We think practical sustainability means sustainability that creates a better world for all people and life that share it. We think it should also contribute to happier and healthier people living within these environments. A living model like this will spread on its own if demonstrated to be easy enough, affordable enough, and attractive enough. One Community calls living models like this living for “The Highest Good of All” and we’re designing, open sourcing and free sharing everything needed to construct and replicate them.

• 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

WHAT ONE COMMUNITY IS CREATING

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

Our goal is to demonstrate what we feel is the most sustainable, healthy, and fun environment we can create. A place based on compassion, kindness, and collaboration. This replicable community will serve as an example of practical sustainability and showcase 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 that supports practical sustainability. 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 that supports practical sustainability. Villages include designs appropriate for each of the five main types of climates. They also include options for even the most challenged economies. These hubs will collaborate with one another, share ideas, resources, and work together as a network to heal the planet. They will also transform the global lifestyle to a more enjoyable, fulfilling, healthy, and sustainable one.

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

Even if we don’t achieve our ultimate goal of global transformation, a self-replicating teacher/demonstration model like this will contribute to practical sustainability, positively affecting 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.

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 February 23rd, 2020 edition (#361) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments, supporting practical sustainability:

Practical Sustainability
One Community Progress Update #361

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PRACTICAL SUSTAINABILITY – HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

One Community is demonstrating practical 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 with what we hope will be the 2nd-to-final review of the Murphy bed instructions. This week’s focus was updating the position of the light openings so they don’t conflict with the roof beams, combining the dome, furniture, and electrical to do renders, finding and adding a kneeling worker person, updating the Green electrical circuit to match dome structure, and starting to update the Blue circuit to match the Dome and Murphy Bed structure. You can see some of this work in progress below.

Practical Sustainability ” Click for Page

The core team also created the initial formatting, table of contents, and social media and header imagery for the Best Small and Large-scale Recycling, Reuse, and Repurposing Options open source hub. You can see this below.

Practical Sustainability – Initial Formatting, Table of Contents, and Social Media and Header Imagery

Oluyomi “Yomi” Sanyaolu (Technical Writer and Researcher) completing his 18th week with the team and continued research for the Best Small and Large-scale Recycling, Reuse, and Repurposing Options tutorial. This week Oluyomi worked on the paper and styrofoam recycling methodologies. His research indicated that used paper can be re-used in multiple ways that include compost and packaging; the benefits of recycling/re-using include reduced energy and water usage.

The recycling process summarized is washing the shredded waste paper with warm water and then filtering it with a handmade mesh; the final step is to dry it on a towel for a day and the whole process should cost less than $100. For styrofoam, there is a supplier of a styrofoam shredder and size separators which will cost $6,000 and $1,500 respectively. The styrofoam is shredded into pellet-shaped parts and can be used for insulation and cement mixing. See below for some of this behind-the-scenes work in progress.

Practical Sustainability – Best Small and Large-scale Recycling, Reuse, and Repurposing Options

PRACTICAL SUSTAINABILITY – DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

One Community is demonstrating practical 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

This week Radhieka Nagpal (Volunteer Researcher) completed her 2nd week researching the Most Sustainable Building Materials: Carpet, Flooring, Wood, Etc. This week Radhieka continued research and formalized information about the 4 most sustainable flooring companies she has found. She also began an outline on some of the types of sustainable flooring options available with key features and merits about each option. You can see some of this work-in-progress below.

Practical Sustainability – Researching the Most Sustainable Building Materials

PRACTICAL SUSTAINABILITY – HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

One Community is demonstrating practical 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 working on our behind-the-scenes chicken Google Doc. This week we researched and wrote content for the “Chickens and Permaculture” section. This included details for chicken tractors. You can see some of this work here.

Researched and Wrote Content for the “Chickens and Permaculture” Section – Click for Chickens Page

This week Mohammad Almuzaial (Civil and Construction Engineer) continued with his 13th week helping with the Aquapini/Walipini civil engineering details. This week he updated the water storage calculation spreadsheet to include a multiple-design-options calculation table for the on-site supply pond, calculation table for any additional cylindrical pond, an existing pond expansion requirement calculation table, and a general calculation spreadsheet for cylindrical shape water storage.

He also resized the supply pond to 50′ diameter and 9′ deep with 15,904 CF storage capacity, remodeled the topography 3D model and added multiple map layers to identify damming possibilities for 53,000 Sf, projected natural water sources on the 3D topography model, and calculated the potential expansion for the existing pond. You can see some of this work work-in-progress here and we’d say this brings this part of this component to 90% complete.

Practical Sustainability ” Click to Visit Page

Ali Ghahremannezhad (Mechanical Engineer) additionally continued with his 12th week as a member of the team and working on the climate batteries for the Aquapini/Walipini structures. This week Ali continued working on a 2D transient simulation of the aquapini and walipinis to account for the daily air temperature and solar heat variations for a greenhouse in West Jordan ” Utah. Results for the April and October are added using the underground insulation and the extended ground geometry. Also, Ali worked on the climate battery model considering the underground insulation and current boundary conditions. You can see some of this behind-the-scenes work here.

Practical Sustainability ” Click for Page

PRACTICAL SUSTAINABILITY – HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

One Community is demonstrating practical 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. This component of One Community is about 95% complete with only the Open Source School Licensing and Ultimate Classroom construction and assembly details remaining to be finished. With over 8 years of work invested in the process, the sections below are all complete until we move onto the property and continue the development and open sourcing process with teachers and students – a development process that is built directly into the structure of the education program and everything else we’re creating too:

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

This week the core team added audio and visual effects to the Ultimate Classroom video below and added it to the webpage.

Dan Alleck (Designer and Illustrator) completed his 65th week helping with render additions and finishing work for the rooms in the Ultimate Classroom. This week he continued with his revisions and additions to the red room representing health, mindfulness, and music. What you see here is his second round of revisions and additions that included adding people, more instruments, and various objects like the flooring, Swiss balls, etc.

Added People, More Instruments, and Various Objects to the Red Room – Click for Ultimate Classroom

Ziqian Zheng (Architectural Designer and Drafter) also completed his 15th week as a member of the team and working on the Ultimate Classroom. This week Ziqian created the AutoCAD sections, roof plan and floor plan for this structure. One more section is still needed and then the plans will be ready for an engineer to take over on them.

Created the AutoCAD Sections, Roof Plan and Floor Plan For Ultimate Classroom – Click for Page

PRACTICAL SUSTAINABILITY – HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS

One Community is demonstrating practical 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 the core team continued updating pages related to the One Community Pioneer Member Invitation page. This week we added an FAQ and updated the process overview page and progress page. You can see some of this below.

Added an FAQ and Updated the Process Overview Page and Progress Page – Click for Page

The core team also finished the Managing Stakeholders enclosure of our business plan. The business plan is linked to from our Executive Summary page and the Managing Stakeholders enclosure explains who will be responsible for interactions with and management of each of the stakeholders related to our project. You can see some of these new business plan details below.

Finished the Managing Stakeholders Enclosure of Our Business Plan – Click for Executive Summary

Yusuf Sulayman (Lawyer and member of the Nigerian Bar Association) helped us create our open source Joint Venture Agreement template. You can see some of this work below.

Helped Create Our Open Source Joint Venture Agreement Template – Click for Google Doc

Tengxiao Wang (Software Engineer) completed his 7th week working on the Highest Good Network software. This week Tengxiao continued to work on the Timelog Page. He extracted the time entry form and created a separate component. He also made it into a modal. He additionally created the TimeEntry component to display the time entry data. You can see some of the results of this work below and the visual design will be improved next week.

Practical Sustainability – Click for Highest Good Network Page

Siddharth Gore (Senior Software Engineer I) completed his 6th week as a member of the volunteer team also working on the Highest Good Network software. This week Siddharth worked on the View Project Members Functionality. Now a user can tap on a project and view a list of project members. A user can also tap on a project member to see their profile. Siddharth also added the Logout functionality and button on all the pages. He additionally updated the project dependencies to use the new react navigation APIs. You can see some of this work here.

Practical Sustainability – View Project Members Functionality – Click for Highest Good Network Page

And last but not least, Simon Xiong (Programmer)  completed his 3rd week working on the Highest Good Network software. This week Simon worked on unit testing of the log-in functionality for the application. Since unit testing is done on a single component in isolation, it was determined that Login.jsx will be the component for unit testing with test cases with email, password and submit. There was a bug which was causing syntax issues with jsx files. It was determined that the Language mode in VSCode needed to be configured to JavaScript React and not Javascript(Babel) to fix this problem. You can see Simon’s updates to the HGN Unit Testing Best Practice tutorial below.

Practical Sustainability – Unit Testing of Log-in Functionality for the Application – Click for Page

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Biohacking our future is possible with open source sustainability components. We can create a sustainable world, a world that meets the needs of all people and life. One Community is doing our part to support this with open source and free-shared tools, tutorials, and DIY sustainability resources covering food, energy, housing, education, for-profit and non-profit economic design, social architecture, fulfilled living, global stewardship practices, and more.

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

WHAT ONE COMMUNITY IS CREATING

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

Our goal is to demonstrate what we feel is the most sustainable, healthy, and fun environment we can create. A place based on compassion, kindness, and collaboration. This replicable community will serve as an example of how biohacking our future occurs and showcase 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 that supports biohacking our future. 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 that supports biohacking our future. Villages include designs appropriate for each of the five main types of climates. They also include options for even the most challenged economies. These hubs will collaborate with one another, share ideas, resources, and work together as a network to heal the planet. They will also transform the global lifestyle to a more enjoyable, fulfilling, healthy, and sustainable one.

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

Even if we don’t achieve our ultimate goal of global transformation, a self-replicating teacher/demonstration model like this will contribute to biohacking our future, positively affecting 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.

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 February 16th, 2020 edition (#360) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments, biohacking our future:

Biohacking Our Future
One Community Progress Update #360

DONATE | COLLABORATE | HELP WITH LARGE-SCALE FUNDING

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

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BIOHACKING OUR FUTURE – HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

One Community is biohacking our future 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 with what we hope will be the 2nd-to-final review of the Murphy bed instructions. This week’s focus was redesigning the bed box to make it fit better with the swivel, and review and updates to the outlet switches, and related wall parts. You can see some of this work in progress below.

Biohacking our future

Oluyomi “Yomi” Sanyaolu (Technical Writer and Researcher) completing his 17th week with the team began working on the Best Small and Large-scale Recycling, Reuse, and Repurposing Options tutorial. This week Oluyomi researched methods on recycling glass and came across 2 processes: melting the glass onto a mold using a kiln and pulverizing the glass using a glass crushing machine. Both processes will cost roughly the same amount of money however the pulverizing method is less complex and the produced glass has much more potential uses & the process has a smaller carbon footprint. See below for some of this behind-the-scenes work in progress.

Began Working on the Best Small and Large-scale Recycling, Reuse, and Repurposing Options Tutorial

Ziqian Zheng (Architectural Designer and Drafter), also joined the team working on the Earthbag Village and completed week 14 as a volunteer designer with our team. This week he started creating the video walkthrough of the Communal Eco-shower. You can see some of the initial screenshots of this work here.

Biohacking Our Future – Video Walkthrough of the Communal Eco-shower – Click for Page

BIOHACKING OUR FUTURE – DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

One Community is biohacking our future 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 Yuqiao Zhang (Architectural Designer/Drafter) continued work on the City Center Water Rainwater Catchment Design open source hub. This week we completed the sections on Rainwater Systems Design and Yuqiao updated some of the calculations so we can finish the Annual Water Harvesting Estimations section. You can see some of this work below and we’d say we’re about 80% complete with updating the site with all of the newest design details.

Biohacking Our Future – City Center Water Rainwater Catchment Design Open Source Hub

Radhieka Nagpal (Volunteer Researcher) also joined the team and completed her 1st week researching the Most Sustainable Building Materials: Carpet, Flooring, Wood, Etc. This week Radhieka started research on sustainable flooring. She researched and gathered resources on various types of sustainable flooring and wrote the introduction: ‘Why assess flooring’. Based on her research, she found 5 flooring companies which offer sustainable options and gathered informal notes covering the companies, key features, pros and cons. She finalized this information for one company and is working on structuring for the rest. You can see some of this work-in-progress below.

Biohacking Our Future – Researching the Most Sustainable Building Materials: Carpet, Flooring, Wood

BIOHACKING OUR FUTURE – HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

One Community is biohacking our future 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 Mohammad Almuzaial (Civil and Construction Engineer) continued with his 12th week helping with the Aquapini/Walipini civil engineering details. This week he located the potential ponds and water stream locations and identified coordinates, sited these on the new property topo, estimated the storage capacity for the potential storage pond, updated the water storage spreadsheet to include the existing water pond, and 3D modeled the whole property topography to scale utilizing satellite images, elevation maps, and GIS data to create accurate elevation contours. You can see some of this work work-in-progress here and we’d say this brings this part of this component to 88% complete.

Biohacking Our Future – Aquapini/Walipini Civil Engineering Details ” Click to Visit

Ali Ghahremannezhad (Mechanical Engineer) additionally continued with his 11th week as a member of the team and working on the climate batteries for the Aquapini/Walipini structures. This week Ali worked on a 2D transient simulation of the aquapini and walipinis to account for the daily air temperature and solar heat variations for a greenhouse in West Jordan Utah. The effect of insulation to create an effective thermal mass for the soil under the farm was investigated. Results for January (coldest month of the year) and July (hottest month of the year) were created using the underground insulation and the extended ground geometry. You can see some of this behind-the-scenes work here.

Biohacking Our Future – Climate Batteries for the Aquapini/walipini Structures ” Click for Page

BIOHACKING OUR FUTURE – HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

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

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

Ziqian Zheng (Architectural Designer and Drafter), also as part of week 14 as a member of the team, completed development of the Ultimate Classroom walkthrough video by adding a few more outdoor elements and additional objects to the entryways. You can see some screenshots below of these new additions and this brings this video to 99% complete. All the remains now is for the Core Team to edit it, add music, and add it to the website.

Biohacking Our Future – Completed Development of the Ultimate Classroom Walkthrough Video

BIOHACKING OUR FUTURE – HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS

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

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

This week the core team created the David Holmgren Quotes webpage. This page shares several pages of quotes we extracted from one of his video interviews and several others found on other quote websites.

Biohacking Our Future – Created the David Holmgren Quotes Webpage – Click to Visit

The core team also redesigned the One Community Pioneer Member Invitation page based on feedback we got from an applicant. Changes include a clearer introduction and transferring the application part of it to a new Google Doc format. You can see some of this below.

Biohacking Our Future – Redesigned the One Community Pioneer Member Invitation Page

Tengxiao Wang (Software Engineer) completed his 6th week working on the Highest Good Network software. This week Tengxiao started to work on the Timelog Page. The Timelog page of the React version was almost empty. He first tested the time entry APIs and created some Redux actions and reducers for fetching and submitting time entry data. He also created a form for submitting the time entry, which will be changed to a modal working with the timer in the future. You can see some of the results of this work below.

Biohacking Our Future – Timelog Page of the Highest Good Network Software – Click for Page

Henry Ng (React Developer) also completed his 6th week with the team and working on the Highest Good Network software. This week Henry worked on the member page that lists all the members of a project. In the project, the administrator can now assign and remove members, search for a member by first name or last name, and click to view the member profile. You can see screenshots related to this work below.

Biohacking Our Future – Member Page That Lists All the Members of a Project – Click for Page

Siddharth Gore (Senior Software Engineer I) completed his 5th week as a member of the volunteer team also working on the Highest Good Network software. This week Siddharth worked on the Leaderboard page for the react app and on Add Project and Delete Project feature on the mobile app. He also studied the documentation for the react-navigation library’s new APIs. You can see some of this work here.

Biohacking Our Future – Leaderboard Page for the React App ” Click for Highest Good Network Page

And last but not least, Simon Xiong (Programmer) completed his 2nd week working on the Highest Good Network software. This week Simon researched how to use Enzyme with Jest for unit testing. Both of these testing framework and library go well with one another because they are specifically designed to test React components. More specifically, components can be isolated for unit testing. Updates to the HGN Unit Testing Best Practice file includes defining Enzyme and providing a tutorial (along with live test link) for testing a component with Jest and Enzyme. You can see some of this work below.

Biohacking Our Future – Research: How to Use Enzyme With Jest for Unit Testing ” Click for Page

WHY OPEN SOURCE

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

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

SUMMARY – BIOHACKING OUR FUTURE

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

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GET INVOLVED

DONATE | WAYS ANYONE CAN HELP | MEMBERSHIP

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Ecologically addressing housing is a necessary step to achieving global sustainability. So many solutions for this already exist. If we can make them easy enough, affordable enough, and demonstrate them as attractive enough, these solutions will spread on their own and get closer and close to becoming the new normal. Open sourcing and free sharing sustainable, DIY-replicable, teacher/demonstration hubs build with the various methodologies is how One Community is contributing towards the mission of ecologically addressing housing.

• 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 February 9th, 2020 edition (#359) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments towards ecologically addressing housing:

Ecologically Addressing Housing
One Community Progress Update #359

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HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

One Community is ecologically addressing housing 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 with what we hope will be the 2nd-to-final review of the Murphy bed instructions. This week’s focus was a detailed review and identifying errors and suggesting fixes for the bed, swivel, and overhead lighting components. You can see some of this work in progress below for ecologically addressing housing.

Continued Reviewing the Murphy Bed Instructions ” Click for Furniture Page

The core team working with Oluyomi “Yomi” Sanyaolu (Technical Writer and Researcher) (completing his 16th week with the team) worked together this week to finish review and edits to the Wind Energy Setup and Maintenance and Hydro Energy Setup and Maintenance tutorials. Oluyomi also made adjustments to the wind and hydropower cost analysis component. The budget for batteries used in the wind system was initially $153 however, after further research, $300 ” $1,000 is needed dependent on whether it is a small or large-sized wind turbine. Minor alterations to the calculations for cost per kW for the hydro power cost analysis made the results more consistent.

Finished Review and Edits to Wind Energy and Hydro Energy Setup and Maintenance Tutorials – Click for Wind Page

Dean Scholz (Architectural Designer) also continued helping with the Earthbag Village (Pod 1) 4-dome cluster designs. This week was week #179 of Dean’s work and the focus this week was lowering the rest of the walls to match the lowered window for the seating area. You can see pictures of these updates below demonstrating contributions towards the mission of ecologically addressing housing.

Focused on Lowering the Rest of the Walls to Match the Lowered Window for the Seating Area – Click for Earthbag Village

DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

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

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

This week Ron Huang (Mechanical Engineer) continued with his 39th week developing and refining the Energy Modeling tutorial needed to achieve our LEED Platinum certification. This week Ron continued balancing the heating and cooling to meet ASHRAE criteria with the updated occupancy details. You can see some of this work here towards ecologically addressing housing and we’d say we’re now about 94% complete with the City Center energy analysis component.

Continued Balancing the Heating and Cooling to Meet ASHRAE Criteria – Click for Duplicable City Center Heating and Cooling Page

HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

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

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

This week the core team continued working on our behind-the-scenes chicken Google Doc. This week we researched Leghorn chickens and decided against them. Then we researched Plymouth Rock Chickens, ones we’ll be going with because they are another good dual purpose hen, friendly, healthy, and cold hardy. We also edited and added more details to the Why Chickens, Chicken Raising Details, and Other Chicken Needs sections. You can see some of this work here towards ecologically addressing housing.

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

And the core team continued developing the open source permaculture design content. This week’s focus was continued development of Step 2 of the Permaculture Case Study section, “Assess Site Through Observation And Research.” This week’s focus was finishing the base map and writing more content for the and food sections. You can see some of this behind-the-scenes work here towards ecologically addressing housing.

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

Mohammad Almuzaial (Civil and Construction Engineer) also continued with his 11th week helping with the Aquapini/Walipini civil engineering details. This week he changed the pond location to the north west side, added floor drains to the structures, added all the structure planted areas in the water consumption calculations, calculated harvested rainwater and required catchment land, added the cool-air inlet to the rest of the structures, and created the first draft of the rainwater harvesting calculations spreadsheet. You can see some of this work-in-progress here towards ecologically addressing housing and we’d say this brings this part of this component to 86% complete.

Continued Helping With the Aquapini/Walipini Civil Engineering Details ” Click to Visit

Ali Ghahremannezhad (Mechanical Engineer) additionally continued with his 10th week as a member of the team and working on the climate batteries for the Aquapini/Walipini structures. This week Ali worked on boundary condition evaluation through a 2D transient simulation for aquapini and walipinis. All design parameters were changed to be based on a site location in West Jordan, Utah – a place with the closest climate conditions we could find to our proposed location.

The variations of the outside temperature was evaluated throughout the year, in January, and for a day in January. Effects of wind speed variations was also added to account for the convection heat transfer coefficient caused by the outside wind speed. The transient simulation results were then explored. You can see some of this behind-the-scenes work here for ecologically addressing housing.

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

HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

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

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

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

This week Dan Alleck (Designer and Illustrator) completed his 65th week helping with render additions and finishing work for the rooms in the Ultimate Classroom. This week he continued with his revisions and additions to the red room representing health, mindfulness, and music. What you see here is his second round of revisions and additions that included adding people, more instruments, and various objects like the flooring, swiss balls, etc.

Continued Revisions and Additions to the Red Room Representing Health, Mindfulness, and Music – Click for Ultimate Classroom

Ziqian Zheng (Architectural Designer and Drafter) also continued with week 13 as a member of the team. This week Ziqian continued his development of the Ultimate Classroom by revising the walkthrough video with more people and adding and removing various objects. You can see some of this work here and we’d say this component is now about 98% complete.

Continued Development of the Ultimate Classroom by Revising the Walkthrough Video – Click for Page

HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS

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

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

This week the core team completed a thorough review of the David Holmgren video below. David Holmgren is one of the co-creators of Permaculture. We reviewed the video below to extract various quotes we may choose to use throughout the website. We’re also going to create a David Holmgren Quotes webpage with this content so others who may be interested can access and use it too.

Created a Webpage for the David Holmgren Quotes We Extracted from the Video – Click to Visit

Tengxiao Wang (Software Engineer) completed his 5th week working on the Highest Good Network software. This week Tengxiao continued to work on the Timer component. He fixed some layout issues to make the component cleaner and nicer. He also did some research on the MongoDB schema design and started to design RESTful APIs for handling timer requests. You can see some of the results of this work below for ecologically addressing housing.

Continued Working on the Highest Good Network Timer Component – Click for Page

Henry Ng (React Developer) also completed his 5th week with the team and working on the Highest Good Network software. This week Henry successfully fixed a bug in CircleCI so the other developers can test the app on the web, he also updated all the workflows of the projects management page. Now users can add a new project, change project’s names, change project’s active status and delete projects. You can see screenshots related to this work below towards ecologically addressing housing.

Fixed a Bug in CircleCI So the Other Developers Can Test the App on the Web ” Click for Highest Good Network Page

Siddharth Gore (Senior Software Engineer I) completed his 4th week as a member of the volunteer team also working on the Highest Good Network software. This week Siddharth continued working on the Mobile app for android and ios. He got the Login, Projects, My Profile, LeaderBoard screen and user profile functionality done and tested the app on iphone, ipad and nexus5 phones. You can see some of this work here for ecologically addressing housing.

Continued Working on the Mobile App for Android and Ios ” Click for Highest Good Network Software Page

And last but not least, Simon Xiong (Programmer) joined the team and completed his first week working on the Highest Good Network software also. This week Simon researched Unit Testing to determine what could be implemented as a best practice for the HGN application. Unit Testing is just one of the many testing methodologies (Integration, End to End, etc) available for testing software applications. As it relates to our application and for the sake of simplicity we are going to be using Jest with Enzyme. This week Simon completed and included a summary of Unit Testing, Jest, and a Jest Example. You can see some of this work below towards ecologically addressing housing.

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

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ECOLOGICALLY ADDRESSING HOUSING – 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 and by ecologically addressing housing.

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

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

BUILDING THE FIRST OF MANY

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

ECOLOGICALLY ADDRESSING HOUSING – WHY ONE COMMUNITY IS CREATING THIS

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

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

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

ECOLOGICALLY ADDRESSING HOUSING – WHY OPEN SOURCE

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

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

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

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

ECOLOGICALLY ADDRESSING HOUSING – SUMMARY

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

One Community is open sourcing and free sharing everything necessary for improving life on our planet through sustainable living. We are covering food, energy, housing, education, RBE, for-profit, and non-profit economic design, social architecture, fulfilled living, global stewardship practices, and more. Combined, we call the lifestyle these will provide 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 February 2nd, 2020 edition (#358) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments for improving life on our planet:

Improving Life on Our Planet
One Community Progress Update #358

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HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

One Community is improving life on our planet through Highest Good housing that is artistic and beautiful, more affordable, more space efficient, lasts longer, DIY buildable, and constructed with healthy and sustainable materials:

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

This week the core team continued with what we hope will be the 2nd-to-final review of the Murphy bed instructions. This week’s focus was a detailed review and identifying errors and suggesting fixes for the base and wall components. You can see some of this work in progress below for improving life on our planet.

Continued Reviewing the Murphy Bed Instructions – Click for Furniture Page

The core team also finished the open source “Wind Energy Infrastructure Cost Analysis” section on the Wind Energy Setup and Maintenance page. You can see the final content here focusing on improving life on our planet.

Finished the Open Source “Wind Energy Infrastructure Cost Analysis” Section – Click for Wind Energy Setup and Maintenance Page

Oluyomi “Yomi” Sanyaolu (Technical Writer and Researcher) also completed his 15th week with the team. This week he investigated whether a trompe and ram pump could work together as one system. The research indicated it wouldn’t be worth it due to low efficiency and lots of water being wasted by the ram pump. Other sections of the project that were completed this week were sorting the references in numerical order, ram pump uses, pros vs cons of a ram pump, and the FAQs and summary of the entire project.

You can see some of this work here and we’d say this brings the trompe and ram pump research to about 99% complete, all that remains is answering a few questions generated during the core team’s review and then we’ll have what we need to add it all to the online open source Hydro Energy Setup and Maintenance tutorial.

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

Dean Scholz (Architectural Designer) also continued helping with the Earthbag Village (Pod 1) 4-dome cluster designs. This week was week #178 of Dean’s work and the focus this week was finishing the rest of the work lowering the window for the seating area, a process that required trying a couple different approaches to be successful.

Focused on Finishing the Rest of the Work Lowering the Window for the Seating Area – Click for Earthbag Village

And Shadi Kennedy (Artist and Graphic Designer) also completed his 78th week developing the Murphy bed instructions. This week he focused on creating a document and file organization and naming structure for the creation and addition of all high-quality renders we’ll need to finish the instructions. We’d say this brings these assembly instructions to about 94% complete.

Continued Developing the Murphy Bed Instructions – Click for Furniture Page

DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

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

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

This week Ron Huang (Mechanical Engineer) continued with his 38th week developing and refining the Energy Modeling tutorial needed to achieve our LEED Platinum certification. This week Ron worked on balancing the heating and cooling loads to meet additional occupancy for the proposed model. You can see some of this work here for improving life on our planet and we’d say we’re now about 93% complete with the City Center energy analysis component.

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

Gevork Asatryan (Electrical MEP Engineer) also completed his second week helping with the Basis of Design (BOD) we’ll be using to create the final Duplicable City Center electrical designs. This week Gevork completed the initial draft of this. To develop it further, we’ll need to finish the HVAC and plumbing designs.

Continued Helping With the Basis of Design (BOD) We’ll Be Using to Create the Final Duplicable City Center Electrical Designs – Click for Page

HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

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

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

This week the core team continued working on our behind-the-scenes chicken Google Doc. We summarized and organized the Shelter and Which Chickens section and reviewed and rejected Leghorn chickens as a breed. You can see some of this work here for improving life on our planet.

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

And the core team continued developing the open source permaculture design content. This week’s focus was further development of Step 2 of the Permaculture Case Study section, “Assess Site Through Observation And Research.” This week’s focus was further developing the food and energy sections, adding water details, and adding in a chart for evaluating how we are applying the ethics and principles of permaculture to each component. You can see some of this behind-the-scenes work here for improving life on our planet.

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

Mohammad Almuzaial (Civil and Construction Engineer) also continued with his 11th week helping with the Aquapini/Walipini civil engineering details. This week he researched water pumps, worked out the initial water supply network and connected the supply/backup pond to the central pond with a 4″ PVC pipe, added steps to the seating area around the central pond, calculated the needed gallons of water based on the suggested consumption per day, and completed the initial pond storage capacity calculations. You can see some of this work-in-progress here for improving life on our planet and we’d say this brings this part of this component to 86% complete.

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

Ali Ghahremannezhad (Mechanical Engineer) additionally continued with his 9th week as a member of the team and working on the climate batteries for the Aquapini/Walipini structures. This week Ali worked on a 2D transient simulation of the aquapinis and walipinis to account for the daily air temperature and solar heat variations. The variations of the boundary conditions have been obtained. An initial steady state simulation was then performed to set as an initial condition and obtain faster and more accurate results. You can see some of this behind-the-scenes work here towards improving life on our planet.

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

HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

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

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

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

This week Ziqian Zheng (Architectural Designer and Drafter) continued with week 12 as a member of the team. This week Ziqian continued development of the Ultimate Classroom by revising the walkthrough video with added objects in the classrooms, changes to some of the people, and replacing some of the external objects and adding some new ones. You can see some of this work here towards improving life on our planet.

Continued Development of the Ultimate Classroom by Revising the Walkthrough Video – Click for Page

HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS

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

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

This week Deema Ali (Graphic/Video Designer) completed her 1oth week as a member of the team. This week she further developed the overview video for the One Community Homepage. This week’s focus was adjusting the multi-image composite sequences and layout scenes based on core team feedback. You can see some of this behind-the-scenes work here for improving life on our planet and we’d say we are now about 94% complete with this video.

Further Developed the Overview Video for the One Community Homepage – Click for Page

Tengxiao Wang (Software Engineer) completed his 4th week working on the Highest Good Network software. This week Tengxiao Tengxiao rewrote the UpdatePassword and ForcePasswordUpdate components to fix bugs and make them work with Redux. He also decided the implementation solution of the Timer component and finished the initial design for this basic timer component (still cannot log time). Hence, contributing towards the mission of improving life on our planet.

Rewrote the Updatepassword and Forcepasswordupdate Components to Fix Bugs and Make Them Work With Redux – Click for Highest Good Network Software Page

Henry Ng (React Developer) also completed his 4th week with the team and working on the Highest Good Network software. This week Henry fixed bugs which prevented administrators to add a new project into the database in HGNRest (Restfull API). He also developed the function to add a new project, and add rules which are not empty and must be unique. The recently added project now appears immediately after the user clicks the “+” button, so the user doesn’t need to refresh the page to see it. He also modified the Model component to display “Message” and “Confirm Popup” for other developers to use. You can see screenshots related to this work below focusing on improving life on our planet.

Fixed Bugs Which Prevented Administrators to Add a New Project Into the Database in HGNRest (Restfull API) – Click for Highest Good Network Page

And last but not least, Siddharth Gore (Senior Software Engineer I) completed his 3rd week as a member of the volunteer team also working on the Highest Good Network software. This week Siddharth worked on WBS 1.4.1 to 1.4.10. Now a volunteer can see his/her complete user profile and edit fields like first name, last name, phone number, job title, etc. A user can also add personal links and change his profile picture. Siddharth also worked on setting up the react native project for iOS and android. You can see some of this work here towards improving life on our planet.

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

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IMPROVING LIFE ON OUR PLANET – WHAT ONE COMMUNITY IS CREATING

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

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

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

BUILDING THE FIRST OF MANY

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

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

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

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

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

IMPROVING LIFE ON OUR PLANET – WHY OPEN SOURCE

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

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

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

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

IMPROVING LIFE ON OUR PLANET – SUMMARY

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

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

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

OUR MAIN OPEN SOURCE HUBS

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

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

Eco-future Design
One Community Progress Update #357

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HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

One Community is improving life on our planet through Highest Good housing that is artistic and beautiful, more affordable, more space efficient, lasts longer, DIY buildable, and constructed with healthy and sustainable materials:

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

This week the core team began what we hope will be the 2nd-to-final review of the Murphy bed instructions. This week’s focus was starting to go through the list of parts areas needing checking, comparing parts lists to the model and the instructions, and identifying errors and suggesting how to fix them.

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

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

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

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

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

DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

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

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

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

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

HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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ECO-FUTURE DESIGN TEMPLATES – WHAT ONE COMMUNITY IS CREATING

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

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

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

BUILDING THE FIRST OF MANY

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

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

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

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

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

ECO-FUTURE DESIGN TEMPLATES – WHY OPEN SOURCE

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

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

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

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

ECO-FUTURE DESIGN TEMPLATES – SUMMARY

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

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

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

OUR MAIN OPEN SOURCE HUBS

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

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

Stewarding Our One Shared Planet
One Community Progress Update #356

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HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

One Community is stewarding our one shared planet through Highest Good housing that is artistic and beautiful, more affordable, more space efficient, lasts longer, DIY buildable, and constructed with healthy and sustainable materials:

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

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

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

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

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

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

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

HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

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

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

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

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

Ziqian Continued Development of the Ultimate Classroom – Click for Page

HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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STEWARDING OUR ONE SHARED PLANET – WHAT ONE COMMUNITY IS CREATING

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

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

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

BUILDING THE FIRST OF MANY

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

STEWARDING OUR ONE SHARED PLANET – WHY ONE COMMUNITY IS CREATING THIS

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

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

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

STEWARDING OUR ONE SHARED PLANET – WHY OPEN SOURCE

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

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

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

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

STEWARDING OUR ONE SHARED PLANET – SUMMARY

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

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

Here’s our project overview

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

OUR MAIN OPEN SOURCE HUBS

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

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

Ecologically Addressing Society
One Community Progress Update #355

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HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

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

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

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

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

HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

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

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

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

Began Updating the Chickens Open Source Page – Click to Visit

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

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

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

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

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

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

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

HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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ECOLOGICALLY ADDRESSING SOCIETY – WHAT ONE COMMUNITY IS CREATING

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

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

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

BUILDING THE FIRST OF MANY

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

ECOLOGICALLY ADDRESSING SOCIETY – WHY ONE COMMUNITY IS CREATING THIS

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

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

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

ECOLOGICALLY ADDRESSING SOCIETY – WHY OPEN SOURCE

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

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

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

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

ECOLOGICALLY ADDRESSING SOCIETY – SUMMARY

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

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

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

WELCOME TO THE TEAM MOHAMMAD!

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

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

WELCOME TO THE TEAM ZIQIAN!

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

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

OUR MAIN OPEN SOURCE HUBS

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

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

Strategic Sustainable Village Creation
One Community Progress Update #354

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HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

One Community is developing open source plans for strategic sustainable village creation through Highest Good housing that is artistic and beautiful, more affordable, more space efficient, lasts longer, DIY buildable, and constructed with healthy and sustainable materials:

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

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

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

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

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

DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

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

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

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

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

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

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

HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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STRATEGIC SUSTAINABLE VILLAGE CREATION – WHAT ONE COMMUNITY IS CREATING

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

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

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

BUILDING THE FIRST OF MANY

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

STRATEGIC SUSTAINABLE VILLAGE CREATION – WHY ONE COMMUNITY IS CREATING THIS

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

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

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

STRATEGIC SUSTAINABLE VILLAGE CREATION – WHY OPEN SOURCE

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

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

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

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

STRATEGIC SUSTAINABLE VILLAGE CREATION – SUMMARY

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