lifestyle into a more enjoyable, fulfilling, healthy, and sustainable one.

The specifics of how One Community is accomplishing this can be found on the One Community Solution Model to Create Solution-creating Models Page, all within the framework of a global sustainability methodology. Research supporting and showing the benefits of a model like this can be found in 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, all guided by a global sustainability methodology. For One Community residents (the Pioneer Team), the idea of creating and sharing the social and recreational experience with visitors is also fun, exciting, fulfilling, and an additional reason why we are creating this.

INSPIRING SUSTAINABILITY WITH OPEN SOURCE

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

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

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

COMPREHENSIVE SOLUTION TO HUMANITY’S NEEDS

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

As we address and open source share these areas we will establish a living example of the first teacher/demonstration village purposed to teach others guided by a global sustainability methodology. To maximally facilitate duplication, One Community will provide seven duplicable examples and function indefinitely as a place people can visit and a non-profit and open source think tank continuing to further evolve and share solutions in all of the above areas and more. We will also provide hands-on experience and training. Most importantly, growing upon our sustainable foundation, we will endlessly make this comprehensive solution even more widely known and globally accessible, understandable and diversely duplicable, and inspiring and desirable as a model worth duplicating.

GLOBALLY IMPLEMENTABLE REPLICATION MODEL

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

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

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

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

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

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

Highest Good Living Models – One Community Weekly Progress Update #284

Posted on September 2, 2018 by One Community

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

Highest Good living models are living models that are sustainable, ecological, and supportive and regenerative for our planet and all life on it. One Community is a 100% volunteer team developing open source and free-shared tools, tutorials, and DIY resources for replicable teacher/demonstration hubs designed to teach, share, and evolve these 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 September 2, 2018 edition (#284) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments:

Highest Good Living Models
One Community Progress Update #284

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

HIGHEST GOOD LIVING MODELS INTRO: @0:34

HIGHEST GOOD LIVING MODELS: HOUSING: @6:30

Core team working with Michael Hagler finished the final round of edits and corrections for the 2nd printed copies of the 7-villages book we’ve been developing (see below)
Continued testing the open source Murphy bed furniture assembly instructions for the back clothing and storage area (see below)
Shadi Kennedy completed his 19th week leading the development of the Murphy bed instructions (see below)
Mike Kowalski created 5 additional Earthbag Village renders (see below)
Dean Scholz continued working on the Earthbag Village and his focus this week was finishing the AutoCAD elevations for the alternate floor plans (see below)

HIGHEST GOOD LIVING MODELS: DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER: @8:11

Core team working with Dipti Dhondarkar continued developing the lighting specifics for the City Center (see below)
Anvita Kumari Pandey completed her 20th week helping with the Duplicable City Center Materials and Costs (see below)
Dehua Feng completed his 18th week working on the fire suppression and safety systems designs for the Duplicable City Center Sprinkler and Emergency Systems open source hub (see below)

HIGHEST GOOD LIVING MODELS: FOOD: @9:40

Continued writing the behind-the-scenes narrative and detailed food rollout plan for the various stages of development (see below)

HIGHEST GOOD LIVING MODELS: EDUCATION: @10:28

Finished all work except for adding images to the Information Maintenance and Sharing – Taking Your Learning With You page (see below)

HIGHEST GOOD LIVING MODELS: SOCIETY: @11:03

Core team working with Jin Hua continued collaboration on our new online marketing strategy, focusing on the Conscious Music Project, open source free-education database, and the Sketchup Plant database (see below)
Reviewed and updated the Highest Good Network software design details and next-steps action item lists in preparation for continuing with the development team (see below)

HIGHEST GOOD LIVING MODELS SUMMARY: @11:54

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HIGHEST GOOD LIVING MODELS: HOUSING PROGRESS

One Community is creating highest good living models 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 working with Michael Hagler (Senior Graphic Designer and Artist) finished the final round of edits and corrections for the 2nd printed copies of the 7-villages book we’ve been developing. This completes almost 2 years of work on this book and we now move on to full integration into the website.

7-Villages Book, Highest Good Living Models, One Community Weekly Progress Update #284

Finished Final Round of Edits and Corrections for the 2nd Printed Copies of the 7-Villages Book

This week the core team also continued testing the open source Murphy bed furniture assembly instructions for the back clothing and storage area. We do this by building it in Sketchup 3D and noting mistakes as we go. You can see some of this work-in-progress here.

Murphy Bed Furniture, Highest Good Living Models, One Community Weekly Progress Update #284

Testing the Murphy Bed Furniture Assembly Instructions for Back Clothing and Storage Area

Shadi Kennedy (Artist and Graphic Designer) also completed his 19th week leading the development of the Murphy bed instructions. This week he added details to the Clothing & Storage introduction graphic and created the first detailed drawings of the new bed, couch, and fold-out table designs.

Murphy Bed furniture assembly, Highest Good Living Models, One Community Weekly Progress Update #284

Continued Development of Murphy Bed Furniture Assembly Instructions – Click for Furniture Page

Mike Kowalski (Game Developer) finished his 18th week helping update our renders that are too big for anything but a gaming computer. This week Mike created the 5 additional Earthbag Village (Pod 1) renders you see here. Next steps for these will be PhotoShop edits and then adding them to the appropriate pages of the site.

Earthbag Village, Highest Good Living Models, One Community Weekly Progress Update #284

Created 5 Earthbag Village Renders – Click for Page

Dean Scholz (Architectural Designer) also continued working on the Earthbag Village (Pod 1). Here is weekly update #128 from Dean, his focus this week was finishing the AutoCAD elevations seen here for the alternate floor plans for the homes we’ll be building as part of this village.

Continued Working on the Earthbag Village – Click for Page

HIGHEST GOOD LIVING MODELS: DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

One Community is creating highest good living models 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 D i pti Dhondarkar (Electrical Engineer) continued developing the lighting specifics for the City Center. This is Dipti’s 92nd week volunteering on this task and the focus this week was final lighting selection, placement and testing for the Mezzanine level to produce and add to the website the graphic shown here.

lighting specifics for the City Center, Highest Good Living Models, One Community Weekly Progress Update #284

Continued Developing the Lighting Specifics for the City Center – Click for Page

Anvita Kumari Pandey (Civil Engineer) completed her 20th week helping with the Duplicable City Center Materials and Costs. This week’s focus was restroom accessories, floor construction & miscellaneous items like bicycle stands, and final corrections and additions needed to produce the 2nd-generation summary for the total construction cost – some of which you can see here.

Duplicable City Center Materials and Costs, Highest Good Living Models, One Community Weekly Progress Update #284

Continued Working on Duplicable City Center Materials and Costs – Click for Page

Dehua Feng (Civil Engineer) also completed his 18th week working on the fire suppression and safety systems designs for the Duplicable City Center Sprinkler and Emergency Systems open source hub. This week he added piping-elevation changes to the master AutoCAD file, updated the spreadsheet and tutorial to include related details, and color coordinated the spreadsheet colors to match the AutoCAD piping colors. You can see some of this work here.

Duplicable City Center Sprinkler and Emergency Systems, Highest Good Living Models, One Community Weekly Progress Update #284

Continued Work on Fire Suppression and Safety Systems Design for the City Center – Click for Page

HIGHEST GOOD LIVING MODELS: FOOD PROGRESS

One Community is creating highest good living models 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 writing the behind-the-scenes narrative and detailed food rollout plan for the various stages of development with a focus on worms and soil, clarifying specific research on carbon-to-nitrogen ratios, batch compost piles and “as you go” piles. We learned we’ll save a lot of manpower by switching over to worm composting and trench composting during the milder months of the year, rather than using traditional composting piles. You can see some of this work here.

food rollout plan, Highest Good Living Models, One Community Weekly Progress Update #284

Continued Writing the Behind-the-Scenes Narrative and Detailed Food Rollout Plan – Click for Page

HIGHEST GOOD LIVING MODELS: EDUCATION PROGRESS

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

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

This week, the core team finished all work except for adding images to the Information Maintenance and Sharing – Taking Your Learning With You page. We finished the formatting, adding content, and resources and we’d say this brings the page to 90% complete.

Learning for Life, Highest Good Living Models, One Community Weekly Progress Update #284

Finished all Work Except for Adding Images to the Information Maintenance and Sharing

HIGHEST GOOD LIVING MODELS: SOCIETY PROGRESS

One Community is creating highest good living models 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 working with Jin Hua (Web and Graphic Designer) continued collaboration on our new online marketing strategy. This week’s focus was initial keyword organization and ad writing for the Conscious Music Project, open source free-education database, and the Sketchup Plant database.

collaboration on our new online marketing strategy, Highest Good Living Models, One Community Weekly Progress Update #284

Continued Collaboration on our New Online Marketing Strategy

The core team also reviewed and updated the Highest Good Network software design details and next-steps action item lists in preparation for continuing with the development team.

Highest Good Network software, Highest Good Living Models, One Community Weekly Progress Update #284

Reviewed and Updated the Highest Good Network Software Design Details – Click for Page

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WHAT ONE COMMUNITY IS CREATING

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

Throughout our design process of creating the highest good living models, 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.

HIGHEST GOOD LIVING MODELS: 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, with highest good living models.

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, and resources, and work together as a network to heal the planet. They will also transform the global lifestyle into a more enjoyable, fulfilling, healthy, and sustainable one rooted in the highest good living models.

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 in our Research and Resources Articles Archive, highlighting the effectiveness of the highest good living models.

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, rooted in the highest good living models.

INSPIRING SUSTAINABILITY WITH OPEN SOURCE

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

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

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

COMPREHENSIVE SOLUTION TO HUMANITY’S NEEDS

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

As we address and open source share these areas we will establish a living example of the first teacher/demonstration village purposed to teach others. To maximally facilitate duplication, One Community will provide seven duplicable examples and function indefinitely as a place people can visit and a non-profit and open source think tank continuing to further evolve and share solutions in all of the above areas and more. We will also provide hands-on experience and training. Most importantly, growing upon our sustainable foundation, we will endlessly make this comprehensive solution even more widely known and globally accessible, understandable and diversely duplicable, and inspiring and desirable as a model worth duplicating, guided by the highest good living models.

GLOBALLY IMPLEMENTABLE REPLICATION MODEL

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

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

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

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

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

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

Cooperation as the New Medium of Exchange – One Community Weekly Progress Update #283

Posted on August 26, 2018 by One Community

COOPERATION AS THE NEW MEDIUM OF EXCHANGE: HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING: @7:00

Instead of competing with each other, what if we worked together and made cooperation the new medium of exchange? One Community is open sourcing 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 as a path to this goal. 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

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 August 26, 2018 edition (#283) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments:

Cooperation as the New Medium of Exchange
One Community Progress Update #283

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

COOPERATION AS THE NEW MEDIUM OF EXCHANGE: INTRO: @0:34

Core team working with Michael Hagler finished multiple rounds of edits and correction of the first printed copy of the 7-villages book we’ve been developing (see below)
Created updated render of the open source Murphy bed furniture so we could finalize preview image for the book and update the website (see below)
Shadi Kenn edy completed his 18th week leading the development of the Murphy bed instructions (see below)
Hemanth Kotaru completed his 19th week helping with the structural engineering research and calculations for the Earthbag Village (see below)
Mike Kowalski created 9 Earthbag Village renders (see below)
Dean Sch olz continued working on the Earthbag Village (see below)
Dan Alleck completed his 25th week working on the Compressed Earth Block Village render additions (see below)

COOPERATION AS THE NEW MEDIUM OF EXCHANGE: DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER: @9:16

Finished rebuilding the City Center geodesic dome in 3D (see below)
Rebuild and added necessary content to the Duplicable City Center Time Investment open source hub (see below)
Dipti Dhondarkar continued developing the lighting specifics for the City Center (see below)
Anvita Kumari Pandey completed her 19th week helping with the Duplicable City Center Materials and Costs (see below)
Dehua Feng completed his 17th week working on the fire suppression and safety systems designs for the Duplicable City Center Sprinkler and Emergency Systems open source hub (see below)

COOPERATION AS THE NEW MEDIUM OF EXCHANGE: HIGHEST GOOD FOOD: @11:03

Continued writing the behind-the-scenes narrative and detailed food rollout plan for the various stages of development (see below)
Worked on the Apiary equipment instructions for “Hive Set Up” (see below)

COOPERATION AS THE NEW MEDIUM OF EXCHANGE: HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION: @11:50

Began work on the Information Maintenance and Sharing – Taking Your Learning With You page (see below)

COOPERATION AS THE NEW MEDIUM OF EXCHANGE: HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY: @12:25

COOPERATION AS THE NEW MEDIUM OF EXCHANGE SUMMARY: @11:

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COOPERATION AS THE NEW MEDIUM OF EXCHANGE: HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

One Community is developing cooperation as the new medium of exchange 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 working with Michael Hagler (Senior Graphic Designer and Artist) finished multiple rounds of edits and correction of the first printed copy of the 7-villages book we’ve been developing. You can see some of this work here, along with this picture of Sara doing one of the first hardcopy reviews.

7 Village book edits, Cooperation as the New Medium of Exchange, One Community Weekly Progress Update #283

Finished Multiple Rounds of Edits and Correction of the First Printed Copy of the 7-Villages Book

The core team also created an additional updated render of the open source Murphy bed furniture so we could finalize this preview image for the book (bottom left) and update the website to show the level of detail we’re working on.

Earthbag Village, Murphy Bed furniture, Cooperation as the New Medium of Exchange, One Community Weekly Progress Update #283

Created Additional Updated Render of the Open Source Murphy Bed Furniture – Click for Page

Shadi Kennedy (Artist and Graphic Designer) also completed his 18th week leading the development of the Murphy bed instructions. This week he fixed a stair issue so the stairs fit properly, went through the nightstand section and added final construction points, and drew up new plans to add a couch and increase the table size.

Earthbag Village, Murphy Bed instruction, Cooperation as the New Medium of Exchange, One Community Weekly Progress Update #283

Continued Developing the Murphy Bed Instructions – Click for Page

Hemanth Kotaru (Structural Engineer) completed his 19th week helping with the structural engineering research and calculations for the Earthbag Village (Pod 1). This week’s focus was research on the engineering details of the different kinds of earth that can be used to fill the bags. You can see some of the results of this research here.

Earthbag Village, Cooperation as the New Medium of Exchange, One Community Weekly Progress Update #283

Continued Helping with Structural Engineering Research and Calculations for Earthbag Village

Mike Kowalski (Game Developer) finished his 17th week helping update our renders that are too big for anything but a gaming computer. This week Mike created the 9 Earthbag Village (Pod 1) renders you see here. The next steps for these will be PhotoShop edits and then adding them to the appropriate pages of the site.

Earthbag Village Renders, Cooperation as the New Medium of Exchange, One Community Weekly Progress Update #283

Created 9 Earthbag Village Renders – Click for Page

Dean Scholz (Architectural Designer) also continued working on the Earthbag Village (Pod 1). Here is weekly update #127 from Dean, his focus this week was adding in the hot tub and beginning the AutoCAD elevations for this alternate floor plan option for the homes we’ll be building as part of this village.

Continued Working on the Earthbag Village – Click for Page

Dan Alleck (Designer and Illustrator) additionally completed his 25th week working on the Compressed Earth Block Village render additions. This week he continued with initial people and object additions for this Earth Block Village 2nd floor outdoor perspective looking East.

Earth Block Village 2nd Floor Outdoors Looking-East-Work-in-progress, Cooperation as the New Medium of Exchange, One Community Weekly Progress Update #283

Continued Working on Compressed Earth Block Village Render Additions – Click for Page

COOPERATION AS THE NEW MEDIUM OF EXCHANGE: DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

One Community is developing cooperation as the new medium of exchange 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 finished rebuilding the City Center geodesic dome in 3D. This completes our process of double checking all the angles and parts lengths, minimizing the number of different parts, and bringing this Sketchup file to the point it matches the AutoCAD file.

City Center shell structure, Cooperation as the New Medium of Exchange, One Community Weekly Progress Update #283

Finished Rebuilding the City Center Geodesic Dome in 3D – Click to Visit

The core team also completed a rebuild and addition of all the necessary content to the Duplicable City Center Time Investment open source hub. This page describes how we’ll be tracking construction time and all the areas we’ll be measuring separately and together for this structure.

Duplicable City Center Time Projections, Cooperation as the New Medium of Exchange, One Community Weekly Progress Update #283

Rebuilt the Duplicable City Center Time Investment Open Source Hub – Click to Visit

D i pti Dhondarkar (Electrical Engineer) also continued developing the lighting specifics for the City Center. This is Dipti’s 91st week volunteering on this task and the focus this week was initial lighting selection, placement and testing for the Mezzanine level, some of which you can see here.

Duplicable City Center Lighting, Cooperation as the New Medium of Exchange, One Community Weekly Progress Update #283

Continued Developing the Lighting Specifics for the City Center – Click for Page

Anvita Kumari Pandey (Civil Engineer) completed her 19th week helping with the Duplicable City Center Materials and Costs. This week’s focus was the flooring final cost analysis & material selection, more work on the column and column footing cost analysis, and restroom & bath accessories cost analysis – some of which you can see here.

Duplicable City Center Materials and Costs, Cooperation as the New Medium of Exchange, One Community Weekly Progress Update #283

Continued Working on Duplicable City Center Materials and Costs – Click for Page

Dehua Feng (Civil Engineer) also completed his 17th week working on the fire suppression and safety systems designs for the Duplicable City Center Sprinkler and Emergency Systems open source hub. This week he updated the tutorial and spreadsheet with the new pipe materials selections, updated the reservoir sizing details, and added labels and updated colors to the master AutoCAD file to clarify branches and pipe sizes. You can see some of this work here.

fire suppression and safety systems designs, Duplicable City Center, Duplicable City Center Sprinkler and Emergency Systems, Cooperation as the New Medium of Exchange, One Community Progress Update #283

Continued Work on Fire Suppression and Safety Systems Design for the City Center – Click for Page

COOPERATION AS THE NEW MEDIUM OF EXCHANGE: HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

One Community is developing cooperation as the new medium of exchange 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 writing the behind-the-scenes narrative and detailed food rollout plan for the various stages of development. This week we continued research, edits, and additions to the orchard resurrection, Hugelkultur construction, food forest, and compost set-up & composting section. You can see some of this work here.

Food Rollout, Cooperation as the New Medium of Exchange, One Community Weekly Progress Update #283

Continued Writing the Behind-the-Scenes Narrative and Detailed Food Rollout Plan – Click for Page

In addition, the core team worked on the Apiary equipment instructions for “Hive Set Up” adding images and written content to the behind-the-scenes Google development doc, as shown here.

Apiary Equipment, Cooperation as the New Medium of Exchange, One Community Weekly Progress Update #283

Worked on the Apiary Equipment Instructions for “Hive Set Up” – Click for Page

COOPERATION AS THE NEW MEDIUM OF EXCHANGE: HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

One Community is developing cooperation as the new medium of exchange throughh Highest Good education that is for all ages, applicable in any environment, adaptable to individual needs, far exceeds traditional education standards, and more fun for both the teachers and the students:

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

This week, the core team began work on the Information Maintenance and Sharing – Taking Your Learning With You page. We redid the formatting and overall outline, updated the initial graphics, and rewrote the What and Why sections. We would say this brings the page to about 30% complete.

Information Maintenance and Sharing, Taking Your Learning With You, Cooperation as the New Medium of Exchange, One Community Weekly Progress Update #283

Began Work on the Information Maintenance and Sharing – Click to Visit

COOPERATION AS THE NEW MEDIUM OF EXCHANGE: HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS

One Community is developing cooperation as the new medium of exchange 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

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

INVESTOR PAGES

OVERVIEW ● LOCATION ● FUNDING

GET INVOLVED

WHAT ONE COMMUNITY IS CREATING

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

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 of what is possible, with cooperation as the new medium of exchange.

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, with cooperation as the new medium of exchange. 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, with cooperation as the new medium of exchange..

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, and resources, and work together as a network to heal the planet. They will also transform the global lifestyle into a more enjoyable, fulfilling, healthy, and sustainable one, with cooperation as the new medium of exchange.

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 in our Research and Resources Articles Archive, with cooperation as the new medium of exchange.

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, with cooperation as the new medium of exchange.

INSPIRING SUSTAINABILITY WITH OPEN SOURCE

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

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

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

COMPREHENSIVE SOLUTION TO HUMANITY’S NEEDS

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

As we address and open source share these areas we will establish a living example of the first teacher/demonstration village purposed to teach others. To maximally facilitate duplication, One Community will provide seven duplicable examples and function indefinitely as a place people can visit and a non-profit and open source think tank continuing to further evolve and share solutions in all of the above areas and more, with cooperation as the new medium of exchange. We will also provide hands-on experience and training. Most importantly, growing upon our sustainable foundation, we will endlessly make this comprehensive solution even more widely known and globally accessible, understandable and diversely duplicable, and inspiring and desirable as a model worth duplicating.

GLOBALLY IMPLEMENTABLE REPLICATION MODEL

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

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

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

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

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

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

Earth Biohacking – One Community Weekly Progress Update #282

Posted on August 19, 2018 by One Community

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Earth biohacking is already happening, it just seems that we’re not doing a very positive job of it so far. What if we collective decided to sustainably biohack Earth using global stewardship practices? Collective action like this could be possible if it were demonstrated as easy enough, affordable enough, and comparable to or better than the way most people are living already. One Community is open sourcing and free-sharing the necessary components for global implementation and replication.

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 August 19, 2018 edition (#282) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments:

Earth Biohacking
One Community Progress Update #282

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

EARTH BIOHACKING: INTRO: @0:34

EARTH BIOHACKING: HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING: @6:02

Michael Hagler and the core team finished the final PDF review of the 7-villages book we’re developing and sent it off to the printer for an initial print draft (see below)
Michael then integrated several edits and finished final creation and edits for 4 pages (see below)
Core team created updated renders for the open source Murphy bed furniture preview image (see below)
Mike Kowalski continued working on the Earthbag Village and finished a render (see below)
Mike contributed images to the open source Murphy bed furniture preview image (see below)
Shadi Kennedy continued leading the development of the Murphy bed instructions (see below)
Dean Scholz joined the team working on the Earthbag Village and his focus this week was the initial AutoCAD work for alternate floor plan options for the homes we’ll be building as part of this village (see below)
Dan Alleck began initial people and object additions for the Compressed Earth Block Village 2nd floor outdoor perspective looking East (see below)

EARTH BIOHACKING: DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER: @8:15

Continued rebuilding the City Center geodesic dome in 3D (see below)
Core team working with Dipti Dhondarkar continued developing the lighting specifics for the City Center (see below)
Anvita Kumari Pandey completed her 18th week helping with the Duplicable City Center Materials and Costs (see below)
Dehua Feng completed his 16th week working on the fire suppression and safety systems designs for the Duplicable City Center Sprinkler and Emergency Systems open source hub (see below)

EARTH BIOHACKING: HIGHEST GOOD FOOD: @9:48

Continued writing the behind-the-scenes narrative and detailed food rollout plan for the various stages of development (see below)

EARTH BIOHACKING: HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION: @10:21

Finished work on the Surpassing Educational Standards page (see below)

EARTH BIOHACKING: HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY: @10:52

EARTH BIOHACKING SUMMARY: @11:11

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EARTH BIOHACKING: HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

One Community is open sourcing earth Biohacking 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 working with Michael Hagler (Senior Graphic Designer and Artist) finished the final PDF review of the 7-villages book we’re developing and sent it off to the printer for an initial print draft. You can see some of our editing process here.

7 Villages Book, Highest Good Housing, Earth Biohacking, One Community Weekly Progress Update #282

Finished Final PDF Review of the 7-Villages Book – Click for Housing Page

Michael then integrated all the above edits. He also finished final creation and edits for these 4 pages, which are all now integrated into the website also.

Finished Final Creation and Edits for 4 Pages – Click to Visit Housing Page

The core team also created these updated renders for the open source Murphy bed furniture preview image. This included adding new objects, updating the texture of the wall lights, and adding loft light for rendering with the bed up and down.

Murphy Bed, Earth Biohacking, One Community Weekly Progress Update #282

Created Updated Renders for Open Source Murphy Bed Furniture Preview Image – Click for Page

Mike Kowalski (Game Developer) finished his 16th week helping update our renders that are too big for anything but a gaming computer. Mike continued working on the Earthbag Village (Pod 1) and finished the render you see here.

Earthbag Village, Earth Biohacking, One Community Weekly Progress Update #282

Continued Working on Earthbag Village and Finished this Render – Click for Page

Mike also contributed these images to the open source Murphy bed furniture preview image.

Murpy Bed Furniture, Earth Biohacking, One Community Weekly Progress Update #282

Contributed these Images to Open Source Murphy Bed Furniture Preview Image – Click for Page

Shadi Kennedy (Artist and Graphic Designer) completed his 17th week leading the development of the Murphy bed instructions and finished the graphic by integrating the images we just shared and also finished another round of instruction-edits integration for the back changing and storage area. What you see here is where the assembly instructions are so far for this component and we’d say we are about 80% complete with this part of these instructions.

Earthbag Village, Murphy Bed Instructions, Earth Biohacking, One Community Weekly Progress Update #282

Continued Leading the Development of the Murphy Bed Instructions – Click for Page

Dean Scholz (Architectural Designer) also joined the team working on the Earthbag Village (Pod 1). Here is weekly update #126 from Dean, his focus this week was this initial AutoCAD work for alternate floor plan options for the homes we’ll be building as part of this village.

Began Initial AutoCAD Work for Alternate Floor Plan Options for the Homes – Click for Page

Dan Alleck (Designer and Illustrator) additionally completed his 24th week working on the Compressed Earth Block Village render additions. This week he began initial people and object additions for this Earth Block Village 2nd floor outdoor perspective looking East.

Earth Block Village, Earth Biohacking, One Community Weekly Progress Update #282

Continued Working on Compressed Earth Block Village Render Additions – Click for Page

EARTH BIOHACKING: DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

One Community is open sourcing earth Biohacking 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 continued rebuilding the City Center geodesic dome in 3D. This week we continued the shell structure process where we redid and solved parts-length errors to finish row 5, as shown here.

CD shell structure, Duplicable City Center, Earth Biohacking, One Community Weekly Progress Update #282

Continued Rebuilding the City Center Geodesic Dome in 3D – Click for Page

The core team working with Dipti Dhondarkar (Electrical Engineer) also continued developing the lighting specifics for the City Center. This is Dipti’s 90th week volunteering on this task and the focus this week was finalizing the lighting tests shown here for the 4th-floor cupola. This image is now on the website also.

City Center Cupola Lighting Tests, open source lighting, eco-community lighting, sustainable lighting design, LEED Platinum lighting, money-saving lighting, energy-saving lighting, ecological lighting, Earth Biohacking, One Community Weekly Progress Update #282

Finalized Lighting Tests for 4th-Floor Cupola – Click for Duplicable City Center Lighting Page

Anvita Kumari Pandey (Civil Engineer) completed her 18th week helping with the Duplicable City Center Materials and Costs. This week’s focus was 1st version of the total cost analysis and detailed cost analysis for the footing concrete and basement slab concrete, and making changes to the cement mortar cost analysis details.

Duplicable City Center Materials and Costs, Earth Biohacking, One Community Weekly Progress Update #282

Continued Working on Duplicable City Center Materials and Costs – Click for Page

Dehua Feng (Civil Engineer) also completed his 16th week working on the fire suppression and safety systems designs for the Duplicable City Center Sprinkler and Emergency Systems open source hub. This week’s focus was writing content, AutoCAD updates, and creating imagery and charts used to update another 20 pages of the tutorial, some of which you can see here.

Duplicable City Center Sprinkler and Emergency Systems open source hub, Earth Biohacking, One Community Weekly Progress Update #282

Continued Work on Fire Suppression and Safety Systems Design for the City Center – Click for Page

EARTH BIOHACKING: HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

One Community is open sourcing earth Biohacking 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 writing the behind-the-scenes narrative and detailed food rollout plan for the various stages of development. This week we finalized the worm information and reviewed and completed edits of the soil amendments section. You can see some of this work here.

Highest Good Food, Food Rollout plan, Earth Biohacking, One Community Weekly Progress Update #282

Continued Writing the Behind-the-Scenes Narrative and Detailed Food Rollout Plan – Click for Page

EARTH BIOHACKING: HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

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

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

This week, the core team finished work on the Surpassing Educational Standards page by adding the rest of the content, finishing the formatting, and inserting all the graphics. You can see some of this work here.

Surpassing Educational Standards, Earth Biohacking, One Community Weekly Progress Update #282

Finished Work on Surpassing Educational Standards Page – Click to Visit

EARTH BIOHACKING: HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS

One Community is open sourcing earth Biohacking 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

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WHAT ONE COMMUNITY IS CREATING

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

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, integrating earth biohacking principles. This replicable community will serve as an example of 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, including earth biohacking strategies. 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, including earth biohacking methodologies.

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, and resources, and work together as a network to heal the planet through earth biohacking. They will also transform the global lifestyle into a more enjoyable, fulfilling, healthy, and sustainable one.

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

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, integrating elements of earth biohacking.

INSPIRING SUSTAINABILITY WITH OPEN SOURCE

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

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

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

COMPREHENSIVE SOLUTION TO HUMANITY’S NEEDS

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

As we address and open source share these areas we will establish a living example of the first teacher/demonstration village purposed to teach others. To maximally facilitate duplication, One Community will provide seven duplicable examples and function indefinitely as a place people can visit and a non-profit and open source think tank continuing to further evolve and share solutions in all of the above areas and more, including earth biohacking. We will also provide hands-on experience and training. Most importantly, growing upon our sustainable foundation, we will endlessly make this comprehensive solution even more widely known and globally accessible, understandable and diversely duplicable, and inspiring and desirable as a model worth duplicating.

GLOBALLY IMPLEMENTABLE REPLICATION MODEL

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

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

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

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

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

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

Living with More fun in Our Lives – One Community Weekly Progress Update #281

Posted on August 12, 2018 by One Community

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

Living with more fun in our lives seems like a worthwhile goal. It’s even better if this can be accomplished while also reducing our ecological footprint, reducing our cost of living, and making a positive and objectively measurable difference in the world. One Community calls this living and creating for The Highest Good of All and we’re creating open source and free-shared tools, tutorials, and resources covering all aspects of the living models necessary to demonstrate and replicate such a lifestyle.

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 August 12, 2018 edition (#281) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments:

Living with More fun in Our Lives
One Community Progress Update #281

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

LIVING WITH MORE FUN IN OUR LIVES: INTRO: @0:34

LIVING WITH MORE FUN IN OUR LIVES: HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING: @6:16

Outlined several alternative options for the Earthbag Village and Dean Scholz will be taking over on these (see below)
Working with Michael Hagler, the core team updated another 3 spreads for the 7-villages book we’re developing (see below)
Mike Kowalski continued working on the Earthbag Village and finished two additional renders (see below)

LIVING WITH MORE FUN IN OUR LIVES: DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER: @7:14

Began building the Duplicable City Center Time Investment page (see below)
Core team working with Dipti Dhondarkar continued developing the lighting specifics for the City Center (see below)
Anvita Kumari Pandey completed her 17th week helping with the Duplicable City Center Materials and Costs (see below)
Dehua Feng completed his 15th week working on the fire suppression and safety systems designs for the Duplicable City Center Sprinkler and Emergency Systems open source hub (see below)

LIVING WITH MORE FUN IN OUR LIVES: HIGHEST GOOD FOOD: @8:48

Continued writing the behind-the-scenes narrative and detailed food rollout plan for the various stages of development (see below)

LIVING WITH MORE FUN IN OUR LIVES: HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION: @9:31

Began work on the Surpassing Educational Standards page (see below)

LIVING WITH MORE FUN IN OUR LIVES: HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY: @10:06

LIVING WITH MORE FUN IN OUR LIVES SUMMARY: @10:28

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LIVING WITH MORE FUN IN OUR LIVES: HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

One Community thinks we should all be living with more fun in our lives 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 outlined several alternative options for the Earthbag Village (Pod 1), as shown here. Dean Scholz (Architectural Designer) will be taking over on these.

Earthbag Village, Living with More fun in Our Lives, One Community Weekly Progress Update #281

Living with More fun in Our Lives – Outlined Several Alternative Options for the Earthbag Village

The core team working with Michael Hagler (Senior Graphic Designer and Artist) also updated another 3 spreads for the 7-villages book we’re developing, you can see these updated pages here and now on the website also.

7 Villages Book, Living with More fun in Our Lives, One Community Weekly Progress Update #281

Living with More fun in Our Lives – Updated Another 3 Spreads for the 7-Villages Book – Click for Page

Mike Kowalski (Game Developer) finished his 15th week helping update our renders that are too big for anything but a gaming computer. Mike continued working on the Earthbag Village (Pod 1) and finished the two renders you see here, both of which are now updated on the website also.

Earthbag Village, Pod 1-Village, Net-zero-View-looking-NE, Living with More fun in Our Lives, One Community Weekly Progress Update #281

Earthbag Village Communal Shower and Net-Zero Bathroom Render of View Looking Northeast

Earthbag Village, Heat-recycling Showers, Earth Construction Village Looking South, One Community Village One, Eco-community, Sustainable Community, Eco-conscious Living, Conscientious Living, Green Living, Sustainable Living, Living with More fun in Our Lives, One Community Weekly Progress Update #281

Living with More fun in Our Lives – Earthbag Village Heat-Recycling Showers Render- View

LIVING WITH MORE FUN IN OUR LIVES: DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

One Community thinks we should all be living with more fun in our lives through a Duplicable and Sustainable City Center that is LEED Platinum certified/Sustainable, can feed 200 people at a time, provides laundry for over 300 people, is beautiful, spacious, and saves resources, money, and space:

- - Learn about this building and its function: Duplicable City Center Open Source Hub

This week the core team began building the Duplicable City Center Time Investment page. This week’s focus was creating the initial formatting, index and jump-to links, and writing the Overview and Why Open Source sections. We’d say this brings this page to 30% completion.

Time Investment page, Living with More fun in Our Lives, One Community Weekly Progress Update #281

Living with More fun in Our Lives – Began Building the Time Investment Page – Click to Visit

The core team working with Dipti Dhondarkar (Electrical Engineer) also continued developing the lighting specifics for the City Center. This is Dipti’s 89th week volunteering on this task and the focus this week was finalizing the lighting tests shown here for the Living Dome sunrise patio. This image is now on the website also.

lighting specifics for the City Center, Sunrise Patio Lighting tests, Living with More fun in Our Lives, One Community Weekly Progress Update #281

Finalized Lighting Tests for Living Dome Sunrise Patio – Click for Duplicable City Center Lighting Page

Anvita Kumari Pandey (Civil Engineer) completed her 17th week helping with the Duplicable City Center Materials and Costs. This week’s focus was continued cost analysis for the basement retaining wall and beginning work on costing out the columns and flooring specifics. You can see some of this work here.

Duplicable City Center Materials and Costs, Living with More fun in Our Lives, One Community Weekly Progress Update #281

Continued Working on Duplicable City Center Materials and Costs – Click for Page

Dehua Feng (Civil Engineer) also completed his 15th week working on the fire suppression and safety systems designs for the Duplicable City Center Sprinkler and Emergency Systems open source hub. This week’s focus was finishing the gallons-per-minute branches and elevation research for the complete system and updating the first 10 pages of the tutorial, some of which you can see here.

Sprinkler and Emergency Systems, Living with More fun in Our Lives, One Community Weekly Progress Update #281

Living with More fun in Our Lives – Work on Fire Suppression & Safety Design for the City Center

LIVING WITH MORE FUN IN OUR LIVES: HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

One Community thinks we should all be living with more fun in our lives 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 writing the behind-the-scenes narrative and detailed food rollout plan for the various stages of development. This week we reviewed and summarized the worm videos. The videos demonstrate that worm farms made from PVC pipe and 5 gallon buckets are suitable for non-winter conditions; and in cold climates, a basement would work well but heat and constant feeding are necessary. You can see some of this work here.

Food Rollout Plan, Living with More fun in Our Lives, One Community Weekly Progress Update #281

Continued Writing the Behind-the-Scenes Narrative and Detailed Food Rollout Plan – Click for Page

LIVING WITH MORE FUN IN OUR LIVES: HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

One Community thinks we should all be living with more fun in our lives through Highest Good education that is for all ages, applicable in any environment, adaptable to individual needs, far exceeds traditional education standards, and more fun for both the teachers and the students:

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

This week, the core team began work on the Surpassing Educational Standards page. We redid the formatting and overall outline, updated the initial graphics, added a resources section, and rewrote the What and Why sections. We would say this brings the page to about 30% complete.

Surpassing Educational Standards, Highest Good Education, Living with More fun in Our Lives, One Community Weekly Progress Update #281

Began Work on Surpassing Educational Standards Page – Click to Visit

LIVING WITH MORE FUN IN OUR LIVES: HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS

One Community thinks we should all be living with more fun in our lives 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

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WHAT ONE COMMUNITY IS CREATING

One Community is creating a place to grow together and change the world together. We are creating a space that helps each other live in integrity with each other and the planet as we strive to be the greatest versions of ourselves, living with more fun in our lives. 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 of what is possible.

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

BUILDING THE FIRST OF MANY

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

WHY ONE COMMUNITY IS CREATING THIS

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

The specifics of how One Community is accomplishing this can be found on the One Community Solution Model to Create Solution-creating Models Page. Research supporting and showing the benefits of a model like this can be found in 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, living with more fun in our lives.

INSPIRING SUSTAINABILITY WITH OPEN SOURCE

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

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

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

COMPREHENSIVE SOLUTION TO HUMANITY’S NEEDS

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

As we address and open source share these areas we will establish a living example of the first teacher/demonstration village purposed to teach others, living with more fun in our lives. To maximally facilitate duplication, One Community will provide seven duplicable examples and function indefinitely as a place people can visit and a non-profit and open source think tank continuing to further evolve and share solutions in all of the above areas and more. We will also provide hands-on experience and training. Most importantly, growing upon our sustainable foundation, we will endlessly make this comprehensive solution even more widely known and globally accessible, understandable and diversely duplicable, and inspiring and desirable as a model worth duplicating.

GLOBALLY IMPLEMENTABLE REPLICATION MODEL

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

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

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

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

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

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

Restoring Local-level Decision Making – One Community Weekly Progress Update #280

Posted on August 5, 2018 by One Community

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Sustainable and self-sufficient eco-communities can be a path to restoring local-level decision making for the benefit of residents, the planet, local communities, and more. Through conscious and conscientious stewardship, we can regenerate our world and provide more ethical and enjoyable living environments for ourselves and others too. One Community is supporting this through do-it-yourself open source blueprints, tools, tutorials, and resources.

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 August 5, 2018 edition (#280) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments:

Restoring Local-level Decision Making
One Community Progress Update #280

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

RESTORING LOCAL-LEVEL DECISION MAKING: INTRO: @0:34

RESTORING LOCAL-LEVEL DECISION MAKING:HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING: @6:38

Continued testing the open source Murphy bed furniture assembly instructions for the back changing and storage area (see below)
Working with Michael Hagler, the core team completed another 6 pages for the 7-villages book we’re developing (see below)
Gave another round of feedback, added the 4 of Michael’s images that were complete to the site, and added other finished images to the site too (see below)
Created the Residential Open Floor Plan graphic and added to the Tree House Village open source hub (see below)
Hemanth Kotaru completed his 18th week helping with the structural engineering research and calculations for the Earthbag Village (see below)
Mike Kowalski continued working on the Earthbag Village and created 4 updated renders (see below)
The core team used one of Mike’s renders to create a Vermiculture Bathroom graphic (see below)
Dean Scholz continued with the Cob Village render updates (see below)
Dan Alleck completed his 23rd week working on the Compressed Earth Block Village render additions (see below)

RESTORING LOCAL-LEVEL DECISION MAKING: DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER: @8:52

Core team working with David Olivero created overview graphic of HVAC Designs for the Duplicable City Center (see below)
Core team working with Dipti Dhondarkar continued developing the lighting specifics for the City Center (see below)
Haoxuan “Hayes” Lei continued work on the City Center structural engineering
Anvita Kumari Pandey completed her 16th week helping with the Duplicable City Center Materials and Costs (see below)
Dehua Feng completed his 14th week working on the fire suppression and safety systems designs for the Duplicable City Center Sprinkler and Emergency Systems open source hub (see below)

RESTORING LOCAL-LEVEL DECISION MAKING: HIGHEST GOOD FOOD: @10:31

Continued writing the behind-the-scenes narrative and detailed food rollout plan for the various stages of development (see below)

RESTORING LOCAL-LEVEL DECISION MAKING: HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION: @11:14

Continued and finished work on the Objective Data and Analysis page (see below)

RESTORING LOCAL-LEVEL DECISION MAKING: HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY: @11:47

RESTORING LOCAL-LEVEL DECISION MAKING SUMMARY: @12:06

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RESTORING LOCAL-LEVEL DECISION MAKING: HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

One Community is restoring local level decision making 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 continued testing the open source Murphy bed furniture assembly instructions for the back changing and storage area. We do this by building it in Sketchup 3D and noting mistakes as we go. You can see some of this work-in-progress here.

Murphy Bed Furniture, Restoring Local-level Decision Making, One Community Weekly Progress Update #280

Continued Testing Murphy Bed Furniture Assembly Instructions for Back Changing and Storage Area

The core team working with Michael Hagler (Senior Graphic Designer and Artist) also completed another 6 pages for the 7-villages book we’re developing, you can see these finished pages here.

7-villages book, Restoring Local-level Decision Making, One Community Weekly Progress Update #280

Restoring Local-level Decision Making – Completed 6 Pages for the 7-Villages Book we’re Developing

We also gave another round of feedback, added the 4 of Michael’s images that were complete to the site, and added other finished images to the site too. This included updates to the Earthbag Village (Pod 1), Cob Village (Pod 3), Compressed Earth Block Village (Pod 4), and Tree House Village (Pod 7) webpages. You can see some of this work here.

Highest Good Housing, Restoring Local-level Decision Making, One Community Weekly Progress Update #280

Restoring Local-level Decision Making – Gave Feedback and Added Images to the Site

The core team additionally created and added to the Tree House Village (Pod 7) open source hub this Residential Open Floor Plan graphic.

Tree House Village, Residential Open Floor Plan, Restoring Local-level Decision Making, One Community Weekly Progress Update #280

Restoring Local-level Decision Making – Residential Open Floor Plan Graphic & Added to Tree House

Hemanth Kotaru (Structural Engineer) completed his 18th week helping with the structural engineering research and calculations for the Earthbag Village (Pod 1). This week’s focus was more nail embedment calculations and research on the engineering details of the earth and cement mixture used to fill the bags.

Earthbag Village, Restoring Local-level Decision Making, One Community Weekly Progress Update #280

Continued Helping with Structural Engineering Research and Calculations for Earthbag Village

Mike Kowalski (Game Developer) finished his 14th week helping update our renders that are too big for anything but a gaming computer. This week Mike continued working on the Earthbag Village (Pod 1) and created the 4 updated renders you see here.

Restoring Local-level Decision Making – Created 4 Updated Earthbag Village Renders – Click for Page

One of these renders was then used by the core team to create this Vermiculture Bathroom graphic, which is now also on the website.

Vermiculture Bathroom, Restoring Local-level Decision Making, One Community Weekly Progress Update #280

Restoring Local-level Decision Making – Created Vermiculture Bathroom Graphic and Added to Site

Dean Scholz (Architectural Designer) continued with the Cob Village (Pod 3) render updates also. Here is update 125 of Dean’s work that produced this final view of the Dining Area looking South. Due to the complexity and number of light sources, this image took his computer over 12 days to render.

Cob- Village, Central Dining, Restoring Local-level Decision Making, One Community Weekly Progress Update #280

Restoring Local-level Decision Making – Cob Village Central Dining and Stage Area Render

Dan Alleck (Designer and Illustrator) completed his 23rd week working on the Compressed Earth Block Village render additions. This week he finished this render of one of the living units, which you can now see updated on the site also.

Compressed Earth Block Village, Restoring Local-level Decision Making, One Community Weekly Progress Update #280

Restoring Local-level Decision Making – Compressed Earth Block Village Render Additions

RESTORING LOCAL-LEVEL DECISION MAKING: DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

One Community is restoring local level decision making 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 David Olivero (Mechanical Engineer & Data Scientist) created this overview graphic of the HVAC Designs for the Duplicable City Center. This is for the 7-villages book we’re developing.

Duplicable City Center, HVAC, Restoring Local-level Decision Making, One Community Weekly Progress Update #280

Created Overview Graphic of HVAC Designs for the Duplicable City Center – Click for Page

The core team working with Dipti Dhondarkar (Electrical Engineer) also continued developing the lighting specifics for the City Center. This is Dipti’s 88th week volunteering on this task and the focus this week was initial lighting tests for the Living Dome sunrise patio, cupola and surrounding patio, and mezzanine level.

lighting specifics for the City Center, Restoring Local-level Decision Making, One Community Weekly Progress Update #280

Continued Developing the Lighting Specifics for the City Center – Click to Visit

Haoxuan “Hayes” Lei (Structural Engineer) continued work on the City Center structural engineering. This week’s focus was finishing the spreadsheet for wind load calculations on the cupola roof. You can see some of this work here.

City Center structural engineering, Restoring Local-level Decision Making, One Community Weekly Progress Update #280

Restoring Local-level Decision Making – Continued Work on the City Center Structural Engineering

Anvita Kumari Pandey (Civil Engineer) completed her 16th week helping with the Duplicable City Center Materials and Costs. This week’s focus was cost analysis for the basement retaining wall, footers, foundation, Civil and interior work, and plumbing. You can see some of this work here.

Duplicable City Center Materials and Costs, Restoring Local-level Decision Making, One Community Weekly Progress Update #280

Restoring Local-level Decision Making – Working on Duplicable City Center Materials and Costs

Last but not least, Dehua Feng (Civil Engineer) completed his 14th week working on the fire suppression and safety systems designs for the Duplicable City Center Sprinkler and Emergency Systems open source hub. This week he continued updating the piping details in AutoCAD, checked the sprinkler pressures in zones H, K and L, caught an error in the calculations, and redid and updated them for all zones.

Restoring Local-level Decision Making - fire suppression and safety systems designs, Duplicable City Center Sprinkler and Emergency Systems

Restoring Local-level Decision Making – Fire Suppression & Safety Systems Design for the City Center

RESTORING LOCAL-LEVEL DECISION MAKING: HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

One Community is restoring local level decision making 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 writing the behind-the-scenes narrative and detailed food rollout plan for the various stages of development. This week we researched and added latin names Wikipedia links for the food plants that we’ll initially be growing. This included researching and excluding plants that were not appropriate for zone 5 in our outdoor gardens. Additionally, we completed some of the summaries for worm videos on pages 8 & 9 of the food rollout doc. You can see some of this work here.

Highest Good Food, Restoring Local-level Decision Making, One Community Weekly Progress Update #280

Restoring Local-level Decision Making – Behind-the-Scenes Narrative and Detailed Food Rollout Plan

RESTORING LOCAL-LEVEL DECISION MAKING: HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

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

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

This week, the core team continued and finished work on the Objective Data and Analysis page. This included writing the rest of the content, creating the graphics, and finalizing the formatting. You can see some of this newly complete page here.

Objective Data and Analysis, Restoring Local-level Decision Making, One Community Weekly Progress Update #280

Finished Work on the Objective Data and Analysis Page – Click to Visit

RESTORING LOCAL-LEVEL DECISION MAKING: HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS

One Community is restoring local level decision making 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

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

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

INVESTOR PAGES

OVERVIEW ● LOCATION ● FUNDING

GET INVOLVED

WHAT ONE COMMUNITY IS CREATING

One Community is creating a place to grow together and change the world together, with a focus on restoring local-level decision making. 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 of 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.

RESTORING LOCAL-LEVEL DECISION MAKING: 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, restoring local-level decision making, and evolving and expanding ALL aspects of sustainable living.

WHY ONE COMMUNITY IS CREATING THIS

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

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

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

INSPIRING SUSTAINABILITY WITH OPEN SOURCE

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

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

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

COMPREHENSIVE SOLUTION TO HUMANITY’S NEEDS

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

As we address and open source share these areas we will establish a living example of the first teacher/demonstration village purposed to teach others. To maximally facilitate duplication, One Community will provide seven duplicable examples and function indefinitely as a place people can visit and a non-profit and open source think tank continuing to further evolve and share solutions in all of the above areas and more, while also restoring local-level decision making. We will also provide hands-on experience and training. Most importantly, growing upon our sustainable foundation, we will endlessly make this comprehensive solution even more widely known and globally accessible, understandable and diversely duplicable, and inspiring and desirable as a model worth duplicating.

GLOBALLY IMPLEMENTABLE REPLICATION MODEL

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

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

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

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

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

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

Sustainable Diversity – One Community Weekly Progress Update #279

Posted on July 29, 2018 by One Community

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Sustainable diversity means diversity that is sufficient to meet the different needs and values of people around the world. We think the best way to achieve this is through open source and free-shared sustainability models that cover both universal needs (food, energy, housing) and emotional needs (education, for-profit and non-profit economic design, social architecture, fulfilled living, global stewardship practices, etc.). Creating these with the goal to do what is best for The Highest Good of All, our intent is global sustainability.

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 sustainable diversity movement as the first of many self-replicating teacher/demonstration communities, villages, and cities to be built around the world. This is the July 29, 2018 edition (#279) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments:

Sustainable Diversity
One Community Progress Update #279

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

SUSTAINABLE DIVERSITY INTRO: @0:34

SUSTAINABLE DIVERSITY – HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING: @7:42

Began testing the open source Murphy bed furniture assembly instructions for the back changing and storage area (see below)
Working with Michael Hagler, the core team completed another 6 pages for the 7-villages book we’re developing (see below)
Updated the formatting and added them all to the Earthbag Village (Pod 1), Tropical Atrium, and Duplicable City Center webpages (see below)
Shadi Kennedy completed his 17th week leading the development of the Murphy bed instructions (see below)
Mike Kowalski continued working on the Earthbag Village and created updated renders (see below)
Dean Scholz continued with the Cob Village render updates (see below)
Mihaela “Michelle” Pinzaru completed her 20th week working on the Tree House Village residential renders (see below)

SUSTAINABLE DIVERSITY – DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER: @9:41

Continued rebuilding and testing the City Center geodesic dome parts in 3D (see below)
Core team working with Dipti Dhondarkar continued developing the lighting specifics for the City Center (see below)
Added graphics to the website and redesigned the related sections of the Lighting Page (see below)
Haoxuan “Hayes” Lei continued work on the City Center structural engineering (see below)
Anvita Kumari Pandey completed her 15th week helping with the Duplicable City Center Materials and Costs (see below)
Dehua Feng completed his 13th week working on the fire suppression and safety systems designs for the Duplicable City Center Sprinkler and Emergency Systems open source hub (see below)

SUSTAINABLE DIVERSITY – HIGHEST GOOD FOOD: @11:39

Continued writing the behind-the-scenes narrative and detailed food rollout plan for the various stages of development (see below)

SUSTAINABLE DIVERSITY – HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION: @12:26

Began work on the Objective Data and Analysis page (see below)

SUSTAINABLE DIVERSITY – HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY: @12:59

Updated our Legal Documents and Processes page with new PDF downloads of all our Trademark documents, trademark infringement letter templates, and links to the actual trademark registration documentation (see below)

SUSTAINABLE DIVERSITY SUMMARY: @13:36

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HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

One Community is expanding sustainable diversity 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 testing the open source Murphy bed furniture assembly instructions for the back changing and storage area, contributing to sustainable diversity. We do this by building it in Sketchup 3D and noting mistakes as we go. You can see some of this work-in-progress here.

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Began Testing Murphy Bed Furniture Assembly Instructions for Back Changing and Storage Area

The core team working with Michael Hagler (Senior Graphic Designer and Artist) also completed another 6 pages for the 7-villages book we’re developing, you can see these finished pages here.

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Completed Another 6 Pages for the 7-Villages Book we’re Developing – Click for Housing Page

We also updated the formatting and added them all to the Earthbag Village (Pod 1), Tropical Atrium, and Duplicable City Center webpages. You can see some of this work here.

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Formatting the Earthbag Village, Tropical Atrium, and Duplicable City Center Webpages – Click to Visit

Shadi Kennedy (Artist and Graphic Designer) completed his 17th week leading the development of the Murphy bed instructions, in pursuit of sustainable diversity. This week Shadi added a diversity of objects to the 3D file and then created this initial mockup introduction image.

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Continued Leading the Development of the Murphy Bed Instructions – Click for Page

Mike Kowalski (Game Developer) finished his 13th week helping update our renders that are too big for anything but a gaming computer, dedicated to building sustainable diversity. This week Mike continued working on the Earthbag Village (Pod 1) and created the updated renders you see here. The first two need more work but the bottom one is complete and added to the site.

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Continued Working on the Earthbag Village Renders – Click to Visit

Dean Scholz (Architectural Designer) continued with the Cob Village (Pod 3) render updates also. Here is update 124 of Dean’s work continuing the lighting and texturing process for the dining area looking South.

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Continued Cob Village Render Updates – Click for Page

Mihaela “Michelle” Pinzaru (Interior Designer and Architectural Drafter) also completed her 20th week working on the Tree House Village (Pod 7) residential renders, contributing to building sustainable diversity. This week she finished these final renders showing the residential layouts with an open floor plan.

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Continued Working on Tree House Village Residential Renders – Click for Page

DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

One Community is expanding sustainable diversity 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 continued rebuilding and testing the City Center geodesic dome parts in 3D. This week’s focus was developing row 5 and fixing errors we found, which you can see here.

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Continued Rebuilding the City Center Geodesic Dome in 3D – Click for Page

The core team working with Dipti Dhondarkar (Electrical Engineer) also continued developing the lighting specifics for the City Center. This is Dipti’s 87th week volunteering on this task and the focus this week was finalizing this Social Dome multi-color light graphic:

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Finalized the Social Dome Multi-Color Light Graphic – Click for DCC Lighting Page

…and the Dining Dome kitchen lighting tests and graphic:

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Finalized City Center Dining Dome Kitchen Lighting Tests – Click for Lighting Page

The core team also added these graphics to the website and redesigned the related sections of the Lighting Page to better organize and describe them based on which dome they are in, as shown here.

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Added Graphics and Redesigned Related Sections of Lighting Page – Click to Visit

Haoxuan “Hayes” Lei (Structural Engineer) continued work on the City Center structural engineering. This week’s focus was more discussing and updating the spreadsheet tabs for snow calculation and beam design and further developing the spreadsheet for wind load calculation on cupola roof. You can see some of this work here.

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Continued Working on the City Center Structural Engineering – Click for Page

Anvita Kumari Pandey (Civil Engineer) completed her 15th week helping with the Duplicable City Center Materials and Costs. This week’s focus was material selection for the dome structure, doors & windows, swimming pool, spa and natural pond, and basement walls. You can see some of this work here.

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Continued Helping with the Duplicable City Center Materials and Costs – Click for Page

Last but not least, Dehua Feng (Civil Engineer) completed his 13th week working on the fire suppression and safety systems designs for the Duplicable City Center Sprinkler and Emergency Systems open source hub. This week he continued fixing details in the autoCAD layout, redid the cupola piping, and double checked and updated the pressure calculations for zones A, B, C, D, and F.

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Continued Work on Fire Suppression and Safety Systems Design for the City Center – Click for Page

HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

One Community is expanding sustainable diversity 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 writing the behind-the-scenes narrative and detailed food rollout plan for the various stages of development. This week we identified the plant names by their latin names using Wikipedia and provided a link to Wikipedia to directly reference and view them. We also removed about 17 pages of herb photos and summaries and placed common names, latin names, and wiki links on page 22-23 of the food rollout doc. You can see some of this work here.

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Continued Writing the Behind-the-Scenes Narrative and Detailed Food Rollout Plan – Click for Page

HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

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

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

This week, the core team began work on the Objective Data and Analysis page. We redid the formatting and overall outline, updated the initial graphics, and rewrote the What and Why sections. We would say this brings the page to about 30% complete.

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Began work on the Objective Data and Analysis Page – Click to Visit

HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS

One Community is expanding sustainable diversity 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 updated our Legal Documents and Processes page with new PDF downloads of all our Trademark documents, trademark infringement letter templates, and links to the actual trademark registration documentation. You can see some examples of all of this here.

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Updated our Legal Documents and Processes Page with New PDF Downloads – Click for Page

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