We’re transforming the global sustainability conversation. We think it should go beyond just food, energy, and housing and also include education, Highest Good economics, social architecture, fulfilled living, and global stewardship practices. In support of this, we’re open sourcing DIY plans for all these areas and more. We will then use the combined plans for all of these to build teacher/demonstration hubs that will work together to develop and open source and free-share even more DIY plans and implementation information.

• 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 8th, 2019 edition (#350) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments:

Transforming the Global Sustainability Conversation
One Community Progress Update #350

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HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

One Community is transforming the global sustainability conversation 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 did final updates for the Murphy bed electrical in SketchUp 3D. This included minor wiring changes, checking in with two electricians willing to answer basic questions, and a final review of the current plan to confirm it is the best we can make it until we’ve got a licensed electrician willing to do a comprehensive final review and update. Highest Good Housing is an important part of transforming the global sustainability conversation with One Community’s open source plans.

Transforming the Global Sustainability Conversation – Murphy Bed Electrical – SketchUp 3D – Click for Page

Finished the Resources, Summary, and FAQ Sections of the Earthbag Engineering Page – Click to Visit

Oluyomi Sanyaolu (Technical Writer and Researcher) completed his 7th week with the team, continuing cost analysis of external Earthbag Village components. This week Oluyomi completed the roadways, walkways, and landscaping research. Cheaper options for roadway materials and drainage solutions were discovered, decomposed granite (DG) and swales. Having completed the primary research for this part of the project, he then started doing the final review, editing, and updating all of the cost analysis data to make the information easier to understand and more presentable for the website. For example, the options for wind and hydro power plants were re-arranged in their spreadsheets from recommended choice to least recommended. You can see some of this behind-the-scenes work here.

Cost Analysis of External Earthbag Village Components – Click for Page

Dean Scholz (Architectural Designer) also continued helping with the Earthbag Village (Pod 1) 4-dome cluster designs. This week was week #171 and the focus was adjusting the rooftop patio height and shape and testing in 3D the emergency window exits from the 2nd floor. Highest Good Housing is an important part of transforming the global sustainability conversation with One Community’s open source plans. You can see some of this work here.

Continued Helping With the Earthbag Village 4-dome Cluster Designs – Click for Page

DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

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

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

This week the core team began the final review process for the energy modeling content we’ll be adding to the LEED Platinum certification and City Center open source HVAC design tutorial. We reviewed the complete content shown here and added all our questions and comments needed to finish it. The progress of Duplicate City Center is an important part of transforming the global sustainability conversation with One Community’s open source plans.

Reviewed the Content and Added All Our Questions and Comments Needed to Finish – Click for Page

Working off this, Ron Huang (Mechanical Engineer) continued with his 31st week developing and refining the Energy Modeling and LEED Platinum details, answering our questions, revising his content, and adding equipment performance details. You can see some of this work here and we’d say this brings completion of the City Center energy analysis component to 85% complete.

Continued Developing and Refining the Energy Modeling and LEED Platinum Details ” Click for Page

HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

One Community is transforming the global sustainability conversation 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 compiling narratives and adding info and photos to our behind-the-scenes chicken Google Doc for the specific chicken breeds that will be best for our project. You can see some of these behind-the-scenes portions here. Highest Good Food is an important part of transforming the global sustainability conversation with One Community’s open source plans.

Transforming the global sustainability conversation – Narratives – Chicken Breeds ” Click for Page

The core team also began creating the chicken coop step-by-step building instructions on our behind-the-scenes google doc. Highest Good Food is an important part of transforming the global sustainability conversation with One Community’s open source plans. You can see some of this work here.

Began Creating the Chicken Coop Step-by-step Building Instructions – Click for Page

In addition, the core team found a new resource for further developing the DIY Dam Design and Construction open source hub. This was two videos by Geoff Lawton about two case studies on dam/swale implementation. We took the notes shown here covering the information we thought would be beneficial for the Dam webpage. Highest Good Food is an important part of transforming the global sustainability conversation with One Community’s open source plans. Next step is the process of going through and organizing the notes.

New Resource for Further Developing DIY Dam Design, Construction Open Source Hub – Click for Page

Mohammad Almuzaial (Civil and Construction Engineer) also continued with his 3rd week helping with the Aquapini/Walipini civil engineering details. He completed the design and layout for the site drainage system which included creating a linked Revit architectural model in an MEP template to layout the plumping system, laying out two 4″ PVC drainage pipes to be connected to the structures to draw cool air. One from the north side drainage to the pond and another from the south side drainage to the pond, and laying out four 8″ corrugated pipes that run from the trenches to the pond and each connect with one drain on the lower level using a 4″ corrugated pipe. See the collage below for his work.

Transforming the Global Sustainability Conversation – Aquapini/Walipini Civil Engineering Details

Ali Ghahremannezhad (Mechanical Engineer) also joined the team and began work on the climate batteries for the Aquapini/Walipini structures. This week he began by reviewing and reorganized the previous documents containing One Community’s research on Climate Battery design. He added more notes from more recent resources and started to evaluate and improve the current 1D thermal model for the Climate Battery. You can see some of this work here.

Began Work on the Climate Batteries for the Aquapini/Walipini Structures – Click for Page

HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

One Community is transforming the global sustainability conversation 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.

Highest Good Education is an important part of transforming the global sustainability conversation with One Community’s open source plans. With over 8 years of work invested in the process, the sections below are all complete until we move onto the property and continue the development and open sourcing process with teachers and students – a development process that is built directly into the structure of the education program and everything else we’re creating too:

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

This week Dan Alleck (Designer and Illustrator) completed his 59th week helping with render additions and finishing work for the rooms in the the Ultimate Classroom. This week he began revisions and additions to the indigo room representing “Social Sciences.” What you see here are his first round of revisions and additions to this room.

Began Revisions and Additions to the Indigo Room Representing “Social Sciences” – Click for Page

HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS

One Community is transforming the global sustainability conversation 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. Highest Good Society is an important part of transforming the global sustainability conversation with One Community’s open source plans.

• • • 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 work on our volunteer and donation campaigns. This week he further refined our keywords to improve performance and address compliance issues raised by Google.

Transforming the global sustainability conversation – Volunteer Donation Campaigns ” Click for Page

Deema Ali (Graphic/Video Designer) also completed her 3rd week designing new versions of the One Community Overview videos. This week she made revisions to the first draft of the main overview by the core team. This included adding in new video clips, transitions, and visual effects to the video. You can see some of this behind-the-scenes work here.

Transforming the global sustainability conversation – New Versions – One Community Overview Videos 

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INVESTOR PAGES

OVERVIEW | LOCATION | FUNDING

GET INVOLVED

DONATE | WAYS ANYONE CAN HELP | MEMBERSHIP

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TRANSFORMING THE GLOBAL SUSTAINABILITY CONVERSATION – 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, transforming the global sustainability conversation with One Community’s open source plans.

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.

TRANSFORMING THE GLOBAL SUSTAINABILITY CONVERSATION – 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, transforming the global sustainability conversation.

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.

TRANSFORMING THE GLOBAL SUSTAINABILITY CONVERSATION – WHY OPEN SOURCE

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

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

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

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

TRANSFORMING THE GLOBAL SUSTAINABILITY CONVERSATION – SUMMARY

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

Giving people what they desire is the easiest way to spread an idea. One Community is applying this to global sustainability with open source and free-shared community model for people who want sustainable and replicable food, energy, and housing. We’ve also included education, for-profit and non-profit economic design, social architecture, fulfilled living, and global stewardship practices. We are combining these to help build a global cooperative of teacher/demonstration hubs that will work together to provide for more and more diverse wants, needs and environments.

• 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 1st, 2019 edition (#349) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments:

Giving People What They Desire
One Community Progress Update #349

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GIVING PEOPLE WHAT THEY DESIRE – HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

One Community is giving people what they desire 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 focused on giving people what they desire by continuing updating the Murphy bed electrical in SketchUp 3D by providing measurements for each wire for each circuit. This identified some wires needing additional clarification, which we are working on now.

Continued Updating the Murphy Bed Electrical in SketchUp 3D – Click for Earthbag Village

The core team, dedicated to giving people what they desire, continued construction of the Earthbag Engineering Page. This week we finished the sections covering additional recommended tests, using the gravity and snow/win/seismic loading spreadsheets, and additional soil classification training. All the remains now is to finish the Resources, Summary, and FAQ and do a final proofread and review.

Continued Construction of the Earthbag Engineering Page – Click to Visit

Oluyomi Sanyaolu (Technical Writer and Researcher) completed his 6th week with the team, continuing cost analysis of external Earthbag Village components. This week, Oluyomi completed a cost analysis for both simple and complex parking lots and began the analysis and comparison of walkway construction materials, giving people what they desire in terms of practical and cost-effective solutions. You can see some of this behind-the-scenes work here.

Continued Cost Analysis of the External Earthbag Village Components ” Click for Page

Dean Scholz(Architectural Designer) also continued giving people what they desire by helping with the Earthbag Village (Pod 1) 4-dome cluster designs. This week was week #170 and the focus was adding in the new wall locations and testing the rooftop patio designs in 3D. You can see some of this work here.

Focused on Adding in New Wall Locations and Testing the Rooftop Patio Designs in 3D

GIVING PEOPLE WHAT THEY DESIRE – DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

One Community is giving people what they desire 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 Ron Huang (Mechanical Engineer) continued with his 30th week working on the Energy Modeling for our LEED Platinum certification and City Center open source HVAC design tutorial, giving people what they desire. This week he completed the first draft of the summary report shown here. We’d say this brings completion of the City Center energy analysis component to 80% complete.

Completed First Draft of the Summary Report ” Click for HVAC Page

Sneha Dongre (Structural Engineer) also continued with her 32nd week helping with the Duplicable City Center structural details, giving people what they desire. This week she continued her work to create the AutoCAD file for analysis in RISA 3D. She removed elements which were not required (handrails, doors, etc.) and added missing/new elements to the model. She also did research on exporting dxf files to RISA, exploring how to export all layers especially floor/roof areas.

Continued Her Work to Create the AutoCAD File for Analysis in RISA 3D – Click for Engineering Page

Anvita Kumari Pandey (Civil Engineer) has also been dedicated to giving people what they desire by continuing her research to find the right LED lights for installation overhead and along the City Center patio areas. Here you can see her latest results that should complete this work for us. She just needs to research the patio and covered walkway codes to confirm what’s needed for compliance and then we can make our final selections.

Continued Research of LED Lights for Installation Overhead and Along the City Center Patio Areas

GIVING PEOPLE WHAT THEY DESIRE – HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

One Community is giving people what they desire 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 focused on giving people what they desire by compiling narratives for the specific chicken breeds we chose and adding the info and photos to our behind-the-scenes chicken Google Doc. We also reviewed a video pertaining to supplements for animal health, wrote a narrative and added it to all our related animal pages. You can see some of the behind-the-scenes portions of this work here.

Narratives for the Specific Chicken Breeds & Reviewed a Video Pertaining to Animal Health

Giving people what they desire, the core team  continued with the cost analysis for the goat and sheep barn. We added the missing images, finished the dutch door and milking stand material lists, and added the total costs for the barn, which now makes the barn cost analysis complete. We also researched milking stand DIY plans, researched dutch door DIY instructions, and researched optional goat birthing pen panels. You can see some of this work here.

Continued With the Cost Analysis for the Goat and Sheep Barn – Click for Goat Page

In addition, the core team continued developing the behind-the-scenes open source permaculture design content, giving people what they desire in sustainable living practices. This week we wrote concise descriptions of the permaculture ethics and principles on index cards to revisit periodically during all project phases. We also completed Step 1 (Assess Resources and Identify Needs) for the case study. You can see some of this work below.

Wrote Descriptions of the Permaculture Ethics and Principles on Index Cards to Revisit Periodically

Ziqian Zheng (Architectural Designer and Drafter) continued with week 4 of his work for giving people what they desire on the Transition Kitchen designs. This week he completed the rendering food and people additions, added plugins to finish the lighting plan, and submitted everything for initial review and feedback. We’d say this brings this component to 90% complete.

Continued Work on the Transition Kitchen Designs – Click for Page

And Mohammad Almuzaial (Civil and Construction Engineer) continued with his 2nd week giving people what they desire by helping with the Aquapini/Walipini civil engineering details. This week Mohammad finished multiple iterations of the Toposurface for the project including water management slopes and water collecting trenches in addition to site stairs and pond guardrails. You can see some of this work here and we’d say this brings this part of this component to 40% complete.

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

GIVING PEOPLE WHAT THEY DESIRE – HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

One Community is giving people what they desire through Highest Good education that is for all ages, applicable in any environment, adaptable to individual needs, far exceeds traditional education standards, and more fun for both the teachers and the students.

This component of One Community is about 95% complete with only the Open Source School Licensing and Ultimate Classroom construction and assembly details remaining to be finished. With over 8 years of work invested in the process, the sections below are all complete until we move onto the property and continue the development and open sourcing process with teachers and students – a development process that is built directly into the structure of the education program and everything else we’re creating too , aiming to fulfill our commitment to giving people what they desire.:

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

This week Dan Alleck (Designer and Illustrator) completed his 58th week dedicated to giving people what they desire by helping with render additions and finishing work for the rooms in the the Ultimate Classroom. This week he finished revisions and additions to the green room representing “Science.” This image is now on the website also.

Finished Revisions and Additions to the Green Room Representing “Science” – Click for Classroom

GIVING PEOPLE WHAT THEY DESIRE – HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS

One Community is giving people what they desire 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 Marketer and Graphic Designer) continued giving people what they desire by helping us refine our adwords campaigns and improve their performance. You can see some of the results of this here.

Continued Helping Us Refine Our Adwords Campaigns and Improve Their Performance – Click for Page

Emilio Nájera (Digital Marketer) also continued work on these campaigns for giving people what they desire. This week he removed all the help wanted volunteer ads’ keywords that don’t include the following terms: “volunteer, pro bono, intern, and internship”. Additionally, he targeted our main campaign to the United States, China and India. These actions contribute to the main goal to display ads in order to attract new volunteers in those countries.

Removed All the Help Wanted Volunteer Ads’ Keywords That Don’t Include Certain Terms

Deema Ali (Graphic/Video Designer) also completed her 2nd week designing new versions of the One Community Overview videos helping in giving people what they desire. This week she continued to edit and completed the first version of  the main overview video by adding more stock footage and content pulled from the One Community’s website, visual transitions, text, and a keyed composite effect.

Continued Designing New Versions of the One Community Overview Videos – Click for Home Page

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INVESTOR PAGES

OVERVIEW | LOCATION | FUNDING

GET INVOLVED

DONATE | 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, change the world together and facilitating Ethical Community Science . 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 growth on creating a golden Age for Humanity.

BUILDING THE FIRST OF MANY

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

WHY ONE COMMUNITY IS CREATING THIS

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

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

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

SUMMARY

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

Zero-waste community designs are one way to reduce the global buildup of trash. Through community collaboration we can create and share more comprehensive and innovative purchasing strategies, reuse models, and recycling and disposal options. What we learn can then be open sourced and free-shared to help evolve and diversify the ideas into other environments too. Problem solving and sharing solutions like this is one component of what One Community is calling 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 November 24th, 2019 edition (#348) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments:

Zero-waste Community Designs
One Community Progress Update #348

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ZERO-WASTE COMMUNITY DESIGNS – HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

One Community is facilitating zero-waste community designs 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 updating the Murphy bed electrical in SketchUp 3D incorporating zero-waste community designs. We checked and adjusted the beam locations with the measurements shown here. Now they line up 16″ on center from the left and right, then with the shelving that will be attached to them so it can be anchored properly. Then 16″ from that beam so we’ve got proper structural integrity. This spacing, as shown here, turned out to be the best for function, strength, and symmetry.

Continued Updating the Murphy Bed Electrical in SketchUp 3D

The core team also continued construction of the Earthbag Engineering Page, focusing on integrating zero-waste community designs. This week we created all the sections shown here covering soil classification, using the soil classification spreadsheet, and using and understanding the nail selection spreadsheet.

Continued Construction of the Earthbag Engineering Page – Click to Visit

Oluyomi Sanyaolu (Technical Writer and Researcher) completed his 5th week with the team, continuing cost analysis of external Earthbag Village components. This week Oluyomi completed the 1st draft of the wind power cost analysis using 11 different sources of information, emphasizing zero-waste community designs. He also defined the different aspects that make up the hydro-power plant, so that readers could understand their purpose. An estimate for the average cost of constructing parking lots was also conducted.

Completed 1st Draft of Wind Power Cost Analysis & Defined Different Aspects of Hydro-power Plant

Shadi Kennedy (Artist and Graphic Designer) also completed his 74th week developing the Murphy bed instructions. This week, he integrated an icon illustration of the wire coil for 12/3 & 12/2 wire, streamlined the design by eliminating the 3 gang box and enhancing the wiring section on the procurement page. Additionally, he optimized clarity by reducing excessive part numbers W7 throughout the document. Shadi also developed new diagrams that showcase the strategic placement of upright wall support beams, aligning with the updated layout. He meticulously revised pW5 to reflect these adjustments, ensuring precise measurements and adherence to zero-waste community designs.

Continued Developing the Murphy Bed Instructions – Click for Earthbag Village Furniture Page

Dean Scholz (Architectural Designer) returned to helping and completed week #169 by advancing the Earthbag Village (Pod 1) project with his expertise in zero-waste community designs. This week he designed an ADA ramp and began integrating into 3D the AutoCAD updates from the last couple of months. You can see some of this work here.

Designed an ADA Ramp and Began Integrating New AutoCAD Updates Into 3D

And Hemanth Kotaru (Structural Engineer) completed his 35th week helping with the structural engineering research and calculations for the Earthbag Village, focusing on zero-waste community designs. This week he created a new seismic calculations spreadsheet and wrote a tutorial and made updates for the wind and snow load calculation spreadsheets. You can see this behind-the-scenes work here.

Created New Seismic Calculations Spreadsheet & Wrote Tutorial for Wind & Snow Load Calculation

ZERO-WASTE COMMUNITY DESIGNS – DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

One Community is facilitating zero-waste community designs 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 Ron Huang (Mechanical Engineer) continued with his 29th week working on the Energy Modeling for our LEED Platinum certification, integrating zero-waste community designs into the and City Center open source HVAC design tutorial. This week he continued working on the summary report shown here and preparing the simulation file submittal.

Continued Working on the Summary Report and Preparing the Simulation File Submittal

Sneha Dongre (Structural Engineer) also continued with her 31st week helping with the Duplicable City Center structural details, advancing towards zero-waste community designs. This week she continued her work cleaning out the unwanted layers from AutoCAD file to set up the file for analysis in RISA 3D (pictures below). Next step is making different layers as columns/beams etc. in AutoCAD file, so that it’ll be easy to design those sets because, currently, RISA is importing those layers as section sets. Cleared 4-5 layers and there are still some small details left to clean.

Continued removing Unwanted Layers From AutoCAD File to Set Up the File for Analysis in RISA 3D

ZERO-WASTE COMMUNITY DESIGNS – HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

One Community is facilitating zero-waste community designs 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 researching chicken breeds for our desired purposes within zero-waste community designs. We compiled narratives for the specific chicken breeds we chose and added the info and photos to our behind-the-scenes chicken Google Doc. You can see some examples of this here.

Continued Researching Chicken Breeds and Compiled Narratives for the Specific Chicken Breeds

The core team also continued with the cost analysis and the detailed SketchUp model for the goat and sheep barn, incorporating zero-waste community designs. We designed the dutch doors, researched the wall panels, and added rails outside of the milking room. We also finished wall framing the goat area, and the outside wall of the milking room, as shown here.

Continued With the Cost Analysis and the Detailed SketchUp Model for the Goat and Sheep Barn

In addition, the core team continued developing the behind-the-scenes open source permaculture design content aimed at zero-waste community designs. This week we reviewed the permaculture ethics and principles to be better positioned to complete the case study, completed the SWOT analysis for the case study, and added “natural disasters” to our Business Plan SWOT analysis.

Continued Developing the Behind-the-scenes Open Source Permaculture Design Content

Ziqian Zheng (Architectural Designer and Drafter) continued with week 3 of his work on the Transition Kitchen designs for zero-waste community designs. This week he completed the lighting and plumbing plans and continued working on additions and revisions on the renders of the sketchUp model.

Completed the Lighting and Plumbing Plans for the Transition Kitchen Designs – Click to Visit

And Mohammad Almuzaial (Civil and Construction Engineer) joined the team and completed his inaugural week contributing to the Aquapini/Walipini project’s civil engineering aspects. In his first week, Mohammad commenced work on zero-waste community designs, focusing on developing the Aquapini & Walipini site. This involved meticulous design of the drainage system and water supply network. Using Revit, he accurately modeled the actual terrain and topography to facilitate precise estimations. Furthermore, Mohammad strategically located the prospective Aquapini & Walipini site plot within the master plan, ensuring optimal placement. Additionally, he acquired detailed property maps and GIS elevation data to enhance the modeling accuracy further.

Joined the Team and Began Helping With the Aquapini/Walipini Civil Engineering Details

ZERO-WASTE COMMUNITY DESIGNS – HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

One Community is facilitating zero-waste community designs 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

ZERO-WASTE COMMUNITY DESIGNS – HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS

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

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

This week the core team finished the initial review and edits of all the existing business plan pages, integrating zero-waste community designs where applicable. We now have 1 or 2 more to create and then a final review to bring it to completion, other than ongoing additions and revisions based on our design work.

Finished the Initial Review and Edits of All the Existing Business Plan Pages – Click to Visit

Deema Ali (Graphic/Video Designer) also joined the team to contribute her expertise in zero-waste community designs. She began redesigning a new version of the One Community Overview video by integrating stock footage and synchronizing them with the video’s beat points. Deema enhanced the video with seamless transitions and incorporated clear text elements, echoing the style seen in the original production.

Joined the Team Began Designing a New Version of the One Community Overview Video

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INVESTOR PAGES

OVERVIEW | LOCATION | FUNDING

GET INVOLVED

DONATE | 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 by embracing zero-waste community designs. 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.

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 zero-waste community designs appropriate for each of the five main types of climates. They also include options for even the most challenged economies. These hubs will collaborate with one another, share ideas, resources, and work together as a network to heal the planet. They will also transform the global lifestyle to a more enjoyable, fulfilling, healthy, and sustainable one.

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

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

WHY OPEN SOURCE

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

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

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

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

SUMMARY

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

Open source and adaptable solutions for a sustainable world will save money and help regenerate our planet. The solutions we are focused on first are food, energy, housing, education, for-profit and non-profit economic design, social architecture, fulfilled living, and global stewardship practices. Combining these creates what we call a “Highest Good” living model. Open sourcing this model is a path to making it self-replicating and making it self-replicating is 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 November 17th, 2019 edition (#347) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments:

Adaptable Solutions for a Sustainable World
One Community Progress Update #347

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ADAPTABLE SOLUTIONS FOR A SUSTAINABLE WORLD – HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

One Community is building adaptable solutions for a sustainable world 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 updating the Murphy bed electrical in SketchUp 3D. We measured the electrical wires to be 111 feet of 12/3 and 183 feet of 12/2 and also tested several different placements of studs in the wall, as shown here , exploring adaptable solutions for a sustainable world

Continued Updating the Murphy Bed Electrical in SketchUp 3D ” Click for Furniture Page

Oluyomi Sanyaolu (Technical Writer and Researcher) completed his 4th week with the team, continuing cost analysis of external Earthbag Village components with a focus on adaptable solutions for a sustainable world. This week Oluyomi finished a draft for the wind farm cost analysis, coming up with a total cost of $4,500 per 1kW turbine. He used 11 different sources to aid his wind system research and analysis. He also continued work on the hydro power systems research and cost analysis.

Finished a Draft for the Wind Farm Cost Analysis – Click for Earthbag Village

Bahy Ahmed (Architect), committed to adaptable solutions for a sustainable world, completed his 5th week helping with the Earthbag Village 4-dome cluster roof and floor plan updates. This week Bahy created the final version of furniture layout changes, updated door access to the spa, and new built-in seating and rooftop safety railings.

Continued Helping With the Earthbag Village 4-dome Cluster Roof and Floor Plan Updates

And Shadi Kennedy (Artist and Graphic Designer) also completed his 73rd week developing the Murphy bed instructions, showcased his commitment to adaptable solutions for a sustainable world. This week he removed the 3-gang circuit box from the components section, added magnets for holding up the swinging headboard and hinges to the components section, did the various translations for newly added components, added new renders to the front page of the nightstand section, redid the page numbering on the nightstand section, and added new renders on several more individual pages.

Continued Developing the Murphy Bed Instructions – Click for Earthbag Village Furniture Page

ADAPTABLE SOLUTIONS FOR A SUSTAINABLE WORLD – DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

One Community is building adaptable solutions for a sustainable world 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 Ron Huang (Mechanical Engineer) continued with his 28th week working on the Energy Modeling for our LEED Platinum certification and City Center open source HVAC design tutorial. This week completed the LEED Report and began the summary report , embodying our commitment to adaptable solutions for a sustainable world. You can see some of this behind-the-scenes work here.

Completed the LEED Report and Began the Summary Report ” Click for HVAC Page

Sneha Dongre (Structural Engineer) also continued with her 30th week helping with the Duplicable City Center structural details. This week she worked on setting up the City Center structural files for use with the new RISA 3D software we’re using for the timber design in this adaptable solution for a sustainable world.

Worked on Setting Up the City Center Structural Files for Use With the New RISA 3D Software

ADAPTABLE SOLUTIONS FOR A SUSTAINABLE WORLD – HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

One Community is building adaptable solutions for a sustainable world 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

Began Researching Information on the Best Chicken Breeds for Our Desired Purposes – Click for Page

The core team also continued with the cost analysis and the detailed SketchUp model for the goat milking room, focusing on adaptable solutions for a sustainable world. We also worked on the cost analysis for the goat barn by researching the type of foundations preferred for metal barns, grade beam footing, and feeders.

Continued With the Cost Analysis and the Detailed SketchUp Model for the Goat Milking Room

Ziqian Zheng (Architectural Designer and Drafter) also continued with week 2 of his work on the Transition Kitchen designs. This week he completing version one of the sketchUp model and renderings shown here. His efforts reflect a commitment to adaptable solutions for a sustainable world.

Completed Version One of the SketchUp Model and Renderings ” Click to Visit Transition Kitchen Plan

He also produced this initial walkthrough video for this structure.

ADAPTABLE SOLUTIONS FOR A SUSTAINABLE WORLD – HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

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

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

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

This week Dan Alleck (Designer and Illustrator) completed his 57th week helping with render additions and finishing work for the rooms in the the Ultimate Classroom. Here you can see his 1st round of revisions and additions to the green room representing “Science”, showcasing adaptable solutions for a sustainable world.

Completed 1st Round of Revisions and Additions to the Green Room Representing “Science”

ADAPTABLE SOLUTIONS FOR A SUSTAINABLE WORLD – HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS

One Community is building adaptable solutions for a sustainable world 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 15 of the pages linked to from our help wanted page.

Updated All 15 of the Pages Linked to From Our Help Wanted Page – Click to Visit

Jin Hua (Web Marketer and Graphic Designer) provided invaluable assistance by conducting a comprehensive website analysis. Her insights helped us identify and implement adaptable solutions for a sustainable world, focusing on enhancing our website’s loading speed and indexing capabilities.

Helped Us Run a New Website Analysis to Help Improve the Loading Speed & Indexing of Our Website

And Emilio Nájera (Digital Marketer) applied adaptable solutions for a sustainable world by updating and adding additional headlines and descriptions for the Volunteer campaigns related to the help wanted volunteer ads we updated.

Added Additional Descriptions for the Volunteer Campaigns Related to the Help Wanted Volunteer Ads

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

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INVESTOR PAGES

OVERVIEW | LOCATION | FUNDING

GET INVOLVED

DONATE | 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 by developing adaptable solutions for a sustainable world. 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 adaptable solutions for a sustainable world to be implemented as individual components or complete developments called teacher/demonstration hubs. These hubs will help launch additional hubs as awareness and knowledge grow.

BUILDING THE FIRST OF MANY

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

WHY ONE COMMUNITY IS CREATING THIS

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

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

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

WHY OPEN SOURCE

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

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

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

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

OPEN SOURCE SHARING STRATEGY SPECIFICS

One Community’s open source strategy will evolve 5 primary types of open source content purposed to reach and service as broad an audience as possible. This includes the following mediums of sharing that are being developed to function as standalone resources or in combination with each other:

• Video tutorials
• Audio tutorials
• Live streaming video
• Direct/live interaction
• Written content and downloadable PDFs

Maximum exposure is accomplished through simultaneous implementation of the following strategies:

• Free-shared audio, visual, and PDF downloads
• Scholarship and intern programs for direct learning
• Videoing or live-streaming almost all classes and activities
• Tourism option for involvement in almost all aspects of One Community
• Dedicated and search engine optimized sections of our website for each key area
• Our established infrastructure that simultaneously posts to over 20 social networks

SUMMARY

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

We can create better living through comprehensive sustainability. Truly comprehensive sustainability includes sustainable approaches to food, energy, housing, education, for-profit and non-profit economic design, social architecture, fulfilled living, global stewardship practices, and more. By putting these components together we can reduce our living expenses, increase our free time, reduce transportation costs and time, and provide a broader diversity of social and recreational activities for ourselves and others.

• 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 10th, 2019 edition (#346) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments:

Better Living Through Comprehensive Sustainability
One Community Progress Update #346

DONATE | COLLABORATE | HELP WITH LARGE-SCALE FUNDING

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BETTER LIVING THROUGH COMPREHENSIVE SUSTAINABILITY – HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

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

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

This week the core team began construction of the Earthbag Engineering Page. This week we created the initial formatting and sections covering What, Why, and the Process Summary.

Began Construction of the Earthbag Engineering Page – Click to Visit

And the core team continued updating the Murphy bed electrical in SketchUp 3D. We added four missing outlets, rerouted a blue wire next to the entry door, and revised the separated circuits groups with the latest updates. We also modified the support board for reclining while sitting in the bed and set the measurements for the location and dimension of this board and the back-area storage light. All these changes were made with the goal of better living through comprehensive sustainability.

Continued Updating the Murphy Bed Electrical in SketchUp 3D – Click for Furniture Page

Oluyomi Sanyaolu (Technical Writer and Researcher) completed his 3rd week with the team by starting a new project focused on cost analysis of external Earthbag Village components. This week’s focus was Hydro and Wind energy components, comparing the prices of different components of each power production system and writing brief introductions for both sections. These efforts align with our commitment to better living through comprehensive sustainability.

Began a New Project Focused on Cost Analysis of External Earthbag Village Components

And Shadi Kennedy (Artist and Graphic Designer) also completed his 72nd week developing the Murphy bed instructions. This week’s focus was a first draft of integrating the core team’s suggested changes to the fold-down support board and electrical boards, furthering our mission of better living through comprehensive sustainability.

Began Integrating Core Team’s Suggested Changes to Fold-down Support Board and Electrical Boards

BETTER LIVING THROUGH COMPREHENSIVE SUSTAINABILITY – DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

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

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

This week the core team began updating the City Center Water Rainwater Catchment Design open source hub. This week we finished the initial formatting setup, table of contents links, and the first four sections shown here, embracing the principle of better living through comprehensive sustainability.

Began Updating the City Center Water Rainwater Catchment Design Open Source Hub

And Ron Huang (Mechanical Engineer) continued with his 27th week working on the Energy Modeling for our LEED Platinum certification and City Center open source HVAC design tutorial. This week’s focus was continued development of the final energy model report for LEED, better living through comprehensive sustainability.

Continued Development of the Final Energy Model Report for LEED – Click for HVAC Page

Sneha Dongre (Structural Engineer) also continued with her 29th week helping with the Duplicable City Center structural details. This week she continued watching videos and reading articles to help her learn the RISA 3D software we’re now choosing for the timber design for this structure, ensuring better living through comprehensive sustainability.

Continued Watching Videos and Reading Articles to Help Her Learn RISA 3D Software

BETTER LIVING THROUGH COMPREHENSIVE SUSTAINABILITY – HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

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

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

This week the core team continued researching information on chicken coops as part of our commitment to “better living through comprehensive sustainability”.. We cross referenced chicken coop features with our coop designs and our most recent coop research. We also reviewed and added to our behind-the-scenes chicken Google Doc various Pete B. videos including a 5-set series regarding a chicken coop build and three others. You can see some of this work here.

Continued Researching Information on Chicken Coops – Click for Page

The core team also updated the rabbit hutch material list and added the rabbit tractor material list for one and three tractors. You can see some of this work here. This effort is part of our ongoing commitment to better living through comprehensive sustainability.

Updated the Rabbit Hutch Material List & Added the Rabbit Tractor Material List

In addition, the core team continued developing the behind-the-scenes open source permaculture design content. This week we completed the behind-the-scenes first draft of Steps 4 (Detailed Design) and 5 (Implementation and Evaluation), striving for better living through comprehensive sustainability. You can see some of this work here.

Continued Developing the Behind-the-scenes Open Source Permaculture Design Content

And last but not least, Ziqian Zheng (Architectural Designer and Drafter) joined the team and began work on finishing the development of the Transition Kitchen designs. This week he focused on the floor plan, sections, and roof plan, ensuring they embody the principle of better living through comprehensive sustainability.

Joined the Team and Began Work on Finishing the Development of the Transition Kitchen Designs

BETTER LIVING THROUGH COMPREHENSIVE SUSTAINABILITY – HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

One Community is demonstrating better living through comprehensive sustainability 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, emphasizing better living through comprehensive sustainability.:

• 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

BETTER LIVING THROUGH COMPREHENSIVE SUSTAINABILITY – HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS

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

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

This week the core team added reference links to all of the Work Breakdown Structure action items, emphasizing better living through comprehensive sustainability.

Added Reference Links to All the Work Breakdown Structure Action Items – Click for Google Doc

The core team also finished our open source tutorial about patents and how they relate to better living through comprehensive sustainability.

Finished Open Source Tutorial About Patents and How They Relate to Open Source Creation

And the core team working with Emilio Nájera (Digital Marketer) also wrote new ads for all our volunteer campaigns and continued fine tuning the Donations campaigns, some of which you can see here, promoting better living through comprehensive sustainability.

Wrote New Ads for All Our Volunteer Campaigns and Continued Fine Tuning the Donations Campaigns

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

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INVESTOR PAGES

OVERVIEW | LOCATION | FUNDING

GET INVOLVED

DONATE | WAYS ANYONE CAN HELP | MEMBERSHIP

CLICK HERE FOR ALL PAST UPDATES

WHAT ONE COMMUNITY IS CREATING

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

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

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

BUILDING THE FIRST OF MANY

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

WHY ONE COMMUNITY IS CREATING THIS

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

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

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

WHY OPEN SOURCE

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

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

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

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

OPEN SOURCE SHARING STRATEGY SPECIFICS

One Community’s open source strategy will evolve 5 primary types of open source content purposed to reach and service as broad an audience as possible. This includes the following mediums of sharing that are being developed to function as standalone resources or in combination with each other:

• Video tutorials
• Audio tutorials
• Live streaming video
• Direct/live interaction
• Written content and downloadable PDFs

Maximum exposure is accomplished through simultaneous implementation of the following strategies:

• Free-shared audio, visual, and PDF downloads
• Scholarship and intern programs for direct learning
• Videoing or live-streaming almost all classes and activities
• Tourism option for involvement in almost all aspects of One Community
• Dedicated and search engine optimized sections of our website for each key area
• Our established infrastructure that simultaneously posts to over 20 social networks

SUMMARY

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

One Community welcomes Bahy Ahmed to the Design Team as our newest Volunteer/Consultant!

Bahy was born in Kuwait, is living in Egypt, and has 10 years experience in big-brand hotel renovations. He has contributed to high-quality names such as Sheraton Cairo Hotel, Conrad Cairo Hotel, and residential high-luxury villas in the north coast of Egypt. He is passionate about his work and joined the One Community team to help with our project’s contributions to better economic housing for the poor. In support of this, his major contribution to the project so far has been helping finalize the Earthbag Village 4-dome residential designs.

WELCOME TO THE TEAM BAHY!

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INVESTOR PAGES

OVERVIEW | LOCATION | FUNDING

GET INVOLVED

CONSULTANTS | WAYS ANYONE CAN HELP | MEMBERSHIP

Ecologically addressing education is about sustainable, forward-thinking education to help people become conscientious global stewards. It is about teaching how to learn more than what to learn, solutioneering and thinking outside the box, and understanding how our individual decisions impact the larger whole. It is about living and creating for The Highest Good of all people and life on this planet and considering what is most important to learn and teach each other in support of this.

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

OUR MAIN OPEN SOURCE HUBS

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

One Community’s physical location will forward this movement as the first of many self-replicating teacher/demonstration communities, villages, and cities to be built around the world. This is the November 3rd, 2019 edition (#345) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments:

Ecologically Addressing Education
One Community Progress Update #345

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ECOLOGICALLY ADDRESSING EDUCATION – HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

One Community is ecologically addressing education 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 working with Oluyomi Sanyaolu (Technical Writer and Researcher) completed the behind-the-scenes formatting, research, and content needed to create the Earthbag Engineering Page. This was Yomi’s second week working on this task and he handled the research, formatting, and initial content creation while the core team focused on editing, feedback and formatting updates, all with a focus on ecologically addressing education.

Completed Behind-the-scenes Formatting, Research & Content to Create Earthbag Engineering Page

The core team also finished work on the business plan startup-costs and revenue projections for the 7 sustainable villages and the project as a whole. This included identifying and correcting a significant revenue error, developing the Miscellaneous Startup Expenses section, and several other sections, ensuring the entire plan aligns with our mission of ecologically addressing education.

Finished Work on Business Plan Startup-costs & Revenue Projections for the 7 Sustainable Villages

And the core team worked on fixing outlet and switch details in the Murphy bed 3D SketchUp file. These corrections were needed for the assembly instructions and required researching if multiple circuits require their own electrical boxes. Two switches were then added on the outside entry door light on the left side inside, and another switch was added outside to the left of the entry door. While doing so, the team also considered by ensuring that the electrical system design followed sustainable practices, aiming to educate others on eco-friendly construction techniques.

Ecologically Addressing Education – Outlet and Switch Details in the Murphy Bed 3D SketchUp File

And Shadi Kennedy (Artist and Graphic Designer) also completed his 71st week developing the Murphy bed instructions. This week’s focus was creating and adding a diversity of renders and additional color and numbering details to the main wall section shown here, ecologically addressing education by integrating sustainable design principles and promoting awareness through the instructional content.

Ecologically Addressing Education – Additional Color & Numbering Details to Main Wall Section

ECOLOGICALLY ADDRESSING EDUCATION – DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

One Community is ecologically addressing education 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 Ron Huang (Mechanical Engineer) continued with his 26th week working on the Energy Modeling for our LEED Platinum certification and City Center open source HVAC design tutorial. This week’s focus was finishing the process of adding photovoltaics to the energy model and beginning work on the final energy model report for LEED , ecologically addressing education through sustainable energy practices and design.

Worked on the Process of Adding PV cells to Energy Model & Began Work on Final Energy Model

Sneha Dongre (Structural Engineer) also continued with her 28th week helping with the Duplicable City Center structural details, ecologically addressing education. This week she focused on learning/exploring RISA 3D software as our new choice for timber design for this structure.

Focused on Learning/Exploring RISA 3D Software as Our New Choice for Timber Design Structure

Tianyu Zhou (Architect and Structural Engineering Consultant) also continued with her 4th week helping with the Duplicable City Center beam and column structural details. Her focus this week was learning/exploring/testing the RISA 3D software and beginning the process of creating construction documents for the structural framing plans. The structural plan indicates the location of steel girders, wood beams, and steel columns, the direction of the span, and the size of required structural members. Details will be added later when the structural analysis is finished.

This project exemplifies ecologically addressing education, integrating sustainable design principles into the learning and development process.

Ecologically Addressing Education – Duplicable City Center Beam and Column Structural Details

ECOLOGICALLY ADDRESSING EDUCATION – HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

One Community is ecologically addressing education 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 reviewing videos on raising chickens. This video was one of the best and we added it and all the primary points (with timestamps) to our behind-the-scenes chicken Google Doc. In addition, we viewed a video on why not to free range and summarized it on the doc as well. You can see some of this work here as part of our ongoing efforts to ecologically address education.

Continued Reviewing Videos on Raising Chickens and Added All the Primary Points to Our Google Doc

The core team also made final updates to the multiple-rabbit hutch assembly instructions. You can see some of this work here.

Ecologically Addressing Education – Final Updates to the Multiple-rabbit Hutch Assembly Instructions

In addition, the core team continued developing the behind-the-scenes open source permaculture design content, ecologically addressing education. This week we revised Step 3, “Develop A Conceptual Design” and began working on Step 4, “Detailed Design.” This included gathering a list of resources for essential components, making a chart to guide the detailed design process, and starting a detailed review of related video resources.

Revised “Develop a Conceptual Design” & Working on “Detailed Design” of the Permaculture Design

ECOLOGICALLY ADDRESSING EDUCATION – HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

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

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

This week Dan Alleck (Designer and Illustrator) completed his 56th week helping with render additions and finishing work for the rooms in the Ultimate Classroom. Here you can see his 3rd and final additions to the Blue Room representing “Technology.” This image is now on the website also, signifies a pivotal moment in ecologically addressing education, showcasing how technology harmoniously integrates with the learning environment.

Created 3rd and Final Additions to the Ultimate Classroom Blue Room Representing “Technology”

ECOLOGICALLY ADDRESSING EDUCATION – HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS

One Community is ecologically addressing education 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) also continued with his 52nd week as part of the marketing team, dedicating his efforts to ecologically addressing education. This week he created the Donations campaigns for keywords related to Highest Good Society, Highest Good, and our Methodology and Solutions that Create Solutions pages.

Created the Donations Campaigns for Keywords Related to our One Community Branding Pages

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

DONATE | 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 ecologically addressing education and 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, ecologically addressing education.. 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.

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 by ecologically addressing education. They will also transform the global lifestyle to a more enjoyable, fulfilling, healthy, and sustainable one.

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

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

WHY OPEN SOURCE

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

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

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

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

COMPREHENSIVE SOLUTION TO HUMANITY’S NEEDS

One Community is open source sharing an evolution of sustainable living that addresses the complete human experience by using communities as a solution to unemployment. 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. 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.

SUMMARY

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

Permaculture cooperatives working together globally can regenerate our ecosystems, address our food, housing, and climate challenges, and create a sustainable planet within our lifetime. One Community is doing our part to support this for “The Highest Good of All” with open source and free-shared DIY resources covering food, energy, housing, education, for-profit and non-profit economic design, social architecture, fulfilled living, global stewardship practices, and more.

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

OUR MAIN OPEN SOURCE HUBS

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

One Community’s physical location will forward this movement as the first of many self-replicating teacher/demonstration communities, villages, and cities to be built around the world. This is the October 27th, 2019 edition (#344) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments:

Permaculture Cooperatives
One Community Progress Update #344

DONATE | COLLABORATE | HELP WITH LARGE-SCALE FUNDING

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PERMACULTURE COOPERATIVES – HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

One Community is designing permaculture 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 business plan startup-costs and revenue projections for the 7 sustainable villages and the project as a whole. You can see some of this work here. While examining our expenses, we pinpointed health insurance costs as a significant hurdle. However, we’re committed to finding innovative solutions within the ethos of permaculture cooperatives, aiming to lower these expenses while ensuring comprehensive coverage for all participants. Health insurance costs are currently the largest expense, we’re going to work on options that will bring these down. This work helps One Community’s mission of permaculture cooperatives and reinforces our commitment to a better living quality for all people.

Worked on Business Plan Startup-costs & Revenue Projections for 7 Sustainable Villages & Project

Oluyomi Sanyaolu (Technical Writer and Researcher) joined the team and began the process of final formatting of all the content needed to create the Earthbag Engineering Page. This week he finished the first draft of all the related content. As we delve deeper into the realm of sustainable practices, including permaculture cooperatives, his expertise will be invaluable in bringing this project to fruition. This work helps One Community’s mission of permaculture cooperatives and reinforces our commitment to a better living quality for all people. You can see some of his work here.

Began the Process of Final Formatting of All Content Needed to Create the Earthbag Engineering Page

Shadi Kennedy (Artist and Graphic Designer) also completed his 70th week developing the Murphy bed instructions. This week’s focus was initial formatting shown here for the electrical installation details. Shadi’s commitment to detail and precision echoes the principles of permaculture cooperatives, where individuals collaborate to design sustainable systems that harmonize with nature.

Began Formatting for the Electrical Installation Details for the Murphy Bed Instructions

And Bahy Ahmed (Architect) completed his 4th week helping with the Earthbag Village 4-dome cluster roof and floor plan updates as part of the permaculture cooperative initiative. This week Bahy created version 4.0 shown here with more furniture layout changes, updated door access to the spa, and new built-in seating and rooftop safety railings. This work helps One Community’s mission of permaculture cooperatives and reinforces our commitment to a better living quality for all people.

Continued Working on the Earthbag Village 4-Dome Cluster Roof and Floor Plan Updates

PERMACULTURE COOPERATIVES – DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

One Community is designing permaculture 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 Ron Huang (Mechanical Engineer) continued with his 25th week working on the Energy Modeling for our LEED Platinum certification and City Center open source HVAC design tutorial. This week’s focus was beginning the process of adding photovoltaics to the energy model by using Retscreen to specify the size, capacity, and efficiency of the PV panels. This collaborative effort aligns with our commitment to sustainable practices and fosters a spirit of cooperation within our permaculture cooperatives.

Began the Process of Adding Photovoltaics to the Energy Model by Using Retscreen

Sneha Dongre (Structural Engineer) also continued with her 27th week helping with the Duplicable City Center structural details. This week she focused on finding a better software than SAP 2000 for analyzing wood construction options, aligning with permaculture cooperatives’ sustainable ethos. RISA 3D software enables timber design, so she downloaded and began learning this new software.

Focused on Finding a Better Software Than Sap 2000 for Analyzing Wood Construction Options

Tianyu Zhou (Architect and Structural Engineering Consultant) also continued with her 3rd week helping with the Duplicable City Center beam and column structural details. This week she confirmed 11.857″-560 wood joists are adequate to support gravity load for the second floor based on the deflection limit, completed the SAP model for the structure of the third floor and noticed some wood members didn’t meet the requirement for deflection limit, completed the SAP model for the structure of the fourth floor, and began looking into how to use RISA 3D to finish the analysis. Her diligent efforts exemplify the integration of permaculture principles within cooperative architectural endeavors, fostering sustainability and resilience in urban development. This work helps One Community’s mission of permaculture cooperatives and reinforces our commitment to a better living quality for all people.

Continued Helping With the Duplicable City Center Beam and Column Structural Details

PERMACULTURE COOPERATIVES – HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

One Community is designing permaculture 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 of our permaculture cooperative reviewed videos on raising chickens and decided to feature this video due to its thorough and comprehensive coverage. We then took detailed notes (with timestamps) on our new behind-the-scenes chicken Google Doc. This work helps One Community’s mission of permaculture cooperatives and reinforces our commitment to a better living quality for all people. You can see some of this work here.

Reviewed Videos on Raising Chickens and Took Detailed Notes on Goggle Doc – Click for Page

The core team also made final updates to rabbit hutch assembly instructions. As part of our permaculture cooperative, we raised the hutch to be 3 feet from the ground, removed the plywood floor, and updated the doors and roof, as shown here.

Made Final Updates to Rabbit Hutch Assembly Instructions – Click for Page

In addition, the core team continued developing the behind-the-scenes open source permaculture design content. This week we finished Step 3, “Develop A Conceptual Design.” You can see some of this work here covering different design approaches available, zone delineation, components lists, and developing additional map layers, all of which are essential for fostering thriving permaculture cooperatives.

Continued Developing the Behind-the-scenes Open Source Permaculture Design Content

PERMACULTURE COOPERATIVES – HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

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

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

This week Dan Alleck (Designer and Illustrator), a dedicated member of our permaculture cooperative, completed his 55th week helping with render additions and finishing work. Here you can see his 2nd-generation additions to the Ultimate Classroom Blue room representing “Technology.” One more round of additions and revisions should finish this render. This work helps One Community’s mission of permaculture cooperatives and reinforces our commitment to a better living quality for all people.

Completed 2nd-generation Additions to the Ultimate Classroom Blue Room Representing “Technology”

PERMACULTURE COOPERATIVES – HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS

One Community is designing permaculture 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 updated the Highest Good Network software page and related help-wanted page. We added content from the HGN business plan Project and Program charters, links to both of these documents, new graphics, and updated the GitHub and other links on the page. These enhancements fortify our commitment to fostering permaculture cooperatives and empowering collaborative efforts within the community.

Updated the Highest Good Network Software Page and Related Help-wanted Page

The core team also implemented a completely new newsletter system. Here you can see some of the formats we tried out, some of the settings, and the new Subscribe page we created for our permaculture cooperative.

Implemented a Completely New Newsletter System – Click for Subscribe Page

And Emilio Nájera (Digital Marketer) also continued with his 51st week as part of the marketing team. This week he worked on an expanded keywords plan for the Donations campaign and and explored potential collaborations with permaculture cooperatives to enhance our sustainability initiatives.

Worked on Expanded Keywords Plan for Donations Campaign & Updated Volunteer Campaigns

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

DONATE | 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 permaculture cooperative 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 permaculture cooperative 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, often functioning as permaculture cooperatives, will help launch additional hubs as awareness and knowledge grow.

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 as a permaculture cooperative, 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, including the implementation of a permaculture cooperative, 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 permaculture cooperative.

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. Central to this vision is the development of a permaculture cooperative, which fosters collaborative efforts in sustainable living and resource management.

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 permaculture cooperative model will predictably expand on its own.

WHY OPEN SOURCE

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

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

SUMMARY

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

Open source sustainability resources are a path to jump starting world change for the Highest Good of all people and life on this planet. Humanity has the ability to create a sustainable world if enough people participate and we are creating open source plans to help. They are sustainable, replicable, and cover food, energy, housing, education, for-profit and non-profit economic design, social architecture, fulfilled living, global stewardship practices, and more. We will use them to build One Community as a teacher/demonstration hub to help the world reach the necessary tipping point.

• 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 20th, 2019 edition (#343) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments:

Jump Starting World Change
One Community Progress Update #343

DONATE | COLLABORATE | HELP WITH LARGE-SCALE FUNDING

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

JUMP STARTING WORLD CHANGE  – HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

One Community is jump starting 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 finished adding the updated content to the sustainable hand dryer options page. These updated dryers reflect the improvements made by each of the top companies we’d already identified within this industry. The page is now complete until we begin purchasing hardware for the Earthbag Village and Duplicable City Center for jump starting world change.

The core team also continued working on the Murphy bed instructions in SketchUp 3D. We combined the latest design with the Earthbag structure and added three scenes: bed-down, bed-up & table/sits-up, and bed-up & table/sits-down. These are to help with completion of the assembly instructions, jump starting world change by demonstrating innovative and sustainable living solutions.

Continued Working on the Murphy Bed Instructions in SketchUp 3D

And Bahy Ahmed (Architect) completed his 3rd week helping with the Earthbag Village 4-dome cluster roof designs. This week, jump starting world change, Bahy created version 3.0 shown here with a new furniture layout, column details, stair details, and rooftop patio details.

Continued Helping With the Earthbag Village 4-dome Cluster Roof Designs – Click for Page

JUMP STARTING WORLD CHANGE  – DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

One Community is jump starting 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 Ron Huang (Mechanical Engineer) continued with his 24th week working on the Energy Modeling for our LEED Platinum certification and City Center open source HVAC design tutorial. This week’s focus was incorporating mixed-mode ventilation and daylight harvesting. This successfully reduced the targeted annual total energy consumption by 50% of baseline which helps in jump starting world change.

Incorporated Mixed-mode Ventilation and Daylight Harvesting

Tianyu Zhou (Architect and Structural Engineering Consultant) also continued helping with the Duplicable City Center beam and column structural details for jump starting world change. This week she optimized the sizes for steel girders based on the result from SAP analysis, using W16x26 (T=13.625in>11.875in). She also started checking whether 11.857″-560 wood joists are adequate to support gravity load based on the deflection limit (ÃŽLL=L/360 and ÃŽTL=L/240).

Optimized the Sizes for Steel Girders Based on the Result From Sap Analysis

JUMP STARTING WORLD CHANGE  – HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

One Community is jump starting 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 researching ethical harvesting of farm animals. After much review we found a quality step-by-step video for butchering a goat or lamb, including breaking down to specific meat cuts ready to wrap, and one simple but quality article: “Humane killing of sheep”. We also confirmed three quality sheep shearing videos and added them to our behind-the-scenes Google Doc. You can see some of this work here which we are doing for jump starting world change.

Continued Researching Ethical Harvesting of Farm Animals and Sheep Shearing – Click for Sheep Page

The core team while working towards jump starting world change also finished the rabbit tractor assembly instructions and began the multiple rabbit hutch assembly instructions. We also made updates to the rabbit hutch with ventilation openings in the nursing area, as shown here.

Finished Rabbit Tractor Assembly Instructions & Began Multiple Rabbit Hutch Assembly Instructions

In addition, the core team continued developing the behind-the-scenes open source permaculture design content. This week we made progress on Step 3 that describes design options and processes, along with mainframe mapping, zones, and random assembly. You can see some of this work done for jump starting world change here.

Continued Developing the Behind-the-scenes Open Source Permaculture Design Content

JUMP STARTING WORLD CHANGE  – HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

One Community is jump starting world change 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

JUMP STARTING WORLD CHANGE  – HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS

One Community is jump starting 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 Emilio Nájera (Digital Marketer) also continued with his 50th week as part of the marketing team. This week he continued working on the “Solutions that Create Solutions” list of keywords by adding “donating” prefixes in order to increase the amount of keywords for the Donations campaign we’re developing for jump starting world change.

Added “Donating” Prefixes to Increase the Amount of Keywords for the Donations Campaign

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

DONATE | 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, jump starting world change. 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, jump starting world change. 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, effectively jump-starting world change. 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, thus jump starting world change. 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, effectively jump-starting world change.

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, the model will predictably expand on its own, jump starting world change.

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

COMPREHENSIVE SOLUTION TO HUMANITY’S NEEDS

One Community is open source sharing an evolution of sustainable living that addresses the complete human experience. 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. By doing so, we are jump-starting world change. 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. 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”jump starting world change.

WHY OPEN SOURCE

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

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

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

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

SUMMARY

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

One Community is creating a complete eco-design system for construction of sustainable and self-replicating communities, villages, and cities around the world. It is open source and free-shared, includes 7 sustainable village models, food self-sufficiency plans, energy infrastructure, all-ages education, for-profit and non-profit economic options, social and recreational models, and more – all designed with a guiding philosophy and intent to live and create 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 13th, 2019 edition (#342) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments:

A Complete Eco-Design System
One Community Progress Update #342

DONATE | COLLABORATE | HELP WITH LARGE-SCALE FUNDING

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

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A COMPLETE ECO-DESIGN SYSTEM – HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

One Community is open sourcing a complete eco-design system 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 finished adding the final content to the most sustainable faucet options page for a complete eco-design system. This week we finished all the details and content shown here for our #4 and 6 recommended providers, Grohe and American Standard, completed final editing and proof reading for the page, and shared it through all our social media networks. 

A Complete Eco-Design System ” Final Content to the Most Sustainable Faucet Options Page

Brianna Olsen (Sustainability Researcher) also completed her 16th week as a member of the team and is working towards a complete eco-design system. This week she finished writing the updated descriptions for the newest/current technology she researched for the sustainable hand dryer options page.

A Complete Eco-Design System ” Descriptions for the Newest/current Technology Researched

A COMPLETE ECO-DESIGN SYSTEM – DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

One Community is open sourcing a complete eco-design system 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 Ron Huang (Mechanical Engineer) continued with his 23rd week working on the Energy Modeling for our LEED Platinum certification and City Center open source HVAC design tutorial. This week’s focus (a complete eco-design system) was incorporating evaporative cooling and air flow networks to reduce fan and cooling loads. He also assigned nodes in thermal zones and links in between nodes to induce zonal air mixing.

A Complete Eco-Design system, Evaporative cooling & air flow networks to reduce Fan & Cooling Loads

Tianyu Zhou (Architect and Structural Engineering Consultant) also joined the team and started helping with the Duplicable City Center beam and column structural details for helping achieve a complete eco-design system. This week, as part of a complete eco-design system, she completed the SAP model for the structure of the second floor and started the analysis using wood joists (3 ½â€™â€™ x 11 â¦Å¾Ã¢â’¬â”¢Ã¢â’¬â”¢, southern pine) and steel girder (W18x35, A992).

A Complete Eco-Design System ” Duplicable City Center Beam and Column Structural Details

And last but not least, Yuqiao Zhang (Architectural Designer/Drafter) completed his 15th week helping update the City Center AutoCAD and SketchUp files and designing the rainwater harvesting system. This week, as part of a complete eco-design system, he finalized the files, finished writing the tutorial summary, and double checked all the parts details. This completes Yuqiao’s work on this and it now goes to the web team for final review and open source sharing.

A Complete Eco-Design System ” City Center Files and Designed the Rainwater Harvesting System

A COMPLETE ECO-DESIGN SYSTEM – HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

One Community is open sourcing a complete eco-design system 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 researched and found the best videos we could for rabbits, chicken, and lamb that demonstrate ethical harvesting. We then added the 8 of them we thought were most ethical to the behind-the-scenes Google Doc.

Best Videos We Could for Rabbits, Chicken, & Lamb To Demonstrate Ethical Harvesting

The core team also redesigned the rabbit tractor. This included removing the separation wall, designing and adding a nesting box, replacing the metal net from the bottom of tractor with 1″ rails, removing the wheels, and adding a roof to one half of the run. We also created the material list and began the rabbit tractor assembly steps.

A Complete Eco-Design System ” Rabbit Tractor, Material List, & the Rabbit Tractor Assembly

And the core team also continued developing the behind-the-scenes open source permaculture design content. This week we finished the research and completed writing the behind-the-scenes tutorials for steps 1 and 2 of the design process: “Assess Your Needs and Resources” and “Assess Your Site.” You can see some of this work here.

A Complete Eco-Design System ” Research and Completed Writing Behind-the-scenes Tutorials

A COMPLETE ECO-DESIGN SYSTEM – HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

One Community is open sourcing a complete eco-design system 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

A Complete Eco-Design System ” Highest Good Education: All Subjects | All Learning Levels | Any Age

A COMPLETE ECO-DESIGN SYSTEM – HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS

One Community is open sourcing a complete eco-design system 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) also continued with his 49th week as part of the marketing team. This week he worked on the donation-campaign keywords for the Fulfilled Living and Highest Good Society campaigns.

A Complete Eco-Design System ” Donation-campaign Keywords for Fulfilled Living

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WHAT ONE COMMUNITY IS CREATING

One Community is creating a place to grow together, change the world together and facilitating Ethical Community Science . 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 growth on creating a golden Age for Humanity.

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.

It is this approach we see uniting the world and leading to a new Ethical Community Science. 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.

WHY OPEN SOURCE

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

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

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

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

OPEN SOURCE SHARING STRATEGY SPECIFICS

One Community’s open source strategy will evolve 5 primary types of open source content purposed to reach and service as broad an audience as possible. This includes the following mediums of sharing that are being developed to function as standalone resources or in combination with each other:

• Video tutorials
• Audio tutorials
• Live streaming video
• Direct/live interaction
• Written content and downloadable PDFs

Maximum exposure is accomplished through simultaneous implementation of the following strategies:

• Free-shared audio, visual, and PDF downloads
• Scholarship and intern programs for direct learning
• Videoing or live-streaming almost all classes and activities
• Tourism option for involvement in almost all aspects of One Community
• Dedicated and search engine optimized sections of our website for each key area
• Our established infrastructure that simultaneously posts to over 20 social networks

SUMMARY

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