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

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

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STRATEGIC SUSTAINABLE VILLAGE CREATION – WHAT ONE COMMUNITY IS CREATING

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

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

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

BUILDING THE FIRST OF MANY

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

STRATEGIC SUSTAINABLE VILLAGE CREATION – WHY ONE COMMUNITY IS CREATING THIS

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

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

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

STRATEGIC SUSTAINABLE VILLAGE CREATION – WHY OPEN SOURCE

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

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

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

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

STRATEGIC SUSTAINABLE VILLAGE CREATION – SUMMARY

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

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

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

No-Waste Communities – One Community

OUR MAIN OPEN SOURCE HUBS

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

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

No-Waste Communities
One Community Progress Update #352

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HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

One Community is designing no-waste communities through Highest Good housing that is artistic and beautiful, more affordable, more space efficient, lasts longer, DIY buildable, and constructed with healthy and sustainable materials:

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

This week the core team began building the new Hydro Energy Setup and Maintenance page. We created the basic page structure, table of contents, and social media imagery and descriptions. You can see some of this work here.

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

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

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

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

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

DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

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

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

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

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

HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

One Community is designing no-waste communities through Highest Good food that is more diverse, more nutritious, locally grown and sustainable, and part of our open source botanical garden model to support and share bio-diversity:

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

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

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

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

Finalized the Rabbit Hutch Assembly Instructions – Click for Page

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

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

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

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

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

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

HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

One Community is designing no-waste communities through Highest Good education that is for all ages, applicable in any environment, adaptable to individual needs, far exceeds traditional education standards, and more fun for both the teachers and the students. This component of One Community is about 95% complete with only the Open Source School Licensing and Ultimate Classroom construction and assembly details remaining to be finished. With over 8 years of work invested in the process, the sections below are all complete until we move onto the property and continue the development and open sourcing process with teachers and students – a development process that is built directly into the structure of the education program and everything else we’re creating too:

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

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

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

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

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

HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

 

INVESTOR PAGES

OVERVIEW | LOCATION | FUNDING

GET INVOLVED

DONATE | WAYS ANYONE CAN HELP | MEMBERSHIP

CLICK HERE FOR ALL PAST UPDATES

NO-WASTE COMMUNITIES – WHAT ONE COMMUNITY IS CREATING

One Community is creating a place to grow together and change the world together. We are creating a space that helps each other live in integrity with each other and the planet as we strive to be the greatest versions of ourselves such as no-waste communities. We do this by harmoniously respecting each other, nature, and the rest of our one shared planet.

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

Throughout our design process of no-waste communities we are open sourcing and free-sharing everything needed for construction and replication. This includes what we call “Highest Good” approaches to food, energy, housing, education, for-profit and non-profit economics design, social architecture, fulfilled living, stewardship practices and more. We are creating these resources for implementation as individual components or complete developments called teacher/demonstration hubs. These hubs will help launch additional hubs as awareness and knowledge grow.

BUILDING THE FIRST OF MANY

One Community will be the first teacher/demonstration hub. It will function as an experiential-learning model that facilitates mass participation to address humanity’s most pressing challenges through: A replicable model for expansion, building seven self-sufficient village/city prototypes, becoming the world leader in open-source sustainability solutions, and evolving and expanding ALL aspects of sustainable living such as no-waste communities.

NO-WASTE COMMUNITIES – WHY ONE COMMUNITY IS CREATING THIS

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

The specifics of how One Community is accomplishing the goal of creating no-waste communities can be found on the One Community Solution Model to Create Solution-creating Models Page. Research supporting and showing the benefits of a model like this can be found on our Research and Resources Articles Archive.

Even if we don’t achieve our ultimate goal of global transformation including no-waste communities, a self-replicating teacher/demonstration model like this will take a relatively short period of time to positively affect millions while inspiring millions more.  For One Community residents (the Pioneer Team), the idea of creating and sharing the social and recreational experience with visitors is also fun, exciting, fulfilling, and an additional reason why we are creating no-waste communities.

NO-WASTE COMMUNITIES – WHY OPEN SOURCE

We are creating everything One Community does as open source and free-shared blueprints because we see this as the path to a new Golden Age of creativity, innovation, cooperation, and collaboration for all of humanity. Our model for no-waste communities is a solution model that creates additional solution creating models enabling people to live and collaborate globally for The Highest Good of All. The easier we make everything we do, the faster we see the world transitioning. No-Waste communities is one such effort.

Every aspect of this model supports itself and contributes to its success, from the sustainable food, energy, and homes, to the social architecture, One Community Education Program, and open source sharing model itself. Each piece can be accessed, evolved, and even re-birthed as something completely new. It can be duplicated by itself or with other modules, with applications as diverse as the people who want and need them. The constantly expanding total model will additionally be able to be used in its entirety as the open source project-launch blueprint for a variety of duplicate teacher/demonstration communities, villages, and cities capable of being built virtually anywhere to help promote no-waste communities.

The most profound part is: the more we open source share, the more we help move everyone forward to create more no-waste communities, the more people know about what we are doing and can participate, and the more successful and capable we are of project-launch blueprinting and sharing even more still. This is all supported and made possible because:

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

NO-WASTE COMMUNITIES – SUMMARY

One Community sees the issues of the world as interdependent and interconnected. To address them simultaneously, we are open-source blueprinting a more advanced standard of living by designing holistic, environmentally-regenerative, self-sustaining, adaptable solutions for all areas of sustainability such as no-waste communities. We will model these within a comprehensive “village/city” which will be built in the southwestern U.S. This teacher/demonstration hub will be a place people can experience a new way of living and then replicate it with our open source blueprints: creating a model solution that creates additional solution-creating models.

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

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

Building the Sustainable Future That’s Possible

OUR MAIN OPEN SOURCE HUBS

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 December 15th, 2019 edition (#351) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments towards building the sustainable future that’s possible:

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

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HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

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

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

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

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

HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Open Source Transition Kitchen Walkthrough

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

Details used for this round of revisions are as follows: Minimum pipes slope: 1/2″ / 12″, French Drain Slope: 1/8″ / 12″, Drainage & ventilation components: <140> LF 8″ PVC pipe, <395> LF 4″ PVC pipe, <180> LF 4″ PVC perforated pipe, <7> 8″ PVC Tees, <9> 8″ PVC Elbows, <13> 4″ PVC Elbows, <7> 8″ ” 4″ PVC Transitions, <6> 12Ô12 Catch Basins, <4> 22Ô22 Catch Basins. You can see some of this work here and we’d say this brings this part of this component to 55% complete.

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

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

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

HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

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

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

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

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

HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS

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

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

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

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

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

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

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INVESTOR PAGES

OVERVIEW | LOCATION | FUNDING

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CLICK HERE FOR ALL PAST UPDATES

BUILDING THE SUSTAINABLE FUTURE THAT’S POSSIBLE – 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 for building the sustainable future that’s possible.

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.

BUILDING THE SUSTAINABLE FUTURE THAT’S POSSIBLE – 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. Thus, building the sustainable future that’s possible.

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.

BUILDING THE SUSTAINABLE FUTURE THAT’S POSSIBLE – 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 for building the sustainable future that’s possible. 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 building the sustainable future that’s possible.

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 as well as to building the sustainable future that’s possible. 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 for building the sustainable future that’s possible. 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 building the sustainable future that’s possible, 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

BUILDING THE SUSTAINABLE FUTURE THAT’S POSSIBLE – 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. Thus, contributing meaningful efforts towards building the sustainable future that’s possible.

One Community welcomes Oluyomi “Yomi” Sanyaolu to the Research Team as our newest Volunteer/Consultant!

Mechanical Engineering Graduate and Technical Writer: Yomi is an ambitious and hardworking Mechanical Engineering graduate looking to make a positive impact on society. His strengths include complex problem solving, working as part of a team, communicating effectively with others, analysing data, and technical writing. Interests include sports, technology, and personal growth. As a member of the One Community team, Yomi has helped write the content for the Earthbag Engineering page, researched and helped write the content for the Hydro Energy and Sustainable Roadways, Walkways, and Related Landscaping pages, and is now helping research and write the content for trompe and ram pump construction and use.

WELCOME TO THE TEAM YOMI!

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INVESTOR PAGES

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CONSULTANTS | WAYS ANYONE CAN HELP | MEMBERSHIP

We’re transforming the global sustainability conversation. We think it should go beyond just food, energy, and housing and also include education, Highest Good economics, social architecture, fulfilled living, and global stewardship practices. In support of this, we’re open sourcing DIY plans for all these areas and more. We will then use the combined plans for all of these to build teacher/demonstration hubs that will work together to develop and open source and free-share even more DIY plans and implementation information.

• 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 December 8th, 2019 edition (#350) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments:

Transforming the Global Sustainability Conversation
One Community Progress Update #350

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HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

One Community is transforming the global sustainability conversation 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 did final updates for the Murphy bed electrical in SketchUp 3D. This included minor wiring changes, checking in with two electricians willing to answer basic questions, and a final review of the current plan to confirm it is the best we can make it until we’ve got a licensed electrician willing to do a comprehensive final review and update. Highest Good Housing is an important part of transforming the global sustainability conversation with One Community’s open source plans.

Transforming the Global Sustainability Conversation – Murphy Bed Electrical – SketchUp 3D – Click for Page

Finished the Resources, Summary, and FAQ Sections of the Earthbag Engineering Page – Click to Visit

Oluyomi Sanyaolu (Technical Writer and Researcher) completed his 7th week with the team, continuing cost analysis of external Earthbag Village components. This week Oluyomi completed the roadways, walkways, and landscaping research. Cheaper options for roadway materials and drainage solutions were discovered, decomposed granite (DG) and swales. Having completed the primary research for this part of the project, he then started doing the final review, editing, and updating all of the cost analysis data to make the information easier to understand and more presentable for the website. For example, the options for wind and hydro power plants were re-arranged in their spreadsheets from recommended choice to least recommended. You can see some of this behind-the-scenes work here.

Cost Analysis of External Earthbag Village Components – Click for Page

Dean Scholz (Architectural Designer) also continued helping with the Earthbag Village (Pod 1) 4-dome cluster designs. This week was week #171 and the focus was adjusting the rooftop patio height and shape and testing in 3D the emergency window exits from the 2nd floor. Highest Good Housing is an important part of transforming the global sustainability conversation with One Community’s open source plans. You can see some of this work here.

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

DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

One Community is transforming the global sustainability conversation 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 began the final review process for the energy modeling content we’ll be adding to the LEED Platinum certification and City Center open source HVAC design tutorial. We reviewed the complete content shown here and added all our questions and comments needed to finish it. The progress of Duplicate City Center is an important part of transforming the global sustainability conversation with One Community’s open source plans.

Reviewed the Content and Added All Our Questions and Comments Needed to Finish – Click for Page

Working off this, Ron Huang (Mechanical Engineer) continued with his 31st week developing and refining the Energy Modeling and LEED Platinum details, answering our questions, revising his content, and adding equipment performance details. You can see some of this work here and we’d say this brings completion of the City Center energy analysis component to 85% complete.

Continued Developing and Refining the Energy Modeling and LEED Platinum Details ” Click for Page

HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

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

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

This week the core team continued compiling narratives and adding info and photos to our behind-the-scenes chicken Google Doc for the specific chicken breeds that will be best for our project. You can see some of these behind-the-scenes portions here. Highest Good Food is an important part of transforming the global sustainability conversation with One Community’s open source plans.

Transforming the global sustainability conversation – Narratives – Chicken Breeds ” Click for Page

The core team also began creating the chicken coop step-by-step building instructions on our behind-the-scenes google doc. Highest Good Food is an important part of transforming the global sustainability conversation with One Community’s open source plans. You can see some of this work here.

Began Creating the Chicken Coop Step-by-step Building Instructions – Click for Page

In addition, the core team found a new resource for further developing the DIY Dam Design and Construction open source hub. This was two videos by Geoff Lawton about two case studies on dam/swale implementation. We took the notes shown here covering the information we thought would be beneficial for the Dam webpage. Highest Good Food is an important part of transforming the global sustainability conversation with One Community’s open source plans. Next step is the process of going through and organizing the notes.

New Resource for Further Developing DIY Dam Design, Construction Open Source Hub – Click for Page

Mohammad Almuzaial (Civil and Construction Engineer) also continued with his 3rd week helping with the Aquapini/Walipini civil engineering details. He completed the design and layout for the site drainage system which included creating a linked Revit architectural model in an MEP template to layout the plumping system, laying out two 4″ PVC drainage pipes to be connected to the structures to draw cool air. One from the north side drainage to the pond and another from the south side drainage to the pond, and laying out four 8″ corrugated pipes that run from the trenches to the pond and each connect with one drain on the lower level using a 4″ corrugated pipe. See the collage below for his work.

Transforming the Global Sustainability Conversation – Aquapini/Walipini Civil Engineering Details

Ali Ghahremannezhad (Mechanical Engineer) also joined the team and began work on the climate batteries for the Aquapini/Walipini structures. This week he began by reviewing and reorganized the previous documents containing One Community’s research on Climate Battery design. He added more notes from more recent resources and started to evaluate and improve the current 1D thermal model for the Climate Battery. You can see some of this work here.

Began Work on the Climate Batteries for the Aquapini/Walipini Structures – Click for Page

HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

One Community is transforming the global sustainability conversation 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.

Highest Good Education is an important part of transforming the global sustainability conversation with One Community’s open source plans. 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 59th 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 indigo room representing “Social Sciences.” What you see here are his first round of revisions and additions to this room.

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

HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS

One Community is transforming the global sustainability conversation 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. Highest Good Society is an important part of transforming the global sustainability conversation with One Community’s open source plans.

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

This week Emilio Nájera (Digital Marketer) continued work on our volunteer and donation campaigns. This week he further refined our keywords to improve performance and address compliance issues raised by Google.

Transforming the global sustainability conversation – Volunteer Donation Campaigns ” Click for Page

Deema Ali (Graphic/Video Designer) also completed her 3rd week designing new versions of the One Community Overview videos. This week she made revisions to the first draft of the main overview by the core team. This included adding in new video clips, transitions, and visual effects to the video. You can see some of this behind-the-scenes work here.

Transforming the global sustainability conversation – New Versions – One Community Overview Videos 

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

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INVESTOR PAGES

OVERVIEW | LOCATION | FUNDING

GET INVOLVED

DONATE | WAYS ANYONE CAN HELP | MEMBERSHIP

CLICK HERE FOR ALL PAST UPDATES

TRANSFORMING THE GLOBAL SUSTAINABILITY CONVERSATION – 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, transforming the global sustainability conversation with One Community’s open source plans.

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.

TRANSFORMING THE GLOBAL SUSTAINABILITY CONVERSATION – 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, transforming the global sustainability conversation.

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.

TRANSFORMING THE GLOBAL SUSTAINABILITY CONVERSATION – WHY OPEN SOURCE

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

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 and contributing to transforming the global sustainability conversation with One Community’s open source plans. 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

TRANSFORMING THE GLOBAL SUSTAINABILITY CONVERSATION – 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. This is an important part of transforming the global sustainability conversation with One Community’s open source plans. 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.

Giving people what they desire is the easiest way to spread an idea. One Community is applying this to global sustainability with open source and free-shared community model for people who want sustainable and replicable food, energy, and housing. We’ve also included education, for-profit and non-profit economic design, social architecture, fulfilled living, and global stewardship practices. We are combining these to help build a global cooperative of teacher/demonstration hubs that will work together to provide for more and more diverse wants, needs and environments.

• 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 December 1st, 2019 edition (#349) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments:

Giving People What They Desire
One Community Progress Update #349

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GIVING PEOPLE WHAT THEY DESIRE – HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

One Community is giving people what they desire 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 focused on giving people what they desire by continuing updating the Murphy bed electrical in SketchUp 3D by providing measurements for each wire for each circuit. This identified some wires needing additional clarification, which we are working on now.

Continued Updating the Murphy Bed Electrical in SketchUp 3D – Click for Earthbag Village

The core team, dedicated to giving people what they desire, continued construction of the Earthbag Engineering Page. This week we finished the sections covering additional recommended tests, using the gravity and snow/win/seismic loading spreadsheets, and additional soil classification training. All the remains now is to finish the Resources, Summary, and FAQ and do a final proofread and review.

Continued Construction of the Earthbag Engineering Page – Click to Visit

Oluyomi Sanyaolu (Technical Writer and Researcher) completed his 6th week with the team, continuing cost analysis of external Earthbag Village components. This week, Oluyomi completed a cost analysis for both simple and complex parking lots and began the analysis and comparison of walkway construction materials, giving people what they desire in terms of practical and cost-effective solutions. You can see some of this behind-the-scenes work here.

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

Dean Scholz(Architectural Designer) also continued giving people what they desire by helping with the Earthbag Village (Pod 1) 4-dome cluster designs. This week was week #170 and the focus was adding in the new wall locations and testing the rooftop patio designs in 3D. You can see some of this work here.

Focused on Adding in New Wall Locations and Testing the Rooftop Patio Designs in 3D

GIVING PEOPLE WHAT THEY DESIRE – DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

One Community is giving people what they desire 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 30th week working on the Energy Modeling for our LEED Platinum certification and City Center open source HVAC design tutorial, giving people what they desire. This week he completed the first draft of the summary report shown here. We’d say this brings completion of the City Center energy analysis component to 80% complete.

Completed First Draft of the Summary Report ” Click for HVAC Page

Sneha Dongre (Structural Engineer) also continued with her 32nd week helping with the Duplicable City Center structural details, giving people what they desire. This week she continued her work to create the AutoCAD file for analysis in RISA 3D. She removed elements which were not required (handrails, doors, etc.) and added missing/new elements to the model. She also did research on exporting dxf files to RISA, exploring how to export all layers especially floor/roof areas.

Continued Her Work to Create the AutoCAD File for Analysis in RISA 3D – Click for Engineering Page

Anvita Kumari Pandey (Civil Engineer) has also been dedicated to giving people what they desire by continuing her research to find the right LED lights for installation overhead and along the City Center patio areas. Here you can see her latest results that should complete this work for us. She just needs to research the patio and covered walkway codes to confirm what’s needed for compliance and then we can make our final selections.

Continued Research of LED Lights for Installation Overhead and Along the City Center Patio Areas

GIVING PEOPLE WHAT THEY DESIRE – HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

One Community is giving people what they desire 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 focused on giving people what they desire by compiling narratives for the specific chicken breeds we chose and adding the info and photos to our behind-the-scenes chicken Google Doc. We also reviewed a video pertaining to supplements for animal health, wrote a narrative and added it to all our related animal pages. You can see some of the behind-the-scenes portions of this work here.

Narratives for the Specific Chicken Breeds & Reviewed a Video Pertaining to Animal Health

Giving people what they desire, the core team  continued with the cost analysis for the goat and sheep barn. We added the missing images, finished the dutch door and milking stand material lists, and added the total costs for the barn, which now makes the barn cost analysis complete. We also researched milking stand DIY plans, researched dutch door DIY instructions, and researched optional goat birthing pen panels. You can see some of this work here.

Continued With the Cost Analysis for the Goat and Sheep Barn – Click for Goat Page

In addition, the core team continued developing the behind-the-scenes open source permaculture design content, giving people what they desire in sustainable living practices. This week we wrote concise descriptions of the permaculture ethics and principles on index cards to revisit periodically during all project phases. We also completed Step 1 (Assess Resources and Identify Needs) for the case study. You can see some of this work below.

Wrote Descriptions of the Permaculture Ethics and Principles on Index Cards to Revisit Periodically

Ziqian Zheng (Architectural Designer and Drafter) continued with week 4 of his work for giving people what they desire on the Transition Kitchen designs. This week he completed the rendering food and people additions, added plugins to finish the lighting plan, and submitted everything for initial review and feedback. We’d say this brings this component to 90% complete.

Continued Work on the Transition Kitchen Designs – Click for Page

And Mohammad Almuzaial (Civil and Construction Engineer) continued with his 2nd week giving people what they desire by helping with the Aquapini/Walipini civil engineering details. This week Mohammad finished multiple iterations of the Toposurface for the project including water management slopes and water collecting trenches in addition to site stairs and pond guardrails. You can see some of this work here and we’d say this brings this part of this component to 40% complete.

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

GIVING PEOPLE WHAT THEY DESIRE – HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

One Community is giving people what they desire 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 , aiming to fulfill our commitment to giving people what they desire.:

• 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 58th week dedicated to giving people what they desire by helping with render additions and finishing work for the rooms in the the Ultimate Classroom. This week he finished revisions and additions to the green room representing “Science.” This image is now on the website also.

Finished Revisions and Additions to the Green Room Representing “Science” – Click for Classroom

GIVING PEOPLE WHAT THEY DESIRE – HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS

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

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

This week Jin Hua (Web Marketer and Graphic Designer) continued giving people what they desire by helping us refine our adwords campaigns and improve their performance. You can see some of the results of this here.

Continued Helping Us Refine Our Adwords Campaigns and Improve Their Performance – Click for Page

Emilio Nájera (Digital Marketer) also continued work on these campaigns for giving people what they desire. This week he removed all the help wanted volunteer ads’ keywords that don’t include the following terms: “volunteer, pro bono, intern, and internship”. Additionally, he targeted our main campaign to the United States, China and India. These actions contribute to the main goal to display ads in order to attract new volunteers in those countries.

Removed All the Help Wanted Volunteer Ads’ Keywords That Don’t Include Certain Terms

Deema Ali (Graphic/Video Designer) also completed her 2nd week designing new versions of the One Community Overview videos helping in giving people what they desire. This week she continued to edit and completed the first version of  the main overview video by adding more stock footage and content pulled from the One Community’s website, visual transitions, text, and a keyed composite effect.

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

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

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

 

INVESTOR PAGES

OVERVIEW | LOCATION | FUNDING

GET INVOLVED

DONATE | WAYS ANYONE CAN HELP | MEMBERSHIP

CLICK HERE FOR ALL PAST UPDATES

WHAT ONE COMMUNITY IS CREATING

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

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

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

BUILDING THE FIRST OF MANY

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

WHY ONE COMMUNITY IS CREATING THIS

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

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

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

SUMMARY

One Community sees the issues of the world as interdependent and interconnected. To facilitate Ethical Community Science and 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.

Zero-waste community designs are one way to reduce the global buildup of trash. Through community collaboration we can create and share more comprehensive and innovative purchasing strategies, reuse models, and recycling and disposal options. What we learn can then be open sourced and free-shared to help evolve and diversify the ideas into other environments too. Problem solving and sharing solutions like this is one component of what One Community is calling living and creating for “The Highest Good of All.”

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

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 November 24th, 2019 edition (#348) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments:

Zero-waste Community Designs
One Community Progress Update #348

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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ZERO-WASTE COMMUNITY DESIGNS – HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

One Community is facilitating zero-waste community designs 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 updating the Murphy bed electrical in SketchUp 3D incorporating zero-waste community designs. We checked and adjusted the beam locations with the measurements shown here. Now they line up 16″ on center from the left and right, then with the shelving that will be attached to them so it can be anchored properly. Then 16″ from that beam so we’ve got proper structural integrity. This spacing, as shown here, turned out to be the best for function, strength, and symmetry.

Continued Updating the Murphy Bed Electrical in SketchUp 3D

The core team also continued construction of the Earthbag Engineering Page, focusing on integrating zero-waste community designs. This week we created all the sections shown here covering soil classification, using the soil classification spreadsheet, and using and understanding the nail selection spreadsheet.

Continued Construction of the Earthbag Engineering Page – Click to Visit

Oluyomi Sanyaolu (Technical Writer and Researcher) completed his 5th week with the team, continuing cost analysis of external Earthbag Village components. This week Oluyomi completed the 1st draft of the wind power cost analysis using 11 different sources of information, emphasizing zero-waste community designs. He also defined the different aspects that make up the hydro-power plant, so that readers could understand their purpose. An estimate for the average cost of constructing parking lots was also conducted.

Completed 1st Draft of Wind Power Cost Analysis & Defined Different Aspects of Hydro-power Plant

Shadi Kennedy (Artist and Graphic Designer) also completed his 74th week developing the Murphy bed instructions. This week, he integrated an icon illustration of the wire coil for 12/3 & 12/2 wire, streamlined the design by eliminating the 3 gang box and enhancing the wiring section on the procurement page. Additionally, he optimized clarity by reducing excessive part numbers W7 throughout the document. Shadi also developed new diagrams that showcase the strategic placement of upright wall support beams, aligning with the updated layout. He meticulously revised pW5 to reflect these adjustments, ensuring precise measurements and adherence to zero-waste community designs.

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

Dean Scholz (Architectural Designer) returned to helping and completed week #169 by advancing the Earthbag Village (Pod 1) project with his expertise in zero-waste community designs. This week he designed an ADA ramp and began integrating into 3D the AutoCAD updates from the last couple of months. You can see some of this work here.

Designed an ADA Ramp and Began Integrating New AutoCAD Updates Into 3D

And Hemanth Kotaru (Structural Engineer) completed his 35th week helping with the structural engineering research and calculations for the Earthbag Village, focusing on zero-waste community designs. This week he created a new seismic calculations spreadsheet and wrote a tutorial and made updates for the wind and snow load calculation spreadsheets. You can see this behind-the-scenes work here.

Created New Seismic Calculations Spreadsheet & Wrote Tutorial for Wind & Snow Load Calculation

ZERO-WASTE COMMUNITY DESIGNS – DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

One Community is facilitating zero-waste community designs 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 29th week working on the Energy Modeling for our LEED Platinum certification, integrating zero-waste community designs into the and City Center open source HVAC design tutorial. This week he continued working on the summary report shown here and preparing the simulation file submittal.

Continued Working on the Summary Report and Preparing the Simulation File Submittal

Sneha Dongre (Structural Engineer) also continued with her 31st week helping with the Duplicable City Center structural details, advancing towards zero-waste community designs. This week she continued her work cleaning out the unwanted layers from AutoCAD file to set up the file for analysis in RISA 3D (pictures below). Next step is making different layers as columns/beams etc. in AutoCAD file, so that it’ll be easy to design those sets because, currently, RISA is importing those layers as section sets. Cleared 4-5 layers and there are still some small details left to clean.

Continued removing Unwanted Layers From AutoCAD File to Set Up the File for Analysis in RISA 3D

ZERO-WASTE COMMUNITY DESIGNS – HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

One Community is facilitating zero-waste community designs 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 researching chicken breeds for our desired purposes within zero-waste community designs. We compiled narratives for the specific chicken breeds we chose and added the info and photos to our behind-the-scenes chicken Google Doc. You can see some examples of this here.

Continued Researching Chicken Breeds and Compiled Narratives for the Specific Chicken Breeds

The core team also continued with the cost analysis and the detailed SketchUp model for the goat and sheep barn, incorporating zero-waste community designs. We designed the dutch doors, researched the wall panels, and added rails outside of the milking room. We also finished wall framing the goat area, and the outside wall of the milking room, as shown here.

Continued With the Cost Analysis and the Detailed SketchUp Model for the Goat and Sheep Barn

In addition, the core team continued developing the behind-the-scenes open source permaculture design content aimed at zero-waste community designs. This week we reviewed the permaculture ethics and principles to be better positioned to complete the case study, completed the SWOT analysis for the case study, and added “natural disasters” to our Business Plan SWOT analysis.

Continued Developing the Behind-the-scenes Open Source Permaculture Design Content

Ziqian Zheng (Architectural Designer and Drafter) continued with week 3 of his work on the Transition Kitchen designs for zero-waste community designs. This week he completed the lighting and plumbing plans and continued working on additions and revisions on the renders of the sketchUp model.

Completed the Lighting and Plumbing Plans for the Transition Kitchen Designs – Click to Visit

And Mohammad Almuzaial (Civil and Construction Engineer) joined the team and completed his inaugural week contributing to the Aquapini/Walipini project’s civil engineering aspects. In his first week, Mohammad commenced work on zero-waste community designs, focusing on developing the Aquapini & Walipini site. This involved meticulous design of the drainage system and water supply network. Using Revit, he accurately modeled the actual terrain and topography to facilitate precise estimations. Furthermore, Mohammad strategically located the prospective Aquapini & Walipini site plot within the master plan, ensuring optimal placement. Additionally, he acquired detailed property maps and GIS elevation data to enhance the modeling accuracy further.

Joined the Team and Began Helping With the Aquapini/Walipini Civil Engineering Details

ZERO-WASTE COMMUNITY DESIGNS – HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

One Community is facilitating zero-waste community designs through Highest Good education that is for all ages, applicable in any environment, adaptable to individual needs, far exceeds traditional education standards, and more fun for both the teachers and the students. This component of One Community is about 95% complete with only the Open Source School Licensing and Ultimate Classroom construction and assembly details remaining to be finished. We’ll report on the final two elements to be finished as we develop them.

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

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

Highest Good Education: All Subjects | All Learning Levels | Any Age

ZERO-WASTE COMMUNITY DESIGNS – HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS

One Community is facilitating zero-waste community designs 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 finished the initial review and edits of all the existing business plan pages, integrating zero-waste community designs where applicable. We now have 1 or 2 more to create and then a final review to bring it to completion, other than ongoing additions and revisions based on our design work.

Finished the Initial Review and Edits of All the Existing Business Plan Pages – Click to Visit

Deema Ali (Graphic/Video Designer) also joined the team to contribute her expertise in zero-waste community designs. She began redesigning a new version of the One Community Overview video by integrating stock footage and synchronizing them with the video’s beat points. Deema enhanced the video with seamless transitions and incorporated clear text elements, echoing the style seen in the original production.

Joined the Team Began Designing a New Version of the One Community Overview Video

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

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

 

INVESTOR PAGES

OVERVIEW | LOCATION | FUNDING

GET INVOLVED

DONATE | WAYS ANYONE CAN HELP | MEMBERSHIP

CLICK HERE FOR ALL PAST UPDATES

WHAT ONE COMMUNITY IS CREATING

One Community is creating a place to grow together and change the world together by embracing zero-waste community designs. 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.

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 zero-waste community designs appropriate for each of the five main types of climates. They also include options for even the most challenged economies. These hubs will collaborate with one another, share ideas, resources, and work together as a network to heal the planet. They will also transform the global lifestyle to a more enjoyable, fulfilling, healthy, and sustainable one.

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

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

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.

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

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.

Open source and adaptable solutions for a sustainable world will save money and help regenerate our planet. The solutions we are focused on first are food, energy, housing, education, for-profit and non-profit economic design, social architecture, fulfilled living, and global stewardship practices. Combining these creates what we call a “Highest Good” living model. Open sourcing this model is a path to making it self-replicating and making it self-replicating is a path to global sustainability within our lifetime.

• 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 November 17th, 2019 edition (#347) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments:

Adaptable Solutions for a Sustainable World
One Community Progress Update #347

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

YOU CAN ALSO JOIN US THROUGH SOCIAL MEDIA

 

ONE COMMUNITY WEEKLY UPDATE DETAILS

ADAPTABLE SOLUTIONS FOR A SUSTAINABLE WORLD – HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

One Community is building adaptable solutions for a sustainable world through Highest Good housing that is artistic and beautiful, more affordable, more space efficient, lasts longer, DIY buildable, and constructed with healthy and sustainable materials:

• • • Learn about: 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 updating the Murphy bed electrical in SketchUp 3D. We measured the electrical wires to be 111 feet of 12/3 and 183 feet of 12/2 and also tested several different placements of studs in the wall, as shown here , exploring adaptable solutions for a sustainable world

Continued Updating the Murphy Bed Electrical in SketchUp 3D ” Click for Furniture Page

Oluyomi Sanyaolu (Technical Writer and Researcher) completed his 4th week with the team, continuing cost analysis of external Earthbag Village components with a focus on adaptable solutions for a sustainable world. This week Oluyomi finished a draft for the wind farm cost analysis, coming up with a total cost of $4,500 per 1kW turbine. He used 11 different sources to aid his wind system research and analysis. He also continued work on the hydro power systems research and cost analysis.

Finished a Draft for the Wind Farm Cost Analysis – Click for Earthbag Village

Bahy Ahmed (Architect), committed to adaptable solutions for a sustainable world, completed his 5th week helping with the Earthbag Village 4-dome cluster roof and floor plan updates. This week Bahy created the final version of furniture layout changes, updated door access to the spa, and new built-in seating and rooftop safety railings.

Continued Helping With the Earthbag Village 4-dome Cluster Roof and Floor Plan Updates

And Shadi Kennedy (Artist and Graphic Designer) also completed his 73rd week developing the Murphy bed instructions, showcased his commitment to adaptable solutions for a sustainable world. This week he removed the 3-gang circuit box from the components section, added magnets for holding up the swinging headboard and hinges to the components section, did the various translations for newly added components, added new renders to the front page of the nightstand section, redid the page numbering on the nightstand section, and added new renders on several more individual pages.

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

ADAPTABLE SOLUTIONS FOR A SUSTAINABLE WORLD – DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

One Community is building adaptable solutions for a sustainable world 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 28th week working on the Energy Modeling for our LEED Platinum certification and City Center open source HVAC design tutorial. This week completed the LEED Report and began the summary report , embodying our commitment to adaptable solutions for a sustainable world. You can see some of this behind-the-scenes work here.

Completed the LEED Report and Began the Summary Report ” Click for HVAC Page

Sneha Dongre (Structural Engineer) also continued with her 30th week helping with the Duplicable City Center structural details. This week she worked on setting up the City Center structural files for use with the new RISA 3D software we’re using for the timber design in this adaptable solution for a sustainable world.

Worked on Setting Up the City Center Structural Files for Use With the New RISA 3D Software

ADAPTABLE SOLUTIONS FOR A SUSTAINABLE WORLD – HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

One Community is building adaptable solutions for a sustainable world through Highest Good food that is more diverse, more nutritious, locally grown and sustainable, and part of our open source botanical garden model to support and share bio-diversity:

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

Began Researching Information on the Best Chicken Breeds for Our Desired Purposes – Click for Page

The core team also continued with the cost analysis and the detailed SketchUp model for the goat milking room, focusing on adaptable solutions for a sustainable world. We also worked on the cost analysis for the goat barn by researching the type of foundations preferred for metal barns, grade beam footing, and feeders.

Continued With the Cost Analysis and the Detailed SketchUp Model for the Goat Milking Room

Ziqian Zheng (Architectural Designer and Drafter) also continued with week 2 of his work on the Transition Kitchen designs. This week he completing version one of the sketchUp model and renderings shown here. His efforts reflect a commitment to adaptable solutions for a sustainable world.

Completed Version One of the SketchUp Model and Renderings ” Click to Visit Transition Kitchen Plan

He also produced this initial walkthrough video for this structure.

ADAPTABLE SOLUTIONS FOR A SUSTAINABLE WORLD – HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

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

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 57th week helping with render additions and finishing work for the rooms in the the Ultimate Classroom. Here you can see his 1st round of revisions and additions to the green room representing “Science”, showcasing adaptable solutions for a sustainable world.

Completed 1st Round of Revisions and Additions to the Green Room Representing “Science”

ADAPTABLE SOLUTIONS FOR A SUSTAINABLE WORLD – HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS

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

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

This week the core team updated all 15 of the pages linked to from our help wanted page.

Updated All 15 of the Pages Linked to From Our Help Wanted Page – Click to Visit

Jin Hua (Web Marketer and Graphic Designer) provided invaluable assistance by conducting a comprehensive website analysis. Her insights helped us identify and implement adaptable solutions for a sustainable world, focusing on enhancing our website’s loading speed and indexing capabilities.

Helped Us Run a New Website Analysis to Help Improve the Loading Speed & Indexing of Our Website

And Emilio Nájera (Digital Marketer) applied adaptable solutions for a sustainable world by updating and adding additional headlines and descriptions for the Volunteer campaigns related to the help wanted volunteer ads we updated.

Added Additional Descriptions for the Volunteer Campaigns Related to the Help Wanted Volunteer Ads

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

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

 

INVESTOR PAGES

OVERVIEW | LOCATION | FUNDING

GET INVOLVED

DONATE | WAYS ANYONE CAN HELP | MEMBERSHIP

CLICK HERE FOR ALL PAST UPDATES

WHAT ONE COMMUNITY IS CREATING

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

Our goal is to demonstrate what we feel is the most sustainable, healthy, and fun environment we can create. A place 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 adaptable solutions for a sustainable world to be implemented as individual components or complete developments called teacher/demonstration hubs. These hubs will help launch additional hubs as awareness and knowledge grow.

BUILDING THE FIRST OF MANY

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

WHY ONE COMMUNITY IS CREATING THIS

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

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

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

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, providing adaptable solutions for a sustainable world.. 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 offers adaptable solutions for a sustainable world, capable of being 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

OPEN SOURCE SHARING STRATEGY SPECIFICS

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

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

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

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

SUMMARY

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

We can create better living through comprehensive sustainability. Truly comprehensive sustainability includes sustainable approaches to food, energy, housing, education, for-profit and non-profit economic design, social architecture, fulfilled living, global stewardship practices, and more. By putting these components together we can reduce our living expenses, increase our free time, reduce transportation costs and time, and provide a broader diversity of social and recreational activities for ourselves and others.

• 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 November 10th, 2019 edition (#346) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments:

Better Living Through Comprehensive Sustainability
One Community Progress Update #346

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

YOU CAN ALSO JOIN US THROUGH SOCIAL MEDIA

 

ONE COMMUNITY WEEKLY UPDATE DETAILS

BETTER LIVING THROUGH COMPREHENSIVE SUSTAINABILITY – HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

One Community is demonstrating better living through comprehensive 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 began construction of the Earthbag Engineering Page. This week we created the initial formatting and sections covering What, Why, and the Process Summary.

Began Construction of the Earthbag Engineering Page – Click to Visit

And the core team continued updating the Murphy bed electrical in SketchUp 3D. We added four missing outlets, rerouted a blue wire next to the entry door, and revised the separated circuits groups with the latest updates. We also modified the support board for reclining while sitting in the bed and set the measurements for the location and dimension of this board and the back-area storage light. All these changes were made with the goal of better living through comprehensive sustainability.

Continued Updating the Murphy Bed Electrical in SketchUp 3D – Click for Furniture Page

Oluyomi Sanyaolu (Technical Writer and Researcher) completed his 3rd week with the team by starting a new project focused on cost analysis of external Earthbag Village components. This week’s focus was Hydro and Wind energy components, comparing the prices of different components of each power production system and writing brief introductions for both sections. These efforts align with our commitment to better living through comprehensive sustainability.

Began a New Project Focused on Cost Analysis of External Earthbag Village Components

And Shadi Kennedy (Artist and Graphic Designer) also completed his 72nd week developing the Murphy bed instructions. This week’s focus was a first draft of integrating the core team’s suggested changes to the fold-down support board and electrical boards, furthering our mission of better living through comprehensive sustainability.

Began Integrating Core Team’s Suggested Changes to Fold-down Support Board and Electrical Boards

BETTER LIVING THROUGH COMPREHENSIVE SUSTAINABILITY – DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

One Community is demonstrating better living through comprehensive 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 the core team began updating the City Center Water Rainwater Catchment Design open source hub. This week we finished the initial formatting setup, table of contents links, and the first four sections shown here, embracing the principle of better living through comprehensive sustainability.

Began Updating the City Center Water Rainwater Catchment Design Open Source Hub

And Ron Huang (Mechanical Engineer) continued with his 27th week working on the Energy Modeling for our LEED Platinum certification and City Center open source HVAC design tutorial. This week’s focus was continued development of the final energy model report for LEED, better living through comprehensive sustainability.

Continued Development of the Final Energy Model Report for LEED – Click for HVAC Page

Sneha Dongre (Structural Engineer) also continued with her 29th week helping with the Duplicable City Center structural details. This week she continued watching videos and reading articles to help her learn the RISA 3D software we’re now choosing for the timber design for this structure, ensuring better living through comprehensive sustainability.

Continued Watching Videos and Reading Articles to Help Her Learn RISA 3D Software

BETTER LIVING THROUGH COMPREHENSIVE SUSTAINABILITY – HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

One Community is demonstrating better living through comprehensive 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 researching information on chicken coops as part of our commitment to “better living through comprehensive sustainability”.. We cross referenced chicken coop features with our coop designs and our most recent coop research. We also reviewed and added to our behind-the-scenes chicken Google Doc various Pete B. videos including a 5-set series regarding a chicken coop build and three others. You can see some of this work here.

Continued Researching Information on Chicken Coops – Click for Page

The core team also updated the rabbit hutch material list and added the rabbit tractor material list for one and three tractors. You can see some of this work here. This effort is part of our ongoing commitment to better living through comprehensive sustainability.

Updated the Rabbit Hutch Material List & Added the Rabbit Tractor Material List

In addition, the core team continued developing the behind-the-scenes open source permaculture design content. This week we completed the behind-the-scenes first draft of Steps 4 (Detailed Design) and 5 (Implementation and Evaluation), striving for better living through comprehensive sustainability. You can see some of this work here.

Continued Developing the Behind-the-scenes Open Source Permaculture Design Content

And last but not least, Ziqian Zheng (Architectural Designer and Drafter) joined the team and began work on finishing the development of the Transition Kitchen designs. This week he focused on the floor plan, sections, and roof plan, ensuring they embody the principle of better living through comprehensive sustainability.

Joined the Team and Began Work on Finishing the Development of the Transition Kitchen Designs

BETTER LIVING THROUGH COMPREHENSIVE SUSTAINABILITY – HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

One Community is demonstrating better living through comprehensive 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. We’ll report on the final two elements to be finished as we develop them.

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

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

Highest Good Education: All Subjects | All Learning Levels | Any Age

BETTER LIVING THROUGH COMPREHENSIVE SUSTAINABILITY – HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS

One Community is demonstrating better living through comprehensive 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 added reference links to all of the Work Breakdown Structure action items, emphasizing better living through comprehensive sustainability.

Added Reference Links to All the Work Breakdown Structure Action Items – Click for Google Doc

The core team also finished our open source tutorial about patents and how they relate to better living through comprehensive sustainability.

Finished Open Source Tutorial About Patents and How They Relate to Open Source Creation

And the core team working with Emilio Nájera (Digital Marketer) also wrote new ads for all our volunteer campaigns and continued fine tuning the Donations campaigns, some of which you can see here, promoting better living through comprehensive sustainability.

Wrote New Ads for All Our Volunteer Campaigns and Continued Fine Tuning the Donations Campaigns

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

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

 

INVESTOR PAGES

OVERVIEW | LOCATION | FUNDING

GET INVOLVED

DONATE | WAYS ANYONE CAN HELP | MEMBERSHIP

CLICK HERE FOR ALL PAST UPDATES

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, fostering better living through comprehensive sustainability.

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.

WHY ONE COMMUNITY IS CREATING THIS

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

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

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

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.

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

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

OPEN SOURCE SHARING STRATEGY SPECIFICS

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

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

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

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

SUMMARY

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