One Community is an all-volunteer nonprofit open sourcing sustainable villages. These village designs combine physical sustainability components (food, energy, and housing) with emotional sustainability components (education, for-profit and non-profit economic design, social architecture, fulfilled living, and global stewardship practices) as a model for living and creating for The Highest Good of all people and life on 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 the movement of open sourcing sustainable villages as the first of many self-replicating teacher/demonstration communities, villages, and cities to be built around the world. This is the October 23rd, 2016 edition (#187) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments:

Open Sourcing Sustainable Villages
One Community Progress Update #187

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

OPEN SOURCING SUSTAINABLE VILLAGES INTRO: @1:03

OPEN SOURCING SUSTAINABLE VILLAGES HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION: @2:00

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

OPEN SOURCING SUSTAINABLE VILLAGES HIGHEST GOOD FOOD: @2:51

• Completed correcting the formatting on the Transition Kitchen page (see below)

OPEN SOURCING SUSTAINABLE VILLAGES HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING: @3:16

• Continued with layers of revisions for the upcoming 7 villages online book (see below)
• Ashwini Ramesh and the core team put another combined total of 20 hours into the behind-the-scenes revision for the Footers, Foundations and Flooring page for the crowdfunding campaign we are developing (see below)
• Shilcy Augustine continued her 3rd week of helping us merge all our Earthbag Village files (see below)
• Dean Scholz further developed what’s necessary for us to create quality Cob Village renders (see below)
• Hamilton Mateca finished his 13th week helping evolve the Compressed Earth Block Village (see below)
• Guy Grossfeld finished 3D creation of the specific blocks that will be used for the Compressed Earth Block Village (see below)
• Aparna Tandon continued her work on the Compressed Earth Block Village external elements (see below)
• Yee-Cheng Ho finished her 5th week of helping by creating these new 1st-generation views of the Shipping Container Village (see below)
• Jiming Chen continued helping develop the Tree House Village (see below)
• Zachary Melin continued updating the Tree House Village book created by last year’s intern Team (see below)

OPEN SOURCING SUSTAINABLE VILLAGES DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER: @6:37

• Began a new round of renders creation for the Duplicable City Center file (see below)
• Continued developing the aesthetic details around the natural pool in the Social Dome (see below)
• Iris Hsu finished render-testing the recycled pipe shelving for the Duplicable City Center library (see below)
• Haoxuan “Hayes” Lei and Shuna Ni continued their work on the City Center column placement and calculations (see below)
• Neha Verma helped create our 2nd-generation wall-section detail drawings (see below)
• Dipti Dhondarkar continued with her 18th week of work on the lighting zones (see below)
• Jinxi Feng continued her research helping us create an in-depth laundry and dryer machine sustainability analysis (see below)

OPEN SOURCING SUSTAINABLE VILLAGES HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY: @8:48

• Ashwin Patil completed his 3rd week of helping with the new site-design details (see below)

OPEN SOURCING SUSTAINABLE VILLAGES SUMMARY: @9:05

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OPEN SOURCING SUSTAINABLE VILLAGES HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

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

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

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

Open Sourcing Sustainable Villages – Transferred 2nd 25% of Individuality Lesson Plan to Site

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

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

Open Sourcing Sustainable Villages – Personal Growth Mindmap – 25% Complete – Click to Visit

OPEN SOURCING SUSTAINABLE VILLAGES HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

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

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

This last week the core team completed correcting the formatting on the Transition Kitchen page. You can see images of that work here:

Open Sourcing Sustainable Villages – Completed the Formatting on the Transition Kitchen Page

OPEN SOURCING SUSTAINABLE VILLAGES HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

One Community is open sourcing sustainable villages 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

Open Sourcing Sustainable Villages – Continued Revisions of Upcoming 7 Villages Online Book

Working on the Footers, Foundations & Flooring Page for the Crowdfunding Campaign Developing

Shilcy Augustine (Architect) continued her 3rd week of helping us merge all our Earthbag Village files. This week’s focus was updates to all the images you see here with a black background and completely redrawing all the images on the white background. She also helped us create the title blocks we’ll be using:

Open Sourcing Sustainable Villages – Continued Merging Our Earthbag Village Files

Dean Scholz (Architectural Designer), further developed what’s necessary for us to create quality Cob Village (Pod 3) renders. Here is update 40 of his work continuing to work on external details and providing this final render of the front view looking Northwest…

Open Sourcing Sustainable Villages – Final Render of Front View Looking Northwest – Click to Visit

…and this initial render of the children’s play area and central view looking Southwest:

Created Initial Render of Children’s Play Area and Central View Looking Southwest

Hamilton Mateca (AutoCAD and Revit Drafter and Designer) also finished his 13th week helping evolve the Compressed Earth Block Village (Pod 4). This week’s focus was more updates to the living-space layouts and adding new details to the Revit-3D plans for the Southwest-residences:

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

Guy Grossfeld (Graphic Designer) also finished 3D creation of the specific blocks that will be used for the Compressed Earth Block Village (Pod 4). What you see here is his 8th week of this work that also included finishing the designs for the first 3D earth block bench:

Finished 3D Creation of the Specific Blocks for Compressed Earth Block Village – Click for Page

Aparna Tandon (Architect) additionally continued her work on the Compressed Earth Block Village external elements. What you see here is her 3rd week of work, continuing to visualize the specifics of the North area of this village:

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

Yee-Cheng Ho (Interior Designer) also finished her 5th week of helping by creating these new 1st-generation views of the Shipping Container Village (Pod 5) Unit Types 1 as they are planned for in the village (left) and unit types 3 and 4 as they are planned for in the village (right):

Created New 1st-Generation Views of the Shipping Container Village – Click to Visit Page

Jiming Chen (Designer with his Master’s in Architecture and BA in Engineering) also continued helping develop the Tree House Village (Pod 7). What you see here is his 3rd week of this work focusing on developing a new design for the stand-alone bathroom and shower structure. As shown here, this new design matches the look and layout of the rest of the village structures:

Continued Developing the Tree House Village – Click to Visit Page

Zachary Melin (Graphic Designer) also continued updating the Tree House Village (Pod 7) book created by last year’s intern Team. What you see here is week 11 of this work that was round one of updating all the page colors to match the new color palette:

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

OPEN SOURCING SUSTAINABLE VILLAGES DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

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

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

This week the core team began a new round of renders creation for the Duplicable City Center file. The perspectives created for consideration here include the root cellar and sunrise patio.

Began New Round of Renders Creation for the Duplicable City Center File – Click for Page

We also continued developing the aesthetic details around the natural pool in the Social Dome. This week we placed more lights and plants around the indoor part of the pool.

Continued Working on Aesthetics for Natural Pool in the Social Dome – Click for Page

Iris Hsu, (Industrial Designer), also finished render-testing the recycled pipe shelving for the Duplicable City Center library. What you see here is round #22 of her work producing this diversity of final renders and perspectives for what the library will look like incorporating all of her shelving, table, couch and chair designs.

Finished Render-Testing the Recycled Pipe Shelving for the Duplicable City Center Library – Click to Visit Page

Haoxuan “Hayes” Lei (Structural Engineer) and Shuna Ni (Masters of Mechanical Engineering and Civil Engineering PhD) continued their work on the City Center column placement and calculations. What you see here are detailed summaries of their structural calculation and design work to this point, including rationales for their decisions so we could get a second review before moving forward.

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

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

Neha Verma (Construction Project Manager and Bachelor’s of Architecture), also helped create our 2nd-generation wall-section detail drawings. You can see some of the work-in-progress drawings here:

Created 2nd-Generation Wall-Section Details Drawings – Click to Visit City Center

And Dipti Dhondarkar, (Electrical Engineer) also continued with her 18th week of work on the lighting zones, completing new calculations to include room area details in square feet and wattage per square foot calculations:

Continued Working on the Lighting Zones – Click to Visit Page

Jinxi Feng (Environmental Consultant) also continued her research helping us create an in-depth laundry and dryer machine sustainability analysis. What you see here is her 7th week of behind-the-scenes research into this area, this week’s focus was identifying the top 10 water efficient and energy efficient Energy-star personal washers and dryers and comparing their efficiency to traditional washers and dryers.

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

OPEN SOURCING SUSTAINABLE VILLAGES HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS

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

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

This week, Ashwin Patil (Web Developer) completed his 3rd week of helping with the new site-design details. This week’s focus was updating the layout of the new site search tool to be horizontal, and starting to add in all the links and pages for the food section:

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

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

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

 

INVESTOR PAGES

OVERVIEW       ●       LOCATION       ●       FUNDING

GET INVOLVED

CONSULTANTS     ●     WAYS ANYONE CAN HELP     ●     MEMBERSHIP

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WHAT ONE COMMUNITY IS CREATING

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

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

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

OPEN SOURCING SUSTAINABLE VILLAGES BUILDING THE FIRST OF MANY

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

One Community is an all-volunteer nonprofit creating effective sustainable and open source solutions for food, energy, housing, education, for-profit and non-profit economic design, social architecture, fulfilled living, global stewardship practices, and more.

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

OUR MAIN OPEN SOURCE HUBS

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

One Community’s physical location will forward this movement as the first of many self-replicating teacher/demonstration communities, villages, and cities to be built around the world. This is the October 16th, 2016 edition (#186) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments on creating effective sustainable and open source solutions:

Effective Sustainable and Open Source Solutions
One Community Progress Update #186

Here is the bullet-point list of this last week’s design and progress discussed in detail in the video above focused on advancing our goals in creating effective sustainable and open source solutions:

EFFECTIVE  SUSTAINABLE AND OPEN SOURCE SOLUTIONS INTRO: @1:03

EFFECTIVE SUSTAINABLE AND OPEN SOURCE SOLUTIONS HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION: @1:58

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

EFFECTIVE SUSTAINABLE AND OPEN SOURCE SOLUTIONS HIGHEST GOOD FOOD: @2:54

• Created templates for images linking to downloadable files and specific images for our Transition Kitchen page (see below)

EFFECTIVE SUSTAINABLE AND OPEN SOURCE SOLUTIONS HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING: @3:21

• Continued with layers of revisions for the upcoming 7 villages online book (see below)
• Shilcy Augustine continued her 2nd week of helping us merge all our Earthbag Village files (see below)
• Fernando Remolina assumed management of the Vermiculture Bathroom development (see below)
• Brianna Johnson finished her work on the Straw Bale Village (see below)
• Dean Scholz further developed what’s necessary for us to create quality Cob Village renders (see below)
• Hamilton Mateca finished his 12th week helping evolve the Compressed Earth Block Village (see below)
• Guy Grossfeld continued 3D creation of the specific blocks that will be used for the Compressed Earth Block Village (see below)
• Aparna Tandon continued her work on the Compressed Earth Block Village external elements (see below)
• Yee-Cheng Ho finished her 4th week of helping by creating new 1st-generation views of the Shipping Container Village (see below)
• Jiming Chen continued helping develop the Tree House Village (see below)
• Zachary Melin continued updating the Tree House Village book created by last year’s intern Team (see below)

EFFECTIVE SUSTAINABLE AND OPEN SOURCE SOLUTIONS DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER: @6:49

• Finished 3D layout updates for the Restroom in the Dining Dome of theDuplicable City Center (see below)
• Continued developing the aesthetic details around the natural pool in the Social Dome (see below)
• Iris Hsu continued render-testing the recycled pipe shelving for the Duplicable City Center library (see below)
• Haoxuan “Hayes” Lei and Shuna Ni continued their work on the City Center column placement and calculations (see below)
• Neha Verma helped create these first-generation wall-section details drawings (see below)
• Jinxi Feng continued her research helping us create an in-depth laundry and dryer machine sustainability analysis (see below)
• Ricardo Carrillo helped provide these first-generation wall component and construction details (see below)

EFFECTIVE SUSTAINABLE AND OPEN SOURCE SOLUTIONS HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY: @8:54

• Ashwin Patil completed his 2nd week of helping with the new web design (see below)
• Sergiy Chernyshov helped us by proofreading and editing the One Community open source page written in Russian (see below)

EFFECTIVE  SUSTAINABLE AND OPEN SOURCE SOLUTIONS SUMMARY: @9:26

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

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Effective Sustainable and Open Source Solutions

EFFECTIVE SUSTAINABLE AND OPEN SOURCE SOLUTIONS HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

One Community is creating effective sustainable and open source solutions through Highest Good education that is for all ages, applicable in any environment, adaptable to individual needs, far exceeds traditional education standards, and more fun for both the teachers and the students:

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

As part of creating effective sustainable and open source solutions this last week the core team transferred the final 25% of the written content for the Personal Growth Lesson Plan to the website, as you see here. This lesson plan purposed to teach all subjects, to all learning levels, in any learning environment, using the central theme of “Personal Growth” is now 100% completed on our website:

Effective Sustainable and Open Source Solutions – Personal Growth Lesson Plan – Complete

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

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

Effective Sustainable and Open Source Solutions – Beliefs Mindmap – Complete – Click to Visit Page

EFFECTIVE SUSTAINABLE AND OPEN SOURCE SOLUTIONS HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

One Community is creating effective sustainable and open source solutions 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

As part of creating effective sustainable and open source solutions this week, the core team created templates for images linking to downloadable files and specific images for our Transition Kitchen page. You can see images of that work here:

Created Templates for Images Linking to Downloadable Files – Click for Transition Kitchen Page

EFFECTIVE SUSTAINABLE AND OPEN SOURCE SOLUTIONS HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

One Community is creating effective sustainable and open source solutions 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

Effective Sustainable and Open Source Solutions – Continued Revisions of Upcoming 7 Villages Online

Shilcy Augustine (Architect) continued her 2nd week of helping us merge all our Earthbag Village files. This week’s focus was on altering the dimensions and text scales so that they can be readable in the sheet format and bringing the dimensions into one layer.

Effective Sustainable and Open Source Solutions – Continued Merging Our Earthbag Village Files

Also working on the Earthbag Village, Fernando Remolina (Industrial Engineer specializing in Project Management) assumed management of the Vermiculture Bathroom development. What you see here are his first two weeks of outlining the project and all steps for completion.

Assumed Management of Vermiculture Bathroom Development – Click for Page

Straw Bale Village Renders for the Central Fireplace with a Chimney – Click to Visit Page

Dean Scholz (Architectural Designer), further developed what’s necessary for us to create quality Cob Village (Pod 3) renders. Here is update 39 of his work continuing to work on external details:

Further Developed What’s Necessary to Create Quality Cob Village Renders – Click to Visit Page

…and providing this final render of the external view looking East:

Effective Sustainable and Open Source Solutions – Final Render of the External View Looking East

… and this final view of the front of the village:

Effective Sustainable and Open Source Solutions – Final Render of Front View – Click to Visit

Hamilton Mateca (AutoCAD and Revit Drafter and Designer) also finished his 12th week helping evolve the Compressed Earth Block Village (Pod 4). This week’s focus was developing the Southwest-residence layout, elevation, and 3D details in Revit, as you can see here.

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

Guy Grossfeld (Graphic Designer) also continued 3D creation of the specific blocks that will be used for the Compressed Earth Block Village (Pod 4). What you see here is his 7th week of this work that included continued revisions for his first 3D earth block bench:

Continued Creation of Blocks in 3D for Compressed Earth Block Village – Click to Visit Page

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

Yee-Cheng Ho (Interior Designer) also finished her 4th week of helping by creating these new 1st-generation views of the Shipping Container Village (Pod 5) Unit Type 2 as they are planned for in the village (left), and this view of how these will be able to be open sourced as a 2-bedroom home option too (right).

Created New 1st-Generation Views of the Shipping Container Village – Click to Visit Page

Jiming Chen (Designer with his Master’s in Architecture and BA in Engineering) also continued helping develop the Tree House Village (Pod 7). What you see here is his 2nd week of this work focusing on developing the complete layout of this village to better determine the walkway layouts and where the fire escapes should best be placed.

Effective Sustainable and Open Source Solutions – Continued Developing the Tree House Village

Zachary Melin (Graphic Designer) also continued updating the Tree House Village (Pod 7) book created by last year’s intern Team. What you see here is week 10 of this work including 2 updated pages and the before-and-after graphics created for one of them.

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

EFFECTIVE SUSTAINABLE AND OPEN SOURCE SOLUTIONS DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

One Community is creating effective sustainable and open source solutions 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

As part of creating effective sustainable and open source solutions this week the core team finished 3D layout updates for the Restroom in the Dining Dome of the Duplicable City Center, moving the urinal, towel holder, and trashcan as we adjusted for better plumbing positions.

Continued Working on Restroom in Dining Dome – Click for Duplicable City Center

We also continued developing the aesthetic details around the natural pool in the Social Dome. We added a waterfall to each side of the pool with adjacent sitting spaces, lighting adjustments to highlight the waterfalls, and added plants between the rocks.

Continued Working on Aesthetics for Natural Pool in the Social Dome – Click for Page

Iris Hsu, (Industrial Designer), continued render-testing the recycled pipe shelving for the Duplicable City Center library. What you see here is round #21 of her work. This week’s focus was color and texture render-testing the floor and beginning final renders with people added to them:

Continued Render-Testing the Recycled Pipe Shelving for Duplicable City Center Library

Here is the final color set that we chose:

Final Color Set Chosen in Render-Testing the Recycled Pipe Shelving – Click to Visit Page

Haoxuan “Hayes” Lei (Structural Engineer) and Shuna Ni (Masters of Mechanical Engineering and Civil Engineering PhD) continued their work on the City Center column placement and calculations. What you see here are updated beam layouts for all the floors and some images showing most current steel pipe sizing details for the domes themselves.

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

Neha Verma (Construction Project Manager and Bachelor’s of Architecture), also helped create these first-generation wall-section details drawings.

Created First-Generation Wall-Section Details Drawings – Click to Visit City Center

Jinxi Feng (Environmental Consultant) also continued her research helping us create an in-depth laundry and dryer machine sustainability analysis. What you see here is her 6th week of behind-the-scenes research into this area, along with the spreadsheets she is using to organize her data for professional presentation.

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

Ricardo Carrillo (Design Consultant and Principal of Acumen Industries) also helped provide these first-generation wall component and construction details:

Helped Provide First-Generation Wall Component and Construction Details – Click to Visit

EFFECTIVE SUSTAINABLE AND OPEN SOURCE SOLUTIONS HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS

One Community is creating effective sustainable and open source solutions 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

As part of effective creating sustainable and open source solutions this week, Ashwin Patil (Web Developer) completed his 2nd week of helping with the new web design. This week’s focus was adding all the Earthbag Village links, icons, and a new mouseover affect to the filter that will allow for easy navigation from any page to any other page within the new site.

Effective Sustainable and Open Source Solutions – Continued Helping with the New Web Design

Sergiy Chernyshov, (Founder of Enebra.org) and a native of Russia, also helped us by proofreading and editing the One Community open source page written in Russian. You can see some of this work here:

Proofread and Edited Open Source Page Written in Russian – Click to Visit Page

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

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

 

INVESTOR PAGES

OVERVIEW       ●       LOCATION       ●       FUNDING

GET INVOLVED

CONSULTANTS     ●     WAYS ANYONE CAN HELP     ●     MEMBERSHIP

CLICK HERE FOR ALL PAST UPDATES

WHY OPEN SOURCE

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

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

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

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

SUMMARY

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

One Community is an all-volunteer nonprofit building a global collaboration for The Highest Good of all people and life on our planet through open source and free-shared sustainability components that include food, energy, and housing, education, for-profit and non-profit economic design, social architecture, fulfilled living, and global stewardship practices.

• 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 October 9th, 2016 edition (#185) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments  on building a global collaboration:

Building a Global Collaboration
One Community Progress Update #185

Here is the bullet-point list of this last week’s design and progress discussed in detail in the video above focused on advancing our goals in building a global collaboration:

BUILDING A GLOBAL COLLABORATION INTRO:@1:03

BUILDING A GLOBAL COLLABORATION HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION: @1:58

• Transferred the first 25% of written content for the Individuality Lesson Plan to the website (see below)
• Behind the scenes, we wrote the final 25% of the written part of the Personal Growth Lesson Plan.
• Completed third 25% of the mindmap for Beliefs Lesson Plan, bringing it to 75% complete (see below)

BUILDING A GLOBAL COLLABORATION HIGHEST GOOD FOOD: @2:51

• Added links to download files for the Transition Kitchen and finished correcting the centering and code issues on the page (see below)

BUILDING A GLOBAL COLLABORATION HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING: @3:17

• Continued with layers of revisions for the upcoming 7 villages online book (see below)
• Merged all of our most current Earthbag Village files and created a list of revisions needed for Shilcy Augustine to help us with (see below)
• Dean Scholz further developed what’s necessary for us to create quality Cob Village renders (see below)
• Hamilton Mateca finished his 11th week helping evolve the Compressed Earth Block Village in AutoCAD and Revit (see below)
• Guy Grossfeld continued 3D creation of the specific blocks that will be used for the Compressed Earth Block Village (see below)
• Aparna Tandon joined the team working on the Compressed Earth Block Village (see below)
• Yee-Cheng Ho finished creating the new exploded views for Recycled Materials Village and Shipping Container Village (see below)

BUILDING A  GLOBAL COLLABORATION DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER: @5:22

• Continued working on the Dining Dome of the Duplicable City Center (see below)
• Continued developing the aesthetic details around the natural pool in the Social Dome (see below)
• Iris Hsu continued render-testing the recycled pipe shelving for the Duplicable City Center library (see below)
• Haoxuan “Hayes” Lei and Shuna Ni continued work on the City Center column placement and calculations (see below)
• Jinxi Feng continued research helping us create an in-depth laundry and dryer machine sustainability analysis (see below)

BUILDING A  GLOBAL COLLABORATION HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY: @6:57

• Ashwin Patil joined the team and began helping with what will be our new web design (see below)
• Vassili Biserov helped us translate our Solution Model to Create Solution Models page into Italian (see below)

BUILDING A  GLOBAL COLLABORATION SUMMARY: @7:22

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BUILDING A  GLOBAL COLLABORATION

BUILDING A  GLOBAL COLLABORATION HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

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

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

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

Individuality Lesson Plan – 25% Complete – Click to Visit Page

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

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

Beliefs Mindmap – 75% Complete – Click to Visit Page

BUILDING A  GLOBAL COLLABORATION HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

One Community is building a global collaboration 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

As part of building a global collaboration this week, the core team added links to download files for the Transition Kitchen and finished correcting the centering and code issues on the page. You can see images of that work here:

Added Links to Download Files for the Transition Kitchen – Click for Page

BUILDING A  GLOBAL COLLABORATION HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

One Community is building a global collaboration 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

Continued Revisions of Upcoming 7 Villages Online Book – Click to Visit Page

The core team also merged all of our most current Earthbag Village files and created a list of revisions needed for Shilcy Augustine (Architect) to help us with. You can see some of this work here:

Merged Current Earthbag Village Files and Created a List of Revisions Needed – Click to Visit

Dean Scholz (Architectural Designer), further developed what’s necessary for us to create quality Cob Village (Pod 3) renders. Here is update 38 of his work that provided the final full-quality render for this Village so we could update the site with all the images you see here:

Further Developed What’s Necessary to Create Quality Cob Village Renders – Click to Visit Page

Hamilton Mateca (AutoCAD and Revit Drafter and Designer) also finished his 11th week helping evolve the Compressed Earth Block Village (Pod 4) in AutoCAD and Revit. This week’s focus in AutoCAD was finishing the roof and dining area furniture details and final elevator-related revisions. In Revit the focus was on 3D external details and the internal stairways.

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

Guy Grossfeld (Graphic Designer) also continued 3D creation of the specific blocks that will be used for the Compressed Earth Block Village (Pod 4). What you see here is his 6th week of this work that also included building our first 3D earth block bench:

Continued Creation of Blocks in 3D for Compressed Earth Block Village – Click to Visit Page

Began Outlining Landscaping and Earth Block External Spaces – Click to Visit

And finally, Yee-Cheng Ho (Interior Designer) finished creating the new exploded views shown here for the Recycled Materials Village (Pod 6):

Finished Creating Recycled Materials Village Exploded Views – Click to Visit Page

…..and the Shipping Container Village (Pod 5):

Finished Creating Shipping Container Village Exploded Views – Click to Visit Page

BUILDING A  GLOBAL COLLABORATION DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

One Community is building a global collaboration 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

As part of building a global collaboration this week the core team continued working on the Dining Dome of the Duplicable City Center. We made additional changes to the walls of the dry storage and restroom that are located above the basement staircase.

Continued Working on Dining Dome of the Duplicable City Center – Click for Page

And we also continued developing the aesthetic details around the natural pool in the Social Dome, including updating the walls of the pool with natural rocks, and placing benches around the trees.

Continued Working on Aesthetics for Natural Pool in the Social Dome – Click for Page

Iris Hsu, (Industrial Designer), continued render-testing the recycled pipe shelving for the Duplicable City Center library. What you see here is round #20 of her work. This week’s focus was colorization of the book elements and testing different art and floor color options.

Continued Render-Testing Recycled Pipe Shelving for D.C.C Library – Click for the Pipe Furniture Page

Haoxuan “Hayes” Lei (Structural Engineer) and Shuna Ni (Masters of Mechanical Engineering and Civil Engineering PhD) continued their work on the City Center column placement and calculations. What you see here are completed beam calculations for the 2nd floor and the results of assessing what beams we need to strengthen in the domes to support the 4th floor cupola walkways:

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

Jinxi Feng (Environmental Consultant) also continued her research helping us create an in-depth laundry and dryer machine sustainability analysis. What you see here is her 5th week of behind-the-scenes research into this area.

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

BUILDING A GLOBAL COLLABORATION HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS

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

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

Ashwin Patil (Web Developer) joined the team and began helping with what will be our new web design. Here is his first week’s contribution, the beginnings of a filter design for more easily finding information on the new site:

Began Helping with Our New Web Design – Click for Our Homepage

Vassili Biserov (Writer, Poet, and Professional Translator) also helped us translate our Solution Model to Create Solution Models page into Italian, as you can see here:

Translated our Solution Model to Create Solution Models Page into Italian – Click to Visit Page

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

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

 

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GET INVOLVED

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WHAT ONE COMMUNITY IS CREATING

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

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

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

BUILDING THE FIRST OF MANY

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

WHY OPEN SOURCE

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

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

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

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

SUMMARY – BUILDING A GLOBAL COLLABORATION

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

Mainstream understanding and involvement in how to build global ecology is essential if we are to create a sustainable planet. To achieve this, a sustainable way of living is needed that most people will consider better than how they are living now. If sustainable living like this is made easy enough, affordable enough, and demonstrated as attractive enough, then it will predictably spread. One Community is open sourcing and free-sharing this for The Highest Good of all people and life on 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 October 2nd, 2016 edition (#184) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments on how to build global ecology:

How to Build Global Ecology
One Community Progress Update #184

Here is the bullet-point list of this last week’s design and progress discussed in detail in the video above on how to build global ecology:

HOW TO BUILD GLOBAL ECOLOGY INTRO: @1:03

HOW TO BUILD GLOBAL ECOLOGY HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION: @1:43

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

HOW TO BUILD GLOBAL ECOLOGY HIGHEST GOOD FOOD: @2:55

• Made additional edits to the code for the Transition Kitchen page (see below)

HOW TO BUILD GLOBAL ECOLOGY HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING: @3:20

• Continued updating the formatting of the pages for the upcoming 7 villages online book (see below)
• Put another 10 hours into the behind-the-scenes revision for the Footers, Foundations and Flooring page for the crowdfunding campaign we are developing (see below)
• Created more EPS insulation sheet layout updates (see below)
• Ashwini Ramesh continued helping with Project Management of the Earthbag Village (see below)
• Brianna Johnson added final Photoshop details and edits to Straw Bale Village (Pod 2) renders (see below)
• Hamilton Mateca continued evolving the Compressed Earth Block Village rooftop recreation space in AutoCAD and started work on elevation drawings in Revit (see below)
• Guy Grossfeld worked on 3D creation of the specific blocks that will be used for the Compressed Earth Block Village (see below)
• Jiming Chen joined the team and began further developing the Tree House Village (see below)

HOW TO BUILD GLOBAL ECOLOGY DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER: @6:00

• Continued working on the Dining Dome of the Duplicable City Center (see below)
• Iris Hsu continued render-testing the recycled pipe shelving for the Duplicable City Center library (see below)
• “Hayes” Lei and Shuna Ni continued their work on the City Center column placement and calculations (see below)
• Neha Verma helped with the headroom clearance issue, and changes to the root cellar layout (see below)
• Dipti Dhondarkar continued with her 17th week of work on the lighting zones (see below)
• Jinxi Feng continued her research helping us create an in-depth laundry and dryer machine sustainability analysis (see below)

HOW TO BUILD GLOBAL ECOLOGY HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY: @7:46

• Jennifer Zhou completed her 12th week of work developing the new website structure (see below)

HOW TO BUILD GLOBAL ECOLOGY SUMMARY: @8:00

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

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How to Build Global Ecology

HOW TO BUILD GLOBAL ECOLOGY HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

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

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

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

Personal Growth Lesson Plan – 75% Complete – Click to Visit Page

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

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

Beliefs Mindmap – 50% Complete – Click to Visit Page

HOW TO BUILD GLOBAL ECOLOGY HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

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

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

As part of demonstrating how to build global ecology this week, the core team made additional edits to the code for the Transition Kitchen page. You can see images of that work here:

Made Additional Edits to the Code for Transition Kitchen Page

HOW TO BUILD GLOBAL ECOLOGY HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

One Community is showing how to build global ecology through Highest Good housing that is artistic and beautiful, more affordable, more space efficient, lasts longer, DIY buildable, and constructed with healthy and sustainable materials:

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

As part of demonstrating how to build global ecology this week the core team continued updating the formatting of the pages for the upcoming 7 villages online book. This week’s work focused on creating a new Tree House Village (Pod 7) layout and more revisions and layout and formatting updates for the Duplicable City Center and Shipping Container Village (Pod 5) pages as you can see here:

Continued Formatting of Upcoming 7 Villages Online Book – Click to Visit Page

The core team also put another 10 hours into the behind-the-scenes revision for the Footers, Foundations and Flooring page for the crowdfunding campaign we are developing. This week we adapted the single dome expanded polystyrene (EPS) layout to a 3-dome cluster configuration. We also reviewed the openings doc for additional re-writes to the narrative for specifications and locations of the doors and windows.

Continued Behind-the-Scenes Revision of the Footers, Foundations and Flooring Info – Click to Visit

We also created more EPS insulation sheet layout updates, as seen here…

Created More EPS Insulation Sheet Layouts – Click to Visit Footer and Foundation Page

Ashwini Ramesh (Civil Engineer and Project Manager) also completed her 4th week of volunteering with One Community, continuing helping with Project Management of the Earthbag Village (Pod 1) by helping organizing the 100s of Earthbag Village files and professional review, re-organization and feedback on the Footers, Foundations and Flooring page:

Continued Helping with Project Management of the Earthbag Village – Click to Visit Page

In addition to this, Brianna Johnson (Interior Designer), added final Photoshop details and edits to the Straw Bale Village (Pod 2) Apartment Section:

Apartment Section Final Render – Click to Visit Straw Bale Village

…the Studio Interior render looking East:

Studio Interior Final Render Looking East – Click to Visit Straw Bale Village

… the Studio Interior render looking West:

Studio Interior Final Render Looking West – Click to Visit Straw Bale Village

…and the Outdoor Patio area:

Outdoor Patio Area Final Render – Click to Visit Straw Bale Village

Hamilton Mateca (AutoCAD Draftsperson and Designer), also continued evolving the Compressed Earth Block Village (Pod 4) rooftop recreation space in AutoCAD (top left). This being his 10th week working on these designs, he also started work on elevation drawings for this structure, continuing development in Revit:

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

Created Blocks for the Compressed Earth Block Village in 3D – Click to Visit Page

Jiming Chen (Designer with his Master’s in Architecture and BA in Engineering) also joined the team and began further developing the Tree House Village (Pod 7). What you see here is his 1st week of this work focusing on the structural floor support for the tree houses and stair and ladder emergency access options.

Began Further Developing the Tree House Village – Click to Visit Page

HOW TO BUILD GLOBAL ECOLOGY DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

One Community is showing how to build global ecology through a Duplicable and Sustainable City Center that is LEED Platinum certified/Sustainable, can feed 200 people at a time, provide laundry for over 300 people, is beautiful, spacious, and saves resources, money, and space:

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

As part of demonstrating how to build global ecology this week the core team continued working on the Dining Dome of the Duplicable City Center. The focus can be see here: fixing headroom clearance issues for the root cellar access that required changes to the adjacent dry storage and bathrooms.

Continued Working on the Dining Dome of the Duplicable City Center – Click to Visit Page

Iris Hsu, (Industrial Designer), continued render-testing the recycled pipe shelving for the Duplicable City Center library. What you see here is round #19 of her work. This week’s focus was color changes, art options, and additional layout changes:

Continued Render-Testing Recycled Pipe Shelving for D.C.C Library – Click for the Pipe Furniture Page

Haoxuan “Hayes” Lei (Structural Engineer) and Shuna Ni (Masters of Mechanical Engineering and Civil Engineering PhD) continued their work on the City Center column placement and calculations. The focus this week was on the 4th floor, as seen here:

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

Neha Verma (Construction Project Manager and Bachelor’s of Architecture), also helped with the headroom clearance issue, changes to the root cellar layout, and beginning what’s needed for the City Center wall and ceiling detail:

Worked on the Headroom Clearance Issue, and Changes to the Root Cellar Layout – Click to Visit

And Dipti Dhondarkar, (Electrical Engineer) also continued with her 17th week of work on the lighting zones, completing updates to the lighting zone spreadsheet that goes with last week’s completed AutoCAD zone updates:

Continued Work on the City Center Lighting Zones – Click to Visit Page

Jinxi Feng (Environmental Consultant) also continued her research helping us create an in-depth laundry and dryer machine sustainability analysis. What you see here is her 4th week of behind-the-scenes research into this area.

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

HOW TO BUILD GLOBAL ECOLOGY HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS

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

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

As part of demonstrating how to build global ecology this week Jennifer Zhou (Web Designer) completed her 12th week of work developing the new website structure. We lost a week of work due to a website crash and so her work was mainly focused on restoring what was lost:

Continued Developing the New Website Structure – Click for Our Homepage

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

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

 

INVESTOR PAGES

OVERVIEW       ●       LOCATION       ●       FUNDING

GET INVOLVED

CONSULTANTS     ●     WAYS ANYONE CAN HELP     ●     MEMBERSHIP

CLICK HERE FOR ALL PAST UPDATES

WHAT ONE COMMUNITY IS CREATING

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

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

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

BUILDING THE FIRST OF MANY

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

WHY ONE COMMUNITY IS CREATING THIS

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

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

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

SUMMARY

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

One Community Welcomes Hamilton Mateca to the Design Team as our newest Volunteer/Consultant!

AutoCAD and Revit Drafter and Designer: Hamilton is a space planner, drafter, and CAD operator from Angola who has been living in the United States for the past 15 years. He is fluent in Portuguese, English, and Spanish, and is currently learning Albanian. Hamilton has an extensive Interior Design education from The Art Institute of Philadelphia as well as AutoCAD certification from Ashworth College. He specializes in design development, architectural drafting and design, mechanical drafting and design, and 3D modeling and illustration. He possesses the creative ability of manipulation and coordination of materials, technology, light and shadow. He also has Photoshop training and advanced Revit and CorelDraw skills. This combined experience and education makes him the ideal consultant for planning and designing spaces with ambiances that reflect aesthetic functionality for technical, social, and environmental purposes. To boost his creative thinking, Hamilton maintains a curriculum of traveling, studying, and spending time with loved ones. He also loves snowboarding, which in turn keeps him entertained during the winter. His contribution to One Community has been in the design of the Compressed Earth Block Village (Pod 4), where Hamilton has had the chance to develop most of the foundational aspects of this building.

WELCOME TO THE TEAM HAMILTON!

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One Community is an all-volunteer nonprofit creating a global sustainability cooperative through open sourcing and free-sharing replicable sustainable village models. These villages are combining sustainable food, energy, and housing with Highest Good approaches to education, for-profit and non-profit economic design, social architecture, fulfilled living, and global stewardship practices.

• 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 September 25th, 2016 edition (#183) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments on creating a global sustainability cooperative:

Creating a Global Sustainability Cooperative
One Community Progress Update #183

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

CREATING A GLOBAL SUSTAINABILITY COOPERATIVE INTRO: @1:03

CREATING A GLOBAL SUSTAINABILITY COOPERATIVE  HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION: @1:56

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

CREATING A GLOBAL SUSTAINABILITY COOPERATIVE HIGHEST GOOD FOOD: @2:45

• Added some additional content, reviewed, and made edits to the live version of the Transition Kitchen page (see below)

CREATING A GLOBAL SUSTAINABILITY COOPERATIVE HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING: @3:13

• Continued updating the formatting of the pages for the upcoming 7 villages online book (see below)
• Put another 10 hours into the behind-the-scenes revision for the Footers, Foundations and Flooring page for the crowdfunding campaign we are developing (see below)
• Updated the Sketchup image with the new EPS layout numbers and a corrected width of the wet dome (see below)
• Brianna Johnson created five finished renders and six 2nd generation renders of the Straw Bale Village (see below)
• Dean Scholz further developed what’s necessary for us to create quality Cob Village renders (see below)
• Hamilton Mateca continued evolving the Compressed Earth Block Village (see below)
• Guy Grossfeld continued using Hamilton’s work to build the Compressed Earth Block Village in 3D (see below)
• Yee-Cheng Ho began helping us create new exploded views for the Shipping Container Village and Recycled Materials Village (see below)

CREATING A GLOBAL SUSTAINABILITY COOPERATIVE DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER: @6:12

• Continued developing the aesthetic details around the natural pool in the Social Dome (see below)
• “Hayes” Lei and Shuna Ni continued their work and completed what we think will be the final placement for the City Center columns (see below)
• Neha Verma continued developing the City Center Project Brief that will update the City Center Plans Page when complete (see below)
• Dipti Dhondarkar continued with her 16th week of work on the lighting zones (see below)

CREATING A GLOBAL SUSTAINABILITY COOPERATIVE HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY: @7:42

• Further updated our Terms and Conditions page with the help of Oz Czerski (see below)
• Jennifer Zhoucompleted her 11th week of work developing the new website structure (see below)

CREATING A GLOBAL SUSTAINABILITY COOPERATIVE SUMMARY: @8:21

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

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Creating a Global Sustainability Cooperative

CREATING  A GLOBAL SUSTAINABILITY COOPERATIVE HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

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

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

As part of  creating a global sustainability cooperative this last week the core team transferred the second 25% of the written content for the Personal Growth Lesson Plan to the website, as you see here. This lesson plan purposed to teach all subjects, to all learning levels, in any learning environment, using the central theme of “Personal Growth” is now 50% completed on our website:

Personal Growth Lesson Plan – 50% Complete – Click to Visit Page

Behind the scenes, we wrote the second third 25% of the written part of the Personal Growth Lesson Plan.

CREATING A GLOBAL SUSTAINABILITY COOPERATIVE HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

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

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

As part of  creating a global sustainability cooperative this week, the core team added some additional content, reviewed, and made edits to the live version of the Transition Kitchen page. You can see images of that work here:

Added Additional Content, Reviewed, and Made Edits to the Transition Kitchen Page – Click to Visit

CREATING A GLOBAL SUSTAINABILITY COOPERATIVE  HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

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

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

As part of  creating a global sustainability cooperative this week the core team continued updating the formatting of the pages for the upcoming 7 villages online book. This week’s work focused on multiple revisions and updates of the Duplicable City Center pages and and the Recycled Materials Village (Pod 6) presentations, which you can see here:

Continued Formatting of Upcoming 7 Villages Online Book – Click to Visit Page

The core team also put another 10 hours into the behind-the-scenes revision for the Footers, Foundations and Flooring page for the crowdfunding campaign we are developing. This week we finished!! our comprehensive review of the FFF doc and passed it forward to begin professional review and editing by Ashwini Ramesh (Civil Engineer and Project Manager). This done, our efforts then moved to researching waterproofing paint where we found appropriate options to effectively use against stucco cracks because the product contains Portland cement. We also wrote a new narrative for the EPS puzzle based on a different numbering layout.

Continued Behind-the-Scenes Revision of the Footers, Foundations and Flooring Info – Click to Visit

Here is the updated Sketchup image with the new EPS layout numbers and a corrected width of the wet dome:

Updated the Sketchup Image of the EPS Layouts – Click to Visit Footer and Foundation Page

In addition to this, Brianna Johnson (Interior Designer), added final Photoshop details to the Straw Bale Village (Pod 2) Apartment Loft render:

Apartment Loft Final Render – Click to Visit Straw Bale Village Page

…this finalized version of the Apartment Living Room:

Apartment Living Room Final Render – Click to Visit Straw Bale Village Page

….this finalized Apartment Bedroom render:

Apartment Bedroom Final Render – Click to Visit Straw Bale Village Page

…this finalized Apartment Bathroom render:

Apartment Bathroom Final Render – Click to Visit Straw Bale Village Page

…and this finalized Library Workspace render:

Library Workspace Final Render – Click to Visit Straw Bale Village Page

Also these 2nd generation renders of the gym… kitchen… outdoor benches… outdoor fire pit… playground… and outdoor walkway areas:

Straw Bale Village 2nd Generation Renders – Click to Visit Page

Dean Scholz (Architectural Designer), further developed what’s necessary for us to create quality Cob Village (Pod 3) renders. Here is update 37 of his work that finalized the overview render and further developed the shadows, textures, and other aesthetic details of this perspective render looking East from in front of the village:

Further Developed What’s Necessary to Create Quality Cob Village Renders – Click to Visit Page

And, Hamilton Mateca (AutoCAD Draftsperson and Designer), continued evolving the Compressed Earth Block Village (Pod 4). You can see his 9th week of work here that primarily focused on redesigning the rooftop recreation space:

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

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

Last but certainly not least, Yee-Cheng Ho (Interior Designer) began helping us create new exploded views for the Shipping Container Village (Pod 5) and Recycled Materials Village (Pod 6). You can see her initial renders here:

Began Creating New Exploded Views for the Shipping Container Village and Recycled Materials Village

CREATING A GLOBAL SUSTAINABILITY COOPERATIVE DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

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

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

As part of  creating a global sustainability cooperative this week the core team continued developing the aesthetic details around the natural pool in the Social Dome. The texture of the first floor was changed from wooden to polished concrete, two structural columns were decorated to look like beautiful trees, and a couple of different benches were placed around columns. We also updated the texture of the water in the pool and added a couple of underwater lights.

Continued Aesthetic Details on the First Floor of the Social Dome – Click to Visit Page

Haoxuan “Hayes” Lei (Structural Engineer) and Shuna Ni (Masters of Mechanical Engineering and Civil Engineering PhD) also continued their work and completed what we think will be the final placement for the City Center columns, as seen here:

Completed Placement for the City Center Columns – Click to Visit Page

Neha Verma (Construction Project Manager and Bachelor’s of Architecture), also continued developing the City Center Project Brief that will update the City Center Plans Page when complete. This week’s focus was the chart seen here starting to outline the specific square footage of every room and the type of flooring they will each have:

Continued Developing the City Center Project Brief – Click to Visit Page

And Dipti Dhondarkar, (Electrical Engineer) also continued with her 16th week of work on the lighting zones, completing what we think are the final outlines. Her last areas revised can be seen here:

Continued Work on the City Center Lighting Zones – Click to Visit Page

CREATING A GLOBAL SUSTAINABILITY COOPERATIVE HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS

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

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

As part of  creating a global sustainability cooperative this last week the core team further updated our Terms and Conditions page with the help of Oz Czerski, Lawyer Specializing in Trademark and Copyright Law. The additions shown here are in response to litigation making news because it involves a company selling and trying to limit use of someone else’s intellectual property that was placed by the intellectual property owner in the open domain for free use.

Updated our Terms and Conditions Page – Click to Visit Page

This week Jennifer Zhou (Web Designer) completed her 11th week of work developing the new website structure. The focus continued on properly coding the responsiveness details for the header, introduction video, and newly added information box:

Continued Developing the New Website Structure – Click for Our Homepage

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

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

 

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OVERVIEW       ●       LOCATION       ●       FUNDING

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WHAT ONE COMMUNITY IS CREATING

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

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

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

BUILDING THE FIRST OF MANY

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

WHY ONE COMMUNITY IS CREATING THIS

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

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

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

SUMMARY  – CREATING A GLOBAL SUSTAINABILITY COOPERATIVE

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

One Community welcomes Jennifer Zhou to the Web Design Team as our newest Volunteer/Consultant!

Self-Taught Web Designer: Jennifer has been an overachiever in everything she participates in. Her dedication and perseverance has given her numerous leadership opportunities, leading her to become the Vice President of Science Olympiad, President of The Hugs Project, and Youth Ambassador for Animal Assisted Happiness. Her love for the sustainability movement started with a competition called Green Generation. After participating in this competition, she realized how unsustainable our life is, which motivated her to become an active participant in the green movement and to join One Community. As a member of the One Community Team, Jennifer is creating a completely new One Community website design that will better organize all our open source content, make it easier to find what people want, and look more professional.

WELCOME TO THE TEAM JENNIFER!

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Creating a sustainable planet is a path to improving life for all people everywhere. An open source evolution of sustainability that combines sustainable food, energy, and housing with Highest Good approaches to education, for-profit and non-profit economic design, social architecture, fulfilled living, and global stewardship practices is one way to accomplish this.

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

OUR MAIN OPEN SOURCE HUBS

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

One Community’s physical location will forward this movement as the first of many self-replicating teacher/demonstration communities, villages, and cities to be built around the world. This is the September 18th, 2016 edition (#182) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments:

Improving Life for All People Everywhere
One Community Progress Update #182

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

IMPROVING LIFE FOR ALL PEOPLE EVERYWHERE INTRO: @1:03

IMPROVING LIFE FOR ALL PEOPLE EVERYWHERE  HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION: @1:58

• Transferred first 25% of written content for the Personal Growth Lesson Plan to the website (see below)
• Behind the scenes: completed the image research for the first 25% of the written part of the Beliefs Lesson Plan
• We also completed the first 25% of the mindmap for the Beliefs Lesson Plan (see below)

IMPROVING LIFE FOR ALL PEOPLE EVERYWHERE HIGHEST GOOD FOOD: @2:52

• Added additional descriptions, images,  and information about hexayurts to the live version of the Transition Kitchen page (see below)

IMPROVING LIFE FOR ALL PEOPLE EVERYWHERE HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING: @3:21

IMPROVING LIFE FOR ALL PEOPLE EVERYWHERE DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER: @6:26

• Continued working on the Duplicable City Center 3D renders (see below)
• Continued developing the aesthetic details around the natural pool in the Social Dome (see below)
• Iris Hsu continued render-testing the recycled pipe shelving and overhead lighting options for the Duplicable City Center library (see below)
• Haoxuan “Hayes” Lei and Shuna Ni continued work on the structural details for the City Center (see below)
• Neha Verma reviewed and provided feedback on Bupesh’s work from last week while also helping make several updates to the Master City Center AutoCAD file (see below)
• Jinxi Feng joined the team and began the research needed to create an in-depth laundry and dryer machine sustainability analysis (see below)

IMPROVING LIFE FOR ALL PEOPLE EVERYWHERE HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY: @8:42

• Jennifer Zhou completed her 10th week of work developing the new website structure (see below)

IMPROVING LIFE FOR ALL PEOPLE EVERYWHERE SUMMARY: @8:59

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

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Improving Life for All People Everywhere

IMPROVING LIFE FOR ALL PEOPLE  EVERYWHERE HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

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

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

As part of improving life for all people everywhere this last week the core team transferred the first 25% of the written content for the Personal Growth Lesson Plan to the website, as you see here. This lesson plan purposed to teach all subjects, to all learning levels, in any learning environment, using the central theme of “Personal Growth” is now 25% completed on our website.

Personal Growth Lesson Plan – 25% Complete – Click to Visit Page

Behind the scenes, we completed the image research for the first 25% of the written part of the Beliefs Lesson Plan.

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

Beliefs Mindmap – 25% Complete – Click to Visit Page

IMPROVING LIFE FOR ALL PEOPLE EVERYWHERE HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

One Community is focused on improving life for all people everywhere 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

As part of improving life for all people everywhere this week the core team added additional descriptions, images, and information about hexayurts to the live version of the Transition Kitchen page. You can see images of that work here:

Added Additional Descriptions, Images, and Information about Hexayurts to the Transition Kitchen Page – Click to Visit

IMPROVING LIFE FOR ALL PEOPLE EVERYWHERE HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

One Community is focused on improving life for all people everywhere 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

As part of improving life for all people everywhere this week the core team continued updating the formatting of the pages for the upcoming 7 villages online book. This week’s work focused on the updates shown here including cleaned up and new versions of the Shipping Container Village (Pod 5) and Recycled Materials Village (Pod 6) presentations:

Continued Formatting of Upcoming 7 Villages Online Book – Click to Visit Page

The core team also put another 10 hours into the behind-the-scenes revision for the Footers, Foundations and Flooring page for the crowdfunding campaign we are developing. This week we continued the comprehensive review of the FFF doc, with the focus on pages 150 to the end of the document, where we made updates related to measurements and proofreading grammar and sentence structure. We also made corrections throughout the document that were related to those updates. We’d say we are now 99% complete with this total update and rewrite behind the scenes.

Continued Behind-the-Scenes Revision of the Footers, Foundations and Flooring Info – Click to Visit Page

We also updated the Sketchup image of the EPS layouts for insulating the ground around the domes:

Updated the Sketchup Image of the EPS Layouts – Click to Visit Footer and Foundation Page

Ashwini Ramesh (Civil Engineer and Project Manager) also completed her 3rd week of volunteering with One Community, taking over Project Management of the Earthbag Village (Pod 1). For her first three weeks Ashwini began the organization you see here of the 100s of Earthbag Village files and professional review, re-organization and feedback on the Footers, Foundations and Flooring page.

Began Organizing 100’s of Earthbag Village Files – Click to Visit Page

In addition to this, Brianna Johnson (Interior Designer), created these two finished exterior overviews of the Straw Bale Village (Pod 2:

Straw Bale Village Exterior Overview Final Render – Click to Visit Page

Straw Bale Village Exterior Overview Final Render – Click to Visit Page

….this finalized version of the Apartment Exploded View:

Apartment Exploded View Final Render – Click to Visit Straw Bale Village

….this finalized Game Room render:

Game Room Final Render – Click to Visit Straw Bale Village

….this finalized Cafeteria render:

Cafeteria Final Render – Click to Visit Straw Bale Village

….and this finalized Playroom render:

Playroom Final Render – Click to Visit Straw Bale Village

…. Also these 2nd generation renders of the auditorium:

Auditorium 2nd Generation Renders – Click to Visit Straw Bale Village

…..and outdoor barbecue area:

Outdoor BBQ Area 2nd Generation Renders – Click to Visit Straw Bale Village

Dean Scholz (Architectural Designer), further developed what’s necessary for us to create quality Cob Village (Pod 3) renders. Here is update 36 of his work that focused on more color, shadow, and texture adjustment to make these renders more and more real. He also began work on the initial perspective render looking East from in front of the village:

Further Developed What’s Necessary to Create Quality Cob Village Renders – Click to Visit Page

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

Shipping Container Village Upper Dining Area Final Render – Click to Visit Page

Continued 3D modeling of the Compressed Earth Block Village – Click to Visit Page

IMPROVING LIFE FOR ALL PEOPLE EVERYWHERE DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

One Community is focused on improving life for all people everywhere 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

As part of improving life for all people everywhere this week the core team continued working on the Duplicable City Center 3D renders. What you see here are the updates to the Dining Dome and basement. This week we moved the door to the utility room that is under the staircase to face the kitchen and added additional movable storage drawers. We also updated the placement and size of the supporting columns.

Continued Working on the Duplicable City Center 3D Renders – Click to Visit Page

We also continued developing the aesthetic details around the natural pool in the Social Dome by adding texture to the supporting columns around the pool, added more branches to the columns, and making adjustments to the lights.

Continued Aesthetic Details on the First Floor of the Social Dome – Click to Visit Page

And Iris Hsu, (Industrial Designer), continued render-testing the recycled pipe shelving and overhead lighting options for the Duplicable City Center library. What you see here is round #18 of work on these designs. This week’s focus was color matching and adjusting the column width and ceiling height down to match the work we’re doing with the engineering team.

Began Render-Testing Recycled Pipe Shelving & Overhead Lighting Options – Click to Visit Page

Haoxuan “Hayes” Lei (Structural Engineer) and Shuna Ni (Masters of Mechanical Engineering and Civil Engineering PhD) also continued work on the structural details for the City Center. This week’s focus was additional load calculations and updates to the column placements as shown here:

Continued Work on Structural Details for City Center – Click to Visit Page

Neha Verma (Construction Project Manager and Bachelor’s of Architecture), also reviewed and provided this feedback on Bupesh’s work from last week while also helping make several updates to the Master City Center AutoCAD file.

Reviewed Last Weeks Work and Made Several Updates to the Master City Center AutoCAD File – Click to Visit City Center Page

Jinxi Feng (Environmental Consultant) also joined the team and began the research needed to create an in-depth laundry and dryer machine sustainability analysis. What you see here is her first 3 weeks of behind-the-scenes research into this area. When complete, this work will be used for all of One Community’s laundry machinery purchases and as an open source guide for others that we’ll share on the City Center Eco-laundry page.

Began Research Needed to Create Laundry and Dryer Machine Sustainability Analysis – Click for City Center Eco-Laundry Page

IMPROVING LIFE FOR ALL PEOPLE EVERYWHERE HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS

One Community is focused on improving life for all people everywhere 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

As part of improving life for all people everywhere this week Jennifer Zhou (Web Designer) completed her 10th week of work developing the new website structure. The focus continued on aesthetic edits, formatting updates, different layouts for the responsive screen-size changes, and how to integrate our logo into the different layouts.

Continued Developing the New Website Structure – Click for Our Homepage

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

SUMMARY

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

How to make a global sustainability starting point: open source all aspects of a sustainable living model that most people would consider better than the way they are living now. One Community is an all-volunteer nonprofit doing this 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 September 11th, 2016 edition (#181) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments on how to make a global sustainability starting point:

How to Make a Global Sustainability Starting Point
One Community Progress Update #181

Here is the bullet-point list of this last week’s design and progress discussed in detail in the video above focused on advancing our goals on how to make a global sustainability starting point:

HOW TO MAKE A GLOBAL SUSTAINABILITY STARTING POINT INTRO: @1:03

HOW TO MAKE A GLOBAL SUSTAINABILITY STARTING POINT HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION: @1:58

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

HOW TO MAKE A GLOBAL SUSTAINABILITY STARTING POINT HIGHEST GOOD FOOD: @2:52

• Added initial cost analysis document and the behind the scenes work to the live version of the Transition Kitchen page (see below)

HOW TO MAKE A GLOBAL SUSTAINABILITY STARTING POINT HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING: @3:20

HOW TO MAKE A GLOBAL SUSTAINABILITY STARTING POINT DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER: @6:02

• Continued working on the Duplicable City Center 3D renders (see below)
• Added supporting columns into the first floor of the Social Dome (see below)
• Bupesh Seethala created version 1 of all the Duplicable City Center elevations (see below)
• Iris Hsu began render-testing the recycled pipe shelving and overhead lighting options for the Duplicable City Center library (see below)
• Dipti Dhondarkar continued with her 15th week of work on the lighting zones (see below)
• “Hayes” Lei and Shuna Ni continued work on the structural details for the City Center (see below)

HOW TO MAKE A GLOBAL SUSTAINABILITY STARTING POINT HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY: @7:44

• Jennifer Zhou completed her 9th week of work developing the new website structure (see below)

HOW TO MAKE A GLOBAL SUSTAINABILITY STARTING POINT SUMMARY: @7:58

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

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How to Make a Global Sustainability Starting Point

HOW TO MAKE A GLOBAL SUSTAINABILITY STARTING POINT HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

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

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

As part of demonstrating how to make a global sustainability starting point this last week the core team transferred the final 25% of the written content for the Beliefs Lesson Plan to the website, as you see here. This lesson plan purposed to teach all subjects, to all learning levels, in any learning environment, using the central theme of “Beliefs” is now 100% completed on our website.

Beliefs Lesson Plan – Final 25% Complete – Click to Visit Page

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

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

Honesty and Integrity Mindmap – Click to Visit Page

 HOW TO MAKE A GLOBAL SUSTAINABILITY STARTING POINT HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

One Community is demonstrating how to make a global sustainability starting point 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

As part of demonstrating how to make a global sustainability starting point this week the core team added the initial cost analysis document and the behind the scenes work from the last few weeks to the live version of the Transition Kitchen page. You can see some of that work here:

Added initial Cost Analysis Document and Other Work to Transition Kitchen Page – Click to Visit

HOW TO MAKE A GLOBAL SUSTAINABILITY STARTING POINT HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

One Community is demonstrating how to make a global sustainability starting point 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

As part of demonstrating how to make a global sustainability starting point  this week the core team continued updating the formatting of the upcoming 7 villages online book pages. This week’s work focused on the updates shown here including cleaned up and new versions of the Earthbag Village, Straw Bale Village, and Cob Village presentations.

Continued Formatting of Upcoming 7 Villages Online Book – Click to Visit Page

Continued Behind-the-Scenes Revision of the Footers, Foundations and Flooring Info – Click to Visit

We also used Sketchup as seen here, to explore different options for EPS layouts for insulating the ground around the domes.

Used Sketchup to Explore Different Options for EPS Layouts – Click to Visit Footer and Foundation

And we created new and clearer images for the vermiculture bathroom open source page, you can see these images here:

Created New and Clearer Images for the Vermiculture Bathroom Open Source page – Click to Visit Page

Sal Rubio (Industrial Designer) also completed his final week of volunteering helping on the Earthbag Village Murphy Bed furniture assembly instructions. What you see here is his 14th week of helping and the final product of our collaboration to create the layouts for the intro pages to each section… and the tools page that is planned for the intro to the entire instruction set.

Worked on Layouts for Earthbag Village Murphy Bed Furniture Assembly Instructions – Click for Page

Brianna Johnson (Interior Designer), also created these two new overview renders focused on the Straw Bale Village (Pod 2) social spaces.

Created Two New Overview Renders Focused on the Straw Bale Village Social Spaces – Click to Visit

Dean Scholz (Architectural Designer), further developed what’s necessary for us to create quality Cob Village (Pod 3) renders. Here is update 35 of his work that focused on fixing the problems that caused computer crashes last week and the series of final render tests seen here… adjusting colors, shadows, and textures to make these renders more and more real.

Further Developed What’s Necessary to Create Quality Cob Village Renders – Click to Visit Page

And, Hamilton Mateca (AutoCAD Draftsperson and Designer), continued evolving the Compressed Earth Block Village (Pod 4). You can see his 7th week of work here showing updates to the public bathrooms area, driveway areas, and West and central social spaces on the 2nd floor.

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

Building on Hamilton’s work, Guy Grossfeld (Graphic Designer), also completed his 2nd week of 3D modeling of the Compressed Earth Block Village (Pod 4) for quality render creation. What you see here are his continued developments of the foundational walls and other structures in 3DS Max.

Continued 3D modeling of the Compressed Earth Block Village – Click to Visit Page

HOW TO MAKE A GLOBAL SUSTAINABILITY STARTING POINT DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

One Community is demonstrating how to make a global sustainability starting point 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

As part of demonstrating how to make a global sustainability starting point this week the core team continued working on the Duplicable City Center 3D renders. What you see here are the updates to the Dining Dome basement where we relocated the boiler room, made corrections to the retaining wall location, and rearranged the storage shelves and supporting columns.

Continued Working on the Duplicable City Center 3D Renders – Click to Visit Page

Additionally, we added supporting columns into the first floor of the Social Dome and continued developing the aesthetic details you can see here.

Continued Work on the First Floor of the Social Dome – Click to Visit Page

Bupesh Seethala (Interior Designer and Drafter) also created version 1 of all the elevations you can see here:

Created Version 1 of All the Duplicable City Center Elevations – Click to Visit Page

And Iris Hsu, (Industrial Designer), began render-testing the recycled pipe shelving and overhead lighting options for the Duplicable City Center library. What you see here is round #17 of work on these designs that now include books, columns, and furniture layout details.

Began Render-Testing Recycled Pipe Shelving & Overhead Lighting Options – Click to Visit Page

Dipti Dhondarkar, (Electrical Engineer) also continued with her 15th week of work on the lighting zones. This week’s progress continued with final revisions and defining of the zones as shown here, plus double checking the calculation and spreadsheet details. We’d say we are now 98% complete with this component of the City Center.

Continued Work on City Center Lighting Zones – Click to Visit City Center Lighting Page

Haoxuan “Hayes” Lei (Structural Engineer) and Shuna Ni (Masters of Mechanical Engineering and Civil Engineering PhD) also continued work on the structural details for the City Center. This week’s focus was designating additional structural walls and more updates to the column placements.

Continued Work on Structural Details for City Center – Click to Visit Page

HOW TO MAKE A GLOBAL SUSTAINABILITY STARTING POINT HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS

One Community is demonstrating how to make a global sustainability starting point 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

As part of demonstrating how to make a global sustainability starting point this week Jennifer Zhou (Web Designer) completed her 9th week of work developing the new website structure. The focus continued on formatting updates, different layouts for the responsive screen-size changes, and how to integrate our logo into the different layouts.

Continued Developing the New Website Structure – Click for Our Homepage

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

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

 

INVESTOR PAGES

OVERVIEW       ●       LOCATION       ●       FUNDING

GET INVOLVED

CONSULTANTS     ●     WAYS ANYONE CAN HELP     ●     MEMBERSHIP

CLICK HERE FOR ALL PAST UPDATES

WHAT ONE COMMUNITY IS CREATING

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

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

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

BUILDING THE FIRST OF MANY

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

WHY ONE COMMUNITY IS CREATING THIS

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

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

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

One Community is an all-volunteer nonprofit open sourcing and free-sharing the complete process of building sustainable villages.

• 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 September 4th, 2016 edition (#180) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments:

Building Sustainable Villages
One Community Progress Update #180

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

BUILDING SUSTAINABLE VILLAGES INTRO: @1:03

BUILDING SUSTAINABLE VILLAGES HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION: @1:56

• Transferred third 25% of written content for the Beliefs Lesson Plan to the website (see below)
• Behind the scenes, we wrote the first 25% of the written part of the Personal Growth Lesson Plan.
• We also completed the third 25% of the mindmap for the Honesty and Integrity Lesson Plan, bringing it to 75% complete, which you see here.

BUILDING SUSTAINABLE VILLAGES HIGHEST GOOD FOOD: @2:49

• Added additional images, references, and resources to the behind the scenes version of the Transition Kitchen (see below)

BUILDING SUSTAINABLE VILLAGES HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING: @3:15

• Continued updating the formatting of the upcoming 7 villages online book pages (see below)
• Created 3 new Earthbag Village icons and integrated into the pages (see below)
• Put another 10 hours into the behind-the-scenes revision for the Footers, Foundations and Flooring page for the crowdfunding campaign we are developing (see below)
• Dean Scholz further developed what’s necessary for us to create quality Cob Village (see below)
• Hamilton Mateca continued evolving the Compressed Earth Block Village (see below)
• Guy Grossfeld completed his 1st week of 3D modeling of the Compressed Earth Block Village for quality render creation (see below)

BUILDING SUSTAINABLE VILLAGES DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER: @5:25

• Continued working on the Duplicable City Center 3D renders (see below)
• Updated the Transition Kitchen designs in Sketchup  (see below)
• Dipti Dhondarkar continued with her 14th week of work on the lighting zones for the City Center (see below)
• Haoxuan “Hayes” Lei and Shuna Ni continued work on the structural details for the City Center (see below)
• Neha Verma continued developing the City Center Project Brief that will update the City Center Plans Page when complete (see below)

BUILDING SUSTAINABLE VILLAGES HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY: @7:04

• Jennifer Zhou completed her 8th week of work developing the new website structure

BUILDING SUSTAINABLE VILLAGES SUMMARY: @7:20

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

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Building Sustainable Villages

HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

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

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

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

Beliefs Lesson Plan – 75% Complete – Click to Visit Page

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

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

Honesty and Integrity Mindmap – 75% Complete – Click to Visit Page

HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

One Community is building sustainable villages 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

As part of building sustainable villages this week the core team added additional images, references, and resources to the behind the scenes version of the Transition Kitchen. You can see images of that work here:

Added Additional Images/Descriptions for Transition Kitchen Equipment to Site – Click for Main Page

HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

One Community is building sustainable villages 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

As part of building sustainable villages The core team continued updating the formatting of the upcoming 7 villages online book pages. This week’s work focused on new introduction pages and new images for the Straw Bale Village.

Continued Formatting of Upcoming 7 Villages Online Book – Click to Visit Page

We also created 3 new Earthbag Village icons shown here and integrated these into the pages.

Created 3 New Earthbag Village Icons and Integrated into the Pages – Click to Visit

And we put another 10 hours into the behind-the-scenes revision for the Footers, Foundations and Flooring page for the crowdfunding campaign we are developing. This week we completed a comprehensive review of the FFF doc. on pages 88-150, where we made corrections related to measurements and proofreading grammar and sentence structure. We also added a 6d galvanized finish nail photo and replaced all 16d finish nails throughout the document with 6d galvanized finish nails. We’d say we are now 97% complete with this total update and rewrite behind the scenes.

Continued Work Updating AutoCAD Drawings for Footer and Foundation – Click to Visit Page

Dean Scholz (Architectural Designer), further developed what’s necessary for us to create quality Cob Village (Pod 3) renders. Here is update 34 of his work that focused on shadows, additional textures, and (thus far unsuccessfully) attempting to overcome computer crash problems during the final render process. What you see here are some successful renders and renders that froze and then crashed Dean’s computer.

Further Developed What’s Necessary to Create Quality Cob Village Renders – Click to Visit Page

And, Hamilton Mateca (AutoCAD Draftsperson and Designer), continued evolving the Compressed Earth Block Village (Pod 4). You can see his 6th week of work here showing aligning the 1st and 2nd floor, seating ideas for the dining area, more roadway and column changes, expansion of the 2nd floor private events space, and a new design for the West recreation space.

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

Building on Hamilton’s work, Guy Grossfeld (Graphic Designer), also completed his 1st week of 3D modeling of the Compressed Earth Block Village (Pod 4) for quality render creation. What you see here are the beginnings of the structure taking shape in 3DS Max.

Began 3D modeling of the Compressed Earth Block Village – Click to Visit Page

DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

One Community is building sustainable villages 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

As part of building sustainable villages this week the core team continued working on the Duplicable City Center 3D renders. What you see here are the updates to the Dining Dome, where we placed the basement retaining wall and structural columns, and created detailed measurement images for the basement staircase updates we’ll be doing in AutoCAD.

Continued Working on the Duplicable City Center 3D Renders – Click to Visit Page

We also updated the Transition K itchen designs in Sketchup, replacing a double-compartment sink with a 3-compartment sink and adding a dish-drying shelving unit and a sink for pots and pans.

Updated the Transition Kitchen Designs in Sketchup – Click to Visit Page

Dipti Dhondarkar, (Electrical Engineer) also continued with her 14th week of work on the lighting zones. This week’s progress continued with final revisions and defining of the zones as shown here. We’d say we are now 95% complete with this component of the City Center.

Continued Work on City Center Lighting Zones – Click to Visit City Center Lighting Page

Haoxuan “Hayes” Lei (Structural Engineer) and Shuna Ni (Masters of Mechanical Engineering and Civil Engineering PhD) also continued work on the structural details for the City Center. This week’s focus was continued evolution of the structural column and beam placements, discussing structural walls, and how to better design the geometry of the dome.

Continued Work on Structural Details for City Center – Click to Visit Page

Neha Verma (Construction Project Manager and Bachelor’s of Architecture), also continued developing the City Center Project Brief that will update the City Center Plans Page when complete. This week’s focus was beginning the chart seen here exploring the features of each dome.

Continued Developing the City Center Project Brief – Click to Visit the City Center Plans Page

HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS

One Community is building sustainable villages 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

As part of building sustainable villages this week Jennifer Zhou (Web Designer) completed her 8th week of work developing the new website structure, adding more formatting updates, and continuing to test different layouts for the responsive screen-size changes and how to integrate our logo into the different layouts.

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WHAT ONE COMMUNITY IS CREATING

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

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

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

BUILDING THE FIRST OF MANY

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

WHY ONE COMMUNITY IS CREATING THIS

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

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

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

WHY OPEN SOURCE

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

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

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

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

SUMMARY

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