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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. A sustainable world is possible, and our efforts are directed towards proving this.

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. By showing that a sustainable world is possible, we aim to inspire others to join our mission.

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, further proving that a sustainable world is possible.

BUILDING THE FIRST OF MANY

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

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, continually reinforcing that a sustainable world is possible.

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

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

Caretakers of Our Shared Planet – One Community Weekly Progress Update #164

Posted on May 15, 2016 by Vibhav Chimatapu

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

We are caretakers of our shared planet. Whether we choose to do so consciously or not, we are each still caretakers. Hasn’t the time come for clear and open source options for those interested in caretaking for The Highest Good of All? We think it has.

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 May 15th, 2016 edition (#164) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments:

Caretakers of Our Shared Planet
One Community Progress Update #164

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

CARETAKERS OF OUR SHARED PLANET INTRO: @1:03

CARETAKERS OF OUR SHARED PLANET – HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION: @2:01

Transferred the third 25% of the written content for the Courage Lesson Plan to the website
Behind the scenes: wrote the final 25% of the written part of the Courage Lesson Plan
Completed the third 25% of the mindmap for the Summer Lesson Plan (see below)

CARETAKERS OF OUR SHARED PLANET – HIGHEST GOOD FOOD: @2:54

Continued working on the renders for the Tropical Atrium that is the center of the Earthbag Village (Pod 1) (see below)
Calculated and added the nutrition information and daily requirements for greens to our meal plans, which features contributions from Naturopathic Doctor Matt Marturano (see below)
Shadi Kennedy added fruit trees, flowers, etc. to the Tropical Atrium render (see below)

CARETAKERS OF OUR SHARED PLANET – HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING: @4:03

Put another 10 hours into the behind-the-scenes revision for the Footers, Foundations and Flooring page for the crowdfunding campaign we are developing (see below)
Jessica Zynda completed final CAD drawing of the Earthbag Village Dome Excavation, French Drain Gutter, and Footer (see below)
Zachary Melin took over updating the Tree House Village (Pod 7) book created by last year’s intern Team (see below)
Dean Scholz further developed what’s necessary for us to create quality Cob Village renders (see below)
Sal Rubio continued working on creating professional do-it-yourself Earthbag Village Murphy Bed furniture assembly instructions (see below)
Shilcy Augustine continued developing the Compressed Earth Block Village (Pod 4) massage and treatment room spaces (see below)

CARETAKERS OF OUR SHARED PLANET – DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER: @6:05

Neha Verma created an initial section plan for the City Center (see below)
Shadi Kennedy added the final details to City Center render of the large-scale communal Kitchen (see below)
Iris Hsu continued exploring recycled pipe shelving options for the Duplicable City Center library (see below)

CARETAKERS OF OUR SHARED PLANET – HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY: @7:02

Completed icons for all the Highest Good of All sections of the website and added to The Highest Good of All Portal and Collaborative resource and information hub (see below)
Jonathan DeAscentis continued development of our Highest Good Network logo (see below)

CARETAKERS OF OUR SHARED PLANET SUMMARY @7:28

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ONE COMMUNITY WEEKLY UPDATE DETAILS

CARETAKERS OF OUR SHARED PLANET – HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

One Community is contributing as caretakers of our shared planet through Highest Good education that is for all ages, applicable in any environment, adaptable to individual needs, far exceeds traditional education standards, and more fun for both the teachers and the students:

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

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

Caretakers of Our Shared Planet, This last week the core team transferred the third 25% of the written content for the Courage Lesson Plan to the website, as you see here. This lesson plan purposed to teach all subjects, to all learning levels, in any learning environment, using the central theme of "Courage" is now 75% completed on our website.

Caretakers of Our Shared Planet –Courage Lesson Plan – 75% Complete – Click to Visit Page

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

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

Caretakers of Our Shared Planet, We also completed the third 25% of the mindmap for the Summer Lesson Plan, bringing it to 75% complete

Caretakers of Our Shared Planet –Summer Mindmap – 75% Complete – Click to Visit Page

CARETAKERS OF OUR SHARED PLANET – HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

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

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

This last week the core team continued working on the renders for the Tropical Atrium that is the center of the Earthbag Village (Pod 1). Here you can see the finished render looking southwest and focusing on the hand terraces and central pond. Next step here is PhotoShop colors and additions.

Caretakers of Our Shared Planet, Tropical Atrium Render, One Community, blog 164

Continued Working on Renders for the Tropical Atrium – Click to Visit Page

As part of the development of our our Food Self-sufficiency Transition Plan, which features contributions from Naturopathic Doctor Matt Marturano (creator of the COHERENT model for comprehensive digestive health), this week we calculated and added the nutrition information and daily requirements for greens to our meal plans.

Caretakers of Our Shared Planet, As part of the development of our our Food Self-sufficiency Transition Plan, which features contributions from Naturopathic Doctor Matt Marturano (creator of the COHERENT model for comprehensive digestive health), this week we calculated and added the nutrition information and daily requirements for greens to our meal plans.

Calculated & Nutrition Information & Greens to Meal Plans

Shadi Kennedy (Artist and Graphic Designer) then took the render from the core team and added all the plant details so it now shows the Tropical Atrium flourishing with fruit trees, flowers, and other plants from the Tropical Atrium Planting and Harvesting plan.

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Added Plant Details to Tropical Atrium – View Looking Southwest

CARETAKERS OF OUR SHARED PLANET – HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

One Community is contributing as caretakers of our shared planet 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 last week the core team put another 10 hours into the behind-the-scenes revision for the Footers, Foundations and Flooring page for the crowdfunding campaign we are developing. This week’s focus was on creating a sketch and explanatory narrative depicting the layout of expanded polystyrene insulation for the earthbag dome floor and dome subterranean exterior. We also finished the narrative for the 6-millimeter polyethylene over exterior horizontal EPS insulation. We’d say we are now 81% complete with this total update and rewrite behind the scenes.

Behind-the-Scenes Revision of the Footers, Foundations and Flooring Info

Jessica Zynda (Drafter and Designer) also completed this final CAD drawing of the Earthbag Village Dome Excavation, French Drain Gutter, and Footer.

Caretakers of Our Shared Planet, Jessica Zynda (Drafter and Designer) also completed this final CAD drawing of the Earthbag Village Dome Excavation, French Drain Gutter, and Footer.

CAD Drawing of Earthbag Village Dome Excavation, French Drain Gutter, Footer

Zachary Melin (Graphic Designer) also took over updating the Tree House Village (Pod 7) book created by last year’s intern Team. What you see here is Zachary’s process of redoing the background image and rebuilding the table of contents and the summary page.

Caretakers of Our Shared Planet - Zachary Melin (Graphic Designer) also took over updating the Tree House Village (Pod 7) book created by last year’s intern Team. What you see here is Zachary’s process of redoing the background image and rebuilding the table of contents and the summary page.

In Process of Updating the Tree House Village Book – Click to Visit

Dean Scholz, Architectural Designer, further developed what’s necessary for us to create quality Cob Village (Pod 3) renders. Here is update 19 of this work that is now focused on what you see here, creating quality render plants and trees like those we’ll be growing on the property.

Caretakers of Our Shared Planet, Dean Scholz, Architectural Designer, further developed what’s necessary for us to create quality Cob Village (Pod 3) renders. Here is update 19 of this work that is now focused on what you see here, creating quality render plants and trees like those we’ll be growing on the property.

Further Developed What’s Necessary to Create Quality Cob Village Renders

Sal Rubio (Industrial Designer) also continued working on creating professional do-it-yourself Earthbag Village Murphy Bed furniture assembly instructions. What you see here are week 3 of his process of double checking all our pieces and creating SolidWorks versions of them from the Sketchup pieces we already have.

Caretakers of Our Shared Planet, Sal Rubio (Industrial Designer) also continued working on creating professional do-it-yourself Earthbag Village Murphy Bed furniture assembly instructions. What you see here are week 3 of his process of double checking all our pieces and creating SolidWorks versions of them from the Sketchup pieces we already have.

Creating Professional Do-It-Yourself Earthbag Village Furniture Instructions

Shilcy Augustine (Architect) continued developing the Compressed Earth Block Village (Pod 4) massage and treatment room spaces. You can see this work here where her focus continues with the aesthetic and structural details for the external spaces.

Caretakers of Our Shared Planet, Shilcy Augustine (Architect) continued developing the Compressed Earth Block Village (Pod 4) massage and treatment room spaces. You can see this work here where her focus continues with the aesthetic and structural details for the external spaces.

Compressed Earth Block Village Massage & Treatment Room Spaces

CARETAKERS OF OUR SHARED PLANET – DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

One Community is contributing as caretakers of our shared planet 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 Neha Verma (Construction Project Manager and Bachelor’s of Architecture) created this initial section plan for the City Center.

Caretakers of Our Shared Planet, This week Neha Verma (Construction Project Manager and Bachelor's of Architecture) created this initial section plan for the City Center.

Created Initial Section Plan for City Center – Click to Visit Page

And Shadi Kennedy (Artist and Graphic Designer) added the final details to this City Center render of the large-scale communal Kitchen.

Caretakers of Our Shared Planet, One-Community-City-Center-Kitchen-Render-Shadi-b164-high-res-640

Caretakers of Our Shared Planet –Added Final Details to Large-Scale Communal Kitchen Render

Additionally, Iris Hsu (Industrial Designer), also continued exploring recycled pipe shelving options for the Duplicable City Center library. What you see here is round #5 of this work building more 3-D examples of the corner shelving options we liked best and further exploring how they’ll look with different shelving for the adjacent walls.

Caretakers of Our Shared Planet, Additionally, Iris Hsu (Industrial Designer), also continued exploring recycled pipe shelving options for the Duplicable City Center library. What you see here is round #5 of this work building more 3-D examples of the corner shelving options we liked best and further exploring how they’ll look with different shelving for the adjacent walls.

Exploring Recycled Pipe Shelving Options for Duplicable City Center library

CARETAKERS OF OUR SHARED PLANET – HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS

One Community is contributing as caretakers of our shared planet 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 last week the core team completed updating all the icons for all the Highest Good of All sections of the website. What you see here are these icons added now to The Highest Good of All Portal and Collaborative resource and information hub.

Caretakers of Our Shared Planet, This last week the core team completed updating all the icons for all the Highest Good of All sections of the website. What you see here are these icons added now to The Highest Good of All Portal and Collaborative resource and information hub.

Updated Icons for Highest Good Food Sections on the Website – Click to Visit

Jonathan DeAscentis (Graphic Designer and Web Developer) additionally continued development of our Highest Good Network logo as shown here. This week’s changes were discussing options for the words in the outer ring.

Continued Development of our Highest Good Network Logo – Click to Visit

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WHAT ONE COMMUNITY IS CREATING

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

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, emphasizing the role of caretakers of our shared planet.

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, while demonstrating our commitment as caretakers of our shared planet.

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, showcasing the importance of being caretakers of our shared planet.

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, as devoted caretakers of our shared planet.

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 as caretakers of our shared 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 as caretakers of our shared planet, 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. By engaging as caretakers of our shared planet, we collectively contribute to this vision.

Forwarding the Evolution of Sustainability – One Community Weekly Progress Update #163

Posted on May 8, 2016 by Vibhav Chimatapu

FORWARDING THE EVOLUTION OF SUSTAINABILITY – HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION: @1:56

Forwarding the evolution of sustainability can be accelerated through open source sharing models for self-sufficient eco-villages. For maximum effect, it makes sense to include within these village models approaches for Highest Good food, energy, housing, education, for-profit and non-profit economics design, social architecture, fulfilled living, and stewardship practices and more. We call this living and creating for The Highest Good of All:

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

OUR MAIN OPEN SOURCE HUBS

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

One Community’s physical location will forward this movement as the first of many self-replicating teacher/demonstration communities, villages, and cities to be built around the world. This is the May 8th, 2016 edition (#163) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments:

Forwarding the Evolution of Sustainability
One Community Progress Update #163

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

FORWARDING THE EVOLUTION OF SUSTAINABILITY INTRO: @1:00

Transferred the second 25% of the written content for the Courage Lesson Plan to the website (see below)
Behind the scenes: wrote the third 25% of the written part of the Courage Lesson Plan
Completed the second 25% of the mindmap for the Summer Lesson Plan, bringing it to 50% complete (see below)

FORWARDING THE EVOLUTION OF SUSTAINABILITY – HIGHEST GOOD FOOD: @2:46

Continued working on the renders for the Tropical Atrium that is the center of the Earthbag Village (Pod 1) (see below)
Began laying out the preliminary outline for our nutrition based buffet-style meals, which features contributions from Naturopathic Doctor Matt Marturano (see below)
Shadi Kennedy created individual planting plan maps for the Tropical Atrium Planting and Harvesting page (see below)
Shadi added all the plant details to the Core Team’s Tropical Atrium render (see below)

FORWARDING THE EVOLUTION OF SUSTINABILITY – HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING: @3:57

Put another 10 hours into the behind-the-scenes revision for the Footers, Foundations and Flooring page for the crowdfunding campaign we are developing (see below)
Dean Scholz further developed what’s necessary for us to create quality Cob Village renders (see below)
Sal Rubio continued working on creating professional do-it-yourself Earthbag Village Murphy Bed furniture assembly instructions (see below)
Shilcy Augustine continued developing the Compressed Earth Block Village (Pod 4) massage and treatment room spaces (see below)

FORWARDING THE EVOLUTION OF SUSTAINABLITY – DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER: @5:37

Shadi Kennedy finalized his work on the updated render scenes for the City Center (see below)
Behind the scenes: Mike Hogan and Lucas Tsutsui da Silva were joined by Dipti Dhondarkar and Neha Verma on their Control Systems discussion (see below)

FORWARDING THE EVOLUTION OF SUSTAINABLITY – HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY: @6:43

Completed updating all the icons for all the Highest Good Food sections of the website (see below)
Added a “how to maintain it” section to both our Open Source and Copyrights page and our Open Source and Trademarks page with the help of Oz Czerski (see below)
Jonathan DeAscentis continued development of our Highest Good Network logo (see below)

FORWARDING THE EVOLUTION OF SUSTAINABILITY SUMMARY : @7:19

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FORWARDING THE EVOLUTION OF SUSTAINABILITY – HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

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

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

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

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

Courage Lesson Plan – 50% Complete – Click to Visit Page

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

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

Forwarding the Evolution of Sustainability, We also completed the second 25% of the mindmap for the Summer Lesson Plan, bringing it to 50% complete

Summer Mindmap – 50% Complete – Click to Visit Page

FORWARDING THE EVOLUTION OF SUSTAINABILITY – HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

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

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

This last week the core team continued working on the renders for the Tropical Atrium that is the center of the Earthbag Village (Pod 1). Here you can see the finished initial render looking northwest. Next step here is PhotoShop colors and additions.

Forwarding the Evolution of Sustainability, Tropical Atrium Render, One Community, blog 163

Continued Working on Renders for the Tropical Atrium – Click to Visit Page

As part of the development of our our Food Self-sufficiency Transition Plan, which features contributions from Naturopathic Doctor Matt Marturano (creator of the COHERENT model for comprehensive digestive health), this week we began laying out the preliminary outline for our nutrition based buffet-style meals.

Forwarding the Evolution of Sustainability, As part of the development of our our Food Self-sufficiency Transition Plan, which features contributions from Naturopathic Doctor Matt Marturano (creator of the COHERENT model for comprehensive digestive health), this week we began laying out the preliminary outline for our nutrition based buffet-style meals.

Began Laying out Preliminary Outline for Nutrition Based Buffet-Style Meals

Shadi Kennedy (Artist and Graphic Designer) also created these individual planting plan maps for the Tropical Atrium Planting and Harvesting page.

Forwarding the Evolution of Sustainability, Shadi Kennedy (Artist and Graphic Designer) also created these individual planting plan maps for the Tropical Atrium Planting and Harvesting page.

Individual Planting Plan Maps for Tropical Atrium Planting and Harvesting Page

Then Shadi added all the plant details to the Core Team’s render, now it shows the Tropical Atrium flourishing with fruit trees, flowers, and other plants from the Tropical Atrium Planting and Harvesting plan.

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Added Plant Details to Tropical Atrium – View Looking Northwest

FORWARDING THE EVOLUTION OF SUSTAINABILITY – HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

One Community is forwarding the evolution of sustainability through Highest Good housing that is artistic and beautiful, more affordable, more space efficient, lasts longer, DIY buildable, and constructed with healthy and sustainable materials:

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

This last week the core team put another 10 hours into the behind-the-scenes revision for the Footers, Foundations and Flooring page for the crowdfunding campaign we are developing. This week’s focus was on continued insertion of backfill steps and steps for raising the poly instruction that are part of Section 10: Construction of Stem Walls and Dome. We also completed further edits of Section 13: Subterranean Exterior Ground Finish of Polyethylene Water Barrier and EPS Insulation. We additionally moved all new green-step headings into the Section 10 doc and inserted newly written narratives. We’d say we are now 80% complete with this total update and rewrite behind the scenes.

Behind-the-Scenes Revision of the Footers, Foundations and Flooring Info

Dean Scholz, Architectural Designer, further developed what’s necessary for us to create quality Cob Village (Pod 3) renders. Here is update 18 of this work that is now focused on what you see here, creating quality-render trees like those native to the area we intend to build in.

Forwarding the Evolution of Sustainability, Dean Scholz, Architectural Designer, further developed what’s necessary for us to create quality Cob Village (Pod 3) renders. Here is update 18 of this work that is now focused on what you see here, creating quality-render trees like those native to the area we intend to build in.

Further Developed What’s Necessary to Create Quality Cob Village Renders

Sal Rubio (Industrial Designer) also continued working on creating professional do-it-yourself Earthbag Village Murphy Bed furniture assembly instructions. What you see here are week 2 of his process of double checking all our pieces and creating SolidWorks versions of them from the Sketchup pieces we already have.

Forwarding the Evolution of Sustainability, Sal Rubio (Industrial Designer) also continued working on creating professional do-it-yourself Earthbag Village Murphy Bed furniture assembly instructions. What you see here are week 2 of his process of double checking all our pieces and creating SolidWorks versions of them from the Sketchup pieces we already have.

Creating Professional Do-It-Yourself Earthbag Village Furniture Instructions

Shilcy Augustine (Architect) continued developing the Compressed Earth Block Village (Pod 4) massage and treatment room spaces. You can see this work here where her focus is now on the external spaces.

Forwarding the Evolution of Sustainability, Shilcy Augustine (Architect) continued developing the Compressed Earth Block Village (Pod 4) massage and treatment room spaces. You can see this work here where her focus is now on the external spaces.

Compressed Earth Block Village Massage & Treatment Room Spaces

FORWARDING THE EVOLUTION OF SUSTAINABILITY – DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

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

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

This week working on the City Center, Shadi Kennedy (Artist and Graphic Designer) finalized his work on the updated render scenes for the rental rooms:

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Finalized Work on Updated Render Scenes for Rental Rooms – Click to Visit

… the loft in the Social Dome:

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Finalized Work on Updated Render Scenes for Loft in Social Dome

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Finalized Work on Updated Render Scenes for Loft in Social Dome

… and dining area by the Kitchen:

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Finalized Work on Updated Render Scenes for Dining Area in Kitchen

… also these four new images of the rental room and what will be the do-it-yourself pallet furniture:

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Finalized Work on Updated Render Scenes for Rental Room

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Finalized Work on Updated Render Scenes for Rental Room

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Finalized Work on Updated Render Scenes for Rental Room

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Finalized Work on Updated Render Scenes for Rental Room

Behind the scenes Mike Hogan (Automation Systems Developer and Business Systems Consultant) and Lucas Tsutsui da Silva (4th-year Computer Engineering Student) were joined by Dipti Dhondarkar (Electrical Engineer) and Neha Verma (Construction Project Manager). The discussion this week was about how Dipti‘s work with lighting and minimum and optimal lumens will integrate with the Control Systems, aimed at forwarding the evolution of sustainability.

Forwarding the Evolution of Sustainability, Behind the scenes Mike Hogan (Automation Systems Developer and Business Systems Consultant) and Lucas Tsutsui da Silva (4th-year Computer Engineering Student) were joined by Dipti Dhondarkar (Electrical Engineer) and Neha Verma (Construction Project Manager). The discussion this week was about how Dipti‘s work with lighting and minimum and optimal lumens will integrate with the Control Systems.

Continued Discussion for development of the Control Systems Lighting

FORWARDING THE EVOLUTION OF SUSTAINABILITY – HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS

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

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

This last week the core team completed updating all the icons for all the Highest Good Food sections of the website. What you see here is a collage of some of these icons on a few of the updated pages:

Forwarding the Evolution of Sustainability, This last week the core team completed updating all the icons for all the Highest Good Food sections of the website. What you see here is a collage of some of these icons on a few of the updated pages:

Updated Icons for Highest Good Food Sections on the Website

With the help of Oz Czerski, Lawyer Specializing in Trademark and Copyright Law, we also added a “how to maintain it” section to both our Open Source and Copyrights page and our Open Source and Trademarks page.

Forwarding the Evolution of Sustainability, With the help of Oz Czerski, Lawyer Specializing in Trademark and Copyright Law, we also added a “how to maintain it” section to both our Open Source and Copyrights page and our Open Source and Trademarks page.

“How to Maintain it” Section to Open Source Copyrights and Trademarks Page

Jonathan DeAscentis (Graphic Designer and Web Developer) additionally continued development of our Highest Good Network logo. This week’s changes were finalizing the center tree details:

Continued Development of our Highest Good Network Logo

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

WHAT ONE COMMUNITY IS CREATING

One Community is creating a place to grow together and change the world together focusing on forwarding the evolution of sustainability. 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, forwarding the evolution of sustainability. A place based on compassion, kindness, and collaboration. This replicable community will serve as an example for what is possible in terms of forwarding the evolution of sustainability.

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

WHY ONE COMMUNITY IS CREATING THIS

The One Community self-replicating model is capable of creating a sustainable planet within 30 years, with a strong focus on forwarding the evolution of sustainability. 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, forwarding the evolution of sustainability. 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, with a emphasis of forwarding the evolution of sustainability.

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, focusing on forwarding the evolution of sustainability. 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.

How Humanity Creates a Sustainable World – One Community Weekly Progress Update #162

Posted on May 1, 2016 by Vibhav Chimatapu

HOW HUMANITY CREATES A SUSTAINABLE WORLD – HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION: @1:56

Understanding how humanity creates a sustainable world can be achieved by looking at how we’ve created the world we have now. To get to where we are now, humanity has chosen what’s easiest, most affordable, and most attractive. If we make living sustainability and for The Highest Good of All easy enough, affordable enough, and attractive enough, we can create a new and better paradigm the same way we created our current one. One Community’s focus is open sourcing everything needed to accomplish this:

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

OUR MAIN OPEN SOURCE HUBS

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

One Community’s physical location will forward this movement as the first of many self-replicating teacher/demonstration communities, villages, and cities to be built around the world. This is the May 1st, 2016 edition (#162) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments:

How Humanity Creates a Sustainable World
One Community Progress Update #162

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

HOW HUMANITY CREATES A SUSTAINABLE WORLD INTRO: @1:00

Transferred the first 25% of the written content for the Courage Lesson Plan to the website (see below)
Behind the scenes: wrote the second 25% of the written part of the Courage Lesson Plan
Completed the first 25% of the mindmap for the Summer Lesson Plan (see below)

HOW HUMANITY CREATES A SUSTAINABLE WORLD – HIGHEST GOOD FOOD: @2:51

Found and added a great video to the Aquapini/Walipini open source hub and the Aquapini and Walipini Planting and Harvesting pages (see below)
Shadi Kennedy finalized the planting plan specifics image for the Tropical Atrium that is the center of the Earthbag Village. Then the core team added both versions of this image to the website (see below)

HOW HUMANITY CREATES A SUSTAINABLE WORLD – HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING: @3:40

Put another 10 hours into the behind-the-scenes revision for the Footers, Foundations and Flooring page for the crowdfunding campaign we are developing (see below)
Jesika Rohrbach continued designing different loft sleeping area options for Tree House Village living structures (see below)
Dean Scholz further developed what’s necessary for us to create quality Cob Village renders (see below)
Sal Rubio began working on converting our custom and do-it-yourself Earthbag Village Murphy Bed furniture assembly instructions to professional and simplified instructions made in SolidWorks (see below)

HOW HUMANITY CREATES A SUSTAINABLE WORLD – DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER: @5:21

Began rendering work for the Tropical Atrium (see below)
Haoxuan “Hayes” Lei began working on updating the City Center AutoCAD drawings (see below)
Dipti Dhondarkar began working on switch board placement for lights, fans, sockets, and power outlets (see below)
Neha Verma created 3rd-generation designs for the basement and root cellar (see below)
Shadi Kennedy began working on updated render scenes for the City Center rental room, social dome loft, and dining area (see below)
Behind the scenes: Mike Hogan and Lucas Tsutsui da Silva continued discussion for development of the Control Systems main panel (see below)

HOW HUMANITY CREATES A SUSTAINABLE WORLD – HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY: @7:09

Completed final round of edits on master plan concept map for the property and added it to our Overview, Methodology, Property, and Highest Good housing pages (see below)
Jonathan DeAscentis took the work of Mariam Sargsyan and began further development of our Highest Good Network logo as shown here (see below)

HOW HUMANITY CREATES A SUSTAINABLE WORLD SUMMARY: @7:34

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HOW HUMANITY CREATES A SUSTAINABLE WORLD – HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

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

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

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

How Humanity Creates a Sustainable World, This last week the core team transferred the first 25% of the written content for the Courage Lesson Plan to the website, as you see here. This lesson plan purposed to teach all subjects, to all learning levels, in any learning environment, using the central theme of "Courage" is now 25% completed on our website.

How Humanity Creates a Sustainable World – Courage Lesson Plan – 25% Complete – Click to Visit

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

We also completed the first 25% of the mindmap for the Summer Lesson Plan, bringing it to one quarter complete, which you see here.

How Humanity Creates a Sustainable World, Summer Mindmap 25% complete, One Community

How Humanity Creates a Sustainable World – Summer Mindmap – 25% Complete – Click to Visit Page

HOW HUMANITY CREATES A SUSTAINABLE WORLD – HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

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

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

This last week the core team found and added this great video to the Aquapini/Walipini open source hub and the Aquapini and Walipini Planting and Harvesting pages. It shows a working example of a passive greenhouse in Nebraska demonstrating what will be possible with our open source Aquapini/Walipini designs:

Shadi Kennedy (Artist and Graphic Designer) also finalized the planting plan specifics image for the Tropical Atrium that is the center of the Earthbag Village (Pod 1) , and then the core team added both versions of this image to the webpage.

How Humanity Creates a Sustainable World, Shadi Kennedy (Artist and Graphic Designer) also finalized the planting plan specifics image for the Tropical Atrium that is the center of the Earthbag Village (Pod 1). Then the core team added both versions of this image to the website.

How Humanity Creates a Sustainable World – Added Planting Plan Specifics Image to Website

HOW HUMANITY CREATES A SUSTAINABLE WORLD – HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

One Community is building the foundations for how humanity creates a sustainable world through Highest Good housing that is artistic and beautiful, more affordable, more space efficient, lasts longer, DIY buildable, and constructed with healthy and sustainable materials:

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

This last week the core team put another 10 hours into the behind-the-scenes revision for the Footers, Foundations and Flooring page for the crowdfunding campaign we are developing. This week’s focus was writing up the narrative for the Section 13 Subterranean Exterior Ground Finish of Polyethylene Water Barrier and EPS Insulation, and creating the narrative for Section 15 Final Backfill. Further steps were also added to Section 10 Stem Wall and Dome Construction. We’d say we are now 79% complete with this total update and rewrite behind the scenes.

How Humanity Creates a Sustainable World, This last week the core team put another 10 hours into the behind-the-scenes revision for the Footers, Foundations and Flooring page for the crowdfunding campaign we are developing. This week’s focus was writing up the narrative for the Section 13 Subterranean Exterior Ground Finish of Polyethylene Water Barrier and EPS Insulation, and creating the narrative for Section 15 Final Backfill. Further steps were also added to Section 10 Stem Wall and Dome Construction. We’d say we are now 79% complete with this total update and rewrite behind the scenes.

Behind-the-Scenes Revision of the Footers, Foundations and Flooring Info

Working on the Tree House Village (Pod 7), Jesika Rohrbach (Architectural Drafter, Designer, and 3-D Modeler) continued designing and exploring different loft sleeping area options for the living structures for this village. This week’s focus was on designs for skylights and shelving behind and below the bed.

How Humanity Creates a Sustainable World, Working on the Tree House Village (Pod 7), Jesika Rohrbach (Architectural Drafter, Designer, and 3-D Modeler) continued designing and exploring different loft sleeping area options for the living structures for this village. This week's focus was on designs for skylights and shelving behind and below the bed.

Designing/Exploring Loft Sleeping Area Options for Treehouse Family Structures

Dean Scholz, Architectural Designer, further developed what’s necessary for us to create quality Cob Village (Pod 3) renders. Here is update 17 of this work that included placing the natural and do-it-yourself constructed outdoor water feature and beginning work on a cordwood chair design.

How Humanity Creates a Sustainable World, Dean Scholz, Architectural Designer, further developed what's necessary for us to create quality Cob Village (Pod 3) renders. Here is update 17 of this work that included placing the natural and do-it-yourself constructed outdoor water feature and beginning work on a cordwood chair design.

Further Developed What’s Necessary to Create Quality Cob Village Renders

Sal Rubio (Industrial Designer) also began working on converting our custom and do-it-yourself Earthbag Village Murphy Bed furniture assembly instructions from the GoogleDoc format we have them in now to professional and simplified instructions made in SolidWorks. What you see here is iteration 1.0 with pictures from the GoogleDoc and the beginnings of his SolidWorks plans.

How Humanity Creates a Sustainable World, Sal Rubio (Industrial Designer) also began working on converting our custom and do-it-yourself Earthbag Village Murphy Bed furniture assembly instructions from the GoogleDoc format we have them in now to professional and simplified instructions made in SolidWorks. What you see here is iteration 1.0 with pictures from the GoogleDoc and the beginnings of his SolidWorks plans.

Murphy Bed Furniture Instructions to Professional Instructions in SolidWorks

HOW HUMANITY CREATES SUSTAINABLE WORLD – DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

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

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

This week the core team began the rendering work for the Tropical Atrium. This rendering preparation process included setting up the shadows and background, and applying the texture material for the trees, water, windows, rock walls and wood panels. You can see the first rendering of this image here:

How Humanity Creates a Sustainable World, This week the core team began the rendering work for the Tropical Atrium. This rendering preparation process included setting up the shadows and background, and applying the texture material for the trees, water, windows, rock walls and wood panels. You can see the first rendering of this image here

How Humanity Creates a Sustainable World – Began the Rendering Work for the Tropical Atrium

Haoxuan “Hayes” Lei (Structural Engineering Student), also began working on updating the City Center AutoCAD drawings with column placement specifics shown here:

How Humanity Creates a Sustainable World, Haoxuan "Hayes" Lei (Structural Engineering Student), also began working on updating the City Center AutoCAD drawings with column placement specifics

How Humanity Creates a Sustainable World – Began Working on Updating the City Center Drawings

Dipti Dhondarkar (Electrical Engineer) also began working on switch board placement for lights, fans, sockets, and power outlets.

How Humanity Creates a Sustainable World, Dipti Dhondarkar (Electrical Engineer) also began working on switch board placement for lights, fans, sockets, and power outlets.

Switch Board Placement for Lights, Fans, Sockets, and Power Outlets

Neha Verma (Construction Project Manager and Bachelor’s of Architecture) also created these 3rd-generation designs for the basement and root cellar for the City Center:

How Humanity Creates a Sustainable World, Neha Verma (Construction Project Manager and Bachelor's of Architecture) also created these 3rd-generation designs for the basement and root cellar for the City Center:

3rd-Generation Designs for Basement and Root Cellar for the City Center

Shadi Kennedy (Artist and Graphic Designer) also began working on updated render scenes for the City Center rental room, loft in the Social Dome, and dining area by the Kitchen:

How Humanity Creates a Sustainable World, Shadi Kennedy (Artist and Graphic Designer) also began working on updated render scenes for the City Center rental room, loft in the Social Dome, and dining area by the Kitchen

Began Working on Updated Render Scenes for City Center Rooms

Behind the scenes Mike Hogan (Automation Systems Developer and Business Systems Consultant) and Lucas Tsutsui da Silva (4th-year Computer Engineering Student) continued discussion for development of the Control Systems main panel. This week’s focus was having Lucas build the same prototype in Brazil to test if it worked the same as Mikes’, results of our ongoing survey from the Control System’s page, and additional edits and updates that both Mike and Lucas helped with for the webpage.

How Humanity Creates a Sustainable World, Behind the scenes Mike Hogan (Automation Systems Developer and Business Systems Consultant) and Lucas Tsutsui da Silva (4th-year Computer Engineering Student) continued discussion for development of the Control Systems main panel. This week's focus was having Lucas build the same prototype in Brazil to test if it worked the same as Mikes', results of our ongoing survey from the Control System's page, and additional edits and updates that both Mike and Lucas helped with for the webpage.

Continued Discussion for development of the Control Systems Main Panel

HOW HUMANITY CREATES SUSTAINABLE WORLD – HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS

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

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

This last week the core team completed a final round of edits on our master plan concept map for the property and added this map to our Overview , Methodology, Property, and Highest Good housing pages.

How Humanity Creates a Sustainable World, One Community Master Plan, One Community Overview, One Community property, Highest Good living, eco-tourism, One Community camping, open source global change, teacher/demonstration villages, earthbag village, straw bale village, cob village, earth block village, shipping container village, tree house village

Final Round of Edits on Our Master Plan Map and Added to Several Pages

Jonathan DeAscentis (Graphic Designer and Web Developer) additionally took the work of Mariam Sargsyan (Graphic Designer and Project Manager) and began further development of our Highest Good Network logo as shown here:

Began Further Development of Highest Good Network Logo

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

WHAT ONE COMMUNITY IS CREATING

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

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

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

BUILDING THE FIRST OF MANY

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

WHY ONE COMMUNITY IS CREATING THIS

The One Community self-replicating model is capable of creating a sustainable planet within 30 years, with a strong focus on how humanity creates a sustainable world. 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, highlighting how humanity creates a sustainable world. 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, emphasizing how humanity creates a sustainable world.

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 with a focus on how humanity creates a sustainable world. 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.

Creating an Ecological Earth – One Community Weekly Progress Update #161

Posted on April 24, 2016 by Vibhav Chimatapu

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

Creating an ecological Earth model to regenerate our planet and meet the food, energy, housing and other needs of all people is now possible. One Community is doing our part to facilitate this through sustainable and self-sufficient teacher/demonstration communities, villages, and hubs:

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 April 24th, 2016 edition (#161) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments:

Creating an Ecological Earth
One Community Progress Update #161

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

CREATING AN ECOLOGICAL EARTH INTRO: @1:00

CREATING AN ECOLOGICAL EARTH – HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION: @1:57

Transferred final 25% of written content for Summer Lesson Plan to website (see below)
Behind the scenes: wrote first 25% of written part of Courage Lesson Plan (see below)
Completed final 25% of mindmap for Cooperation and Collaboration Lesson Plan (see below)

CREATING AN ECOLOGICAL EARTH – HIGHEST GOOD FOOD: @2:47

Finalized and are launching our Transition Kitchen page to the public, which features contributions from Naturopathic Doctor Matt Marturano (see below)
Shadi Kennedy further developed planting plan specifics of the Tropical Atrium that is the center of the Earthbag Village (see below)

CREATING AN ECOLOGICAL EARTH – HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING: @3:38

Put another 10 hours into the behind-the-scenes revision for the Footers, Foundations and Flooring page for the crowdfunding campaign we are developing (see below)
Jesika Rohrbach started designing different loft sleeping area options for Tree House Village living structures (see below)
Dean Scholz further developed what’s necessary for us to create quality Cob Village renders (see below)

CREATING AN ECOLOGICAL EARTH – DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER: @4:59

Finished rendering Cupola area of the Duplicable City Center (see below)
Started work on updates for Duplicable City Center Natural Pool and Spa. The children’s easy-access area was redesigned based on the excellent design work of Bupesh Seethala (see below)
Iris Hsu continued exploring recycled pipe shelving options for the Duplicable City Center library (see below)
Added the amazing City Center Control Systems and Electrical Design work from Mike Hogan and Lucas Tsutsui da Silva to the City Center Open Source Hub and Control Systems pages (see below)
Mike, Lucas, and Jae discussed testing being done to fix an electrical interference problem (see below)
Hoang Bao continued transferring the work of last year’s intern team into the new Duplicable City Center Electrical page (see below)

CREATING AN ECOLOGICAL EARTH – HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY: @7:00

Completed final edits and reorganization needed for the icons designed by Ivan Manzurov (see below)
Added the work of Lokesh Gopu to the Highest Good Network software page along with links to the GitHub (see below)
Jonathan DeAscentis continued development of our Highest Good Network logo (see below)

CREATING AN ECOLOGICAL EARTH SUMMARY: @7:43

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CREATING AN ECOLOGICAL EARTH – HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

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

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

This last week the core team transferred the final 25% of the written content for the Summer Lesson Plan to the website, as you see here. This lesson plan purposed to teach all subjects, to all learning levels, in any learning environment, using the central theme of “Summer” is now 100% completed on our website.

Creating an Ecological Earth, This last week the core team transferred the final 25% of the written content for the Summer Lesson Plan to the website, as you see here. This lesson plan purposed to teach all subjects, to all learning levels, in any learning environment, using the central theme of “Summer” is now 100% completed on our website., One Community, Summer Lesson Plan

Creating an Ecological Earth – Summer Lesson Plan – Final 25% Complete – Click to Visit Page

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

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

Creating an Ecological Earth, We also completed the final 25% of the mindmap for the Cooperation and Collaboration Lesson Plan, bringing it to 100% complete., One Community

Creating an Ecological Earth – Cooperation and Collaboration Mindmap Complete – Click to Visit

CREATING AN ECOLOGICAL EARTH – HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

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

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

This last week the core team finalized and launched our Transition Kitchen page to the public. This work is part of the development of our Food Self-sufficiency Transition Plan, which features contributions from Naturopathic Doctor Matt Marturano (creator of the COHERENT model for comprehensive digestive health).

Creating an Ecological Earth, This last week the core team finalized and are launching our Transition Kitchen page to the public. This work is part of the development of our Food Self-sufficiency Transition Plan, which features contributions from Naturopathic Doctor Matt Marturano (creator of the COHERENT model for comprehensive digestive health).

Finalized and Launched our Transition Kitchen Page to the Public – Click to Visit

Shadi Kennedy (Artist and Graphic Designer) also further developed the planting plan specifics of the Tropical Atrium that is the center of the Earthbag Village (Pod 1). What you see here are version 2.0 of the two different layout options we’ve decided on:

Creating an Ecological Earth, Shadi Kennedy (Artist and Graphic Designer) also further developed the planting plan specifics of the Tropical Atrium that is the center of the Earthbag Village (Pod 1). What you see here are version 2.0 of the two different layout options we've decided on., One Community, Tropical Atrium Planting Plan

Further Developed the Tropical Atrium Planting Plan Specifics

CREATING AN ECOLOGICAL EARTH – HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

One Community is creating an ecological Earth 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 last week the core team put another 10 hours into the behind-the-scenes revision for the Footers, Foundations and Flooring page for the crowdfunding campaign we are developing. This week’s focus was reviewing the first three poly installations and re-writing the poly foundation to coincide with the floor construction in Section 12 and providing determinations of how to fit EPS to exterior dome shape and cost estimates for Section 14 Subterranean Exterior Ground Finish of Polyethylene Water Barrier and EPS Insulation. We’d say we are now 78% complete with this total update and rewrite behind the scenes.

Creating an Ecological Earth, This last week the core team put another 10 hours into the behind-the-scenes revision for the Footers, Foundations and Flooring page for the crowdfunding campaign we are developing. This week’s focus was reviewing the first three poly installations and re-writing the poly foundation to coincide with the floor construction in Section 12 and providing determinations of how to fit EPS to exterior dome shape and cost estimates for Section 14 Subterranean Exterior Ground Finish of Polyethylene Water Barrier and EPS Insulation. We’d say we are now 78% complete with this total update and rewrite behind the scenes.

Revision of the Footers, Foundations and Flooring Info – Click to Visit Page

Working on the Tree House Village (Pod 7), Jesika Rohrbach (Architectural Drafter, Designer, and 3-D Modeler) started designing and exploring different loft sleeping area options for the living structures for this village. You can see these here:

Creating an Ecological Earth, Working on the Tree House Village (Pod 7), Jesika Rohrbach (Architectural Drafter, Designer, and 3-D Modeler) started designing and exploring different loft sleeping area options for the living structures for this village.

Designing/Exploring Loft Sleeping Area Options for Treehouse Family Structures

Dean Scholz, Architectural Designer, further developed what’s necessary for us to create quality Cob Village (Pod 3) renders. Here is update 16 of this work that included finishing the natural and do-it-yourself constructed outdoor water feature.

Creating an Ecological Earth, Dean Scholz, Architectural Designer, further developed what's necessary for us to create quality Cob Village (Pod 3) renders. Here is update 16 of this work that included finishing the natural and do-it-yourself constructed outdoor water feature.

Further Developed What’s Necessary to Create Quality Cob Village Renders

CREATING AN ECOLOGICAL EARTH – DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

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

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

This week the core team finished rendering the Cupola area of the Duplicable City Center. Here you see 3 most recent rendered scene images for different settings of the Cupola studio.

Finished Rendering the Cupola Area of the Duplicable City Center

We also started to work on updates for the Duplicable City Center Natural Pool and Spa. The children’s easy-access area was redesigned as seen here and based on the excellent design work of Bupesh Seethala (Interior Designer). The new design features safety rails, a separation wall between the children and adult areas of the pool, and an 8″, 16″ and 24″ set of stepped areas for children to enjoy.

Creating an Ecological Earth, dcc-pool-b161-640, We also started to work on updates for the Duplicable City Center Natural Pool and Spa. The children's easy-access area was redesigned as seen here and based on the excellent design work of Bupesh Seethala (Interior Designer). The new design features safety rails, a separation wall between the children's and adult's areas of the pool, and an 8", 16" and 24" set of stepped areas for children to enjoy.

Started Work on Updates for Duplicable City Center Natural Pool and Spa

Iris Hsu (Industrial Designer), also continued exploring recycled pipe shelving options for the Duplicable City Center library. What you see here is round #4 of this work building 3-D examples of the corner shelving options we liked best and starting to see how they’ll look with different shelving for the adjacent walls.

Creating an Ecological Earth, Iris Hsu (Industrial Designer), also continued exploring recycled pipe shelving options for the Duplicable City Center library. What you see here is round #4 of this work building 3-D examples of the corner shelving options we liked best and starting to see how they'll look with different shelving for the adjacent walls.

Continued Exploring Recycled Pipe Shelving Options for Library

We also added the amazing City Center Control Systems and Electrical Design work from Mike Hogan (Automation Systems Developer and Business Systems Consultant) and Lucas Tsutsui da Silva (4th-year Computer Engineering Student) to the City Center Open Source Hub and Control Systems pages. What you see here are the details of placement for all of the control and automation systems, lights, and electrical for the entire City Center.

Creating an Ecological Earth, Duplicable City Center Control Systems Map, One Community, Control and Automation Systems, Sustainability Monitoring, Data Gathering

Duplicable City Center Control Systems, Lighting, and Electrical Map

In our weekly collaborative call, Mike, Lucas, and Jae discussed testing being done to fix an electrical interference problem happening with long cable runs and wiring Mike is doing to test the control panel design we shared last week.

Creating an Ecological Earth, In our weekly collaborative call, Mike, Lucas, and Jae discussed testing being done to fix an electrical interference problem happening with long cable runs and wiring Mike is doing to test the control panel design we shared last week.

Discussed Testing Being Done to Fix an Electrical Interference Problem

Hoang Bao (Software Developer) also continued transferring the work of last year’s intern team into the new Duplicable City Center Electrical page. What you see here is the last 3rd of the complete content live on the new page.

Creating an Ecological Earth, Hoang Bao (Software Developer) also continued transferring the work of last year's intern team into the new Duplicable City Center Electrical page. What you see here is the last 3rd of the complete content live on the new page.

Moving Work of Intern Team into New Duplicable City Center Electrical Page

CREATING AN ECOLOGICAL EARTH – HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS

One Community is creating an ecological Earth 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 last week the core team completed the final edits and reorganization needed for the icons designed by Graphic Designer, Ivan Manzurov. The final icons we worked on are shown here, these are for the Earthbag Village (Pod 1) open source hub.

Creating an Ecological Earth, This last week the core team completed the final edits and reorganization needed for the icons designed by Graphic Designer, Ivan Manzurov. The final icons we worked on are shown here, these are for the Earthbag Village (Pod 1) open source hub.

Continued Multi-hour Reorganization of the Icons – Now Complete

We also added the work of Lokesh Gopu (Software Engineer) to the Highest Good Network software page along with links to the GitHub. Once complete, this open source software will streamline project tracking and sustainable community collaboration and data sharing around the world.

Creating an Ecological Earth, We also added the work of Lokesh Gopu (Software Engineer) to the Highest Good Network software page along with links to the GitHub. Once complete, this open source software will streamline project tracking and sustainable community collaboration and data sharing around the world.

Added New Open Source Software to the Highest Good Network Page

Related to this, Jonathan DeAscentis (Graphic Designer and Web Developer) continued development of what will be the Highest Good Network logo. What you see here are his 4th round of evolutions:

Continued Further Development of Highest Good Network Logo

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

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WHAT ONE COMMUNITY IS CREATING

One Community is creating an ecological earth place to grow together and change the world together. We are 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 focusing on creating an ecological earth.

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 to advocate for creating an ecological earth.

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 all aimed to create an ecological earth.

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 an ecological earth.

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 focusing on creating an ecological earth. We will model these within a comprehensive “village/city” which will be built in the southwestern U.S. This teacher/demonstration hub will be a place people can experience a new way of living and then replicate it with our open source blueprints: creating a model solution that creates additional solution-creating models.

One Community Welcomes Shadi Kennedy to the Graphic Design Team

Posted on April 19, 2016 by One Community

One Community welcomes Shadi Kennedy to the Graphic Design Team as our newest Volunteer/Consultant!

Artist and Graphic Designer: After graduating with his BA in Art Practice, Shadi Kennedy decided he wanted to create visually engaging work that related to the world around us and engaged and interacted with viewers beyond those who just wandered into an art gallery. With this new goal, Shadi went back to University and earned his MA (with Honors) in Graphic Design. Now an accomplished Designer, Shadi specializes in using visual creativity to produce unique, streamlined, and functional designs that make a positive impact on the world around them. As a One Community Graphic Designer, Shadi is applying his amazing talent creating final real-to-life renders, descriptive imagery, and publication materials for the Earthbag Village, Tropical Atrium, and Duplicable City Center™.

WELCOME TO THE TEAM SHADI!

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How to Regenerate Earth – One Community Weekly Progress Update #160

Posted on April 17, 2016 by Vibhav Chimatapu

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How to regenerate earth: Make sustainability easy enough, affordable enough, and demonstrate it as attractive enough so that it will spread on its own. Creating open source sustainable and self-sufficient teacher/demonstration communities, villages, and hubs are how One Community is doing 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 April 17th, 2016 edition (#160) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments:

How to Regenerate Earth
One Community Progress Update #160

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

HOW TO REGENERATE EARTH INTRO: @1:00

HOW TO REGENERATE EARTH – HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION: @1:59

Transferred third 25% of the written content for the Summer Lesson Plan to the website (see below)
Behind the scenes: wrote first 25% of the written part of the Honesty and Integrity Lesson Plan
Completed third 25% of the mindmap for the Cooperation and Collaboration Lesson Plan (see below)

HOW TO REGENERATE EARTH – HIGHEST GOOD FOOD: @2:51

Added the finalized versions of 3d renders to our Transition Kitchen page, which features contributions from Naturopathic Doctor Matt Marturano (see below)
Shadi Kennedy began exploring new ways to share the planting plan specifics of the Tropical Atrium (see below)

HOW TO REGENERATE EARTH – HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING: @3:40

Put another 10 hours into the behind-the-scenes revision for the Footers, Foundations and Flooring page for the crowdfunding campaign we are developing (see below)
Jesika Rohrbach added updated ramp textures and designs to the Tree House Village external render (see below)
Dean Scholz further developed what’s necessary for us to create quality Cob Village renders (see below)
Brianna Johnson continued evolving the renders for the Straw Bale Village (see below)

HOW TO REGENERATE EARTH – DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER: @5:15

Continued working on the renders for the Cupola that will top the Duplicable City Center (see below)
Iris Hsu continued exploring lighting and shelving options for the Duplicable City Center library (see below)
Behind the scenes: Mike Hogan and Lucas Tsutsui da Silva continued discussion for development of the Control Systems main panel (see below)
Mike Hogan created a tutorial for the Engineer and Licensed Electrician volunteers we’re seeking to help with the next steps of the design (see below)
Hoang Bao continued transferring the work of last year’s intern team into the new Duplicable City Center Electrical page (see below)

HOW TO REGENERATE EARTH – HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY: @6:50

Continued final edits and reorganization of the icons that were designed by Ivan Manzurov (see below)
Lokesh Gopu continued building the new version of One Community’s Highest Good Network software (see below)
Jonathan DeAscentis took the work of Mariam Sargsyan and began further development of our Highest Good Network logo (see below)

HOW TO REGENERATE EARTH SUMMARY: @7:34

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HOW TO REGENERATE EARTH – HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

One Community is teaching people how to regenerate our Earth through Highest Good education that is for all ages, applicable in any environment, adaptable to individual needs, far exceeds traditional education standards, and more fun for both the teachers and the students:

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

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

How to Regenerate Earth - This last week the core team transferred the third 25% of the written content for the Summer Lesson Plan to the website, as you see here. This lesson plan purposed to teach all subjects, to all learning levels, in any learning environment, using the central theme of “Summer” is now 75% completed on our website.

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

Behind the scenes, we wrote the first 25% of the written part of the Honesty and Integrity Lesson Plan.

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

How to Regenerate Earth - One Community Cooperation and Collaboration Mindmap - 75% Complete

Cooperation and Collaboration Mindmap – 75% Complete – Click to Visit Page

HOW TO REGENERATE EARTH -HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

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

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

As part of the development of our Food Self-sufficiency Transition Plan, which features contributions from Naturopathic Doctor Matt Marturano (creator of the COHERENT model for comprehensive digestive health), this week the core team added the finalized versions of 3d renders to our Transition Kitchen page, as you can see here:

How to Regenerate Earth - As part of the development of our Food Self-sufficiency Transition Plan, which features contributions from Naturopathic Doctor Matt Marturano (creator of the COHERENT model for comprehensive digestive health), this week the core team added the finalized versions of 3d renders to our Transition Kitchen page

Added Final Versions of 3D Renders to Transition Kitchen Page – Click to Visit

Shadi Kennedy (Artist and Graphic Designer) also began exploring new ways to share the planting plan specifics of the Tropical Atrium that is the center of the Earthbag Village (Pod 1). What you see here are the two different layout options we’re exploring.

How to Regenerate Earth - Shadi Kennedy (Artist and Graphic Designer) also began exploring new ways to share the planting plan specifics of the Tropical Atrium that is the center of the Earthbag Village (Pod 1). What you see here are the two different layout options we're exploring.

Began Exploring New Ways of Sharing Tropical Atrium Planting Plan Specifics

HOW TO REGENERATE EARTH – HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

One Community is teaching people how to regenerate our Earth 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 last week the core team put another 10 hours into the behind-the-scenes revision for the Footers, Foundations and Flooring page for the crowdfunding campaign we are developing. This week’s focus was on the Section 12 Floor Construction narrative insertion regarding polyethylene use to repel water from upward pressure of ground water. Also, Section 14 Subterranean Exterior Ground Finish, consisting of the creation of horizontal waterproofing below ground and away from the walls to minimize/eliminate additional water penetration from surface level down and toward the subterranean dome walls. We’d say we are now 77% complete with this total update and rewrite behind the scenes.

How to Regenerate Earth - This last week the core team put another 10 hours into the behind-the-scenes revision for the Footers, Foundations and Flooring page for the crowdfunding campaign we are developing. This week’s focus was on the Section 12 Floor Construction narrative insertion regarding polyethylene use to repel water from upward pressure of ground water. Also, Section 14 Subterranean Exterior Ground Finish, consisting of the creation of horizontal waterproofing below ground and away from the walls to minimize/eliminate additional water penetration from surface level down and toward the subterranean dome walls. We’d say we are now 77% complete with this total update and rewrite behind the scenes.

Behind-the-Scenes Revision of the Footers, Foundations and Flooring Info

Working on the Tree House Village (Pod 7), Jesika Rohrbach (Architectural Drafter, Designer, and 3-D Modeler) added updated ramp textures and designs to the external render (top pic) and also started exploring furniture layouts for the treehouse family structures.

How to Regenerate Earth - Working on the Tree House Village (Pod 7), Jesika Rohrbach (Architectural Drafter, Designer, and 3-D Modeler) added updated ramp textures and designs to the external render (top pic) and also started exploring furniture layouts for the treehouse family structures.

Ramp Textures & External render & Treehouse Family Structures

Dean Scholz, Architectural Designer, further developed what’s necessary for us to create quality Cob Village (Pod 3) renders. Here is update 15 of this work that included the beginnings of designing a representation of what we envision the natural and do-it-yourself constructed outdoor water features will look like.

How to Regenerate Earth - Dean Scholz, Architectural Designer, further developed what's necessary for us to create quality Cob Village (Pod 3) renders. Here is update 15 of this work that included the beginnings of designing a representation of what we envision the natural and do-it-yourself constructed outdoor water features will look like.

Further Developed What’s Necessary to Create Quality Cob Village Renders

Brianna Johnson (Interior Designer), also continued evolving the renders for the Straw Bale Village (Pod 2). What you see here is her final render for the Game Room.

How to Regenerate Earth - Straw Bale Village Game Room, One Community Pod 2, Brianna, b160, 640, Brianna Johnson (Interior Designer), also continued evolving the renders for the Straw Bale Village (Pod 2). What you see here is her final render for the Game Room.

Renders for the Straw Bale Village – Game Rm Render Complete

HOW TO REGENERATE EARTH – DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

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

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

This week the core team continued working on the renders for the Cupola that will top the Duplicable City Center. What you see here is a pull-down projector screen for watching movies and the theater room layout with floor chairs that can be folded and stored under benches.

How to Regenerate Earth - 160-DCC-cupola-640, This week the core team continued working on the renders for the Cupola that will top the Duplicable City Center. What you see here is the theater room layout with floor chairs that can be folded and stored under benches and a pull-down projector screen for watching movies.

Renders for the Cupola that will Top the Duplicable City Center – Click to Visit

Iris Hsu (Industrial Designer), continued exploring lighting and shelving options for the Duplicable City Center library. What you see here is round #3 of this research, exploration, and design focusing on artistic and functional options for the odd-angled corners.

How to Regenerate Earth - Iris Hsu (Industrial Designer), continued exploring lighting and shelving options for the Duplicable City Center library. What you see here is round #3 of this research, exploration, and design focusing on artistic and functional options for the odd-angled corners.

Continued Exploring Recycled Pipe Shelving Options for the Library

Behind the scenes Mike Hogan (Automation Systems Developer and Business Systems Consultant) and Lucas Tsutsui da Silva (4th-year Computer Engineering Student) continued discussion for development of the Control Systems main panel. This week’s focus was this collage of pictures showing one of Mike’s automation system’s retrofits….

How to Regenerate Earth - Behind the scenes Mike Hogan (Automation Systems Developer and Business Systems Consultant) and Lucas Tsutsui da Silva (4th-year Computer Engineering Student) continued discussion for development of the Control Systems main panel. This week's focus was this collage of pictures showing one of Mike's automation system's retrofits.

Continued Discussion for Development of Control Systems Main Panel

….and this tutorial Mike created for the Engineer and Licensed Electrician volunteers we’re seeking to help with the next steps of the design. These steps will include helping with specifications for loads, wire sizes, conduit runs, schematics, panel placements, etc.

How to Regenerate Earth - ....and this tutorial Mike created for the Engineer and Licensed Electrician volunteers we're seeking to help with the next steps of the design. These steps will include helping with specifications for loads, wire sizes, conduit runs, schematics, panel placements, etc.

Created Tutorial for Engineer and Licensed Electrician Volunteers we’re Seeking

Hoang Bao (Software Developer) also continued transferring the work of last year’s intern team into the new Duplicable City Center Electrical page. What you see here is the second 3rd of the complete content live on the new page.

How to Regenerate Earth - Hoang Bao (Software Developer) also began transferring the work of last year's intern team into the new Duplicable City Center Electrical page. What you see here is the second 3rd of the complete content live on the new page.

Moving Work of Intern Team into New Duplicable City Center Electrical Page

HOW TO REGENERATE EARTH – HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS

One Community is teaching people how to regenerate our Earth 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 last week the core team continued the final edits and reorganization of the icons designed by Graphic Designer, Ivan Manzurov. The icons we finished and organized this week were the Highest Good Energy icons shown here. We’d say we are now about 80% done with this graphics task.

How to Regenerate Earth - This last week the core team continued the final edits and reorganization of the icons designed by Graphic Designer, Ivan Manzurov. The icons we finished and organized this week were the Highest Good Energy icons shown here. We'd say we are now about 80% done with this graphics task.

Continued Multi-hour Reorganization of the Icons – 80% Complete

Lokesh Gopu (Software Engineer) also continued building the new version of One Community’s Highest Good Network software for project tracking a sustainable community collaboration. Here is his second generation layout showing additional functionality this application will provide.

How to Regenerate Earth - Lokesh Gopu (Software Engineer) also continued building the new version of One Community's Highest Good Network software for project tracking a sustainable community collaboration. Here is his second generation layout showing additional functionality this application will provide.

Building New Version of One Community’s Highest Good Network Software

Jonathan DeAscentis (Graphic Designer and Web Developer) additionally took the work of Mariam Sargsyan (Graphic Designer and Project Manager) and began further development of our Highest Good Network logo as shown here:

Began Further Development of Highest Good Network Logo – Click to Visit Page

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

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WHAT ONE COMMUNITY IS CREATING

One Community is creating a place to grow together and change the world together, focusing on how to regenerate earth. 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, all while learning how to regenerate earth. We do this by harmoniously respecting each other, nature, and the rest of our one shared planet, understanding the importance of how to regenerate earth.

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

Throughout our design process we are open sourcing and free-sharing everything needed for construction and replication, including approaches on how to regenerate earth. This includes what we call “Highest Good” approaches to food, energy, housing, education, for-profit and non-profit economics design, social architecture, fulfilled living, stewardship practices and more, all with a focus on how to regenerate earth. We are creating these resources for implementation as individual components or complete developments called teacher/demonstration hubs, all aimed at understanding how to regenerate earth.

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, including how to regenerate earth: A replicable model for expansion, building seven self-sufficient village/city prototypes, becoming the world leader in open-source sustainability solutions, emphasizing on how to regenerate earth and evolving and expanding ALL aspects of sustainable living.

WHY ONE COMMUNITY IS CREATING THIS

The One Community self-replicating model is capable of creating a sustainable planet within 30 years, with a focus on how to regenerate earth. 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, centered around how to regenerate earth.

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 focusing on how to regenerate earth 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, in terms of how to regenerate earth.

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 focusing on how to regenerate earth, 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 of how to regenerate earth 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.

WHY OPEN SOURCE

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

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, focusing on how to regenerate earth. 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, all focused on how to regenerate earth..

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 centered around how to regenerate earth.
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.

One Community Welcomes Brianna Johnson to the Design Team

Posted on April 15, 2016 by One Community

One Community welcomes Brianna Johnson to the Design Team as our newest Volunteer/Consultant!

Interior Architecture Student and Interior Designer: Brianna has been enticed by art and creative pursuits since her high school days, and consequently graduated from UC Riverside in 2011 with a degree in Art History. She then went back to school, and is working toward a Master’s degree in Interior Architecture at UCLA Extension while also working at design firms. Over the past 4 years, she’s gained experience in interior design, architectural drafting, 3D modeling, rendering, and product design. Green design and sustainability have been recently ignited passions of hers and she joined the One Community team as an opportunity to help create designs that help the environment and also promote comprehensive sustainability as a more conceivable reality for the world. Specifically, this includes helping evolve the designs and creating final renders for the Straw Bale Village and helping design the open source pipe furniture shelving for the Library/Game Room in the Duplicable City Center.

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Global Ecology Open Source Model – One Community Weekly Progress Update #159

Posted on April 10, 2016 by One Community

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Creating a global ecology open source model is one path to global sustainability. By open sourcing all aspects of ecological and Highest Good living (food, energy, housing, Highest Good education, Highest Good economics, fulfilled living practices, and more), we can create a world that works for everyone for the first time in human history:

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 April 10th, 2016 edition (#159) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments:

Global Ecology Open Source Model
One Community Progress Update #159

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

GLOBAL ECOLOGY OPEN SOURCE MODEL INTRO: @1:04

GLOBAL ECOLOGY OPEN SOURCE MODEL HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION: @1:57

Transferred the second 25% of the written content for the Summer Lesson Plan to the website (see below)
Behind the scenes: wrote the first 25% of the written part of the Information Lesson Plan
Completed the second 25% of the mindmap for the Cooperation and Collaboration Lesson Plan (see below)

GLOBAL ECOLOGY OPEN SOURCE MODEL HIGHEST GOOD FOOD: @2:49

We finalized and are launching our Sustainable Food Nutrition Calculations page to the public, which is based on contributions provided by Naturopathic Doctor Matt Marturano

GLOBAL ECOLOGY OPEN SOURCE MODEL HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING: @3:23

Put another 10 hours into the behind-the-scenes revision for the Footers, Foundations and Flooring page for the crowdfunding campaign we are developing (see below)
Jesika Rohrbach completed work for the Hostel Tree House and additional details in Tree House Village library (see below)
Dean Scholz further developed what’s necessary for us to create quality Cob Village renders (see below)
Brianna Johnson continued evolving the renders for the Straw Bale Village (see below)
Shadi Kennedy created new render-scene previews to better share the features of the Tropical Atrium (see below)

GLOBAL ECOLOGY OPEN SOURCE MODEL DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER: @5:33

Finished 2 renders of the Social Dome of the Duplicable City Center (see below)
Started render work for the cupola that tops the Duplicable City Center (see below)
Iris Hsu continued exploring lighting and shelving options for the Duplicable City Center library (see below)
Behind the scenes: Mike Hogan and Lucas Tsutsui da Silva continued development of the Control Systems main panel (see below)
Hoang Bao began transferring the work of last year’s intern team into the new Duplicable City Center Electrical page (see below)

GLOBAL ECOLOGY OPEN SOURCE MODEL HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY: @7:07

Created a tutorial to help new managers we bring on, and the teams we are building get integrated into our system (see below)
Made final edits and continued the multi-hour reorganization of the icons designed by Ivan Manzurov (see below)
Richard Tanzer continued editing our Open Source and Patents page which was originally created by Oz Czerski (see below)
Lokesh Gopu began building a new version of One Community’s Highest Good Network software (see below)

GLOBAL ECOLOGY OPEN SOURCE MODEL SUMMARY: @8:11

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GLOBAL ECOLOGY OPEN SOURCE MODEL HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

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

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

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

Global Ecology Open Source Model – Summer Lesson plan 50% complete blog 159

Global Ecology Open Source Model – Summer Lesson Plan – 50% Complete – Click to Visit Page

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

We also completed the second 25% of the mindmap for the Cooperation and Collaboration Lesson Plan, bringing it to 50% complete, which you see here.

Global Ecology Open Source Model – Cooperation and Collaboration Mindmap – 50% Complete

GLOBAL ECOLOGY OPEN SOURCE MODEL HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

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

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

As part of the development of our Food Self-sufficiency Transition Plan, this week the core team finalized and are launching our Sustainable Food Nutrition Calculations page to the public, which is based on contributions provided by Naturopathic Doctor Matt Marturano (creator of the COHERENT model for comprehensive digestive health).

Global Ecology Open Source Model – As part of the development of our Food Self-sufficiency Transition Plan, this week the core team finalized and are launching our Sustainable Food Nutrition Calculations page to the public, which is based on contributions provided by Naturopathic Doctor Matt Marturano (creator of the COHERENT model for comprehensive digestive health).

Global Ecology Open Source Model – Finalized our Sustainable Food Nutrition Calculations Page

GLOBAL ECOLOGY OPEN SOURCE MODEL HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

One Community is forwarding a global ecology open source model 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 last week the core team put another 10 hours into the behind-the-scenes revision for the Footers, Foundations and Flooring page for the crowdfunding campaign we are developing.

This week’s focus was determining and describing step-by-step applications of polyethylene to various locations within the FFF CAD drawing, particularly focusing on the poly determinations of trying to cut pieces in single sheets and forming to existing shapes, adding poly narrative for Section 6 Construction of Footer, adding poly narrative for Section 11 Construction of Stem Walls and dome interior foundation around the 12″ EPS.

We also added the poly details for under the dome floor section and the exterior dome ring section. We’d say we are now 76% complete with this total update and rewrite behind the scenes.

Global Ecology Open Source Model – This last week the core team put another 10 hours into the behind-the-scenes revision for the Footers, Foundations and Flooring page for the crowdfunding campaign we are developing. This week’s focus was determining and describing step-by-step applications of polyethylene to various locations within the FFF CAD drawing, particularly focusing on the poly determinations of trying to cut pieces in single sheets and forming to existing shapes, adding poly narrative for Section 6 Construction of Footer, adding poly narrative for Section 11 Construction of Stem Walls and dome interior foundation around the 12″ EPS. We also added the poly details for under the dome floor section and the exterior dome ring section. We’d say we are now 76% complete with this total update and rewrite behind the scenes.

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

Working on the Tree House Village (Pod 7), Jesika Rohrbach (Architectural Drafter, Designer, and 3-D Modeler) completed the work you see here including internal and external layouts for the Hostel Tree House and additional details in the library.

Global Ecology Open Source Model – Working on the Tree House Village (Pod 7), Jesika Rohrbach (Architectural Drafter, Designer, and 3-D Modeler) completed the work you see here including internal and external layouts for the Hostel Tree House and additional details in the library.

Global Ecology Open Source Model – Completed Internal and External Layouts for Hostel Tree House

….then Jesika created these renders of her work:

Global Ecology Open Source Model – One Community Tree House Village Renders, Jesika Rohrbach (Architectural Drafter, Designer, and 3-D Modeler), blog 159

Global Ecology Open Source Model – Created Tree House Village Renders – Click to Visit Page

…and she created this presentation proposal:

Global Ecology Open Source Model – Working on the Tree House Village (Pod 7), Jesika Rohrbach (Architectural Drafter, Designer, and 3-D Modeler) created this presentation proposal

Global Ecology Open Source Model – Created Tree House Village Presentation Proposal – Click to Visit

Dean Scholz, Architectural Designer, further developed what’s necessary for us to create quality Cob Village (Pod 3) renders. Here is update 14 of this work that included designing a representation of what we envision the natural and do-it-yourself constructed playground equipment will look like.

Global Ecology Open Source Model – Dean Scholz, Architectural Designer, further developed what’s necessary for us to create quality Cob Village (Pod 3) renders. Here is update 14 of this work that included designing a representation of what we envision the natural and do-it-yourself constructed playground equipment will look like.

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

Brianna Johnson (Interior Designer), also continued evolving the renders for the Straw Bale Village (Pod 2). What you see here is the final render for the exercise room, now with the addition of the outdoor areas and surrounding living spaces.

Global Ecology Open Source Model – Straw Bale Village Gym, One Community Pod 2, 640

Continued Evolving Renders for the Straw Bale Village – Gym Render Complete – Click to Visit Page

Shadi Kennedy (Artist and Graphic Designer) also created these new render-scene previews to better share the features of the Tropical Atrium that is the center of the Earthbag Village (Pod 1). These scenes now go to our core team for rendering and then back to Shadi for final photoshop touchups.

Global Ecology Open Source Model – Shadi Kennedy (Artist and Graphic Designer) also created these new render-scene previews to better share the features of the Tropical Atrium that is the center of the Earthbag Village (Pod 1). These scenes now go to our core team for rendering and then back to Shadi for final photoshop touchups.

Global Ecology Open Source Model – Created New Tropical Atrium Render-Scene Previews

GLOBAL ECOLOGY OPEN SOURCE MODEL DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

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

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

This week the core team finished 2 renders of the Social Dome of the Duplicable City Center. Here is a render of the upper and lower levels and the final higher quality render for the second floor.

Global Ecology Open Source Model – This week the core team finished 2 renders of the Social Dome of the Duplicable City Center. Here is a render of the upper and lower levels and the final higher quality render for the second floor.

Global Ecology Open Source Model – Finished 2 renders of the Social Dome of the Duplicable City

We also started render work for the cupola that tops the Duplicable City Center. This week’s focus there included designing scene selection, addition and placement of scene-relevant components, and setting up textures, lights and shadows.

Global Ecology Open Source Model – We also started render work for the cupola that tops the Duplicable City Center. This week's focus there included designing scene selection, addition and placement of scene-relevant components, and setting up textures, lights and shadows.

Started Render Work for Cupola that Tops the Duplicable City Center – Click to Visit Page

Iris Hsu (Industrial Designer), also continued exploring lighting and shelving options for the Duplicable City Center library. What you see here is round #2 of this research, exploration, and design outlining for open source and do-it-yourself lighting and shelving that will go with the DIY pipe-furniture chairs and couches Iris designed already for this social and recreation space.

Global Ecology Open Source Model – Iris Hsu (Industrial Designer), also continued exploring lighting and shelving options for the Duplicable City Center library. What you see here is round #2 of this research, exploration, and design outlining for open source and do-it-yourself lighting and shelving that will go with the DIY pipe-furniture chairs and couches Iris designed already for this social and recreation space.

Global Ecology Open Source Model – Continued Exploring Lighting and Shelving Options

Behind the scenes Mike Hogan (Automation Systems Developer and Business Systems Consultant) and Lucas Tsutsui da Silva (4th-year Computer Engineering Student) continued development of the Control Systems main panel. This week’s focus was further evolving our designs into the image you see here as what we think will be our final design.

Global Ecology Open Source Model – Behind the scenes Mike Hogan (Automation Systems Developer and Business Systems Consultant) and Lucas Tsutsui da Silva (4th-year Computer Engineering Student) continued development of the Control Systems main panel. This week's focus was further evolving our designs into the image you see here as what we think will be our final design.

Continued Development of the Control Systems Main Panel – Click to Visit Page

Hoang Bao (Software Developer) also began transferring the work of last year’s intern team into the new Duplicable City Center Electrical page. What you see here is the first 3rd of the complete content live on the new page.

Began Transferring Work of last year’s Intern Team into New Duplicable City Center Electrical Page

GLOBAL ECOLOGY OPEN SOURCE MODEL HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS

One Community is forwarding a global ecology open source model 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 last week the core team created the new on-boarding tutorial you see here. This is to help new managers we bring on, and the teams we are building, to get integrated into our system and helping with the various components as easily and fluidly as possible.

Global Ecology Open Source Model – This last week the core team created the new on-boarding tutorial you see here. This is to help new managers we bring on, and the teams we are building, to get integrated into our system and helping with the various components as easily and fluidly as possible.

Created Tutorial to Help New Managers Get Integrated – Click to Visit our Helping Page

We also made final edits and continued the multi-hour reorganization of the icons designed by Graphic Designer, Ivan Manzurov. The icons we finished and organized this week were the Highest Good Society and Highest Good Economics icons shown here. We’d say we are now about 60% done with this graphics task.

Global Ecology Open Source Model – We also made final edits and continued the multi-hour reorganization of the icons designed by Graphic Designer, Ivan Manzurov. The icons we finished and organized this week were the Highest Good Society and Highest Good Economics icons shown here. We'd say we are now about 60% done with this graphics task.

Continued Multi-hour Reorganization of the Icons – 60% Complete – Click to Enlarge

Richard Tanzer (Patent Agent) also continued editing our Open Source and Patents page. The original page was created by Oz Czerski and here you can see Richard’s third round of updates and edits happening behind the scenes. We’d say Richard is about 60% done with the complete page edit and update.

Global Ecology Open Source Model – Richard Tanzer (Patent Agent) also continued editing our Open Source and Patents page. The original page was created by Oz Czerski and here you can see Richard's third round of updates and edits happening behind the scenes. We'd say Richard is about 60% done with the complete page edit and update.

Continued Behind-the-Scenes Editing of O.S. and Patents Page – Click to Visit Page

Lokesh Gopu (Software Engineer) also began building a new version of One Community’s Highest Good Network software for project tracking a sustainable community collaboration. These images are the initial layouts created by Lokesh.

Global Ecology Open Source Model – Lokesh Gopu (Software Engineer) also began building a new version of One Community's Highest Good Network software for project tracking a sustainable community collaboration. These images are the initial layouts created by Lokesh.

Began Building New Version of One Community’s Highest Good Network Software – Click to Visit Page

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ONE COMMUNITY’S 4-PHASE STRATEGY

One Community is building solution-creating models designed to create additional solution-creating models to specifically facilitate exponential and sustainable global teacher/demonstration village growth. The following four phases of the strategy we are applying are designed to support each other and accelerate the process globally:

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.

Open source project-launch blueprinting it all is how we believe the model will spread and, possibly most importantly, that it will predictably spread even faster in the areas where it is needed most because building restrictions, the cost of land, and materials costs are in most cases lower in these areas.

One Community Welcomes Jessica Zynda to the Design Team

Posted on April 6, 2016 by One Community

One Community welcomes Jessica Zynda to the Design Team as our newest Volunteer/Consultant!

A.S. Computer Aided Drafting/Design: Jessica first learned engineering design in high school and expanded her skills in college using programs such as Pro-E, SolidWorks, and Inventor. Raised working at her family’s tavern, she built a strong work ethic and was able to support her enjoyment for seeing people smile, working in customer service for over 10 years. Throughout this time she continued using AutoCAD and other drafting/design programs professionally and for hobbies. Always believing in a philosophy of waste not want not, Jessica has held the constant hope for a world where people have all their necessities met through efficient designs and resource usage and allocation. Jessica admires design and innovation and intends to further her education by engaging Industrial Engineering next. Hobbies include walking/spending time with her husband, abstract expressionism painting with watercolor, meditation, reading and learning, and using her AutoCAD skills to make 3-D maps for board games. As a One Community volunteer, Jessica is helping transfer sketches for the Earthbag Village (Pod 1) from hand drawings into AutoCAD.

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