Successful ecosystem creation and management is possible using permaculture. If we do this as conscious and conscientious stewards of our local environments, we’ll be contributing to doing the same for our global environments. If we open source and free-share the process and make it easy enough, affordable enough, and demonstrate it as attractive enough, the idea will predictably spread on its own. This is one path to global sustainability. One Community calls it living and creating for The Highest Good of All.

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

OUR MAIN OPEN SOURCE HUBS

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

One Community’s physical location will forward this movement as the first of many self-replicating teacher/demonstration communities, villages, and cities to be built around the world. This is the December 2, 2018 edition (#297) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments:

Ecosystem Creation and Management
One Community Progress Update #297

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

ECOSYSTEM CREATION AND MANAGEMENT INTRO: @0:34

ECOSYSTEM CREATION AND MANAGEMENT – HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING: @7:04

• Continued design updates to the open source Murphy bed furniture assembly instructions (see below)
• Anvita Kumari Pandey completed her 26th week volunteering and now helping with the Earthbag Village Materials and Costs (see below)
• Guy Grossfeld continued helping with render corrections and PhotoShop additions for the Earthbag Village (see below)
• Dan Alleck finished an Earthbag Village render showing a perspective standing at the entry to the village and looking North (see below)
• Shadi Kennedy completed his 32nd week leading the development of the Murphy bed instructions (see below)
• Dean Scholz continued working on the Earthbag Village (see below)

ECOSYSTEM CREATION AND MANAGEMENT – DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER: @9:15

• Continued working on the Sketchup Duplicable City Center updates for the Social Dome and Dining Dome (see below)
• Continued developing the Duplicable City Center Sprinkler and Emergency Systems Design page (see below)
• Dipti Dhondarkar continued developing the lighting specifics for the City Center (see below)
• David Olivero returned to helping finish the City Center HVAC Designs (see below)
• Anvita Kumari Pandey continued updating the Duplicable City Center Materials and Costs details by creating separate cost analysis tabs for each area of the project (see below)

ECOSYSTEM CREATION AND MANAGEMENT – HIGHEST GOOD FOOD: @10:46:

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

ECOSYSTEM CREATION AND MANAGEMENT – HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION: @11:31

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

ECOSYSTEM CREATION AND MANAGEMENT – HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY: @12:37

• Identified problems with our website database using too many server resources and started the process of correcting these errors (see below)
• Emilio Nájera researched keywords for two more of our top-level food-related pages: the Transition Kitchen and Large-scale Gardening pages (see below)
• Highest Good Network software team consisting of Shubhra Mittal, Aishwarya Singh, Â Farhan Zaki, Jordan Miller , and Tyler Calvert continued developing the software (see below)

ECOSYSTEM CREATION AND MANAGEMENT SUMMARY: @14:01

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ECOSYSTEM CREATION AND MANAGEMENT – HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

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

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

This week the core team continued design updates to the open source Murphy bed furniture assembly instructions. The focus this week was updating the front and side measurement images with the bed down, and the front, side and top images with the table in the down position. You can see some of this work-in-progress here.

Continued Design Updates to Murphy Bed Furniture Assembly Instructions

Anvita Kumari Pandey (Civil Engineer) also completed her 26th week volunteering and now helping with the Earthbag Village Materials and Costs. This week she finished the Earthbag AutoCAD updates by adding different colors, legends, updated roadway and pathway area drawings, and roadway and paved area measurements. You can see some of this work here.

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

Guy Grossfeld (Graphic Designer) also continued his work helping with render corrections and PhotoShop additions for the Earthbag Village (Pod 1). This week Guy completed two more 2nd-generation views of the village looking down and South over the Tropical Atrium:

View of the Village Looking Down and South Over the Tropical Atrium – Click for Earthbag Village

…and this village view looking Northwest.

View of the Village Looking Northwest the Tropical Atrium – Click for Earthbag Village

Dan Alleck (Designer and Illustrator) completed his 30th week helping with render additions. This week he finished this Earthbag Village (Pod 1) render showing a perspective standing at the entry to the village and looking North. This image is now on the site too.

Perspective Standing at Entry to the Earthbag Village and Looking North – Click for Page

Shadi Kennedy (Artist and Graphic Designer) also completed his 32nd week leading the development of the Murphy bed instructions. This week he made further updates to the bed box section, updated the wall section to address issues with access to the nightstand and create additional cubby storage, redid the parts map to include new pieces, and created more instructional diagrams for the wall section assembly, all aimed at ecosystem creation and management. You can see some of this work here.

Continued Development of Murphy Bed Furniture Assembly Instructions

And Dean Scholz (Architectural Designer) continued working on the Earthbag Village (Pod 1). Here is weekly update #140 from Dean. His focus this week was more design updates to eliminate fractions, starting to update the Murphy Bed designs, and more labeling of components. You can see some of this work here.

Continued Work on Earthbag Village Home Layout ” Click for Page

ECOSYSTEM CREATION AND MANAGEMENT – DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

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

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

This week, the core team continued working on the Sketchup Duplicable City Center updates for the Social Dome and Dining Dome. We added the large hexagonal windows and smaller dormer windows to the Social Dome. We also designed windows for the Dining Dome that are located close to the hot-tub area, as shown here.

Continued Updating the Duplicable City Center Social and Dining Dome ” Click for Page

The core team also continued developing the Duplicable City Center Sprinkler and Emergency Systems Design page, focusing on ecosystem creation and management. This week we developed the first two-thirds of the Hydraulic Calculations. You can see some of this work here.

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

Dipti Dhondarkar (Electrical Engineer) also continued developing the lighting specifics for the City Center. This is Dipti’s 105th week volunteering on this task and the focus this week was placing and updating the lights for the basement, kitchen, and Social and Living Domes, some of which you can see here.

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

David Olivero (Mechanical Engineer & Data Scientist) returned to helping finish the City Center HVAC Designs. This week he added the remaining ducting details in AutoCAD and finalized the equipment selection, some of which you can see here.

Continued Helping finish the City Center HVAC Designs – Click for Page

Anvita Kumari Pandey (Civil Engineer) also continued updating the Duplicable City Center Materials and Costs details by creating separate cost analysis tabs for each area of the project, facilitating ecosystem creation and management. You can see some of this work here.

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

ECOSYSTEM CREATION AND MANAGEMENT – HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

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

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

This week the core team continued writing the behind-the-scenes narrative and detailed food rollout plan for the various stages of development. This week we continued researching information on goats, adding new information on the importance of goats in range management, and began researching llamas and donkeys as guardians for goats. We also finished behind-the-scenes edit suggestions for the remainder of  the goat page on our website. You can see some of this behind-the-scenes work here.

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

ECOSYSTEM CREATION AND MANAGEMENT – HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

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

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

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

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

ECOSYSTEM CREATION AND MANAGEMENT – HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS

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

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

This week the core team identified problems with our website database using too many server resources and started the process of correcting these errors.

Identified Problems With Our Website Database Using Too Many Server Resources – Click for Page

Emilio Nájera (Digital Marketer) also continued with his 8th week as part of the marketing team. This week he researched keywords for two more of our top-level food-related pages: the Transition Kitchen and Large-scale Gardening pages. You can see some of this work here.

Researched Keywords for Two More of Our Top-level Food-related Pages – Click for Site Map Page

In addition to this, the Highest Good Network software team consisting of Shubhra Mittal (Software Delivery Manager), Aishwarya Singh (Computer Science Engineer), Â Farhan Zaki (Software Engineer), Jordan Miller (Web Developer), and Tyler Calvert (Full-stack Software Engineer) continued developing the software. This week the team researched Heroku, restored missing test script in package.json and omitted incomplete describe blocks from the test suite, restructured Redux implementation to pass test suites, added Redux Dev Tools and continued to build out redux, and started working on the Time Entry Table, all aimed at ecosystem creation and management. You can see some of this work here.

Continued Developing the Highest Good Network Software ” Click for Page

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WHAT ONE COMMUNITY IS CREATING

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

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, emphasizing ecosystem creation and management. 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. Ecosystem creation and management is a core principle of our approach.

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. Ecosystem creation and management will be integral to our success.

One Community welcomes Emilio Nájera to the Marketing Team as our newest Volunteer/Consultant!

Emilio Nájera – Marketer and Software Developer: Emilio has a bachelor’s degree in Marketing and another in Software Development Engineering. He specializes in Digital Marketing and has provided services for a range of local companies in Mexico covering a variety of sectors such as agricultural, hotel, educational, industrial safety, construction, and internet services. He strongly believes in a sustainable economy and the way technology can help solve most of the last century’s problems. That’s why he is committed to creating software solutions for areas like agronomy, health and business’ sustainability. As a member of the One Community team, Emilio is helping with keyword research and Adwords marketing campaign design.

WELCOME TO THE TEAM EMILIO!

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One Community welcomes Aishwarya Singh to the Highest Good Network software team as our newest Volunteer/Consultant!

Aishwarya Singh – Computer Science Engineer: Aishwarya earned her bachelor’s in computer science from Symbiosis Institute of Technology, Pune, India and her master’s in computer science from the University of Florida, Gainesville, USA. In so doing she learned about new technology and explored the various fields within computer science: web development, design, architecture, artificial intelligence, computer networks and network security, cloud computing, etc. Aishwarya is eager to learn more and sees her knowledge pool as ever expanding. In her spare time she enjoys long walks, personal growth, and pondering over probable solutions for the various problems she sees humanity needing to tackle. Wanting to help in these areas is what led to her joining One Community and helping develop the Highest Good Network software.

WELCOME TO THE TEAM AISHWARYA!

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No-waste living is possible and can be implemented in ways that make life easier. Through collaborative and cooperative living we can reduce or eliminate waste in many parts of our lives while also providing more time and resources to do the things we want. One Community is designing a prototype community to demonstrate no-waste living as part of a more ethical, abundant, and fulfilling lifestyle. We are also open source sharing everything needed for replication. Our open source sustainability plans cover food, energy, housing, education, for-profit and non-profit economic design, social architecture, fulfilled living, global stewardship practices, and more.

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

OUR MAIN OPEN SOURCE HUBS

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

One Community’s physical location will forward this movement as the first of many self-replicating teacher/demonstration communities, villages, and cities to be built around the world. This is the November 18, 2018 edition (#295) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments:

No-Waste Living
One Community Progress Update #295

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

NO-WASTE LIVING INTRO: @0:34

NO-WASTE LIVING – HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING: @8:06

NO-WASTE LIVING – DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER: @10:23

NO-WASTE LIVING – HIGHEST GOOD FOOD: @11:28

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

NO-WASTE LIVING – HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION: @12:06

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

NO-WASTE LIVING – HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY: @13:12

• Emilio Nájera continued with his 6th week helping the marketing team (see below)
• Highest Good Network software team consisting of Shubhra Mittal, Aishwarya Singh, Farhan Zaki, Jordan Miller, and Tyler Calvert continued developing the software (see below)

NO-WASTE LIVING SUMMARY: @14:35

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NO-WASTE LIVING – HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

One Community is helping develop no-waste living through Highest Good housing that is artistic and beautiful, more affordable, more space efficient, lasts longer, DIY buildable, and constructed with healthy and sustainable materials:

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

Hemanth Kotaru (Structural Engineer) completed his 26th week helping with the structural engineering research and calculations for the Earthbag Village (Pod 1). This week’s focus was replacing the soil mix with soil mix springs around the nails to factor in the resistance of the soil mix to the movement of the nail within the bag. The Winkler model is what is being used to calculate the stiffness of these “soil springs” within the bags. You can see some of this work-in-progress here. 

Continued Helping with Structural Engineering Research and Calculations for the Earthbag Village

Anvita Kumari Pandey (Civil Engineer) also completed her 24th week volunteering. Resuming her work on the Earthbag Village Materials and Costs, this week she continued work on the 3-dome cost analysis, cross checked the material lists and quantities, added missing materials, started on the Vermiculture Toilet cost analysis, and updated the complete village AutoCAD with new internal and external dimensions drawings. You can see some of this work here. 

Continued Working on the Earthbag Village 3-Dome Cluster Cost Analysis ” Click for Page

Guy Grossfeld (Graphic Designer) also continued his work helping with render corrections and PhotoShop additions for the Earthbag Village (Pod 1). This week Guy completed these two 1st-generation views of the top of the Tropical Atrium and looking South from the Tropical Atrium entryway, focusing on no-waste living.

Continued with Render Corrections and Photoshop Additions for Earthbag Village ” Click for Page

Dan Alleck (Designer and Illustrator) completed his 29th week helping with render additions. This week he finished this Earthbag Village (Pod 1) render showing a perspective from inside the village. This image is also now on the website.

Finished Earthbag Village Render Showing a Perspective Inside the Village – Click for Page

Shadi Kennedy (Artist and Graphic Designer) also completed his 30th week leading the development of the Murphy bed instructions. This week he completed a properly scaled parts Illustrator file and continued to simplify the existing parts labeling and cutting system, aimed at no-waste living. You can see some of this work here.

Continued Development of Murphy Bed Furniture Assembly Instructions ” Click for Furniture Page

Dean Scholz (Architectural Designer) also continued working on the Earthbag Village (Pod 1). Here is weekly update #138 from Dean, his focus this week was finishing the 6-dome layouts, adding more section view details, and additional labeling of components. You can see some of this work here.

Continued Work on Earthbag Village Layout for Section Views and 6-dome Layouts ” Click for Page

NO-WASTE LIVING – DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

One Community is helping develop no-waste living through a Duplicable and Sustainable City Center that is LEED Platinum certified/Sustainable, can feed 200 people at a time, provide laundry for over 300 people, is beautiful, spacious, and saves resources, money, and space:

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

Continued Updating the Duplicable City Center Dining Dome ” Click for Page

The core team also continued developing the Duplicable City Center Sprinkler and Emergency Systems Design page. This week we finished the sections covering Sprinkler Head and Pipe Selection, Sprinkler Head Location and Number, and System Demand, with our goal of no-waste living in mind. You can see most of this work here.

Continued Developing Duplicable City Center Sprinkler and Emergency Systems Design Page

And the core team continued developing the Duplicable City Center Materials and Costs. This week we added all the cost analysis overview imagery and text and the first details image. You can see some of this work here.

Continued Developing the Duplicable City Center Materials and Costs ” Click for Page

NO-WASTE LIVING – HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

One Community is helping develop no-waste living through Highest Good food that is more diverse, more nutritious, locally grown and sustainable, and part of our open source botanical garden model to support and share bio-diversity:

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

This week the core team continued writing the behind-the-scenes narrative and detailed food rollout plan for the various stages of development. This week we completed (for now) working on chicken coops and began working on goats. We began by reviewing and editing our current goat page, and then began researching additional information. You can see some of this behind-the-scenes work here.

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

NO-WASTE LIVING – HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

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

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

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

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

NO-WASTE LIVING – HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS

One Community is helping develop no-waste living through a Highest Good society approach to living that is founded on fulfilled living, the study of meeting human needs, Community, and making a difference in the world:

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

This week Emilio Nájera (Digital Marketer) continued with his 6th week as part of the marketing team. This week he created a pre-marketing analysis of past efforts and researched keywords for several of our top-level branding pages including Highest Good, Fulfilled Living, Community, and Highest Good Society. You can see some of this work here.

Continued Researching Keywords for the Marketing Team ” Click to Visit the Helping Page

In addition to this, the Highest Good Network software team consisting of Shubhra Mittal (Software Delivery Manager), Aishwarya Singh (Computer Science Engineer), Farhan Zaki (Software Engineer), Jordan Miller (Web Developer), and Tyler Calvert (Full-stack Software Engineer) continued developing the software. This week the team:

• Completed all the UI test cases for login page using Selenium.
• Integrated test cases with Sauce Labs.
• Configured nightly jobs on CircleCi to run automated tests
• Got the new header to display a profile picture and added the current user name on a toggle button
• Started creating the Timelog page in React
• Worked on getting data from the API on the timelog page
• Rebuilt the header for the timelog page using Reactstrap

You can see some of this work here:

Continued Developing the Highest Good Network Software ” Click for Page

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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, promoting no-waste living.

Our goal is to demonstrate what we feel is the most sustainable, healthy, and fun environment we can create. A place based on compassion, kindness, and collaboration. This replicable community will serve as an example 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, all aimed at no-waste living. We are creating these resources for implementation as individual components or complete developments called teacher/demonstration hubs. These hubs will help launch additional hubs as awareness and knowledge grow.

BUILDING THE FIRST OF MANY

One Community will be the first teacher/demonstration hub. It will function as an experiential-learning model that facilitates mass participation to address humanity’s most pressing challenges through: A replicable model for expansion, building seven self-sufficient village/city prototypes, becoming the world leader in open-source sustainability solutions, and evolving and expanding ALL aspects of sustainable living, emphasizing no-waste 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, focused on no-waste living. 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, always promoting no-waste living.

INSPIRING SUSTAINABILITY WITH OPEN SOURCE

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

It’s time for conscious global community creation. We can create a sustainable planet through conscious and conscientious communities working together. One Community is designing a prototype community to demonstrate what is possible while open source sharing everything needed for replication. Our open source sustainability plans include food, energy, housing, education, for-profit and non-profit economic design, social architecture, fulfilled living, global stewardship practices, and more.

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

OUR MAIN OPEN SOURCE HUBS

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

One Community’s physical location will forward this movement as the first of many self-replicating teacher/demonstration communities, villages, and cities to be built around the world. This is the November 11, 2018 edition (#294) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments:

Conscious Global Community Creation
One Community Progress Update #294

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

CONSCIOUS GLOBAL COMMUNITY CREATION INTRO: @0:34

CONSCIOUS GLOBAL COMMUNITY CREATION – HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING: @7:36

• Continued design updates to the open source Murphy bed furniture assembly instructions (see below)
• Hemanth Kotaru completed his 25th week helping with the structural engineering research and calculations for the Earthbag Village (see below)
• Anvita Kumari Pandey resumed her work on the Earthbag Village Materials and Costs (see below)
• Guy Grossfeld rejoined the team and started helping with render corrections and PhotoShop additions for the Earthbag Village (see below)
• Shadi Kennedy completed his 29th week leading the development of the Murphy bed instructions (see below)
• Dean Scholz continued development of the Earthbag Village section views and 6-dome layouts (see below)

CONSCIOUS GLOBAL COMMUNITY CREATION – DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER: @9:30

CONSCIOUS GLOBAL COMMUNITY CREATION – HIGHEST GOOD FOOD: @10:51

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

CONSCIOUS GLOBAL COMMUNITY CREATION – HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION: @11:28

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

CONSCIOUS GLOBAL COMMUNITY CREATION – HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY: @12:33

• Emilio Nájera continued with his 5th week helping the marketing team (see below)
• Highest Good Network software team consisting of Shubhra Mittal and Aishwarya Singh continued developing the software (see below)

CONSCIOUS GLOBAL COMMUNITY CREATION SUMMARY: @13:53

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

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

YOU CAN ALSO JOIN US THROUGH SOCIAL MEDIA

 

ONE COMMUNITY WEEKLY UPDATE DETAILS

CONSCIOUS GLOBAL COMMUNITY CREATION – HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

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

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

This week the core team continued design updates to the open source Murphy bed furniture assembly instructions. The focus this week was designing the mounting brackets for the gas spring and setting the dimensions for the placement of these brackets. You can see some of this work-in-progress here.

Design Updates to Open Source Murphy Bed Furniture Assembly Instructions

Hemanth Kotaru (Structural Engineer) completed his 25th week helping with the structural engineering research and calculations for the Earthbag Village (Pod 1). This week’s focus was completing the first two test models for forces acting on the nails that will be used between the different bag courses, aimed at conscious global community creation.

Structural Engineering Research and Calculations for the Earthbag Village

Anvita Kumari Pandey (Civil Engineer) also completed her 23rd week volunteering. Resuming her work on the Earthbag Village Materials and Costs, this week she started working on the 3-dome cluster cost analysis and helped make updates to the Earthbag Village Master Sheet and autoCAD files. You can see some of this work here.

Began Working on the Earthbag Village 3-Dome Cluster Cost Analysis

Guy Grossfeld (Graphic Designer) also rejoined the team and started helping with render corrections and PhotoShop additions for the Earthbag Village (Pod 1). This week Guy completed his part helping with the three renders shown here. 

Helping With Render Corrections and Photoshop Additions for Earthbag Village

Shadi Kennedy (Artist and Graphic Designer) also completed his 29th week leading the development of the Murphy bed instructions. This week he created a detailed list of the wall section parts and scouted potential build issues throughout the existing materials list and assembly instructions, focusing on conscious global community creation. You can see some of this work here.

Continued Development of Murphy Bed Furniture Assembly Instructions

Dean Scholz (Architectural Designer) also continued working on the Earthbag Village (Pod 1). Here is weekly update #137 from Dean, his focus this week was continued development of the section views and 6-dome layouts. You can see some of this work here.

Work on Earthbag Village Layout for Section Views and 6-dome Layouts

CONSCIOUS GLOBAL COMMUNITY CREATION – DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

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

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

This week, the core team continued working on the Sketchup Duplicable City Center updates for the Living Dome. We reshaped the first floor windows, made openings in the dome wall for the windows, and updated the window box. You can see some of this work here.

Continued Updating the Duplicable City Center Living Dome ” Click for Page

The core team also continued developing the Duplicable City Center Sprinkler and Emergency Systems Design page. This week we finished the Conditions section content and graphics. Some of which you can see here.

Duplicable City Center Sprinkler and Emergency Systems Design Page

And the core team started developing the Duplicable City Center Materials and Costs. This week we created the initial formatting, wrote the What and Why sections, and added the overview cost analysis graphic, with the goal of conscious global community creation in mind. You can see some of this work here.

Started Developing the Duplicable City Center Materials and Costs

Dipti Dhondarkar (Electrical Engineer) also continued developing the lighting specifics for the City Center. This is Dipti’s 103rd week volunteering on this task and the focus this week was creating new AutoCAD graphics for each type of light fixture, a legend explaining them all, and adding a missing zone to the master file. You can see examples of all of this here.

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

CONSCIOUS GLOBAL COMMUNITY CREATION – HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

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

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

This week the core team continued writing the behind-the-scenes narrative and detailed food rollout plan for the various stages of development. This week we completed (for now) working on rabbits. We also revisited researching commercial chicken coops and created a list of chicken nesting box and deep litter/bedding features.

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

CONSCIOUS GLOBAL COMMUNITY CREATION – HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

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

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

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

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

CONSCIOUS GLOBAL COMMUNITY CREATION – HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS

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

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

This week Emilio Nájera (Digital Marketer) continued with his 5th week helping the marketing team. This week he researched keywords for “Surveyor,” our top-level One Community brand pages, and refined and added additional words to the previously researched areas of: Structural Engineer, Civil Engineering, Plumbing, Food Specialist and Electrical Engineer, Product Designer, Attorney, Graphic Designer, and Project Manager. 

Continued Researching Keywords for the Marketing Team ” Click to Visit

In addition to this, the core team working with the Highest Good Network software team consisting of Shubhra Mittal (Software Delivery Manager) and Aishwarya Singh (Computer Science Engineer) continued developing the software. This week we added 4 new members to the design team, completed Ember UI and HGN REST code for handling delete, inactivate and archive user functionalities, created unit test cases for the LoginPage, and implemented Navigation Bar routing to timelog, dashboard, and reports in React, all aimed at conscious global community creation. You can see some of this work here.

Continued Developing the Highest Good Network Software ” Click for Page

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

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

 

INVESTOR PAGES

OVERVIEW | LOCATION | FUNDING

GET INVOLVED

CONSULTANTS | WAYS ANYONE CAN HELP | MEMBERSHIP

CLICK HERE FOR ALL PAST UPDATES

WHAT ONE COMMUNITY IS CREATING

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

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, emphasizing conscious global community creation. 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, promoting conscious global community creation.

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. This initiative is a significant step towards conscious global community creation.

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, emphasizing conscious global community creation. 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, highlighting our commitment to conscious global community creation.

INSPIRING SUSTAINABILITY WITH OPEN SOURCE

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

One Community is forwarding global sustainability and healing through open source and free-shared tools, tutorials, and resources covering all aspects of sustainability. We will use them to build One Community as the first of a global cooperative of self-replicating teacher/demonstration hubs working together and open sourcing everything we do 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 November 4, 2018 edition (#293) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments:

Global Sustainability and Healing
One Community Progress Update #293

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

GLOBAL SUSTAINABILITY AND HEALING INTRO: @0:34

GLOBAL SUSTAINABILITY AND HEALING – HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING: @7:40

GLOBAL SUSTAINABLITY AND HEALING – DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER: @9:31

GLOBAL SUSTAINABILITY AND HEALING – HIGHEST GOOD FOOD: @11:12

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

GLOBAL SUSTAINABILITY AND HEALING – HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION: @11:52

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

GLOBAL SUSTAINABILITY AND HEALING – HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY: @12:57

• Emilio Nájera researched keywords for “Mechanical Engineering,” “Video Designer/Editor/Producer/Videographer,” â€œSoftware Developer,” and â€œGeneral Contractor.” (see below)
• Highest Good Network software team consisting of Shubhra Mittal and Aishwarya Singh continued developing the software (see below)

GLOBAL SUSTAINABILITY AND HEALING SUMMARY: @14:08

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

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

YOU CAN ALSO JOIN US THROUGH SOCIAL MEDIA

 

ONE COMMUNITY WEEKLY UPDATE DETAILS

GLOBAL SUSTAINABILITY AND HEALING – HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

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

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

This week the core team researched, purchased, and downloaded a diversity of new isolated-people images to add to the new Earthbag Village (Pod 1) renders we’ve created.

Global Sustainability and Healing – Continued Updating the Vermiculture Bathrooms Page

The core team also continued updating the Vermiculture Bathrooms page by creating and adding 29 new engineering images to the page. You can see some of these additions here.

Global Sustainability and Healing – Continued Updating the Vermiculture Bathrooms Page

And the core team continued design updates to the open source Murphy bed furniture assembly instructions. The focus this week was rebuilding the Murphy bed in SketchUp using the newest assembly instructions, with global sustainability and healing in mind. In doing so we identified the swivel and gas pistons placement locations. You can see some of this work-in-progress here.

Design Updates to Open Source Murphy Bed Furniture Assembly Instructions

Dan Alleck (Designer and Illustrator) completed his 28th week helping with render additions. This week he created this second-generation Earthbag Village (Pod 1) render by adding people, plants, and other details, focusing on global sustainability and healing.

Created 2nd-Generation Earthbag Village Render by Adding People, Plants, etc.

Shadi Kennedy (Artist and Graphic Designer) also completed his 28th week leading the development of the Murphy bed instructions. This week he selected more render perspectives, integrated the new bolt graphics where appropriate, added a callout section for the hinge on 6.6.12, updated the swivel measurements, and reassigned pieces to have consecutive values and consistent prefixes, relabeled all the pieces throughout, and redid the mini parts lists on all the pages.

Global Sustainability and Healing – Development of Murphy Bed Furniture Assembly Instructions

Dean Scholz (Architectural Designer) also continued working on the Earthbag Village (Pod 1). Here is weekly update #136 from Dean, his focus this week was continued development of the section views for the final ADA designs. You can see some of this work here.

Global Sustainability and Healing – Continued Work on Earthbag Village Layout for ADA Structures

GLOBAL SUSTAINABILITY AND HEALING – DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

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

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

This week, the core team continued working on the Sketchup Duplicable City Center updates for the Living Dome. We finished all the windows on the second floor and began working with the first floor windows. You can see some of this work here.

Global Sustainability and Healing – Updating the Duplicable City Center Living Dome ” Click for Page

The core team also started developing the Duplicable City Center Sprinkler and Emergency Systems Design page. This week we finished the Table of Contents, References, What section, Details intro, and Classifications section and graphics. Some of which you can see here.

Global Sustainability and Healing – Duplicable City Center Sprinkler & Emergency Systems Design Page

Dipti Dhondarkar (Electrical Engineer) also continued developing the lighting specifics for the City Center. This is Dipti’s 102nd week volunteering on this task and the focus this week was creating DiaLUX exports of all the lighting layouts and creating a new zonal floor plan cleaned of all the textures so we can start moving the lights over to the Master File, all with aim of achieving global sustainability and healing. You can see some of this work here.

Global Sustainability and Healing – Continued Developing the Lighting Specifics for the City Center

Aparna Tandon (Architect) also continued with her 4th week helping with the design and evaluation details for applying the WELL Building Standards➢ to the Duplicable City Center. This week she researched the Materials and Resources category of LEED Version 4, summarized the guidelines for meeting the prerequisites, and explored how they will overlap with the WELL air feature, enhanced materials safety, toxic materials reduction, and mind feature regarding materials transparency, aimed at global sustainability and healing. You can see some of this work here.

Design and Evaluation Details for Applying the Well Building Standards➢

GLOBAL SUSTAINABILITY AND HEALING – HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

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

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

This week the core team continued writing the behind-the-scenes narrative and detailed food rollout plan for the various stages of development. This week we wrapped up the research of chicken coops and began working on rabbits. We decided on nine rabbits to begin with and started outlining the implementation details. You can see some of this work-in-progress here and from our behind-the-scenes Google Doc.

Global Sustainability and Healing – Continued with Behind-the-Scenes Narrative and Food Rollout Plan

GLOABL SUSTAINABILITY AND HEALING – HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

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

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

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

Global Sustainability and Healing – Highest Good Education: All Subjects | All Learning Levels |

GLOBAL SUSTAINABLITY AND HEALING – HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS

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

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

This week Emilio Nájera (Digital Marketer) continued with his 4th week helping the marketing team. This week he researched keywords for “Mechanical Engineering,” “Video Designer/Editor/Producer/Videographer,” â€œSoftware Developer,” and â€œGeneral Contractor.”

Global Sustainability and Healing – Researching Keywords for the Marketing Team – Click to Visit

In addition to this, the core team working with the Highest Good Network software team consisting of Shubhra Mittal (Software Delivery Manager) and Aishwarya Singh (Computer Science Engineer) continued developing the software. This week we moved all our sensitive information to a new location so we could open source our development so far, added those open source details to the website, implemented logging and monitoring for the HGN middle tier in production and development, and started working on developing the new dashboard in React, focusing on global sustainability and healing. You can see some of this work here.

Continued Developing the Highest Good Network Software ” Click for Page

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

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

 

INVESTOR PAGES

OVERVIEW | LOCATION | FUNDING

GET INVOLVED

CONSULTANTS | WAYS ANYONE CAN HELP | MEMBERSHIP

CLICK HERE FOR ALL PAST UPDATES

WHAT ONE COMMUNITY IS CREATING

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

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

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.

INSPIRING SUSTAINABILITY WITH OPEN SOURCE

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

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

One Community is developing open source and free-shared plans for a global network of self-replicating solution cooperatives in the form of teacher/demonstration hubs working together to achieve global sustainability. The open source and DIY plans we’re developing cover all aspects of construction, maintenance, and replication with sustainable approaches to food, energy, housing, education, for-profit and non-profit economic design, social architecture, fulfilled living, global stewardship practices, and more.

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

OUR MAIN OPEN SOURCE HUBS

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

One Community’s physical location will forward this movement as the first of many self-replicating teacher/demonstration communities, villages, and cities to be built around the world. This is the October 28, 2018 edition (#292) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments:

Solution Cooperatives
One Community Progress Update #292

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

SOLUTION COOPERATIVES INTRO: @0:34

SOLUTION COOPERATIVES – HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING: @7:35

SOLUTION COOPERATIVES – DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER: @8:39

• Continued working in Sketchup on the Duplicable City Center Dining Dome roof (see below)
• Continued adding the LEED heating and air conditioning details to the City Center HVAC Design page (see below)
• Core team working with Dipti Dhondarkar, continued developing the lighting specifics for the City Center (see below)
• Aparna Tandon continued with her 3rd week helping with the design and evaluation details for applying the WELL Building Standards➢ to the Duplicable City Center (see below)
• Dehua Feng completed his 25th week working on the fire suppression and safety systems designs for the Duplicable City Center Sprinkler and Emergency Systems open source hub (see below)

SOLUTION COOPERATIVES – HIGHEST GOOD FOOD: @10:47

• Did a final review of the Apiary hive setup parts and equipment and added both to the website (see below)
• Continued writing the behind-the-scenes narrative and detailed food rollout plan for the various stages of development (see below)

SOLUTION COOPERATIVES – HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION: @11:31

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

SOLUTION COOPERATIVES – HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY: @12:36

• Finished updating the final 7 of our help wanted pages for volunteers (see below)
• Jin Hua continued collaboration on our new online marketing strategy and our related grant by creating two more keyword tutorial videos (see below)
• Emilio Nájera researched keywords for “Industrial Designer,” â€œGraphic/Web Designer,” and â€œProject Manager.” (see below)
• Highest Good Network software team consisting of Sowmya Manohar and Shubhra Mittal continued developing the software (see below)

SOLUTION COOPERATIVES SUMMARY: @14:02

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

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

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ONE COMMUNITY WEEKLY UPDATE DETAILS

SOLUTION COOPERATIVES – HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

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

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

This week the core team worked on the One Community Home Shares page to improve its readability. We did this using Yoast and you can see the improvements and some of the process here. This page is now 100% complete.

Worked on the Home Shares Page Using Yoast to Improve Its Readability

Shadi Kennedy (Artist and Graphic Designer) also completed his 27th week leading the development of the Murphy bed instructions. This week he finished adding in the rest of the table and bench details, added bolts and nuts for attaching the swivel, and more parts details.

Continued Development of Murphy Bed Furniture Assembly Instructions

Mike Kowalski (Game Developer) also finished his 22nd week helping update our renders that are too big for anything but a gaming computer. This week Mike did final touchups and rendered these four renders showing the complete Earthbag Village (Pod 1).

Final Touchups and Four Renders Showing the Complete Earthbag Village

Dean Scholz (Architectural Designer) also continued working on the Earthbag Village (Pod 1). Here is weekly update #135 from Dean, his focus this week was creating several more versions of our ADA compliant bathroom and kitchen layout and starting the section views. The final design we decided on is the largest one in the top right corner here.

Work on Earthbag Village Layout for ADA Bathroom and Kitchen Structures

SOLUTION COOPERATIVES – DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

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

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

This week, the core team continued working in Sketchup on the Duplicable City Center Dining Dome roof. We added triangle labels and measured all triangles sides, and determined the angles between the triangle and horizon for each row. We also worked on the structure for the Social Dome, and started working on the windows for the Living Dome. You can see some of this work here.

Continued Updating the Duplicable City Center Dining Dome Roof

The core team also continued adding the LEED heating and air conditioning details to the City Center HVAC Design page. This week we finished the second half of the “LEED HVAC-related Indoor Environmental Quality Credits Explained” section. You can see some of this work here and this brings the addition of these details to 100% complete.

Adding Leed Heating and Air Conditioning Details to City Center HVAC Design

And the core team working with Dipti Dhondarkar (Electrical Engineer) also continued developing the lighting specifics for the City Center. This is Dipti’s 101st week volunteering on this task for solution cooperatives, and the focus this week was finishing the remaining 50% of the Social Dome lighting tests using different colored lights so we could create and add to the website the graphic shown here. This completes these tests for the entire structure.

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

Aparna Tandon (Architect) also continued with her 3rd week helping with the design and evaluation details for applying the WELL Building Standards➢ to the Duplicable City Center. This week she researched and identified the LEED features that contribute in achieving the WELL standards and identified the features applicable to Duplicable City Center. You can see some of this work here.

Design and Evaluation Details for Applying the WELL Building Standards➢

Dehua Feng (Civil Engineer) also completed his 25th week working on the fire suppression and safety systems designs for the Duplicable City Center Sprinkler and Emergency Systems open source hub for solution cooperatives. This week he finished all the spreadsheet calculation updates for Zones C and D, created the parts list for the complete system, and resized the reservoir. You can see some of this work here.

Work on Fire Suppression and Safety Systems Design for the City Center ” Click for Page

SOLUTION COOPERATIVES – HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

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

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

This week, the core team did a final review of the Apiary hive setup parts and equipment and added both to the website.

Did Final Review of Apiary Hive Setup Parts & Equipment & Added Both to Site

The core team also continued writing the behind-the-scenes narrative and detailed food rollout plan for the various stages of development for solution cooperatives. This week we continued the research of chicken coops and viewed step-by-step instruction videos for building hoop pens, simple, portable houses for small poultry flocks. You can see some of this work here.

Research of Chicken Coops and Viewed Step-by-step Instruction Videos – Click for Page

SOLUTION COOPERATIVES – HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

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

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

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

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

SOLUTION COOPERATIVES – HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS

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

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

This week the core team finished updating the final 7 of our help wanted pages for volunteers. You can see some of this work here.

Finished Updating Final 7 of Our Help Wanted Pages for Volunteers

Jin Hua (Marketing Specialist and Web and Graphic Designer) also continued collaboration on our new online marketing strategy and our related grant by creating two more keyword tutorial videos. You can see some screenshots of these here.

Continued Work on Online Marketing Strategy and Our Related Grant

Emilio Nájera (Digital Marketer) also continued with his 3rd week helping the marketing team. This week’s Emilio researched keywords for “Industrial Designer,” â€œGraphic/Web Designer,” and â€œProject Manager.”

Researched Keywords for Helping Pages

And the Highest Good Network software team consisting of Sowmya Manohar (Software Engineer, Web Developer & Net Application Developer), and Shubhra Mittal (Software Delivery Manager) continued developing the software for solution cooperatives. This week they completed adding the time-archive functionality, the delete time entries functionality, set up a parallel development environment, fixed a bug that made a user unable to update their email address, fixed an issue with names not appearing correctly in emails for blue badges, and an issue of auto-assignment of blue squares not triggering as per the schedule. You can see some of this work here.

Continued Developing the Highest Good Network Software ” Click for Page

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

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

 

INVESTOR PAGES

OVERVIEW | LOCATION | FUNDING

GET INVOLVED

CONSULTANTS | WAYS ANYONE CAN HELP | MEMBERSHIP

CLICK HERE FOR ALL PAST UPDATES

WHAT ONE COMMUNITY IS CREATING

One Community is creating a place to grow together and change the world together. We are creating a space that helps each other live in integrity with each other and the planet as we strive to be the greatest versions of ourselves with solution cooperatives. 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 through solution cooperatives.

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, supported by solution cooperatives, will help launch additional hubs as awareness and knowledge grow.

BUILDING THE FIRST OF MANY

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

WHY ONE COMMUNITY IS CREATING THIS

The One Community self-replicating model is capable of creating a sustainable planet within 30 years. 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. This approach will foster the development of solution cooperatives.

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. The establishment of solution cooperatives will be integral to achieving these aims.

One Community is creating open source and free-shared plans for a global network of eco-communities for world change. These DIY-replicable plans cover sustainable approaches to food, energy, housing, education, for-profit and non-profit economic design, social architecture, fulfilled living, global stewardship practices, and more. We call this living and creating for The Highest Good of All.

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

OUR MAIN OPEN SOURCE HUBS

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

One Community’s physical location will forward this movement as the first of many self-replicating teacher/demonstration communities, villages, and cities to be built around the world. This is the October 21, 2018 edition (#291) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments:

Eco-Communities for World Change
One Community Progress Update #291

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

ECO-COMMUNITIES FOR WORLD CHANGE INTRO: @0:34

ECO-COMMUNITIES FOR WORLD CHANGE – HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING: @8:07

ECO-COMMUNITIES FOR WORLD CHANGE – DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER: @9:18

• Continued working in Sketchup on the Duplicable City Center Dining Dome roof (see below)
• Core team working with Dipti Dhondarkar continued developing the lighting specifics for the City Center (see below)
• Aparna Tandon continued with her 2nd week helping with the design and evaluation details for applying the WELL Building Standards➢ to the Duplicable City Center (see below)
• Dehua Feng completed his 25th week working on the fire suppression and safety systems designs for the Duplicable City Center Sprinkler and Emergency Systems open source hub (see below)

ECO-COMMUNITIES FOR WORLD CHANGE – HIGHEST GOOD FOOD: @10:57

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

ECO-COMMUNITIES FOR WORLD CHANGE – HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION: @11:32

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

ECO-COMMUNITIES FOR WORLD CHANGE – HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY: @12:37

• Started updating all our help wanted pages for volunteers (see below)
• Core team working with Jin Hua continued collaboration on our new online marketing strategy and our related grant (see below)
• Emilio Nájera focused on keyword research for Food Specialists, Electrical Engineers/Electrician Volunteers, Legal/Lawyers/Attorney Volunteers, and Industrial Designer Volunteers (see below)
• This week, the Highest Good Network software team consisting of Sowmya Manohar and Shubhra Mittal continued developing the software (see below)

ECO-COMMUNITIES FOR WORLD CHANGE SUMMARY: @14:17

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

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

YOU CAN ALSO JOIN US THROUGH SOCIAL MEDIA

 

ONE COMMUNITY WEEKLY UPDATE DETAILS

ECO-COMMUNITIES FOR WORLD CHANGE – HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

One Community is helping create eco-communities for world change through Highest Good housing that is artistic and beautiful, more affordable, more space efficient, lasts longer, DIY buildable, and constructed with healthy and sustainable materials:

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

This week the core team continued developing the online details for the new One Community Home Shares page that shares our structure for individualized and expanded designs of the standard homes in the Earthbag Village (Pod 1) and beyond. This week we finished the page by adding the rollout details, Summary, and FAQ sections. You can see some of this work here.

Continued Developing the Online Details for the New Home Shares Page

Hemanth Kotaru (Structural Engineer) completed his 24th week helping with the structural engineering research and calculations for the Earthbag Village (Pod 1). This week’s focus was 2nd-generation nail calculations and creating this initial open source nail evaluation tool, all with the aim of creating eco-communities for world change.

2nd-generation Nail Calculations & Open Source Nail Evaluation Tool

Shadi Kennedy (Artist and Graphic Designer) also completed his 26th week leading the development of the Murphy bed instructions. This week he added in the main swivel connector and further developed all the bed box attachment details. You can see some of this work-in-progress here.

Continued Development of Murphy Bed Furniture Assembly Instructions

Dean Scholz (Architectural Designer) also continued working on the Earthbag Village (Pod 1). Here is weekly update #134 from Dean, his focus this week was creating version 2 of our ADA compliant bathroom and kitchen layout, brainstorming version 3, and more updates to the integration of the latest regular bathroom and kitchen layout into the 3-dome cluster, all of which you can see here.

Work on New Earthbag Village Layout for the Bathroom and Kitchen Structures

ECO-COMMUNITIES FOR WORLD CHANGE – DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

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

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

This week, the core team continued working in Sketchup on the Duplicable City Center Dining Dome roof. After determining further changes needed to be made to be sure the shell lines up correctly with the floor levels, we rebuilt the dome shell using each row level and side size and then updated the door and window openings, as shown here.

Updating the Duplicable City Center Dining Dome Roof ” Click for Page

And the core team working with Dipti Dhondarkar (Electrical Engineer) also continued developing the lighting specifics for the City Center. This is Dipti’s 100th week volunteering on this task and the focus this week was test rendering the Social Dome with different colored lights and organizing and providing all the final DiaLUX testing files.

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

Aparna Tandon (Architect) also continued with her 2nd week helping with the design and evaluation details for applying the WELL Building Standards➢ to the Duplicable City Center. This week’s focus was researching our best approach for integration and then creating a WELL spreadsheet and checklist that includes LEED standards, with a goal  of developing eco-communities for world change. You can see some of this work here.

Design and Evaluation Details for Applying the Well Building Standards➢

Dehua Feng (Civil Engineer) also completed his 25th week working on the fire suppression and safety systems designs for the Duplicable City Center Sprinkler and Emergency Systems open source hub. This week he finished all the spreadsheet calculation updates for Zones C and D, created the parts list for the complete system, and resized the reservoir. You can see some of this work here.

Work on Fire Suppression and Safety Systems Design for the City Center

ECO-COMMUNITIES FOR WORLD CHANGE – HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

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

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

This week, the core team continued writing the behind-the-scenes narrative and detailed food rollout plan for the various stages of development. This week we created details for the chicken coop on our Food Rollout Google doc, and researched and viewed coop construction videos. You can see some of this work here.

Writing the Behind-the-Scenes Narrative and Detailed Food Rollout Plan

ECO-COMMUNITIES FOR WORLD CHANGE – HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

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

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

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

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

ECO-COMMUNITIES FOR WORLD CHANGE – HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS

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

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

This week the core team started updating all our help wanted pages for volunteers. We created 4 new pages and updated half of the existing pages.

Started Updating All Our Help Wanted Pages for Volunteers – Click for Page

This week the core team working with Jin Hua (Web and Graphic Designer) continued collaboration on our new online marketing strategy and our related grant. This week’s focus was analyzing results and exploring ways to improve our conversion strategy, aimed at establishing eco-communities for world change.

Work on Online Marketing Strategy and Our Related Grant ” Click to Visit

Emilio Nájera (Digital Marketer) also continued with his 2nd week helping the marketing team. This week’s focus for Emilio was keyword research for Food Specialists, Electrical Engineers/Electrician Volunteers, Legal/Lawyers/Attorney Volunteers, and Industrial Designer Volunteers, some of which you can see here.

Keyword Research for Landing Pages ” Click to Visit

This week, the Highest Good Network software team consisting of Sowmya Manohar (Software Engineer, Web Developer & Net Application Developer), and Shubhra Mittal (Software Delivery Manager) continued developing the software. This week they worked on fixing bugs for the user interface for deleting users, fixed a bug that made a user unable to update their email address, fixed an issue of names not appearing correctly in emails for blue squares, fixed issues with auto assignment of blue squares, and added more text to all popup windows clarifying how to save new data, with our goal of creating eco-communities for world change in mind.

Continued Developing the Highest Good Network Software ” Click for Page

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

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

 

INVESTOR PAGES

OVERVIEW | LOCATION | FUNDING

GET INVOLVED

CONSULTANTS | WAYS ANYONE CAN HELP | MEMBERSHIP

CLICK HERE FOR ALL PAST UPDATES

WHAT ONE COMMUNITY IS CREATING

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

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. This initiative also exemplifies our commitment to eco-communities for world change.

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, furthering the vision of eco-communities for world change.

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. Through our efforts, we are promoting eco-communities for world change.

Open source global green living models have never been more needed. One Community is creating them and including open source and free-shared sustainability components for food, energy, housing, education, for-profit and non-profit economic design, social architecture, fulfilled living, and global stewardship practices. We call this living and collaboration for The Highest Good and our goal is to make these systems become self-replicating as a path to global sustainability within our lifetime.

• 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 14, 2018 edition (#290) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments:

Global Green Living
One Community Progress Update #290

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

GLOBAL GREEN LIVING INTRO: @0:34

GLOBAL GREEN LIVING – HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING: @6:34

• Continued the webpage setup and formatting for the new One Community Home Shares page that shares our structure for individualized and expanded designs of the standard homes in the Earthbag Village and beyond (see below)
• Hemanth Kotaru completed his 23rd week helping with the structural engineering research and calculations for the Earthbag Village (see below)
• Shadi Kennedy completed his 25th week leading the development of the Murphy bed instructions (see below)
• Dean Scholz continued working on the Earthbag Village (see below)
• Dan Alleck created first-generation Earthbag Village render by adding people, plants, and other details (see below)

GLOBAL GREEN LIVING – DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER: @8:24

• Started updating the 3D Sketchup file to include the new Duplicable City Center Dining Dome roof (see below)
• Core team working with Dipti Dhondarkar continued developing the lighting specifics for the City Center (see below)
• Finished updating the Pallet Furniture open source hub by adding new 3D Closet/Wardrobe graphics, adding all the latest assembly instructions, and finalizing the Summary and FAQ sections (see below)
• Continued adding the LEED heating and air conditioning details to the City Center HVAC Design page (see below)
• Dehua Feng completed his 24th week working on the fire suppression and safety systems designs for the Duplicable City Center Sprinkler and Emergency Systems open source hub (see below)

GLOBAL GREEN LIVING – HIGHEST GOOD FOOD: @10:21

• Continued writing the behind-the-scenes narrative and detailed food rollout plan for the various stages of development (see below)
• Continued working on the Apiary hive setup instructions (see below)

GLOBAL GREEN LIVING – HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION: @11:29

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

GLOBAL GREEN LIVING – HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY: @12:15

• Jin Hua continued collaboration on our evolving online marketing strategy and our related grant (see below)
• Emilio Nájera joined the marking team and began helping with the keyword research for the landing pages related to Structural Engineering Volunteers, Civil Engineers and Volunteer Plumbers (see below)
• Highest Good Network software team consisting of Sowmya Manohar, Shubhra Mittal, and Aishwarya Singh continued developing the software (see below)

GLOBAL GREEN LIVING SUMMARY: @13:29

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GLOBAL GREEN LIVING – HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

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

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

This week the core team continued the webpage setup and formatting for the new One Community Home Shares page that shares our structure for individualized and expanded designs of the standard homes in the Earthbag Village (Pod 1) and beyond. This week we added more formatting and wrote and added the “Home Shares in Layman’s Terms” and “Home Shares and Housing Upgrades” sections, which you can see here. We’d say we’re now 90% complete with the creation of this page.

Global Green Living -Webpage Setup & Formatting for the new One Community Home Shares Page

Hemanth Kotaru (Structural Engineer) completed his 23rd week helping with the structural engineering research and calculations for the Earthbag Village (Pod 1). This week’s focus was creating this open source soil identification and classification tool.

Global Green Living -Open Source Soil Identification and Classification Tool – Click to Visit

Shadi Kennedy (Artist and Graphic Designer) also completed his 25th week leading the development of the Murphy bed instructions. This week he further developed the 6.4 to 6.8 diagrams, tried different hinge strategies to attach the table and chairs, and added the leveling graphics and details throughout, aimed at global green living. You can see some of this work-in-progress here.

Global Green Living -Development of Murphy Bed Furniture Assembly Instructions ” Click to Visit

Dean Scholz (Architectural Designer) also continued working on the Earthbag Village (Pod 1). Here is weekly update #133 from Dean, his focus this week was creating version 1 of our ADA compliant bathroom and kitchen layout, integrating the latest regular bathroom and kitchen layout into the 3-dome cluster, and planned the next round of revisions, all of which you can see here.

Global Green Living -Work on New Earthbag Village Layout for the Bathroom and Kitchen Structures

Dan Alleck (Designer and Illustrator) additionally completed his 27th week helping with render additions. This week he created this first-generation Earthbag Village (Pod 1) render by adding people, plants, and other details, embodying the concept of global green living.

Global Green Living -Created First-Generation Earthbag Village Render by Adding People, Plants, etc.

GLOBAL GREEN LIVING – DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

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

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

This week, the core team started updating the 3D Sketchup file to include the new dome designs. What you see here are this week’s structural updates to the Duplicable City Center Dining Dome roof.

Global Green Living – Started Updating the Duplicable City Center Dining Dome Roof – Click for Page

And the core team working with Dipti Dhondarkar (Electrical Engineer) also continued developing the lighting specifics for the City Center. This is Dipti’s 98th week volunteering on this task and the focus this week was more additions and updates to the calculations spreadsheet, organizing all the DaiLUX files for sharing now that we’re done with them, and adding in the missing Sunrise Patio in AutoCAD, all of which you can see here.

Global Green Living – Continued Developing the Lighting Specifics for the City Center ” Click for Page

The core team also finished updating the Pallet Furniture open source hub by adding new 3D Closet/Wardrobe graphics and finalizing the Summary and FAQ sections. You can see some of this work here.

Global Green Living – Finished Updating the Pallet Furniture Open Source Hub ” Click for Page

And the core team continued adding the LEED heating and air conditioning details to the City Center HVAC Design page, focusing on global green living. This week we added more content to the “LEED HVAC-Related Energy & Atmosphere Credits Explained” section and developed the first half of the “LEED HVAC-related Indoor Environmental Quality Credits Explained” section. You can see some of this work here and we’d say this brings the addition of these details to 70% complete.

Global Green Living – Adding LEED Heating & Air Conditioning Details to City Center HVAC Design

Dehua Feng (Civil Engineer) also completed his 24th week working on the fire suppression and safety systems designs for the Duplicable City Center Sprinkler and Emergency Systems open source hub. This week he changed the stem pipe location in the Living Dome, extended the fire hydrant piping to supply a fire hydrant South of the Social Dome too, and updated all the spreadsheet calculations for Zones H, G, L, and I. You can see some of this work here.

Global Green Living – Work on Fire Suppression and Safety Systems Design for the City Center

GLOBAL GREEN LIVING – HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

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

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

This week, the core team continued writing the behind-the-scenes narrative and detailed food rollout plan for the various stages of development. This week we completed edits to the Food Forest page and the aquaculture section of the Food Rollout Google doc. You can see some of this work here.

Global Green Living – Writing the Behind-the-Scenes Narrative and Detailed Food Rollout Plan

In addition, the core team continued working on the Apiary hive setup instructions. This week we finalized the setup details for a 6-hive initial launch, all aimed at global green living. You can see some of this work shown here on our behind-the-scenes Google development doc.

Global Green Living – Continued Working on the Apiary Hive Setup Instructions – Click for Page

GLOBAL GREEN LIVING – HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

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

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

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

Global Green Living – Highest Good Education: All Subjects | All Learning Levels | Any Age

GLOBAL GREEN LIVING – HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS

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

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

This week Jin Hua (Web and Graphic Designer) continued collaboration on our evolving online marketing strategy and our related grant. This week’s focus was researching new ad formats, which you can see here.

Global Green Living – Work on Online Marketing Strategy and Our Related Grant

Emilio Nájera (Digital Marketer) also joined the marking team and began helping with the keyword research for the landing pages related to Structural Engineering Volunteers, Civil Engineers and Volunteer Plumbers, some of which you can see here.

Global Green Living – Joined Marking Team and Helped With Keyword Research for the Landing Pages

This week, the Highest Good Network software team consisting of Sowmya Manohar (Software Engineer, Web Developer & Net Application Developer), Shubhra Mittal (Software Delivery Manager), and Aishwarya Singh (Computer Science Engineer) continued developing the software, all towards reaching global green living. This week they finished the setup documentation, connected the React App to projects, restructured the app to have the services layers separately, tried implementing the user deletion option, and started researching resources to support our transition of this software from Ember to React. You can see some of this work here.

Global Green Living – Continued Developing the Highest Good Network Software ” Click for Page

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INVESTOR PAGES

OVERVIEW | LOCATION | FUNDING

GET INVOLVED

CONSULTANTS | WAYS ANYONE CAN HELP | MEMBERSHIP

CLICK HERE FOR ALL PAST UPDATES

WHAT ONE COMMUNITY IS CREATING

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

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.

Through open source sustainable world building tools, tutorials, resources, and living examples, we can create a sustainable world that will benefit us all. If we do this, we can make sustainability easy enough, affordable enough, and demonstrate it as attractive enough for it to spread on its own. One Community is open sourcing and free-sharing everything necessary to make this possible.

• 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 7, 2018 edition (#289) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments:

Open Source Sustainable World Building
One Community Progress Update #289

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

OPEN SOURCE SUSTAINABLE WORLD BUILDING: INTRO: @0:34

OPEN SOURCE SUSTAINABLE WORLD BUILDING: HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING: @7:48

OPEN SOURCE SUSTAINABLE WORLD BUILDING: DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER: @9:20

• Core team working with Dipti Dhondarkar continued developing the lighting specifics for the City Center (see below)
• Continued updating the Pallet Furniture open source hub by creating and adding new 3D Bed, Chair, and Table graphics as well as new AutoCAD graphics for the Table and Chairs (see below)
• Aparna Tandon rejoined the team and created an initial outline for applying the WELL Building Standard➢ (WELL) to the Duplicable City Center (see below)
• Dehua Feng completed his 23rd week working on the fire suppression and safety systems designs for the Duplicable City Center Sprinkler and Emergency Systems open source hub (see below)

OPEN SOURCE SUSTAINABLE WORLD BUILDING: HIGHEST GOOD FOOD: @10:58

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

OPEN SOURCE SUSTAINABLE WORLD BUILDING: HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION: @11:51

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

OPEN SOURCE SUSTAINABLE WORLD BUILDING: HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY: @12:58

• Updated all our welcome pages and on-boarding templates for new volunteers so that they reflect that we’re now testing inputting them so they can use the new time tracking software (see below)
• The core team working with Jin Hua continued collaboration on our new online marketing strategy and our related grant (see below)
• Highest Good Network software team consisting of Sowmya Manohar and Shubhra Mittal created the initial setup for moving our application to React, a more commonly used application (see below)

OPEN SOURCE SUSTAINABLE WORLD BUILDING: SUMMARY: @14:26

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

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OPEN SOURCE SUSTAINABLE WORLD BUILDING: HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

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

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

This week the core team continued the webpage setup and formatting for the new One Community Home Shares page that shares our structure for individualized and expanded designs of the standard homes in the Earthbag Village (Pod 1) and beyond. This week we wrote and added the “Home Shares and Phase 1 Construction” and “Home Shares Legal Structure” sections and updated all the pages related to this one, some of which you can see here. We’d say we’re now about 70% complete with the creation of this page. 

Continued the Webpage Setup and Formatting for the new One Community Home Shares Page

The core team also started updating the Vermiculture Bathrooms page by creating new table of Contents, What and Why sections, building the initial formatting for the new sections on the page, and updating the introduction to the Details section. This is all so we can then bring on the team to finish these designs. You can see some of this work-in-progress here and we’d say we’re about 30% complete with this round of necessary updates.

Started Updating the Vermiculture Bathrooms Page – Click to Visit

Shadi Kennedy (Artist and Graphic Designer) also completed his 24th week leading the development of the Murphy bed instructions. This week he further updated the assembly diagrams by adding in 2-inch board updates for the benches, redoing the parts page, and comparing measurements on part B8a against smaller pieces. You can see some of this work-in-progress here.

Continued Development of Murphy Bed Furniture Assembly Instructions ” Click for Furniture Page

Dean Scholz (Architectural Designer) also continued working on the Earthbag Village (Pod 1). Here is weekly update #132 from Dean, his focus this week was creating the new layout shown here for the bathroom and kitchen structures. This layout separates the shower and bathrooms for easier use by multiple people and adds a urinal to help with saving water.

Continued Work on New Earthbag Village Layout for the Bathroom and Kitchen Structures

OPEN SOURCE SUSTAINABLE WORLD BUILDING: DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

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

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

The core team working with Dipti Dhondarkar (Electrical Engineer) also continued developing the lighting specifics for the City Center. This is Dipti’s 97th week volunteering on this task and the focus this week was testing lighting options and finalizing the layouts and selections for the laundry room, which you can see here and now on the website too.

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

The core team also continued updating the Pallet Furniture open source hub by creating and adding new 3D Bed, Chair, and Table graphics as well as new AutoCAD graphics for the Table and Chairs. You can see these here and we’d say this page update is now 90% complete.

Continued Updating the Pallet Furniture Open Source Hub ” Click for Page

Aparna Tandon (Architect) rejoined the team and created this initial outline for applying the WELL Building Standard➢ (WELL) to the Duplicable City Center. This standard focuses on features across the seven concepts that comprehensively address not only the design and operations of buildings, but also how they impact and influence human behaviors related to health and well-being.

Initial outline for applying the WELL Building Standard➢ (WELL) to the Duplicable City Center

Dehua Feng (Civil Engineer) also completed his 23rd week working on the fire suppression and safety systems designs for the Duplicable City Center Sprinkler and Emergency Systems open source hub. This week he further revised Zone B with a new “L shape” in AutoCAD and put just under 40 hours into updated calculations for Zones F, H, G, K, and N. You can see some of this work here.

Continued Work on Fire Suppression and Safety Systems Design for the City Center ” Click for Page

OPEN SOURCE SUSTAINABLE WORLD BUILDING: HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

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

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

This week, the core team continued writing the behind-the-scenes narrative and detailed food rollout plan for the various stages of development. This week we completed the edits to the chicken, goat and rabbit section of the Food Rollout Google doc. We also began edits to the Food Forest page. You can see some of this work here.

Continued Writing the Behind-the-Scenes Narrative and Detailed Food Rollout Plan

In addition, the core team continued working on the Apiary hive setup instructions. This week we researched and added details covering local city codes and where to buy your bees and get your gear. We also started updating the spreadsheet with the Apiary items list. You can see some of this work here on the behind-the-scenes Google development doc.

Continued Working on the Apiary Hive Setup Instructions – Click for Page

OPEN SOURCE SUSTAINABLE WORLD BUILDING: HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

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

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

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

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

OPEN SOURCE SUSTAINABLE WORLD BUILDING: HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS

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

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

This week the core team updated all our welcome pages and on-boarding templates for new volunteers so that they reflect that we’re now testing inputting them so they can use the new time tracking software. You can see some of these updates here.

Updated all Our Welcome Pages and On-Boarding Templates for New Volunteers – Click for Page

This week the core team working with Jin Hua (Web and Graphic Designer) continued collaboration on our new online marketing strategy and our related grant. This week’s focus was bringing on a new person to help with keyword research and continued keyword strategy development and fine tuning of our Conscious Music Project promotion, some of which you can see here.

Continued Keyword Strategy Development and Fine Tuning of our Conscious Music Project Promotion

This week, the Highest Good Network software team consisting of Sowmya Manohar (Software Engineer, Web Developer & Net Application Developer) and Shubhra Mittal (Software Delivery Manager) created the initial setup for moving our application to React, a more commonly used application. As part of this, we connected the app to the api, created the Login Page, ForgotPassword, ForcePassword, Update password, and UserManagement setup. We also added auto-deleting of blue squares older than 1 year and weekly scheduled auto-assigning of blue squares if time commitment was not met.

Continued Working on the Highest Good Network Software ” Click for Page

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INVESTOR PAGES

OVERVIEW | LOCATION | FUNDING

GET INVOLVED

CONSULTANTS | WAYS ANYONE CAN HELP | MEMBERSHIP

CLICK HERE FOR ALL PAST UPDATES

WHAT ONE COMMUNITY IS CREATING

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

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

Throughout our design process, we are open sourcing and free-sharing everything needed for construction and replication through open source sustainable world building. 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 SOURCE SUSTAINABLE WORLD BUILDING: BUILDING THE FIRST OF MANY

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

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

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

INSPIRING SUSTAINABILITY WITH OPEN SOURCE

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

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

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

COMPREHENSIVE SOLUTION TO HUMANITY’S NEEDS

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

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

GLOBALLY IMPLEMENTABLE REPLICATION MODEL

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

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

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

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

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

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