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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, committed to global good news engine. 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 in terms of global good news engine.

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, all aimed at global good news engine. 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 for the global good news engine.

WHY ONE COMMUNITY IS CREATING THIS

The One Community self-replicating model is capable of creating a sustainable planet within 30 years through the global good news engine. 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, further promoting the ideals of the global good news engine. 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, furthering the cause of the global good news engine.

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, contributing to the global good news engine. 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, ultimately aiming for global good news engine.

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

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

COMPREHENSIVE SOLUTION TO HUMANITY’S NEEDS

One Community is open source sharing an evolution of sustainable living that addresses the complete human experience, all in pursuit of global good news engine. 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, all contributing to global good news engine.

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 the principles of global good news engine. 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.

ONE COMMUNITY’S 4-PHASE STRATEGY

One Community is building solution-creating models designed to create additional solution-creating models to specifically facilitate exponential and sustainable global teacher/demonstration village growth. The following four phases of the strategy we are applying are designed to support each other and accelerate the process globally:

Phase I: Global Good News Engine by Demonstrating a Better Way

We are designing One Community to demonstrate an experience of living that we believe most people will consider to be better because it will be more enjoyable and fulfilling. We also think most people will consider it better because it is made possible specifically through a foundation of sustainable sustainability and a philosophy that is for The Highest Good of All.

Phase II: Global Good News Engine with Open Source Project-Launch Blueprinting

Everything we do we are open source project-launch blueprinting and free-sharing to make it as easy and affordable as possible to duplicate, adapt, and evolve in the manner that suits each individual and/or group’s needs. Free-sharing information like this is our aggressive-exposure engine and an aspect of One Community that will accelerate indefinitely as we continue to build our team, move onto the property, and continuously build and evolve everything that is One Community.

Phase III: Global Good News Engine by Inviting the World to Participate

Everything we are open source project-launch blueprinting is designed to invite the world to participate by duplicating it as either individual components or complete teacher/demonstration communities, villages, and cities that will be able to be built almost anywhere in the world. Additionally, people can join One Community as members, consultants and/or partners, or use the suggestions links on our open source project-launch blueprinting hubs to help with the design, implementation, and evolution process. Scholarships, weekend learning and work crews, and tourism will be foundations of One Community once we have sufficient infrastructure in place to support these options.

Phase IV: Global Good News Engine with Universal Appeal and Global Expansion

As One Community continues evolving and establishing ourselves, everything we create and promote will serve as the engine to inspire people to align with the concept of open source and sustainable living for The Highest Good of All. We are doing this to create mainstream appeal and our path to achieving this appeal is demonstrating a happier, more affordable, and ecologically friendly model of living that can be built anywhere in the world.

Open source project-launch blueprinting it all is how we believe the model will spread and, possibly most importantly, that it will predictably spread even faster in the areas where it is needed most because building restrictions, the cost of land, and materials costs are in most cases lower in these areas.

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 the faster we see the world transitioning towards global good news engine.

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 and contributing to global good news engine.
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 for global good news engine 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 all aimed at global good news engine.

Demonstrating Sustainable Sustainability – One Community Weekly Progress Update #311

Posted on March 10, 2019 by One Community

DEMONSTRATING SUSTAINABLE SUSTAINABILITY – HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING: @6:43

Demonstrating sustainable sustainability will be easier in sustainable communities. This is because the current “everyone for themselves” approach just isn’t designed with sustainability in mind. Cooperation and collaboration work better, more efficiently, and can more easily problem solve the diversity of challenges truly sustainable food, energy, housing, education, economics, social architecture, fulfilled living, and global stewardship practices require. One Community is designing open source plans and teacher/demonstration hubs to support 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 this demonstrating sustainable sustainability movement as the first of many self-replicating teacher/demonstration communities, villages, and cities to be built around the world. This is the March 10th, 2019 edition (#311) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments:

Demonstrating Sustainable Sustainability
One Community Progress Update #311

Demonstrating Sustainable Sustainability - One Community Weekly Progress Update #311

Watch this video on YouTube

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

DEMONSTRATING SUSTAINABLE SUSTAINABILITY INTRO: @0:34

Continued design updates to the open source Murphy bed furniture assembly details (see below)
Continued developing the best, safest, and most sustainable paints, primers, stains, and sealers page (see below)
Anvita Kumari Pandey completed her 33rd week volunteering and helping with the Earthbag Village Materials and Costs (see below)
Shadi Kennedy completed his 42nd week leading the development of the Murphy bed instructions (see below)
Dean Scholz continued working on the Earthbag Village, focusing on the hallway and furniture for the non-ADA bathrooms (see below)

DEMONSTRATING SUSTAINABLE SUSTAINABILITY – DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER: @8:32

Continued the process of modeling the new Duplicable City Center interior design details for the library (see below)
Continued adding the design specifics and writing the City Center open source HVAC design tutorial (see below)
Tanya Griffin, Aubryanne Boyle, and Allie Marsh completed their 11th week helping with the Duplicable City Center interior design details (see below)
James Herrigel completed his 13th week researching the best, safest, and most sustainable paints, primers, stains, and sealers (see below)
Sneha Dongre continued with her 4th week helping with the Duplicable City Center structural details (see below)

DEMONSTRATING SUSTAINABLE SUSTAINABILITY – HIGHEST GOOD FOOD: @10:24

Continued writing the behind-the-scenes narrative and detailed food rollout plan for the various stages of development (see below)
Finished the Advanced Composting section of the Soil Amendment open source hub (see below)
Guy Grossfeld completed his 10th week working on creating an open source icon and symbol set for our permaculture designs (see below)

DEMONSTRATING SUSTAINABLE SUSTAINABILITY – HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION: @11:30

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

DEMONSTRATING SUSTAINABLE SUSTAINABILITY – HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY: @12:36

Emilio Nájera continued with his 22nd week as part of the marketing team, refactoring more keyword strategies including more for the Soil Amendment page, Apiary page, and Ethical Goat Raising page (see below)
Highest Good Network software team consisting of Jordan Miller, Tyler Calvert and Justin Kunz continued developing the software (see below)

DEMONSTRATING SUSTAINABLE SUSTAINABILITY SUMMARY: @13:48

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HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

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

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

This week the core team continued design updates to the open source Murphy bed furniture assembly details, in favor of demonstrating sustainable sustainability. This week we researched the building code for outlets, made electrical outlet and switch location updates, and made an opening in the wall by the bed to access these new switches and outlets. You can see some of this work here.

Murphy Bed, Demonstrating Sustainable Sustainability, One Community Weekly Progress Update #311

Design Updates to the Open Source Murphy Bed Furniture Assembly Details ” Click for Page

The core team also continued developing the best, safest, and most sustainable paints, primers, stains, and sealers page. This week we added details for 1 more natural paint company and 3 different DIY paint options.

Paint, Demonstrating Sustainable Sustainability, One Community Weekly Progress Update #311

Continued Developing the Best, Safest, and Most Sustainable Paints, Primers, Stains, and Sealers Page ” Click to Visit

Anvita Kumari Pandey (Civil Engineer) also completed her 33rd week volunteering and helping with the Earthbag Village Materials and Costs, contributing to demonstrating sustainable sustainability. This week she focused on the Tropical Atrium by adding more items and updating quantities for items like fiberglass insulation, wood railings, metal railings, patio flooring, etc. You can see some of this work here.

Earthbag Village Materials and Costs, Demonstrating Sustainable Sustainability, One Community Weekly Update #311

Continued with Earthbag Village Materials and Costs, Focusing on the Tropical Atrium – Click to Visit

Shadi Kennedy (Artist and Graphic Designer) also completed his 42nd week leading the development of the Murphy bed instructions, in pursuit of demonstrating sustainable sustainability. This week’s focus was beginning the final diagrams for installation of lighting from the attic area cut away sections, light-can diagrams, and the installation of wiring. You can see some of this work-in-progress here.

Murphy bed, Demonstrating Sustainable Sustainability, One Community Weekly Update #311

Continued Development of the Murphy Bed Instructions ” Click to Visit

Dean Scholz (Architectural Designer) continued working on the Earthbag Village (Pod 1), dedicated to demonstrating sustainable sustainability. Here is weekly update #152 from Dean. This week’s focus, as shown in these images, was working on the hallway and furniture for the non-ADA bathrooms.

Earthbag Village, Demonstrating Sustainable Sustainability, One Community Weekly Update #311

Earthbag Village by Working on Hallway and Furniture for Non-ADA Bathrooms ” Click for Page

DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

One Community is demonstrating sustainable 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 continued the process of modeling the new Duplicable City Center interior design details for the library, contributing to demonstrating sustainable sustainability. This week we worked on different designs for the tree-stump tables, and updated the tree-branched bookshelf design, as shown here.

City Center, Demonstrating Sustainable Sustainability, One Community Weekly Update #311

Continued Modeling the New Duplicable City Center Interior Design Details for Library ” Click to Visit

The core team also continued adding the design specifics and writing the City Center open source HVAC design tutorial, demonstrating sustainable sustainability. This week we started developing the “Applying LEED in the Duplicable City Center” Case Study section and created all the sections shown here.

City Center HVAC Design, Demonstrating Sustainable Sustainability, One Community Weekly Update #311

Continued Adding Design Specifics and Writing City Center HVAC Design Tutorial ” Click for Page

Tanya Griffin, Aubryanne Boyle, and Allie Marsh (Interior Designers from Lotus Designs) completed their 11th week helping with the Duplicable City Center interior design details, in favor of demonstrating sustainable sustainability. This week’s focus was brainstorming what we think are the final paint, flooring, stall divider, countertop, and tile selections for the public restrooms. You can see the updated selections here.

interior design details, Demonstrating Sustainable Sustainability, One Community Weekly Update #311

Continued Helping With Duplicable City Center Interior Design Details ” Click for Page

And James Herrigel (Student Researcher) also completed his 13th week researching the best, safest, and most sustainable paints, primers, stains, and sealers, dedicated to demonstrating sustainable sustainability. This week’s focus was adding more DIY paint and sealer options, more Real Milk Paint Company details, and researching and completing the entire sealers section. You can see some of this behind-the-scenes work here.

best, safest, and most sustainable paints, primers, stains, and sealers, Demonstrating Sustainable Sustainability, One Community Weekly Update #311

Continued Researching the Most Sustainable Paints, Primers, Stains, and Sealers ” Click for Page

Sneha Dongre (Structural Engineer) also continued with her 4th week helping with the Duplicable City Center structural details. This week’s focus was researching what was needed to decide if we’d be using a riser for our domes. You can see some of this research here.

Duplicable City Center structural details, Demonstrating Sustainable Sustainability, One Community Weekly Update #311

Continued Helping with Duplicable City Center Structural Details ” Click for Page

HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

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

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

This week the core team continued writing the behind-the-scenes narrative and detailed food rollout plan for the various stages of development. This week we continued researching goat care and fencing, reviewed the video “Treating Wood Fence Posts – The old Timers Way” to extend the life of the posts, added comments to the Google Doc, updated the fencing materials list to include gravel, and combined the timeframes with the rewritten steps. You can see some of this behind-the-scenes work here.

Highest Good Food, Demonstrating Sustainable Sustainability, One Community Weekly Progress Update #311

Behind-the-scenes Narrative and Detailed Food Rollout Plan for Various Stages of Development

The core team additionally finished the Advanced Composting section of the Soil Amendment open source hub, which you can see here.

Food, Demonstrating Sustainable Sustainability, One Community Weekly Update #311

Finished Advanced Composting Section of the Soil Amendment Open Source Hub ” Click to Visit

Guy Grossfeld (Graphic Designer) also completed his 10th week working on creating an open source icon and symbol set for our permaculture designs. What you see here are the icons created so far.

Permaculture designs, Demonstrating Sustainable Sustainability, One Community Weekly Update #311

Continued Creating an Open Source Icon and Symbol Set for Our Permaculture Designs ” Click to Visit

HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

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

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

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

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

HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS

One Community is demonstrating sustainable 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 Emilio Nájera (Digital Marketer) continued with his 22nd week as part of the marketing team. This week’s focus was refactoring more keyword strategies including more for the Soil Amendment page, Apiary page, and Ethical Goat Raising page, and then started building the actual ad campaigns for the Open Source AutoCAD landing page. You can see some of this work here.

Keywords, Demonstrating Sustainable Sustainability, One Community Weekly Update #311

Refactored 3 Additional Keyword Campaigns & Started Building Ad Campaigns for AutoCAD Landing

In addition to this, the Highest Good Network software team consisting of Jordan Miller (Web Developer), Tyler Calvert (Full-stack Software Engineer), and Justin Kunz (Software Engineer) continued developing the software. This week the team worked on more color schemes research, creating new dashboard color mockups, researched new tools for data visualization on the reports page, and developing responsive tables for the time entries. You can see some of this work here.

Highest Good Network software, Demonstrating Sustainable Sustainability, One Community Weekly Update #311

Continued Developing the Highest Good Network Software ” Click to Visit

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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, committed to demonstrating sustainable sustainability. 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 in terms of demonstrating sustainable sustainability.

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, all aimed at demonstrating sustainable sustainability. 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 for the demonstrating sustainable sustainability.

WHY ONE COMMUNITY IS CREATING THIS

The One Community self-replicating model is capable of creating a sustainable planet within 30 years through the demonstrating sustainable sustainability. We will achieve this by establishing successful teacher/demonstration hubs on every continent. Villages include designs appropriate for each of the five main types of climates. They also include options for even the most challenged economies, further promoting the ideals of the demonstrating sustainable sustainability. 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, furthering the cause of the demonstrating sustainable sustainability.

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, contributing to the demonstrating sustainable sustainability. 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, ultimately aiming for demonstrating sustainable sustainability.

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

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

COMPREHENSIVE SOLUTION TO HUMANITY’S NEEDS

One Community is open source sharing an evolution of sustainable living that addresses the complete human experience, all in pursuit of demonstrating sustainable 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, all contributing to demonstrating sustainable sustainability.

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

ONE COMMUNITY’S 4-PHASE STRATEGY

One Community is building solution-creating models designed to create additional solution-creating models to specifically facilitate exponential and sustainable global teacher/demonstration village growth. The following four phases of the strategy we are applying are designed to support each other and accelerate the process globally:

Phase I: Demonstrating Sustainable Sustainability by Demonstrating a Better Way

We are designing One Community to demonstrate an experience of living that we believe most people will consider to be better because it will be more enjoyable and fulfilling. We also think most people will consider it better because it is made possible specifically through a foundation of sustainable sustainability and a philosophy that is for The Highest Good of All.

Phase II: Demonstrating Sustainable Sustainability with Open Source Project-Launch Blueprinting

Everything we do we are open source project-launch blueprinting and free-sharing to make it as easy and affordable as possible to duplicate, adapt, and evolve in the manner that suits each individual and/or group’s needs. Free-sharing information like this is our aggressive-exposure engine and an aspect of One Community that will accelerate indefinitely as we continue to build our team, move onto the property, and continuously build and evolve everything that is One Community.

Phase III: Demonstrating Sustainable Sustainability by Inviting the World to Participate

Everything we are open source project-launch blueprinting is designed to invite the world to participate by duplicating it as either individual components or complete teacher/demonstration communities, villages, and cities that will be able to be built almost anywhere in the world. Additionally, people can join One Community as members, consultants and/or partners, or use the suggestions links on our open source project-launch blueprinting hubs to help with the design, implementation, and evolution process. Scholarships, weekend learning and work crews, and tourism will be foundations of One Community once we have sufficient infrastructure in place to support these options.

Phase IV: Demonstrating Sustainable Sustainability with Universal Appeal and Global Expansion

As One Community continues evolving and establishing ourselves, everything we create and promote will serve as the engine to inspire people to align with the concept of open source and sustainable living for The Highest Good of All. We are doing this to create mainstream appeal and our path to achieving this appeal is demonstrating a happier, more affordable, and ecologically friendly model of living that can be built anywhere in the world.

Open source project-launch blueprinting it all is how we believe the model will spread and, possibly most importantly, that it will predictably spread even faster in the areas where it is needed most because building restrictions, the cost of land, and materials costs are in most cases lower in these areas.

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 the faster we see the world transitioning towards demonstrating sustainable sustainability.

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 and contributing to demonstrating sustainable sustainability.
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 for demonstrating sustainable sustainability 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 all aimed at demonstrating sustainable sustainability.

Embracing the Robot Revolution – One Community Weekly Progress Update #310

Posted on March 3, 2019 by One Community

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One Community is in favor of embracing the robot revolution. Robots are replacing people for many jobs and these jobs will never need to be done by people again. The more jobs can be done with machines, the more people can choose more enriching life endeavors like living in and helping build sustainable and self-replicating eco-communities. One Community is developing and open sourcing/free-sharing the foundations for people to be able to construct and manage these. These foundations include food, energy, housing, education, for-profit and non-profit economic design, social architecture, fulfilled living, global stewardship practices, and more.

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

OUR MAIN OPEN SOURCE HUBS

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

One Community’s physical location will forward this embracing the robot revolution movement as the first of many self-replicating teacher/demonstration communities, villages, and cities to be built around the world. This is the March 3rd, 2019 edition (#310) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments:

Embracing the Robot Revolution
One Community Progress Update #310

Embracing the Robot Revolution - One Community Weekly Progress Update #310

Watch this video on YouTube

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

EMBRACING THE ROBOT REVOLUTION INTRO: @0:34

EMBRACING THE ROBOT REVOLUTION – HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING: @6:29

Added Pee Funnel details to the most sustainable urinal and most sustainable toilet options pages (see below)
Added a “10 Most Asked Questions About Composting Toilets” section to the Most Sustainable Toilets research page (see below)
Hemanth Kotaru completed his 31st week helping with the structural engineering research and calculations for the Earthbag Village (see below)
Shadi Kennedy completed his 41st week leading the development of the Murphy bed instructions (see below)
Dan Alleck completed his 39th week helping with Earthbag Village render additions, working on the main Earthbag Village render by improving colors, fixing more plants, and fixing open doors (see below)
Dean Scholz continued working on the Earthbag Village (see below)

EMBRACING THE ROBOT REVOLUTION – DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER: @8:11

Continued with week 8 of our research into lake and water retention landscape creation as an alternative source of water for the Duplicable City Center Sprinkler and Emergency Systems Designs, agriculture, greywater processing, and more (see below)
Tested a strategy for showing all the finished dams with a flyover (see below)
Continued the process of modeling the new Duplicable City Center interior design details for the library (see below)
Updated the Duplicable City Center Materials and Costs details to incorporate the results of our toilet, urinal, and related accessories research (see below)
Started adding the design specifics and writing the City Center open source HVAC design tutorial (see below)
Tanya Griffin, Aubryanne Boyle, and Allie Marsh completed their 10th week helping with the Duplicable City Center interior design details (see below)
James Herrigel completed his 12th week researching the best, safest, and most sustainable paints, primers, stains, and sealers (see below)
Sneha Dongre continued with her 3rd week helping with the Duplicable City Center structural details (see below)

EMBRACING THE ROBOT REVOLUTION – HIGHEST GOOD FOOD: @10:30

Continued writing the behind-the-scenes narrative and detailed food rollout plan for the various stages of development (see below)
Added a Comfrey section and several new sections and additional details and resources to the Composting section of the Soil Amendment open source hub (see below)
Guy Grossfeld completed his 9th week working on creating an open source icon and symbol set for our permaculture designs (see below)

EMBRACING THE ROBOT REVOLUTION – HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION: @11:39

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

EMBRACING THE ROBOT REVOLUTION – HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY: @12:45

Emilio Nájera continued with his 21st week as part of the marketing team, refactoring more keyword strategies including the Sustainable Paint, Permaculture, Hoop House, Botanical Garden, and Soil Amendment pages (see below)
Highest Good Network software team consisting of Jordan Miller, Tyler Calvert and Justin Kunz continued developing the software (see below)

EMBRACING THE ROBOT REVOLUTION SUMMARY: @13:58

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HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

One Community is embracing the robot revolution 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 added Pee Funnel details to the most sustainable urinal and most sustainable toilet options pages, in favor of embracing the robot revolution. You can see some of this work here.

sustainable toilets, Embracing the Robot Revolution, One Community Weekly Update #310

Added Details to Most Sustainable Urinal and Most Sustainable Toilet Options Pages – Click to Visit

The core team also added a “10 Most Asked Questions About Composting Toilets” section to the Most Sustainable Toilets research page.

Most Sustainable Toilets, Embracing the Robot Revolution, One Community Weekly Update #310

Added a “10 Most Asked Questions About Composting Toilets” Section to Toilets Page – Click to Visit

Hemanth Kotaru (Structural Engineer) completed his 31st week helping with the structural engineering research and calculations for the Earthbag Village (Pod 1), contributing to embracing the robot revolution. This week he confirmed a 1″ penetration into the top bags will work and updated the nails spreadsheet to include labels, basic instructions, and better and more calculations. You can see some of this work-in-progress here.

Earthbag Village, Embracing the Robot Revolution, One Community Weekly Update #310

Continued Structural Engineering Research and Calculations for Earthbag Village ” Click for Page

Shadi Kennedy (Artist and Graphic Designer) also completed his 41st week leading the development of the Murphy bed instructions, dedicated to embracing the robot revolution. This week’s focus was brainstorming more lighting installation options and developing diagrams illustrating the installation of the wiring. You can see some of this work-in-progress here.

Murphy bed instructions HVAC, Embracing the Robot Revolution, One Community Weekly Update #310

Continued Development of the Murphy Bed Instructions – Click to Visit

Dan Alleck (Designer and Illustrator) completed his 39th week helping with Earthbag Village render additions, in pursuit of embracing the robot revolution. This week he continued work on the main Earthbag Village render by improving colors, fixing more plants, and fixing open doors.

EARTHBAG VILLAGE, Render, Embracing the Robot Revolution, One Community Weekly Update #310

Improved Colors, Fixed Plants, and Fixed Open Doors of Main Earthbag Village ” Click for Page

Dean Scholz (Architectural Designer) continued working on the Earthbag Village (Pod 1), contributing to embracing the robot revolution. Here is weekly update #151 from Dean. This week’s focus, as shown in these images, was working on the external textures and the details needed to properly wrap them around the windows and doorways.

Continued on Earthbag Village by Working on the External Textures ” Click for Page

DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

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

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

This week, the core team continued with week 8 of our research into lake and water retention landscape creation as an alternative source of water for the Duplicable City Center Sprinkler and Emergency Systems Designs, agriculture, greywater processing, and more, in favor of embracing the robot revolution. This week we started developing our 2nd dam in 3D, the saddleback dam shown here. We also tested a strategy for showing all the finished dams with a flyover. You can see the beginnings of another dam in the flyover test shown in the video portion of the blog.

Duplicable City Center Sprinkler and Emergency Systems Designs, lake and water retention landscape creation, Embracing the Robot Revolution, One Community Weekly Update #310

Continued Research Into Lake and Water Retention Landscape Creation for the Duplicable City Center ” Click to Visit

And the core team continued the process of modeling the new Duplicable City Center interior design details for the library, dedicated to embracing the robot revolution. This week’s focus was the floor, mirrors on the main wall, updates to the benches, and adding in the hallway and better floor details.

Duplicable City Center interior design details for the library, Embracing the Robot Revolution, One Community Weekly Update #310

Continued Modeling the New Duplicable City Center Interior Design Details for Library ” Click to Visit

The core team also updated the Duplicable City Center Materials and Costs details to incorporate the results of our toilet, urinal, and related accessories research, in pursuit of embracing the robot revolution.

Duplicable City Center Materials and Costs, Embracing the Robot Revolution, One Community Weekly Update #310

Updated the Duplicable City Center Materials and Costs Details ” Click for Page

And the core team started adding the design specifics and writing the City Center open source HVAC design tutorial, contributing to embracing the robot revolution. This week we created the sections teaching about our wall design and R-values, calculating thermal mass, and equipment selection.

City Center open source HVAC design tutorial, Embracing the Robot Revolution, One Community Weekly Update #310

Began Adding Design Specifics and Writing City Center HVAC Design Tutorial ” Click for Page

Tanya Griffin, Aubryanne Boyle, and Allie Marsh (Interior Designers from Lotus Designs) completed their 10th week helping with the Duplicable City Center interior design details, in favor of embracing the robot revolution. This week’s focus was further brainstorming and design suggestions for the main public restrooms. You can see some of this behind-the-scenes work here.

Duplicable City Center interior design details, Embracing the Robot Revolution, One Community Weekly Update #310

Continued Helping With Duplicable City Center Interior Design Details ” Click for Page

And James Herrigel (Student Researcher) also completed his 12th week researching the best, safest, and most sustainable paints, primers, stains, and sealers. This week’s focus was finishing most of varnish section and adding DIY options to the paints, stains, and varnishes sections. You can see some of this behind-the-scenes work here.

best, safest, and most sustainable paints, primers, stains, sealers, Embracing the Robot Revolution, One Community Weekly Update #310

Continued Researching the Most Sustainable Paints, Primers, Stains, and Sealers ” Click for Page

Sneha Dongre (Structural Engineer) also continued with her 3rd week helping with the Duplicable City Center structural details. This week’s focus was continuing the process of removing all the non-structural lines and identifying differences between the new 3D model and the old one, some of which you can see here.

Duplicable City Center structural details, Embracing the Robot Revolution, One Community Weekly Update #310

Continued Helping with Duplicable City Center Structural Details ” Click for Page

HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

One Community is embracing the robot revolution 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

The core team also continued writing the behind-the-scenes narrative and detailed food rollout plan for the various stages of development. This week we continued researching goat care and fencing. We expanded the goat yard outside of shelter to include an open area combined with a playground and a “bad boy” goat timeout area and researched and contacted Red Brand fencing. We also organized and detailed a video of steps for woven wire fence installation into a timeline for implementation. You can see some of this behind-the-scenes work here.

Goats, Embracing the Robot Revolution, One Community Weekly Update #310

Behind-the-scenes Narrative and Detailed Food Rollout Plan for Various Stages of Development

The core team also added a Comfrey section and several new sections and additional details and resources to the Composting section of the Soil Amendment open source hub. You can see some of this work here.

Soil Amendment, open source hub, Embracing the Robot Revolution, One Community Weekly Update #310

Added New Details and Resources to Composting Section of Soil Amendment Hub ” Click for Page

Guy Grossfeld (Graphic Designer) also completed his 9th week working on creating an open source icon and symbol set for our permaculture designs. What you see here are the icons created so far.

Continued Creating an Open Source Icon and Symbol Set for Our Permaculture Designs ” Click to Visit

HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

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

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

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

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

HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS

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

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

This week Emilio Nájera (Digital Marketer) continued with his 21st week as part of the marketing team, in favor of embracing the robot revolution. This week’s focus was refactoring more keyword strategies including the Sustainable Paint, Permaculture, Hoop House, Botanical Garden, and Soil Amendment pages. You can see some of this work here.

refactoring keyword strategies, Embracing the Robot Revolution, One Community Weekly Update #310

Refactored 5 Additional Keyword Campaigns ” Click for our Site Map

In addition to this, the Highest Good Network software team consisting of Jordan Miller (Web Developer), Tyler Calvert (Full-stack Software Engineer), and Justin Kunz (Software Engineer) continued developing the software, contributing to embracing the robot revolution. This week the team worked on an editable document button, researched color schemes and worked on mock ups, fixed a tangible time default issue, an HTML render issue, and admin-volunteer editing and add-time entry logic. They also updated the time formatting and made it so TinyMCE now logs links. You can see some of this work here.

Highest Good Network, Embracing the Robot Revolution, One Community Weekly Update #310

Continued Developing the Highest Good Network Software ” Click to Visit

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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, committed to embracing the robot revolution. 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 in terms of embracing the robot revolution.

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, all aimed at embracing the robot revolution. 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 for the embracing the robot revolution.

WHY ONE COMMUNITY IS CREATING THIS

The One Community self-replicating model is capable of creating a sustainable planet within 30 years through the embracing the robot revolution. 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, further promoting the ideals of the embracing the robot revolution. 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, furthering the cause of the embracing the robot revolution.

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, contributing to the embracing the robot revolution. 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, ultimately aiming for embracing the robot revolution.

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

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

COMPREHENSIVE SOLUTION TO HUMANITY’S NEEDS

One Community is open source sharing an evolution of sustainable living that addresses the complete human experience, all in pursuit of embracing the robot revolution. 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, all contributing to embracing the robot revolution.

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 the principles of embracing the robot revolution. 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.

ONE COMMUNITY’S 4-PHASE STRATEGY

One Community is building solution-creating models designed to create additional solution-creating models to specifically facilitate exponential and sustainable global teacher/demonstration village growth. The following four phases of the strategy we are applying are designed to support each other and accelerate the process globally:

Phase I: Embracing the Robot Revolution by Demonstrating a Better Way

We are designing One Community to demonstrate an experience of living that we believe most people will consider to be better because it will be more enjoyable and fulfilling. We also think most people will consider it better because it is made possible specifically through a foundation of sustainable sustainability and a philosophy that is for The Highest Good of All.

Phase II: Embracing the Robot Revolution with Open Source Project-Launch Blueprinting

Everything we do we are open source project-launch blueprinting and free-sharing to make it as easy and affordable as possible to duplicate, adapt, and evolve in the manner that suits each individual and/or group’s needs. Free-sharing information like this is our aggressive-exposure engine and an aspect of One Community that will accelerate indefinitely as we continue to build our team, move onto the property, and continuously build and evolve everything that is One Community.

Phase III: Embracing the Robot Revolution by Inviting the World to Participate

Everything we are open source project-launch blueprinting is designed to invite the world to participate by duplicating it as either individual components or complete teacher/demonstration communities, villages, and cities that will be able to be built almost anywhere in the world. Additionally, people can join One Community as members, consultants and/or partners, or use the suggestions links on our open source project-launch blueprinting hubs to help with the design, implementation, and evolution process. Scholarships, weekend learning and work crews, and tourism will be foundations of One Community once we have sufficient infrastructure in place to support these options.

Phase IV: Embracing the Robot Revolution with Universal Appeal and Global Expansion

As One Community continues evolving and establishing ourselves, everything we create and promote will serve as the engine to inspire people to align with the concept of open source and sustainable living for The Highest Good of All. We are doing this to create mainstream appeal and our path to achieving this appeal is demonstrating a happier, more affordable, and ecologically friendly model of living that can be built anywhere in the world.

Open source project-launch blueprinting it all is how we believe the model will spread and, possibly most importantly, that it will predictably spread even faster in the areas where it is needed most because building restrictions, the cost of land, and materials costs are in most cases lower in these areas.

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 the faster we see the world transitioning towards embracing the robot revolution.

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 and contributing to embracing the robot revolution.
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 for embracing the robot revolution 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 all aimed at embracing the robot revolution.

Sustainable Circular Economies – One Community Weekly Progress Update #309

Posted on February 24, 2019 by One Community

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

Sustainable circular economies are models for sustainable stewardship of all aspects of our lives and our planet. These include food, energy, housing, education, for-profit and non-profit economic design, social architecture, fulfilled living, global stewardship practices, and more. One Community is creating these as a self-replicating model for individual empowerment and global sustainability.

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

OUR MAIN OPEN SOURCE HUBS

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

One Community’s physical location will forward this movement as the first of many self-replicating teacher/demonstration communities, villages, and cities to be built around the world. This is the February 24th, 2019 edition (#309) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments:

Sustainable Circular Economies
One Community Progress Update #309

Sustainable Circular Economies - One Community Weekly Progress Update #309

Watch this video on YouTube

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

SUSTAINABLE CIRCULAR ECONOMIES: INTRO: @0:34

SUSTAINABLE CIRCULAR ECONOMIES: HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING: @6:04

Created version 1 of the most sustainable urinal options page (see below)
Hemanth Kotaru completed his 30th week helping with the structural engineering research and calculations for the Earthbag Village (see below)
Dan Alleck began work on the main Earthbag Village render by improving colors, fixing plants, and replacing the sky (see below)
Dean Scholz continued working on the Earthbag Village, focusing on modeling a tabletop grill and continuing with texture testing and updates (see below)

SUSTAINABLE CIRCULAR ECONOMIES: DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER: @7:23

Continued with week 7 of our research into lake and water retention landscape creation as an alternative source of water for the Duplicable City Center Sprinkler and Emergency Systems Designs, agriculture, greywater processing, and more (see below)
Continued building the new page sharing the best, safest, and most sustainable paints, stains, varnishes, and sealants (see below)
Began the process of modeling the new Duplicable City Center interior design details (see below)
Completed our final review of the lighting plan for the City Center (see below)
Tanya Griffin, Aubryanne Boyle, and Allie Marsh completed their 8th week helping with the Duplicable City Center interior design details (see below)
David Olivero finished the first complete draft of the HVAC tutorial (see below)
Sneha Dongre continued with her 2nd week helping with the Duplicable City Center structural details, continuing the process of removing all the non-structural lines and components in AutoCAD and adding in missing ones (see below)

SUSTAINABLE CIRCULAR ECONOMIES: HIGHEST GOOD FOOD: @9:46

Continued writing the behind-the-scenes narrative and detailed food rollout plan for the various stages of development (see below)
Guy Grossfeld completed his 7th week working on creating an open source icon and symbol set for our permaculture designs (see below)

SUSTAINABLE CIRCULAR ECONOMIES: HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION: @10:38

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

SUSTAINABLE CIRCULAR ECONOMIES: HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY: @11:43

Emilio Nájera continued with his 20th week as part of the marketing team, refactoring the Sustainability, water-saving toilets, and water-saving shower heads keyword strategies (see below)
Highest Good Network software team consisting of Jordan Miller, Tyler Calvert and Justin Kunz continued developing the software (see below)

SUSTAINABLE CIRCULAR ECONOMIES: SUMMARY: @12:51

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SUSTAINABLE CIRCULAR ECONOMIES: HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

One Community is forwarding sustainable circular economies 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 version 1 of the most sustainable urinal options page. This included formatting, social media imagery, and adding the best two urinals we’ve found plus all the best choices for the cleaning and odor-fighting blocks. You can see some of this work here.

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Created Version 1 of the Most Sustainable Urinal Options Page – Click to Visit

Hemanth Kotaru (Structural Engineer) completed his 30th week helping with the structural engineering research and calculations for the Earthbag Village (Pod 1). This week he created a spreadsheet that determines nail density between the earthbag courses. You can see some of this work-in-progress here.

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Continued Structural Engineering Research and Calculations for Earthbag Village ” Click for Page

Dan Alleck (Designer and Illustrator) completed his 38th week helping with Earthbag Village render additions. This week he began work on the main Earthbag Village render by improving colors, fixing plants, and replacing the sky.

Earthbag Village render, Sustainable Circular Economies, One Community Weekly Update #309

Improved Colors, Fixed Plants, and Replaced the Sky of Main Earthbag Village Looking North

Dean Scholz (Architectural Designer) continued working on the Earthbag Village (Pod 1). Here is weekly update #150 from Dean. This week’s focus, as shown in these images, was modeling a tabletop grill and continuing with texture testing and updates.

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Modeled a Tabletop Grill and Continued With Texture Testing and Updates ” Click for Earthbag Village

SUSTAINABLE CIRCULAR ECONOMIES: DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

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

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

This week, the core team continued with week 7 of our research into lake and water retention landscape creation as an alternative source of water for the Duplicable City Center Sprinkler and Emergency Systems Designs, agriculture, greywater processing, and more. This week we explored a new information source, created our first dam in 3D, and added new graphics and content to the chart we’ve created sharing the various kinds and applications for dams. You can see some of this work here.

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Continued Research Into Lake and Water Retention Landscape Creation for the Duplicable City Center

The core team also continued building the new page sharing the best, safest, and most sustainable paints, stains, varnishes, and sealants. This week we added the best choices for sustainable primers, which you can see here.

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Continued Building New Page Sharing the Most Sustainable Paints, Stains, Varnishes, and Sealants

And the core team began the process of modeling the new Duplicable City Center interior design details. Here you can see our outlines of everything needed and final updates to the cost analysis sheet.

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Began the Process of Modeling the New Duplicable City Center Interior Design Details – Click for Page

And here are the first renders from the process where we placed the polished floor design, designed the curved sitting area and benches, and created and added the bookshelf details.

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Started Developing Renders of Duplicable City Center Library – Click to Visit

The core team also completed our final review of the lighting plan for the City Center. This included identifying any final missing DiaLUX files, final updates to the lighting spreadsheet, double checking everything was correct in AutoCAD, and that all these correlated with the content on the website.

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Completed Our Final Review of the Lighting Plan for the City Center – Click for Page

Tanya Griffin, Aubryanne Boyle, and Allie Marsh (Interior Designers from Lotus Designs) also completed their 9th week helping with the Duplicable City Center interior design details. This week’s focus was the initial concept boards shown here for the Social Dome and main public restrooms.

Continued Helping With Duplicable City Center Interior Design Details ” Click for Page

In addition, David Olivero (Mechanical Engineer & Data Scientist) continued helping finish the City Center HVAC Designs. This week he finished the first complete draft of the HVAC tutorial. You can see some of his behind-the-scenes work here.

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Finished the First Complete Draft of the HVAC Tutorial – Click for Page

Last but not least, Sneha Dongre (Structural Engineer) continued with her 2nd week helping with the Duplicable City Center structural details. This week’s focus was continuing the process of removing all the non-structural lines and components in AutoCAD and adding in missing ones.

Duplicable City Center structural details, Sustainable Circular Economies, One Community Weekly Update #309

Continued Helping With Duplicable City Center Structural Details ” Click for Page

SUSTAINABLE CIRCULAR ECONOMIES: HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

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

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

This week, the core team continued writing the behind-the-scenes narrative and detailed food rollout plan for the various stages of development. This week we watched videos on goat care and fencing, created our initial drawing for the size of the goat pen, and organized and detailed the related equipment, materials, and information into a timeline for implementation. You can see some of this behind-the-scenes work here.

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Behind-the-scenes Narrative and Detailed Food Rollout Plan for Various Stages of Development

Guy Grossfeld (Graphic Designer) also completed his 8th week working on creating an open source icon and symbol set for our permaculture designs. What you see here are the icons created so far.

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Continued Creating an Open Source Icon and Symbol Set for Our Permaculture Designs ” Click to Visit

SUSTAINABLE CIRCULAR ECONOMIES: HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

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

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

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

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

SUSTAINABLE CIRCULAR ECONOMIES: HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS

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

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

This week Emilio Nájera (Digital Marketer) continued with his 20th week as part of the marketing team. This week’s focus was refactoring the Sustainability, Water-saving Toilets, and Water-saving Shower Heads keyword strategies. You can see some of this work here.

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Refactored Three More Keyword Campaigns ” Click for our Site Map

In addition to this, the Highest Good Network software team consisting of Jordan Miller (Web Developer), Tyler Calvert (Full-stack Software Engineer), and Justin Kunz (Software Engineer) continued developing the software. This week the team completed the Admin View on the teams and projects pages, finished the UI for user management, started discussing aesthetic upgrades and chose some initial color palettes, further developed the time entries options, and fixed all the folder and component names. You can see some of this work here.

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Continued Developing the Highest Good Network Software ” Click to Visit

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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, while fostering sustainable circular economies.

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, while fostering sustainable circular economies. This replicable community will serve as an example of what is possible.

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

BUILDING THE FIRST OF MANY

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

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, all while fostering sustainable circular economies. These hubs will collaborate with one another, share ideas, and resources, and work together as a network to heal the planet. They will also transform the global lifestyle into a more enjoyable, fulfilling, healthy, and sustainable one.

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

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

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.), with a focus on fostering sustainable circular economies. 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, fostering sustainable circular economies.

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

COMPREHENSIVE SOLUTION TO HUMANITY’S NEEDS

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

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, with a focus on fostering sustainable circular economies.

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, with a focus on fostering sustainable circular economies.

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, thereby promoting sustainable circular economies.

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 fostering sustainable circular economies.

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, fostering sustainable circular economies.

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 contributing to sustainable circular economies.

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

Freedom by Design – One Community Weekly Progress Update #308

Posted on February 17, 2019 by One Community

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“Freedom by Design” means giving people a way of life that frees us from economic stresses while directly including each other in the decision making processes and governance of everything that affects our lives. This includes food, energy, housing, education, social architecture, and more. Using open source and free-shared sustainable plans, we can significantly reduce the expenses of living while directly managing and stewarding all the areas most important to our wellbeing and happiness. One Community calls this living and creating for The Highest Good of All and we are creating this as a path to global sustainability.

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

OUR MAIN OPEN SOURCE HUBS

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

One Community’s physical location will forward this movement as the first of many self-replicating teacher/demonstration communities, villages, and cities to be built around the world. This is the February 17th, 2019 edition (#308) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments:

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Freedom by Design - One Community Weekly Progress Update #308

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

FREEDOM BY DESIGN: INTRO: @0:34

FREEDOM BY DESIGN: HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING: @5:58

Continued design updates to the open source Murphy bed furniture assembly details (see below)
Hemanth Kotaru completed his 29th week helping with the structural engineering research and calculations for the Earthbag Village, finishing initial cost analysis and summary for why we chose 12D nails (see below)
Anvita Kumari Pandey completed her 32nd week volunteering and helping with the Earthbag Village Materials and Costs, working on the 6 dome cluster patio and Tropical Atrium cost analysis details (see below)
Shadi Kennedy completed his 40th week leading the development of the Murphy bed instructions (see below)
Dan Alleck completed his 37th week helping with Earthbag Village render additions, finalizing colors and perimeter plants in view of the complete village looking North (see below)
Dean Scholz continued working on the Earthbag Village, finishing details for most of the internal furniture and starting to test textures (see below)
Elizabeth Kahn began researching sustainable spigot options for the most sustainable spigot options page we’re developing (see below)

FREEDOM BY DESIGN: DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER: @8:22

Continued with week 6 of our research into lake and water retention landscape creation as an alternative source of water for the Duplicable City Center Sprinkler and Emergency Systems Designs, agriculture, greywater processing, and more (see below)
Continued building the new page sharing the best, safest, and most sustainable paints, stains, varnishes, and sealants (see below)
Tanya Griffin, Aubryanne Boyle, and Allie Marsh completed their 7th week helping with the Duplicable City Center interior design details (see below)
James Herrigel completed his 10th week researching the best, safest, and most sustainable paints, primers, stains, and sealers (see below)
Sneha Dongre joined the team and completed her 1st week helping with the Duplicable City Center structural details (see below)

FREEDOM BY DESIGN: HIGHEST GOOD FOOD: @10:11

Continued adding all the Highest Good Food rollout plan details to our staging page (see below)
Continued writing the behind-the-scenes narrative and detailed food rollout plan for the various stages of development (see below)
Continued research and 3D design of the chicken coops needed for 100 chicks (see below)
Added several new sections and additional details and resources to the Swales, Hügelkultur, and Soil Preparation and Amendment sections of the Soil Amendment open source hub (see below)
Guy Grossfeld completed his 7th week working on creating an open source icon and symbol set for our permaculture designs (see below)

FREEDOM BY DESIGN: HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION: @12:04

With over 8 years of development invested in the Education for Life component, this part of One Community is now complete enough to no longer focus and report on it with weekly updates. That is, of course, until we move onto the property and continue the development and open sourcing process with teachers and students. Visit the Education section below for links to all the completed elements of this component and details on the final remaining action items for this area of One Community before moving onto the property and fully launching it.
Continued working on the structural redesign of the Ultimate Classroom, evolving last week’s design to add more space, bathrooms, cubby storage, sinks, etc. (see below)

FREEDOM BY DESIGN: HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY: @13:21

Finished the rest of the broken and incorrect links throughout our entire 1200+ page website and then ran multiple new reports (see below)
Jin Hua created another two new video tutorials about keyword “refactoring” and improving our keyword research and campaign design process (see below)
Emilio Nájera continued with his 19th week as part of the marketing team, focusing on using Jin’s videos and refactoring the sustainable village, Temporary Kitchen, Large Scale Gardening, Food Forest, and Hoop House keyword strategies (see below)
Highest Good Network software team consisting of Jordan Miller, Tyler Calvert and Justin Kunz continued developing the software (see below)

FREEDOM BY DESIGN: SUMMARY: @15:05

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FREEDOM BY DESIGN

FREEDOM BY DESIGN: HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

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

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

This week the core team continued design updates to the open source Murphy bed furniture assembly details. This week we confirmed bed swing clearance, checked dimensions of parts 0, WT28 and WT17, and added a headboard option. You can see some of this work here.

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Continued Design Updates to the Open Source Murphy Bed Furniture Assembly Details ” Click to Visit

Hemanth Kotaru (Structural Engineer) completed his 29th week helping with the structural engineering research and calculations for the Earthbag Village (Pod 1). This week he finished the initial cost analysis and summary for why we chose 12D nails. You can see some of this work-in-progress here.

Earthbag Village, Freedom by Design, One Community Weekly Update #308

Continued Structural Engineering Research and Calculations for Earthbag Village – Click for Page

Anvita Kumari Pandey (Civil Engineer) also completed her 32nd week volunteering and helping with the Earthbag Village Materials and Costs. This week she worked on the 6 dome cluster patio and Tropical Atrium cost analysis details by calculating volumes and quantities of materials and researching their costs. You can see some of this work here.

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Continued Helping with Earthbag Village Materials and Costs ” Click for Page

Shadi Kennedy (Artist and Graphic Designer) also completed his 40th week leading the development of the Murphy bed instructions. This week’s focus was making diagrams illustrating the installation of the frame and upright post sections, updating the details and parts for assembly of the base for the bed frame, the bed frame itself, and the feet from the bed frame assembly section. You can see some of this work-in-progress here.

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Continued Leading the Development of the Murphy Bed Instructions ” Click to Visit

Dan Alleck (Designer and Illustrator) completed his 37th week helping with Earthbag Village render additions. This week he finalized improving the colors and perimeter plants in this view of the complete village looking North and added it to the 3-perspectives image and adjusted all that image’s colors so they are better matched.

Earthbag Village render additions, Freedom by Design, One Community Weekly Update #308

Finalized Colors and Perimeter Plants of View of Complete Village Looking North ” Click for Page

Dean Scholz (Architectural Designer) continued working on the Earthbag Village (Pod 1). Here is weekly update #149 from Dean. This week’s focus, as shown in these images, was finishing details for most of the internal furniture and starting to test textures.

Finished Details for Most Internal Furniture and Began to Test Textures ” Click for Earthbag Village

And Elizabeth Kahn (Environmental Consultant) completed her 8th week as a researcher with our team. This week she began researching sustainable spigot options for the most sustainable spigot options page we’re developing. You can see some of this work-in-progress here.

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Researched Sustainable Spigot Options for Most Sustainable Spigot Options Page – Click for Page

FREEDOM BY DESIGN: DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

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

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

This week, the core team continued with week 6 of our research into lake and water retention landscape creation as an alternative source of water for the Duplicable City Center Sprinkler and Emergency Systems Designs, agriculture, greywater processing, and more. This week we focused on describing the design specifics and different applications of the various kinds of dams. You can see some of this work here.

Duplicable City Center Sprinkler and Emergency Systems Designs, Freedom by Design, One Community Weekly Update #308

Continued Research Into Lake and Water Retention Landscape Creation for the Duplicable City Center

The core team also continued building the new page sharing the best, safest, and most sustainable paints, stains, varnishes, and sealants. We finished the LEED tutorial section and added the best sources for sustainable stains. You can see some of this work here.

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Continued Building New Page Sharing the Most Sustainable Paints, Stains, Varnishes, and Sealants

Tanya Griffin, Aubryanne Boyle, and Allie Marsh (Interior Designers from Lotus Designs) also completed their 8th week helping with the Duplicable City Center interior design details. This week’s focus was finishing the concept boards shown here that outline, highlight, and summarize the total space. You can see some of this work here.

Duplicable City Center interior design, Freedom by Design, One Community Weekly Update #308

Continued Helping With Duplicable City Center Interior Design Details ” Click for Page

And James Herrigel (Student Researcher) also completed his 11th week researching the best, safest, and most sustainable paints, primers, stains, and sealers. This week’s focus was another round of research and writing up the details for the most sustainable stain options. You can see some of this behind-the-scenes work here.

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Continued Researching the Safest and Most Sustainable Stains ” Click to Visit Page

Sneha Dongre (Structural Engineer) also joined the team and completed her 1st week helping with the Duplicable City Center structural details. This week she learned how to export the updated designs from the Sketchup 3D file and began the process of removing all the non-structural lines and components.

Duplicable City Center structural details, Freedom by Design, One Community Weekly Update #308

Began Helping With Duplicable City Center Structural Details – Click for Page

FREEDOM BY DESIGN: HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

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

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

This week, the core team continued adding all the Highest Good Food rollout plan details to our staging page. This week we wrote most of the details for the 10-20 person rollout section. You can see some of this behind-the-scenes work here.

Highest Good Food rollout plan, Freedom by Design, One Community Weekly Update #308

Continued Adding Highest Good Food Rollout Plan Details to Our Staging Page – Click to Visit

The core team also continued writing the behind-the-scenes narrative and detailed food rollout plan for the various stages of development. This week we continued research into what kind of fence is best for goats. We found a detailed video (Corner Post Installation and Bracing – Detailed Video) that clearly demonstrates corner fencing and bracing the corners for added strength. Because of the quality and informative nature of this video we will be researching further videos by the same author relating to gate installation and fence stretching.

Highest Good Food, Freedom by Design, One Community Weekly Update #308

Behind-the-scenes Narrative and Detailed Food Rollout Plan for Various Stages of Development

And the core team continued research and 3D design of the chicken coops needed for 100 chicks. This week we researched ventilation, and redesigned the windows for even better light and ventilation by installing two upper vents, adding adjustable sliding ventilation hatches, a pop hole, night resting racks, and landing rods in front of the nesting boxes. You can see some of this behind-the-scenes work here.

Chicken coop, Freedom by Design, One Community Weekly Update #308

Continued Research and Design of Chicken Coops Needed for 100 Chicks ” Click for Page

Additionally, the core team added several new sections and additional details and resources to the Swales, Hügelkultur, and Soil Preparation and Amendment sections of the Soil Amendment open source hub. You can see some of this work here.

Soil Amendment, Freedom by Design, One Community Weekly Update #308

Added Additional Details and Resources to Soil Amendment Page – Click to Visit

And last but not least, Guy Grossfeld (Graphic Designer) completed his 7th week working on creating an open source icon and symbol set for our permaculture designs. What you see here are the icons created so far.

permaculture designs, Freedom by Design, One Community Weekly Update #308

Continued Creating an Open Source Icon and Symbol Set for Our Permaculture Designs ” Click to Visit

FREEDOM BY DESIGN: HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

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

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

This week the core team continued working on the structural redesign of the Ultimate Classroom. This week we evolved last week’s design to add more space, bathrooms, cubby storage, sinks, and the other details shown here.

Ultimate Classroom, Freedom by Design, One Community Weekly Update #308

Evolved New Design Proposal for Ultimate Classroom ” Click for Page

FREEDOM BY DESIGN: HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS

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

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

This week the core team finished the rest of the broken and incorrect links throughout our entire 1200+ page website and then ran multiple new reports to confirm the site is cleared of broken links. You can see some of this work and process here.

fixed broken links, Freedom by Design, One Community Weekly Update #308

Finished Fixing Broken and Incorrect Links Throughout Entire 1200+ Page Website

Jin Hua (Web and Graphic Designer) created another two new video tutorials about keyword “refactoring” and improving our keyword research and campaign design process. Refactoring is removing broad or useless keywords. You can see some screenshots from these videos here.

created new video tutorials, Freedom by Design, One Community Weekly Update #308

Created Another Two New Video Tutorials About Keyword “Refactoring” ” Click for Helping Page

Emilio Nájera (Digital Marketer) also continued with his 19th week as part of the marketing team. This week’s focus was using Jin’s videos and refactoring the sustainable village, Temporary Kitchen, Large Scale Gardening, Food Forest, and Hoop House keyword strategies. You can see some of this work here.

marketing, Freedom by Design, One Community Weekly Update #308

Refactored Five More Keyword Campaigns ” Click for our Site Map

In addition to this, the Highest Good Network software team consisting of Jordan Miller (Web Developer), Tyler Calvert (Full-stack Software Engineer), and Justin Kunz (Software Engineer) continued developing the software. This week the team started building new Redux routes for projects & team pages, created the front-end design template for the reports page, added the ability to run reports on multiple teams/projects/people, continued developing the user interface for user management, and replaced bootstrap with react-strap. You can see some of this work here.

Highest Good Network, Freedom by Design, One Community Weekly Update #308

Continued Developing the Highest Good Network Software ” Click to Visit

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

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FREEDOM BY DESIGN: INVESTOR PAGES

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WHAT ONE COMMUNITY IS CREATING

FREEDOM BY DESIGN

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

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

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, guided by freedom by design.

FREEDOM BY DESIGN: 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, guided by freedom by design.

WHY ONE COMMUNITY IS CREATING THIS FREEDOM BY DESIGN

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

The specifics of how One Community is accomplishing this, guided by freedom by design, 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, guided by freedom by design, 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, guided by freedom by design.

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

COMPREHENSIVE SOLUTION TO HUMANITY’S NEEDS

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

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

GLOBALLY IMPLEMENTABLE REPLICATION MODEL

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

To meet the increasing demand for sustainability that we are contributing to, we are coordinating with manufacturers, education institutions, individuals, and vendors, guided by freedom by design. 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, guided by freedom by design.

As demand increases, so too will the ways to participate, guided by freedom by design. 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 guided by freedom by design.

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

Self-Replicating Eco-Communities – One Community Weekly Progress Update #307

Posted on February 10, 2019 by One Community

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Sustainable and self-replicating eco-communities are one path to global sustainability. One Community is designing them with open source models covering food, energy, housing, education, for-profit and non-profit economic design, social architecture, fulfilled living, global stewardship practices, and more.

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

OUR MAIN OPEN SOURCE HUBS

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

One Community’s physical location will forward this movement as the first of many self-replicating teacher/demonstration communities, villages, and cities to be built around the world. This is the February 10, 2019 edition (#307) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments:

Self-Replicating Eco-Communities
One Community Progress Update #307

Self replicating Eco-communities - One Community Weekly Progress Update #307

Watch this video on YouTube

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

SELF-REPLICATING ECO-COMMUNITIES: INTRO: @0:34

SELF-REPLICATING ECO-COMMUNITIES: HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING: @6:31

Continued design updates to the open source Murphy bed furniture assembly details (see below)
Anvita Kumari Pandey completed her 31st week volunteering and now helping with the Earthbag Village Materials and Costs (see below)
Shadi Kennedy completed his 39th week leading the development of the Murphy bed instructions (see below)
Dan Alleck completed his 36th week helping with Earthbag Village render additions, improving the colors and perimeter plants in a view of the complete village looking North (see below)
Dean Scholz continued working on the Earthbag Village, finishing the urinal, shower, sink elements (see below)
Elizabeth Kahn researched alternatives to the chemical block used in waterless urinals for the most sustainable urinal options page (see below)

SELF-REPLICATING ECO-COMMUNITIES: DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER: @8:31

Continued with week 5 of our research into lake and water retention landscape creation as an alternative source of water for the Duplicable City Center Sprinkler and Emergency Systems Designs, agriculture, greywater processing, and more (see below)
D i pti Dhondarkar continued developing the lighting specifics for the City Center, integrating the final rounds of requested changes to the AutoCAD layouts and lighting spreadsheets and then PDFing the final lighting reports for all the areas (see below)
Tanya Griffin, Aubryanne Boyle, and Allie Marsh completed their 7th week helping with the Duplicable City Center interior design details (see below)
David Olivero continued helping finish the City Center HVAC Designs, adding additional labels to the AutoCAD, checking all layers, and adding additional cost analysis details (see below)
James Herrigel completed his 10th week researching the best, safest, and most sustainable paints, primers, stains, and sealers (see below)

SELF-REPLICATING ECO-COMMUNITIES: HIGHEST GOOD FOOD: @10:35

Continued writing the behind-the-scenes narrative and detailed food rollout plan for the various stages of development (see below)
Continued research and design of the chicken coops needed for 100 chicks (see below)
Guy Grossfeld completed his 6th week working on creating an open source icon and symbol set for our permaculture designs (see below)

SELF-REPLICATING ECO-COMMUNITIES: HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION: @11:35

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

SELF-REPLICATING ECO-COMMUNITIES: HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY: @12:47

Finished the 2nd half of the broken and incorrect links throughout our entire 1200+ page website and then ran a new report and started on the next 400 links to fix (see below)
Jin Hua created two new video tutorials about keyword “refactoring” (see below)
Emilio Nájera continued with his 18th week as part of the marketing team, using Jin’s videos and refactoring the Highest Good Food, AutoCAD, Resource Based Economy, and True Community keyword strategies (see below)
Highest Good Network software team consisting of Jordan Miller, Tyler Calvert and Justin Kunz continued developing the software (see below)

SELF-REPLICATING ECO-COMMUNITIES: SUMMARY: @14:25

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SELF-REPLICATING ECO-COMMUNITIES: HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

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

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

This week the core team continued design updates to the open source Murphy bed furniture assembly details. This week we proposed possible placement of outlets, specifically located the lights above the bed, and rechecked all parts dimensions. You can see some of this work here.

Murphy Bed, Self-Replicating Eco-Communities, One Community Weekly Update #307.jpg

Continued Design Updates to the Open Source Murphy Bed Furniture Assembly Details ” Click to Visit

Anvita Kumari Pandey (Civil Engineer) also completed her 31st week volunteering and now helping with the Earthbag Village Materials and Costs. This week she researched bulk earthbag tube purchasing options, worked on the 3-dome patio cost analysis, and the Tropical Atrium cost analysis. You can see some of this work here.

Earthbag Village Materials and Costs, Self-Replicating Eco-Communities, One Community Weekly Update #307

Continued Helping with Earthbag Village Materials and Costs ” Click for Page

Shadi Kennedy (Artist and Graphic Designer) also completed his 39th week leading the development of the Murphy bed instructions. This week’s focus was creating diagrams implementing the new way we will attach the bed frame to the wall sections and integrating dimensions and measurement instructions for placement of the lights under the loft top section. You can see some of this work-in-progress here.

Murphy bed instructions, Self-Replicating Eco-Communities, One Community Weekly Update #307

Continued Leading the Development of the Murphy Bed Instructions ” Click to Visit

Dan Alleck (Designer and Illustrator) completed his 36th week helping with Earthbag Village render additions. This week he worked on improving the colors and perimeter plants in this view of the complete village looking North.

Earthbag Village render additions, Pod 1 Village, Self-Replicating Eco-Communities, One Community Weekly Update #307

Worked on Colors and Perimeter Plants of Complete Village Looking North ” Click for Page

Dean Scholz (Architectural Designer) continued working on the Earthbag Village (Pod 1). Here is weekly update #148 from Dean. This week’s focus, as shown in these images, was finishing the urinal, shower, and sink elements.

Earthbag Village, Self-Replicating Eco-Communities, One Community Weekly Update #307

Continued Working on Earthbag Village, Finishing the Urinal, Shower, Sink Elements – Click for Page

And Elizabeth Kahn (Environmental Consultant) completed her 7th week as a researcher with our team. This week she researched alternatives to the chemical block used in waterless urinals for the most sustainable urinal options page we’re developing. You can see some of this work-in-progress here.

most sustainable urinal options, Self-Replicating Eco-Communities, One Community Weekly Update #307

Researched Alternatives to Chemical Block Used in Waterless Urinals – Click for Page

SELF-REPLICATING ECO-COMMUNITIES: DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

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

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

This week, the core team continued with week 5 of our research into lake and water retention landscape creation as an alternative source of water for the Duplicable City Center Sprinkler and Emergency Systems Designs, agriculture, greywater processing, and more. This week we continued adding to and organizing our research into a step-by-step process and explanation and created the first supporting graphic. You can see some of this work here.

Duplicable City Center Sprinkler and Emergency Systems Designs, Self-Replicating Eco-Communities, One Community Weekly Update #307

Continued Research Into Lake and Water Retention Landscape Creation for the Duplicable City Center

D i pti Dhondarkar (Electrical Engineer) continued developing the lighting specifics for the City Center. This is Dipti’s 111th week volunteering on this task and the focus this week was integrating the final rounds of requested changes to the AutoCAD layouts and lighting spreadsheets and then PDFing the final lighting reports for all the areas. You can see some of this work here.

lighting specifics for the City Center, Self-Replicating Eco-Communities, One Community Weekly Update #307

Integrated Lighting Changes for the City Center – Click for Page

Tanya Griffin, Aubryanne Boyle, and Allie Marsh (Interior Designers from Lotus Designs) also completed their 7th week helping with the Duplicable City Center interior design details. This week’s focus was creating design overview graphics so we can update the designs in 3D, finalizing the floor design and colors, and adding more furniture and lighting details to the cost analysis spreadsheet. You can see some of this work here.

Duplicable City Center interior design, Self-Replicating Eco-Communities, One Community Weekly Update #307

Continued Helping With Duplicable City Center Interior Design Details – Click for Page

David Olivero (Mechanical Engineer & Data Scientist) also continued helping finish the City Center HVAC Designs. This week he focused on adding additional labels to the AutoCAD, checking all layers, and adding additional cost analysis details. You can see some of this work here.

City Center HVAC Designs, Self-Replicating Eco-Communities, One Community Weekly Update #307

Continued Helping Finish the City Center HVAC Designs ” Click to Visit Page

And James Herrigel (Student Researcher) also completed his 10th week researching the best, safest, and most sustainable paints, primers, stains, and sealers. This week’s focus was researching and writing up the details for the most sustainable stain options. You can see some of this behind-the-scenes work here.

most sustainable paints, Self-Replicating Eco-Communities, One Community Weekly Update #307

Continued Researching the Safest and Most Sustainable Stains ” Click to Visit Page

SELF-REPLICATING ECO-COMMUNITIES: HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

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

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

This week the core team continued writing the behind-the-scenes narrative and detailed food rollout plan for the various stages of development. This week we continued research into what kind of fence is best for goats. We reviewed videos and extracted the relevant info to our behind-the-scenes food Google Doc, some of which you can see here.

Highest Good Food, Self-Replicating Eco-Communities, One Community Weekly Update #307

Behind-the-scenes Narrative and Detailed Food Rollout Plan for Various Stages of Development

The core team also continued research and 3D design of the chicken coops needed for 100 chicks. This week we redesigned the roof and nesting box. You can see some of this behind-the-scenes work here.

Chicken-coop-Self-Replicating Eco-Communities, One Community Weekly Update #307

Continued Research and Design of Chicken Coops Needed for 100 Chicks ” Click for Page

And Guy Grossfeld (Graphic Designer) completed his 6th week working on creating an open source icon and symbol set for our permaculture designs. What you see here are the icons created so far.

permaculture designs, Self-Replicating Eco-Communities, One Community Weekly Update #307

Continued Creating an Open Source Icon and Symbol Set for Our Permaculture Designs ” Click to Visit

SELF-REPLICATING ECO-COMMUNITIES: HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

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

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

This week the core team continued working on the structural redesign of the Ultimate Classroom. We brainstormed options and came up with the new design proposal shown here.

Ultimate Classroom, Self-Replicating Eco-Communities, One Community Weekly Update #307

Created New Design Proposal for Ultimate Classroom ” Click for Page

SELF-REPLICATING ECO-COMMUNITIES: HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS

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

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

This week the core team finished the 2nd half of the broken and incorrect links throughout our entire 1200+ page website and then ran a new report and started on the next 400 links to fix. You can see some of this work and process here and we have about 200 more to go.

fixing broken and incorrect links, Self-Replicating Eco-Communities, One Community Weekly Update #307

Fixed 2nd Half of the Broken and Incorrect Links Throughout the Entire 1200+ Page Website

Jin Hua (Web and Graphic Designer) created two new video tutorials about keyword “refactoring.” Refactoring is removing broad or useless keywords. You can see some screenshots from these videos here.

new video tutorials, Self-Replicating Eco-Communities, One Community Weekly Update #307

Created Two New Video Tutorials About Keyword “Refactoring” – Click for Page

Emilio Nájera (Digital Marketer) also continued with his 18th week as part of the marketing team. This week’s focus was using Jin’s videos and refactoring the Highest Good Food, AutoCAD, Resource Based Economy, and True Community keyword strategies. You can see some of this work here.

marketing team, Self-Replicating Eco-Communities, One Community Weekly Update #307

Refactored 4 More Keyword Campaigns – Click for our Site Map

In addition to this, the Highest Good Network software team consisting of Jordan Miller (Web Developer), Tyler Calvert (Full-stack Software Engineer), and Justin Kunz (Software Engineer) continued developing the software. This week the team created the new Projects Page, separated the Table Display component for reusability, created the basic admin style layout, finished the Redux transition and merged it with the master branch, and worked on developing the time entries functionality. You can see some of this work here.

Highest Good Network software, Self-Replicating Eco-Communities, One Community Weekly Update #307

Continued Developing the Highest Good Network Software ” Click to Visit

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

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INVESTOR PAGES

GET INVOLVED

WHAT ONE COMMUNITY IS CREATING
SELF-REPLICATING ECO-COMMUNITIES

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 the development of self-replicating eco-communities.

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, inspiring the development of self-replicating eco-communities.

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, fostering the development of self-replicating eco-communities.

SELF-REPLICATING ECO-COMMUNITIES: 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, fostering the development of self-replicating eco-communities.

WHY ONE COMMUNITY IS CREATING THIS

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

The specifics of how One Community is accomplishing this can be found on the One Community Solution Model to Create Solution-creating Models Page. Research supporting and showing the benefits of a model like this can be found in our Research and Resources Articles Archive, which explores the effectiveness and impact of self-replicating eco-communities.

Even if we don’t achieve our ultimate goal of global transformation, a self-replicating teacher/demonstration model like this, as well as self-replicating eco-communities, 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, facilitated by self-replicating eco-communities.

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, fostering the growth of self-replicating eco-communities.

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

COMPREHENSIVE SOLUTION TO HUMANITY’S NEEDS

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

As we address and open source share these areas we will establish a living example of the first teacher/demonstration village purposed to teach others. To maximally facilitate duplication, One Community will provide seven duplicable examples and function indefinitely as a place people can visit and a non-profit and open source think tank continuing to further evolve and share solutions in all of the above areas and more. 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, including self-replicating eco-communities.

GLOBALLY IMPLEMENTABLE REPLICATION MODEL

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

To meet the increasing demand for sustainability that we are contributing to, we are coordinating with manufacturers, education institutions, individuals, and vendors. This is also part of this model to help the world. Its purpose is to facilitate more engagement of 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, including self-replicating eco-communities.

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, including self-replicating eco-communities.

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, including self-replicating eco-communities.

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, including self-replicating eco-communities.

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

Highest Good Living – One Community Weekly Progress Update #306

Posted on February 3, 2019 by One Community

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Highest Good living is living to the best of our ability for the Highest Good of all people and life on our shared planet. One Community is supporting this through Highest Good and open source designs, tools, tutorials, and sustainability resources covering food, energy, housing, education, for-profit and non-profit economic design, social architecture, fulfilled living, global stewardship practices, and more.

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

OUR MAIN OPEN SOURCE HUBS

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

One Community’s physical location will forward this movement as the first of many self-replicating teacher/demonstration communities, villages, and cities to be built around the world. This is the February 3rd, 2019 edition (#306) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments:

Highest Good Living
One Community Progress Update #306

Highest Good Living - One Community Weekly Progress Update #306

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

HIGHEST GOOD LIVING: INTRO: @0:34

HIGHEST GOOD LIVING: HOUSING: @8:10

Continued design updates to the open source Murphy bed furniture assembly details (see below)
Anvita Kumari Pandey completed her 31st week volunteering and now helping with the Earthbag Village Materials and Costs (see below)
Shadi Kennedy completed his 38th week leading the development of the Murphy bed instructions (see below)
Dan Alleck completed revisions and additions to render of complete Earthbag Village looking West (see below)
Dean Scholz continued working on the Earthbag Village, building the urinal and shower elements (see below)
Elizabeth Kahn finished researching the most sustainable urinal options and started researching feminine accessories and eco-alternatives to the chemical block that is usually used in urinals (see below)

HIGHEST GOOD LIVING: DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER: @9:57

Continued with week 4 of our research into lake and water retention landscape creation as an alternative source of water for the Duplicable City Center Sprinkler and Emergency Systems Designs, agriculture, greywater processing, and more (see below)
Reviewed all the latest AutoCAD updates for the lighting specifics for the City Center (see below)
Tanya Griffin, Aubryanne Boyle, and Allie Marsh completed their 6th week helping with the Duplicable City Center interior design details (see below)
David Olivero continued helping finish the City Center HVAC Designs (see below)
James Herrigel completed his 9th week researching the best, safest, and most sustainable paints (see below)

HIGHEST GOOD LIVING: FOOD: @11:58

Continued writing the behind-the-scenes narrative and detailed food rollout plan for the various stages of development (see below)
Began research and design of the chicken coops needed for 100 chicks (see below)
Guy Grossfeld (Graphic Designer) completed his 5th week working on creating an open source icon and symbol set for our permaculture designs (see below)

HIGHEST GOOD LIVING: EDUCATION: @12:50

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

HIGHEST GOOD LIVING: SOCIETY: @14:11

Fixed half of the broken and incorrect links throughout our entire 1200+ page website (see below)
Emilio Nájera added additional keywords for the Consensus,Resource Based Economy, and Open Source pages and worked on new keyword lists for the Evolving Sustainability, Water-saving Shower Heads, Most Sustainable Toilets, Most Sustainable Paints, and Open Source Permaculture Design pages (see below)
Jin Hua reviewed all of Emilio’s work and created two video tutorials to further assist him in improving and refining all the keyword lists he’s completed so far (see below)
Highest Good Network software team consisting of Jordan Miller, Tyler Calvert and Justin Kunz continued developing the software (see below)

HIGHEST GOOD LIVING: SUMMARY: @15:48

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ONE COMMUNITY WEEKLY UPDATE DETAILS

HIGHEST GOOD LIVING: HOUSING PROGRESS

One Community is developing highest good living 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 tested and confirmed the Murphy bed furniture designs will work with 8-foot ceilings and queen-size beds.

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Continued Design Updates to the Open Source Murphy Bed Furniture Assembly Details ” Click to Visit

Anvita Kumari Pandey (Civil Engineer) also completed her 31st week volunteering and now helping with the Earthbag Village Materials and Costs. This week she worked on earthbag tube-filling cement quantity and earthbag quantity calculations. You can see some of this work here.

Earthbag Village Materials and Costs, Highest Good Living, One Community Weekly Update #306

Continued Helping w/Earthbag Village Materials and Costs ” Click for Page

Shadi Kennedy (Artist and Graphic Designer) also completed his 38th week leading the development of the Murphy bed instructions. This week’s focus was more diagram updates illustrating the wall section assembly, creating new placeholder images, and beginning the electrical details. You can see some of this work-in-progress here.

Murphy bed instructions, Highest Good Living, One Community Weekly Update #306

Continued Leading the Development of the Murphy Bed Instructions ” Click to Visit

Dan Alleck (Designer and Illustrator) completed his 35th week helping with Earthbag Village render additions. This week he completed revisions and additions to this view of the complete village looking West. This is on the website now too.

Earthbag Village with Plants, Highest Good Living, One Community Weekly Update #306

Completed Revisions and Additions to View of the Complete Village Looking West ” Click for Page

Dean Scholz (Architectural Designer) continued working on the Earthbag Village (Pod 1). Here is weekly update #147 from Dean. This week’s focus, as shown in these images, was working on building the urinal and shower elements.

Earthbag Village, Highest Good Living, One Community Weekly Update #306

Continued Working on Earthbag Village; Building the Urinal and Shower Elements – Click for Page

And Elizabeth Kahn (Environmental Consultant) completed her 6th week as a researcher with our team. This week she finished researching the most sustainable urinal options and started researching feminine accessories and eco-alternatives to the chemical block that is usually used in urinals. You can see some of this work-in-progress here.

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Finished Researching Most Sustainable Urinal Options and Started Researching Feminine Accessories

HIGHEST GOOD LIVING: DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

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

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

This week, the core team continued with week 4 of our research into lake and water retention landscape creation as an alternative source of water for the Duplicable City Center Sprinkler and Emergency Systems Designs, agriculture, greywater processing, and more. This week we re-viewed all the video content we have available to us, and added to and started reorganizing our notes into a tutorial type of format. You can see some of this work here.

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Continued Research Into Lake and Water Retention Landscape Creation for the Duplicable City Center

The core team also reviewed all the latest AutoCAD updates for the lighting specifics for the City Center. We made the layouts more uniform, removed unnecessary lights, and created a list of additional requested changes. We also wrote a tutorial for how to confirm sufficient outdoor views to meet LEED requirements. You can see some of this work here.

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Reviewed the Latest AutoCAD Updates for the City Center Lighting Specifics – Click for Page

Tanya Griffin, Aubryanne Boyle, and Allie Marsh (Interior Designers from Lotus Designs) also completed their 6th week helping with the Duplicable City Center interior design details. This week they adjusted some of the custom-built bench details, finalized the overhead lighting plan, and selected the last remaining furniture. You can see some of this work here.

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Continued with Duplicable City Center Interior Design Details ” Click to Visit

David Olivero (Mechanical Engineer & Data Scientist) also continued helping finish the City Center HVAC Designs. This week he focused on the tutorial and added all the pool and calculation narrative details and graphics, some of which you can see here.

City Center HVAC Designs, Highest Good Living, One Community Weekly Update #306

Continued Helping Finish the City Center HVAC Designs ” Click to Visit Page

And James Herrigel (Student Researcher) also completed his 9th week researching the best, safest, and most sustainable paints. This week’s focus was finishing the process of integrating the LEED points details, identifying a new company and adding their products to the paints and stains recommendations, and creating a new resources list. You can see some of this behind-the-scenes work here.

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Continued Researching the Safest and Most Sustainable Paints ” Click to Visit Page

HIGHEST GOOD LIVING: FOOD PROGRESS

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

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

This week the core team continued writing the behind-the-scenes narrative and detailed food rollout plan for the various stages of development. This week we researched parts of the drip irrigation system and created the initial fencing plan for the goat enclosures. You can see some of this work here.

Food, Highest Good Living, One Community Weekly Update #306

Behind-the-scenes Narrative and Detailed Food Rollout Plan for Various Stages of Development

The core team also began research and design of the chicken coops needed for 100 chicks. You can see some of this behind-the-scenes work here.

chicken coops, Highest Good Living, One Community Weekly Progress Update #306

Began Research and Design of Chicken Coops Needed for 100 Chicks – Click for Page

And Guy Grossfeld (Graphic Designer) completed his 5th week working on creating an open source icon and symbol set for our permaculture designs. What you see here are the icons created so far.

permaculture designs, Highest Good Living, One Community Weekly Update #306

Continued Creating an Open Source Icon and Symbol Set for Our Permaculture Designs ” Click to Visit

HIGHEST GOOD LIVING: EDUCATION PROGRESS

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

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

This week the core team continued working on the structural aspects of the Ultimate Classroom. We checked dome specifications, found an existing Sketchup pentadecagon model, and scaled it to the dimensions of the side and height of the projection dome to assess if this is still the direction we want to go.

Ultimate Classroom, Highest Good Living, One Community Weekly Progress Update #306

Continued Working on Structural Aspects of the Ultimate Classroom – Click for Page

HIGHEST GOOD LIVING: SOCIETY PROGRESS

One Community is developing highest good living 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 fixed half of the broken and incorrect links throughout our entire 1200+ page website. You can see some of this work and process here and we have about 200 more to go.

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Fixed Half the Broken and Incorrect Links Throughout the Entire 1200+ Page Website

Emilio Nájera (Digital Marketer) also continued with his 17th week as part of the marketing team. This week he added additional keywords for the Consensus, Resource Based Economy, and Open Source pages and worked on new keyword lists for the Evolving Sustainability, Water-saving Shower Heads, Most Sustainable Toilets, Most Sustainable Paints, and Open Source Permaculture Design pages. You can see some of this work here.

Keywords, Marketing, Highest Good Living, One Community Weekly Update #306

Continued Researching Keywords for Several Pages ” Click to Visit our Site Map

Jin Hua (Web and Graphic Designer) also reviewed all of Emilio’s work and created two video tutorials to further assist him in improving and refining all the keyword lists he’s completed so far. You can see some of this work here.

Reviewed All of Emilio’s Work and Created Two Video Tutorials – Click for Page

In addition to this, the Highest Good Network software team consisting of Jordan Miller (Web Developer), Tyler Calvert (Full-stack Software Engineer), and Justin Kunz (Software Engineer) continued developing the software. This week the team finished design of the Teams page, added a modal with links to users profiles, debugged issues with the API to be able to add new users to the development app, and continued the app integration with Redux. You can see some of this work here.

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Continued Developing the Highest Good Network Software ” Click to Visit

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HIGHEST GOOD LIVING: INVESTOR PAGES

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WHAT ONE COMMUNITY IS CREATING

HIGHEST GOOD LIVING

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, in alignment with principles of highest good living.

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, embodying principles of the highest good living. This replicable community will serve as an example of what is possible.

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

HIGHEST GOOD LIVING: BUILDING THE FIRST OF MANY

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

WHY ONE COMMUNITY IS CREATING THIS

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

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

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, and fulfilling, and an additional reason why we are creating this, is promoting the values of the highest good living.

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, promoting the principles of the highest good living.

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, fostering the principles of highest good living.

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, promoting the principles of highest good living.

COMPREHENSIVE SOLUTION TO HUMANITY’S NEEDS

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

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, fostering the principles of highest good living.

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, thus promoting the principles of highest good living.

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, all aligned with the principles of highest good living.

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

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, all with the intention of fostering highest good living.

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 in alignment with fostering highest good living.

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

Better Living Through Ecological Living – One Community Weekly Progress Update #353

Posted on January 29, 2019 by Rachna Malav

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We can create better living through ecological living. Ecological living that includes sustainable approaches to food, energy, housing, education, for-profit and non-profit economic design, social architecture, fulfilled living, and global stewardship practices can reduce our living expenses, increase our free time, reduce transportation costs and time, and provide a broader diversity of social and recreational activities for ourselves and others.

One Community is creating and open sourcing and free-sharing the necessary plans to build teacher/demonstration hubs that will demonstrate, share, and evolve all these areas and many more.

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

OUR MAIN OPEN SOURCE HUBS

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

One Community’s physical location will forward this movement as the first of many self-replicating teacher/demonstration communities, villages, and cities to be built around the world. This is the December 29th, 2019 edition (#353) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments:

Better Living Through Ecological Living
One Community Progress Update #353

Better Living Through Ecological Living - One Community Weekly Progress Update #353

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ONE COMMUNITY WEEKLY UPDATE DETAILS

HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

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

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

This week Oluyomi “Yomi” Sanyaolu (Technical Writer and Researcher) completed his 10th week with the team. This week Oluyomi began the trompe implementation research. His focus was on the history & uses of trompes, the process of air compression in the system, and the design details of the system. Initial outlining of the research needed for the the construction details, cost analysis, and how well it can work with a ram pump was also started.

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Began the Trompe Implementation Research – Click for Hydro Energy Page

Dean Scholz (Architectural Designer) also continued helping with the Earthbag Village (Pod 1) 4-dome cluster designs. This week was week #174 of Dean’s work and the focus was adding the window that looks out onto the new rooftop-patio stairway access. You can see some of this ongoing work here.

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Added the Window Looking Out Onto the New Rooftop-patio Stairway Access – Click for Earthbag Village

DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

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

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

This week the core team working with Ron Huang (Mechanical Engineer) continued with his 33rd week developing and refining the Energy Modeling tutorial needed to achieve our LEED Platinum certification. This consisted of several rounds of revisions and collaborative updates to the content and new imagery and details for the space definition section. You can see some of this work here and we’d say this brings completion of the City Center energy analysis component to 93% complete.

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

HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

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

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

This week the core team continued working on our behind-the-scenes chicken Google Doc. We summarized the time frames from two of the most comprehensive chicken-raising videos we could find (Beginners Guide To Raising Backyard Chickens, and How to Design a Chicken Coop). They cover everything from selection, to raising them, shelter, feed, cleaning, care, etc. You can see some of this work here.

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Summarized the Time Frames From Two of the Most Comprehensive Chicken-raising Videos We Could Find – Click for Chicken Page

The core team also continued creating the chicken coop step-by-step building instruction on our behind-the-scenes Google Doc. This week we worked on the wall assembly instructions and tested two different design strategies. You can see some of this work here and we’d say we’re about 85% done.

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Worked on the Wall Assembly Instructions and Tested Two Different Design Strategies – Click for Chicken Page

The core team also continued developing the open source permaculture design and DIY Dam Design and Construction content. This week we did the final organization, editing and formatting of the information from Lawton’s videos for the Dam Design case study section. We also began work on Step 2 of the Permaculture Case Study section, “Assess Site Through Observation And Research.” You can see some of this behind-the-scenes work here.

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Continued Developing the Open Source Permaculture Design Content, Specifically Organization and Editing ” Click for Page

Mohammad Almuzaial (Civil and Construction Engineer) also continued with his 6th week helping with the Aquapini/Walipini civil engineering details. This week Mohammad finished all 6 botanical gardens interior and exterior elements, adjusted the level of the central pond, adjusted the level of the cool air pipes to be higher than 1m, and rerouted the cool air pipes to run outside the structure.

Minimum cool air elevation difference is now 3′ 4″ (which is higher than 1m), central pond total depth is 10′, and the effective central pond depth is 6′ 8″. You can see some of this work here and we’d say this brings this part of this component to 70% complete.

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

Ali Ghahremannezhad (Mechanical Engineer) also continued with his 4th week as a member of the team and working on the climate batteries for the Aquapini/Walipini structures. This week Ali worked on typical Re number of the flow inside the pipes of the climate battery to determine the range and usual flow types and considering change of properties of air due to temperature change during different seasons. He also started preparing the first simple model for CFD analysis of climate batteries. You can see some of this work here.

Climate Batteries for the Aquapini/Walipini Structures, Better Living Through Ecological Living, One Community Weekly Progress Update #353

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

HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

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

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

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

This week Dan Alleck (Designer and Illustrator) completed his 61st week helping with render additions and finishing work for the rooms in the the Ultimate Classroom. This week he continued revisions and additions to the indigo room representing “Social Sciences.” What you see here are his third round of revisions and additions to this room.

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

Ziqian Zheng (Architectural Designer and Drafter) also continued with week 7 as a member of the team and now working on the the Ultimate Classroom. This week Ziqian completed the new roof structure and columns designs. You can see some of this work promoting better living through ecological living here.

Completed New Roof Structure and Columns Designs of Ultimate Classroom – Click for Page

HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS

One Community is demonstrating better living through ecological living 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 9 more volunteer ads and brought on 2 new volunteers to restart work on the Highest Good Network software to make meaningful contributions towards the mission of better living through ecological living.

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Created 9 More Volunteer Ads and Brought on 2 New Volunteers to Restart Work on the Highest Good Network Software – Click for Page

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BETTER LIVING THROUGH ECOLOGICAL LIVING – 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. Thus, we are promoting better living through ecological living through our various initiatives.

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, i.e., better living through ecological living.

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

BUILDING THE FIRST OF MANY

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

BETTER LIVING THROUGH ECOLOGICAL 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 better living through ecological living 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. Hence, supporting better living through ecological living.

The specifics of how One Community is accomplishing better living through ecological living 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 and promote better living through ecological living. 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 better living through ecological living.

BETTER LIVING THROUGH ECOLOGICAL LIVING – WHY OPEN SOURCE

We are creating everything One Community does as open source and free-shared blueprints because we see this as the path to a new Golden Age of creativity, innovation, cooperation, and collaboration for all of humanity. Our model for better living through ecological living 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 such as our better living through ecological living approach. 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 such as better living through ecological living 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

BETTER LIVING THROUGH ECOLOGICAL LIVING – SUMMARY

One Community sees the issues of the world as interdependent and interconnected. To address them simultaneously, we are open-source blueprinting a more advanced standard of living by designing holistic, environmentally-regenerative, self-sustaining, adaptable solutions for all areas of sustainability such as better living through ecological living. 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 to promote better living through ecological living.

One Community Welcomes James Herrigel to the Research Team!

Posted on January 29, 2019 by One Community

One Community welcomes James Herrigel to the Research Team as our newest Volunteer/Consultant!

James is a senior in high school at Jones College Prep in Chicago, Illinois. Although only 17, James is passionate about sustainability and spends much of his free time volunteering for projects related to his ideals. Over the summer of 2018, James interned as a research assistant at the University of Chicago’s Abrams Environmental Law Clinic, where he conducted and organized research that eventually contributed to a published legal analysis. James hopes to continue developing his skills and continue working to mitigate climate change in order to shape a more sustainable future. As a member of the One Community team, James is conducting detailed research into the most ecological and sustainable paints, adhesives, and other construction materials (carpet, structural elements, etc.).

WELCOME TO THE TEAM JAMES!

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One Community Welcomes Tyler Calvert to the Software Development Team!

Posted on January 29, 2019 by One Community

One Community welcomes Tyler Calvert to the Software Development Team as our newest Volunteer/Consultant!

Tyler is a software engineer and Texas native who believes strongly in building self-sufficient communities, and the need for the world to transition towards renewable energy. He is also a teaching assistant for Southern Methodist University’s coding and web development program where he helps students become proficient in cutting-edge software technologies. Tyler has had a passion for the outdoors from a young age. When he’s not writing code, he enjoys kayaking and rock climbing. As a part of the One Community software development team, Tyler hopes to make a difference by creating software that helps to grow and spread the ideas of the Highest Good Network.

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