A new paradigm for eco-living is possible and needed. Global establishment is possible if we can make it easy enough, affordable enough, and desirable enough to spread on its own. One Community is facilitating this through open source tools, tutorials, and 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 6th, 2019 edition (#341) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments:

A New Paradigm for Eco-Living
One Community Progress Update #341

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A NEW PARADIGM FOR ECO-LIVING – HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

One Community is forwarding a new paradigm for eco-living through Highest Good housing that is artistic and beautiful, more affordable, more space efficient, lasts longer, DIY buildable, and constructed with healthy and sustainable materials:

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

This week, the core team continued adding the final content to the most sustainable faucet options page for a new paradigm for eco-living . This week we finished all the details and content shown here for our #2 and 3 recommended providers, Toto and Kohler.

Continued Adding the Final Content to the Most Sustainable Faucet Options Page – Click to Visit

Brianna Olsen (Sustainability Researcher) also completed her 15th week as a member of the team and contributed to the new paradigm for eco-living. This week she finished researching the most current technology for the sustainable hand dryer options page. You can see this work below and next is writing the updated content.

Finished Researching the Most Current Technology for the Sustainable Hand Dryer Options Page

Shadi Kennedy (Artist and Graphic Designer) completed his 69th week developing the Murphy bed instructions and contributed to the new paradigm for eco-living. This week’s focus was adding in render perspectives and texting different ways to show the various areas they reference.

Continued Working on the Murphy Bed Furniture Instructions ” Click for Page

Shadi also started outlining how we’ll create instructions for the electrical components shown here.

Began Outlining How We’ll Create Instructions for the Electrical Components

A NEW PARADIGM FOR ECO-LIVING – DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

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

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

This week Ron Huang (Mechanical Engineer) continued with his 22nd week working on the Energy Modeling for our LEED Platinum certification and City Center open source HVAC design tutorial. This week’s focus was fine tuning of the HVAC control simulations to balance the schedules and controls to remove simultaneous heating and cooling, demonstrating acceptable levels according to code for a new paradigm for eco-living.

Fine Tuned of HVAC Control Simulations to Balance the Schedules and Controls ” Click for Page

A NEW PARADIGM FOR ECO-LIVING – HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

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

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

This week the core team viewed additional sheep shearing videos and added the information to our behind-the-scenes sheep-tutorial Google Doc. We also organized the shelter needs and cold-weather management practices on the Doc, as shown here, contributing to a new paradigm for eco-living.

Viewed Sheep Shearing Videos & Organized the Shelter Needs and Cold – Weather Management

The core team also continued work on the 3D designs for the rabbit hutches, embracing a new paradigm for eco-living. This week we finished updating the material list for multiple rabbit hutches, as shown here.

Finished Updating the Material List for Multiple Rabbit Hutches – Click for Page

And the core team also continued developing the behind-the-scenes open source permaculture design content. This week, we re-watched Geoff Lawton’s videos on Concepts and Themes in Design and Methods of Design and took the notes you see here, which we’ll be integrating into the tutorial. These efforts are part of a new paradigm for eco-living, reflecting our commitment to innovative and sustainable practices.

Re-watched Geoff Lawton’s Videos on Concepts and Themes in Design and Took the Notes

A NEW PARADIGM FOR ECO-LIVING – HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

One Community is forwarding a new paradigm for eco-living through Highest Good education that is for all ages, applicable in any environment, adaptable to individual needs, far exceeds traditional education standards, and more fun for both the teachers and the students. 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

Dan Alleck (Designer and Illustrator) also completed his 54th week helping and contributed to the new paradigm for eco-living. Here you can see his initial additions to the Ultimate Classroom Blue room representing “Technology.”

Made Additions to the Ultimate Classroom Blue Room Representing “Technology”

A NEW PARADIGM FOR ECO-LIVING – HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS

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

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

This week the core team working with Jin Hua (Web Marketer and Graphic Designer) implemented several strategies to improve how fast our website loads and thus create a new paradigm for eco-living.

Implemented Several Strategies to Improve How Fast Our Website Loads – Click for Home Page

Emilio Nájera (Digital Marketer) also continued with his 48th week as part of the marketing team and contributed to the new paradigm for eco-living. This week he  finished the keyword research and campaign creation for the Most Sustainable Adhesives page. He also worked on creating a donations campaign using the “Solutions that Create Solutions” landing page.

Finished the Keyword Research and Campaign Creation for the Most Sustainable Adhesives Page

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

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OVERVIEW | LOCATION | FUNDING

GET INVOLVED

DONATE | WAYS ANYONE CAN HELP | MEMBERSHIP

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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, embodying a new paradigm for eco-living.

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 new paradigm for eco-living, 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, representing a new paradigm for eco-living.

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. Additionally, it embodies a new paradigm for eco-living, demonstrating how sustainable practices can be seamlessly integrated into daily life and community building.

INSPIRING SUSTAINABILITY WITH OPEN SOURCE

One Community’s four-phase strategy for the creation of solution models that create solution creating models uses open source blueprints for duplication that simultaneously address all aspects of the human experience (food, energy, housing, education, social inequality and injustice, fulfilled living, etc.). We see these areas as interdependent and requiring a comprehensive solution if humanity is to move ecologically, socially, economically, and permanently towards a truly sustainable future for everyone. Central to this vision is the concept of a new paradigm for eco-living, which integrates these diverse elements into a cohesive and sustainable approach to living harmoniously with the planet.

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, establishing a new paradigm for eco-living.

WHY OPEN SOURCE

We are creating everything One Community does as open source and free-shared blueprints because we see this as the path to a new Golden Age of creativity, innovation, cooperation, and collaboration for all of humanity. Our model is a solution model that creates additional solution creating models enabling people to live and collaborate globally for The Highest Good of All. By introducing a new paradigm for eco-living, we aim to simplify our initiatives, accelerating the transition to a more sustainable and cooperative world.

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. This model represents a new paradigm for eco-living, seamlessly integrating sustainable practices into every aspect of daily life.

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

This initiative represents a new paradigm for eco-living. 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.

If you love your job, the video attached to this update is not for you. For everyone else, let’s talk about radical sustainability to address jobs nobody likes. Sustainability lowers overhead, increases self-sufficiency, and can provide the foundation for people to work from home or not work a traditional job at all. One Community wants to make this an option for anyone who wants it and we’re open sourcing and free-sharing sustainable designs for food, energy, housing, education, for-profit and non-profit economic design, social architecture, fulfilled living, global stewardship practices, and more 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 September 29th, 2019 edition (#340) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments:

Radical Sustainability to Address Jobs Nobody Likes
One Community Progress Update #340

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RADICAL SUSTAINABILITY TO ADDRESS JOBS NOBODY LIKES – HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

One Community is creating radical sustainability to address jobs nobody likes. The foundations for this include 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 started adding the final content to the most sustainable faucet options page to create radical sustainability to address jobs nobody likes. This week we finished all the details and content shown here for our top-recommended provider, Sloan.

Finished All Details and Content for Our Top-recommended Provider, Sloan – Click for Faucets Page

Brianna Olsen (Sustainability Researcher) also completed her 14th week as a member of the team. This week she began researching the most current technology for the sustainable hand dryer options page to create radical sustainability to address jobs nobody likes. Initial results have been positive and can be seen here.

Began Researching the Most Current Technology for Sustainable Hand Dryer Options Page

Shadi Kennedy (Artist and Graphic Designer) completed his 68th week developing the Murphy bed instructions. This week’s focus was more updates to the wall section numbers, applying a teal coloring system for clarity throughout, checking the screws and tool icons were correct everywhere, and working on the fold-down backboard, all while emphasizing radical sustainability to address jobs nobody likes.

Continued Working on the Murphy Bed Furniture Instructions ” Click for Page

RADICAL SUSTAINABILITY TO ADDRESS JOBS NOBODY LIKES – DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

One Community is creating radical sustainability to address jobs nobody likes. The foundations for this include 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 21st week working on the Energy Modeling for our LEED Platinum certification and City Center open source HVAC design tutorial which is beneficial for creating radical sustainability to address jobs nobody likes. This week’s focus was fine tuning of the HVAC control simulations to remove instances of simultaneous heating and cooling. You can see some of this work here.

Fine Tuned of HVAC Control Simulations to Remove Instances of Simultaneous Heating and Cooling

Sneha Dongre (Structural Engineer) also continued with her 26th week helping with the Duplicable City Center structural details for creating radical sustainability to address jobs nobody likes. This week she finished creating the floors/roof in SAP 2000.

Finished Creating the Duplicable City Center Floors/Roof in SAP 2000 – Click for Page

Kimya Azadmard (Senior Plumbing Engineer) additionally continued with his 7th week as a member of the team. Kimya’s focus this week was setting up the enlarged plans in ¼” to 1-foot scale, legend sheet, and general sheets for the City Center plumbing design which helps us in creating radical sustainability to address jobs nobody likes.

Continued Work on the City Center Plumbing Design – Click for Page

RADICAL SUSTAINABILITY TO ADDRESS JOBS NOBODY LIKES – HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

One Community is creating radical sustainability to address jobs nobody likes. The foundations for this include 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 goat and sheep shelters and added the info to our behind-the-scenes Google Doc. We found this article, Winter Goat Shelter to Keep Your Goats Warm especially informative for creating radical sustainability to address jobs nobody likes.

Researched Goat and Sheep Shelters and Added the Info to Our Google Doc – Click for Goat Page

The core team also continued work on the 3D designs for the rabbit hutches for creating radical sustainability to address jobs nobody likes. This week we worked on final additions and creating the materials list shown here.

Continued Work on 3D Designs for the Rabbit Hutches and Created the Materials List – Click for Page

And the core team also continued developing the behind-the-scenes open source permaculture design content for radical sustainability to address jobs nobody likes. This week we did extensive research and wrote the content shown here for the sun sector section.

Did Extensive Research and Wrote the Content for the Sun Sector Section – Click for Permaculture Page

RADICAL SUSTAINABILITY TO ADDRESS JOBS NOBODY LIKES – HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

One Community is creating radical sustainability to address jobs nobody likes. The foundations for this include 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

Dan Alleck (Designer and Illustrator) also completed his 53rd week helping create radical sustainability to address jobs nobody likes. Here you can see his final version and additions to the Ultimate Classroom Orange room. This render is now on the website also.

Created Final Version and Additions to the Ultimate Classroom Orange Room – Click for Page

RADICAL SUSTAINABILITY TO ADDRESS JOBS NOBODY LIKES – HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS

One Community is creating radical sustainability to address jobs nobody likes. The foundations for this include 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 redesigned our video update structure to make the videos shorter and focused more on the weekly topic such as radical sustainability to address jobs nobody likes. This includes only sharing all the weekly update details now in the written blog so it will be easier to share them as we grow the team to 50+ members and helpful in creating radical sustainability to address jobs nobody likes.

Redesigned Our Video Update Structure to Focused More on the Weekly Topic

The core team working with Brian Gilb (Project Management Professional – PMP) to create radical sustainability to address jobs nobody likes also rewrote and simplified our Overview page and the Search One Community page, some of which you can see here.

Rewrote Overview page and the Search One Community Page – Click for Overview Page

Emilio Nájera (Digital Marketer) also continued with his 47th week as part of the marketing team and helping us create radical sustainability to address jobs nobody likes. This week he worked on keyword research for the Most Sustainable Adhesives page. You can see some of this work here.

Worked on Keyword Research for the Most Sustainable Adhesives Page – Click to Visit

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

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

 

INVESTOR PAGES

OVERVIEW | LOCATION | FUNDING

GET INVOLVED

CONSULTANTS | WAYS ANYONE CAN HELP | MEMBERSHIP

CLICK HERE FOR ALL PAST UPDATES

WHAT ONE COMMUNITY IS CREATING

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

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

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

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

INSPIRING SUSTAINABILITY WITH OPEN SOURCE

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

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

ONE COMMUNITY’S 4-PHASE STRATEGY

Phase I: Demonstrating a Better Way

We are designing One Community to demonstrate an experience of living that we believe most people will consider to be better because it will be more enjoyable and fulfilling. We also think most people will consider it better because it is made possible specifically through a foundation of sustainable sustainability and a philosophy that is for The Highest Good of All.

Phase II: Open Source Project-Launch Blueprinting

Everything we do we are open source project-launch blueprinting and free-sharing to make it as easy and affordable as possible to duplicate, adapt, and evolve in the manner that suits each individual and/or group’s needs. Free-sharing information like this is our aggressive-exposure engine and an aspect of One Community that will accelerate indefinitely as we continue to build our team, move onto the property, and continuously build and evolve everything that is One Community.

Phase III: Inviting the World to Participate

Everything we are open source project-launch blueprinting is designed to invite the world to participate by duplicating it as either individual components or complete teacher/demonstration communities, villages, and cities that will be able to be built almost anywhere in the world. Additionally, people can join One Community as members, consultants and/or partners, or use the suggestions links on our open source project-launch blueprinting hubs to help with the design, implementation, and evolution process. Scholarships, weekend learning and work crews, and tourism will be foundations of One Community once we have sufficient infrastructure in place to support these options.

Phase IV: Universal Appeal and Global Expansion

As One Community continues evolving and establishing ourselves, everything we create and promote will serve as the engine to inspire people to align with the concept of open source and sustainable living for The Highest Good of All. We are doing this to create mainstream appeal and our path to achieving this appeal is demonstrating a happier, more affordable, and ecologically friendly model of living that can be built anywhere in the world.

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.

Let’s build sustainable and self-sufficient teacher demonstration hubs as a path to having more fun. Within these environments people can have more social and recreational things to do, all within walking distance, and work less and have more time to do these things. One Community is creating the open source plans for this social architecture and fulfilled living model as well as the food, energy, housing, education, and economic structures that will make it possible.

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

OUR MAIN OPEN SOURCE HUBS

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

One Community’s physical location will forward the movement of teacher demonstration hubs as a path to having more fun as the first of many self-replicating teacher/demonstration communities, villages, and cities to be built around the world. This is the September 22nd, 2019 edition (#339) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments:

Teacher Demonstration Hubs as a
Path to Having More Fun
One Community Progress Update #339

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TEACHER DEMONSTRATION HUBS AS A PATH TO HAVING MORE FUN HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

One Community is open sourcing teacher demonstration hubs as a path to having more fun. They include Highest Good housing that is artistic and beautiful, more affordable, more space efficient, lasts longer, DIY buildable, and constructed with healthy and sustainable materials:

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

The goal is to build sustainable and self-sufficient teacher demonstration hubs as a path to having more fun. This week Brianna Olsen (Sustainability Researcher) also completed her 13th week as a member of the team. This week she finished final edits and additions to the written content for the most sustainable faucet options updates and began research to double check the most current options for the sustainable hand dryer options page.

Finished Final Edits and Additions to the Most Sustainable Faucet Options Updates Page – Click to Visit

Shadi Kennedy (Artist and Graphic Designer) completed his 67th week developing the Murphy bed instructions. This week’s focus was integrating the new piece names for all the pages in the wall and storage sections, converting piece names in the old parts map, rearranging the parts map, and another round of going through each page making sure that the new numbers and layout were consistent.

Continued Working on the Murphy Bed Furniture Instructions ” Click for Page

And Hemanth Kotaru (Structural Engineer) completed his 34th week helping with the structural engineering research and calculations for the Earthbag Village. This week he began writing the final summary of findings and engineering design tutorial. You can see this behind-the-scenes work here. Let’s build sustainable and self-sufficient teacher demonstration hubs as a path to having more fun.

Began Writing the Final Summary of Findings and Engineering Design Tutorial – Click To Visit

TEACHER DEMONSTRATION HUBS AS A PATH TO HAVING MORE FUN DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

One Community is open sourcing teacher demonstration hubs as a path to having more fun. They include a Duplicable and Sustainable City Center that is LEED Platinum certified/Sustainable, can feed 200 people at a time, provide laundry for over 300 people, is beautiful, spacious, and saves resources, money, and space:

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

The goal is to build sustainable and self-sufficient teacher demonstration hubs as a path to having more fun. This week the core team finished creating the Most Sustainable Adhesives page. This included creating the Bostik and 3M sections, final proofreading and editing, and adding links to this page from other relevant pages. You can see some of this work here.

Teacher demonstration hubs as a path to having more fun, creating the most sustainable adhesive page

Ron Huang (Mechanical Engineer) continued with his 20th week working on the Energy Modeling for our LEED Platinum certification and City Center open source HVAC design tutorial. This week’s focus was fine tuning the latest revision of the HVAC and Hydronic System by experimenting with the plant temperature schedule and adjusting it for seasonal changes. You can see some of this work here.

Continued Working on the Energy Modeling for Our LEED Platinum Certification and City Center

Sneha Dongre (Structural Engineer) also continued with her 25th week helping with the Duplicable City Center structural details. This week she continued creating floor and roof poly-areas in SAP 2000. You can see some of this work here. Let’s build sustainable and self-sufficient teacher demonstration hubs as a path to having more fun.

Continued Creating Floor and Roof Poly-areas in SAP 2000 – Click for City Center Engineering Page

Kimya Azadmard (Senior Plumbing Engineer) additionally continued with his 6th week as a member of the team. Kimya’s focus this week was working on layer visibility and color updates for the Architectural floor plans to prepare them for the City Center plumbing design. Additional sheets were also created for the Plumbing Legend, Schedules, Details, etc.

Worked on Layer Visibility and Color Updates for the Architectural Floor Plans – Click for Page

TEACHER DEMONSTRATION HUBS AS A PATH TO HAVING MORE FUN HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

One Community is open sourcing teacher demonstration hubs as a path to having more fun. They include Highest Good food that is more diverse, more nutritious, locally grown and sustainable, and part of our open source botanical garden model to support and share bio-diversity:

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

This week the core team finished layout updates and created all these renders of the final goat playground, feeding, and water stations.

Finished Layout Updates and Created Renders of Final Goat Playground, Feeding, and Water Stations

The core team also continued research and 3D design of the rabbit hutches. This week we added manure collection boards, designed a movable-pyramid rabbit hutch-tractor, and designed the rabbit hutch with extended movable cage addition shown here.

Teacher Demonstration Hubs as a Path to having more fun ” 3D Design of His and Her Rabbit Hutches

And the core team also continued developing the behind-the-scenes open source permaculture design content. This week we added to the Scale of Permanence concept, began composing the Sector Analysis details, completed research for the sun sector section, and continued developing the sections covering fences, soil conditions, planting, animals and economy. You can see some of this behind-the-scenes work here.

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

And, last but not least, the core team continued working on the sheep research. This week we proofread and reformatted the behind-the-scenes sheep-tutorial Google Doc, some of which you can see here.

Proofread and Reformatted the Behind-the-scenes Sheep-tutorial Google Doc – Click for Sheep Page

TEACHER DEMONSTRATION HUBS AS A PATH TO HAVING MORE FUN HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

One Community is open sourcing teacher demonstration hubs as a path to having more fun. They include 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

Dan Alleck (Designer and Illustrator) also completed his 52nd week helping. Here you can see his continued development of the Ultimate Classroom Orange room.

Teacher Demonstration Hubs as a Path to Having More Fun ” Development of the Ultimate Classroom

TEACHER DEMONSTRATION HUBS AS A PATH TO HAVING MORE FUN HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS

One Community is open sourcing teacher demonstration hubs as a path to having more fun. They include 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 launched 6 new ads seeking volunteers to help with the areas shown here.

Launched 6 New Ads Seeking Volunteers to Help With Several Areas – Click for Helping Page

Emilio Nájera (Digital Marketer) also continued with his 46th week as part of the marketing team. This week he worked on keyword research for a new donations campaign we’ve been developing. Let’s build sustainable and self-sufficient teacher demonstration hubs as a path to having more fun.

Worked on Keyword Research for a New Donations Campaign We’ve Been Developing – Click for Page

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WHAT ONE COMMUNITY IS CREATING

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

Let’s build sustainable and self-sufficient teacher demonstration hubs as a path to having more fun.

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.

TEACHER DEMONSTRATION HUBS AS A PATH TO HAVING MORE FUN 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. Let’s build sustainable and self-sufficient teacher demonstration hubs as a path to having more fun. They will also transform the global lifestyle to a more enjoyable, fulfilling, healthy, and sustainable one.

The goal is to build sustainable and self-sufficient teacher demonstration hubs as a path to having more fun. 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. The goal is to build sustainable and self-sufficient teacher demonstration hubs as a path to having more fun.

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

Let’s build sustainable and self-sufficient teacher demonstration hubs as a path to having more fun. It is this approach we see uniting the world and leading to a new Golden Age for humanity.

While we understand that not everyone believes this is even possible, we are nonetheless bringing together all those that do see this as possible as the non-profit think tank of forward-thinking individuals willing to design, build, and open source project-launch blueprint and free-share it for The Highest Good of All.

COMPREHENSIVE SOLUTION TO HUMANITY’S NEEDS

One Community is open source sharing an evolution of sustainable living that addresses the complete human experience. We are doing this because we see the solutions for global food, housing, energy, education, social inequality, ethical business practices, earth regenerative practices, and a desire for a more fulfilling living experience as inseparably interconnected.

As a comprehensive solution, we are addressing all these areas simultaneously and open source free-sharing everything needed for individual duplication and/or duplication as complete self-replicating teacher/demonstration communities, villages, and cities to be built around the world. Let’s build sustainable and self-sufficient teacher demonstration hubs as a path to having more fun.

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.

Let’s build sustainable communities as a solution to unemployment. Automation, artificial intelligence, and self-driving cars are replacing manufacturing jobs, customer service jobs, and transportation jobs. One Community is open sourcing the foundations for teacher/demonstration hubs that will provide sustainable alternatives for the people no longer needed in these jobs. These alternatives will be more rewarding, more fun, and require less time and energy so people can work less and spend more time doing other things instead.

• 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

CLICK IMAGES BELOW FOR OUR MAIN OPEN SOURCE HUBS

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

One Community’s physical location will forward this movement as the first of many self-replicating teacher/demonstration communities, villages, and cities to be built around the world. This is the September 15th, 2019 edition (#338) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments:

Communities as a Solution to Unemployment
One Community Progress Update #338

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

COMMUNITIES AS A SOLUTION TO UNEMPLOYMENT  INTRO: @0:34

COMMUNITIES AS A SOLUTION TO UNEMPLOYMENT HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING: @8:04

• Ran energy-usage calculations and researched the costs of running our top five hand dryers for 1000 cycles, then updated the most sustainable hand dryer options page to reflect what we learned (see below)
• Brianna Olsen finished the written content additions for the most sustainable faucet options updates (see below)
• Shadi Kennedy continued developing the Murphy bed instructions; focus was redoing the parts numbers and adding new page numbers for the Clothing and Storage area (see below)

COMMUNITIES AS A SOLUTION TO UNEMPLOYMENT DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER: @9:07

• Returned to creating the Most Sustainable Adhesives page; created the resources section, AFM Safecoat section, and Bona^® sections (see below)
• Ron Huang continued working on the Energy Modeling for our LEED Platinum certification and City Center open source HVAC design tutorial; tested various air-to-water and central heat pump systems in EneryPlus (see below)
• Sneha Dongre continued helping with the Duplicable City Center structural details; started working with SAP 2000 by continuing the work of creating poly-areas for the floors and roofs (see below)
• Kimya Azadmard focused on creating individual Architectural floor plan reference files based on the latest Mater floor plan and setting each one with a new 0,0 coordinate for proper overlapping (see below)

COMMUNITIES AS A SOLUTION TO UNEMPLOYMENT HIGHEST GOOD FOOD: @10:43

COMMUNITIES AS A SOLUTION TO UNEMPLOYMENT HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION: @11:38

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

COMMUNITIES AS A SOLUTION TO UNEMPLOYMENT HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY: @12:43

• Core team working with Brian Gilb created the Work Breakdown Structure analysis charts shown here for the The Highest Good Network and also edited and simplified our Policies and Procedures and Tangible Contribution pages (see below)
• Emilio Nájera finished research and creation of the campaign for the new Most Sustainable Hand Dryers page (see below)

COMMUNITIES AS A SOLUTION TO UNEMPLOYMENT SUMMARY: @13:32

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Communities as a Solution to Unemployment

ONE COMMUNITY WEEKLY UPDATE DETAILS

COMMUNITIES AS A SOLUTION TO UNEMPLOYMENT HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

One Community is creating a foundation for communities as a solution to unemployment using 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 ran energy-usage calculations and researched the costs of running our top five hand dryers for 1000 cycles. We then updated the most sustainable hand dryer options page to reflect what we learned. This led to updated text and changing the order of our top 3 recommendations, which you can see here.

Communities as a Solution to Unemployment ” Updated the Most Sustainable Hand Dryer Options

Brianna Olsen (Sustainability Researcher) also completed her 13th week as a member of the team. This week she finished the written content additions for the most sustainable faucet options updates. You can see some of this work here.

Finished the Written Content Additions for Most Sustainable Faucet Options Updates – Click to Visit

Shadi Kennedy (Artist and Graphic Designer) completed his 66th week developing the Murphy bed instructions. This week’s focus was redoing the parts numbers and adding new page numbers for the Clothing and Storage area shown here.

Communities as a Solution to Unemployment ” Worked on the Murphy Bed Clothing and Storage Area

COMMUNITIES AS A SOLUTION TO UNEMPLOYMENT DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

One Community is creating a foundation for communities as a solution to unemployment using 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 returned to creating the Most Sustainable Adhesives page. This week we created the resources section, AFM Safecoat section, and Bona^® sections shown here. We’d say this brings this page to 90% complete.

Communities as a Solution to Unemployment ” Created the Resources, AFM Safecoat, and Bona®

Ron Huang (Mechanical Engineer) continued with his 19th week working on the Energy Modeling for our LEED Platinum certification and City Center open source HVAC design tutorial. This week he tested various air-to-water and central heat pump systems in EneryPlus. The former looks more promising than the later in terms of energy performance. You can see some of this work here.

Tested Various Air-to-water and Central Heat Pump Systems in EnergyPlus – Click for HVAC Page

Sneha Dongre (Structural Engineer) also continued with her 24th week helping with the Duplicable City Center structural details. This week she started working with SAP 2000 by continuing the work of creating poly-areas for the floors and roofs. She also identified and continued fixing areas that are still missing in AutoCAD.

Continued Helping With the Duplicable City Center Structural Details – Click for Engineering Page

Kimya Azadmard (Senior Plumbing Engineer) additionally continued with his 5th week as a member of the team. Kimya’s focus this week was creating individual Architectural floor plan reference files based on the latest Mater floor plan and setting each one with a new 0,0 coordinate for proper overlapping.

Communities as a Solution to Unemployment ” Created Individual Architectural Floor Plan Reference

COMMUNITIES AS A SOLUTION TO UNEMPLOYMENT HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

One Community is creating a foundation for communities as a solution to unemployment using 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

Researched and Designed the Goat Feeding and Water Stations in SketchUp 3D – Click for Page

The core team also began research and designs for his and her rabbit hutches, as shown here.

Began Research and Designs for His and Her Rabbit Hutches – Click for Page

And the core team completed the Site Analysis and Assessment sections for the Open Source Permaculture Design page. These new sections include fences, soil conditions, planting, animals and economy. You can see some of this behind-the-scenes work here.

Completed the Site Analysis and Assessment Sections for the Open Source Permaculture Design Page

COMMUNITIES AS A SOLUTION TO UNEMPLOYMENT HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

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

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

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

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

COMMUNITIES AS A SOLUTION TO UNEMPLOYMENT HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS

One Community is creating a foundation for communities as a solution to unemployment using 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 working with Brian Gilb (Project Management Professional – PMP) created the Work Breakdown Structure analysis charts shown here for the The Highest Good Network and also edited and simplified our Policies and Procedures and Tangible Contribution pages.

Communities as a Solution to Unemployment ” Created the Work Breakdown Structure Analysis

Emilio Nájera (Digital Marketer) also continued with his 45th week as part of the marketing team. This week he finished research and creation of the campaign for the new Most Sustainable Hand Dryers page. Marketing is  a great way to propagate the word about communities as a solution to unemployment.

Finished Research and Creation of Campaign for New Most Sustainable Hand Dryers Page

Communities as a Solution to Unemployment

WHAT ONE COMMUNITY IS CREATING

One Community is creating a place to grow together and change the world together by using communities as a solution to unemployment. 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.

Communities as a Solution to Unemployment

WHY ONE COMMUNITY IS CREATING THIS

The One Community self-replicating model is capable of creating a sustainable planet within 30 years by proposing communities as a solution to unemployment. 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.

Communities as a Solution to Unemployment

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.

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

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

 

INVESTOR PAGES

OVERVIEW | LOCATION | FUNDING

GET INVOLVED

CONSULTANTS | WAYS ANYONE CAN HELP | MEMBERSHIP

CLICK HERE FOR ALL PAST UPDATES

One Community is connecting world change with having more fun. We are doing this by designing open source and free-shared sustainability components (food, energy, housing, education, for-profit and non-profit economic design, and global stewardship practices) that will provide more time, money, and access to fulfilled living practices and an enriching social architecture.

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

OUR MAIN OPEN SOURCE HUBS

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

One Community’s physical location will forward this movement as the first of many self-replicating teacher/demonstration communities, villages, and cities to be built around the world. This is the September 8th, 2019 edition (#337) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments:

Connecting World Change with Having More Fun
One Community Progress Update #337

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

CONNECTING WORLD CHANGE WITH HAVING MORE FUN INTRO: @0:30

CONNECTING WORLD CHANGE WITH HAVING MORE FUN HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING: @6:14

• Finished creating most sustainable hand dryer options page which included finishing all the descriptions, adding links to purchase, finishing the resources section, and sharing it on social media (see below)
• Brianna Olsen began taking her research on the most sustainable faucet options and organizing and formatting it for publication on the website (see below)
• Shadi Kennedy continued developing the Murphy bed instructions; focus was final standardization of the numbers and labels for the Bench and Table parts (see below)
• Bahy Ahmed continued helping with the Earthbag Village 4-dome cluster roof designs; created version 2.0 with optional colored lighting over the main window area, loft access to the rooftop patio, stairway access to the patio, door access to the spa, and other details (see below)

CONNECTING WORLD CHANGE WITH HAVING MORE FUN DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER: @7:33

• Yuqiao Zhang continued helping update the City Center AutoCAD and SketchUp files and designing the rainwater harvesting system; finished updates to the ADA bathrooms and sunrise patio and chose and modeled all the gutter attachments (see below)
• Ron Huang continued working on the Energy Modeling for our LEED Platinum certification and City Center open source HVAC design tutorial; further revised the air loop and hydronic configuration and reassessed the energy usage to see if we meet Platinum standards yet (see below)
• Sneha Dongre continued helping with the Duplicable City Center structural details; completed development of entryway sliding door design in AutoCAD (see below)
• Kimya Azadmard continued to build the new Title Block that will function for the City Center plumbing sheets and then all the sheets for other disciplines too (see below)

 CONNECTING WORLD CHANGE WITH HAVING MORE FUNHIGHEST GOOD FOOD: @9:16

• Worked on designing the goat playground in SketchUp 3D using all natural and recycled materials (see below)

CONNECTING WORLD CHANGE WITH HAVING MORE FUN HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION: @9:41

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

CONNECTING WORLD CHANGE WITH HAVING MORE FUN HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY: @10:51

• Emilio Nájera launched the campaign for Dam and Lake Construction and began research and creation of the campaign for the new Most Sustainable Hand Dryers page (see below)

CONNECTING WORLD CHANGE WITH HAVING MORE FUN SUMMARY: @11:36

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

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ONE COMMUNITY WEEKLY UPDATE DETAILS

CONNECTING THE WORLD CHANGE WITH HAVING MORE FUN HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

One Community is connecting world change with having more fun 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 creating the most sustainable hand dryer options page shown here. This included finishing all the descriptions, adding links to purchase, finishing the resources section, and sharing it on social media.

Finished Creating the Most Sustainable Hand Dryer Options Page – Click to Visit

Brianna Olsen (Sustainability Researcher) also completed her 12th week as a member of the team. This week she began taking her research on the most sustainable faucet options and organizing and formatting it for publication on the website. You can see some of this work here.

Began Taking Faucet Options Research and Formatting It for Publication on Website – Click for Page

Shadi Kennedy (Artist and Graphic Designer) completed his 65th week developing the Murphy bed instructions. This week’s focus was final standardization of the numbers and labels for the Bench and Table parts shown here.

Standardized the Numbers and Labels for the Bench and Table Parts – Click for Page

And Bahy Ahmed (Architect) completed his 2nd week helping with the Earthbag Village 4-dome cluster roof designs. This week Bahy created version 2.0 shown here with optional colored lighting over the main window area, loft access to the rooftop patio, stairway access to the patio, door access to the spa, and other details you can see here.

Continued Helping with the Earthbag Village 4-Dome Cluster Roof Designs – Click for Page

CONNECTING THE WORLD CHANGE WITH HAVING MORE FUN DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

One Community is connecting world change with having more fun 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 Yuqiao Zhang (Architectural Designer/Drafter) completed his 14th week helping update the City Center AutoCAD and SketchUp files and designing the rainwater harvesting system. This week he finished updates to the ADA bathrooms and sunrise patio and chose and modeled all the gutter attachments. He also updated the catchment zones and related spreadsheet details.

Continued Updating the City Center AutoCAD and SketchUp Files ” Click for Duplicable City Center

Ron Huang (Mechanical Engineer) continued with his 18th week working on the Energy Modeling for our LEED Platinum certification and City Center open source HVAC design tutorial. This week he further revised the air loop and hydronic configuration and reassessed the energy usage to see if we meet Platinum standards yet.

Continued Working on the Energy Modeling for Our LEED Platinum Certification ” Click for Page

Sneha Dongre (Structural Engineer) also continued with her 23rd week helping with the Duplicable City Center structural details. This week she completed development of entryway sliding door design in AutoCAD.

Completed Development of Entryway Sliding Door Design in AutoCAD – Click for Page

Kimya Azadmard (Senior Plumbing Engineer) additionally continued with his 4th week as a member of the team. Kimya’s focus this week was continuing to build the new Title Block that will function for the City Center plumbing sheets and then all the sheets for other disciplines too. This week he changed the Background color of the Paper space to black, set up the specific Plot Style Table, and began isolating the individual floor plans to reduce the file size for each sheet and all reference files.

Continued to Build the New Title Block That Will Function for the City Center Plumbing Sheets

CONNECTING WORLD CHANGE WITH HAVING MORE FUN HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

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

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

This week the core team worked on designing the goat playground in SketchUp 3D. We’re doing this using all natural and recycled materials. What you see here is our work on this so far.

Worked on Designing the Goat Playground in SketchUp 3D Using All Natural and Recycled Materials

CONNECTING WORLD CHANGE WITH HAVING MORE FUN HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

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

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

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

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

CONNECTING WORLD CHANGE WITH HAVING MORE FUN HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS

One Community is connecting world change with having more fun through a Highest Good society approach to living that is founded on fulfilled living, the study of meeting human needs, Community, and making a difference in the world:

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

This week, Emilio Nájera (Digital Marketer) continued with his 44th week as part of the marketing team. This week he launched the campaign for Dam and Lake Construction and began research and creation of the campaign for the new Most Sustainable Hand Dryers page.

Began Research and Creation of Campaign for the New Most Sustainable Hand Dryers Page

Connecting World Change with Having More Fun

WHAT ONE COMMUNITY IS CREATING

One Community is connecting world change with having more fun. 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.

Connecting World Change with Having More Fun

WHY ONE COMMUNITY IS CREATING THIS

One Community is connecting world change with having more fun. 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.). One Community is connecting world change with having more fun. 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 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. One Community is connecting world change with having more fun. 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.

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

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

 

INVESTOR PAGES

OVERVIEW | LOCATION | FUNDING

GET INVOLVED

CONSULTANTS | WAYS ANYONE CAN HELP | MEMBERSHIP

CLICK HERE FOR ALL PAST UPDATES

It’s time for a sustainability model that supports and rewards people helping people. We have the ability and knowledge necessary to create a sustainable world that benefits everyone, now let’s create the motivation so it actually happens. One Community’s path to doing this is open source plans and a replicable prototype that demonstrates such a model as easy enough, affordable enough, and attractive enough so that it will spread on its own.

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

OUR MAIN OPEN SOURCE HUBS

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

One Community’s physical location will forward this movement as the first of many self-replicating teacher/demonstration communities, villages, and cities to be built around the world. This is the September 1st, 2019 edition (#336) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments:

People Helping People
One Community Progress Update #336

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

PEOPLE HELPING PEOPLE INTRO: @0:34

PEOPLE HELPING PEOPLE HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING: @5:06

• Finished creating the Murphy bed and Earthbag Village dome home electrical layouts in SketchUp 3D (see below)
• Created the initial page setup and social media imagery for the upcoming most sustainable hand dryer options page shown here (see below)
• Brianna Olsen finished research for the most sustainable faucet options by finalizing the rankings of the products and product descriptions for each company (see below)
• Shadi Kennedy completed his 64th week developing the Murphy bed instructions; focus was returning to standardization of the icons, page layouts, parts and labels for the storage and changing area instructions (see below)

PEOPLE HELPING PEOPLE DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER: @6:14

• Yuqiao Zhang continued helping update the City Center AutoCAD and SketchUp files and designing the rainwater harvesting system; continued updating the section drawings related to the living dome patio slab change and updated the living dome restrooms with the new ADA bathroom designs (see below)
• Ron Huang continued working on the Energy Modeling for our LEED Platinum certification and City Center open source HVAC design tutorial; reduced the cooling unmet hours to acceptable levels and continued to fine tune HVAC system controls and design to reduce energy usage (see below)
• Sneha Dongre continued helping with the Duplicable City Center structural details; focus was working on the entryway designs to fix a connection issue by correcting the angles the members make with the dome (see below)
• Mateus Barretto continued helping with the City Center plumbing designs; updated all the plumbing AutoCAD files so the layers match those of the master file plan (see below)
• Kimya Azadmar focused on building a new 36″x48″ Title Block we’re using to create a new template sheet that will be used to build all the City Center plumbing sheets and then all the sheets for other disciplines too (see below)

PEOPLE HELPING PEOPLE HIGHEST GOOD FOOD: @8:11

• Continued developing the behind-the-scenes content for the Open Source Permaculture Design page; focus was adding content and links to the sections covering Principles and Domains (see below)
• Used online DIY instructions to design the 3D goat-milking stand (see below)

PEOPLE HELPING PEOPLE HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION: @8:50

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

PEOPLE HELPING PEOPLE HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY: @9:56

• Continued editing our business plan and the related pages of the site; finalized the Prioritization Document, updated our Rental Revenue and Residency projections and pages, and created tables and spreadsheet-updates covering Food, Energy, and Roadways (see below)
• Emilio Nájera researched new ways to improve our campaign performance and created campaigns for Dam and Lake Construction, Meeting Human Needs, Open Source Lighting Design, and Taxes for Community Building (see below)

PEOPLE HELPING PEOPLE SUMMARY: @10:55

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

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

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People Helping People

ONE COMMUNITY WEEKLY UPDATE DETAILS

PEOPLE HELPING PEOPLE HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

One Community is building a platform for people helping people 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 creating the Murphy bed and Earthbag Village dome home electrical layouts in SketchUp 3D. You can see the finished designs here.

Finished Creating the Murphy Bed and Earthbag Village Dome Home Electrical Layouts in SketchUp

The core team also created the initial page setup and social media imagery for the upcoming most sustainable hand dryer options page shown here.

Created the Initial Page Setup and Social Media Imagery for Most Sustainable Hand Dryer Options

Brianna Olsen (Sustainability Researcher) also completed her 11th week as a member of the team. This week she finished research for the most sustainable faucet options by finalizing the rankings of the products and product descriptions for each company. You can see some of this work here.

Finalized the Rankings of the Products and Product Descriptions for Each Company – Click for Page

And Shadi Kennedy (Artist and Graphic Designer) completed his 64th week developing the Murphy bed instructions. This week’s focus was returning to standardization of the icons, page layouts, parts and labels for the storage and changing area instructions shown here.

Continued Developing the Murphy Bed Instructions ” Click for Earthbag Village Furniture

PEOPLE HELPING PEOPLE DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

One Community is building a platform for people helping people 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 Yuqiao Zhang (Architectural Designer/Drafter) completed his 13th week helping update the City Center AutoCAD and SketchUp files and designing the rainwater harvesting system. This week he continued updating the section drawings related to the living dome patio slab change and updated the living dome restrooms with the new ADA bathroom designs.

Continued Updating the City Center AutoCAD and SketchUp Files ” Click for Duplicable City Center

Ron Huang (Mechanical Engineer) continued with his 17th week working on the Energy Modeling for our LEED Platinum certification and City Center open source HVAC design tutorial. This week he reduced the cooling unmet hours to acceptable levels and continued to fine tune HVAC system controls and design to reduce energy usage.

Continued Working on the Energy Modeling for Our LEED Platinum Certification – Click for Page

Sneha Dongre (Structural Engineer) also continued with her 22nd week helping with the Duplicable City Center structural details. This week’s focus was working on the entryway designs to fix a connection issue by correcting the angles the members make with the dome.

Continued Helping With the Duplicable City Center Structural Details ” Click for Engineering Page

Mateus Barretto (Civil Engineer) continued with his 4th week helping with the City Center plumbing designs. This week Mateus updated all the plumbing AutoCAD files so the layers match those of the master file plan. You can see some of this work here.

Updated All Plumbing AutoCAD Files so the Layers Match the Master File Plan ” Click for Page

Kimya Azadmard (Senior Plumbing Engineer) additionally continued with his 3rd week as a member of the team. Kimya’s focus this week was building a new 36″x48″ Title Block we’re using to create a new template sheet that will be used to build all the City Center plumbing sheets and then all the sheets for other disciplines too. Text Fields were used on the Template sheet but older versions of AutoCad do not work with this feature, so we are re-building it again using Attributes instead.

Focused on Building a New 36″x 48″ Title Block We’re Using to Create a New Template Sheet

PEOPLE HELPING PEOPLE HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

One Community is building a platform for people helping people 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 developing the behind-the-scenes content for the Open Source Permaculture Design page. This week’s focus was adding content and links to the sections covering Principles and Domains. You can see some of this work here.

Added Content and Links to the Sections Covering Principles and Domains – Click for Page

The core team also used online DIY instructions to design the 3D goat-milking stand shown here.

Used Online DIY Instructions to Design the 3D Goat-milking Stand – Click for Goat Page

PEOPLE HELPING PEOPLE HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

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

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

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

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

PEOPLE HELPING PEOPLE HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS

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

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

This week the core team continued editing our business plan and the related pages of the site. This week we finalized the Prioritization Document, updated our Rental Revenue and Residency projections and pages, and created tables and spreadsheet-updates covering Food, Energy, and Roadways. You can see some of this work here.

People Helping People ” Continued Editing Our Business Plan and the Related Pages of the Site

Emilio Nájera (Digital Marketer) also continued with his 43rd week as part of the marketing team. This week he researched new ways to improve our campaign performance and created campaigns for Dam and Lake Construction, Meeting Human Needs, Open Source Lighting Design, and Taxes for Community Building.

Researched New Ways to Improve Our Campaign Performance and Created Several Campaigns

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.

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 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.

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

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

 

INVESTOR PAGES

OVERVIEW | LOCATION | FUNDING

GET INVOLVED

CONSULTANTS | WAYS ANYONE CAN HELP | MEMBERSHIP

CLICK HERE FOR ALL PAST UPDATES

One Community is forwarding the conscious eco-uprising through open source and free-shared DIY models for radically sustainable living and self-replicating teacher/demonstration communities, villages, and cities. It’s The Highest Good of All, peaceful, collaborative, cooperative, and designed to create a sustainable world 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 August 25th, 2019 edition (#335) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments:

 Forwarding the Conscious Eco-uprising
One Community Progress Update #335

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

FORWARDING THE CONSCIOUS ECO-UPRISING INTRO: @0:34

FORWARDING THE CONSCIOUS ECO-UPRISING HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING: @6:40

• Consulted with an electrician and worked on creating the Murphy bed and Earthbag Village dome home electrical layouts in SketchUp 3D (see below)
• Michael Hagler created new icons that we’ve incorporated into the website (see below)
• Shadi Kennedy completed his 63rd week developing the Murphy bed instructions; focus was standardization of page layouts, part colors, labels, and other details for the table and benches instructions (see below)
• Bahy Ahmed completed his first week helping with the Earthbag Village 4-dome cluster roof designs; created a presentation outlining why he’d suggest adding colored polycarbonate entry points for natural light (see below)
• Bahy Ahmed incorporated version 1.0 of his ideas into the 4-dome cluster roof. These designs incorporate colorful natural lighting, an additional central dome ceiling option, and additional roofing around the entire perimeter to help with shading the windows and protecting the walls (see below)

FORWARDING THE CONSCIOUS ECO-UPRISING DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER: @8:12

• Yuqiao Zhang continued helping update the City Center AutoCAD and SketchUp files and designing the rainwater harvesting system; redesigned the Living Dome patio to maximize space and minimize the need for unique dome pieces, found a new pivot door for the cupola, and started working on fixing a mistake in the Living Dome floor height (see below)
• Ron Huang continued working on the Energy Modeling for our LEED Platinum certification and City Center open source HVAC design tutorial; continued fine tuning the new hydronic HVAC to reduce unmet hours by ramping up loads and running simulations to see how the thermal zones responded. Basement, Kitchen, & Dining still shown high unmet hours (see below)
• Sneha Dongre continued with her 21st week helping with the Duplicable City Center structural details; continued work on the sliding door entryway frames and correcting more AutoCAD irregularities found on the domes (see below)
• Mateus Barretto continued helping with the City Center plumbing designs; standardized the plumbing files as per the One Community AutoCAD Template (see below)

FORWARDING THE CONSCIOUS ECO-UPRISING HIGHEST GOOD FOOD: @9:50

• Continued development of the open source dams, lakes, and water-retention landscape design tutorial; did a final editing review that included fixing spelling and grammar errors, adding US customary units to the metric units listed, updating imagery, adding some additional videos, and changing the order of some of the content (see below)
• Continued the cost analysis details for the 100-chicken coop; started standardizing the formatting of our past work and adding pictures and purchasing links for all the materials (see below)

FORWARDING THE CONSCIOUS ECO-UPRISING HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION: @10:44

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

FORWARDING THE CONSCIOUS ECO-UPRISING HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY: @11:49

• Updated our Executive Summary page to match our updated business plan (see below)
• Core team working with Brian Gilb again updated our promotion and win-win pages to make them more streamlined and user-friendly (see below)
• Emilio Nájera continued with marketing team; worked on keyword research for “DIY Dam Design and Construction” landing page, explored options for the Google Accelerator Program to improve the overall performance of the current and future campaigns, and fixed a “non-compliance” issue with our Google Ads account (see below)
• Jin Hua helped fix several website errors Google identified, reviewed all of Emilio’s work, and helped create reports to demonstrate the positive results our campaign fine-tuning has produced (see below)

FORWARDING THE CONSCIOUS ECO-UPRISING SUMMARY: @13:08

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ONE COMMUNITY WEEKLY UPDATE DETAILS

FORWARDING THE CONSCIOUS ECO-UPRISING HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

One Community is forwarding the conscious Eco-uprising 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 consulted with an electrician and worked on creating the Murphy bed and Earthbag Village dome home electrical layouts in SketchUp 3D. You can see some of this work here and we’d say we’re about 50% done with these layout details. This work helps One Community’s mission of forwarding the conscious Eco-uprising and reinforces our commitment to a better living quality of all people.

Began Creating the Murphy Bed and Earthbag Village Dome Home Electrical Layouts in SketchUp 3D

Michael Hagler (Senior Graphic Designer and Artist) created all these new icons that we’ve incorporated into the website.

Created New Icons That We’ve Incorporated Into the Website – Click for Site Map

Shadi Kennedy (Artist and Graphic Designer) also completed his 63rd week developing the Murphy bed instructions. This week’s focus was standardization of the page layouts, part colors, labels, and other details for the table and benches instructions. Every one of these images has been edited in some way during the last week. This work helps One Community’s mission of forwarding the conscious Eco-uprising and reinforces our commitment to a better living quality of all people.

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

And Bahy Ahmed (Architect) joined the team and completed his first week helping with the Earthbag Village 4-dome cluster roof designs. This week Bahy created this presentation outlining why he’d suggest adding colored polycarbonate entry points for natural light. This work helps One Community’s mission of forwarding the conscious Eco-uprising and reinforces our commitment to a better living quality of all people.

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

And this version 1.0 incorporation of these ideas into the 4-dome cluster roof. These designs incorporate colorful natural lighting, an additional central dome ceiling option, and additional roofing around the entire perimeter to help with shading the windows and protecting the walls.

Forwarding the Conscious Eco-uprising ” Incorporated Ideas Into the 4-dome Cluster Roof

FORWARDING THE CONSCIOUS ECO-UPRISING DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

One Community is forwarding the conscious Eco-uprising 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 Yuqiao Zhang (Architectural Designer/Drafter) completed his 12th week helping update the City Center AutoCAD and SketchUp files and designing the rainwater harvesting system. This week he redesigned the Living Dome patio to maximize space and minimize the need for unique dome pieces, found a new pivot door for the cupola, and started working on fixing a mistake in the Living Dome floor height.

Continued Updating the City Center AutoCAD and SketchUp Files ” Click for Duplicable City Center

Ron Huang (Mechanical Engineer) continued with his 16th week working on the Energy Modeling for our LEED Platinum certification and City Center open source HVAC design tutorial. This week he continued fine tuning the new hydronic HVAC to reduce unmet hours by ramping up loads and running simulations to see how the thermal zones responded. Basement, Kitchen, & Dining still shown high unmet hours.

Continued Fine Tuning the New Hydronic HVAC to Reduce Unmet Hours – Click for Page

Sneha Dongre (Structural Engineer) also continued with her 21st week helping with the Duplicable City Center structural details. This week’s focus was continued work on the sliding door entryway frames and correcting more AutoCAD irregularities found on the domes.

Continued Helping With the Duplicable City Center Structural Details ” Click for Engineering Page

Mateus Barretto (Civil Engineer) continued with his 3rd week helping with the City Center plumbing designs. This week Mateus standardized the plumbing files as per the One Community AutoCAD Template. You can see some of this work here.

Standardized the Plumbing Files as Per the One Community AutoCAD Template – Click for Page

FORWARDING THE CONSCIOUS ECO-UPRISING HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

One Community is forwarding the conscious Eco-uprising 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 with week 22 of our development of the open source dams, lakes, and water-retention landscape design tutorial.  This week we did a final editing review that included fixing spelling and grammar errors, adding US customary units to the metric units listed, updating imagery, adding some additional videos, and changing the order of some of the content. This work helps One Community’s mission of forwarding the conscious Eco-uprising and reinforces our commitment to a better living quality of all people.

Continued Development of the Open Source Dams, Lakes, and Water-retention Landscape Design

The core team also continued the cost analysis details for the 100-chicken coop. This week we started standardizing the formatting of our past work and adding pictures and purchasing links for all the materials.

Continued the Cost Analysis Details for the 100-chicken Coop – Click for Page

FORWARDING THE CONSCIOUS ECO-UPRISING HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

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

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

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

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

FORWARDING THE CONSCIOUS ECO-UPRISING HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS

One Community is forwarding the conscious Eco-uprising 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 our Executive Summary page to match our updated business plan, you can see the new page here.

Updated Our Executive Summary Page to Match Our Updated Business Plan – Click to Visit

The core team working with Brian Gilb (Project Management Professional ” PMP) also again updated our promotion and win-win pages to make them more streamlined and user-friendly. You can see some of the updates here.

Updated Promotion and Win-win Pages to Make Them More Streamlined and User-friendly

Emilio Nájera (Digital Marketer) also continued with his 42nd week as part of the marketing team. This week he worked on keyword research for “DIY Dam Design and Construction” landing page, explored options for the Google Accelerator Program to improve the overall performance of the current and future campaigns, and fixed a “non-compliance” issue with our Google Ads account.

Worked on Keyword Research for “dIY Dam Design and Construction” Landing Page – Click to Visit

Jin Hua (Web Marketer and Graphic Designer) also helped fix several website errors Google identified, reviewed all of Emilio’s work, and helped create the reports shown here to demonstrate the positive results our campaign fine-tuning has produced.

Helped Create the Reports to Demonstrate the Positive Results Our Campaign Has Produced

Forwarding the Conscious Eco-uprising

WHAT ONE COMMUNITY IS CREATING

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

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

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

BUILDING THE FIRST OF MANY

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

Forwarding the Conscious Eco-uprising

WHY ONE COMMUNITY IS CREATING THIS

The One Community self-replicating model is capable of creating a sustainable planet within 30 years by implementing forwarding the conscious Eco-uprising. 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.

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

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

 

INVESTOR PAGES

OVERVIEW | LOCATION | FUNDING

GET INVOLVED

CONSULTANTS | WAYS ANYONE CAN HELP | MEMBERSHIP

CLICK HERE FOR ALL PAST UPDATES

Sustainable global energy access is possible through an open source network of sustainable teacher/demonstration communities, villages, and cities. One Community is designing the foundations for this and including open source and free-shared tutorials covering food, energy, housing, education, for-profit and non-profit economic design, social architecture, fulfilled living, global stewardship practices, and more.

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

OUR MAIN OPEN SOURCE HUBS

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

One Community’s physical location will forward this movement as the first of many self-replicating teacher/demonstration communities, villages, and cities to be built around the world. This is the August 18th, 2019 edition (#334) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments:

Sustainable Global Energy Access
One Community Progress Update #334

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

SUSTAINABLE GLOBAL ENERGY ACCESS INTRO: @0:30

SUSTAINABLE GLOBAL ENERGY ACCESS HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING: @6:01

• Finished the rest of the content for the most sustainable insulation options page; added the Resources, Summary, and FAQ sections (see below)
• Brianna Olsen continued research for the most sustainable faucet options by formatting her past work into the existing table and continuing the research and refinement process on the remaining company products (see below)

SUSTAINABLE GLOBAL ENERGY ACCESS DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER: @6:50

• Yuqiao Zhang continued helping update the City Center AutoCAD and SketchUp files and designing the rainwater harvesting system (see below)
• Ron Huang continued working on the Energy Modeling for our LEED Platinum certification and City Center open source HVAC design tutorial; continued revising and testing the new hydronic HVAC system (see below)
• Sneha Dongre continued helping with the Duplicable City Center structural details; continued work creating the sliding door entryway frames and correcting and cross-checking angles and lengths of columns and beams in AutoCAD (see below)
• Kimya Azadmard worked on initial standardization-planning for the City Center plumbing AutoCAD files (see below)

SUSTAINABLE GLOBAL ENERGY ACCESS HIGHEST GOOD FOOD: @8:26

• Continued development of the open source dams, lakes, and water-retention landscape design tutorial; created all the separate SketchUp files and added download links for each of them (see below)
• Continued formatting everything written so far on the Open Source Permaculture Design page and adding in the SWOT analysis details (see below)
• Continued cost analysis details for the 100-chicken coop; researched all the materials and created the spreadsheet (see below)
• Created the initial page design and social media imagery for what will be the open source sheep hub (see below)
• Continued researching sheep and incorporating what we learned into the behind-the-scenes sheep-tutorial Google Doc (see below)

SUSTAINABLE GLOBAL ENERGY ACCESS HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION: @9:41

• With over 8 years of development invested in the Education for Life component, this part of One Community is now complete enough to no longer focus and report on it with weekly updates. That is, of course, until we move onto the property and continue the development and open sourcing process with teachers and students. Visit the Education section below for links to all the completed elements of this component and details on the final remaining action items for this area of One Community before moving onto the property and fully launching it.
• Guy Grossfeld continued adding people and object additions to the redesigned and re-rendered sections of the Ultimate Classroom (see below)
• Dan Alleck continued development of the Ultimate Classroom Orange room (see below)

SUSTAINABLE GLOBAL ENERGY ACCESS HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY: @11:08

• Created our new Privacy Page and cookies compliance footer which now brings us into compliance with the EU Users’ Rights under the new General Data Protection Regulation (see below)
• Updated our entire volunteer on-boarding and information page set which included the collaboration page and application, promotion page, win-win page, and compensation page (see below)
• Emilio Nájera continued with the marketing team by launching all the Highest Good of All sub-group campaigns, creating and adding extensions for all our campaigns, and researching a new “Accelerator program” Google is offering (see below)

SUSTAINABLE GLOBAL ENERGY ACCESS SUMMARY: @12:13

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

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

YOU CAN ALSO JOIN US THROUGH SOCIAL MEDIA

 

Sustainable Global Energy Access

ONE COMMUNITY WEEKLY UPDATE DETAILS

SUSTAINABLE GLOBAL ENERGY ACCESS HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

One Community is facilitating sustainable global energy access 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 the rest of the content for the most sustainable insulation options page. This week we added the Resources, Summary, and FAQ sections. You can see all of these additions here and this brings this page to 100% complete!

Added the Resources, Summary, and FAQ Sections to Finalize Most Sustainable Insulation Page

Brianna Olsen (Sustainability Researcher) also completed her 10th week as a member of the team. This week she continued research for the most sustainable faucet options by formatting her past work into the existing table and continuing the research and refinement process on the remaining company products. You can see some of this work here.

Sustainable Global Energy Access ” Continued Research for the Most Sustainable Faucet Options

SUSTAINABLE GLOBAL ENERGY ACCESS DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

One Community is facilitating sustainable global energy access 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 Yuqiao Zhang (Architectural Designer/Drafter) completed his 11th week helping update the City Center AutoCAD and SketchUp files and designing the rainwater harvesting system. This week he finished the 3D gutter system design, updated the calculation for the new rainwater harvesting system, picked proper products with sufficient capacity, and updated the Living Dome restroom designs to provide ADA bathrooms and shower enclosures.

Continued Updating the City Center AutoCAD and SketchUp Files ” Click for Duplicable City Center

Ron Huang (Mechanical Engineer) continued with his 15th week working on the Energy Modeling for our LEED Platinum certification and City Center open source HVAC design tutorial. This week he continued revising and testing the new hydronic HVAC system. You can see some of this work here.

Sustainable Global Energy Access ” Continued Revising and Testing the New Hydronic HVAC System

Sneha Dongre (Structural Engineer) also continued with her 20th week helping with the Duplicable City Center structural details. This week’s focus was continued work creating the sliding door entryway frames and correcting and cross-checking angles and lengths of columns and beams in AutoCAD.

Sustainable Global Energy Access ” Continued Helping With the Duplicable City Center Structural

Kimya Azadmard (Senior Plumbing Engineer) additionally continued with his 2nd week as a member of the team. Kimya’s focus this week was initial standardization-planning for the City Center plumbing AutoCAD files.

Began Initial Standardization-planning for City Center Plumbing AutoCAD File – Click for Page

SUSTAINABLE GLOBAL ENERGY ACCESS HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

One Community is facilitating sustainable global energy access 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 with week 21 of our development of the open source dams, lakes, and water-retention landscape design tutorial.  This week we created all the separate SketchUp files and added download links for each of them.

Created All the Separate SketchUp Files and Added Download Links for Each of Them – Click for Page

The core team also continued developing the behind-the-scenes content for the Open Source Permaculture Design page. This week’s focus was formatting everything written so far and adding in the SWOT analysis details. You can see some of this work here.

Continued Work on Open Source Permaculture Design Page ” Click to Visit

And the core team continued cost analysis details for the 100-chicken coop. This week we researched all the materials and created the spreadsheet shown here.

Researched All Materials for the 100-chicken Coop and Created the Spreadsheet – Click for Page

The core team also created the initial page design and social media imagery for what will be the open source sheep hub.

Created Initial Page Design and Social Media Imagery for Open Source Sheep Hub – Click to Visit

And, last but not least, the core team continued researching sheep and incorporating what we learned into the behind-the-scenes sheep-tutorial Google Doc shown here.

Continued Researching Sheep and Incorporated Data Into Google Doc – Click for Sheep Page

SUSTAINABLE GLOBAL ENERGY ACCESS HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

One Community is facilitating sustainable global energy access 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

Guy Grossfeld (Graphic Designer) continued with week 5 of his work adding people and object additions to the redesigned and re-rendered sections of the Ultimate Classroom. Here are the last two drafts from guy, they show two more main-room perspectives.

Produced Two More Main-room Perspectives of the Ultimate Classroom – Click for Page

Dan Alleck (Designer and Illustrator) also completed his 51st week helping with the Ultimate Classroom. Here you can see his continued development of the Orange room.

Continued Development of the Ultimate Classroom Orange Room – Click for Page

SUSTAINABLE GLOBAL ENERGY ACCESS HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS

One Community is facilitating sustainable global energy access 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 created our new Privacy Page and cookies compliance footer shown here. This brings us into compliance with the EU Users’ Rights under the new General Data Protection Regulation.

Sustainable Global Energy Access ” Created Our New Privacy Page and Cookies Compliance Footer

The core team also updated our entire volunteer on-boarding and information page set. This included the collaboration page and application, promotion page, win-win page, and compensation page. You can see some of the updates here.

Sustainable Global Energy Access ” Updated our Entire Volunteer On-boarding and Information Page

Emilio Nájera (Digital Marketer) also continued with his 41st week as part of the marketing team by launching all the Highest Good of All sub-group campaigns, creating and adding extensions for all our campaigns, and researching a new “Accelerator program” Google is offering. You can see some of this work here.

Launched All the Highest Good of All Sub-group Campaigns, etc. ” Click for Page

WHAT ONE COMMUNITY IS CREATING

One Community is creating a place to grow together and change the world together through sustainable global energy access. 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 enabling sustainable global energy access. 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.

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

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

 

INVESTOR PAGES

OVERVIEW | LOCATION | FUNDING

GET INVOLVED

CONSULTANTS | WAYS ANYONE CAN HELP | MEMBERSHIP

CLICK HERE FOR ALL PAST UPDATES

One Community thinks open source sustainability may be this generation’s single most impactful contribution to humanity’s future. Through open source and sustainable approaches to food, energy, housing, education, for-profit and non-profit economic design, social architecture, fulfilled living, global stewardship practices, and more, we can help people create a better world by demonstrating a more sustainable and enriching way of living and free-share everything needed for replication. Making this easy enough, affordable enough, and demonstrating it as attractive enough can lead to self-replicating example capable of improving the quality and standard of living globally.

• 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 August 11th, 2019 edition (#333) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments:

Open Source Sustainability
One Community Progress Update #333

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

OPEN SOURCE SUSTAINABILITY INTRO: @0:34

OPEN SOURCE SUSTAINABILITY HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING: @7:12

• Continued adding the content to the most sustainable insulation options page; finished the final six insulation sections (see below)
• Brianna Olsen continued research for the most sustainable faucet options by researching and creating lists of the best faucet products for Kohler, Grohe, and Toto (see below)
• Dean Scholz continued working on the Earthbag Village; rebuilding the domes by adding in the larger windows that are fire code compliant (see below)
• Shadi Kennedy continued developing the Murphy bed instructions; focused on standardization of the page layouts, part colors, labels, and other details for the nightstands (see below)

OPEN SOURCE SUSTAINABILITY DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER: @8:36

• Yuqiao Zhang continued helping update the City Center AutoCAD and SketchUp files and designing the rainwater harvesting system; researched the related codes for plumbing design and updated the drain locations in the AutoCAD drawings (see below)
• Ron Huang continued Energy Modeling for our LEED Platinum certification and City Center open source HVAC design tutorial; continued working on the revised hydronic HVAC system (see below)
• Sneha Dongre continued helping with the Duplicable City Center structural details; more design and placement work on the structure of the sliding glass door entryways (see below)
• Mateus Barretto continued helping with the City Center plumbing designs; standardizing the plumbing files as per the One Community AutoCAD Template and started research on roadways design in US (see below)

OPEN SOURCE SUSTAINABILITY HIGHEST GOOD FOOD: @10:08

• Continued development of the open source dams, lakes, and water-retention landscape design tutorial; finished the dam construction notes, Resources, Summary, and FAQ sections (see below)
• Continued developing content for the Open Source Permaculture Design page; focusing on design criteria, sector analysis details, and zonal planning (see below)
• Continued research for the 100-chicken coop, finished using the 3D construction file to create the materials list (see below)
• Continued developing the sheep/goat barn in SketchUp 3D; designed the goat resting area, goat feeder, sheep feeding area, and the mother and kids areas (see below)

OPEN SOURCE SUSTAINABILITY HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION: @11:25

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

OPEN SOURCE SUSTAINABILITY HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY: @12:46

• Updated our Who We Are and Who We Seek page to better reflect the current team and what we seek in those joining the team (see below)
• Jin Hua helped us create a better CSS heading 2, further fine tune our ad campaigns, and started outlining a strategy for a new donations campaign we’re developing (see below)
• Emilio Nájera continued with the marketing team by evaluating last months’ results, changing the Highest Good of All sub-group keyword qualifiers from Exact to Broad and working on the site links’ descriptions (see below)

OPEN SOURCE SUSTAINABILITY SUMMARY: @13:48

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OPEN SOURCE SUSTAINABILITY HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

One Community is expanding open source sustainability with 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 adding the content to the most sustainable insulation options page. This week we finished the final six insulation sections. You can see all these new sections here. We’d say this brings the page to 80% complete. 

Finished the Final Six Insulation Sections on Most Sustainable Insulation Options Page – Click to Visit

Brianna Olsen (Sustainability Researcher) completed her 9th week as a member of the team. This week she continued research for the most sustainable faucet options by researching and creating lists of the best faucet products for Kohler, Grohe, and Toto. You can see some of this work here. This work helps One Community’s mission of Open Source Sustainability and reinforces our commitment to a better living quality of all people.

Researched and Created Lists of the Best Faucet Products for Kohler, Grohe, and Toto – Click for Page

Dean Scholz (Architectural Designer) finished week #168 working on the Earthbag Village (Pod 1). This week he continued rebuilding the domes by adding in the larger windows that are fire code compliant. You can see some of this work here.

Continued Rebuilding the Domes by Adding in Larger, Fire Code Compliant Windows – Click for Page

Shadi Kennedy (Artist and Graphic Designer) also completed his 62nd week developing the Murphy bed instructions. This week’s focus was standardization of the page layouts, part colors, labels, and other details for the nightstands. Every one of these images has been edited in some way during the last week. This work helps One Community’s mission of Open Source Sustainability and reinforces our commitment to a better living quality of all people.

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

OPEN SOURCE SUSTAINABILITY DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

One Community is expanding open source sustainability with 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 Yuqiao Zhang (Architectural Designer/Drafter) completed his 10th week helping update the City Center AutoCAD and SketchUp files and designing the rainwater harvesting system. This week he researched the related codes for plumbing design and updated the drain locations in the AutoCAD drawings. He also updated the gutter and downspout system strictly adhering to code to make sure the design has the best capacity. This work helps One Community’s mission of Open Source Sustainability and reinforces our commitment to a better living quality of all people.

Continued Updating the City Center AutoCAD and SketchUp Files – Click for Duplicable City Center

Ron Huang (Mechanical Engineer) continued with his 14th week working on the Energy Modeling for our LEED Platinum certification and City Center open source HVAC design tutorial. This week he continued working on the revised hydronic HVAC system. You can see some of this work here.

Continued Working on Energy Modeling for Our LEED Platinum Certification ” Click for Page

Sneha Dongre (Structural Engineer) also continued with her 19th week helping with the Duplicable City Center structural details. This week’s focus was more design and placement work on the structure of the sliding glass door entryways.

Continued Helping With the Duplicable City Center Structural Details ” Click for Engineering Page

Mateus Barretto (Civil Engineer) continued with his 2nd week helping with the City Center plumbing designs. This week Mateus worked on standardizing the plumbing files as per the One Community AutoCAD Template and started research on roadways design in the US. You can see some of this work here. This work helps One Community’s mission of Open Source Sustainability and reinforces our commitment to a better living quality of all people.

Began Standardizing Plumbing Files and Started Research on Roadways Design in US – Click for Page

OPEN SOURCE SUSTAINABILITY HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

One Community is expanding open source sustainability with 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 with week 20 of our development of the open source dams, lakes, and water-retention landscape design tutorial.  This week we finished the dam construction notes, Resources, Summary, and FAQ sections.

Finished the Dam Construction Notes, Resources, Summary, and FAQ Sections – Click for Page

The core team also continued developing the behind-the-scenes content for the Open Source Permaculture Design page. This week’s focus was design criteria, sector analysis details, and zonal planning, plus starting to format previous sections for addition to the website. You can see some of this work here. This work helps One Community’s mission of Open Source Sustainability and reinforces our commitment to a better living quality of all people.

Open Source Sustainability ” Continued Work on Open Source Permaculture Design Page

And the core team continued research for the 100-chicken coop. This week we finished using the 3D construction file to create the materials list, some of which you can see here.

Finished Using the 3D Construction File to Create the 100-chicken Coop Materials List – Click for Page

Last but not least, the core team continued developing the sheep/goat barn in SketchUp 3D. We designed the goat resting area, goat feeder, sheep feeding area, and the mother and kids areas, as shown here.

Open Source Sustainability ” Continued Developing the Sheep/Goat Barn in SketchUp 3D

OPEN SOURCE SUSTAINABILITY HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

One Community is expanding open source sustainability with 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

Guy Grossfeld (Graphic Designer) continued with week 4 of his work adding people and object additions to the redesigned and re-rendered sections of the Ultimate Classroom. Here are the latests drafts of the red, green, and 2 main-room perspectives. 

Continued Adding People and Object Additions to the Redesigned Sections of the Ultimate Classroom

OPEN SOURCE SUSTAINABILITY HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS

One Community is expanding open source sustainability with 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 our Who We Are and Who We Seek page to better reflect the current team and what we seek in those joining the team. You can see the new page here. This work helps One Community’s mission of Open Source Sustainability and reinforces our commitment to a better living quality of all people.

Updated Our Who We Are and Who We Seek Page to Better Reflect the Current Team – Click for Page

Jin Hua (Web Marketer and Graphic Designer) also helped us create a better CSS heading 2, further fine tune our ad campaigns, and started outlining a strategy for a new donations campaign we’re developing.

Continued Helping with Our Ad Campaigns and Started a New Donations Campaign – Click for Page

Emilio Nájera (Digital Marketer) also continued with his 40th week as part of the marketing team by evaluating last months’ results, changing the Highest Good of All sub-group keyword qualifiers from Exact to Broad, and worked on the site links’ descriptions. You can see some of this work here. This work helps One Community’s mission of Open Source Sustainability and reinforces our commitment to a better living quality of all people.

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.

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.

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Sustainably addressing global poverty is possible with a comprehensive approach. We think this approach should include complete sustainability practices and bringing resources to the places they are needed most, then teaching people how to use and replicate them so they can support themselves and help teach others how to support themselves too. Providing an example, training platform, and launch-point for a global cooperative of teacher/demonstration hubs working together for the Highest Good of all people and life on this planet.

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

OUR MAIN OPEN SOURCE HUBS

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

One Community’s physical location will forward this movement as the first of many self-replicating teacher/demonstration communities, villages, and cities to be built around the world. This is the August 4th, 2019 edition (#332) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments:

Sustainably Addressing Global Poverty
One Community Progress Update #332

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

SUSTAINABLY ADDRESSING GLOBAL POVERTY INTRO: @0:34

SUSTAINABLY ADDRESSING GLOBAL POVERTY HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING: @8:41

• Finished Denim, Hemp, and Wool sections on the most sustainable insulation options page (see below)
• Working on the most sustainable insulation options page and transitioning to the most sustainable faucet options research, Brianna Olsen continued finalizing the insulation research and began researching Sloan, Toto, Kohler, and Grohe faucet products (see below)
• Dean Scholz continued working on the Earthbag Village; continued modeling the larger windows that are fire code compliant and replacing throughout the 3-bedroom home designs (see below)

SUSTAINABLY ADDRESSING GLOBAL POVERTY DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER: @9:40

• Added all the final Duplicable City Center library renders to the open source hub and also updated the pipe furniture page to clarify this as the new direction that room is taking (see below)
• Ron Huang continued on the Energy Modeling for our LEED Platinum certification and City Center open source HVAC design tutorial; continued revising the proposed HVAC system to use a more sustainable hydronic cooling and heat recovery system (see below)
• Sneha Dongre continued helping with the Duplicable City Center structural details; creating columns and beams in AutoCAD for the sliding glass door entryways (see below)
• Mateus Barretto rejoined the team and reviewed and made minor updates to the City Center plumbing designs he helped create several years ago (see below)
• Kimya Azadmard joined the team and focused on writing the City Center plumbing basis of design details shown here (see below)

SUSTAINABLY ADDRESSING GLOBAL POVERTY HIGHEST GOOD FOOD: @11:07

• Continued with week 19 of our development of the open source dams, lakes, and water-retention landscape design tutorial; finished the descriptions for all the different dam types (see below)
• Continued research for the 100-chicken coop; started using the 3D construction file to create the materials list (see below)
• Continued researching sheep; reviewed several videos regarding getting started with sheep, toxic free hoses and soakers, sheep shelters, and raising grass fed lamb and incorporated what we learned into the behind-the-scenes sheep-tutorial Google Doc (see below)

SUSTAINABLY ADDRESSING GLOBAL POVERTY HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION: @12:09

• With over 8 years of development invested in the Education for Life component, this part of One Community is now complete enough to no longer focus and report on it with weekly updates. That is, of course, until we move onto the property and continue the development and open sourcing process with teachers and students. Visit the Education section below for links to all the completed elements of this component and details on the final remaining action items for this area of One Community before moving onto the property and fully launching it.
• Dan Alleck is now focused on final edits to the Ultimate Classroom renders; started work on the Orange room where he added in new elements, replaced some items, and resized the people (see below)

SUSTAINABLY ADDRESSING GLOBAL POVERTY HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY: @13:32

• Created the new collage format we’re using for these blogs (see below)
• Created the new page based off of a magazine article we were asked to write and called “10 Community Problems and 10 Solutions” (see below)
• Updated our Internet Participation page and tutorial for people looking to help with anywhere from 1 minute to 30 minutes only and using just the internet (see below)
• Core team working with Brian Gilb started the final review and edits of our Business Plan and all the related attachments (see below)
• Shubhra Mittal helped write all the hours estimates for the complete Highest Good Network work breakdown structure (see below)
• Emilio Nájera continued with the marketing team by implementing requested changes to the Highest Good of All sub-campaigns and creating all the shareable site links for the One Community branding campaign (see below)

SUSTAINABLY ADDRESSING GLOBAL POVERTY SUMMARY: @14:56

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ONE COMMUNITY WEEKLY UPDATE DETAILS

SUSTAINABLY ADDRESSING GLOBAL POVERTY HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

One Community is sustainably addressing global poverty 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 adding the content to the most sustainable insulation options page, focusing on sustainably addressing global poverty. This week we finished the sections shown here for Denim, Hemp, and Wool.

Finished Denim, Hemp, and Wool Sections of Most Sustainable Insulation Options Page – Click to Visit

Also working on the most sustainable insulation options page and transitioning to the most sustainable faucet options research, Brianna Olsen (Sustainability Researcher) completed her 9th week to finalize the insulation research, sustainably addressing global poverty, and began researching Sloan, Toto, Kohler, and Grohe faucet products.

Finalized Insulation Research and Began Researching Sloan, Toto, Kohler, and Grohe Faucet Products

Dean Scholz (Architectural Designer) finished week #167 working on the Earthbag Village (Pod 1). This week he continued modeling the larger windows that are fire code compliant and replacing throughout the 3-bedroom home designs.

Continued Modeling Larger Windows and Replacing Throughout 3-bedroom Home Designs

SUSTAINABLY ADDRESSING GLOBAL POVERTY DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

One Community is sustainably addressing global poverty 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 added all the final Duplicable City Center library renders to the open source hub and also updated the pipe furniture page to clarify this as the new direction that room is taking, sustainably addressing global poverty.

Added Final Duplicable City Center Library Renders to the Open Source Hub – Click for City Center

Ron Huang (Mechanical Engineer) also continued with his 13th week working on the Energy Modeling for our LEED Platinum certification and City Center open source HVAC design tutorial. This week, he focused on sustainably addressing global poverty by revising the proposed HVAC system to use a more sustainable hydronic cooling and heat recovery system.

Continued Working on Energy Modeling for Our LEED Platinum Certification ” Click for Page

Sneha Dongre (Structural Engineer) additionally continued with her 18th week helping with the Duplicable City Center structural details. This week’s focus was creating columns and beams in AutoCAD for the sliding glass door entryways.

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

Mateus Barretto (Civil Engineer) also rejoined the team and reviewed and made minor updates to the City Center plumbing designs he helped create several years ago, sustainably addressing global poverty. You can see some of this work here.

Reviewed and Made Minor Updates to the City Center Plumbing Designs He Helped Create

This was in preparation for a redesign Kimya Azadmard (Senior Plumbing Engineer) has joined the team to help with. Kimya’s focus this week was writing the City Center plumbing basis of design details shown here.

Began Writing the City Center Plumbing Basis of Design Details – Click for Page

SUSTAINABLY ADDRESSING GLOBAL POVERTY HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

One Community is sustainably addressing global poverty 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 with week 19 of our development of the open source dams, lakes, and water-retention landscape design tutorial, sustainably addressing global poverty.  This week we finished the descriptions for all the different dam types.

Finished the Descriptions for All the Different Dam Types – Click for Dam Design Page

The core team also continued research for the 100-chicken coop. This week we started using the 3D construction file to create the materials list, some of which you can see here.

Started Using the 3D Construction File to Create the Materials List ” Click for Chickens Page

And, last but not least, the core team continued researching sheep, sustainably addressing global poverty. We reviewed several videos regarding getting started with sheep, toxic free hoses and soakers, sheep shelters, and raising grass fed lamb and incorporated what we learned into the behind-the-scenes sheep-tutorial Google Doc shown here.

Reviewed Several Sheep Videos and Added Info to our Google Doc ” Click for Food Page

SUSTAINABLY ADDRESSING GLOBAL POVERTY HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

One Community is sustainably addressing global poverty 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 50th week helping. His work now is focused on final edits to the Ultimate Classroom renders. This week he started work on this Orange room where he added in new elements, replaced some items, and resized the people.

Added in New Elements, Replaced Some Items, and Resized the People in Orange Room – Click to Visit

SUSTAINABLY ADDRESSING GLOBAL POVERTY HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS

One Community is sustainably addressing global poverty 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 created the new collage format we’re using for these blogs.

Created the New Collage Format We’re Using for These Blogs – Click for Page

We also created the new page shown here and based off of a magazine article we were asked to write and called “10 Community Problems and 10 Solutions.”

Created Page Called “10 Community Problems and 10 Solutions” – Click to Visit

We also updated our Internet Participation page and tutorial for people looking to help with anywhere from 1 minute to 30 minutes only and using just the internet.

Updated Our Internet Participation Page and Tutorial for People Looking to Help – Click for Page

In addition to this, the core team working with Brian Gilb (Project Management Professional ” PMP) also started the final review and edits of our Business Plan and all the related attachments. We finished the first 5 enclosures and would say we are now 30% done.

Started Final Review and Edits of Our Business Plan and All the Related Attachments

Shubhra Mittal (Software Delivery Manager) helped write all the hours estimates for the complete Highest Good Network work breakdown structure.

Wrote Hours Estimates for Complete Highest Good Network Work Breakdown Structure

And Emilio Nájera (Digital Marketer) also continued with his 39th week as part of the marketing team by implementing requested changes to the Highest Good of All sub-campaigns and creating all the shareable site links for the One Community branding campaign. You can see some of this work here.

Implemented Requested Changes to the Highest Good of All Sub-campaigns ” Click for Page

Sustainably Addressing Global Poverty

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.

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

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

 

INVESTOR PAGES

OVERVIEW | LOCATION | FUNDING

GET INVOLVED

CONSULTANTS | WAYS ANYONE CAN HELP | MEMBERSHIP

CLICK HERE FOR ALL PAST UPDATES