Ecological human progress is needed if we desire to achieve some level of sustainable balance with our planet and all life on it. To accomplish this, the main foundations of our living experience should be addressed sustainably. These would include food, energy, housing, education, economic design, and social architecture. If we make the sustainable solutions to all these areas open source and free-shared, we can evolve and expand them faster for the benefit of everyone. One Community is an all-volunteer team working on this as a model for 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 June 18th, 2017 edition (#221) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments:

Ecological Human Progress
One Community Progress Update #221

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

ECOLOGICAL HUMAN PROGRESS: INTRO: @:35

ECOLOGICAL HUMAN PROGRESS: HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING: @7:58

ECOLOGICAL HUMAN PROGRESS: DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER: @10:21

• Added the new search engine to the City Center open source hub and finalized updating the formatting of that page to match the updated Earthbag Village and Straw Bale Village pages (see below)
• Finished creation of the TableChair portion of the DIY Pipe Furniture tutorial page (see below)
• Ramya Vudi continued with her development of the PV Solar micro-grid tutorial behind the scenes (see below)
• Shubham Agrawal continued his work on the wind power tutorials developing behind the scenes
• Aravind Vasudevan continued his work on the City Center basement heating and cooling details (see below)

ECOLOGICAL HUMAN PROGRESS HIGHEST GOOD FOOD: @11:49

• Created two new sections under bulk goods on the Food Self-sufficiency Transition Plan page and added the images and procurement details (see below)

ECOLOGICAL HUMAN PROGRESS: HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION: @12:23

• Continued the process of a final proofreading and editing of all 52 lesson plans (see below)
• Continued working on the renders for the Ultimate Classroom projection-dome feature
• Finished editing the introduction video that preceded the education section and began research and behind-the-scenes work on the licensing and accreditation tutorial (see below)

ECOLOGICAL HUMAN PROGRESS: HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY: @13:24

• Completed another 25% of the final edits to the open source Taxes and Sustainable Community Building page (see below)
• Jennifer Zhou created and input the first round of images needed for the open source and replicable annual social media strategy (see below)
• Sowmya Manohar and Jono Lewis completed their collective 7th week of work on the The Highest Good Network (see below)

ECOLOGICAL HUMAN PROGRESS: SUMMARY: @14:15

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ECOLOGICAL HUMAN PROGRESS: HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

One Community is facilitating ecological human progress 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 last week the core team created a new icon set and new open source portal section on the Tropical Atrium open source hub. You can see the new icons and web content here.

Created a New Icon Set and New Open Source Portal Section on the Tropical Atrium Page

We also added new resource and Advantages and Disadvantages sections to the Earthbag Village and Straw Bale Village open source hubs.

Added New Resource to Earthbag Village and Straw Bale Village Pages – Click to Visit Page

And we explored adding a 2nd-floor fire-code compliant window to the domes.

Additionally, the core team revised the layout and floor plan for the Compressed Earth Block Village (Pod 4), as shown here.

Working with the core team, Ashwin Patil (Web Developer) also finished version 2.0 of the new search engines for Villages 3-7 and then we added those search engines to the related pages.

Finished Version 2.0 of the New Search Engines for Villages 3-7 – Click to Visit Page

Alena Thompson (Mechanical Engineer) completed her 18th week helping with the Net-zero Communal Bathroom Designs. This week’s focus was creating a second round of renders for the tutorial and outlining the new sections that will include these renders.

Continued Working on Net-zero Communal Bathroom Designs – Click to Visit Page

Dean Scholz (Architectural Designer) continued helping us create quality Cob Village (Pod 3) renders. Here is update 73 of Dean’s work, this week’s focus was beginning work on the renders for the central dining and presentation space.

Continued Creating Cob Village Renders – Click for Page

Hamilton Mateca (AutoCAD and Revit Drafter and Designer) also finished his 45th week helping with the Compressed Earth Block Village (Pod 4) design and render details. This week’s focus was adding additional blue brick details to the labyrinth area and a new round of complete village test renders.

Continued Helping with Compressed Earth Block Village Design and Render Details – Click for Page

Aparna Tandon(Architect) continued her work on the Compressed Earth Block Village external elements. What you see here is her 27th week of work, focusing on finishing Zone 7 and beginning the Zone 8 designs and visualizations, as shown here.

Continued Working on Compressed Earth Block Village External Elements – Click for Page

And Guy Grossfeld (Graphic Designer) continued helping with the updates to the Tree House Village (Pod 7) furniture and building textures. What you see here are 4th-generation renders of the kitchen, bathroom and shower structures, library, playroom, and residential structures.

Continued with Updates to Tree House Village Furniture and Building Textures – Click for Page

ECOLOGICAL HUMAN PROGRESS: DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

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

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

This week the core team added the new search engine to the City Center open source hub and finalized updating the formatting of that page to match the updated Earthbag Village and Straw Bale Village pages.

Added New Search Engine to City Center Open Source Hub – Click for Page

The core team also finished creation of the TableChair portion of the DIY Pipe Furniture tutorial page. You can see pictures of this work here.

Finished Creating the TableChair portion of the DIY Pipe Furniture Tutorial Page – Click to Visit

Ramya Vudi (Electrical Engineer) continued with her development of the PV Solar micro-grid tutorial behind the scenes. This week’s focus was on the battery sizing and maintenance and control sections shown here.

Continued Development of the PV Solar Micro-Grid Tutorials – Click for Page

Shubham Agrawal (Electrical Engineer) also continued his work on the wind power tutorials developing behind the scenes. This week’s focus was on the Industry Outlook, FAQ, Summary, and Resources sections shown here.

Continued Working on the Wind Power Tutorials Developing – Click for Page

Aravind Vasudevan (BA Mechanical Engineering) also continued his work on the City Center basement heating and cooling details. This week’s focus was further research and starting development of the climate battery explanation and tutorial that we’ll be adding to the City Center Heating and Cooling open source hub. You can see some of this work here.

Continued Working on the City Center Basement Heating and Cooling Details – Click for Page

ECOLOGICAL HUMAN PROGRESS: HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

One Community is facilitating ecological human progress 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 created two new sections under bulk goods on the Food Self-sufficiency Transition Plan page, one section for grains and one for dried fruits, and added the images and procurement details that you see here:

Created New Sections on Food Self-Sufficiency Transition Plan Page – Click to Visit

ECOLOGICAL HUMAN PROGRESS: HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

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

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

This last week the core team continued the process of a final proofreading and editing of all 52 lesson plans. This week we completed the Happiness Lesson Plan and the Harmony Lesson Plan. This brings us to 28 of 52 finished, which is 53.8% completion.

Continued Process of Editing all 52 Lesson Plans – Click for Lesson Plans for Life Page

Additionally, we continued working on the renders for the Ultimate Classroom projection-dome feature. This included exploring different fisheye images with the projection tool and adjusted the lighting.

Continued Working on Renders for Ultimate Classroom Projection Dome – Click for Page

This all led to creation of this retouched and final version:

Retouched and Final Version of Ultimate Classroom Projection Dome – Click for Page

We also finished editing the introduction video that preceded this Education section and began research and behind-the-scenes work on the licensing and accreditation tutorial.

Finished Editing Section of Education Video for the Video Blog and Began Research – Click to Visit

ECOLOGICAL HUMAN PROGRESS: HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS

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

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

This week the core team completed another 25% of the final edits to the open source Taxes and Sustainable Community Building page, this brings us to 75% complete with that page.

Completed Additional 25% of Final Edits to Taxes and Sustainable Community Building Page

Jennifer Zhou (Web Designer) created and input the first round of images needed for the open source and replicable annual social media strategy.

Worked on the Open Source and Replicable Annual Social Media Strategy – Click for Page

And Sowmya Manohar (Software Engineer, Web Developer & Net Application Developer) and Jono Lewis (Software Developer) completed their collective 7th week of work on the The Highest Good Network. This week they connected authentication in the front end of the application to the back end using a new token-based API system and continued development on editing users and time entry.

Continued Working on the Highest Good Network – Click for Page

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WHAT ONE COMMUNITY IS CREATING

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

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

Throughout our design process, we are open sourcing and free-sharing everything needed for construction and replication, with a focus on advancing ecological human progress. 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, pioneering ecological human progress. 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, each contributing to ecological human progress. Villages include designs appropriate for each of the five main types of climates. They also include options for even the most challenged economies. These hubs will collaborate with one another, share ideas, and resources, and work together as a network to heal the planet. They will also transform the global lifestyle into a more enjoyable, fulfilling, healthy, and sustainable one.

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

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

INSPIRING SUSTAINABILITY WITH OPEN SOURCE

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

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

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

COMPREHENSIVE SOLUTION TO HUMANITY’S NEEDS

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

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

GLOBALLY IMPLEMENTABLE REPLICATION MODEL

The more people that are inspired and desiring for themselves what it is that One Community creates, the more demand there will be for spreading the One Community model. This leads to the directing of financial resources and resourceful people where we believe they are needed most: the establishment of additional sustainable communities around the world.

We also feel this duplication will specifically happen quickly internationally due to the affordability of overseas land, less restrictive building environments, and the spirit of adventure in many people who really desire to make a difference for those who need it most. This collective effort towards establishing sustainable communities globally not only fosters ecological human progress but also contributes to the realization of a more sustainable and equitable future for all.

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

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

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

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

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

Does prosperity require competition and capitalism? What if we create prosperity built on sustainability and cooperation instead? If we agree this is a worthwhile idea, working together we could easily combine sustainable food, energy, housing, education, economic design, social architecture, and even fulfilled living practices to provide a self-sufficient living model that would eliminate almost all living expenses and provide a better way of living than the way most people are experiencing now.

We could further share this model as an eco-tourism destination to provide revenue for expansion without people having to work traditional jobs; the experience of how they were living would be enjoyable enough that people would want to vacation and visit. This is the foundation of One Community’s model for world change and we’re open sourcing it as a model for 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 June 11th, 2017 edition (#220) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments:

Prosperity Built on Sustainability
One Community Progress Update #220

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

PROSPERITY BUILT ON SUSTAINABILITY INTRO: @:35

PROSPERITY BUILT ON SUSTAINABILITY: HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING: @7:19

PROSPERITY BUILT ON SUSTAINABILITY: DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER: @9:20

• Created the styles options image for the Pipe Furniture page and several single-image renders (see below)
• Dipti Dhondarkar continued with her 38th week of work on the lighting specifics for the City Center (see below)
• Ramya Vudi and Shubham Agrawal continued their work on the City Center electrical design and tutorials with Mike Hogan (see below)
• Aravind Vasudevan continued his work on the City Center basement heating and cooling details (see below)
• Jin Yu completed her 16th week working on the City Center Footers, Foundation, and Flooring tutorial (see below)
• Jennifer Zhou helped with her 2nd round of website content for the eco-laundry page (see below)

PROSPERITY BUILT ON SUSTAINABILITY: HIGHEST GOOD FOOD: @11:17

• Created another 3 additional new header images for the Food Self-sufficiency Transition Plan page (see below)

PROSPERITY BUILT ON SUSTAINABILITY: HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION: @11:43

• Continued the process of a final proofreading and editing of all 52 lesson plans (see below)
• Continued working on the renders for the Ultimate Classroom projection-dome feature (see below)

PROSPERITY BUILT ON SUSTAINABILITY: HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY: @12:33

• Completed 50% of the final edits to the open source Taxes and Sustainable Community Building (see below)
• Working with Ashwin Patil, we continued developing the new search engines that will make our site easier to navigate (see below)
• Sowmya Manohar and Jono Lewis completed their collective 6th week of work on the The Highest Good Network (see below)

PROSPERITY BUILT ON SUSTAINABILITY SUMMARY: @13:18

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PROSPERITY BUILT ON SUSTAINABILITY: HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

One Community is cultivating prosperity built on 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

The core team continued creating the Open Source Murphy bed furniture step-by-step instructions. As shown here, we revised the layouts, added new pages, new icons, and new photos.

Continued Creating the Open Source Murphy Bed Furniture Step-by-Step Instructions – Click for Page

Also our core team continued building the Sketchup 3D version of the Net-zero bathroom for the Earthbag Village. This last week we added in barrels, the central platform, roof hatch entrance, and the ladder.

Continued Building Sketchup 3D Version of Net-zero Bathroom for Earthbag Village – Click for Page

Continued Working on Net-zero Communal Bathroom Designs – Click to Visit Page

Dean Scholz (Architectural Designer) continued helping us create quality Cob Village (Pod 3) renders. Here is update 72 of Dean’s work, this week’s focus was finishing all 4 of these final render views of the northwest living wing of the village:

Cob Village Concept Render – West Wing Bathroom – Click for Page

Cob Village Concept Render – West Wing Looking Down – Click for Page

Cob Village Concept Render – West Wing Looking Northwest – Click for Page

Cob Village Concept Render – West Wing Looking South – Click for Page

Hamilton Mateca (AutoCAD and Revit Drafter and Designer) also finished his 44th week helping with the Compressed Earth Block Village (Pod 4) design and render details. This week’s focus was new textures for the North landscaping area and beginning final-render-perspective testing.

Continued Helping with Compressed Earth Block Village Design and Render Details – Click for Page

Aparna Tandon (Architect) continued her work on the Compressed Earth Block Village external elements. What you see here is her 26th week of work, focusing on Zone 7 designs and visualizations, as shown here.

Continued Working on Compressed Earth Block Village External Elements – Click for Page

And Guy Grossfeld (Graphic Designer) continued helping with the updates to the Tree House Village (Pod 7) furniture and building textures. What you see here are a combination of the art structure renders and a few screenshots from the weekly collaborative call.

Continued with Updates to Tree House Village Furniture and Building Textures – Click for Page

PROSPERITY BUILT ON SUSTAINABILITY: DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

One Community is cultivating prosperity built on 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 created the styles options image for the Pipe Furniture page and several single-image renders. We also added all current images to the web page with text and descriptions, hover text, click to enlarge options, and center formatting.

Created the Styles Options Image for Pipe Furniture Page and Several Single-Image Renders

Dipti Dhondarkar, (Electrical Engineer) continued with her 38th week of work on the lighting specifics for the City Center. This week’s focus was continued modeling and initial lighting testing within the Social Dome.

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

Ramya Vudi (Electrical Engineer) and Shubham Agrawal (Electrical Engineer) continued their work on the City Center electrical design and tutorials with Mike Hogan (Automation Systems Developer and Business Systems Consultant. What you see here are pictures of this week’s updated electrical overview and Ramya and Shubham‘s PV Solar micro-grid and wind power tutorials developing behind the scenes.

Continued Working on the City Center Electrical Design and Tutorials – Click for Page

Aravind Vasudevan (BA Mechanical Engineering) also continued his work on the City Center basement heating and cooling details. This week’s focus was researching how a climate battery works and can be included in our designs. You can version 1.0 of Aravind’s report here.

Continued Working on the City Center Basement Heating and Cooling Details – Click for Page

Jin Yu (Structural Engineering Designer) also completed her 16th week working on the City Center Footers, Foundation, and Flooring tutorial. This week’s focus was writing more content for the moisture control and cinder block wall sections, as shown here.

Continued Working on Concrete Foundation Design and Tutorial Details for the City Center

And Jennifer Zhou (Web Designer) helped with her 2nd round of website content for the eco-laundry page, updating the text formatting, replacing all the images with higher quality ones, and adding click to enlarge options wherever needed.

Helped Create Second Round of Website Content for Eco-Laundry Page – Click to Visit

PROSPERITY BUILT ON SUSTAINABILITY: HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

One Community is cultivating prosperity built on 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 created another 3 additional new header images for the Food Self-sufficiency Transition Plan page, for the bulk goods sections, as you see here.

Created Additional Images for Food Self-Sufficiency Transition Plan Page – Click to Visit

PROSPERITY BUILT ON SUSTAINABILITY: HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

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

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

This last week the core team continued the process of a final proofreading and editing of all 52 lesson plans. This week we completed the Creativity Lesson Plan and the Emotional States Lesson Plan. This brings us to 26 of 52 finished, which is 50% completion.

Continued Process of Editing all 52 Lesson Plans – Click for Lesson Plans for Life Page

We also continued working on the renders for the Ultimate Classroom projection-dome feature. This included using a different view point for rendering, and applying several different projected images, as seen here.

Continued Working on Renders for Ultimate Classroom Projection Dome – Click for Page

PROSPERITY BUILT ON SUSTAINABILITY: HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS

One Community is cultivating prosperity built on 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 completed 50% of the final edits to the open source Taxes and Sustainable Community Building page.

Completed 50% of Final Edits to Taxes and Sustainable Community Building Page – Click to Visit

Working with Ashwin Patil (Web Developer) , we also continued developing the new search engines that will make our site easier to navigate. This week we finished the City Center search engine and another round of edits and revisions for the Earthbag Village search engine.

Continued Helping Develop the New Search Engines for Our Site – Click for City Center

Additionally, Sowmya Manohar (Software Engineer, Web Developer & Net Application Developer) and Jono Lewis (Software Developer) completed their collective 6th week of work on the The Highest Good Network. This week’s focus was continued implementation and coding for the simple authentication model and adding the ability to log time entries.

Continued Working on the Highest Good Network – Click for Page

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

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INVESTOR PAGES

OVERVIEW       ●       LOCATION       ●       FUNDING

GET INVOLVED

CONSULTANTS     ●     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 prosperity built on 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 of prosperity built on sustainability, showcasing what is possible.

Throughout our design process of creating prosperity built on sustainability, 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.

PROSPERITY BUILT ON SUSTAINABILITY: BUILDING THE FIRST OF MANY

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

WHY ONE COMMUNITY IS CREATING THIS

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

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

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

INSPIRING SUSTAINABILITY WITH OPEN SOURCE

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

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

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

COMPREHENSIVE SOLUTION TO HUMANITY’S NEEDS

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

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

GLOBALLY IMPLEMENTABLE REPLICATION MODEL

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

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

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

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

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

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

Open source and free-shared sustainable food, energy, and housing infrastructure is one path to maximizing sustainability evolution within our lifetime. Adding education, sustainable economics, and social architecture can further this goal by making sustainability more attractive to the average person. In this way, One Community is building a global all-volunteer team collaborating to create a self-replicating model for positive and permanent global change 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 June 4th, 2017 edition (#219) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments:

Maximizing Sustainability Evolution
One Community Progress Update #219

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

MAXIMIZING SUSTAINABILITY EVOLUTION INTRO: @0:35

MAXIMIZING SUSTAINABILITY EVOLUTION HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING: @8:39

• Created 7 new eco-laundry icons and new eco-laundry header image (see below)
• Updated the Earthbag Village living dome beds render (see below)
• Created new Earthbag Village furniture header (see below)
• Created new Tree House Village layout for the 7 villages online book (see below)
• Integrated a new search engine into the Straw Bale Village open source hub and updated that page (see below)
• Continued updating and revising the Earthbag Village open source AutoCAD files (see below)
• Alena Thompson completed her 16th week helping with the Net-zero Communal Bathroom Designs (see below)
• Christian Ojeda completed his 16th week helping with the heat-recycling Communal Eco-shower and Vermiculture Bathroom designs (see below)
• Dean Scholz continued helping us create quality Cob Village renders (see below)
• Hamilton Mateca finished his 43rd week helping with the Compressed Earth Block Village design and render details (see below)
• Guy Grossfeld continued helping with the updates to the Tree House Village furniture and building textures (see below)

MAXIMIZING SUSTAINABILITY EVOLUTION DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER: @11:03

• Created initial image collages for the City Center DIY Pipe Furniture tutorial (see below)
• Haoxuan “Hayes” Lei, Shuna Ni, and Aravind Vasudevan continued their work on the City Center structural engineering (see below)
• Ramya Vudi and Shubham Agrawal continued their work on the City Center electrical design and tutorials with Mike Hogan (see below)
• Ramya also worked on developing the PV Solar micro-grid tutorial (see below)
• Shubham also worked on developing the wind power tutorial (see below)
• Jin Yu completed her 15th week working on the City Center Footers, Foundation, and Flooring tutorial (see below)
• Jennifer Zhou helped create this first round of website content for the eco-laundry page (see below)

MAXIMIZING SUSTAINABILITY EVOLUTION HIGHEST GOOD FOOD: @12:50

• Created 3 additional new header images for the Food Self-sufficiency Transition Plan page (see below)

MAXIMIZING SUSTAINABILITY EVOLUTION HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION: @13:15

• Continued the process of a final proofreading and editing of all 52 lesson plans (see below)
• Continued working on the renders for the Ultimate Classroom projection-dome feature (see below)

MAXIMIZING SUSTAINABILITY EVOLUTION HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY: @14:05

• Ashwin Patil,working with the core team, continued helping develop the new search engines that will make our site easier to navigate (see below)

MAXIMIZING SUSTAINABILITY EVOLUTION SUMMARY: @14:25

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MAXIMIZING SUSTAINABILITY EVOLUTION HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

One Community is maximizing sustainability evolution 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

The core team created 7 new eco-laundry icons….

Created 7 New Eco-Laundry Icons – Click for Page

Created New Eco-Laundry Header Image – Click for Page

Updated Earthbag Village Living Dome Beds Render – Click for Page

Created New Earthbag Village Furniture Header – Click for Page

Created New Tree House Village Layout for 7 Villages Online Book – Click for Page

Integrated New Search Engine Into Straw Bale Village Open Source Hub – Click for Page

The core team also continued updating and revising the Earthbag Village open source AutoCAD files, making them clearer and easier to read.

Continued Updating and Revising the Earthbag Village AutoCAD Files – Click for Page

Alena Thompson (Mechanical Engineer) completed her 16th week helping with the Net-zero Communal Bathroom Designs. This week’s focus was adding more details to the related calculations and beginning the process of final renders for the final presentation.

Continued Working on Net-zero Communal Bathroom Designs – Click to Visit Page

Christian Ojeda (Mechatronic Engineer) completed his 16th week helping with the heat-recycling Communal Eco-shower and Vermiculture Bathroom designs. This week’s focus was the initial layout for the piping that will supply the fountains and spigots.

Continued with Communal Eco-Shower and Vermiculture Bathroom Designs – Click to Visit Page

Dean Scholz (Architectural Designer) continued helping us create quality Cob Village (Pod 3) renders. Here is update 71 of Dean’s work that continued developing the lighting and texture details for renders of the Northwest residential wing, as shown here.

Continued Helping us Create Quality Cob Village – Click to Visit Page

Hamilton Mateca (AutoCAD and Revit Drafter and Designer) also finished his 43rd week helping with the Compressed Earth Block Village (Pod 4) design and render details. This week’s focus was continued work on the landscaping elevation, textures, and layout details around the meditation labyrinth, as shown here.

Continued Helping with Compressed Earth Block Village Design and Render Details – Click for Page

And Guy Grossfeld (Graphic Designer) continued helping with the updates to the Tree House Village (Pod 7) furniture and building textures, as shown here.

Continued with Updates to Tree House Village Furniture and Building Textures – Click for Page

MAXIMIZING SUSTAINABILITY EVOLUTION DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

One Community is maximizing sustainability evolution 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 created initial image collages for the City Center DIY Pipe Furniture tutorial.

Created Initial Image Collages for the City Center DIY Pipe Furniture – Click to Visit Page

Haoxuan “Hayes” Lei (Structural Engineer), Shuna Ni (Masters of Mechanical Engineering and Civil Engineering PhD), and Aravind Vasudevan (BA Mechanical Engineering) also continued their work on the City Center structural engineering. This week’s focus was more wind load calculations, roof design updates, and exploring wood connections and a wood frame option to replace our original plan for steel.

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

Ramya Vudi (Electrical Engineer) and Shubham Agrawal (Electrical Engineer) continued their work on the City Center electrical design and tutorials with Mike Hogan (Automation Systems Developer and Business Systems Consultant. Here are pictures from our weekly collaborative call continuing to discuss and refine the overall layout:

Continued Working on the City Center Electrical Design and Tutorials – Click for Page

Here are pictures of Ramya‘s work this week developing the PV Solar micro-grid tutorial behind the scenes.

In Process Developing the Photovoltaic Solar Micro-Grid Tutorial – Click for Page

Here are pictures of Shubham‘s work this week developing the wind power tutorial behind the scenes.

Worked on Developing the Wind Power Tutorial Behind the Scenes – Click for Page

Jin Yu (Structural Engineering Designer) also completed her 15th week working on the City Center Footers, Foundation, and Flooring tutorial. This week’s focus was writing more content for the water proofing and workflow sections, some of which you can see in these behind-the-scenes screenshots.

Continued Working on Concrete Foundation Design and Tutorial Details for the City Center

And Jennifer Zhou (Web Designer) helped create this first round of website content for the eco-laundry page.

Helped Create First Round of Website Content for Eco-Laundry Page – Click to Visit

MAXIMIZING SUSTAINABILITY EVOLUTION HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

One Community is maximizing sustainability evolution 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 created 3 additional new header images for the Food Self-sufficiency Transition Plan page, as you see here:

Created Additional Images for the Food Self-Sufficiency Transition Plan Page – Click to Visit

MAXIMIZING SUSTAINABILITY EVOLUTION HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

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

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

This last week the core team continued the process of a final proofreading and editing of all 52 lesson plans. This week we completed the Civilization Lesson Plan and the Courage Lesson Plan. This brings us to 24 of 52 finished, which is 46.1% completion.

Continued Process of Editing all 52 Lesson Plans – Click for Lesson Plans for Life Page

We also continued working on the renders for the Ultimate Classroom projection-dome feature. This included using the projector option of the lights tool of Twilight Render to generate a couple of renders with different projected images, as shown here.

Continued Working on Renders for Ultimate Classroom Projection Dome – Click for Page

MAXIMIZING SUSTAINABILITY EVOLUTION HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS

One Community is maximizing sustainability evolution 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

Working with the core team, Ashwin Patil (Web Developer) also continued helping develop the new search engines that will make our site easier to navigate. This week we finished the Straw Bale Village search engine and another round of review, edits, and updates to the City Center and Earthbag Village search engines. You can see some of this work in progress here.

Continued Helping Develop the New Search Engines for Our Site – Click for Straw Bale Village

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

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

 

INVESTOR PAGES

OVERVIEW       ●       LOCATION       ●       FUNDING

GET INVOLVED

CONSULTANTS     ●     WAYS ANYONE CAN HELP     ●     MEMBERSHIP

CLICK HERE FOR ALL PAST UPDATES

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.

MAXIMIZING SUSTAINABILITY EVOLUTION BUILDING THE FIRST OF MANY

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

WHY ONE COMMUNITY IS CREATING THIS

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

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

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

INSPIRING SUSTAINABILITY WITH OPEN SOURCE

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

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

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

Creating a better planet for us all is possible if enough people want it and choose to participate. Making participation easy enough, affordable enough, and attractive enough is a time-tested approach that has been very successful in traditional marketing models. Using open source principles to apply this idea of “easy, affordable, and attractive” to all aspects of sustainable and self-sufficient living (food, energy, housing, education, for-profit and non-profit economic design, social architecture, fulfilled living, global stewardship practices, etc.) is One Community’s approach to creating positive change for what we call “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 the movement of creating a better planet for us all as the first of many self-replicating teacher/demonstration communities, villages, and cities to be built around the world. This is the May 28th, 2017 edition (#218) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments:

Creating a Better Planet for us All
One Community Progress Update #218

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

CREATING A BETTER PLANET FOR US ALL INTRO: @0:35

CREATING A BETTER PLANET FOR US ALL HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING: @6:51

CREATING A BETTER PLANET FOR US ALL DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER: @8:40

• Created detailed AutoCAD drawings for inclusion in the City Center Footers, Foundation, and Flooring tutorial (see below)
• Created and added new render image for the Duplicable City Center Dining Dome kitchen area to the site (see below)
• Continued refining the City Center Control and Automation Systems overview image for the online book (see below)
• Haoxuan “Hayes” Lei and Shuna Ni now joined by Aravind Vasudevan continued their work on the City Center structural engineering (see below)
• Ramya Vudi and Shubham Agrawal continued their work on the City Center energy details with Mike Hogan (see below)
• Jin Yu completed her 14th week working on the City Center Footers, Foundation, and Flooring tutorial (see below)

CREATING A BETTER PLANET FOR US ALL HIGHEST GOOD FOOD: @10:30

• Created 2 additional new images for the Sustainable Food Nutrition Calculations page and one additional image for the Food Self-sufficiency Transition Plan page (see below)

CREATING A BETTER PLANET FOR US ALL HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION: @11:00

• Completed the final 75% of the mindmap for the Contribution Lesson Plan and the final 50% of the mindmap for the Cosmos Lesson Plan, which completes all 52 mindmaps, one for each of our 52 lesson plans! (see below)
• Continued the process of a final proofreading and editing of all 52 lesson plans (see below)
• Began working on renders for the Ultimate Classroom projection dome feature (see below)
• Updated the Ultimate Classroom with new render positions

CREATING A BETTER PLANET FOR US ALL HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY: @12:03

CREATING A BETTER PLANET FOR US ALL SUMMARY: @12:23

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

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CREATING A BETTER PLANET FOR US ALL HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

One Community is creating a better planet for us all 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 last week the core team updated the complete Earthbag Village open source hub with new images and an easier to follow structure. You can see some snapshots of this work here:

Creating a Better Planet for us All – Updated Complete Earthbag Village Open Source Hub

The core team also continued updating and revising the Earthbag Village open source AutoCAD files, making them clearer and easier to read.

Creating a Better Planet for us All – Updating & Revising the Earthbag Village AutoCAD Files

Alena Thompson (Mechanical Engineer) completed her 15th week helping with the Net-zero Communal Bathroom Designs. This week’s focus was beginning to create a parts list, final cost analysis, and the final presentation you see here.

Creating a Better Planet for us All – Working on Net-zero Communal Bathroom Designs – Click to Visit

Dean Scholz (Architectural Designer) continued helping us create quality Cob Village (Pod 3) renders. Here is update 70 of Dean’s work that continued developing the lighting and texture details for renders of the Northwest residential wing, as shown here:

Creating a Better Planet for us All – Helping us Create Quality Cob Village – Click to Visit Page

Hamilton Mateca (AutoCAD and Revit Drafter and Designer) also finished his 42nd week helping with the Compressed Earth Block Village (Pod 4) design and render details. This week’s focus was continued work on the landscaping elevation and layout details around the meditation labyrinth, as shown here.

Continued Helping with Compressed Earth Block Village Design and Render Details – Click for Page

Aparna Tandon (Architect) continued her work on the Compressed Earth Block Village external elements. What you see here is her 25th week of work, focusing on further 3D visualizations and development of Zone 9 exercise spaces, raised planters, climbing bridges, and seating areas, as shown here.

Creating a Better Planet for us All – Working on the Compressed Earth Block Village External Elements

CREATING A BETTER PLANET FOR US ALL DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

One Community is creating a better planet for us all 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 created these detailed AutoCAD drawings for inclusion in the City Center Footers, Foundation, and Flooring tutorial.

Created Detailed AutoCAD Drawings for Inclusion In the City Center F.F.F. Tutorial – Click for Page

And we created and added this new render image for the Duplicable City Center Dining Dome kitchen area to the site. Render updates included placing structural columns, adjusting lights, updating the texture of the floor and the color of the dome.

Created and Added New Render Image for Dining Dome Kitchen Area to the Site

We also continued refining the City Center Control and Automation Systems overview image for the online book, you can see one of our brainstorming images and the polished version of this new layout here:

Continued Refining the City Center Control and Automation Systems Overview Image

Haoxuan “Hayes” Lei (Structural Engineer) and Shuna Ni (Masters of Mechanical Engineering and Civil Engineering PhD), now joined by Aravind Vasudevan (BA Mechanical Engineering), also continued their work on the City Center structural engineering. This week’s focus was more research and modeling for the the central dome connectors, additional wind calculations, and updating the structural engineering Master File.

Creating a Better Planet for us All – Working on the City Center Structural Engineering – Click for Page

Ramya Vudi (Electrical Engineer) and Shubham Agrawal (Electrical Engineer) continued their work on the City Center energy details with Mike Hogan (Automation Systems Developer and Business Systems Consultant. This week’s focus was more content for the tutorials and discussion and further development of the layout details shown here.

Creating a Better Planet for us All – Working on the Energy Infrastructure for the City Center

Jin Yu (Structural Engineering Designer) also completed her 14th week working on the City Center Footers, Foundation, and Flooring tutorial. This week’s focus was writing content for the workflow section, some of which you can see in these behind-the-scenes screenshots.

Creating a Better Planet for us All – Working on Concrete Foundation Design & Tutorial Details

CREATING A BETTER PLANET FOR US ALL HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

One Community is creating a better planet for us all 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 last week, the core team created 2 additional new images for the Sustainable Food Nutrition Calculations page and one additional image for the Food Self-sufficiency Transition Plan page, as you see here:

Created Additional Images for the Food Pages – Click to Visit Page

CREATING A BETTER PLANER FOR US ALL HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

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

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

This last week the core team completed the final 75% of the mindmap for the Contribution Lesson Plan and the final 50% of the mindmap for the Cosmos Lesson Plan, as you can see here. This completes all 52 mindmaps, one for each of our 52 lesson plans!

Lesson Plan Mindmap for Contribution Complete – Click for Page

Lesson Plan Mindmap for Cosmos Complete – Click for Page

And continued the process of a final proofreading and editing of all 52 lesson plans. This week we completed the Work Lesson Plan and the Beliefs Lesson Plan. This brings us to 22 of 52 finished, which is 42.3% completion.

Continued Process of Editing all 52 Lesson Plans – Click for Lesson Plans for Life Page

We also began working on the renders for the Ultimate Classroom projection dome feature. This included learning how to map photo textures to curved surfaces by watching the “Google SketchUp For Dummies“ video (created by Aidan Chopra) and applying what we learned to place a projected image for the Ultimate Classroom dome ceiling, as shown here.

Began Working on Renders for Ultimate Classroom Projection Dome Feature – Click for Page

And the core team updated the Ultimate Classroom with new render positions, as you can see here:

Updated the Ultimate Classroom with New Render Positions – Click for Page

CREATING A BETTER PLANET FOR US ALL HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS

One Community is creating a better planet for us all through a Highest Good society approach to living that is founded on fulfilled living, the study of meeting human needs, Community, and making a difference in the world:

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

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

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

 

INVESTOR PAGES

OVERVIEW       ●       LOCATION       ●       FUNDING

GET INVOLVED

CONSULTANTS     ●     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.

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.

CREATING A BETTER PLANET FOR US ALL BUILDING THE FIRST OF MANY

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

WHY ONE COMMUNITY IS CREATING THIS

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

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

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

INSPIRING SUSTAINABILITY WITH OPEN SOURCE

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

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

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

Global Highest Good network creation is about creating a network of people interested in working together for the betterment of each other and all life on this planet. Accomplishing this means sustainably addressing food, energy, housing, education, for-profit and non-profit economic design, social architecture, fulfilled living, global stewardship practices, and more with open source and free-shared designs created with a Highest Good mindset and goals.

• 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 May 21st, 2017 edition (#217) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments:

Global Highest Good Network Creation
One Community Progress Update #217

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

GLOBAL HIGHEST GOOD NETWORK CREATION INTRO: @:35

GLOBAL HIGHEST GOOD NETWORK CREATION HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING: @6:59

GLOBAL HIGHEST GOOD NETWORK CREATION DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER: @9:05

• Took Jin Yu’s hand drawings and converted them into the version 1.0 AutoCAD drawings (see below)
• Created two new versions of the Advanced Automations pages for the 7 villages online book (see below)
• Dipti Dhondarkar continued with her 37th week of work on the lighting specifics for the City Center (see below)
• Haoxuan “Hayes” Lei and Shuna Ni continued their work on the City Center structural engineering (see below)
• Shubham Agrawal continued his work on the City Center energy details with Mike Hogan (see below)
• Jin Yu completed her 13th week working on the concrete foundation details (see below)
• Ashwin Patil continued helping develop the new Search Engines for our site (see below)

GLOBAL HIGHEST GOOD NETWORK CREATION HIGHEST GOOD FOOD: @11:01

• Created 3 additional new images for the Sustainable Food Nutrition Calculations page (see below)

GLOBAL HIGHEST GOOD NETWORK CREATION HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION: @11:26

• Completed final 75% of the mindmap for Consensus and Decision Making Lesson Plan and final 75% of the mindmap for Fulfilled Living Lesson Plan (see below)
• Continued the process of a final proofreading and editing of all 52 lesson plans (see below)
• Continued working on the renders for the Ultimate Classroom (see below)
• Created new updated Ultimate Classroom overview image (see below)

GLOBAL HIGHEST GOOD NETWORK CREATION HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY: @12:32

• Created the new video background, transitions, imagery, and other details that were played in the background of this week’s new-format intro (see below)
• Sowmya Manohar and Jono Lewis completed their collective 5th week of work on the The Highest Good Network (see below)

GLOBAL HIGHEST GOOD NETWORK CREATION SUMMARY: @13:03

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

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GLOBAL HIGHEST GOOD NETWORK CREATION HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

One Community is developing global highest good network 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

The core team working on the Earthbag Village completed another round of updates to this top view rendered image for the 3-dome cluster. We updated the placement of the Murphy bed and moved the other furniture to better reflect how much space will be available in these structures.

Completed Another Round of Edits to Top View Render of 3 Dome Cluster – Click for Page

We also updated this open bed view of the Murphy bed with the same changes:

Updated Open Bed View of the Murphy Bed – Click for Earthbag Village Furniture Page

Alena Thompson (Mechanical Engineer) completed her 14th week helping with the Net-zero Communal Bathroom Designs. This week’s focus was placing the pump box and another round of piping updates related to this and other small layout changes.

Continued Working on Net-zero Communal Bathroom Designs – Click to Visit Page

Christian Ojeda (Mechatronic Engineer) completed his 15th week helping with the heat-recycling Communal Eco-shower and Vermiculture Bathroom designs. This week’s focus was more septic research and piping design, chamber design, pump details, and starting to explore locations for water fountains and spigots.

Continued Helping with Heat-Recycling Communal Eco-Shower & Vermiculture Bathroom Designs

Dean Scholz (Architectural Designer) continued helping us create quality Cob Village (Pod 3) renders. Here is update 69 of Dean’s work that is now focusing on the Northwest residential wing, as shown here.

Continued Helping us Create Quality Cob Village – Click to Visit Page

Hamilton Mateca (AutoCAD and Revit Drafter and Designer) also finished his 41st week helping with the Compressed Earth Block Village (Pod 4) design and render details. This week’s focus was continued work on the landscaping details around the meditation labyrinth, as shown here.

Continued Helping with Compressed Earth Block Village Design and Render Details – Click for Page

Aparna Tandon (Architect) continued her work on the Compressed Earth Block Village external elements. What you see here is her 24th week of work, focusing on further development of Zone 9 exercise spaces, raised planters, climbing bridges, and seating areas, as shown here.

Continued Working on the Compressed Earth Block Village External Elements – Click for Page

GLOBAL HIGHEST GOOD NETWORK CREATION DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

One Community is developing global highest good network 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 took the hand drawings from Jin Yu (Structural Engineering Designer) and converted them into the version 1.0 AutoCAD drawings shown here.

Converted Jin’s Hand Drawings into Version 1.0 AutoCAD

And we created these two new versions of the Advanced Automations pages for the 7 villages online book (p14-15).

Created Two New Versions of Advanced Automations Pages for 7 Villages Online Book

Dipti Dhondarkar, (Electrical Engineer) continued with her 37th week of work on the lighting specifics for the City Center. This week’s focus was continued modeling and initial lighting testing within the Social Dome.

Continued Working on the Lighting Specifics for the City Center – Click for Page

Haoxuan “Hayes” Lei (Structural Engineer) and Shuna Ni (Masters of Mechanical Engineering and Civil Engineering PhD) also continued their work on the City Center structural engineering. This week’s focus was research and new designs for the central dome connectors, as shown here.

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

Shubham Agrawal (Electrical Engineer) continued his work on the City Center energy details with Mike Hogan (Automation Systems Developer and Business Systems Consultant. This week’s focus was more discussion about critical versus non-critical systems differentiation and the initial electrical layout shown here.

Continued Working on the Energy Infrastructure for the City Center – Click for Page

Jin Yu (Structural Engineering Designer) also completed her 13th week working on the concrete foundation details. This week’s focus was revisions and writing another 10 pages of content for the City Center Footers, Foundation, and Flooring tutorial. You can see examples of this behind-the-scenes work here:

Continued Working on Concrete Foundation Design and Tutorial Details for the City Center

Ashwin Patil (Web Developer) also continued helping develop the new Search Engines for our site. This week’s work was finishing development of the Duplicable City Center search engine version 3.0 that you see here:

Global highest good network creation, Development of Duplicable City Center search engine version 3.0

GLOBAL HIGHEST GOOD NETWORK CREATION HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

One Community is developing global highest good network 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

Created Additional Images for the Sustainable Food Nutrition Calculations Page – Click to Visit

GLOBAL HIGHEST GOOD NETWORK CREATION HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

One Community is developing global highest good network 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:

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

This last week the core team completed the final 75% of the mindmap for the Consensus and Decision Making Lesson Plan and the final 75% of the mindmap for the Fulfilled Living Lesson Plan, as you can see here:

Global Highest Good Network Creation – Lesson plan Mindmap for Consensus & Decision Making

Global Highest Good Network Creation – Lesson Plan Mindmap for Fulfilled Living Complete

We also continued the process of a final proofreading and editing of all 52 lesson plans. This week we completed the Time Lesson Plan and the Winter Lesson Plan. This brings us to 20 of 52 finished, which is 38.5% completion.

Global Highest Good Network Creation – Editing all 52 Lesson Plans – Click for Page

We also continued working on the renders for the Ultimate Classroom. This week we modified the lighting and other aesthetic details to create this new final render of the yellow room:

Global Highest Good Network Creation – The Ultimate Classroom Final Render Yellow Room

And we created this new updated Ultimate Classroom overview image.

Global Highest Good Network Creation – Created New Updated Ultimate Classroom Overview Image

GLOBAL HIGHEST GOOD NETWORK CREATION HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS

One Community is developing global highest good network 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 new video background, transitions, imagery, and other details that were played in the background of this week’s new-format intro. You can see some of the work that went into this here:

Created New Video Background, Transitions, Imagery, and Other Details For Weekly Blogs

Sowmya Manohar (Software Engineer, Web Developer & Net Application Developer) and Jono Lewis (Software Developer) completed their collective 5th week of work on the The Highest Good Network. This week’s focus, some of which you can see here, was on the time log entry process and connections to the database.

Global Highest Good Network Creation – Working on the The Highest Good Network – Click for Page

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

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

 

INVESTOR PAGES

OVERVIEW       ●       LOCATION       ●       FUNDING

GET INVOLVED

CONSULTANTS     ●     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.

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.

Replicable Highest Good communities are purposed to bring together people interested in collaboration for The Highest Good of all life on our planet through open source and sustainable designs. These designs cover the foundations of what is needed to live sustainably and self-sufficiently: 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 the movement of replicable highest good communities as the first of many self-replicating teacher/demonstration communities, villages, and cities to be built around the world. This is the May 14th, 2017 edition (#216) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments:

Replicable Highest Good Communities
One Community Progress Update #216

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

REPLICABLE HIGHEST GOOD COMMUNITIES INTRO: @0:34

REPLICABLE HIGHEST GOOD COMMUNITIES HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING: @7:19

• Created 30 more pages related to the open source hubs from each of the 7 villages (see below)
• We also finished the demo set of structures and layouts for the standardized AutoCAD layers and line-weights template and tutorial (see below)
• Created two top view rendered images with different furniture options for the Earthbag Village 3-dome cluster (see below)
• Ashwini Ramesh and the Core Team put another combined total of 10 more hours into the Earthbag Village research for the crowdfunding campaign (see below)
• Alena Thompson completed her 13th week helping with the Net-zero Communal Bathroom Designs (see below)
• Christian Ojeda completed his 14th week helping with the heat-recycling Communal Eco-shower and Vermiculture Bathroom designs (see below)
• Fernando Remolina and Lin Xu continued with their 17th week of work on the Vermiculture Bathroom development (see below)
• Dean Scholz continued helping us create quality Cob Village renders (see below)
• Hamilton Mateca finished his 40th week helping with the Compressed Earth Block Village design and render details (see below)
• Aparna Tandon continued her work on the Compressed Earth Block Village external elements (see below)
• Guy Grossfeld continued helping with the updates to the Tree House Village furniture and building textures (see below)

REPLICABLE HIGHEST GOOD COMMUNITIES DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER: @10:29

• Dipti Dhondarkar continued with her 36th week of work on the lighting specifics for the City Center (see below)
• Haoxuan “Hayes” Lei and Shuna Ni continued their work on the City Center structural engineering (see below)
• Ramya Vudi and Shubham Agrawal continued their work on the City Center energy details with Mike Hogan (see below)
• Renan Dantas continued with his 17th week working on the Duplicable City Center AutoCAD updates (see below)
• Jin Yu completed her 12th week working on the concrete foundation details for the City Center Footers, Foundation, and Flooring tutorial (see below)
• Vamsi Pulugurtha completed his 4th week of work helping with the City Center basement finite element analysis (see below)
• Ashwin Patil continued helping develop the new Search Engines for our site (see below)

REPLICABLE HIGHEST GOOD COMMUNITIES HIGHEST GOOD FOOD: @12:46

• Created 2 new images for the Sustainable Food Nutrition Calculations (see below)

REPLICABLE HIGHEST GOOD COMMUNITIES HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION: @13:09

• Completed the final 25% of the mindmap for the Reality Lesson Plan (see below)
• Continued the process of a final proofreading and editing of all 52 lesson plans (see below)
• Created 7 new final renders for the Ultimate Classroom (see below)
• Guy Grossfeld continued adding people and elements from the Learning Tools and Toys research we’ve done to create this final render of the Ultimate Classroom Yellow Room (see below)

REPLICABLE HIGHEST GOOD COMMUNITIES HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY: @14:16

• Sowmya Manohar and Jono Lewis completed their collective 4th week of work on the The Highest Good Network (see below)

REPLICABLE HIGHEST GOOD COMMUNITIES SUMMARY: @14:38

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

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REPLICABLE HIGHEST GOOD COMMUNITIES HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

One Community is creating replicable highest good 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 created 30 more pages related to the open source hubs from each of the 7 villages. You can see some examples of these new pages here.

Created 30 More Pages Related to the 7 Villages – Click for Housing Page

We also finished the demo set of structures and layouts for the standardized AutoCAD layers and line-weights template and tutorial. This week’s focus was final edits and fixes and adding labels to the entire furniture and symbols section.

Finished Demo Set of Layouts for AutoCAD Template and Tutorial – Click for Page

In addition to this, and working on the Earthbag Village, we created these two top view rendered images with different furniture options for the 3-dome cluster. We used the student furniture, children’s furniture, and Murphy bed furniture with the bed in both the up and down position.

Created Two Top View Renders of 3 Dome Cluster with Different Furniture Options – Click for Page

Ashwini Ramesh (Civil Engineer and Project Manager) and the Core Team also put another combined total of 10 more hours into the Earthbag Village research for the crowdfunding campaign. Here is a snapshot of this work happening behind the scenes on the Site Selection, Preparation, and Maintenance Tutorial.  

Continued Working on the Earthbag Village Research for the Crowdfunding Campaign – Click for Page

And Alena Thompson (Mechanical Engineer) completed her 13th week helping with the Net-zero Communal Bathroom Designs. This week’s focus was addressing the need for a plumbing “pocket,” fixing layout details, and updating the piping.

Continued Working on Net-zero Communal Bathroom Designs – Click to Visit Page

Christian Ojeda(Mechatronic Engineer) completed his 14th week helping with the heat-recycling Communal Eco-shower and Vermiculture Bathroom designs. This week’s focus was more septic research comparing purchased to self-poured septic systems.

Continued Helping with Heat-Recycling Communal Eco-Shower and Vermiculture Bathroom Designs

Fernando Remolina (Industrial Engineer specializing in Project Management) and Lin Xu (Mechanical Engineering Student) also continued with their 17th week of work on the Vermiculture Bathroom development. This week’s focus, as shown here, was further exploring emptying options. You can also see more of Christian’s septic tank design work.

Continued Working on Vermiculture Bathroom Development – Click for Page

Dean Scholz (Architectural Designer) continued helping us create quality Cob Village (Pod 3) renders. Here is update 68 of Dean’s work that created this final view of the Northeast wing looking West:

Cob Village Final Render – Northeast Living Space Looking West – Click for Page

… this view looking Southwest:

Cob Village Final Render – Northeast Living Space Looking Southwest – Click for Page

… and this view looking East:

Cob Village Final Render – Northeast Living Space Looking East – Click for Page

Hamilton Mateca (AutoCAD and Revit Drafter and Designer) also finished his 40th week helping with the Compressed Earth Block Village (Pod 4) design and render details. This week’s focus was working on the landscaping details in the North, as shown here.

Continued Helping with Compressed Earth Block Village Design and Render Details – Click for Page

Aparna Tandon(Architect) continued her work on the Compressed Earth Block Village external elements. What you see here is her 23rd week of work, focusing on converting last week’s hand drawings for Zone 9 into the AutoCAD drawings you see here.

Continued Working on the Compressed Earth Block Village External Elements – Click for Page

And Guy Grossfeld (Graphic Designer) continued helping with the updates to the Tree House Village (Pod 7) furniture and building textures, as shown here:

Continued Helping with Updates to the Tree House Village Furniture & Building Textures

REPLICABLE HIGHEST GOOD COMMUNITIES DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

One Community is creating replicable highest good 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

Dipti Dhondarkar, (Electrical Engineer) continued with her 36th week of work on the lighting specifics for the City Center. This week’s focus was finishing the lighting analysis and placement for the Living Dome hallways, updating the Dining Dome zones, and beginning to model the complete Social Dome.

Continued Working on the Lighting Specifics for the City Center – Click for Page

Haoxuan “Hayes” Lei (Structural Engineer) and Shuna Ni (Masters of Mechanical Engineering and Civil Engineering PhD) also continued their work on the City Center structural engineering. This week’s focus was version 2.o of selecting the different connectors we’ll be using throughout the structure and continuing to run wind calculations.

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

Ramya Vudi (Electrical Engineer) and Shubham Agrawal (Electrical Engineer) continued their work on the City Center energy details with Mike Hogan (Automation Systems Developer and Business Systems Consultant. This week’s focus was on critical versus non-critical systems differentiation and more edits to the tutorials.

Continued Working on the Energy Infrastructure for the City Center – Click for Page

Renan Dantas: Mechanical Engineer continued with his 17th week working on the Duplicable City Center AutoCAD updates. This week’s focus was repositioning doors based on the new dome geometry and adding in shower details and surrounding plant details for the Natural Pool.

Continued Working on the Duplicable City Center AutoCAD Updates – Click for Page

Jin Yu (Structural Engineering Designer) also completed her 12th week working on the concrete foundation details. This week’s focus was revisions and writing more content for the City Center Footers, Foundation, and Flooring tutorial. You can see examples of this behind-the-scenes work here.

Continued Working on Concrete Foundation Design and Tutorial Details for the City Center

Vamsi Pulugurtha (Mechanical Engineer) also completed his 4th week of work helping with the City Center basement finite element analysis. This week’s focus was the 2nd generation calculations and heat transfer visualizations, as shown here.

Continued Helping with City Center Basement Finite Element Analysis – Click for Page

Ashwin Patil (Web Developer) also continued helping develop the new Search Engines for our site. This week’s work was returning to development of the Duplicable City Center search engine you can see here, and recreating it based on the new pages and format.

Continued Helping Develop the New Search Engines for Our Site – Click for Duplicable City Center

REPLICABLE HIGHEST GOOD COMMUNITIES HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

One Community is creating replicable highest good 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 created 2 new images for the Sustainable Food Nutrition Calculations page, as you see here.

Created New Images for the Sustainable Food Nutrition Calculations Page – Click to Visit

REPLICABLE HIGHEST GOOD COMMUNITIES HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

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

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

This last week the core team completed the final 25% of the mindmap for the Reality Lesson Plan, as you can see here:

Lesson plan mindmap for Reality Complete – Click for Page

And continued the process of a final proofreading and editing of all 52 lesson plans. This week we completed the Spring Lesson Plan and the Summer Lesson Plan. This brings us to 18 of 52 finished, which is 34.6% completion:

Continued Process of Editing all 52 Lesson Plans – Click for Lesson Plans for Life Page

We also continued working on the renders for the Ultimate Classroom. This week we added new people and other aesthetic details to create these 7 new final renders.

Replicable Highest Good Communities – The Ultimate Classroom Final Render Outside View

Replicable Highest Good Communities – The Ultimate Classroom Final Render Red Room

Replicable Highest Good Communities – The Ultimate Classroom Final Render Orange Room

Replicable Highest Good Communities – The Ultimate Classroom Final Render Green Room

Replicable Highest Good Communities – The Ultimate Classroom Final Render Blue Room

Replicable Highest Good Communities – The Ultimate Classroom Final Render Indigo Room

Replicable Highest Good Communities – The Ultimate Classroom Final Render Violet Room

Guy Grossfeld (Graphic Designer) also continued adding people and elements from the Learning Tools and Toys research we’ve done to create this final render of the Ultimate Classroom Yellow Room:

Replicable Highest Good Communities – The Ultimate Classroom Final Render Yellow Room

REPLICABLE HIGHEST GOOD COMMUNITIES HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS

One Community is creating replicable highest good 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

Sowmya Manohar (Software Engineer, Web Developer & Net Application Developer) and Jono Lewis (Software Developer) completed their collective 4th week of work on the The Highest Good Network. This week’s focus, some of which you can see here, was creating a timelog model and api integration and a function to auto-populate a blank database.

Replicable Highest Good Communities – Working on the The Highest Good Network – Click for Page

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

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INVESTOR PAGES

OVERVIEW       ●       LOCATION       ●       FUNDING

GET INVOLVED

CONSULTANTS     ●     WAYS ANYONE CAN HELP     ●     MEMBERSHIP

CLICK HERE FOR ALL PAST UPDATES

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

Creating an age of ecology and sustainability is arguably the next great accomplishment for humanity. We now have the technology and ability to do this if enough people want it. One Community is open sourcing and free-sharing a replicable teacher/demonstration sustainability hub to help with this.

• 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 the movement of creating an age of ecology as the first of many self-replicating teacher/demonstration communities, villages, and cities to be built around the world. This is the May 7th, 2017 edition (#215) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments:

Creating an Age of Ecology
One Community Progress Update #215

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

CREATING AN AGE OF ECOLOGY INTRO: @1:03

CREATING AN AGE OF ECOLOGY HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION: @1:59

• Completed the first 25% of three mindmaps: Fulfilled Living, Consensus and Decision Making, and Contribution (see below)
• Continued process of a final proofreading and editing of all 52 lesson plans (see below)
• Guy Grossfeld continued adding people and elements from the Learning Tools and Toys research to create updated renders of the Ultimate Classroom Yellow Room and Purple Room (see below)

CREATING AN AGE OF ECOLOGY HIGHEST GOOD FOOD: @3:09

• Created 2 new images to the Food Bars and Food Self-sufficiency Transition Plan pages (see below)

CREATING AN AGE OF ECOLOGY HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING: @3:37

• Created 33 new pages related to the open source hubs from each of the 7 villages (see below)
• Continued creating the demo set of structures and layouts for the standardized AutoCAD layers and line-weights template and tutorial (see below)
• Updated these section-cut views of the Murphy bed inside one of the student domes (see below)
• Added Photoshop edits and details to open bed view of the Murphy bed from last week and updated view of the children’s shared room furniture design (see below)
• Ashwini Ramesh created a work breakdown for the Earthbag Village and related crowdfunding campaign we are developing (see below)
• Alena Thompson completed her 12th week helping with the Net-zero Communal Bathroom Designs (see below)
• Christian Ojeda completed his 13th week helping with the heat-recycling Communal Eco-shower and Vermiculture Bathroom designs (see below)
• Ashwin Patil continued helping develop the new Search Engines for our site (see below)
• Dean Scholz continued helping us create quality Cob Village renders (see below)
• Aparna Tandon continued work on the Compressed Earth Block Village external elements (see below)
• Guy Grossfeld helped create this new 3D tree texture for the Tree House Village (see below)

CREATING AN AGE OF ECOLOGY DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER: @6:14

• Created 6 new pages and updated the Duplicable City Center main open source hub (see below)
• Ramya Vudi and Shubham Agrawal continued their work on the City Center energy details with Mike Hogan (see below)
• Jin Yu continued writing content for the City Center Footers, Foundation, and Flooring tutorial (see below)
• Vamsi Pulugurtha completed his 3rd week of work helping with the City Center basement finite element analysis (see below)

CREATING AN AGE OF ECOLOGY HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY: @7:36

• Updated entire website to a new level of internet safety by adding an SSL certificate, updating all URLs to https vs http, and fixing all non-secure elements throughout the site (see below)
• Sowmya Manohar and Jono Lewis completed their collective 3rd week of work on the The Highest Good Network (see below)

CREATING AN AGE OF ECOLOGY SUMMARY: @8:13

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CREATING AN AGE OF ECOLOGY HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

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

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

This last week the core team completed the first 25% of three mindmaps, which are for the Fulfilled Living Lesson Plan, Consensus and Decision Making Lesson Plan, and the Contribution Lesson Plan, as you can see here:

Mindmaps for Fulfilled Living, Consensus, and Contribution – Each 25% Complete – Click to Visit

And continued the process of a final proofreading and editing of all 52 lesson plans. This week we completed the Relative and Dimensional Space Lesson Plan, Signs and Symbols Lesson Plan, and the Social Relationships Lesson Plan. This brings us to 16 of 52 finished, which is 30.7% completion.

Continued Process of Editing all 52 Lesson Plans – Click for Lesson Plans for Life Page

Guy Grossfeld (Graphic Designer) also continued adding people and elements from the Learning Tools and Toys research we’ve done to create these updated renders of the Ultimate Classroom Yellow Room:

Created Final Render of the Ultimate Classroom Yellow Room – Click for Page

…. and this one of the Violet Room:

Created Final Render of the Ultimate Classroom Violet Room – Click for Page

CREATING AN AGE OF ECOLOGY HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

One Community is creating an age of ecology 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 created 2 new images for the Food Bars and Food Self-sufficiency Transition Plan pages, as you see here:

Created New Images for the Food Bars Page – Click to Visit

CREATING AN AGE OF ECOLOGY HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

One Community is creating an age of ecology through Highest Good housing that is artistic and beautiful, more affordable, more space efficient, lasts longer, DIY buildable, and constructed with healthy and sustainable materials:

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

This week the core team created 33 new pages related to the open source hubs from each of the 7 villages. You can see some examples of these new pages here.

Created 22 New Pages Related to the Open Source Hubs from Each of the 7 Villages – Click for Page

We also continued creating the demo set of structures and layouts for the standardized AutoCAD layers and line-weights template and tutorial. This week’s focus was a more organized layout, adding more layers, and creating the Furniture and Symbols sections.

Continued Creating Demo Set of Layouts for AutoCAD Template and Tutorial – Click for Page

In addition to this, and working on the Earthbag Village, we updated these section-cut views of the Murphy bed inside one of the student domes.

Updated Section-Cut Views of the Murphy Bed Inside One of the Student Domes – Click to Visit

…and we added Photoshop edits and details to this open bed view of the Murphy bed from last week:

Added Photoshop Edits and Details to Open Bed View of the Murphy Bed – Click for Page

….and updated this view of the children’s shared room furniture design:

Updated View of the Children’s Shared Room Furniture Design – Click for Page

Ashwini Ramesh (Civil Engineer and Project Manager) created this work breakdown for the Earthbag Village and related crowdfunding campaign we are developing.

Created Work Breakdown for the Earthbag Village & Related Crowdfunding Campaign – Click for Page

And Alena Thompson (Mechanical Engineer) completed her 12th week helping with the Net-zero Communal Bathroom Designs. This week’s focus was adding the urinals and associated piping and researching the details needed for integrating the vacuum plumbing in with the non-vacuum plumbing.

Continued Working on Net-zero Communal Bathroom Designs – Click to Visit Page

Christian Ojeda (Mechatronic Engineer) completed his 13th week helping with the heat-recycling Communal Eco-shower and Vermiculture Bathroom designs. This week’s focus was 2nd-generation septic research and the designs you see here.

Continued Helping with Heat-Recycling Communal Eco-Shower and Vermiculture Bathroom Designs

Ashwin Patil (Web Developer) also continued helping develop the new Search Engines for our site. This week’s work was fixing an issue with the Straw Bale Village search engine that was creating a 4th column and finishing integration of the final edits needed for the Highest Good food search engine.

Continued Developing the New Search Engines for Our Site – Click for Straw Bale Village

Dean Scholz (Architectural Designer) continued helping us create quality Cob Village (Pod 3) renders. Here is update 67 of Dean’s work. This week’s focus continuing development of the three Northeast wing perspectives you can see here.

Continued Work on the Renders for the Cob Village – Click for Page

Aparna Tandon(Architect) continued her work on the Compressed Earth Block Village external elements. What you see here is her 22nd week of work, focusing on the seating, children’s play areas, and planters shown here in zones 5 and 6.

Creating an Age of Ecology – Working on the Compressed Earth Block Village External Elements

And Guy Grossfeld (Graphic Designer) helped create this new 3D tree texture for the Tree House Village (Pod 7).

Creating an Age of Ecology – Created New 3D Tree Texture for the Tree House Village – Click for Page

CREATING AN AGE OF ECOLOGY DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

One Community is creating an age of ecology 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 created 6 new pages and updated the Duplicable City Center main open source hub to include them all. You can see examples of this work here:

Created 6 New Pages and Updated the Duplicable City Center Main Open Source Hub – Click to Visit

Ramya Vudi (Electrical Engineer) and Shubham Agrawal (Electrical Engineer) continued their work on the City Center energy details with Mike Hogan (Automation Systems Developer and Business Systems Consultant. What you see here is version 2.0 of the wind energy design and implementation tutorial developing behind the scenes.

Creating an Age of Ecology – Working on the Energy Infrastructure for the City Center – Click for Page

Jin Yu (Structural Engineering Designer) also completed her 11th week working on the concrete foundation details. This week’s focus was writing more content for the City Center Footers, Foundation, and Flooring tutorial. You can see examples of this behind-the-scenes work here.

Creating an Age of Ecology – Working on Concrete Foundation Design & Tutorial Details

Vamsi Pulugurtha (Mechanical Engineer) also completed his 3rd week of work helping with the City Center basement finite element analysis. This week’s focus was the initial heat transfer specifics for the boiler room, as shown here:

Creating an Age of Ecology – Helping with City Center Basement Finite Element Analysis

CREATING AN AGE OF ECOLOGY HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS

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

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

This week the core team updated our entire website to a new level of internet safety by adding an SSL certificate, updating all URLs to httpS vs http, and fixing all non-secure elements throughout the site.

Creating an Age of Ecology – Updated Entire Website to New Level of Internet Safety – Click for Page

Sowmya Manohar (Software Engineer, Web Developer & Net Application Developer) and Jono Lewis (Software Developer) also completed their collective 3rd week of work on the The Highest Good Network. This week’s focus, as you can see here, was working on the login page, function for adding new users, and testing the initial database structure.

Creating an Age of Ecology – Working on the The Highest Good Network – Click for Page

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

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

 

INVESTOR PAGES

OVERVIEW       ●       LOCATION       ●       FUNDING

GET INVOLVED

CONSULTANTS     ●     WAYS ANYONE CAN HELP     ●     MEMBERSHIP

CLICK HERE FOR ALL PAST UPDATES

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 into creating an age of ecology.

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.

The time has come for building a global sustainability cooperative. This means whole-systems approaches covering all aspects of sustainable and ecologically intelligent approaches to food, energy, housing, education, for-profit and non-profit economic design, social architecture, fulfilled living, and global stewardship practices. One Community is working to design, open source and free-share, and build these solutions for the benefit of all people and life on our shared planet.

• 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 the movement of building a global sustainability cooperative as the first of many self-replicating teacher/demonstration communities, villages, and cities to be built around the world. This is the April 30, 2017 edition (#214) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments:

Building a Global Sustainability Cooperative
One Community Progress Update #214

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

BUILDING A GLOBAL SUSTAINABILITY COOPERATIVE INTRO: @1:03

BUILDING A GLOBAL SUSTAINABILITY COOPERATIVE HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION: @2:00

• Completed the first 25% of the mindmap for the Reality Lesson Plan (see below)
• Continued the process of a final proofreading and editing of all 52 lesson plans (see below)
• Continued creation of the renders for The Ultimate Classroom (see below)
• Guy Grossfeld continued adding people and elements from the Learning Tools and Toys research to create 2 final renders and a second generation render of the The Ultimate Classroom (see below)

BUILDING A GLOBAL SUSTAINABILITY COOPERATIVE HIGHEST GOOD FOOD: @3:10

• Created new image and added all the recently created images to the Food Bars and Food Self-sufficiency Transition Plan pages (see below)

BUILDING A GLOBAL SUSTAINABILITY COOPERATIVE HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING: @3:38

BUILDING A GLOBAL SUSTAINABILITY COOPERATIVE DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER: @6:29

• Haoxuan “Hayes” Lei and Shuna Ni continued their work on the City Center structural engineering (see below)
• Ramya Vudi and Shubham Agrawal continued their work on the energy infrastructure for the City Center with Mike Hogan (see below)
• Renan Dantas continued with his 16th week working on the Duplicable City Center AutoCAD updates (see below)
• Jin Yu completed her 10th week working on the concrete foundation design and tutorial details for the City Center Footers, Foundation, and Flooring tutorial
• Vamsi Pulugurtha completed his 2nd week of work helping with the City Center basement finite element analysis (see below)
• Jennifer Zhou helped convert the work from Adrienne Gould-Choquette into the first sections of the new City Center Heating and Cooling open source hub (see below)

BUILDING A GLOBAL SUSTAINABILITY COOPERATIVE HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY: @8:28

• Updated our volunteer collaboration application page to make it easier to understand and complete (see below)
• Sowmya Manohar, Jono Lewis, and Anil Kumar Malla completed their collective 2nd week of work on the The Highest Good Network (see below)

BUILDING A GLOBAL SUSTAINABILITY COOPERATIVE SUMMARY: @9:00

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BUILDING A GLOBAL SUSTAINABILITY COOPERATIVE HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

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

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

This last week the core team completed the first 25% of the mindmap for the Reality Lesson Plan, as you can see here:

Building a Global Sustainability Cooperative – Lesson plan mindmap for Reality – 25% Complete

And we continued the process of a final proofreading and editing of all 52 lesson plans. This week we completed the Quality and Quantity Lesson Plan and the Recreation and Relaxation Lesson Plan. This brings us to 13 of 52 finished, which is 25% completion.

Continued Process of Editing all 52 Lesson Plans – Click for Lesson Plans for Life Page

And the core team continued creation of the renders for The Ultimate Classroom, setting up and testing this updated overview render:

Continued Creation of the Renders for The Ultimate Classroom – Click for Page

Guy Grossfeld (Graphic Designer) also continued adding people and elements from the Learning Tools and Toys research we’ve done to create this final external render of the complete Ultimate Classroom:

Created Final External Render of the Complete Ultimate Classroom – Click for Page

… this final render of the Red Room:

Created Final Render of the Ultimate Classroom Red Room – Click for Page

… and this 2nd generation render of the Yellow Room:

Created 2nd Generation Render of the Ultimate Classroom Yellow Room – Click for Page

BUILDING A GLOBAL SUSTAINABILITY COOPERATIVE HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

One Community is building a global sustainability cooperative 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 created 1 new image and added all the recently created images to the Food Bars and Food Self-sufficiency Transition Plan pages, as you see here.

Created New Image and Added All Recently Created Images to the Food Page – Click to Visit

BUILDING A GLOBAL SUSTAINABILITY COOPERATIVE HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

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

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

This week the core team created 22 new pages related to the open source hubs from each of the 7 villages. You can see 6 examples of these here.

Created 22 New Pages Related to the Open Source Hubs from Each of the 7 Villages – Click to Visit Page

We also started creating a demo set of structures and layouts for the standardized AutoCAD layers and line-weights template and tutorial we’re developing. You can see version 1.0 of these example structures here.

Started Creating Demo Set of Layouts for AutoCAD Template and Tutorial – Click for Page

In addition to this, and working on the Earthbag Village, we updated this final open-bed view of the Murphy bed inside one of the domes:

Updated Final Open-Bed View of the Murphy Bed Inside One of the Domes – Click for Page

…..and this final view of the Children’s dome:

Building a Global Sustainability Cooperative – Continued Working on the City Center Structural Engineering

…and we added photoshop edits and details to this section view of the Murphy bed from last week:

Added Photoshop Edits and Details to Section view of the Murphy Bed – Click for Page

We also continued working on Murphy bed assembly instructions. What you see here are the new cover design and the newest instructional template for cutting pieces.

Continued Working on Murphy Bed Assembly Instructions – Click for Page

Alena Thompson (Mechanical Engineer) completed her 11th week helping with the Net-zero Communal Bathroom Designs. This week’s focus was adding a drain to the bottom of the structure and further updates to all the piping specifics, as shown here.

Continued Working on Net-zero Communal Bathroom Designs – Click to Visit Page

Christian Ojeda (Mechatronic Engineer) completed his 12th week helping with the heat-recycling Communal Eco-shower and Vermiculture Bathroom designs. This week’s focus was septic research and initial designs, as shown here.

Continued Helping with Heat-Recycling Communal Eco-Shower & Vermiculture Bathroom Designs

Fernando Remolina (Industrial Engineer specializing in Project Management) and Lin Xu (Mechanical Engineering Student) also continued with their 16th week of work on the Vermiculture Bathroom development. This week’s focus, as shown here, was further exploring ways to make emptying easier.

Continued Working on the Vermiculture Bathroom Development – Click to Visit Page

Ashwin Patil (Web Developer) also continued helping develop the new Search Engines for our site. This week’s work was round 3 of our suggested edits to the Straw Bale Village search engine, as shown here.

Continued Developing the New Search Engines for Our Site – Click for Straw Bale Village

Dean Scholz (Architectural Designer) continued helping us create quality Cob Village (Pod 3) renders. Here is update 66 of Dean’s work. This week Dean finished this final render of the SE Living Space looking North cutaway:

Final Render of Southeast Living Space Looking North Cutaway – Click for Page

…and this Loft view from the same wing and also looking North:

Final Render of Southeast Living Space Looking North Loft View

In addition to this, Dean started the work you see here for the Northeast wing:

Building a Global Sustainability Cooperative – Continued Work on the Renders for the Cob Village

Hamilton Mateca (AutoCAD and Revit Drafter and Designer) also finished his 39th week helping with the Compressed Earth Block Village (Pod 4) design and render details. This week’s focus was test rendering the complete external perspectives.

Continued Helping with Compressed Earth Block Village Design and Render Details – Click for Page

And Guy Grossfeld (Graphic Designer) helped create these AutoCAD exports of the Tree House Village (Pod 7) in 3D.

Building a Global Sustainability Cooperative – Created AutoCAD Exports of Tree House Village

BUILDING A GLOBAL SUSTAINABILITY COOPERATIVE DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

One Community is building a global sustainability cooperative 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

Haoxuan “Hayes” Lei (Structural Engineer) and Shuna Ni (Masters of Mechanical Engineering and Civil Engineering PhD) also continued their work on the City Center structural engineering. This week’s focus was continuing the wind calculations for the structure. You can see version 2.0 notes for this work here.

Building a Global Sustainability Cooperative – Updated Our Volunteer Collaboration Application Page

Ramya Vudi (Electrical Engineer) and Shubham Agrawal (Electrical Engineer) continued their work on the energy infrastructure for the City Center. What you see here are a couple photos from the weekly collaborative calls with Mike Hogan (Automation Systems Developer and Business Systems Consultant and this week’s focus of writing draft 1 of the micro-grid tutorial and initial layouts for the breaker panels.

Continued Working on the Energy Infrastructure for the City Center – Click for Page

Renan Dantas: Mechanical Engineer continued with his 16th week working on the Duplicable City Center AutoCAD updates. This week’s focus was updating the elevation details and more updates to the bathrooms and kitchen.

Continued Working on the Duplicable City Center AutoCAD Updates – Click for Page

Jin Yu (Structural Engineering Designer) also completed her 10th week working on the concrete foundation design and tutorial details for the City Center Footers, Foundation, and Flooring tutorial. This week’s focus was updating the calculations spreadsheets you see here.

Continued Working on Concrete Foundation Design & Tutorial Details for the City Center

Vamsi Pulugurtha (Mechanical Engineer) also completed his 2nd week of work helping with the City Center basement finite element analysis. This week’s focus was continued analysis of the heat transfer specifics, as shown here.

Continued Helping with City Center Basement Finite Element Analysis – Click for Page

And Jennifer Zhou (Web Designer) helped convert the work of Adrienne Gould-Choquette (Mechanical Engineer) into the first sections of the new City Center Heating and Cooling open source hub.

Helped Convert Adrienne’s Work into the First Sections of the New City Center Heating & Cooling Hub

BUILDING A GLOBAL SUSTAINABILITY COOPERATIVE HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS

One Community is building a global sustainability cooperative 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 last week the core team updated our volunteer collaboration application page to make it easier to understand and complete.

Building a Global Sustainability Cooperative – Updated Our Volunteer Collaboration Application Page

Sowmya Manohar (Software Engineer, Web Developer & Net Application Developer), Jono Lewis (Software Developer), and Anil Kumar Malla (Software Engineer) completed their collective 2nd week of work on the The Highest Good Network. Here you can see some screenshots from our weekly collaborative call and code details as we continue to learn Ember.js as our development platform.

Building a Global Sustainability Cooperative – Continued Working on the The Highest Good Network

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Helping people create global ecology can best be accomplished if the solutions provided are easy enough, affordable enough, and attractive enough that they will spread on their own. Open source and free-shared approaches to sustainable food, energy, housing, education, for-profit and non-profit economic design, social architecture, fulfilled living, and global stewardship practices are capable of achieving this.

• 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 the movement of helping people create global ecology as the first of many self-replicating teacher/demonstration communities, villages, and cities to be built around the world. This is the April 23rd, 2017 edition (#213) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments:

Helping People Create Global Ecology
One Community Progress Update #213

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

HELPING PEOPLE CREATE GLOBAL ECOLOGY INTRO: @1:03

HELPING PEOPLE CREATE GLOBAL ECOLOGY HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION: @2:04

• Continued creation of the renders for The Ultimate Classroom (see below)
• Created a new Ultimate Classroom overview image for inclusion at the end of the 7 villages online book (see below)
• Completed final 40% of the mindmap for the Form Lesson Plan (see below)
• Continued the process of final proofreading and editing of all 52 lesson plans (see below)
• Continued working with Sangam Stanczak developing the Evaluation and Evolution component of the Highest Good education program (see below)
• Ashwin Patil added new icons and the associated pages to the Highest Good education search engine (see below)
• Jennifer Zhou completed the addition and formatting of the final images to the Learning Tools and Toys page (see below)

HELPING PEOPLE CREATE GLOBAL ECOLOGY HIGHEST GOOD FOOD: @3:42

• Created 4 additional header images for the Food Self-sufficiency Transition Plan page (see below)

HELPING PEOPLE CREATE GLOBAL ECOLOGY HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING: @4:10

HELPING PEOPLE CREATE GLOBAL ECOLOGY DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER: @6:50

• Updated the living dome sunrise patio render for the Duplicable City Center (see below)
• Updated the formatting, descriptions, and renders on the City Center main open source hub (see below)
• Dipti Dhondarkar continued with her 35th week of work on the lighting specifics for the City Center (see below)
• Haoxuan “Hayes” Lei and Shuna Ni continued working on the City Center structural engineering (see below)
• Renan Dantas continued with his 15th week working on the Duplicable City Center AutoCAD updates (see below)
• Adrienne Gould-Choquette worked on more load calculations and projections for the City Center heating and air conditioning infrastructure (see below

HELPING PEOPLE CREATE GLOBAL ECOLOGY HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY: @8:31

• Sowmya Manohar completed her 3rd week of work on the The Highest Good Network and was joined by Anil Kumar Malla completing his 1st week of work (see below)

HELPING PEOPLE CREATE GLOBAL ECOLOGY SUMMARY: @9:00

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HELPING PEOPLE CREATE GLOBAL ECOLOGY HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

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

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

This week, the core team continued creation of the renders for The Ultimate Classroom, adding additional aesthetic elements like musical instruments on the upper shelves and tools under the seats.

Continued Creation of the Renders for The Ultimate Classroom – Click for Page

We also created a new Ultimate Classroom overview image for inclusion at the end of the 7 villages online book we’re developing:

Created a New Ultimate Classroom Overview Image for 7 Villages Online Book – Click for Page

And we completed the final 40% of the mindmap for the Form Lesson Plan, bringing it to 100% complete, as you can see here.

Lesson plan mindmap for Form & Our Outer World Complete – Click for Page

We also continued the process of a final proofreading and editing of all 52 lesson plans. This week we completed the Planet Earth Lesson Plan and the Outer Space Lesson Plan. This brings us to 11 of 52 finished, which is 21% completion.

Continued Process of Editing all 52 Lesson Plans – Click for Lesson Plans for Life Page

Working with Sangam Stanczak (Ph.D. and P.E.), we continued with our 7th week of collaborative calls developing the Evaluation and Evolution component of the Highest Good education program. What you see here is the initial teacher outline for the process and addition to the open source hub of new icons we created for this component.

Continued Developing the Evaluation & Evolution Component of the Highest Good Education Program

Ashwin Patil (Web Developer) then added these new icons and the associated pages to the Highest Good education search engine.

Added New Icons and Associated Pages to Highest Good Education Search Engine – Click for Page

And Jennifer Zhou (Web Designer) completed the addition and formatting of the final images to the Learning Tools and Toys page.

Completed Formatting of Final Images to Learning Tools and Toys Page – Click to Visit

HELPING PEOPLE CREATE GLOBAL ECOLOGY HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

One Community is helping people create global ecology 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 created 4 additional header images for the Food Self-sufficiency Transition Plan page, which is 93% complete. You can see the 4 images here:

Created 4 Additional Header Images for Food Self-sufficiency Transition Plan Page – Click to Visit

HELPING PEOPLE CREATE GLOBAL ECOLOGY HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

One Community is helping people create global ecology 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 finished updating the AutoCAD files to standardized formats for the Recycled Materials Village (Pod 6):

Finished Updating the AutoCAD Files to Standardized Formats for Recycled Materials Village

We also created this new combination image of the floor plans for the Compressed Earth Block Village (Pod 4):

Created New Combination Image of Floor Plans – Click for Compressed Earth Block Village

…and added this image and the most current landscaping plan to the Compressed Earth Block Village open source hub:

Added Images to the Compressed Earth Block Village Open Source Hub – Click to Visit

In addition to this, and working on the Earthbag Village, we updated this cutaway view of the Murphy bed inside one of the dome with added storage boxes in the loft, updating the desk chair, and adjusting the section cut view:

Updated Cutaway View of the Murphy Bed Inside One of the Domes – Click to visit Page

We also started working on the rendering images for one of the children’s domes, adding bedding details and items on the tables and shelves.

Started Working on the Rendering Images for One of the Children’s Domes – Click for Earthbag Village

Alena Thompson (Mechanical Engineer) completed her 11th week helping with the Net-zero Communal Bathroom Designs. This week’s focus was adding in all the piping specifics for connecting the sinks and toilets, as shown here.

Continued Working on Net-zero Communal Bathroom Designs – Click to Visit Page

Christian Ojeda (Mechatronic Engineer) completed his 11th week helping with the heat-recycling Communal Eco-shower and Vermiculture Bathroom designs. This week’s focus was creating the 2nd version of our water reservoirs under the Tropical Atrium.

Working on 2nd Version of Our Water Reservoirs Under Tropical Atrium – Click for Page

Fernando Remolina (Industrial Engineer specializing in Project Management) and Lin Xu (Mechanical Engineering Student) also continued with their 15th week of work on the Vermiculture Bathroom development. This week’s focus, as shown here, was researching parts specifics and another alternative for the dumping process.

Continued Working on the Vermiculture Bathroom Development – Click to Visit Page

Dean Scholz (Architectural Designer) continued helping us create quality Cob Village (Pod 3) renders. Here is update 65 of Dean’s work. This week’s focus was continued work on the cutaway views of the Southeast wing looking North, adding outdoor details and updated bedspreads.

Continued Helping us Create Quality Cob Village Renders – Click for Page

Hamilton Mateca (AutoCAD and Revit Drafter and Designer) also finished his 38th week helping with the Compressed Earth Block Village (Pod 4) design and render details. This week’s focus was finalizing the brick pattern updates and re-adding in the indigo trim details for the building itself, as shown in the render here:

Continued Helping with Compressed Earth Block Village Design and Render Details – Click for Page

Aparna Tandon (Architect) additionally continued her work on the Compressed Earth Block Village external elements. What you see here is her 21st week of work, focusing on the seating and layout details of the South side of zone 5.

Continued Work on Compressed Earth Block Village External Elements – Click for Page

HELPING PEOPLE CREATE GLOBAL ECOLOGY DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

One Community is helping people create global ecology 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 updated the living dome sunrise patio render for the Duplicable City Center, and added it to the open source hub:

Updated Living Dome Sunrise Patio Render for the Duplicable City Center – Click for Page

And we updated the formatting, descriptions, and renders on the City Center main open source hub. You can see some examples of this work here:

Updated Formatting, Descriptions, and Renders on City Center Main Open Source Hub – Click to Visit

Dipti Dhondarkar, (Electrical Engineer) continued with her 35th week of work on the lighting specifics for the City Center. This week’s focus was finishing the lighting analysis and placement for the two public bathrooms in the Social Dome.

Continued Working on the Lighting Specifics for the City Center – Click for Page

Haoxuan “Hayes” Lei (Structural Engineer) and Shuna Ni (Masters of Mechanical Engineering and Civil Engineering PhD) also continued their work on the City Center structural engineering. This week’s focus was continuing the wind calculations for the structure. You can see notes for this work here.

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

Renan Dantas: Mechanical Engineer continued with his 15th week working on the Duplicable City Center AutoCAD updates. This week’s focus was adding more room and library details, and finishing the kitchen area cleanup.

Continued Working on the Duplicable City Center AutoCAD Updates – Click for Page

And Adrienne Gould-Choquette (Mechanical Engineer) finished her 16th week with the team. This week’s focus was more load calculations and projections for the City Center heating and air conditioning infrastructure, as shown here. We’d say we are about 90% complete with these calculations now.

Continued Working on City Center Heating and Air Conditioning Calculations – Click to Visit Page

HELPING PEOPLE CREATE GLOBAL ECOLOGY HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS

One Community is helping people create global ecology 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

Sowmya Manohar (Software Engineer, Web Developer & Net Application Developer) completed her 3rd week of work on the The Highest Good Network and was joined by Anil Kumar Malla (Software Engineer), completing his 1st week of work. Their combined focus this week was continued development of the login and landing pages and researching Ember.js <<“ember dot J S>> and MongoDB to confirm these as our best development choices moving forward.

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

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WHAT ONE COMMUNITY IS CREATING

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

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

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

BUILDING THE FIRST OF MANY

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

One Community welcomes Sangam Stanczak to the Education Team as our newest Volunteer/Consultant!

Environmental Engineer (Ph.D., P.E.), Certified Yoga Instructor, and Organic Gardner: Sangam’s passion to make a positive contribution to the world has been alive since she was 10 years old. This led to her becoming an environmental engineer by training in the field of water, wastewater, and recycled water treatment. In recent years she has also discovered some emerging passions in psychology, education, and yoga. During her free time, she enjoys substitute teaching, practicing and teaching yoga, and furthering her own education. Motivated by her personal experiences and a desire to address the shortcomings she experienced as a child, Sangam thinks all children (and adults) deserve an opportunity to develop the skills that better prepare them for this unique human experience. Sangam brings her diverse background and skills to the One Community team helping develop the Highest Good Education program.

WELCOME TO THE TEAM SANGAM!

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