Sustainable economics combine all the open source and sustainable components of One Community. We do this as the foundation for reducing or eliminating the most burdensome expenses in people’s lives. We add to that social architecture, fulfilled living, and global stewardship practices to provide a way of living that we feel most people will consider to be better than how they 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 January 27th, 2019 edition (#305) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments:

Sustainable Economics
One Community Progress Update #305

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

SUSTAINABLE ECONOMICS: INTRO: @0:34

SUSTAINABLE ECONOMICS: HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING: @6:04

• Continued design updates to the open source Murphy bed furniture assembly details (see below)
• Created an action list of everything needed to be ready for the crowdfunding campaign and complete village construction (see below)
• Anvita Kumari Pandey completed her 30th week volunteering and now helping with the Earthbag Village Materials and Costs (see below)
• Shadi Kennedy completed his 37th week leading the development of the Murphy bed instructions (see below)
• Dan Alleck finished revisions and additions to the complete Earthbag Village looking South see below)
• Dean Scholz worked on Earthbag Village furniture elements in kitchen and bathroom dome (see below)

SUSTAINABLE ECONOMICS: DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER: @7:53

SUSTAINABLE ECONOMICS: HIGHEST GOOD FOOD: @10:17

• Continued writing the behind-the-scenes narrative and detailed food rollout plan for the various stages of development (see below)
• Guy Grossfeld completed his 4th week working on creating an open source icon and symbol set for our permaculture designs (see below)

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

SUSTAINABLE ECONOMICS: HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY: @12:06

• Wrote all the sets of ads for all the AdWords campaigns we’ve been researching all the keywords for (see below)
• Emilio Nájera added additional keywords for Lesson Plans for Life and Resource Based Economy pages and keyword research for Open Source, Thermal Lag, Open Source AutoCAD Template, and Highest Good Food pages (see below)
• Highest Good Network software team consisting of Jordan Miller and Tyler Calvert continued developing the software (see below)

SUSTAINABLE ECONOMICS: SUMMARY: @13:27

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SUSTAINABLE ECONOMICS: HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

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

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

This week the core team continued design updates to the open source Murphy bed furniture assembly details. This week we updated the design to test a 9-foot ceiling. You can see some of this work here.

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

The core team also created this action list of everything needed to be ready for the crowdfunding campaign and complete village construction. You can see this action item list here.

Created Action List for Crowdfunding Campaign and Complete Village Construction – Click for Page

Anvita Kumari Pandey (Civil Engineer) also completed her 30th week volunteering and now helping with the Earthbag Village Materials and Costs. This week she continued updating the materials’ quantities, costs, and reference links, and further refined her AutoCAD drawing of 1 dome to better calculate the earthbag and cement quantities.

Continued Helping w/Earthbag Village Materials And Costs – Click for Page

Shadi Kennedy (Artist and Graphic Designer) also completed his 37th week leading the development of the Murphy bed instructions. This week’s focus was continuing to create diagrams illustrating the wall section assembly, making changes to the under-loft lighting box, and further simplifying the pieces and identifying more areas needing to be tested in Sketchup 3D. You can see some of this work-in-progress here.

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

Dan Alleck (Designer and Illustrator) completed his 34th week helping with Earthbag Village render additions. This week he completed revisions and additions to this view of the complete village looking South. This is on the website now too.

Completed Revisions and Additions to View of the Complete Village Looking South – Click for Page

Dean Scholz (Architectural Designer) continued working on the Earthbag Village (Pod 1). Here is weekly update #146 from Dean. This week’s focus, as shown in these images, was working on the furniture elements in the kitchen and bathroom dome.

Worked on Furniture Elements in Kitchen and Bathroom Dome – Click for Earthbag Village

SUSTAINABLE ECONOMICS: DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

One Community is supporting sustainable economics 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 building the new page sharing the best, safest, and most sustainable paints, stains, varnishes, and sealants. We created the social media image and finished all the parts related to the best paints. You can see some of this work here.

Continued Building the New Page Sharing the Best, Safest, and Most Sustainable Paints ” Click to Visit

The core team also updated the Duplicable City Center Sprinkler and Emergency Systems designs page and tutorial by replacing all the graphics referencing 3.5″ pipes and their calculations with graphics showing the much more readily available 4″ pipes and fittings. You can see some of this work here.

Updated Duplicable City Center Sprinkler and Emergency Systems Designs Page and Tutorial

And the core team continued with week 3 of our research into lake and water retention landscape creation as an alternative source of water for the Duplicable City Center Sprinkler and Emergency Systems Designs, agriculture, greywater processing, and more. This week we reviewed video and took notes on what Zachary Weiss had to say on the topic, you can see some of these notes here.

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

Dipti Dhondarkar (Electrical Engineer) also continued developing the lighting specifics for the City Center. This is Dipti’s 110th week volunteering on this task and the focus this week was integrating several rounds of requested changes to the AutoCAD layouts. You can see some of this work here.

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

Tanya Griffin, Aubryanne Boyle, and Allie Marsh (Interior Designers from Lotus Designs) also completed their 5th week helping with the Duplicable City Center interior design details. This week they made adjustments to the layout to improve circulation, added more furniture and fixtures, made adjustments to the seating and storage, and created the first round of renders. You can see some of this work here.

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

David Olivero (Mechanical Engineer & Data Scientist) continued helping finish the City Center HVAC Designs. This week he focused on AutoCAD updates, finding installation manuals, and helping with some of the cost analysis details, some of which you can see here.

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

And James Herrigel (Student Researcher) also completed his 8th week researching the best, safest, and most sustainable paints. This week’s focus was continuing the process of integrating the LEED points details related to paints, stains, and varnishes. You can see some of this behind-the-scenes work here.

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

SUSTAINABLE ECONOMICS: HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

One Community is supporting sustainable economics through a 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

Continued with BTS Narrative & Detailed Food Rollout Plan for Various Stages of Development

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

SUSTAINABLE ECONOMICS: HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

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

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

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

Highest Good Education: All Subjects | All Learning Levels | Any Age – Click image to Visit

SUSTAINABLE ECONOMICS: HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS

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

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

This week the core team wrote all the sets of ads for all the AdWords campaigns we’ve been researching all the keywords for. You can see some of this work here.

Wrote Sets of Ads for All the Adwords Campaigns – Click for Helping Page

Emilio Nájera (Digital Marketer) also continued with his 16th week as part of the marketing team. This week he added additional keywords for the Lesson Plans for Life and Resource Based Economy pages and then did keyword research for the Open Source, Thermal Lag, Open Source AutoCAD Template, and Highest Good Food pages. You can see some of this work here.

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

In addition to this, the Highest Good Network software team consisting of Jordan Miller (Web Developer) and Tyler Calvert (Full-stack Software Engineer) continued developing the software. This week the team continued the transition to Redux and started exploring future development features, changed reducers to return empty objects/arrays instead of null, added the leaderboard to the timelog page, and started working on giving Admins the ability to change timelogs for anyone. You can see some of this work here.

Continued Developing the Highest Good Network Software ” Click to Visit

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WHAT ONE COMMUNITY IS CREATING

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

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

Throughout our design process, we are open sourcing and free-sharing everything needed for construction and replication. This includes what we call “Highest Good” approaches to food, energy, housing, education, for-profit and non-profit economics design, social architecture, fulfilled living, stewardship practices, and more, all with a focus on sustainable economics. 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.

SUSTAINABLE ECONOMICS: BUILDING THE FIRST OF MANY

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

WHY ONE COMMUNITY IS CREATING THIS

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

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

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, integrating elements of sustainable economics.

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.), integrating elements of sustainable economics. 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, fostering principles of sustainable economics. By free-sharing the step-by-step plans people need for duplication, inviting people to participate, and demonstrating sustainable teacher/demonstration hubs as a more desirable way of living, the model will predictably expand on its own.

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

COMPREHENSIVE SOLUTION TO HUMANITY’S NEEDS

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

GLOBALLY IMPLEMENTABLE REPLICATION MODEL

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

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

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

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

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 within the framework of sustainable economics.

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

Open source community ecology combines sustainable and open source approaches to food, energy, housing, education, for-profit and non-profit economic design, social architecture, fulfilled living, global stewardship practices, and more. By living and creating this way, we can improve our own lives and the lives of others while also helping to regenerate our planet.

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

OUR MAIN OPEN SOURCE HUBS

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

One Community’s physical location will forward this movement as the first of many self-replicating teacher/demonstration communities, villages, and cities to be built around the world. This is the January 20, 2019 edition (#304) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments:

Open Source Community Ecology
One Community Progress Update #304

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

OPEN SOURCE COMMUNITY ECOLOGY: INTRO: @0:34

OPEN SOURCE COMMUNITY ECOLOGY: HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING: @6:46

• Continued design updates to the open source Murphy bed furniture assembly details (see below)
• Continued with one more round of edits and additions to the finished most sustainable toilet options page (see below)
• Shadi Kennedy completed his 36th week leading the development of the Murphy bed instructions (see below)
• Dean Scholz finished the 3D-model updates to Earthbag Village entryway and windows (see below)

OPEN SOURCE COMMUNITY ECOLOGY: DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER: @8:10

OPEN SOURCE COMMUNITY ECOLOGY: HIGHEST GOOD FOOD: @9:38

• Started adding all the Highest Good Food rollout plan details to a staging page (see below)
• Continued writing the behind-the-scenes narrative and detailed food rollout plan for the various stages of development (see below)
• And Guy Grossfeld completed his 3rd week working on creating an open source icon and symbol set for our permaculture designs (see below)

OPEN SOURCE COMMUNITY ECOLOGY: HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION: @10:45

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

OPEN SOURCE COMMUNITY ECOLOGY: HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY: @12:06

• Emilio Nájera added additional keywords for the Highest Good Education pages and then worked on the keywords for the Resource Based Economy, Wind Microgrid, Solar Microgrid, Consensus, and Evolving Sustainability (see below)
• Highest Good Network software team consisting of Jordan Miller and Tyler Calvert continued developing the software (see below)

OPEN SOURCE COMMUNITY ECOLOGY: SUMMARY: @13:18

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

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ONE COMMUNITY WEEKLY UPDATE DETAILS

OPEN SOURCE COMMUNITY ECOLOGY: HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

One Community is expanding open source community ecology through Highest Good housing that is artistic and beautiful, more affordable, more space efficient, lasts longer, DIY buildable, and constructed with healthy and sustainable materials:

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

This week the core team continued design updates to the open source Murphy bed furniture assembly details. This week we continued checking measurements, created two different layouts for the loft joists, and worked on further improving the assembly step order.

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

And the core team did one more round of edits and additions to the finished most sustainable toilet options page. This included adding more details about the brands we didn’t select, adding new icons, and adding more resources.

Made Edits and Additions to the Finished Most Sustainable Toilet Options Page – Click to Visit

Shadi Kennedy (Artist and Graphic Designer) also completed his 36th week leading the development of the Murphy bed instructions. This week’s focus was creating new parts files from the updated 3D parts list, double checked all measurements and labeled all areas where improvement could be possible, outlined the new plan for descriptive and illustrative renders, and created new instructional diagrams for the frame section based on the newly revised assembly method. You can see some of this work-in-progress here.

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

Dean Scholz (Architectural Designer) continued working on the Earthbag Village (Pod 1). Here is weekly update #145 from Dean. This week’s focus, as shown in these images, was finishing the 3D-model updates to the entryway and windows.

Continued Updating the Earthbag Village Designs ” Click for Page

OPEN SOURCE COMMUNITY ECOLOGY: DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

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

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

This week, the core team started building the new page sharing the best, safest, and most sustainable paints. We created the initial page setup, header and social media images, and wrote the Why, Summary, and FAQ sections. You can see some of this work here.

Started Building the New Page Sharing the Best, Safest, and Most Sustainable Paints – Click to Visit

Dehua Feng (Civil Engineer) further updated the Duplicable City Center Sprinkler and Emergency Systems designs. This week he eliminated all 3.5″ pipes and replaced them with more readily available 4″ pipes and fittings in AutoCAD and redid all the related calculations. You can see some of this work here.

Further Updated the Duplicable City Center Sprinkler and Emergency Systems Designs – Click to Visit

Tanya Griffin, Aubryanne Boyle, and Allie Marsh (Interior Designers from Lotus Designs) also completed their 4th week helping with the Duplicable City Center interior design details. This week they explored options for pendent and track lights, additional corner seating, and staggered seating with storage and work spaces along the back wall. You can see some of this work here.

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

And James Herrigel (Student Researcher) also completed his 7th week researching the best, safest, and most sustainable paints. This week’s focus was beginning the process of integrating in the LEED points details related to paints. You can see some of this behind-the-scenes work here.

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

OPEN SOURCE COMMUNITY ECOLOGY: HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

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

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

This week, the core team started adding all the Highest Good Food rollout plan details to a staging page. This week we rebuilt the menus and updated all the formatting, rewrote the What and Why sections, and added the completed details for the initial 3-person survey team. You can see some of this behind-the-scenes work here.

Started Adding All the Highest Good Food Rollout Plan Details to a Staging Page – Click to Visit

The core team also continued writing the behind-the-scenes narrative and detailed food rollout plan for the various stages of development. This week we wrote the initial rollout details covering food infrastructure for the first 20-50 people on the property, a newly added component “maintenance building,” and completed the fuel storage summary. You can see some of this behind-the-scenes work here.

Continued with BTS Narrative & Detailed Food Rollout Plan for Various Stages of Development

And Guy Grossfeld (Graphic Designer) completed his 3rd week working on creating an open source icon and symbol set for our permaculture designs. What you see here are the icons created so far.

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

OPEN SOURCE COMMUNITY ECOLOGY: HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

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

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

This week the core team continued working on the structural aspects of the Ultimate Classroom. We changed the height of the wall from 4 feet to 5 feet and updated the window wall with a window header and cripple studs. We also added sill plates and designed the foundation and the framing for the glass door.

Continued on the Structural Aspects of the Ultimate Classroom ” Click for Page

OPEN SOURCE COMMUNITY ECOLOGY: HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS

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

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

This week Emilio Nájera (Digital Marketer) continued with his 14th week as part of the marketing team. This week he added additional keywords for the Highest Good Education pages and then worked on the keywords for the Resource Based Economy, Wind Microgrid, Solar Microgrid, Consensus, and Evolving Sustainability pages. You can see some of this work here. 

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

In addition to this, the Highest Good Network software team consisting of Jordan Miller (Web Developer) and Tyler Calvert (Full-stack Software Engineer) continued developing the software. This week the team continued to work on the Redux transition, researched Mailgun to replace Gmail for the application emails, revamped our test for onboarding new test engineers, removed all the remaining bootstrap imports, debugged a 400 error, and merged our updated README into the current branch. You can see some of this work here.

Continued Developing the Highest Good Network Software ” Click to Visit

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WHAT ONE COMMUNITY IS CREATING

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

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

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, promoting open source community ecology.

OPEN SOURCE COMMUNITY ECOLOGY: 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, emphasizing open source community ecology.

WHY ONE COMMUNITY IS CREATING THIS

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

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

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, emphasizing open source community ecology.

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.), emphasizing open source community ecology. We see these areas as interdependent and requiring a comprehensive solution if humanity is to move ecologically, socially, economically, and permanently towards a truly sustainable future for everyone.

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

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

COMPREHENSIVE SOLUTION TO HUMANITY’S NEEDS

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

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

GLOBALLY IMPLEMENTABLE REPLICATION MODEL

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

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

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

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

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.

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

Every one of us is a contributor to our local communities and the global environment. Human ecosystem construction takes a proactive and regenerative approach to this contribution. Through permaculture and holistic sustainability practices, we can live better lives while also being part of the global solution.

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

OUR MAIN OPEN SOURCE HUBS

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

One Community’s physical location will forward this movement as the first of many self-replicating teacher/demonstration communities, villages, and cities to be built around the world. This is the January 13, 2019 edition (#303) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments:

Human Ecosystem Construction
One Community Progress Update #303

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

HUMAN ECOSYSTEM CONSTRUCTION: INTRO: @0:34

HUMAN ECOSYSTEM CONSTRUCTION: HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING: @6:45

HUMAN ECOSYSTEM CONSTRUCTION: DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER: @7:53

HUMAN ECOSYSTEM CONSTRUCTION: HIGHEST GOOD FOOD: @9:15

• Finished work on the open source Apiary page (see below)
• Worked on a complete update of the open source goats page (see below)
• Guy Grossfeld completed his 2nd week working on creating an open source icon and symbol set for our permaculture designs (see below)

HUMAN ECOSYSTEM CONSTRUCTION: HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION: @10:10

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

HUMAN ECOSYSTEM CONSTRUCTION: HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY: @11:30

• Emilio Nájera added additional keywords for each of the Highest Good Housing models and also started all of the research for two of the Highest Good Education pages (see below)
• Highest Good Network software team consisting of Shubhra Mittal, Jordan Miller, and Tyler Calvert continued developing the software (see below)

HUMAN ECOSYSTEM CONSTRUCTION: SUMMARY: @12:54

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HUMAN ECOSYSTEM CONSTRUCTION: HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

One Community is assisting human ecosystem construction 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 fixed our Highest Good Housing online book functionality and created a short code for more easily updating the related code in the future.

Fixed Our Highest Good Housing Online Book Functionality – Click to Visit

The core team also finished updating the complete Vermiculture Bathroom page. This week we added all the design-version 2 graphics and details. You can see some of this work here.

Finished Updating the Complete Vermiculture Bathroom Page ” Click to Visit

Michael Hagler (Senior Graphic Designer and Artist) created the 6 icons shown here. These include the icon for the new most sustainable toilet options page and icons for all the other upcoming sustainable infrastructure pages.

Created 6 Icons Including the Icon for the New Most Sustainable Toilet Options Page – Click to Visit

Shadi Kennedy (Artist and Graphic Designer) also completed his 35th week leading the development of the Murphy bed instructions. This week’s focus was updating the parts lists, graphics, and layouts to reflect new design changes and brainstorming a new design for the top part of the bed that will house the lights and related wiring. You can see some of this work-in-progress here.

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

Dean Scholz (Architectural Designer) continued working on the Earthbag Village (Pod 1). Here is weekly update #145 from Dean. This week’s focus, as shown in these images, was continued 3D-model updates to the entryway and windows.

Continued Updating the Earthbag Village Designs ” Click for Page

HUMAN ECOSYSTEM CONSTRUCTION: DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

One Community is assisting human ecosystem construction 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 finished our final review of the City Center lighting spreadsheet, light placement, symbols, and layers in AutoCAD, and correlating website details. Next is integration of the changes still needed and we’d say we are about 90% complete with these designs.

Finished Our Final Review of the City Center Lighting ” Click to Visit

Anvita Kumari Pandey (Civil Engineer) also continued updating the Duplicable City Center Costs with additional details for the City Center HVAC Designs. She improved categorization of all items and added more images and reference URLs. She also researched HVAC parts lists and specs sheets.

Continued Updating the Duplicable City Center Costs – Click to Visit

David Olivero (Mechanical Engineer & Data Scientist) continued helping finish the City Center HVAC Designs. This week he wrote more content for the tutorial, some of which you can see here.

Continued Helping Finish the City Center HVAC Designs – Click to Visit

And James Herrigel (Student Researcher) also completed his 6th week researching the best, safest, and most sustainable paints. This week he finished draft 1 of the tutorial for purchasing responsible paints. You can see some of this behind-the-scenes work here.

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

HUMAN ECOSYSTEM CONSTRUCTION: HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

One Community is assisting human ecosystem construction 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 finished work on the open source Apiary page. This included adding more resources and completing the section with instructions for building your own hive. You can see some of this work here.

Finished the Open Source Apiary Page – Click to Visit

The core team also did a complete update of the open source goats page. This included adding all our latest research, new graphics, and new resources. You can see some of this here.

Did a Complete Update of the Open Source Goats Page – Click to Visit

And Guy Grossfeld (Graphic Designer) completed his 2nd week working on creating an open source icon and symbol set for our permaculture designs. This week he created the 19 icons shown here.

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

HUMAN ECOSYSTEM CONSTRUCTION: HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

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

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

This week the core team worked on the structural aspects of the Ultimate Classroom. We cleaned up all the content that needed to be removed so we can focus on the structural design and then updated the outside walls to use 2x6s for the frame and added all the planned 2’x3′ windows.

Worked on the Structural Aspects of the Ultimate Classroom – Click for Page

HUMAN ECOSYSTEM CONSTRUCTION: HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS

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

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

This week Emilio Nájera (Digital Marketer) continued with his 13th week as part of the marketing team. This week he added additional keywords for each of the Highest Good Housing models and also started all of the research for two of the Highest Good Education pages. You can see some of this work here.

Continued Researching Keywords for Housing and Education Pages ” Click to Visit our Site Map

In addition to this, the Highest Good Network software team consisting of Shubhra Mittal (Software Delivery Manager), Jordan Miller (Web Developer), and Tyler Calvert (Full-stack Software Engineer) continued developing the software. This week the team updated our workweek definition from Monday to Sunday to Sunday to Saturday, updated all our Readme content for new developers, fixed a Redux error, added Post/Put actions and reducers, updated routes, fixed a security vulnerability and improved team access and monitoring to address these in the future, reset the GitHub flow, and continued working on rewriting our leaderboard to use Redux. You can see some of this work here.

Continued Developing the Highest Good Network Software ” Click to Visit

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WHAT ONE COMMUNITY IS CREATING

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

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

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 through human ecosystem construction.

HUMAN ECOSYSTEM CONSTRUCTION: 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 through human ecosystem construction.

WHY ONE COMMUNITY IS CREATING THIS

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

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

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

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, emphasizing the importance of human ecosystem construction.

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

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

COMPREHENSIVE SOLUTION TO HUMANITY’S NEEDS

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

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

GLOBALLY IMPLEMENTABLE REPLICATION MODEL

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

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

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

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

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

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

One Community welcomes Jordan Miller to the Software Development Team as our newest Volunteer/Consultant!

Jordan Miller is a web developer from Raleigh, North Carolina. Graduating from the University of North Carolina Coding Bootcamp, he hopes his contribution through programming can help future generations follow sustainable lifestyle. He and his family do their utmost to follow a zero-waste lifestyle, eliminating as many waste producing activities from their home as possible. As a member of the One Community team, Jordan is helping develop the open source Highest Good Network software.

WELCOME TO THE TEAM JORDAN!

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One Community welcomes Elizabeth Kahn to the Research Team as our newest Volunteer/Consultant!

Elizabeth has a Bachelor of Arts in Sustainable Community Development and minors in Business Management and Environmental Studies. She also has a Masters of Environmental Law and Policy (M.E.L.P.) from Vermont Law School and a Master of Public Policy (M.P.P.) with a minor in Urban & Regional Planning from the University of Minnesota. Her passion for the environment and sustainability led her to pursue all of these degrees and dedicate her career path to pursuing it in the environmental/sustainability/policy sectors. She eagerly shares her love for nature and the planet by applying her analytical and analysis skills as a member of the One Community team doing research for open source tutorials covering water-saving toilets and other sustainable infrastructure components.

WELCOME TO THE TEAM ELIZABETH!

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One Community is open sourcing and free-sharing permaculture community building with DIY-replicable designs covering all aspects of sustainable living. This includes food, energy, housing, education, for-profit and non-profit economic design, social architecture, fulfilled living, global stewardship practices, and more. We call this living and creating for The Highest Good of All.

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

OUR MAIN OPEN SOURCE HUBS

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

One Community’s physical location will forward this movement as the first of many self-replicating teacher/demonstration communities, villages, and cities to be built around the world. This is the January 6, 2019 edition (#302) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments:

Permaculture Community Building
One Community Progress Update #302

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

PERMACULTURE COMMUNITY BUILDING: INTRO: @0:34

PERMACULTURE COMMUNITY BUILDING: HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING: @6:29

• Continued design updates to the open source Murphy bed furniture assembly details (see below)
• Finished development of the new page sharing our research into the most sustainable toilet options (see below)
• Continued updating the complete Vermiculture Bathroom page (see below)
• Dean Scholz continued working on 3D-model updates the entryway and windows Earthbag Village (see below)

PERMACULTURE COMMUNITY BUILDING: DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER: @7:43

PERMACULTURE COMMUNITY BUILDING: HIGHEST GOOD FOOD: @9:26

• Continued adding more content to the open source Apiary page (see below)
• Continued writing the behind-the-scenes narrative and detailed food rollout plan for the various stages of development (see below)
• Guy Grossfeld began creating an open source icon and symbol set for our permaculture designs (see below)

PERMACULTURE COMMUNITY BUILDING: HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION: @10:46

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

PERMACULTURE COMMUNITY BUILDING: HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY: @11:52

• Emilio Nájera researched keywords for five of our top-level housing-related pages: Cob Village, Compressed Earth Block Village, Shipping Container Village, and Recycled Materials Village (see below)
• Highest Good Network software team consisting of Shubhra Mittal, Jordan Miller, and Tyler Calvert continued developing the software (see below)

PERMACULTURE COMMUNITY BUILDING: SUMMARY: @13:02

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

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PERMACULTURE COMMUNITY BUILDING: HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

One Community is supporting and expanding permaculture 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 design updates to the open source Murphy bed furniture assembly details by double checking our clearances for the entire structure. You can see some of this work here.

Continued Design Updates to Open Source Murphy Bed Furniture Assembly Instructions

The core team also finished development of the new page sharing our research into the most sustainable toilet options. To complete the page we finished the composting toilet section, water-saving accessories section, summary and FAQ sections, and shared it through social media.

Finished Most Sustainable Toilet Options Page ” Click to Visit

And the core team continued updating the complete Vermiculture Bathroom page. This week we finished reviewing and updating all the text and design details for design-version 1. You can see some of this work here.

Continued Updating the Complete Vermiculture Bathroom Page – Click to Visit

Dean Scholz (Architectural Designer) continued working on the Earthbag Village (Pod 1). Here is weekly update #144 from Dean. This week’s focus, as shown in these images, was continued 3D-model updates to the entryway and windows.

Continued Updating the Earthbag Village Designs ” Click for Page

PERMACULTURE COMMUNITY BUILDING: DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

One Community is supporting and expanding permaculture 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 working on the Sketchup Duplicable City Center updates. We updated all the hexagon windows, ceiling, and floor heights in the Dining and Social Domes. We also added complete furniture details to one of the Living Dome rooms, changed door opening directions where needed, updated windows on the Dining Dome second floor, raised the Sunrise Patio deck, redesigned the laundry room door frame details, and updated the Social Dome shell to accommodate the pedestrian door connecting the inside and outside swimming pool areas. You can see some of these details here.

Continued Working on Sketchup Duplicable City Center Updates – Click to Visit

The core team also continued with week 2 of our research into lake and water retention landscape creation as an alternative source of water for the Duplicable City Center Sprinkler and Emergency Systems Designs, agriculture, greywater processing, and more. This week we reviewed video and took notes on Sepp Holzer’s work on the topic.

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

The core team also continued our final review of the City Center lighting spreadsheet, light placement, symbols, and layers in AutoCAD, and correlating website details. You can see some of this work here and we’d say we are about 50% complete.

Continued Our Final Review of the City Center Lighting – Click to Visit

And James Herrigel (Student Researcher) also completed his 5th week researching the best, safest, and most sustainable paints, carpet, and other building materials. This week he finished his research into responsible paints and began the process of writing the detailed tutorial. You can see some of this behind-the-scenes work here.

Continued Researching the Safest and Most Sustainable Paints, Carpet, and Other Building Materials

PERMACULTURE COMMUNITY BUILDING: HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

One Community is supporting and expanding permaculture 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 continued working on the open source Apiary page. We finished the tools and equipment sections and added a section teaching what’s needed for buying bees. You can see some of this work here and we’d say we are now 90% complete with the page.

Continued Adding More Content to the Open Source Apiary Page – Click to Visit

The core team also continued writing the behind-the-scenes narrative and detailed food rollout plan for the various stages of development. This week we added the post hole/auger info, chainsaw tool kit info, and researched the Bio 400 shredder/chipper. In addition we added examples of necessary activities for the 50-100 person third team, and food for 400+ on the food Google Doc. You can see some of this behind-the-scenes work here.

Continued with Behind-the-Scenes Narrative and Food Rollout Plan ” Click for Page

And the core team working with Guy Grossfeld (Graphic Designer) completed our 1st week working on creating an open source icon and symbol set for our permaculture designs. This week we created the initial design template, researched textures, and Guy created the first icon samples. You can see some of this work here.

Began Creating an Open Source Icon and Symbol Set for Our Permaculture Designs – Click to Visit

PERMACULTURE COMMUNITY BUILDING: HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

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

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

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

Highest Good Education: All Subjects | All Learning Levels | Any Age – Click image to Visit

PERMACULTURE COMMUNITY BUILDING: HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS

One Community is supporting and expanding permaculture 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 Emilio Nájera (Digital Marketer) continued with his 12th week as part of the marketing team. This week he researched keywords for five of our top-level housing-related pages: Cob Village, Compressed Earth Block Village, Shipping Container Village, and Recycled Materials Village.

Researched Keywords for Five More of our Top-level Housing-related Pages ” Click to Visit Site Map

In addition to this, the Highest Good Network software team consisting of Shubhra Mittal (Software Delivery Manager), Jordan Miller (Web Developer), and Tyler Calvert (Full-stack Software Engineer) continued developing the software. This week the team debugged the unit tests for header and leaderboard components, wrote test for new front-end developers, started working on transitioning non-redux components to use Redux, and updated our documentation so it will be easier to read for new developers. You can see some of this work here.

Continued Developing the Highest Good Network Software – Click to Visit

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

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INVESTOR PAGES

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 through permaculture community building.

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

PERMACULTURE 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 through permaculture community building.

WHY ONE COMMUNITY IS CREATING THIS

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

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

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, focusing on permaculture community building.

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, emphasizing permaculture community building.

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

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

COMPREHENSIVE SOLUTION TO HUMANITY’S NEEDS

One Community is open source sharing an evolution of sustainable living that addresses the complete human experience, with a focus on permaculture 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 permaculture 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, including permaculture 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, prioritizing permaculture community building. This is also part of this model to help the world. Its purpose is to facilitate more engagement in the sustainability industry, produce the absolute best possible consumer value, and the most convenient delivery of goods and methodologies for building sustainable living communities and sustainable living components.

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

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

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

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

Regenerative community living can offer a way of life that most will consider far better than how they are living now. One Community is an all-volunteer nonprofit supporting DIY replicable models for this with open source and sustainable tutorials covering food, energy, housing, education, for-profit and non-profit economic design, social architecture, fulfilled living, global stewardship practices, and more.

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

OUR MAIN OPEN SOURCE HUBS

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

One Community’s physical location will forward this movement as the first of many self-replicating teacher/demonstration communities, villages, and cities to be built around the world. This is the December 30, 2018 edition (#301) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments:

Regenerative Community Living
One Community Progress Update #301

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

REGENERATIVE COMMUNITY LIVING:  INTRO: @0:34

REGENERATIVE COMMUNITY LIVING: HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING: @6:56

• Continued design updates to the open source Murphy bed furniture assembly instructions (see below)
• Continued development of the new page sharing our research into the most sustainable toilet options (see below)
• Anvita Kumari Pandey completed her 29th week volunteering and now helping with the Earthbag Village Materials and Costs (see below)
• Guy Grossfeld continued helping with render corrections and PhotoShop additions for the Earthbag Village (see below)
• Dan Alleck completed his 33rd week helping with render additions with a focus on the pond and human elements (see below)
• Dean Scholz (Architectural Designer) continued working on the Earthbag Village (Pod 1). Here is weekly update #143 from Dean. This week’s focus, as shown in these images, was 3D-model updates to create a correct entryway.
• Elizabeth Kahn completed her 4th week researching and writing the content for the most sustainable toilet options (see below)

REGENERATIVE COMMUNITY LIVING: DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER: @9:01

REGENERATIVE COMMUNITY LIVING: HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION: @11:50

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

REGENERATIVE COMMUNITY LIVING: HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY: @12:56

• Finished the process of fixing our database structure and testing our corrections (see below)
• Emilio Nájera researched keywords for five more of our top-level food and housing-related pages: Aquaculture, Wildlife Stewardship, Aquapini/Walipinis, Tropical Atrium, and Earthbag Village (see below)
• Jin Hua helped create two more keyword tutorials, reviewed Emilio’s work, and reactivated all our Adwords campaigns now that our database is functioning again (see below)

REGENERATIVE COMMUNITY LIVING: SUMMARY: @14:00

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REGENERATIVE COMMUNITY LIVING: HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

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

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

This week the core team continued design updates to the open source Murphy bed furniture assembly instructions. We finished building the updated Murphy bed wall, fixed parts needing adjustment, listed all the new dimensions, and labeled all the parts. You can see some of this work-in-progress here.

Continued Design Updates to Open Source Murphy Bed Furniture Assembly Instructions

The core team also continued development of the new page sharing our research into the most sustainable toilet options. This week we finished the regular water-saver toilets sections and started on the composting toilet sections.

Continued Working Most Sustainable Toilet Options Page ” Click to Visit

Anvita Kumari Pandey (Civil Engineer) also completed her 29th week volunteering and now helping with the Earthbag Village Materials and Costs. This week she continued to update the spreadsheet quantities, materials, and resource links and made a new AutoCAD drawing of 1 dome to better calculate the earthbag and cement quantities.

Continued Working on the Earthbag Village Cost Analysis ” Click for Page

Guy Grossfeld (Graphic Designer) continued his work helping with render corrections and PhotoShop additions for the Earthbag Village (Pod 1) completing this final 2nd-generation view of the Complete Village looking West.

Completed Final 2nd-generation View of the Complete Earthbag Village Looking West – Click to Visit

Dan Alleck (Designer and Illustrator) completed his 33rd week helping with Earthbag Village render additions with a focus on the pond and human elements in this image.

Continued Helping With Earthbag Village Render Additions – Click to Visit

Dean Scholz (Architectural Designer) continued working on the Earthbag Village (Pod 1). Here is weekly update #143 from Dean. This week’s focus, as shown in these images, was 3D-model updates to create a correct entryway.

Continued Updating the Earthbag Village Designs ” Click for Page

And Elizabeth Kahn (Environmental Consultant) completed her 4th week researching and writing the content for the most sustainable toilet options. This week she returned to researching composting toilets, created a new resources section, and researched online purchasing options for all the other toilets she identified as the best. You can see some of this work-in-progress here.

Continued Researching the Most Sustainable Toilet Options ” Click to Visit

REGENERATIVE COMMUNITY LIVING: DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

One Community is facilitating regenerative community 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 finished developing the Duplicable City Center Materials and Costs page. This included finalizing all the text and adding new icons for each section of the building, adding new images, and writing the Summary, Resources, and FAQ sections. You can see some of this work here.

Finished Developing the Duplicable City Center Materials and Costs Page – Click to Visit

The core team also began research into lake and water retention landscape creation as an alternative source of water for the Duplicable City Center Sprinkler and Emergency Systems Designs, agriculture, greywater processing, and more. You can see some of our initial research notes here.

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

Anvita Kumari Pandey (Civil Engineer) also continued updating the Duplicable City Center Costs with additional details for the Sprinkler and Emergency Systems and City Center HVAC Designs. She added fittings quantities, researched prices, and added source URLs for the Sprinkler system and started calculating the ducting and copper pipe needed for each line of the HVAC units.

Continued Updating the Duplicable City Center Costs – Click to Visit

David Olivero (Mechanical Engineer & Data Scientist) continued helping finish the City Center HVAC Designs too. This week he finished color coding and separating the layers for the complete designs, verified the final equipment details, and began outlining the tutorial, some of which you can see here.

Continued Helping Finish the City Center HVAC Designs – Click to Visit

And James Herrigel (Student Researcher) also completed his 4th week researching the best, safest, and most sustainable paints, carpet, and other building materials by finishing research on the WELL Standards system, sorting the LEED and WELL components in to a table of contents formula to make the research more readable, and beginning research into responsible paints. You can see some of this work here.

Continued Researching the Safest and Most Sustainable Paints, Carpet, and Other Building Materials

REGENERATIVE COMMUNITY LIVING: HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

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

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

This week, the core team continued adding more content to the open source Apiary page. We added additional graphics to all previously finished sections and completed a new “Selecting Your Apiary Location” section. You can see some of this work here.

Continued Adding More Content to the Open Source Apiary Page ” Click to Visit

The core team also continued writing the behind-the-scenes narrative and detailed food rollout plan for the various stages of development. This week we reviewed and addressed comments on the recent food forest edits and added further details to the rollout for the food forest test plot, fuel tank research, and portable steel chicken coop for 6-8 chickens. You can see some of this behind-the-scenes work here.

Continued with Behind-the-Scenes Narrative and Food Rollout Plan ” Click for Page

REGENERATIVE COMMUNITY LIVING: HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

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

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

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

Highest Good Education: All Subjects | All Learning Levels | Any Age – Click image for more

REGENERATIVE COMMUNITY LIVING: HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS

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

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

This week the core team finished the process of fixing our database structure and testing our corrections. This has eliminated database connectivity errors and dramatically improved site performance.

Finished Fixing Our Database Structure and Testing Our Corrections – Click to Visit

Emilio Nájera (Digital Marketer) also continued with his 11th week as part of the marketing team. This week he researched keywords for five more of our top-level food and housing-related pages: Aquaculture, Wildlife Stewardship, Aquapini/Walipinis, Tropical Atrium, and Earthbag Village.

Researched Keywords for Five More of our Top-level Food-related Pages ” Click to Visit Site Map Page

And Jin Hua (Web and Graphic Designer) helped create two more keyword tutorials, reviewed Emilio’s work, and reactivated all our Adwords campaigns now that our database is functioning again.

Created Two More Keyword Tutorials and Reactivated All Our Adwords Campaigns – Click to Visit

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

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

 

INVESTOR PAGES

OVERVIEW | LOCATION | FUNDING

GET INVOLVED

CONSULTANTS | WAYS ANYONE CAN HELP | MEMBERSHIP

CLICK HERE FOR ALL PAST UPDATES

WHAT ONE COMMUNITY IS CREATING

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

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

Throughout our design process, we are open sourcing and free-sharing everything needed for construction and replication, emphasizing regenerative community living. 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.

REGENERATIVE COMMUNITY 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, emphasizing regenerative community living.

WHY ONE COMMUNITY IS CREATING THIS

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

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

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

INSPIRING SUSTAINABILITY WITH OPEN SOURCE

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

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

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

COMPREHENSIVE SOLUTION TO HUMANITY’S NEEDS

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

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

GLOBALLY IMPLEMENTABLE REPLICATION MODEL

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

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

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

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

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

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

One Community is an all-volunteer nonprofit creating the open source plans and DIY foundations for a global network of conservation cooperatives.

• 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 23, 2018 edition (#300) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments:

Conservation Cooperatives
One Community Progress Update #300

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

CONSERVATION COOPERATIVES: INTRO: @0:34

CONSERVATION COOPERATIVES: HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING: @6:07

CONSERVATION COOPERATIVES: DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER: @7:52

CONSERVATION COOPERATIVES: HIGHEST GOOD FOOD: @9:42

• Continued adding more content to the open source Apiary page (see below)

CONSERVATION COOPERATIVES: HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION: @10:34

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

CONSERVATION COOPERATIVES: HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY: @11:21

• Continued the process of fixing our database structure and testing our corrections (see below)
• Emilio Nájera researched keywords for four more of our top-level food-related pages: Goats, Rabbits, Chickens, and finishing the research for the Apiary Bee Yard (see below)
• Highest Good Network software team consisting of Shubhra Mittal, Jordan Miller, and Tyler Calvert continued developing the software (see below)

CONSERVATION COOPERATIVES: SUMMARY: @12:44

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ONE COMMUNITY WEEKLY UPDATE DETAILS

CONSERVATION COOPERATIVES: HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

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

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

This week the core team continued design updates to the open source Murphy bed furniture assembly instructions. The focus this week was testing the new wall design in 3D and making update suggestions. You can see some of this work-in-progress here.

Continued Design Updates to Open Source Murphy Bed Furniture Assembly Instructions

And the core team created the initial setup for the new page sharing our research into the most sustainable toilet options.

Created Initial Setup for Page Sharing Our Research Into the Most Sustainable Toilet Options

Hemanth Kotaru (Structural Engineer) completed his 28th week helping with the structural engineering research and calculations for the Earthbag Village (Pod 1). This week’s focus was another round of new nail stress tests. You can see some of this work-in-progress here.

Continued w/Structural Engineering Research and Calculations for Earthbag Village – Click To Visit

Anvita Kumari Pandey (Civil Engineer) also completed her 29th week volunteering and now helping with the Earthbag Village Materials and Costs. This week she did more work on the Tropical Atrium materials quantities, prices, and buying options. She also further developed the single-dome cost analysis and quantity calculations, some of which you can see here.

Continued Working on the Earthbag Village Cost Analysis ” Click for Page

Dean Scholz (Architectural Designer) continued working on the Earthbag Village (Pod 1). Here is weekly update #142 from Dean. His focus this week was beginning the process of modeling all the new designs in 3D. You can see the beginnings of this work here.

Continued Updating the Earthbag Village Designs ” Click for Page

And Elizabeth Kahn (Environmental Consultant) completed her 3rd week researching and writing the content for the most sustainable toilet options. This week she wrote the first draft for the tutorial sharing the results of all her past two weeks of research. You can see some of this work-in-progress here.

Continued Researching the Most Sustainable Toilet Options ” Click to Visit

CONSERVATION COOPERATIVES: DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

One Community is open sourcing conservation cooperatives 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 developing the Duplicable City Center Sprinkler and Emergency Systems Design page. This week we created and added new preliminary design imagery and finished the parts and calculation processes for the Cost Analysis sections. You can see some of this work here.

Continued Developing the Duplicable City Center Sprinkler and Emergency Systems Design Page

Dipti Dhondarkar (Electrical Engineer) also continued developing the lighting specifics for the City Center. This is Dipti’s 109th week volunteering on this task and the focus this week was finishing updating all the layers and adding the final missing lights for the Dining Dome main wall, Social Dome, and Living Dome rooms. You can see some of this work here.

Continued Developing the Lighting Specifics for the City Center ” Click for Page

Tanya Griffin, Aubryanne Boyle, and Allie Marsh (Interior Designers from Lotus Designs) also completed their 3rd week helping with the Duplicable City Center interior design details. This week they started integrating and testing in 3D all the furniture, floor patterning, and color selections discussed since the last update. You can see some of this work here.

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

Anvita Kumari Pandey(Civil Engineer) also continued updating the Duplicable City Center Materials and Costs details by adding the pipe cost analysis for the Sprinkler and Emergency Systems Design. You can see some of this work here. 

Continued Updating the Duplicable City Center Materials and Costs Details ” Click to Visit

And James Herrigel (Student Researcher) also completed his 3rd week researching the best, safest, and most sustainable paints, carpet, and other building materials by researching the W.E.L.L. Standards system. He identified which components are applicable to our project, identified resources, and completed about 75% of his full review and report. You can see some of this work here.

Continued Researching the Safest and Most Sustainable Paints, Carpet, and Other Building Materials

CONSERVATION COOPERATIVES: HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

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

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

This week, the core team continued adding more content to the open source Apiary page. We rebuilt the menus, added in two new resource and book sections, and finished the section on checking local codes. You can see some of this work here.

Continued Adding More Content to the Open Source Apiary Page – Click to Visit

CONSERVATION COOPERATIVES: HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

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

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

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

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

CONSERVATION COOPERATIVES: HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS

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

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

This week the core team continued the process of fixing our database structure and testing our corrections. What you see here are some screenshots of the fixes still needing to be addressed on our staging site. 

Continued Process of Fixing Our Database Structure and Testing Our Corrections

Emilio Nájera (Digital Marketer) also continued with his 10th week as part of the marketing team. This week he researched keywords for four more of our top-level food-related pages: Goats, Rabbits, Chickens, and finishing the research for the Apiary Bee Yard.

Researched Keywords for Four More of our Top-level Food-related Pages ” Click to Visit Site Map Page

In addition to this, the Highest Good Network software team consisting of Shubhra Mittal (Software Delivery Manager), Jordan Miller (Web Developer), and Tyler Calvert (Full-stack Software Engineer) continued developing the software. This week the team completed the ability to assign teams and projects to users, added the ability for users to manage their social links, added the ability for admins to manage user’s admin links, fixed the issue of multiple submit calls being issued to the server, wrote unit test cases for the leaderboard and header components, and refactored the complete form component. You can see some of this work here.

Continued Developing the Highest Good Network Software ” Click for Page

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

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WHAT ONE COMMUNITY IS CREATING

One Community is creating a place to grow together and change the world together, incorporating conservation cooperatives. 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, integrating conservation cooperatives. A place based on compassion, kindness, and collaboration. This replicable community will serve as an example of what is possible.

Throughout our design process, we are open sourcing and free-sharing everything needed for construction and replication, including conservation cooperatives. 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.

CONSERVATION COOPERATIVE: BUILDING THE FIRST OF MANY

One Community will be the first teacher/demonstration hub, integrating conservation cooperatives. 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, with the integration of conservation cooperatives. We will achieve this by establishing successful teacher/demonstration hubs on every continent. Villages include designs appropriate for each of the five main types of climates. They also include options for even the most challenged economies. These hubs will collaborate with one another, share ideas, and resources, and work together as a network to heal the planet. They will also transform the global lifestyle into a more enjoyable, fulfilling, healthy, and sustainable one.

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

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, including the integration of conservation cooperatives. 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.), integrating conservation cooperatives. 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, incorporating conservation cooperatives. By free-sharing the step-by-step plans people need for duplication, inviting people to participate, and demonstrating sustainable teacher/demonstration hubs as a more desirable way of living, the model will predictably expand on its own.

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

COMPREHENSIVE SOLUTION TO HUMANITY’S NEEDS

One Community is open source sharing an evolution of sustainable living that addresses the complete human experience, incorporating conservation cooperatives. 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, integrating conservation cooperatives. 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, incorporating conservation cooperatives. 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, integrating conservation cooperatives. This is also part of this model to help the world. Its purpose is to facilitate more engagement in the sustainability industry, produce the absolute best possible consumer value, and the most convenient delivery of goods and methodologies for building sustainable living communities and sustainable living components.

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

As demand increases, so too will the ways to participate. Right now people are participating as consultants or partners donating time to our 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization, and others are more involved as Pioneers of the core team that will be moving to the property, engaging in conservation cooperatives 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, incorporating conservation cooperatives.

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

Environmental development can be accomplished ethically, sustainably, and with clear intent. Making these approaches easier, more affordable, and more attractive will speed the process. One Community is doing this open source and for “The Highest Good of All.”

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

OUR MAIN OPEN SOURCE HUBS

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

One Community’s physical location will forward this movement as the first of many self-replicating teacher/demonstration communities, villages, and cities to be built around the world. This is the December 16, 2018 edition (#299) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments:

Environmental Development
One Community Progress Update #299

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

ENVIRONMENTAL DEVELOPMENT INTRO: @0:34

ENVIRONMENTAL DEVELOPMENT – HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING: @6:03

ENVIRONMENTAL DEVELOPMENT – DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER: @8:25

ENVIRONMENTAL DEVELOPMENT – HIGHEST GOOD FOOD: @10:30

• Continued writing the behind-the-scenes narrative and detailed food rollout plan for the various stages of development (see below)

ENVIRONMENTAL DEVELOPMENT – HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION: @11:05

• Continued writing the behind-the-scenes narrative and detailed food rollout plan for the various stages of development (see below)

ENVIRONMENTAL DEVELOPMENT – HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY: @12:10

• Began the process of fixing our database structure and testing our corrections (see below)
• Emilio Nájera researched keywords for three more of our top-level food-related pages: Open Source Botanical Gardens, Large-Scale Soil Amendment, and Apiary Bee Yard (see below)
• Highest Good Network software team consisting of Shubhra Mittal, Jordan Miller, and Tyler Calvert continued developing the software (see below)

ENVIRONMENTAL DEVELOPMENT SUMMARY: @13:24

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

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ENVIRONMENTAL DEVELOPMENT – HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

One Community is supporting ecological environmental development 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

Hemanth Kotaru (Structural Engineer) completed his 27th week helping with the structural engineering research and calculations for the Earthbag Village (Pod 1). This week’s focus was beginning the first round of new nail stress tests. You can see some of this work-in-progress here.

Environmental Development – Earthbag Village Structural Engineering Research and Calculations

Anvita Kumari Pandey (Civil Engineer) also completed her 28th week volunteering and now helping with the Earthbag Village Materials and Costs. This week she worked more on the Tropical Atrium quantities and updated their prices and worked on Dome-1 material quantities, added their prices, and url links to purchase, focusing on environmental development. You can see some of this work here.

Continued Working on the Earthbag Village Cost Analysis – Click for Page

Guy Grossfeld (Graphic Designer) also continued his work helping with render corrections and PhotoShop additions for the Earthbag Village (Pod 1). This week Guy completed two more 2nd-generation views of the Complete Village, both of which you can see here and on the site.

Created New Earthbag Village Render of Complete Village ” Click for Page

Created New Earthbag Village Render of Complete Village ” Click for Page

Dan Alleck (Designer and Illustrator) completed his 32nd week helping with render additions. This week he finished this final Earthbag Village (Pod 1) render showing this view looking South from the Tropical Atrium entryway. This image is now on the site too.

Earthbag Village Render of View Looking South From Tropical Atrium Entryway

Shadi Kennedy (Artist and Graphic Designer) also completed his 34th week leading the development of the Murphy bed instructions. This week he finished the first complete redesign-draft of the support wall and associated instructions. The new design uses less materials and is easier to construct, all aimed at environmental development. You can see some of this work-in-progress here.

Continued Development of Murphy Bed Furniture Assembly Instructions

Dean Scholz (Architectural Designer) continued working on the Earthbag Village (Pod 1). Here is weekly update #141 from Dean. His focus this week was updating the Murphy Bed designs and creating all the different perspectives shown here of these updates.

Continued Updating the Murphy Bed Designs – Click for Earthbag Village

And Elizabeth Kahn (Environmental Consultant) completed her 2nd week researching the most sustainable toilet options. This week she researched sinks that can be added to the back of toilets to recycle hand-washing water and other water-saving toilet accessories. You can see some of this research here.

Continued Researching the Most Sustainable Toilet Options ” Click to Visit

ENVIRONMENTAL DEVELOPMENT – DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

One Community is supporting ecological environmental development 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 working on the Sketchup Duplicable City Center updates for the Social Dome and Dining Dome. We changed door opening directions where needed, updated windows on the Dining Dome second floor, raised the Sunrise Patio deck, redesigned the hexagon windows, redesigned the laundry room door frame details, and updated the Social Dome shell to accommodate the pedestrian door connecting the inside and outside swimming pool area. You can see some of these details here.

Continued Updating the Duplicable City Center Social and Dining Dome

Dipti Dhondarkar (Electrical Engineer) also continued developing the lighting specifics for the City Center. This is Dipti’s 108th week volunteering on this task and the focus this week was updating all the layers so we can turn lights on and off easily for each zone and adding the missing lights for the Social Dome main wall, kitchen, 4th floor, and Living Dome sunrise patio. You can see some of this work here.

Continued Developing the Lighting Specifics for the City Center ” Click for Page

Tanya Griffin, Aubryanne Boyle, and Allie Marsh (Interior Designers from Lotus Designs) also completed their 2nd week helping with the Duplicable City Center interior design details. This week they finalized the direction of the theme, décor, and the general uses for the library, with our goal of environmental development in mind, some of which you can see here.

Continued Helping With the Duplicable City Center Interior Design Details

Anvita Kumari Pandey (Civil Engineer) also continued updating the Duplicable City Center Materials and Costs details by fixing the remaining images on the spreadsheet and making minor updates to some of the prices and URLs. You can see some of this work here.

Continued Updating the Duplicable City Center Materials and Costs Details ” Click to Visit

And James Herrigel (Student Researcher) also completed his 2nd week researching the best, safest, and most sustainable paints, carpet, and other building materials by finishing his review and note taking on the LEED Sustainable Building crediting system. This week’s focus was mostly the Interior Design and Construction rating system. You can see some of this work here.

Safest and Most Sustainable Paints, Carpet, and Other Building Materials

ENVIRONMENTAL DEVELOPMENT – HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

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

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

This week the core team continued writing the behind-the-scenes narrative and detailed food rollout plan for the various stages of development. This week we reviewed our food forest details, created a list of needed edits, and wrote up the initial food forest rollout and materials and equipment needs plan. You can see some of this behind-the-scenes work here.

Continued with Behind-the-Scenes Narrative and Food Rollout Plan ” Click for Page

ENVIRONMENTAL DEVELOPMENT – HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

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

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

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

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

ENVIRONMENTAL DEVELOPMENT – HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS

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

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

This week the core team began the process of fixing our database structure and testing our corrections. You can see some of this work here.

Began Process of Fixing Our Database Structure and Testing Our Corrections

Emilio Nájera (Digital Marketer) also continued with his 9th week as part of the marketing team. This week he researched keywords for three more of our top-level food-related pages: Open Source Botanical Gardens, Large-Scale Soil Amendment,  and Apiary Bee Yard. 

Researched Keywords for Two More of our Top-level Food-related Pages ” Click to Visit Site Map Page

In addition to this, the Highest Good Network software team consisting of Shubhra Mittal (Software Delivery Manager), Jordan Miller (Web Developer), and Tyler Calvert (Full-stack Software Engineer) continued developing the software. This week the team worked on the React version of the component for user and profile management, merged the Timelog Entry component into the Redux branch, worked on more redux action creators, and looked for potential code tests for new developers we intend to bring on, all focusing on environmental development. You can see some of this work here.

Continued Developing the Highest Good Network Software ” Click for Page

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

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

 

INVESTOR PAGES

OVERVIEW | LOCATION | FUNDING

GET INVOLVED

CONSULTANTS | WAYS ANYONE CAN HELP | MEMBERSHIP

CLICK HERE FOR ALL PAST UPDATES

WHAT ONE COMMUNITY IS CREATING

One Community is creating a place to grow together and change the world together. We are creating a space that helps each other live in integrity with each other and the planet as we strive to be the greatest versions of ourselves. We do this by harmoniously respecting each other, nature, and the rest of our one shared planet. Our goal is to demonstrate what we feel is the most sustainable, healthy, and fun environmental development we can create. A place based on compassion, kindness, and collaboration. This replicable community will serve as an example for what is possible in environmental development.

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

BUILDING THE FIRST OF MANY

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

INSPIRING SUSTAINABILITY WITH OPEN SOURCE

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

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

Let’s create a global network of permaculture communities working together to consciously steward our planet towards sustainability. Doing this will benefit all people and life here. One Community’s contribution is open source and free shared tools, tutorials, and DIY instructions for sustainable and “Highest Good” approaches to 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 December 9, 2018 edition (#298) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments:

Permaculture Communities
One Community Progress Update #298

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

PERMACULTURE COMMUNITIES INTRO: @0:34

PERMACULTURE COMMUNITIES – HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING: @7:35

PERMACULTURE COMMUNITIES – DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER: @9:15

PERMACULTURE COMMUNITIES – HIGHEST GOOD FOOD: @11:47

• Continued writing the behind-the-scenes narrative and detailed food rollout plan for the various stages of development (see below)

PERMACULTURE COMMUNITIES – HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION: @12:23

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

PERMACULTURE COMMUNITIES – HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY: @13:28

• Emilio Nájera researched keywords for two more of our top-level food-related pages: the Hoop Houses and Food Forest pages (see below)
• Highest Good Network software team consisting of Shubhra Mittal, Aishwarya Singh, Jordan Miller, and Tyler Calvert continued developing the software (see below)

PERMACULTURE COMMUNITIES SUMMARY: @14:38

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

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PERMACULTURE COMMUNITIES – HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

One Community is open-source supporting permaculture 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 Anvita Kumari Pandey (Civil Engineer) completed her 27th week volunteering and now helping with the Earthbag Village Materials and Costs. She worked on the Tropical Atrium cost analysis making corrections to the material quantities, researching additional materials, and adding materials purchasing urls. You can see some of this work here.

Permaculture Communities – Continued Working on the Earthbag Village Cost Analysis

Guy Grossfeld (Graphic Designer) also continued his work helping with render corrections and PhotoShop additions for the Earthbag Village (Pod 1). This week Guy completed two more 2nd-generation views including this one of the Complete Village:

Permaculture Communities – Created New Earthbag Village Render of Complete Village

…..and this view looking Southwest at the Tropical Atrium.

Created New Tropical Atrium Render of View looking Southwest – Click for Page

Dan Alleck (Designer and Illustrator) completed his 31st week helping with render additions. This week he finished this final Earthbag Village (Pod 1) render showing a view looking down on the entry to the Tropical Atrium. This image is now on the site too.

Finished Final Earthbag Village Render

Shadi Kennedy (Artist and Graphic Designer) also completed his 33rd week leading the development of the Murphy bed instructions. This week he continued redesigning the support wall to be simpler to design and created new assembly instructions for it, focusing on permaculture communities. You can see some of this work here.

Continued Development of Murphy Bed Furniture Assembly Instructions

And Elizabeth Kahn (Environmental Consultant) joined the team and completed her first week researching the most sustainable toilet options. You can see some of her initial water-saving and composting toilet research here.

Began Researching the Most Sustainable Toilet Options – Click to Visit

PERMACULTURE COMMUNITIES – DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

One Community is open-source supporting permaculture 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 working on the Sketchup Duplicable City Center 3D updates. This week we worked on corrections for the floor thicknesses and levels, researched new 4-panel sliding door options and electric vehicles that can fit through them, updated the Social Dome 2nd-floor court entrance walls, started updating these same walls for the Dining Dome, and removed Dining Dome windows that conflicted with other elements. You can see some of this work here.

Continued Updating the Duplicable City Center Social and Dining Dome

The core team also began our final review of the City Center lighting spreadsheet, light placement, symbols, and layers in AutoCAD, and correlating website details for the Basement, Boiler Room, Library, and public restrooms, with the aim of developing permaculture communites. You can see some of this work here.

Began Final Review of the City Center Lighting Spreadsheet, etc. – Click for Page

The core team also continued developing the Duplicable City Center Sprinkler and Emergency Systems Design page. This week we added new overview imagery for the complete design and finished the rest of the Hydraulic Calculations section and also completed the Reservoir Sizing section. You can see some of this work here.

Duplicable City Center Sprinkler and Emergency Systems Design Page

And the core team integrated a LEED Professional’s detailed review of the City Center LEED lighting tutorial. You can see some of these suggestions here.

Integrated Detailed Review of City Center LEED Lighting Tutorial – Click for Page

Dipti Dhondarkar (Electrical Engineer) also continued developing the lighting specifics for the City Center, emphasizing permaculture communities. This is Dipti’s 107th week volunteering on this task and the focus this week was integration of suggested edits and continuation of adding lights to floor 2 of all three domes. You can see some of this work here.

Continued Developing the Lighting Specifics for the City Center ” Click for Page

Tanya Griffin, Aubryanne Boyle, and Allie Marsh (Interior Designers from Lotus Designs) also joined the team and completed their 1st week helping with the Duplicable City Center interior design details. This week they researched initial color pallets, flooring and furniture options. Some of which you can see here.

Began Helping With the Duplicable City Center Interior Design Details

Anvita Kumari Pandey (Civil Engineer) also continued updating the Duplicable City Center Materials and Costs details by fixing all the images on the spreadsheet. You can see some of this work here.

Continued Updating the Duplicable City Center Materials and Costs Details

And James Herrigel (Student Researcher) also joined the team and completed his 1st week researching the best, safest, and most sustainable paints, carpet, and other building materials by reviewing and taking notes on the LEED Sustainable Building crediting system with a focus on Building Design and Construction. You can see some of this work here.

Best, Safest, and Most Sustainable Paints, Carpet, and Other Building Materials

PERMACULTURE COMMUNITIES – HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

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

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

This week the core team continued writing the behind-the-scenes narrative and detailed food rollout plan for the various stages of development. This week we continued researching information on goats, started exploring fencing options, and added details to our aquaculture plans, all aimed at creating permaculture communities. You can see some of this behind-the-scenes work here.

Continued with Behind-the-Scenes Narrative and Food Rollout Plan

PERMACULTURE COMMUNITIES – HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

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

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

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

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

PERMACULTURE COMMUNITIES – HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS

One Community is open-source supporting permaculture 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

Emilio Nájera (Digital Marketer) also continued with his 9th week as part of the marketing team. This week he researched keywords for two more of our top-level food-related pages: the Hoop Houses and Food Forest pages. You can see some of this work here.

Researched Keywords for Two More of our Top-level Food-related Pages

In addition to this, the Highest Good Network software team consisting of Shubhra Mittal (Software Delivery Manager), Aishwarya Singh (Computer Science Engineer), Jordan Miller (Web Developer), and Tyler Calvert (Full-stack Software Engineer) continued developing the software. This week the team created code and unit test cases for updating passwords, fixed profile picture bugs, made sure all forms pass into state for Time Entry, added an ESLint (airbnb style guide), and added all the get routes to the Redux State, all with our goal of developing permaculture communities in mind. You can see some of this work here.

Continued Developing the Highest Good Network Software ” Click for Page

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

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

 

INVESTOR PAGES

OVERVIEW | LOCATION | FUNDING

GET INVOLVED

CONSULTANTS | WAYS ANYONE CAN HELP | MEMBERSHIP

CLICK HERE FOR ALL PAST UPDATES

WHAT ONE COMMUNITY IS CREATING

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

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

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

BUILDING THE FIRST OF MANY

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

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.