A better way to live that is also good for each other and our planet is necessary if we are to realistically expect large-scale participation in creating a cooperative and sustainable society. Combining the physical components of sustainability (food, energy, housing) with the emotional components of sustainability (education, Highest Good economic design, social architecture, fulfilled living, global stewardship practices, etc.) is one way to provide this. One Community calls this living and creating for The Highest Good of All and we think it has the potential to positively and permanently change the world for everyone.

• 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 4th, 2016 edition (#193) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments:

A Better Way to Live
One Community Progress Update #193

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

A BETTER WAY TO LIVE INTRO: @1:03

A BETTER WAY TO LIVE HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION: @2:00

• Transferred final 25% of the written content for the Consciousness Lesson Plan to the website (see below)
• Behind the scenes: wrote the second 25% section of the Cognition Lesson Plan
• Completed third 25% of the mindmap for the Individuality Lesson Plan (see below)

A BETTER WAY TO LIVE HIGHEST GOOD FOOD: @2:57

• Began to reformat and add sections and anchor links to recipe pages for our Transition Kitchen strategy (see below)

A BETTER WAY TO LIVE HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING: @3:27

• Ashwini Ramesh and the core team put another combined total of 15 hours into the crowdfunding campaign we are developing (see below)
• Completed another large round of revisions for the upcoming 7 villages online book (see below)
• Shilcy Augustine continued with her help creating and testing a standardized color set for all our AutoCAD files (see below)
• Fernando Remolina continued with his 7th week of managing the Vermiculture Bathroom development with the 3rd week of help from Lin Xu (see below)
• Dean Scholz continued helping us create quality Cob Village renders (see below)
• Hamilton Mateca finished his 20th week helping with the Compressed Earth Block Village design details (see below)
• Guy Grossfeld continued with 3D earth block construction for the Compressed Earth Block Village labyrinth meditation walking path (see below)
• Aparna Tandon continued work on the Compressed Earth Block Village external elements and converted Guy’s 3D bench design into the AutoCAD design (see below)
• Yee-Cheng Ho finished her 9th week of helping with the Shipping Container Village renders for the living units (see below)

A BETTER WAY TO LIVE DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER: @6:27

A BETTER WAY TO LIVE HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY: @9:19

• Ashwin Patil and Jennifer Zhou continued developing the new site search engine (see below)
• Yuri Witte completed his 5th week of helping create the music that will accompany the new overview video we are planning (see below)

A BETTER WAY TO LIVE SUMMARY: @10:03

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A BETTER WAY TO LIVE HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

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

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

This last week the core team transferred the final 25% of the written content for the Consciousness Lesson Plan to the website, as you see here. This lesson plan purposed to teach all subjects, to all learning levels, in any learning environment, using the central theme of “Consciousness” is now 100% completed on our website.

A Better Way to Live – Transferred Final 25% of Consciousness Lesson Plan to Site – Click to Visit Page

Behind the scenes, we wrote the second 25% section of the written part of the Cognition Lesson Plan.

We also completed the third 25% of the mindmap for the Individuality Lesson Plan, bringing it to 75% complete, which you see here:

A Better Way to Live – Individuality Mindmap – 75% Complete – Click to Visit Page

A BETTER WAY TO LIVE HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

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

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

This week, the core team began to reformat and add sections and anchor links to recipe pages for our Transition Kitchen strategy. You can see a before and after image of a sample of that work here, on the vegan rice recipe page:

Reformatted and Added Sections to Recipe Pages for our Transition Kitchen Strategy -Click to Visit

A BETTER WAY TO LIVE HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

One Community is generating a better way to live through Highest Good housing that is artistic and beautiful, more affordable, more space efficient, lasts longer, DIY buildable, and constructed with healthy and sustainable materials:

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

The core team and Ashwini Ramesh (Civil Engineer and Project Manager) put another combined total of 15 hours into the crowdfunding campaign we are developing. This week’s focus was the behind-the-scenes content editing for the Site Selection and Preparation page and detailing the AutoCAD images needed for all other sections, as shown here:

Continued Editing the Site Selection and Preparation Page Behind-the-Scenes – Click to Visit Site

The core team also completed another large round of revisions for the upcoming 7 villages online book. You can see some of these revisions here, including an updated and color version of the Duplicable City Center floor plan, and new imagery and descriptions on the Recycled Materials Village (Pod 6) and Shipping Container Village (Pod 5) spreads.

A Better Way to Live – Continued Revisions for the Upcoming 7 Villages Online Book

Continued Creating and Testing a Standardized Color Set for all our AutoCAD Files – Click to Visit

Fernando Remolina (Industrial Engineer specializing in Project Management) continued with his 7th week of managing the Vermiculture Bathroom development with the 3rd week of help from Lin Xu (Mechanical Engineering Student). This week’s focus, as shown here, was beginning clarifying task assignments and beginning the foundation work with his team.

A Better Way to Live – Continued Managing the Vermiculture Bathroom Development

Dean Scholz (Architectural Designer), continued helping us create quality Cob Village (Pod 3) renders. Here is update 45 of his work creating all the iterations you see here:

Continued Creating Quality Cob Village Renders – Click to Visit Page

…leading up to this final rooftop view looking Southeast render:

A Better Way to Live – Cob Village Final Render – Rooftop View

Hamilton Mateca (AutoCAD and Revit Drafter and Designer) also finished his 20th week helping with the Compressed Earth Block Village (Pod 4) design details. This week’s focus was on testing and updating textures for the bricks, frames, and railings as shown here:

A Better Way to Live – Continued Evolving the Compressed Earth Block Village – Click to Visit

Guy Grossfeld (Graphic Designer) continued with 3D earth block construction for the Compressed Earth Block Village (Pod 4) labyrinth meditation walking path. This week’s focus was working on the dark-to-light texture pattern shown here and minor layout corrections:

Continued w/ 3D Earth Block Construction for Labyrinth Walking Path – Click for Compressed Earth

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

Converted Guy’s 3D Bench Design Into the AutoCAD Design – Click for Compressed Earth Block Village

Yee-Cheng Ho (Interior Designer) also finished her 9th week of helping with the Shipping Container Village (Pod 5) renders for the living units. This week’s focus was finishing these two back-to-back single-residence designs created using 3 shipping containers.

Final Renders Finished of Two Back-to-Back Single-Residence Designs Created Using 3 Shipping

A BETTER WAY TO LIVE DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

One Community is generating a better way to live 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

Continued Structural Column Updates for the Kitchen in the Dining Dome – Click to Visit Page

Worked on Render Position Testing for Outdoor Aspects of Natural Pool Area – Click to Visit Page

Continued Working on Recycled Pipe Shelving for the Duplicable City Center – Click to Visit Page

Shuna Ni (Masters of Mechanical Engineering and Civil Engineering PhD) also continued working on the City Center structural engineering. This week’s work focused on calculations for the added braces you see here that will support the 4th floor and storage rooms attached to the elevator area.

Continued Work on the City Center Structural Engineering – Click to Visit Page

Jinxi Feng (Environmental Consultant) also continued her research helping us create an in-depth laundry and dryer machine sustainability analysis. What you see here is her 13th week of behind-the-scenes work on this area of the project. This week’s focus was explaining and graphically showing the water and energy comparisons of conventional washers with Energy Star washers.  

Continued Research for in-Depth Laundry and Dryer Machine Sustainability Analysis – Click to Visit

Also, Jennifer Zhou (Web Designer) and Ashwin Patil (Web Developer), finished their 4th week of collaboratively working on the open source pipe furniture page. This week’s focus was working on improving the slider image function and finalizing the general layout shown here for the different tutorial sections.

A Better Way to Live – Continued Working on the Pipe Furniture Page – Click to Visit

Ramya Vudi (Electrical Engineer), Shubham Agrawal (Electrical Engineer), and Mike Hogan (Automation Systems Developer and Business Systems Consultant) continued working on the electrical design for the Control and Automation systems. What you see here is this team’s 5th week of work on focusing on research and planning for the control panel size and placement:

Continued on Electrical Design for Control & Automation Systems – Click for Page

Lucas Tsutsui da Silva (4th-year Computer Engineering Student) also did long cable tests for the Pi2, updated code he’d been testing for functionality, and updated the current requirements spreadsheet to include the total current information for the main controller box.

A Better Way to Live – Continued Working on the Control Systems – Click to Visit Page

And Renan Dantas (Mechanical Engineer) continued with his 3rd week working on creating our next generation of Duplicable City Center section drawings. This week’s focus was primarily on adding more section details, creating a better layer system for the complete structure, and updating the colors for the different layers so everything is easier to see:

Continued Creating our Next Generation of Duplicable City Center Section Drawings – Click to Visit

A BETTER WAY TO LIVE HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS

One Community is generating a better way to live 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

Ashwin Patil (Web Developer) and Jennifer Zhou (Web Designer) also completed what is, collectively, the 9th week of work developing the new site search engine. This week’s focus was inputting the details for the first half of the Highest Good education section and writing the code for the rest of that same section.

Continued Developing New Site Search Engine – Click to Visit Home Page

And Yuri Witte (Music Composer and Sound Designer)” completed his 5th week of helping create the music that will accompany the new overview video we are planning. This week’s focus was another new intro, changes in the transitions between the music and where the different intensity builds happen, and adding new drum details. You can here some of the track in the background here and listen to all the progressions on Yuri’s SoundCloud.

Continued Creating Music that Will Accompany the New Overview Video – Click for Yuri’s Soundcloud

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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 while promoting a better way to live. 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 while promoting a better way to live. A place based on compassion, kindness, and collaboration. This replicable community will serve as an example for what is possible.

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

A BETTER WAY TO LIVE – BUILDING THE FIRST OF MANY

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

WHY ONE COMMUNITY IS CREATING THIS

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

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

COMPREHENSIVE SOLUTION TO HUMANITY’S NEEDS

One Community is open source sharing an evolution of sustainable living that addresses the complete human experience and provides solution on a better way to live. 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 towards a better way to live, 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 about the model of a better way to live. 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 of a better way to live 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 of a better way to live. 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 by creating a better way to live, we are also 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 towards a better way to live.

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

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

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

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

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, a better way to live, is a solution model that creates additional solution creating models enabling people to live and collaborate globally for The Highest Good of All. The easier we make everything we do, the faster we see the world transitioning towards a better way to live.

Every aspect of this model supports itself and contributes to its success by creating a better way to live, 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 about the model of a better way to live is: the more we open source share, the more we help move everyone forward, the more people know about what we are doing and can participate, and the more successful and capable we are of project-launch blueprinting and sharing even more still. This is all supported and made possible because:

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

OPEN SOURCE SHARING STRATEGY SPECIFICS

One Community’s open source strategy will evolve 5 primary types of open source content purposed to reach and service as broad an audience as possible in order to disseminate information about the model of a better way to live. 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 of a better way to live model 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 that will lead to creating a cooperative future through a better way to live. 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.

Creating a planet that works for everyone is possible if enough people want it. We can change how we interact with each other and our shared environment if we choose to. One way to achieve sufficient engagement and participation is to create an open source and free-shared model that demonstrates this on a small-scale while providing a better way of living than how most people are living now. Such a model, if demonstrated as easy enough and affordable enough, will predictably spread and expand on its own. We are designing this as what we call living and creating for The Highest Good of All.

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

OUR MAIN OPEN SOURCE HUBS

One Community’s physical location will forward this movement as the first of many self-replicating teacher/demonstration communities, villages, and cities to be built around the world. This is the November 27th, 2016 edition (#192) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments:

Creating a Planet that Works for Everyone
One Community Progress Update #192

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

CREATING A PLANET THAT WORKS FOR EVERYONE INTRO: @1:03

CREATING A PLANET THAT WORKS FOR EVERYONE HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION: @1:58

• Transferred third 25% of the written content for the Consciousness Lesson Plan to the website (see below)
• Behind the scenes: wrote the first 25% section of the written part of the Cognition Lesson Plan
• Completed the second 25% of the mindmap for the Individuality Lesson Plan (see below)

CREATING A PLANET THAT WORKS FOR EVERYONE HIGHEST GOOD FOOD: @2:53

• Cleaned up the recipes on the breakfast page and created a “Dessert & Snack Recipes” page (see below)

CREATING A PLANET THAT WORKS FOR EVERYONE HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING: @3:21

• Ashwini Ramesh and the core team put another combined total of 15 hours into the crowdfunding campaign we are developing (see below)
• Finished updates to two final Straw Bale Village renders and added them to the site (see below)
• Updated the Straw Bale Village floor plans (see below)
• Fernando Remolina continued with his 5th week of managing the Vermiculture Bathroom development (see below)
• Hamilton Mateca finished his 19th week helping with the Compressed Earth Block Village design details (see below)
• Guy Grossfeld continued with 3D earth block construction for Compressed Earth Block Village meditation walking path (see below)
• Aparna Tandon continued work on the Compressed Earth Block Village external elements (see below)
• Jiming Chen continued helping develop the Tree House Village (see below)
• Zachary Melin continued developing the Tree House Village book (see below)

CREATING A PLANET THAT WORKS FOR EVERYONE DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER: @6:03

• Continued render creation for the Duplicable City Center (see below)
• Iris Hsu continued her work on the recycled pipe shelving for the Duplicable City Center library (see below)
• Haoxuan “Hayes” Lei and Shuna Ni continued their work on the City Center structural engineering (see below)
• Dipti Dhondarkar continued with her 20th week of work on the lighting specifics for the City Center (see below)
• Jinxi Feng continued her research helping us create an in-depth laundry and dryer machine sustainability analysis (see below)
• Began updating the eco-laundry page with Jinxi’s work (see below)
• Ramya Vudi, Shubham Agrawal, and Mike Hogan continued working on the electrical design for the Control and Automation systems and Ramya and Shubham continued working on the solar and wind designs (see below)
• Lucas Tsutsui da Silva finished the Control Systems – Current Requirements for Room Controller chart (see below)
• Renan Dantas continued creating our next generation of Duplicable City Center section drawings (see below)

CREATING A PLANET THAT WORKS FOR EVERYONE HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY: @8:59

• Updated the Taxes and Sustainable Community Building page (see below)
• Ashwin Patil and Jennifer Zhou continued work developing the new site search engine (see below)
• Yuri Witte continued helping create the music that will accompany the new overview video we are planning (see below)

CREATING A PLANET THAT WORKS FOR EVERYONE SUMMARY: @10:06

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CREATING A PLANET THAT WORKS FOR EVERYONE HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

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

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

This last week the core team transferred the third 25% of the written content for the Consciousness Lesson Plan to the website, as you see here. This lesson plan purposed to teach all subjects, to all learning levels, in any learning environment, using the central theme of “Consciousness” is now 75% completed on our website.

Creating a Planet that Works for Everyone -Transferred Third 25% of Consciousness Lesson Plan

Behind the scenes, we wrote the first 25% section of the written part of the Cognition Lesson Plan.

We also completed the second 25% of the mindmap for the Individuality Lesson Plan, bringing it to 50% complete, which you see here.

Creating a Planet that Works for Everyone -Individuality Mindmap – 50% Complete

CREATING A PLANET THAT WORKS FOR EVERYONE HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

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

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

This last week the core team cleaned up the recipes on the breakfast page and created a “Dessert & Snack Recipes” page. You can see images of that work here:

Created a “Dessert & Snack Recipes” Page – Click to Visit Transition Kitchen Page

CREATING A PLANET THAT WORKS FOR EVERYONE HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

One Community is creating a planet that works for everyone through Highest Good housing that is artistic and beautiful, more affordable, more space efficient, lasts longer, DIY buildable, and constructed with healthy and sustainable materials:

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

The core team and Ashwini Ramesh (Civil Engineer and Project Manager) put another combined total of 15 hours into the crowdfunding campaign we are developing. This week’s focus was the behind-the-scenes content editing for the Site Selection and Preparation page. You can see some of this work here.

Continued Editing the Site Selection and Preparation Page Behind-the-Scenes – Click to Visit Site

We also finished updates to these two final Straw Bale Village (Pod 2) renders and added them to the site. The first one is the “Central Social Area with the Chimney Closed” and the second one is the “Outdoor Picnic Area Looking East.”

Final Render of Central Social Area with the Chimney Closed – Click to Visit Straw Bale Village

Creating a Planet that Works for Everyone -Final Render of Outdoor Picnic Area Looking East

Next, we updated the Straw Bale Village floor plans and “click to enlarge” floor plans, as shown here:

Fernando Remolina (Industrial Engineer specializing in Project Management) continued with his 5th week of managing the Vermiculture Bathroom development. This week’s focus, as shown here, was beginning clarifying task assignments and beginning the foundation work with his team.

Continued Managing the Vermiculture Bathroom Development – Click to Visit Page

Hamilton Mateca (AutoCAD and Revit Drafter and Designer) also finished his 19th week helping with the Compressed Earth Block Village (Pod 4) design details. This week’s focus was on railing, lighting, and furniture updates to the internal and external Revit 3-D room and exterior design specifics shown here:

Creating a Planet that Works for Everyone – Continued Evolving the Compressed Earth Block Village

Guy Grossfeld (Graphic Designer) continued with 3D earth block construction for the Compressed Earth Block Village (Pod 4) labyrinth meditation walking path. This week’s focus was trying a new approach that allowed him to finish the layout for this, as shown here:

Continued w/ 3D Earth Block Construction for Labyrinth Walking Path – Click for Compressed Earth

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

Jiming Chen (Designer with his Master’s in Architecture and BA in Engineering) also continued helping develop the Tree House Village (Pod 7). What you see here is his 7th week of this work focusing on enlarged bathroom and shower designs, updating and finishing the roof, window, and external seating plans, and more doorway and storage updates.

Creating a Planet that Works for Everyone – Continued Developing the Tree House Village

Zachary Melin (Graphic Designer) also continued developing the Tree House Village (Pod 7) book. What you see here is week 15 of this work that continued with updates to more pages that will feature Jiming’s new floor plans and designs once they are complete.

Creating a Planet that Works for Everyone – Continued Developing the Tree House Village Book

CREATING A PLANET THAT WORKS FOR EVERYONE DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

One Community is creating a planet that works for everyone 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 render creation for the Duplicable City Center. This included the structural column updates for the Kitchen in the Dining Dome as seen here:

Worked on Structural Column Updates for the Kitchen in the Dining Dome – Click to Visit Page

… and checking in 3D the placement of columns, doors and windows to accommodate the fourth floor:

Creating a Planet that Works for Everyone – Continued Render Creation for the Duplicable City Center

Iris Hsu, (Industrial Designer), also continued her work on the recycled pipe shelving for the Duplicable City Center library. This week’s focus was beginning work on the assembly instructions. What you see here are the initial layouts, beginnings of the parts list, explanation of the lighting color options, and more:

Continued Working on Recycled Pipe Shelving for the Duplicable City Center – Click to Visit Page

Creating a Planet that Works for Everyone – Continued Work on the City Center Structural Engineering

And Dipti Dhondarkar, (Electrical Engineer) also continued with her 20th week of work on the lighting specifics for the City Center. This week’s focus was solidifying the specific wattage of LED bulbs we will use and researching the different looks for the various LED options, as shown here:

Creating a Planet that Works for Everyone – Continued Lighting Specifics for the City Center

Jinxi Feng (Environmental Consultant) also continued her research helping us create an in-depth laundry and dryer machine sustainability analysis. What you see here is her 12th week of behind-the-scenes work on this area of the project. This week’s focus was more calculations and comparisons and beginning to create the charts and info-graphics you can see here:

Continued Research for in-Depth Laundry and Dryer Machine Sustainability Analysis – Click to Visit

The core team also began updating the eco-laundry page with Jinxi’s work, finishing the What, Why, and initial 3 Details sections discussing the range of what is possible from the most basic approaches to the most comprehensive. Visit the page to read the details.

Creating a Planet that Works for Everyone – Began Updating the Eco-Laundry Page with Jinxi’s Work

Ramya Vudi (Electrical Engineer), Shubham Agrawal (Electrical Engineer), and Mike Hogan (Automation Systems Developer and Business Systems Consultant) continued working on the electrical design for the Control and Automation systems and Ramya and Shubham continued working on the solar and wind designs. What you see here is this team’s 5th week of work on both of these tasks and focusing on controller sizing, battery selection, and wind turbine types.

Continued on Control & Automation Systems & Solar Sizing Plan

Lucas Tsutsui da Silva (4th-year Computer Engineering Student) also finished the Control Systems – Current Requirements for Room Controller chart you can see here:

Finished Current Requirements for Room Controller Chart – Click to Visit Control Systems Page

And Renan Dantas (Mechanical Engineer) continued with his 2nd week working on creating our next generation of Duplicable City Center section drawings. You can see some of the notes and examples of the ongoing revisions here.

Continued Creating our Next Generation of Duplicable City Center Section Drawings – Click to Visit

CREATING A PLANET THAT WORKS FOR EVERYONE HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS

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

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

This last week the core team updated the Taxes and Sustainable Community Building page with more of the comprehensive research and educational content written last year by Binru Chen (Accountant Specializing in Audit and Financial Reporting). The work-in-progress you see here is in preparation for a new web designer who we just brought on the team and will be taking on finishing this page as her first project with the team.

Updated the Taxes and Sustainable Community Building Page – Click to Visit

Ashwin Patil (Web Developer) and Jennifer Zhou (Web Designer) also completed what is, collectively, the 8th week of work developing the new site search engine. This week’s focus was inputting the details for the Highest Good energy section, fixing a broken icon set problem, and writing the code for the Highest Good society and Highest Good education sections, as shown here.

Creating a Planet that Works for Everyone – Continued Developing New Site Search Engine

And Yuri Witte (Music Composer and Sound Designer)” completed his 3rd week of helping create the music that will accompany the new overview video we are planning. This week’s focus was several new composition tests for a more progressive and action-oriented intro. You can hear one of these here and listen to the rest on Yuri’s SoundCloud.

Continued Creating Music that Will Accompany the New Overview Video – Click for Yuri’s Soundcloud

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WHAT ONE COMMUNITY IS CREATING

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

Our goal is to demonstrate what we feel is the most sustainable, healthy, and fun environment we can create. Creating a planet that works for everyone means creating place based on compassion, kindness, and collaboration. This replicable community will serve as an example for what is possible.

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

CREATING A PLANET THAT WORKS FOR EVERYONE – BUILDING THE FIRST OF MANY

One Community will be the first teacher/demonstration hub t0 teach about creating a planet that works for everyone. It will function as an experiential-learning model that facilitates mass participation to address humanity’s most pressing challenges through: A replicable model for expansion, building seven self-sufficient village/city prototypes, becoming the world leader in open-source sustainability solutions, and evolving and expanding ALL aspects of sustainable living.

WHY ONE COMMUNITY IS CREATING THIS

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

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 creating a planet that works for everyone 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 creating a planet that works for everyone 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 by creating a planet that works 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 of creating a planet that works for everyone will predictably expand on its own.

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

COMPREHENSIVE SOLUTION TO HUMANITY’S NEEDS

One Community is open source sharing an evolution of sustainable living that addresses the complete human experience through creating a planet that works for everyone. 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 of creating a planet that works for everyone, 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 more about the model of creating a planet that works for everyone. 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 on the creating a planet that works for everyone model. 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 of creating a planet that works for everyone. 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.

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 in creating a planet that works for everyone. 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.

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

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

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

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 towards creating a planet that works for everyone.

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 in the quest to creating a planet that works for everyone. 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 about creating a planet that works for everyone 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.

OPEN SOURCE SHARING STRATEGY SPECIFICS

One Community’s open source strategy will evolve 5 primary types of open source content purposed to reach and service as broad an audience as possible in order to share insight about creating a planet that works for everyone. 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

For the model of creating a planet that works for everyone, 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

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 with the intention of creating a planet that works for everyone. 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 creating a planet that works for everyone.

Regenerative community building is one way we as a species can begin to consciously steward our planet. Designing an open source and free-shared model for this will make it easier and more affordable. Combining the components of food, energy, and housing with sustainable and Highest Good approaches to education, for-profit and non-profit economic design, social architecture, fulfilled living, and global stewardship practices can also make it a better way of living than the way most people are living now.

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

OUR MAIN OPEN SOURCE HUBS

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

One Community’s physical location will forward this movement as the first of many self-replicating teacher/demonstration communities, villages, and cities to be built around the world. This is the November 20th, 2016 edition (#191) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments:

Regenerative Community Building
One Community Progress Update #191

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

REGENERATIVE COMMUNITY BUILDING INTRO: @1:03

REGENERATIVE COMMUNITY BUILDING HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION: @1:56

• Transferred second 25% of the written content for the Consciousness Lesson Plan to the website (see below)
• Behind the scenes: wrote the third and final 25% sections of the written part of the Consciousness Lesson Plan
• Completed the first 25% of the mindmap for the Individuality Lesson Plan (see below)

REGENERATIVE COMMUNITY BUILDING HIGHEST GOOD FOOD: @2:52

• Organized recipes on the omnivore recipe pages for our Transition Kitchen strategy, and created a “breakfast recipes” page (see below)

REGENERATIVE COMMUNITY BUILDING HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING: @3:21

• Ashwini Ramesh and the core team put a combined total of 20 hours into the Licensing and Permitting section of the crowdfunding campaign we are developing (see below)
• Finished updates to two final Straw Bale Village renders and added them to the site (see below)
• Dean Scholz continued helping us create quality Cob Village renders (see below)
• Hamilton Mateca finished his 18th week helping with the Compressed Earth Block Village design details (see below)
• Guy Grossfeld continued with 3D earth block construction for the Compressed Earth Block Village (see below)
• Aparna Tandon continued her work on the Compressed Earth Block Village external elements (see below)

REGENERATIVE COMMUNITY BUILDING DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER: @5:28

• Continued render creation for the Duplicable City Center. This included these two finished perspectives for the Kitchen in the Dining Dome (see below)
• Updated all the formatting and icons on all the pages linked to from the main City Center open source hub (see below)
• Haoxuan “Hayes” Lei and Shuna Ni continued their work on the City Center structural engineering (see below)
• Dipti Dhondarkar continued with her 19th week of work on the lighting specifics for the City Center (see below)
• Jinxi Feng continued her research helping us create an in-depth laundry and dryer machine sustainability analysis (see below)
• Jennifer Zhou and Ashwin Patil finished their 3rd week of collaboratively working on the open source pipe furniture page (see below)
• Ramya Vudi was joined by Shubham Agrawal working on the solar sizing plan as well and our collaboration with Mike Hogan designing the Control and Automation systems (see below)
• Renan Dantas joined the team and started creating our next generation of Duplicable City Center section drawings (see below)

REGENERATIVE COMMUNITY BUILDING HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY: @8:14

• Ashwin Patil and Jennifer Zhou completed what is, collectively, the 7th week of work developing the new site search engine (see below)
• Yuri Witte completed his 2nd week of helping create the music that will accompany the new overview video we are planning (see below)

REGENERATIVE COMMUNITY BUILDING SUMMARY: @8:

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REGENERATIVE COMMUNITY BUILDING – HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

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

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

This last week the core team transferred the second 25% of the written content for the Consciousness Lesson Plan to the website, as you see here. This lesson plan purposed to teach all subjects, to all learning levels, in any learning environment, using the central theme of “Consciousness” is now 50% completed on our website.

Transferred Second 25% of Consciousness Lesson Plan to Site – Click to Visit Page

Behind the scenes, we wrote the third and final 25% sections of the written part of the Consciousness Lesson Plan.

We also completed the first 25% of the mindmap for the Individuality Lesson Plan, which you see here:

Regenerative Community Building – Individuality Mindmap – 25% Complete – Click to Visit Page

REGENERATIVE COMMUNITY BUILDING – HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

One Community is facilitating regenerative community building 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 organized recipes on the omnivore recipe pages for our Transition Kitchen strategy, and created a “breakfast recipes” page. You can see images of that work here:

Organized Recipes on Omnivore Recipe Pages and Created a “Breakfast Recipes” Page – Click to Visit

REGENERATIVE COMMUNITY BUILDING HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

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

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

This last the core team and Ashwini Ramesh (Civil Engineer and Project Manager) put another combined total of 20 hours into the crowdfunding campaign we are developing. This weeks work focused on finishing the content for the Licensing and Permitting section, as shown here:

Worked on the Content for the Licensing and Permitting Section – Click to Visit Page

We also finished updates to these two final Straw Bale Village (Pod 2) renders and added them to the site. The first one is the “Children’s Playroom” and the second one is the “Outdoor Play Area Looking Northeast.”

Regenerative Community Building – Final Render of Playroom – Click to Visit Straw Bale Village

Final Render of Outdoor Play Area Looking Northeast – Click to Visit Straw Bale Village

Next, we updated the Straw Bale Village header, social media, and preview images with the new floor plan, as shown here:

Regenerative Community Building – New Straw Bale Village Floor Plan Created – Click to Visit

Dean Scholz (Architectural Designer), continued helping us create quality Cob Village (Pod 3) renders. Here is update 44 of his work creating all the iterations you see here…

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

….leading up to this final rooftop view looking North render:

Final Render of the Rooftop View Looking North – Click to Visit Cob Village

He also fixed the sky to create this new final render of the back view looking East:

Updated Final Render of the Back View Looking East – Click to Visit Cob Village

Hamilton Mateca (AutoCAD and Revit Drafter and Designer) also finished his 18th week helping with the Compressed Earth Block Village (Pod 4) design details. This week’s focus was focused on continued development of the internal and external Revit 3-D room and exterior design specifics shown here.

Continued Evolving the Compressed Earth Block Village – Click to Visit Page

Regenerative Community Building – Continued Render Creation for the Duplicable City Center

Guy Grossfeld (Graphic Designer) continued with 3D earth block construction for the Compressed Earth Block Village (Pod 4). This week’s focus was hours of brick placement for a real-to-life layout of the earth brick labyrinth, we’re starting over now with a new approach.

Continued w/ 3D Earth Block Outdoor Furniture Construction – Click for Compressed Earth Block

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

REGENERATIVE COMMUNITY BUILDING – DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

One Community is facilitating regenerative community building 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 render creation for the Duplicable City Center. This included these two finished perspectives looking Northwest and Northeast for the Kitchen in the Dining Dome:

Duplicable City Center Kitchen Final Render – View Looking Northwest

Duplicable City Center Kitchen Final Render – View Looking Northeast

…as part of these, we also added the columns into all the other perspectives to check the 3-D view and accuracy as compared to the AutoCAD file, identifying all discrepancies as shown here:

Regenerative Community Building – Continued Render Creation for the Duplicable City Center

In addition to this, the core team also updated all the formatting and icons on all the pages linked to from the main City Center open source hub. You can see a collage of these updates here:

Updated Formatting & Icons for Pages Linked to the City Center – Click to Visit Main Hub

Haoxuan “Hayes” Lei (Structural Engineer) and Shuna Ni (Masters of Mechanical Engineering and Civil Engineering PhD) also continued their work on the City Center structural engineering. This week’s work focused on environmental load calculations and additional updates to the internal column calculations.

Continued Work on the City Center Structural Engineering – Click to Visit Page

And Dipti Dhondarkar, (Electrical Engineer) also continued with her 19th week of work on the lighting specifics for the City Center. This week’s focus was researching and comparing specific bulbs. This image is a good summary of what our research confirmed.  

Regenerative Community Building – Continued Lighting Specifics for the City Center – Click to Enlarge

Jinxi Feng (Environmental Consultant) also continued her research helping us create an in-depth laundry and dryer machine sustainability analysis. What you see here is her 11th week of behind-the-scenes work on this are of the project. This week’s focus was finishing the research and writing process for the “What” and “Why” sections. Here is this work ready for movement to the webpage. 

Continued Research for in-Depth Laundry and Dryer Machine Sustainability Analysis – Click to Visit

Also, Jennifer Zhou (Web Designer) and Ashwin Patil (Web Developer), finished their 3rd week of collaboratively working on the open source pipe furniture page. What you see here is the initial formatting of this page taking shape along with the new slider feature at the top and an additional slider below that for easier page summarization and navigation.

Continued Working on the Open Source Pipe Furniture Page – Click to Visit

Ramya Vudi (Electrical Engineer) was also joined by Shubham Agrawal (Electrical Engineer) working on the solar sizing plan as well and our collaboration with Mike Hogan (Automation Systems Developer and Business Systems Consultant) designing the Control and Automation systems. What you see here are some of the notes and research from this team’s 4th week of work on both of these tasks:

Continued on Solar Sizing Plan & Control & Automation Systems – Click for Control Systems Page

And Renan Dantas (Mechanical Engineer) joined the team and started creating our next generation of Duplicable City Center section drawings. You can see this work-in-progress here.

Started Creating our Next Generation of Duplicable City Center Section Drawings – Click to Visit Page

REGENERATIVE COMMUNITY BUILDING – HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS

One Community is facilitating regenerative community building 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

Ashwin Patil (Web Developer) and Jennifer Zhou (Web Designer) also completed what is, collectively, the 7th week of work developing the new site search engine. This week’s focus was inputting the details for the Highest Good economics section and writing the code for the Straw Bale Village (pod2) and Duplicable City Center sections, as shown here.

Regenerative Community Building – Continued Developing New Site Search Engine – Click to Visit

And Yuri Witte (Music Composer and Sound Designer)” completed his 2nd week of helping create the music that will accompany the new overview video we are planning. This week’s focus was adding test voiceover and writing an option for the closing piano music. You can hear an example of the work-in-progress audio in the background here, and the complete clips (including the test voiceover) as the 5th and 6th iterations on Yuri’s SoundCloud:

Helping Create Music that Will Accompany the New Overview Video – Click for Yuri’s Soundcloud

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WHAT ONE COMMUNITY IS CREATING

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

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

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

REGENERATIVE COMMUNITY BUILDING – 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 regenerative community building: A replicable model for expansion, building seven self-sufficient village/city prototypes, becoming the world leader in open-source sustainability solutions, and evolving and expanding ALL aspects of sustainable living.

WHY ONE COMMUNITY IS CREATING THIS

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

The specifics of how One Community is accomplishing the regenerative community building vocation 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 via regenerative community building, a self-replicating teacher/demonstration model like this will take a relatively short period of time to positively affect millions while inspiring millions more.  For One Community residents (the Pioneer Team), the idea of creating and sharing the social and recreational experience with visitors is also fun, exciting, fulfilling, and an additional reason why we are creating this.

INSPIRING SUSTAINABILITY WITH OPEN SOURCE

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

Our open source model and blueprints engage and inspire people while simultaneously making sustainable living more affordable and easy to replicate. By free-sharing the step-by-step regenerative community building model plans people need for duplication, inviting people to participate, and demonstrating sustainable teacher/demonstration hubs as a more desirable way of living, the model of regenerative community building 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 regenerative community building is even possible, we are nonetheless bringing together all those that do see this as possible as the non-profit think tank of forward-thinking individuals willing to design, build, and open source project-launch blueprint and free-share it for The Highest Good of All.

COMPREHENSIVE SOLUTION TO HUMANITY’S NEEDS

One Community is open source sharing an evolution of sustainable living that addresses the complete human experience through regenerative community building. 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 about regenerative community building. 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 of regenerative community building. This leads to the directing of financial resources and resourceful people where we believe they are needed most: the establishment of additional sustainable communities around the world. We also feel this duplication will specifically happen quickly internationally due to the affordability of overseas land, less restrictive building environments, and the spirit of adventure in many people who really desire to make a difference for those who need it most.

To meet the increasing demand for sustainability that we are contributing to, we are coordinating with manufacturers, education institutions, individuals, and vendors. This is also part of the model of regenerative community building 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.

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

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

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

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

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 of regenerative community building globally:

Phase I: 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: 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: 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: 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 towards regenerative community building .

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

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

OPEN SOURCE SHARING STRATEGY SPECIFICS

One Community’s open source strategy will evolve 5 primary types of open source content purposed to reach and service as broad an audience as possible to spread word on regenerative community building. 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 about regenerative community building 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 through regenerative community building. We will model these within a comprehensive “village/city” which will be built in the southwestern U.S. This teacher/demonstration hub will be a place people can experience a new way of living and then replicate it with our open source blueprints: creating a model solution that creates additional solution-creating models.

One Community welcomes Aparna Tandon to the Design Team as our newest Volunteer/Consultant!

Architect: Aparna has a bachelor’s degree in architecture from one of India’s most reputed institutes and has been engaged in a range of landscape and commercial projects ever since. As an independent architect she has provided design and landscape services to a variety of clients. Aparna is passionate about sustainable architecture and believes in planning for all. She hopes to contribute to society by addressing issues that lead towards sustainable urban environments. She is also an avid photographer and blogs about her travel experiences. Recently relocated to Seattle, WA, Aparna continues to work as an independent architect and chronicles her experiences through photography. As a One Community volunteer, Aparna is helping with landscape design and details for the Compressed Earth Block and Recycled Materials villages.

WELCOME TO THE TEAM APARNA!

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One Community welcomes Ashwin Patil to the Web Design Team as our newest Volunteer/Consultant!

Web Developer and Tech Enthusiast: Ashwin has a Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Engineering and is now pursuing his Masters in Computer Science from California State University, Chico. He is passionate about web designing and loves to create new websites. Ashwin has experience in designing and developing web applications and also has excellent knowledge of a broad diversity of other web technologies including HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript, Bootstrap, and AngularJs. He is committed to learning, which ensures that he is up-to-date with functionalities of the latest and greatest technologies in his field. Recreationally, Ashwin loves photography, travel, new foods, and combining all three. With a desire to make this world a better place for everyone, and as a member of the One Community team, Ashwin is applying his skills and knowledge helping to create the new One Community search engine, improved aesthetics for all our Open Source Tutorials, and a new Homepage design.

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One Community is an all-volunteer nonprofit purposed for helping people build communities and all aspects of community and sustainable living. This includes open source and free-shared tools, tutorials and resources for 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 November 13th, 2016 edition (#190) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments:

Helping People Build Communities
One Community Progress Update #190

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

HELPING PEOPLE BUILD COMMUNITIES INTRO: @1:03

HELPING PEOPLE BUILD COMMUNITIES HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION: @1:56

• Transferred first 25% of the written content for the Consciousness Lesson Plan to the website (see below)
• Behind the scenes: wrote the second 25% of the written part of the Consciousness Lesson Plan
• Completed the final 25% of the mindmap for the Personal Growth Lesson Plan (see below)

HELPING PEOPLE BUILD COMMUNITIES HIGHEST GOOD FOOD: @2:50

• Worked on renaming our recipe pages and adding SEO descriptions on our Transition Kitchen pages (see below)

HELPING PEOPLE BUILD COMMUNITIES HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING: @3:17

• Continued with layers of revisions for the upcoming 7 villages online book (see below)
• Updated all the icons for the Straw Bale Village open source hub and all the pages connected to that hub (see below)
• Dean Scholz further developed what’s necessary for us to create quality Cob Village (Pod 3) renders (see below)
• Hamilton Mateca finished his 16th week helping evolve the Compressed Earth Block Village (see below)
• Guy Grossfeld continued with 3D earth block outdoor furniture construction for the Compressed Earth Block Village (see below)
• Aparna Tandon continued her work on the Compressed Earth Block Village external elements (see below)
• Jiming Chen continued helping develop the Tree House Village (see below)
• Yee-Cheng Ho finished her 8th week of helping with the Shipping Container Village renders for the living units (see below)
• Zachary Melin continued developing the Tree House Village book (see below)

HELPING PEOPLE BUILD COMMUNITIES DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER: @6:06

• Continued render creation for the central pool area (see below)
• Iris Hsu continued her work on the recycled pipe shelving for the Duplicable City Center library (see below)
• Haoxuan “Hayes” Lei and Shuna Ni continued their work on the City Center structural engineering (see below)
• Jinxi Feng continued her research helping us create an in-depth laundry and dryer machine sustainability analysis (see below)
• Jennifer Zhou outlined the layout for the open source pipe furniture page (see below)
• Ramya Vudi continued her work on the solar sizing plan as well as her collaboration with Mike Hogan designing the Control and Automation systems (see below)

HELPING PEOPLE BUILD COMMUNITIES HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY: @8:20

• Ashwin Patil completed his 6th week of helping with the new site-design details (see below)
• Luke Williamson helped create the second Highest Good education rough-video intro (see below)
• Yuri Witte completed his 1st week of helping create the music that will accompany the new overview video we are exploring (see below)

HELPING PEOPLE BUILD COMMUNITIES SUMMARY: @9:19

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HELPING PEOPLE BUILD COMMUNITIES HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

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

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

This last week the core team transferred the first 25% of the written content for the Consciousness Lesson Plan to the website, as you see here. This lesson plan is purposed to teach all subjects, to all learning levels, in any learning environment, using the central theme of “Consciousness”.

Transferred First 25% of Consciousness Lesson Plan to Site – Click to Visit Page

Behind the scenes, we wrote the second 25% of the written part of the Consciousness Lesson Plan.

We also completed the final 25% of the mindmap for the Personal Growth Lesson Plan, bringing it to 100% complete, which you see here:

Personal Growth Mindmap – Complete – Click to Visit Page

HELPING PEOPLE BUILD COMMUNITIES HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

One Community is helping people build 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 worked on renaming our recipe pages and adding SEO descriptions on our Transition Kitchen pages. You can see that work here:

Worked on Renaming our Recipe Pages and Adding SEO Descriptions – Click to Visit Page

HELPING PEOPLE BUILD COMMUNITIES HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

One Community is helping people build 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 with layers of revisions for the upcoming 7 villages online book. This week’s focus was page 1 of the Straw Bale Village (Pod 2) layout focusing on more updates to the renders and the new floor plan presentation shown here.

The core team also updated all the icons for the Straw Bale Village (Pod 2) open source hub and all the pages connected to that hub. You can see all the new icons here:

Updated Icons for the Straw Bale Village Open Source Hub and Connected Pages – Click to Visit

Dean Scholz (Architectural Designer), further developed what’s necessary for us to create quality Cob Village (Pod 3) renders. Here is update 43 of his work continuing to evolve the external details…

Continued to Evolve the Cob Village External Details – Click to Visit Page

…and finishing with this final render of the Back View Looking Southeast:

Finished Final Render of the Back View Looking Southeast – Click to Visit Page

Hamilton Mateca (AutoCAD and Revit Drafter and Designer) also finished his 16th week helping evolve the Compressed Earth Block Village (Pod 4). This week’s focus was adding a North exit and patio area to the North living-space layouts and beginning modeling the large-scale bathroom details in Revit:

Continued Evolving the Compressed Earth Block Village – Click to Visit Page

Guy Grossfeld (Graphic Designer) continued with 3D earth block outdoor furniture construction for the Compressed Earth Block Village (Pod 4). What you see here is his 11th week of this work that focused on clarifying all the measurements for the compressed earth brick bench and beginning the layout of the earth brick labyrinth.

Continued w/ 3D Earth Block Outdoor Furniture Construction – Click for Compressed Earth Block

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

Jiming Chen (Designer with his Master’s in Architecture and BA in Engineering) also continued helping develop the Tree House Village (Pod 7). What you see here is his 5th week of this work focusing on adding laundry facilities, doorway and floor plan updates, seating, and other revisions to the stand-alone bathroom and shower structure.

Continued Helping Develop the Tree House Village – Click to Visit Page

Yee-Cheng Ho (Interior Designer) also finished her 8th week of helping with the Shipping Container Village (Pod 5) renders for the living units. This week’s focus was on creating this first iteration of a maximally space efficient design that we hope to adapt to fit into 1 container.

Continued Working on the Shipping Container Village Concept Renders – Click to Visit Page

Zachary Melin (Graphic Designer) also continued developing the Tree House Village (Pod 7) book. What you see here is week 14 of this work that continued with updates to the pages that will feature Jiming’s new floor plans and designs once they are complete.

Continued Developing the Tree House Village Book – Click to Visit Page

HELPING PEOPLE BUILD COMMUNITIES DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

One Community is helping people build 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 render creation for the Duplicable City Center. This included rendering this image for the central pool area (north view) where we updated the waterfall texture and water shape, added more plants to the living wall around the waterfall, and placed additional lights.

Continued Render Creation for the Duplicable City Center – Click to Visit Page

Iris Hsu, (Industrial Designer), also continued her work on the recycled pipe shelving for the Duplicable City Center library. This week’s focus was these 2nd generation renders of the complete room and furniture, including multiple examples of different applied lighting options.

Continued Working on Recycled Pipe Shelving for Duplicable City Center Library – Click to Visit Page

Haoxuan “Hayes” Lei (Structural Engineer) and Shuna Ni (Masters of Mechanical Engineering and Civil Engineering PhD) also continued their work on the City Center structural engineering. This week’s work focused on continuing to standardize the steel frame pieces of the dome and researching the best approach for attaching the secondary timber beams to the steel truss girders.

Continued Work on the City Center Structural Engineering – Click to Visit Page

Jinxi Feng (Environmental Consultant) also continued her research helping us create an in-depth laundry and dryer machine sustainability analysis. What you see here is her 10th week of behind-the-scenes work on this area. This week’s focus was continuing the research and writing process for the “What” and “Why” sections. You can see some pictures of this work-in-progress here:

Continued Research for in-Depth Laundry and Dryer Machine Sustainability Analysis – Click to Visit

Also, Jennifer Zhou (Web Designer), finished her 13th week of volunteering with us. Through her help, we were able to learn how we could avoid building a completely new site and now Jennifer is helping us with individual pages. You can see the beginning of this work here as she has outlined the layout for the open source pipe furniture page.

Outlined Layout for Open Source Pipe Furniture Page – Click to Visit

Ramya Vudi (Electrical Engineer) also continued her work on the solar sizing plan as well as her collaboration with Mike Hogan (Automation Systems Developer and Business Systems Consultant) designing the Control and Automation systems. What you see here is her 3rd week of work on both of these tasks.

Continued Working on Solar Sizing Plan and Control and Automation Systems – Click to Visit Page

HELPING PEOPLE BUILD  COMMUNITIES HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS

One Community is helping people build 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

Ashwin Patil (Web Developer) completed his 6th week of helping with the new site-design details. This week’s focus was additional adjustments to the Highest Good food links and icons, researching and testing a new slider plugin we’ll be adding to the tops of our open source tutorial pages and creating a tutorial for how to edit, add to, and update the search engine he’s helped build for us:

Continued Helping with the New Web Design – Click to Visit Home Page

Created a Tutorial for How to Edit, Add to, and Update the Search Engine – Click to Visit Home Page

Luke Williamson (Graphic Designer) also helped create this second Highest Good education rough-video intro. This helped us decide that icons probably aren’t going to work like we’d hoped in our videos.

And Yuri Witte (pronounced “Veetay” (Music Composer and Sound Designer)” completed his 1st week of helping create the music that will accompany the new overview video we are exploring too. You can hear a clip of the 5th iteration of this music here:

….and visit Yuri’s SoundCloud for all the previous versions:

Creating Music that Will Accompany the New Overview Video – Click for Yuri’s Soundcloud

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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 are doing this by helping people build communities. We do this by harmoniously respecting each other, nature, and the rest of our one shared planet.

Our goal is to demonstrate what we feel is the most sustainable, healthy, and fun environment we can create. One community is helping people build communities, and these communities are places based on compassion, kindness, and collaboration. This replicable community will serve as an example for what is possible.

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

 BUILDING THE FIRST OF MANY

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

WHY ONE COMMUNITY IS CREATING THIS

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

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

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

INSPIRING SUSTAINABILITY WITH OPEN SOURCE

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

Our open source model and blueprints engage and inspire people while simultaneously making sustainable living more affordable and easy to replicate and thus helping people build communities. 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 of helping people build communities that we see uniting the world and leading to a new Golden Age for humanity. While we understand that not everyone believes this is even possible, we are nonetheless bringing together all those that do see this as possible as the non-profit think tank of forward-thinking individuals willing to design, build, and open source project-launch blueprint and free-share it for The Highest Good of All.

COMPREHENSIVE SOLUTION TO HUMANITY’S NEEDS

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

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

GLOBALLY IMPLEMENTABLE REPLICATION MODEL

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

To meet the increasing demand for sustainability that we are contributing to, we are coordinating with manufacturers, education institutions, individuals, and vendors. This is also part of this helping people build communities 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.

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

As the demand for the model of helping people build communities 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.

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 in the direction of helping people build communities.

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 of the model of helping people build communities 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 about helping people build communities 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.

OPEN SOURCE SHARING STRATEGY SPECIFICS

One Community’s open source strategy will evolve 5 primary types of open source content purposed to reach and service as broad an audience as possible to spread word about helping people build communities. 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 of helping people build communities model 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 with the aim of helping people build communities. We will model these within a comprehensive “village/city” which will be built in the southwestern U.S. This teacher/demonstration hub will be a place people can experience a new way of living and then replicate it with our open source blueprints: creating a model solution that creates additional solution-creating models.

Jump starting global community building is a process of making it easy enough, affordable enough, and demonstrating it as attractive enough. A community model that combines food, energy, housing, education, for-profit and non-profit economic design, social architecture, fulfilled living practices, and global stewardship practices is capable of doing this.

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

OUR MAIN OPEN SOURCE HUBS

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

One Community’s physical location will forward the movement of jump starting global community building as the first of many self-replicating teacher/demonstration communities, villages, and cities to be built around the world. This is the November 6th, 2016 edition (#189) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments:

Jump Starting Global Community Building
One Community Progress Update #189

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

JUMP STARTING GLOBAL COMMUNITY BUILDING INTRO: @1:03

JUMP STARTING GLOBAL COMMUNITY BUILDING HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION: @1:57

• Transferred final 25% of the written content for the Individuality Lesson Plan to the website (see below)
• Behind the scenes: wrote first 25% of the written part of the Consciousness Lesson Plan (see below)
• Completed the third 25% of the mindmap for the Personal Growth Lesson Plan (see below)

JUMP STARTING GLOBAL COMMUNITY BUILDING HIGHEST GOOD FOOD: @2:53

• Repaired the item description chart on our Transition Kitchen page, and finished resizing the remaining 50% of the images on it (see below)

JUMP STARTING GLOBAL COMMUNITY BUILDING HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING: @3:23

• Continued with layers of revisions for the upcoming 7 villages online book (see below)
• Fernando Remolina continued with his 4th week of managing the Vermiculture Bathroom development (see below)
• Dean Scholz further developed what’s necessary for us to create quality Cob Village renders (see below)
• Hamilton Mateca finished his 15th week helping evolve the Compressed Earth Block Village (see below)
• Guy Grossfeld continued with 3D earth block outdoor furniture construction for the Compressed Earth Block Village (see below)
• Aparna Tandon continued her work on the Compressed Earth Block Village external elements (see below)
• Yee-Cheng Ho finished her 7th week of helping with the Shipping Container Village renders for the living units (see below)
• Zachary Melin continued developing the Tree House Village book (see below)

JUMP STARTING GLOBAL COMMUNITY BUILDING DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER: @6:09

• Continued with layers of revisions for the upcoming 7 villages online book (see below)
• Iris Hsu continued her work on the recycled pipe shelving for the Duplicable City Center library
• Haoxuan “Hayes” Lei and Shuna Ni continued their work on the City Center column placement and calculations
• Jinxi Feng continued her research helping us create an in-depth laundry and dryer machine sustainability analysis
• Ramya Vudi joined the team and began working on the solar sizing plan and joined Mike Hogan to continue the process of designing the Control and Automation systems

JUMP STARTING GLOBAL COMMUNITY BUILDING HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY: @8:18

• Ashwin Patil completed his 5th week of helping with the new site-design details (see below)
• Vassili Biserov finished translating our Solution Models to Create Additional Solution-creating Models page into Russian (see below)
• Luke Williamson joined the team to help create new video intros to each section of our project (see below)

JUMP STARTING GLOBAL COMMUNITY BUILDING SUMMARY: @8:55

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JUMP STARTING GLOBAL COMMUNITY BUILDING HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

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

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

This last week the core team transferred the final 25% of the written content for the Individuality Lesson Plan to the website, as you see here. This lesson plan purposed to teach all subjects, to all learning levels, in any learning environment, using the central theme of “Individuality” is now 100% completed on our website.

Jump Starting Global Community Building – Transferred Final 25% of Individuality Lesson Plan to Site

Behind the scenes, we wrote the first 25% of the written part of the Consciousness Lesson Plan.

We also completed the third 25% of the mindmap for the Personal Growth Lesson Plan, bringing it to 75% complete, which you see here:

Jump Starting Global Community Building – Personal Growth Mindmap – 75% Complete

JUMP STARTING GLOBAL COMMUNITY BUILDING HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

One Community is jump starting global community building 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 repaired the item description chart on our Transition Kitchen page, and finished resizing the remaining 50% of the images on it. You can see that work here:

Jump Starting Global Community Building – Continued Working on Our Transition Kitchen Page

JUMP STARTING GLOBAL COMMUNITY BUILDING HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

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

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

This week the core team continued with layers of revisions for the upcoming 7 villages online book. This week’s focus was this new Straw Bale Village (Pod 2) layout focused on the many social spaces within this village.

Jump Starting Global Community Building – Continued Revisions of Upcoming 7 Villages Online Book

Fernando Remolina (Industrial Engineer specializing in Project Management) continued with his 4th week of managing the Vermiculture Bathroom development. This week’s focus was updating the Work Breakdown Structure for the complete project, interviewing two people for his team, and creating the structure you see here for what will be his bi-weekly team Project Status Report.

Jump Starting Global Community Building – Managing the Vermiculture Bathroom Development

Dean Scholz (Architectural Designer), further developed what’s necessary for us to create quality Cob Village (Pod 3) renders. Here is update 42 of his work continuing to evolve the external details and providing this final render of  the Center View Looking Northwest:

Final Render of Center View Looking Northwest– Click to Visit Cob Village

… some more texture adjustments and then these test renders:

Adjusted Textures and Created Test Renders – Click for Cob Village

….which led up to this final render of the Back View Looking Southwest:

Final Render of Back View Looking Southwest – Click to Visit Cob Village

Hamilton Mateca (AutoCAD and Revit Drafter and Designer) also finished his 15th week helping evolve the Compressed Earth Block Village (Pod 4). This week’s focus was integrating last week’s updates so all living-space layouts matched each other and updating the East half of the building to allow for a 3′ width increase for the South roadway entry.

Continued Evolving the Compressed Earth Block Village – Click to Visit Page

Guy Grossfeld (Graphic Designer) continued with 3D earth block outdoor furniture construction for the Compressed Earth Block Village (Pod 4). What you see here is his 10th week of this work that focused on creating and testing different textures to fill in the empty spaces on top of the compressed earth bricks.

Continued with 3D Earth Block Outdoor Furniture Construction – Click to Visit the Page

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

Yee-Cheng Ho (Interior Designer) also finished her 7th week of helping with the Shipping Container Village (Pod 5) renders for the living units. These final renders show how we’ll open source how to convert the unit design from the complete village into two 2-bedroom designs for do-it-yourself home construction by individuals and families.

Shipping Container Village Concept Render – Unit 2 – Click for Page

Shipping Container Village Concept Render – Unit 2 Conversion – Click for Page

Shipping Container Village Concept Render – Unit 2 Converted – Click for Page

Zachary Melin (Graphic Designer) also continued developing the Tree House Village (Pod 7) book. What you see here is week 13 of this work that continued updating all the page colors to match the new color palette and creation of the color palette page itself.

Continued Developing the Tree House Village Book – Click to Visit Page

JUMP STARTING GLOBAL COMMUNITY BUILDING DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

One Community is jump starting global community building 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 layers of revisions for the upcoming 7 villages online book. This week’s focus was this new Straw Bale Village (Pod 2) layout focused on the many social spaces within this village:

Continued Render Creation for the Duplicable City Center – Click to Visit Page

Iris Hsu, (Industrial Designer), also continued her work on the recycled pipe shelving for the Duplicable City Center library. This week’s focus was finalizing the assembly instructions for the table/chair, couch, and large table, all of which we added to the website. What you see here are the results of a full year of volunteering with us.

Finalized Pipe Furniture Table/Chair Assembly Instructions – Click to Visit Page

Jump Starting Global Community Building – Finalized Pipe Furniture Couch Assembly Instructions

Jump Starting Global Community Building – Finalized Pipe Furniture Table Assembly Instructions

Haoxuan “Hayes” Lei (Structural Engineer) and Shuna Ni (Masters of Mechanical Engineering and Civil Engineering PhD) also continued their work on the City Center column placement and calculations. This week’s work focused on another round of review and revisions for column placement and further detailing the floor construction details.

Jump Starting Global Community Building – Work on the Column Placement and Calculations

Jinxi Feng (Environmental Consultant) also continued her research helping us create an in-depth laundry and dryer machine sustainability analysis. What you see here is her 9th week of behind-the-scenes research into this area. This week’s focus was continuing with model calculations and research and beginning the process of writing the tutorial for this component. You can see some pictures of this work here:

Continued Research for in-Depth Laundry and Dryer Machine Sustainability Analysis – Click to Visit

Ramya Vudi (Electrical Engineer) also joined the team and began working on the solar sizing plan and joined Mike Hogan (Automation Systems Developer and Business Systems Consultant) to continue the process of designing the Control and Automation systems. What you see here are notes from her first 2 weeks of work on both of these tasks.

Began working on Solar Sizing Plan & Continued Process of Designing Control & Automation Systems

JUMP STARTING GLOBAL COMMUNITY BUILDING HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS

One Community is jump starting global community building 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, Ashwin Patil (Web Developer) completed his 5th week of helping with the new site-design details. This week’s focus was adding the rest of the Highest Good food links and icons and beginning to work on the Highest Good economics links and icons.

Jump Starting Global Community Building – Continued Helping with the New Web Design

Vassili Biserov (Writer, Poet and Translator) also finished translating our Solution Models to Create Additional Solution-creating Models page into Russian.

Translated Our Solutions That Create Solutions Page into Russian – Click to Visit

Luke Williamson (Graphic Designer) also joined the team to help create new video intros to each section of our project. His focus for his first 3 weeks has been music research and creating this test video.

Working on Creating New Video Intros to Each Section of our Project – Click to Visit Home Page

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OVERVIEW       ●       LOCATION       ●       FUNDING

GET INVOLVED

CONSULTANTS     ●     WAYS ANYONE CAN HELP     ●     MEMBERSHIP

CLICK HERE FOR ALL PAST UPDATES

WHAT ONE COMMUNITY IS CREATING

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

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

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

JUMP STARTING GLOBAL COMMUNITY BUILDING BUILDING THE FIRST OF MANY

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

WHY ONE COMMUNITY IS CREATING THIS

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

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

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

An open source whole-systems approach to eco-living has the potential to improve people’s quality of life while also creating a sustainable world.

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

OUR MAIN OPEN SOURCE HUBS

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

One Community’s physical location will forward the movement of whole-systems approach as the first of many self-replicating teacher/demonstration communities, villages, and cities to be built around the world. This is the October 30th, 2016 edition (#188) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments:

Whole-Systems Approach to Eco-Living
One Community Progress Update #188

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

WHOLE-SYSTEMS APPROACH TO ECO-LIVING INTRO: @1:03

WHOLE-SYSTEMS APPROACH TO ECO-LIVING HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION: @1:57

• Transferred third 25% of the written content for the Individuality Lesson Plan to the website (see below)
• Behind the scenes: wrote final 25% of the written part of the Individuality Lesson Plan (see below)
• Completed second 25% of the mindmap for the Personal Growth Lesson Plan (see below)

WHOLE-SYSTEMS APPROACH TO ECO-LIVING HIGHEST GOOD FOOD: @2:55

• Created an action plan and images for our Transition Kitchen page (see below)

WHOLE SYSTEMS APPROACH TO ECO-LIVING HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING: @3:20

• Continued with layers of revisions for the upcoming 7 villages online book (see below)
• Shilcy Augustine continued her 4th week of helping us update and merge all our Earthbag Village files (see below)
• Fernando Remolina continued with his 3rd week of managing the Vermiculture Bathroom development (see below)
• Dean Scholz further developed what’s necessary for us to create quality Cob Village (Pod 3) renders (see below)
• Hamilton Mateca finished his 14th week helping evolve the Compressed Earth Block Village (see below)
• Guy Grossfeld continued with 3D earth block outdoor furniture construction for the Compressed Earth Block Village (see below)
• Aparna Tandon continued her work on the Compressed Earth Block Village external elements (see below)
• Yee-Cheng Ho finished her 6th week of helping with the Shipping Container Village renders for the living units (see below)
• Jiming Chen continued helping develop the Tree House Village (see below)
• Zachary Melin continued updating the Tree House Village book created by last year’s intern Team (see below)

WHOLE-SYSTEMS APPROACH TO ECO-LIVING DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER: @6:58

• Continued render creation for the Duplicable City Center (see below)
• Iris Hsu continued her work on the recycled pipe shelving for the Duplicable City Center library (see below)
• Haoxuan “Hayes” Lei and Shuna Ni continued their work on the City Center column placement and calculations (see below)
• Neha Verma helped create our 3rd-generation wall-section detail drawings (see below)
• Jinxi Feng continued her research helping us create an in-depth laundry and dryer machine sustainability analysis (see below)

WHOLE-SYSTEMS APPROACH TO ECO-LIVING HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY: @8:51

• Ashwin Patil completed his 4th week of helping with the new site-design details (see below)

WHOLE-SYSTEMS APPROACH TO ECO-LIVING SUMMARY: @9:10

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

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WHOLE-SYSTEMS APPROACH TO ECO-LIVING HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

One Community is  creating a whole-systems approach to eco-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:

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

This last week the core team transferred the third 25% of the written content for the Individuality Lesson Plan to the website, as you see here. This lesson plan purposed to teach all subjects, to all learning levels, in any learning environment, using the central theme of “Individuality” is now 75% completed on our website.

Whole-Systems Approach to Eco-Living – Transferred 3rd 25% of Individuality Lesson Plan to Site

Behind the scenes, we wrote the final 25% of the written part of the Individuality Lesson Plan.

We also completed the second 25% of the mindmap for the Personal Growth Lesson Plan, bringing it to 50% complete, which you see here.

Whole-Systems Approach to Eco-Living – Personal Growth Mindmap – 50% Complete

WHOLE-SYSTEMS APPROACH TO ECO-LIVING HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

One Community is creating a whole-systems approach to eco-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 last week the core team created an action plan and images for our Transition Kitchen page. You can see images of that work here:

Whole-Systems Approach to Eco-Living – Created an Action Plan for our Transition Kitchen Page

Whole-Systems Approach to Eco-Living – Created Images for our Transition Kitchen Page

WHOLE-SYSTEMS APPROACH TO ECO-LIVING HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

One Community is creating a whole-systems approach to eco-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 last week the core team continued with layers of revisions for the upcoming 7 villages online book. This week’s focus was refining these two Straw Bale Village (Pod 2) layouts…

Whole-Systems Approach to Eco-Living – Continued Revisions of Upcoming 7 Villages Online Book

…and then updating the book and website after final revisions and additions to these renders of the open chimney, kitchen, bathroom exterior, gym, outdoor patio area, bbq area and outdoor fire pit:

Whole-Systems Approach to Eco-Living – Straw Bale Village | Concept Render – Open Chimney

Whole-Systems Approach to Eco-Living – Straw Bale Village | Concept Render – Kitchen

Whole-Systems Approach to Eco-Living – Straw Bale Village | Concept Render – Bathroom Exterior

Whole-Systems Approach to Eco-Living – Straw Bale Village | Concept Render – Gym

Whole-Systems Approach to Eco-Living – Straw Bale Village | Concept Render – Outdoor Patio Area

Whole-Systems Approach to Eco-Living – Straw Bale Village | Concept Render – BBQ Area

Whole-Systems Approach to Eco-Living – Straw Bale Village | Concept Render – Outdoor Fire Pit

Continued Updating and Merging Our Earthbag Village Files – Click for Page

Fernando Remolina (Industrial Engineer specializing in Project Management) continued with his 3rd week of managing the Vermiculture Bathroom development. This week’s focus was finalizing this Work Breakdown Structure for the complete project:

Continued Managing the Vermiculture Bathroom Development – Click to Enlarge

Dean Scholz (Architectural Designer), further developed what’s necessary for us to create quality Cob Village (Pod 3) renders. Here is update 41 of his work continuing to work on external details and providing this final render of the Center View Looking Northeast:

Final Render of Center View Looking Northeast – Click to Visit Cob Village

…and these test renders leading up to that final render and including a new central perspective:

Test Renders Leading up to the Final Render – Click to Visit Cob Village

Hamilton Mateca (AutoCAD and Revit Drafter and Designer) also finished his 14th week helping evolve the Compressed Earth Block Village (Pod 4). This week’s focus was more updates to the living-space layouts, designing and improving the appearance of the stairways in Revit 3D, and adding more details to the residences.

Continued Evolving the Compressed Earth Block Village – Click to Visit Page

Guy Grossfeld (Graphic Designer) also continued with 3D earth block outdoor furniture construction for the Compressed Earth Block Village (Pod 4). What you see here is his 9th week of this work that is now focusing on texture selection.

Continued with 3D Earth Block Outdoor Furniture Construction – Click to Visit the Page

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

Yee-Cheng Ho (Interior Designer) also finished her 6th week of helping with the Shipping Container Village (Pod 5) renders for the living units. These final renders show how we’ll open source how to convert the unit design from the complete village into two 2-bedroom designs for do-it-yourself home construction by individuals and families.

Shipping Container Village Concept Render – Units 3 and 4 – Click for Page

Shipping Container Village Concept Render – Units 3 and 4 Conversion – Click to Enlarge

Shipping Container Village Concept Render – Unit 3 Conversion – Click to Visit Page

Shipping Container Village Concept Render – Unit 4 Conversion – Click to Visit Page

Jiming Chen (Designer with his Master’s in Architecture and BA in Engineering) also continued helping develop the Tree House Village (Pod 7). What you see here is his 4th week of this work focusing on the new design for the stand-alone bathroom and shower structure. This week’s updates included adding seating details, switching the the showers to the 3rd floor, adding an ADA bathroom there, and adding in the elevator.

Continued Developing the Tree House Village – Click to Visit Page

Zachary Melin (Graphic Designer) also continued updating the Tree House Village (Pod 7) book created by last year’s intern Team. What you see here is week 12 of this work that continued updating all the page colors to match the new color palette:

Continued Updating the Tree House Village Book – Click to Visit Page

WHOLE-SYSTEMS APPROACH TO ECO-LIVING DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

One Community is creating a whole-systems approach to eco-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 render creation for the Duplicable City Center. This included creating this final render of the root cellar storage area:

Created Final Render of the Root Cellar Storage Area – Click to Visit Page

We also created this final render of the sunrise roof-top patio, and these two work-in-progress renders of the central pool area:

Continued Render Creation for the Duplicable City Center – Click to Visit Page

Iris Hsu, (Industrial Designer), also continued her work on the recycled pipe shelving for the Duplicable City Center library. What you see here is round #23 of her work where she added people to the render here:

Continued Work on the Recycled Pipe Shelving – Click to Visit Page

….and started creating what is needed for the assembly instructions, as seen here:

Started Creating What is Needed for Assembly Instructions – Click for Pipe Furniture Page

Haoxuan “Hayes” Lei (Structural Engineer) and Shuna Ni (Masters of Mechanical Engineering and Civil Engineering PhD) also continued their work on the City Center column placement and calculations. This week’s work focused on researching the specifics for the radiant floor heating and surfacing.

Continued Work on the City Center Column Placement and Calculations – Click to Visit Page

Neha Verma (Construction Project Manager and Bachelor’s of Architecture), also helped create our 3rd-generation wall-section detail drawings. You can see the outline here showing what code considers roof versus wall for a dome, and the specifics of where we are so far in the wall design details.

Created 3rd-Generation Wall-Section Detail Drawings – Click to Visit City Center

Jinxi Feng (Environmental Consultant) also continued her research helping us create an in-depth laundry and dryer machine sustainability analysis. What you see here is her 8th week of behind-the-scenes research into this area, this week’s focus was creating the outline for the complete report and continuing with model calculations.

Continued Research for in-Depth Laundry and Dryer Machine Sustainability Analysis – Click to Visit Page

WHOLE-SYSTEMS APPROACH TO ECO-LIVING HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS

One Community is creating a whole-systems approach to eco-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, Ashwin Patil (Web Developer) completed his 4th week of helping with the new site-design details. This week’s focus was migrating the new search tool to our active site, testing it and getting it working, and then adding more Highest Good food links and icons as seen here:

Continued Helping with the New Web Design – Click to Visit Home Page

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WHAT ONE COMMUNITY IS CREATING

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

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

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

WHOLE-SYSTEMS APPROACH TO ECO-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.

One Community welcomes Jinxi Feng to the Design Team as our newest Volunteer/Consultant!

Environmental Consultant – Jinxi has a Masters of Environmental Management from Duke University and a B.S in Physics from Peking University, China. Her passion for renewable energy and sustainability development dates back to a trip to Tibet where she was shocked by the contrast of nature and an industrialized city, setting her on a career path of engineering the world towards its sustainable future. Jinxi specializes in energy modeling and quantitative analysis (Stata, R) and enjoys applying these skills to various renewable energy projects. As a member of the One Community team, Jinxi is leading the research into an open source tutorial for choosing the most sustainable laundry options and helping to develop her work and research as a template for similar detailed tutorials for all aspects of sustainable lifestyles.

WELCOME TO THE TEAM JINXI!

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One Community welcomes Ashwini Ramesh to the Management Team as our newest Volunteer/Consultant!

Civil Engineer and Project Manager: A Civil Engineer by Profession, Ashwini has her BE in Civil Engineering, Master’s Degree in Water Resources Engineering, Post Graduate Diploma in Business Administration, and Higher Diploma in Software Engineering from India. She is also pursuing certification in Construction Project Management from San Diego University. In addition to her extensive education, Ashwini also has over 5 years professional experience in construction planning, scheduling, and monitoring of diverse projects. This has included experience in costing, estimation, project management, ISO quality management implementation and more. An articulate communicator and facilitator, Ashwini takes pride in her ability to assure the smooth progress of any project she engages. She is also a Mom (of her first child born in 2014) and passionate about making our shared Earth a better and more sustainable place to live by reducing the impacts we humans are having here. Keeping with this philosophy and applying her outstanding knowledge and experience as a member of the One Community Team, Ashwini is helping as the overall Project Management of the Earthbag Village (Pod 1).

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