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WHY ONE COMMUNITY IS CREATING THIS

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

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

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

INSPIRING SUSTAINABILITY WITH OPEN SOURCE

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

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

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

WHY OPEN SOURCE

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

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

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

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

SUMMARY

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

Bio-Social Progress – One Community Weekly Progress Update #262

Posted on April 1, 2018 by Kishan Sivakumar

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

Bio-social progress is sustainable progress built on a foundation of cooperative social and ecological consciousness. If enough of us participate, humanity can pass the tipping point necessary to establish ourselves as a sustainable civilization. This will benefit all life on our shared planet and One Community is open sourcing the resources we feel are most needed and helpful in achieving 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 1st, 2018 edition (#262) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments:

Bio-Social Progress
One Community Progress Update #262

Bio-social Progress - One Community Weekly Progress Update #262

Watch this video on YouTube

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

BIO-SOCIAL PROGRESS INTRO: @0:34

HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING: @5:37

Shadi Kennedy rejoined the team and took over development of the Murphy bed instructions (see below)
Dean Scholz continued with the Cob Village AutoCAD layout updates (see below)
Dan Alleck completed his 17th week working on the Compressed Earth Block Village render additions (see below)
Michael Hagler completed these three layouts for the Shipping Container Village layout within the 7-villages book (see below)
Mihaela “Michelle” Pinzaru completed her 11th week working on the Tree House Village residential renders (see below)

DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER: @7:12

Jin Yu continued behind-the-scenes development of the City Center excavation and construction of the footer and foundation tutorial (see below)
Yun Lin began helping with the beam design and calculation aspects of the City Center structural engineering (see below)
David Olivero completed his 16th week helping with the HVAC Designs for the Duplicable City Center (see below)
Dipti Dhondarkar continued with her 68th week of work on the lighting specifics for the City Center (see below)

HIGHEST GOOD FOOD: @8:28

Continued work on the complete Highest Good food rollout plan and cost analysis (see below)
Continued working on the Garden Tools list (see below)
Continued research and development of the open source Permaculture Design for the property (see below)

HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION: @9:40

Continued developing the Lesson Plans How-to tutorial page (see below)

HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY: @9:53

Ashwin Patil finished updating our search engine usability on mobile devices (see below)
Sowmya Manohar, Shubhra Mittal, Priyanka Singh, Asha Tadimari, and Swathy Jayaseelan continued work on the Highest Good Network software (see below)

BIO-SOCIAL PROGRESS SUMMARY: @10:50

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ONE COMMUNITY WEEKLY UPDATE DETAILS

HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

One Community is facilitating bio-social progress 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 Shadi Kennedy (Artist and Graphic Designer) rejoined the team and took over development of the Murphy bed instructions. What you see here is his first week helping with this and focusing on developing the parts and component overview pages.

Bio-Social Progress, This last week Shadi Kennedy (Artist and Graphic Designer) rejoined the team and took over development of the Murphy bed instructions. What you see here is his first week helping with this and focusing on developing the parts and component overview pages.

Bio-Social Progress – Development of the Murphy Bed Instructions – Click for Page

Dean Scholz (Architectural Designer) continued with the Cob Village (Pod 3) AutoCAD layout updates. Here is update 107 of Dean’s work. This week he finished development of the landscaping and other details for the floor plan you see here that is also now on the website.

Bio-Social Progress, Dean Scholz (Architectural Designer) continued with the Cob Village (Pod 3) AutoCAD layout updates. Here is update 107 of Dean's work. This week he finished development of the landscaping and other details for the floor plan you see here that is also now on the website.

Bio-Social Progress – Continued with Cob Village AutoCAD Layout Updates ” Click for Page

Dan Alleck (Designer and Illustrator) completed his 17th week working on the Compressed Earth Block Village render additions. This week he focused on adding people and additional door and window details and edits to the two renders shown here.

Bio-Social Progress, Dan Alleck (Designer and Illustrator) completed his 17th week working on the Compressed Earth Block Village render additions. This week he focused on adding people and additional door and window details and edits to the two renders shown here.

Bio-Social Progress – Continued Work – Earth Block Village Render Additions – Click for Page

Michael Hagler (Senior Graphic Designer and Artist) also completed these three layouts for the Shipping Container Village layout within the 7-villages book we’re developing.

Bio-Social Progress - Michael Hagler (Senior Graphic Designer and Artist) also completed these three layouts for the Shipping Container Village layout within the 7-villages book we're developing.

Bio-Social Progress – Layouts – Shipping Container Village layout Within 7Villages Book – Click for Page

Mihaela “Michelle” Pinzaru (Interior Designer and Architectural Drafter) also completed her 11th week working on the Tree House Village (Pod 7) residential renders. This week she created the 8 final renders you see here covering all aspects of the main living spaces, upstairs loft area, central shared space, and central loft area.

Bio-Social Progress – Resident’s Downstairs Render – Click for Tree House Village Page

Bio-Social Progress - Tree House Village Residents Main Floor, Final 640, One Community

Bio-Social Progress – New Resident’s Main Floor Render – Click for Tree House Village Page

Bio-Social Progress - Tree House Village Residents upstairs 1, Final 640, One Community, Mihaela

Bio-Social Progress – Resident’s Upstairs 1 Render – Click for Tree House Village Page

Bio-Social Progress - Tree House Village Residents upstairs 2, Final, One Community, Mihaela

Bio-Social Progress – Resident’s Upstairs 2 Render – Click for Tree House Village Page

Bio-Social Progress - Tree House Village Residents, Central Detail, Final, One Community

Bio-Social Progress – Resident’s Central Detail – Click for Tree House Village Page

DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

One Community is facilitating bio-social progress 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

Jin Yu (Structural Engineering Designer) continued with her work with the behind-the-scenes development of the City Center excavation and construction of the footer and foundation tutorial. This week’s focus was the retaining wall details shown here.

Bio-Social Progress - Jin Yu (Structural Engineering Designer) continued with her work with the behind-the-scenes development of the City Center excavation and construction of the footer and foundation tutorial. This week's focus was the retaining wall details shown here.

Bio-Social Progress – City Center Excavation – Construction Footer, Foundation Tutorial – Click for Page

Yun Lin (Bridge Design Engineer) also began helping with the beam design and calculation aspects of the City Center structural engineering. The spreadsheet shown here is some of this work.

Bio-Social Progress - Yun Lin (Bridge Design Engineer) also began helping with the beam design and calculation aspects of the City Center structural engineering. The spreadsheet shown here is some of this work.

Bio-Social Progress – Beam Design,Calculation Aspects City Center Structural Engineering – Click to Visit

David Olivero (Mechanical Engineer & Data Scientist) completed his 16th week helping with the HVAC Designs for the Duplicable City Center. This week’s focus was running new calculations for the kitchen HVAC loads using a conservative approach and an ultra-sustainable approach, both of which can be seen here.

Bio-Social Progress - David Olivero (Mechanical Engineer & Data Scientist) completed his 16th week helping with the HVAC Designs for the Duplicable City Center. This week's focus was running new calculations for the kitchen HVAC loads using a conservative approach and an ultra-sustainable approach, both of which can be seen here.

Bio-Social Progress – Continued Help HVAC Designs for Duplicable City Center ” Click for Page

Dipti Dhondarkar, (Electrical Engineer) continued with her 68th week of work on the lighting specifics for the City Center. This week’s focus was testing more approaches and finalizing the lighting strategy for the basement, which you can see here.

Bio-Social Progress, Dipti Dhondarkar, (Electrical Engineer) continued with her 68th week of work on the lighting specifics for the City Center. This week's focus was testing more approaches and finalizing the lighting strategy for the basement, which you can see here.

Bio-Social Progress – Continued Working on Lighting Specifics for the City Center ” Click for Page

HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

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

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

This week, the core team continued work on the complete Highest Good food rollout plan and cost analysis. We continued adding items and links to the details list for 20-50 people, as shown here.

Bio-Social Progress, Continued Work on the Complete Highest Good Food Rollout Plan and Cost Analysis

Bio-Social Progress – Complete Highest Good Food Rollout Plan and Cost Analysis ” Click for Page

The core team also continued working on the Garden Tools list, adding descriptions and images to the Excel chart, as shown here.

Bio-Social Progress – Continued Working on the Garden Tools List – Click for Page

In addition, the core team continued research and development of the open source Permaculture Design for the property. This week we finished the graphics for the Section Analysis, Zone Overview, Water-Structure-Access Overview, and the Detailed Design ” all shown here.

Bio-Social Progress, In addition, the core team continued research and development of the open source Permaculture Design for the property. This week we finished the graphics for the Section Analysis, Zone Overview, Water-Structure-Access Overview, and the Detailed Design

Bio-Social Progress – Design of the Open Source Permaculture Design for the Property ” Click to Visit

HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

One Community is facilitating bio-social progress 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 week, the core team continued developing the Lesson Plans How-to tutorial page. This week we finished the first 30% of the section giving examples of how to use each other component with the lesson plans component.

Bio-Social Progress, This week, the core team continued developing the Lesson Plans How-to tutorial page. This week we finished the first 30% of the section giving examples of how to use each other component with the lesson plans component.

Bio-Social Progress – Continued Developing the Lesson Plans How-to tutorial Page ” Click to Visit

HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS

One Community is facilitating bio-social progress 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 Ashwin Patil (Web Developer) finished updating our search engine usability on mobile devices. What you see here are the new mobile layouts.

Bio-Social Progress, This last week Ashwin Patil (Web Developer) finished updating our search engine usability on mobile devices. What you see here are the new mobile layouts.

Bio-Social Progress – Finished Search Engine Usability on Mobile Devices ” Click for Home Page

The Highest Good Network software team consisting of Sowmya Manohar (Software Engineer, Web Developer & Net Application Developer), Shubhra Mittal (Software Delivery Manager), Priyanka Singh (Software Developer ), Asha Tadimari (Software Engineer), and Swathy Jayaseelan (Software Developer). This week the team updated the timer to round to minutes, increased the size of the leaderboard, created a new api method to handle deletion of project related tasks, implemented project name validation, and added a toggle function for displayed teams.

Bio-Social Progress, The Highest Good Network software team consisting of Sowmya Manohar (Software Engineer, Web Developer & Net Application Developer), Shubhra Mittal (Software Delivery Manager), Priyanka Singh (Software Developer), Asha Tadimari (Software Engineer), and Swathy Jayaseelan (Software Developer). This week the team updated the timer to round to minutes, increased the size of the leaderboard, created a new api method to handle deletion of project related tasks, implemented project name validation, and added a toggle function for displayed teams.

Bio-Social Progress – Continued Working on Highest Good Network Software ” Click for Page

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WHAT ONE COMMUNITY IS CREATING

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

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

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

BUILDING THE FIRST OF MANY

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

WHY ONE COMMUNITY IS CREATING THIS

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

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

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

INSPIRING SUSTAINABILITY WITH OPEN SOURCE

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

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

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

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

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

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

SUMMARY

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

Human Eco-Synthesis – One Community Weekly Progress Update #261

Posted on March 25, 2018 by Kishan Sivakumar

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

It’s time for a human eco-synthesis capable of regenerating our planet through intelligent and conscientious stewardship. One Community is forwarding this process through open source and sustainable approaches to all aspects of living. A global cooperative of teacher/demonstration communities, villages, and cities are purposed to lead the human eco-synthesis and regenerative process.

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 March 25th, 2018 edition (#261) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments:

Human Eco-Synthesis
One Community Progress Update #261

Human Eco-synthesis - One Community Weekly Progress Update #261

Watch this video on YouTube

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

HUMAN ECO-SYNTHESIS INTRO: @0:34

HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING: @6:44

Finished the rest of the Cob Village Cost Analysis Page (see below)
Developed the next steps the rest of the Shipping Container Village layout within the 7-villages book (see below)
Dean Scholz continued with the Cob Village AutoCAD layout updates (see below)
Aparna Tandon continued her work on the Compressed Earth Block Village external elements (see below)
Mihaela “Michelle” Pinzaru completed her 10th week working on the Tree House Village residential renders (see below)

DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER: @7:58

Haoxuan “Hayes” Lei continued work on the City Center structural engineering (see below)
David Olivero completed his 14th week helping with the HVAC Designs for the Duplicable City Center (see below)
Dipti Dhondarkar continued with her 66th week of work on the lighting specifics for the City Center (see below)

HIGHEST GOOD FOOD: @9:11

Continued work on the complete Highest Good food rollout plan and cost analysis (see below)
Continued research and design of the open source Permaculture Design for the property (see below)

HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION: @10:01

Continued developing the Lesson Plans How-to tutorial page (see below)

HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY: @10:36

Ashwin Patil tested approaches to improve our search engine usability on mobile devices (see below)
Sowmya Manohar, Shubhra Mittal, Priyanka Singh, and Asha Tadimari continued work on the Highest Good Network software (see below)

HUMAN ECO-SYNTHESIS SUMMARY: @11:46

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ONE COMMUNITY WEEKLY UPDATE DETAILS

HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

One Community is facilitating human eco-synthesis through Highest Good housing that is artistic and beautiful, more affordable, more space efficient, lasts longer, DIY buildable, and constructed with healthy and sustainable materials:

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

This week the core team finished the rest of the Cob Village Cost Analysis Page, some of which you can see here.

Human Eco-Synthesis – Finished the Cob Village Cost Analysis Page – Click to Visit

The core team also developed the next steps for the rest of the Shipping Container Village layout within the 7-villages book we’re developing.

Human Eco-Synthesis - The core team also developed the next steps for the rest of the Shipping Container Village layout within the 7-villages book we're developing.

Human Eco-Synthesis – Shipping Container Village Layout within 7-Villages Book – Click to Visit

Dean Scholz (Architectural Designer) continued with the Cob Village (Pod 3) AutoCAD layout updates. Here is update 106 of Dean’s work. This week he continued development of the landscaping details, added the playground equipment, and roads.

Human Eco-Synthesis, Dean Scholz (Architectural Designer) continued with the Cob Village (Pod 3) AutoCAD layout updates. Here is update 106 of Dean's work. This week he continued development of the landscaping details, added the playground equipment, and roads.

Human Eco-Synthesis – Continued with Cob Village AutoCAD Layout Updates ” Click for Page

Aparna Tandon (Architect) continued her work on the Compressed Earth Block Village external elements. What you see here is her 48th week of work that created this version 1.0 of Zones 6 and 19.

Human Eco-Synthesis -Aparna Tandon (Architect) continued her work on the Compressed Earth Block Village external elements. What you see here is her 48th week of work that created this version 1.0 of Zones 6 and 19.

Human Eco-Synthesis – Compressed Earth Block Village External Elements – Click to Visit

Mihaela “Michelle” Pinzaru (Interior Designer and Architectural Drafter) also completed her 10th week working on the Tree House Village (Pod 7) residential renders. This week she created the three final renders you see here. These renders are now live on the website also.

Human Eco-Synthesis – Created New Tree House Village Residents Render – Click for Page

DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

One Community is facilitating human eco-synthesis 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

Haoxuan “Hayes” Lei (Structural Engineer) continued work on the City Center structural engineering by addressing the areas identified by the core team. This included creating a dead load calculation table for the restroom on first floor, adding functional area figures for second and third floor, revising the beam design chapter of the live load and dead load report, and adding a beam layout sketch to the appendix.

Human Eco-Synthesis – Continued Work on the City Center Structural Engineering – Click for Page

David Olivero (Mechanical Engineer & Data Scientist) completed his 15th week helping with the HVAC Designs for the Duplicable City Center. This week’s focus was further research into minisplit application and beginning the AutoCAD design process, as shown here.

Human Eco-Synthesis, David Olivero (Mechanical Engineer & Data Scientist) completed his 15th week helping with the HVAC Designs for the Duplicable City Center. This week's focus was further research into minisplit application and beginning the AutoCAD design process, as shown here.

Human Eco-Synthesis – Continued Help – HVAC Designs for the Duplicable City Center – Click for Page

Dipti Dhondarkar, (Electrical Engineer) continued with her 67th week of work on the lighting specifics for the City Center. This week’s focus was finishing fixing errors and filling in the final details on the lighting spreadsheet and beginning testing different lighting strategies for the basement.

Human Eco-Synthesis, Dipti Dhondarkar, (Electrical Engineer) continued with her 67th week of work on the lighting specifics for the City Center. This week's focus was finishing fixing errors and filling in the final details on the lighting spreadsheet and beginning testing different lighting strategies for the basement.

Human Eco-Synthesis – Continued Working on Lighting Specifics for the City Center ” Click for Page

HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

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

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

This week, the core team continued work on the complete Highest Good food rollout plan and cost analysis. We began writing detailed information of activities for the initial 3 people, and added items and links to the details list for 20-50 people, as shown here.

Human Eco-Synthesis, This week, the core team continued work on the complete Highest Good food rollout plan and cost analysis. We began writing detailed information of activities for the initial 3 people, and added items and links to the details list for 20-50 people, as shown here.

Human Eco-Synthesis – Complete Highest Good Food Rollout Plan and Cost Analysis ” Click for Page

In addition, the core team continued research and development of the open source Permaculture Design for the property. This week we started evolving our zone plan by further exploring property elevations, water flow, road access, and structure placement.

Human Eco-Synthesis, In addition, the core team continued research and development of the open source Permaculture Design for the property. This week we started evolving our zone plan by further exploring property elevations, water flow, road access, and structure placement.

Human Eco-Synthesis – Research & Design of Open Source Permaculture Design Click to Visit

HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

One Community is facilitating human eco-synthesis 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 week, the core team continued developing the Lesson Plans How-to tutorial page. This week we wrote the final example lesson plan called the “Advanced Learners – Reserved” example. You can see some of this new content here.

Human Eco-Synthesis, This week, the core team continued developing the Lesson Plans How-to tutorial page. This week we wrote the final example lesson plan called the "Advanced Learners - Reserved" example. You can see some of this new content here.

Human Eco-Synthesis – Continued Developing the Lesson Plans How-to tutorial Page ” Click to Visit

HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS

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

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

Ashwin Patil (Web Developer) tested approaches to improve our search engine usability on mobile devices. What you see on the left of this picture is the new mobile presentation. On the right of the picture is the desktop version.

Human Eco-Synthesis, Ashwin Patil (Web Developer) tested approaches to improve our search engine usability on mobile devices. What you see on the left of this picture is the new mobile presentation. On the right of the picture is the desktop version.

Human Eco-Synthesis – Improved Search Engine Usability on Mobile Devices – Click for Page

The Highest Good Network software team consisting of Sowmya Manohar (Software Engineer, Web Developer & Net Application Developer), Shubhra Mittal (Software Delivery Manager), Priyanka Singh (Software Developer ), and Asha Tadimari (Software Engineer). This week the team created the time log screen, upgraded Ember CLI version from 2.17 to 3.0, fixed the errors in the radio buttons showing the active/inactive status of the project, implemented the functionalities of canceling tasks, fields editable by admins only, tooltip hover and transition back to the projects page once the project is created/saved…. and we launched beta version 1.0 of the software for initial testing!

Human Eco-Synthesis, The Highest Good Network software team consisting of Sowmya Manohar (Software Engineer, Web Developer & Net Application Developer), Shubhra Mittal (Software Delivery Manager), Priyanka Singh (Software Developer), and Asha Tadimari (Software Engineer). This week the team created the time log screen, upgraded Ember CLI version from 2.17 to 3.0, fixed the errors in the radio buttons showing the active/inactive status of the project, implemented the functionalities of canceling tasks, fields editable by admins only, tooltip hover and transition back to the projects page once the project is created/saved.... and we launched beta version 1.0 of the software for initial testing!

Human Eco-Synthesis – Continued Work on Highest Good Network Software ” Click for Page

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WHAT ONE COMMUNITY IS CREATING

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

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

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

BUILDING THE FIRST OF MANY

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

WHY ONE COMMUNITY IS CREATING THIS

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

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

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

INSPIRING SUSTAINABILITY WITH OPEN SOURCE

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

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

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

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

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

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

SUMMARY

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

Living Simply as a Key to Happiness – One Community Weekly Progress Update #260

Posted on March 18, 2018 by Kishan Sivakumar

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Living simply as a key to happiness, it it possible? We think it is worth finding out and we’re creating open source and free-shared designs to help others who agree. They are DIY replicable, sustainable, and cover food, energy, housing, education, for-profit and non-profit economic design, social architecture, fulfilled living, global stewardship practices, and more.

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

OUR MAIN OPEN SOURCE HUBS

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

One Community’s physical location will forward this movement as the first of many self-replicating teacher/demonstration communities, villages, and cities to be built around the world and living simply as a key to happiness. This is the March 18th, 2018 edition (#260) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments:

Living Simply as A Key to Happiness
One Community Progress Update #260

Living Simply - A Key to Happiness - One Community Weekly Progress Update #260

Watch this video on YouTube

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

LIVING SIMPLY – A KEY TO HAPPINESS INTRO: @0:34

HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING: @8:24

Created the first 30% of the Cob Village Cost Analysis Page (see below)
Finished the rest of the Tree House Village Cost Analysis page (see below)
Mike Kowalski finished his second week helping update our Recycled Materials Village renders that are too big for anything but a gaming computer (see below)
Dean Scholz continued with the Cob Village AutoCAD layout updates (see below)
Dan Alleck completed his 16th week working on the Compressed Earth Block Village render additions (see below)
Mihaela “Michelle” Pinzaru completed her 9th week working on the Tree House Village residential designs and renders (see below)

DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER: @9:32

Haoxuan “Hayes” Lei continued work on the City Center structural engineering (see below)
David Olivero completed his 14th week helping with the HVAC Designs for the Duplicable City Center (see below)
Dipti Dhondarkar continued with her 66th week of work on the lighting specifics for the City Center (see below)

HIGHEST GOOD FOOD: @10:30

Continued work on the complete Highest Good food rollout plan and cost analysis (see below)
Researched soil lab equipment needs and costs, determining that the expense make external testing a better option for food rollout plans like ours (see below)
Continued research and design of the open source Permaculture Design for the property (see below)

HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION: @11:20

Continued developing the Lesson Plans How-to tutorial page (see below)

HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY: @11:57

Vivian Rodrigues finished translating the Methodology page in Portuguese (see below)
Sowmya Manohar, Shubhra Mittal, Priyanka Singh, and Asha Tadimari continued work on the Highest Good Network software (see below)

LIVING SIMPLY – A KEY TO HAPPINESS SUMMARY: @12:59

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ONE COMMUNITY WEEKLY UPDATE DETAILS

HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

One Community is creating open source blueprints for living simply as a key to happiness through Highest Good housing that is artistic and beautiful, more affordable, more space efficient, lasts longer, DIY buildable, and constructed with healthy and sustainable materials:

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

This week the core team created the first 30% of the Cob Village Cost Analysis Page, some of which you can see here.

Living Simply as a Key to Happiness, This week the core team also created the first 30% of the Cob Village Cost Analysis Page, some of which you can see here.

Living Simply as a Key to Happiness – First 30% of the Cob Village Cost Analysis Page – Click to Visit

The core team also finished the rest of the Tree House Village (Pod 7) Cost Analysis page, some of which you can see here.

Living Simply as a Key to Happiness, The core team also finished the rest of the Tree House Village (Pod 7) Cost Analysis page, some of which you can see here.

Living Simply as a Key to Happiness – Tree House Village Cost Analysis Page – Click to Visit

Mike Kowalski (Game Developer) finished his second week helping update our Recycled Materials Village (Pod 6) renders that are too big for anything but a gaming computer. What you see here are some of Mike’s second round of corrections within the model.

Living Simply as a Key to Happiness, Mike Kowalski (Game Developer) finished his second week helping update our Recycled Materials Village (Pod 6) renders that are too big for anything but a gaming computer. What you see here are some of Mike's second round of corrections within the model.

Living Simply as a Key to Happiness – Recycled Materials Village Renders ” Click for Page

Dean Scholz (Architectural Designer) continued with the Cob Village (Pod 3) AutoCAD layout updates. Here is update 105 of Dean’s work. This week he created the rooftop plan to match his 3D designs and continued development of the landscaping details. Â

Living Simply as a Key to Happiness, Dean Scholz(Architectural Designer) continued with the Cob Village (Pod 3) AutoCAD layout updates. Here is update 105 of Dean's work. This week he created the rooftop plan to match his 3D designs and continued development of the landscaping details. Â

Living Simply as a Key to Happiness – Cob Village AutoCAD Layout Updates – Click for Page

Dan Alleck (Designer and Illustrator) completed his 16th week working on the Compressed Earth Block Village render additions. This week he focused on adding water details to the two renders shown here.

Living Simply as a Key to Happiness, Dan Alleck (Designer and Illustrator) completed his 16th week working on the Compressed Earth Block Village render additions. This week he focused on adding water details to the two renders shown here.

Living Simply as a Key to Happiness – Compressed Earth Block Village Render Additions – Click to Visit

Mihaela “Michelle” Pinzaru (Interior Designer and Architectural Drafter) also completed her 9th week working on the Tree House Village (Pod 7) residential designs and renders. This week she continued finalizing the final texturing and lighting details for the complete interior, as shown here.

Living Simply as a Key to Happiness, Mihaela

Living Simply as a Key to Happiness – Tree House Village Residential Designs ” Click to Visit

DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

One Community is creating open source blueprints for living simply as a key to happiness 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 Haoxuan “Hayes” Lei (Structural Engineer) continued work on the City Center structural engineering by addressing the areas identified by the core team. You can see some of this work here.

Living Simply as a Key to Happiness, Haoxuan

Living Simply as a Key to Happiness – City Center Structural Engineering – Click for Page

David Olivero (Mechanical Engineer & Data Scientist) completed his 14th week helping with the HVAC Designs for the Duplicable City Center. This week’s focus was more research, starting to create the HVAC zonal details, and initial HVAC layout sketches.

Living Simply as a Key to Happiness, David Olivero (Mechanical Engineer & Data Scientist) completed his 14th week helping with the HVAC Designs for the Duplicable City Center. This week's focus was more research, starting to create the HVAC zonal details, and initial HVAC layout sketches.

Living Simply as a Key to Happiness – HVAC Designs for the Duplicable City Center ” Click to Visit

Dipti Dhondarkar, (Electrical Engineer) continued with her 66th week of work on the lighting specifics for the City Center. This week’s focus was correcting errors and doing additional calculations on the lighting spreadsheet shown here.

Living Simply as a Key to Happiness, Dipti Dhondarkar, (Electrical Engineer) continued with her 66th week of work on the lighting specifics for the City Center. This week's focus was correcting errors and doing additional calculations on the lighting spreadsheet shown here.

Living Simply as a Key to Happiness – Lighting Specifics for the City Center – Click for Page

HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

One Community is creating open source blueprints for living simply as a key to happiness through Highest Good food that is more diverse, more nutritious, locally grown and sustainable, and part of our open source botanical garden model to support and share bio-diversity:

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

This week, the core team continued work on the complete Highest Good food rollout plan and cost analysis. We created the initial 2-3 person due-diligence food rollout plan and action list and continued to develop the implementation details for 10-20 people, as shown here.

Living Simply as a Key to Happiness – Highest Good Food Rollout Plan, Cost Analysis – Click for Page

The, the core team also researched soil lab equipment needs and costs, as shown here, determining that the costs make external testing a better option for food rollout plans like ours.

Living Simply as a Key to Happiness – Researched Soil Lab Equipment Needs and Costs – Click for Page

In addition, the core team continued research and design of the open source Permaculture Design for the property. What you see here is our first sharing of some of the data we are gathering for the design.

Living Simply as a Key to Happiness, This week, the core team continued research and design of the open source Permaculture Design for the property. What you see here is our first sharing of some of the data we are gathering for the design.

Living Simply as a Key to Happiness – Research, Design of Open Source Permaculture – Click to Visit

HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

One Community is creating open source blueprints for living simply as a key to happiness 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 week, the core team continued developing the Lesson Plans How-to tutorial page. We created new imagery explaining the most complex steps of the design process and finished the second 50% of the “Intermediate Learners” example and all of the “Advanced Learners – Accelerated” example.

Living Simply as a Key to Happiness, This week, the core team continued developing the Lesson Plans How-to tutorial page. We created new imagery explaining the most complex steps of the design process and finished the second 50% of the "Intermediate Learners" example and all of the "Advanced Learners - Accelerated" example.

Living Simply as a Key to Happiness – Lesson Plans How-to tutorial Page – Click to Visit

HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS

One Community is creating open source blueprints for living simply as a key to happiness 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

Vivian Rodrigues (Translator) continued helping translate our overview pages. This week she finished the Methodology page, as shown here in Portuguese.

Living Simply as a Key to Happiness, Vivian Rodrigues (Translator) continued helping translate our overview pages. This week she finished the Methodology page, as shown here in Portuguese.

Living Simply as a Key to Happiness – Translating the Methodology Page in Portuguese – Click to Visit

The Highest Good Network software team consisting of Sowmya Manohar (Software Engineer, Web Developer & Net Application Developer), Shubhra Mittal (Software Delivery Manager), Priyanka Singh (Software Developer), and Asha Tadimari (Software Engineer). This week the team made changes to the user profile to support read-only mode when a non-administrator user views a colleague’s profile, made Timelog changes to remove the ability to edit action items and notifications when not viewing own profile, updated the code to bring up bigger badge images with new description details, and completed the leaderboard development and presentation – which you can see here.

Living Simply as a Key to Happiness – Highest Good Network Software ” Click for Page

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

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

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

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

INSPIRING SUSTAINABILITY WITH OPEN SOURCE

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

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

It is this approach we see uniting the world, leading to a new Golden Age for humanity and living simply as a key to happiness. 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 for living simply as a key to happiness, innovation, cooperation, and collaboration for all of humanity. Our model is a solution model that creates additional solution creating models enabling people to live and collaborate globally for The Highest Good of All. The easier we make everything we do, the faster we see the world transitioning.

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

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

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

SUMMARY

One Community sees the issues of the world as interdependent and interconnected. To facilitate earth-care teacher demonstration Hubs and address them simultaneously, we are open-source blueprinting a more advanced standard of living by designing holistic, environmentally-regenerative, self-sustaining, adaptable solutions for all areas of sustainability and living simply as a key to happiness. 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 Priyanka Singh to the Design Team!

Posted on March 17, 2018 by One Community

One Community welcomes Priyanka Singh to the One Community Software Design Team as our newest Volunteer/Consultant!

Priyanka is an experienced software developer passionate about developing and supporting applications for mobile, web, and desktop users. She is proud to be a part of One Community as she believes that a sustainable living and conserving resources is the only way to save the earth for our future generations. As a member of the Highest Good Network development team, Priyanka is applying her skills to develop the Highest Good Network Software which will provide opportunities to many more people who want to be a part of One Community and make a difference in the world.

WELCOME TO THE TEAM PRIYANKA!

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Sustainable Civilization Strategies – One Community Weekly Progress Update #259

Posted on March 11, 2018 by Kishan Sivakumar

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Sustainable civilization strategies are needed if we are to achieve a sustainable planet. One Community is creating them as open source and free-shared and covering food, energy, housing, education, for-profit and non-profit economic design, social architecture, fulfilled living, global stewardship practices, and more. When combined in to a complete model, we call it living and creating for The Highest Good of All.

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

OUR MAIN OPEN SOURCE HUBS

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

One Community’s physical location will forward this movement as the first of many self-replicating teacher/demonstration communities, villages, and cities to be built around the world, carrying out sustainable civilization strategies. This is the March 11th, 2018 edition (#259) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments:

Sustainable Civilization Strategies
One Community Progress Update #259

Sustainable Civilization Strategies - One Community Weekly Progress Update #259

Watch this video on YouTube

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

SUSTAINABLE CIVILIZATION STRATEGIES INTRO: @0:34

SUSTAINABLE CIVILIZATION STRATEGIES – HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING: @6:48

Continued working on the 7 villages online book (see below)
Continued working on the Murphy bed instructions (see below)
Created the first 30% of the Tree House Village (Pod 7) Cost Analysis page (see below)
Mike Kowalski joined the team to help with updating our Recycled Materials Village renders that are too big for anything but a gaming computer (see below)
Dean Scholz continued with the Cob Village AutoCAD layout updates (see below)
Dan Alleck completed his 15th week working on the Compressed Earth Block Village render additions (see below)
Jagannathan Shankar Mahadevan finished all the calculations for the Cob Village Cost Analysis Page (see below)
Jagannathan also then wrote the entire narrative for the page, some of which is shown here (see below)
Mihaela “Michelle” Pinzaru completed her 8th week working on the Tree House Village residential designs (see below)

SUSTAINABLE CIVILIZATION STRATEGIES – DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER: @8:48

Completed a thorough review of the 2nd half of the City Center structural engineering dead and live load report (see below)
David Olivero completed his 13th week helping with the HVAC Designs for the Duplicable City Center (see below)

SUSTAINABLE CIVILIZATION STRATEGIES – HIGHEST GOOD FOOD: @9:29

Continued research and design of the open source climate battery designs (see below)

SUSTAINABLE CIVILIZATION STRATEGIES – HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION: @10:00

Continued developing the Lesson Plans How-to tutorial page (see below)

SUSTAINABLE CIVILIZATION STRATEGIES – HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY: @10:37

Sowmya Manohar, Shubhra Mittal, Priyanka Singh, and Asha Tadimari continued work on the Highest Good Network software (see below)

SUSTAINABLE CIVILIZATION STRATEGIES SUMMARY: @11:29

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ONE COMMUNITY WEEKLY UPDATE DETAILS

HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

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

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

This week the core team continued working on the 7 villages online book, contributing to sustainable civilization strategies. This week we continued updating the formatting and imagery for pages 44-47, as shown here.

Continued Working on the 7 Villages Online Book – Click for Housing Page

And the core team continued working on the Murphy bed instructions by creating and adding the stain page to the book, as shown here.

Continued Working on the Murphy Bed Instructions – Click for Page

The core team also created the first 30% of the Tree House Village (Pod 7) Cost Analysis page, dedicated to sustainable civilization strategies, some of which you can see here.

Sustainable Civilization Strategies, The core team also created the first 30% of the Tree House Village (Pod 7) Cost Analysis page, some of which you can see here.

Created First 30% of the Tree House Village Cost Analysis Page – Click to Visit

Mike Kowalski (Game Developer) joined the team to help with updating our Recycled Materials Village (Pod 6) renders that are too big for anything but a gaming computer. You can see the beginnings of Mike’s review process here.

Sustainable Civilization Strategies, Mike Kowalski (Game Developer) joined the team to help with updating our Recycled Materials Village (Pod 6) renders that are too big for anything but a gaming computer. You can see the beginnings of Mike's review process here. Â

Joined the Team to Help with Recycled Materials Village Renders – Click for Page

Dean Scholz (Architectural Designer) continued with the Cob Village (Pod 3) AutoCAD layout updates, contributing to sustainable civilization strategies. Here is update 104 of Dean’s work. This week he added new windows and doors, furniture to the social spaces, and started adding landscaping elements. Â

Sustainable Civilization Strategies, Dean Scholz (Architectural Designer) continued with the Cob Village (Pod 3) AutoCAD layout updates. Here is update 104 of Dean's work. This week he added new windows and doors, furniture to the social spaces, and started adding landscaping elements. Â

Continued with the Cob Village AutoCAD Layout Updates – Click for Page

Dan Alleck (Designer and Illustrator) completed his 15th week working on the Compressed Earth Block Village render additions. This week he finished work on this Massage Room Looking Northwest. This image is on the site now too.

Sustainable Civilization Strategies, Dan Alleck (Designer and Illustrator) completed his 15th week working on the Compressed Earth Block Village render additions. This week he finished work on this Massage Room Looking Northwest. This image is on the site now too.

Completed Compressed Earth Block Village Massage Room Looking Northwest – Click for Page

And Jagannathan Shankar Mahadevan (Mechanical Engineer) completed his 18th week volunteering and finished all the calculations for the Cob Village Cost Analysis Page, in pursuit of creating effective sustainable civilization strategies. What you see here is a sample of this work that includes the materials, equipment, furniture, etc.

Sustainable Civilization Strategies, And Jagannathan Shankar Mahadevan (Mechanical Engineer) completed his 18th week volunteering and finished all the calculations for the Cob Village Cost Analysis Page. What you see here is a sample of this work that includes the materials, equipment, furniture, etc.

Finished all Calculations for the Cob Village Cost Analysis Page – Click for Page

Jagannathan also then wrote the entire narrative for the page, some of which is shown here.

Wrote the Entire Narrative for the Cob Village Materials Costs Page – Click to Visit

Mihaela “Michelle” Pinzaru (Interior Designer and Architectural Drafter) also completed her 8th week working on the Tree House Village (Pod 7) residential designs, contributing to creating sustainable civilization strategies. This week she continued working on the final texturing and lighting details for the interior. You can see some of this work here.

Sustainable Civilization Strategies, Mihaela

Continued Working on Tree House Village Residential Designs ” Click to Visit

DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

One Community is creating sustainable civilization strategies 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 completed a thorough review of the 2nd half of the City Center structural engineering dead and live load report shown here.

Sustainable Civilization Strategies, This week the core team also completed a thorough review of the 2nd half of the City Center structural engineering dead and live load report shown here.

Reviewed half of City Center Structural Engineering Dead and Live Load Report ” Click for Page

David Olivero (Mechanical Engineer & Data Scientist) completed his 13th week helping with the HVAC Designs for the Duplicable City Center. This week’s focus was researching and further developing the related equipment plan. You can see some of this work here.

Sustainable Civilization Strategies, David Olivero (Mechanical Engineer & Data Scientist) completed his 13th week helping with the HVAC Designs for the Duplicable City Center. This week's focus was researching and further developing the related equipment plan. You can see some of this work here.

Continued Helping with HVAC Designs for the Duplicable City Center – Click to Visit

HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

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

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

This week, the core team continued research and design of the open source climate battery designs. What you see here is the continued process of integrating climate batteries into the Phase 2 food plans that include the Aquapinis and Walipinis.

Continued Research and Design of Open Source Climate Battery Designs ” Click for Page

HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

One Community is creating sustainable civilization strategies 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 week, the core team continued developing the Lesson Plans How-to tutorial page. We added a new “How to Create Your Individualized Lesson Plans” section, doubled the details in the “Beginning Learners” example, and finished the first 50% of the “Intermediate Learners” example.

Sustainable Civilization Strategies, This week, the core team continued developing the Lesson Plans How-to tutorial page. We added a new

Continued Developing the Lesson Plans How-to Tutorial Page ” Click to Visit

HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS

One Community is creating sustainable civilization strategies 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

The Highest Good Network software team consisting of Sowmya Manohar (Software Engineer, Web Developer & Net Application Developer), Shubhra Mittal (Software Delivery Manager), Priyanka Singh (Software Developer), and Asha Tadimari (Software Engineer). This week the team continued working on making the badges dynamic and also updated the profile form so a user can edit their personal information, so an Administrator can edit personal/administrative information, and so any individual can see anybody else’s information in a read-only mode. They also worked on the projects page to display the project’s details.

Continued Working on Highest Good Network Software ” Click for 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. 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, committed to sustainable civilization strategies. 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 in terms of sustainable civilization strategies.

Throughout our design process we are open sourcing and free-sharing everything needed for construction and replication. This includes what we call “Highest Good” approaches to food, energy, housing, education, for-profit and non-profit economics design, social architecture, fulfilled living, stewardship practices and more, all aimed at sustainable civilization strategies. 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 for the sustainable civilization strategies.

WHY ONE COMMUNITY IS CREATING THIS

The One Community self-replicating model is capable of creating a sustainable planet within 30 years through the sustainable civilization strategies. 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, further promoting the ideals of the sustainable civilization strategies. These hubs will collaborate with one another, share ideas, resources, and work together as a network to heal the planet. They will also transform the global lifestyle to a more enjoyable, fulfilling, healthy, and sustainable one.

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

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, contributing to the sustainable civilization strategies. 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, ultimately aiming for sustainable civilization strategies.

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

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

COMPREHENSIVE SOLUTION TO HUMANITY’S NEEDS

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

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

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: Sustainable Civilization Strategies by 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: Sustainable Civilization Strategies with 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: Sustainable Civilization Strategies by 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: Sustainable Civilization Strategies with 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.

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 the faster we see the world transitioning towards sustainable civilization strategies.

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

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

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

OPEN SOURCE SHARING STRATEGY SPECIFICS

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

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

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

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

SUMMARY

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

One Community Welcomes Asha Tadimari to the Design Team!

Posted on March 10, 2018 by One Community

One Community welcomes Asha Tadimari to the One Community Software Design Team as our newest Volunteer/Consultant!

Asha received her Bachelor’s of Telecommunication Engineering in India and obtained her Masters of Computer Science in the USA. This has led to work as a Web Developer, Software Engineer, and now as a member of the Highest Good Network team. In her spare time, Asha takes interest in cooking, reading, and traveling. Her inspiration for making a difference is “those countless anonymous people who are quietly and selflessly doing their bit for the betterment of this world.”

WELCOME TO THE TEAM ASHA!

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The Solution to Everything is the Solution to Anything – One Community Weekly Progress Update #258

Posted on March 4, 2018 by Kishan Sivakumar

THE SOLUTION TO EVERYTHING IS THE SOLUTION TO ANYTHING – HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING: @9:13

Jack Reed said, “The solution to everything is the solution to anything.” One Community thinks this is true and is creating open source blueprints, tools, tutorials, and do-it-yourself instructions for sustainable living models purposed to demonstrate and support this. Watch this week’s update video for details about how we’re making it possible.

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

OUR MAIN OPEN SOURCE HUBS

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

One Community’s physical location will forward this movement as the first of many self-replicating teacher/demonstration communities, villages, and cities to be built around the world, demonstrating the solution to everything is the solution to anything. This is the March 4th, 2018 edition (#258) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments:

The Solution to Everything is the Solution to Anything
One Community Progress Update #258

The Solution to Everything is the Solution to Anything - One Community Weekly Progress Update #258

Watch this video on YouTube

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

THE SOLUTION TO EVERYTHING IS THE SOLUTION TO ANYTHING INTRO: @0:34

Continued working on the 7 villages online book (see below)
Added the new Cob Village images and complete maker-space equipment lists to the website (see below)
Created the merge and render of all the Recycled Materials Village landscaped areas (see below)
Dean Scholz continued with the Cob Village AutoCAD layout updates (see below)
Aparna Tandon continued her work on the Compressed Earth Block Village external elements (see below)
Jagannathan Shankar Mahadevan began writing the narrative for the Tree House Village Cost Analysis page (see below)
Mihaela “Michelle” Pinzaru completed her 7th week working on the Tree House Village residential designs (see below)

THE SOLUTION TO EVERYTHING IS THE SOLUTION TO ANYTHING – DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER: @11:07

Completed a thorough review of the first half of the City Center structural engineering dead and live load report (see below)
Haoxuan “Hayes” Lei continued work on the City Center structural engineering (see below)
Satish Ravindran completed his 7th week helping with the LEED lighting specifics for the City Center (see below)

THE SOLUTION TO EVERYTHING IS THE SOLUTION TO ANYTHING – HIGHEST GOOD FOOD: @12:00

Began work on the complete Highest Good food rollout plan and cost analysis (see below)
Continued research and design of the open source climate battery designs (see below)

THE SOLUTION TO EVERYTHING IS THE SOLUTION TO ANYTHING – HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION: @12:46

Returned to developing the Lesson Plans How-to tutorial page (see below)

THE SOLUTION TO EVERYTHING IS THE SOLUTION TO ANYTHING – HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY: @14:02

Sowmya Manohar, Shubhra Mittal, Priyanka Singh, and Asha Tadimari continued work on the Highest Good Network software (see below)

THE SOLUTION TO EVERYTHING IS THE SOLUTION TO ANYTHING SUMMARY: @11:

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HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

One Community is demonstrating the solution to everything is the solution to anything through Highest Good housing that is artistic and beautiful, more affordable, more space efficient, lasts longer, DIY buildable, and constructed with healthy and sustainable materials:

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

This week the core team returned to working on the 7 villages online book. This week we made minor updates to Pages 14-15, and 64, and began redoing the layouts for page 44. We also updated the Cob Village maker spaces images, as shown here.

The solution to everything is the solution to anything, This week the core team returned to working on the 7 villages online book. This week we made minor updates to Pages 14-15, and 64, and began redoing the layouts for page 44. We also updated the Cob Village maker spaces images, as shown here.

Updated the Cob Village Maker Spaces Images – Click for Page

The core team also added the new Cob Village (Pod 3) images and complete maker-space equipment lists to the website, following the solution to everything is the solution to anything. You can see some of this work here.

The core team also added the new Cob Village (Pod 3) images and complete maker-space equipment lists to the website. You can see some of this work here.

Added New Cob Village Images and Completed Maker-Space Equipment Lists to the Website

The core team also successfully created this merge and render of all the Recycled Materials Village (Pod 6) landscaped areas, which you can now view on the site.

The solution to everything is the solution to anything, The core team also successfully created this merge and render of all the Recycled Materials Village (Pod 6) landscaped areas, which you can now view on the site.

Created a Merge and Render of all the Recycled Materials Village Landscaped Areas – Click for Page

Dean Scholz (Architectural Designer) continued with the Cob Village (Pod 3) AutoCAD layout updates, demonstrating the solution to everything is the solution to anything. Here is update 103 of Dean’s work updating the bathroom designs and adjacent areas.

The solution to everything is the solution to anything, Dean Scholz (Architectural Designer) continued with the Cob Village (Pod 3) AutoCAD layout updates. Here is update 103 of Dean's work updating the bathroom designs and adjacent areas.

Continued Helping with Cob Village AutoCAD Layouts ” Click for Page

Aparna Tandon (Architect) continued her work on the Compressed Earth Block Village external elements. What you see here is her 47th week of work that created this updated AutoCAD export of the complete village and landscaping plan.

The solution to everything is the solution to anything, Aparna Tandon (Architect) continued her work on the Compressed Earth Block Village external elements. What you see here is her 47th week of work that created this updated AutoCAD export of the complete village and landscaping plan.

Continued Work on Compressed Earth Block Village External Elements ” Click for Page

And Jagannathan Shankar Mahadevan (Mechanical Engineer) completed his 17th week volunteering and began writing the narrative for the Tree House Village (Pod 7) Cost Analysis page, in pursuit of the solution to everything is the solution to anything. What you see here is a sample of this work-in-progress.

The solution to everything is the solution to anything, And Jagannathan Shankar Mahadevan (Mechanical Engineer) completed his 17th week volunteering and began writing the narrative for the Tree House Village (Pod 7) Cost Analysis page. What you see here is a sample of this work-in-progress.

Began Writing Narrative for the Tree House Village Cost Analysis Page – Click to Visit

Mihaela “Michelle” Pinzaru (Interior Designer and Architectural Drafter) also completed her 7th week working on the Tree House Village (Pod 7) residential designs. This week she continued working on the final texturing and lighting details for the interior. You can see some of this work here.

The solution to everything is the solution to anything, Mihaela

Continued Working on Tree House Village Residential Designs ” Click to Visit

DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

One Community is demonstrating the solution to everything is the solution to anything 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 completed a thorough review of the first half of the City Center structural engineering dead and live load report shown here.

The solution to everything is the solution to anything, This week the core team completed a thorough review of the first half of the City Center structural engineering dead and live load report shown here.

Reviewed First half of City Center Structural Engineering Dead and Live Load Report – Click for Page

Haoxuan “Hayes” Lei (Structural Engineer) continued work on the City Center structural engineering by updating the beam plan to reorientate the perimeter beams to address excessive-overhang issues.

The solution to everything is the solution to anything, Haoxuan

Continued Work on City Center Structural Engineering – Click for Page

Satish Ravindran (Senior Mechanical and Industrial Engineer) also completed his 7th week helping with the LEED lighting specifics for the City Center. This week’s focus was a final review and round of edits to the case study section.

The solution to everything is the solution to anything, Satish Ravindran (Senior Mechanical and Industrial Engineer) also completed his 7th week helping with the LEED lighting specifics for the City Center. This week's focus was a final review and round of edits to the case study section.

Continued Helping with LEED Lighting Specifics for City Center – Click for Page

HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

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

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

This week, the core team began work on the complete Highest Good food rollout plan and cost analysis, contributing to follow the saying that the solution to everything is the solution to anything. What you see here are some of our initial design and outline notes developing behind the scenes.

The solution to everything is the solution to anything, This week, the core team began work on the complete Highest Good food rollout plan and cost analysis. What you see here are some of our initial design and outline notes developing behind the scenes.

Began Work Highest Good Food Rollout Plan and Cost Analysis – Click for Page

The core team also continued research and design of the open source climate battery designs. What you see here are the beginnings of the process of integrating climate batteries into the Phase 2 food plans that include the Aquapinis and Walipinis.

The solution to everything is the solution to anything, The core team also continued research and design of the open source climate battery designs. What you see here are the beginnings of the process of integrating climate batteries into the Phase 2 food plans that include the Aquapinis and Walipinis.

Continued Research and Design of Open Source Climate Battery Designs – Click for Page

HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

One Community is demonstrating the solution to everything is the solution to anything 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 week, the core team returned to developing the Lesson Plans How-to tutorial page, following the solution to everything is the solution to anything. We finished the “Why Use the Lesson Plans for Life” section including sections on Recreational Application, Homeschool Application, and Applications in Private or Traditional Schools.

The solution to everything is the solution to anything, This week, the core team returned to developing the Lesson Plans How-to tutorial page. We finished the "Why Use the Lesson Plans for Life" section including sections on Recreational Application, Homeschool Application, and Applications in Private or Traditional Schools.

Returned to Developing the Lesson Plans How-to Tutorial Page – Click to Visit

HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS

One Community is demonstrating the solution to everything is the solution to anything 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

The Highest Good Network software team consisting of Sowmya Manohar (Software Engineer, Web Developer & Net Application Developer), Shubhra Mittal (Software Delivery Manager), Priyanka Singh (Software Developer), and Asha Tadimari (Software Engineer), covering the work of demonstrating the solution to everything is the solution to anything. This week the team added click-through options to access the profile page, added a counter display to the badges, and the default image display when no badges are earned yet.

Continued Working on Highest Good Network Software ” Click for 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. 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, committed to “the solution to everything is the solution to anything”. 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 knowing the solution to everything is the solution to anything.

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, following the saying that the solution to everything is the solution to anything. We are creating these resources for implementation as individual components or complete developments called teacher/demonstration hubs. These hubs will help launch additional hubs as awareness and knowledge grow.

BUILDING THE FIRST OF MANY

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

WHY ONE COMMUNITY IS CREATING THIS

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

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

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, contributing to the saying that the solution to everything is the solution to anything. 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, ultimately aiming for “the solution to everything is the solution to anything”.

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

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

COMPREHENSIVE SOLUTION TO HUMANITY’S NEEDS

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

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

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 for demonstrating the solution to everything is the solution to anything we are applying are designed to support each other and accelerate the process globally:

Phase I: The Solution to Everything is The Solution to Anything by 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: The Solution to Everything is The Solution to Anything with 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: The Solution to Everything is The Solution to Anything by 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: The Solution to Everything is The Solution to Anything with 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.

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 the faster we see the world transitioning towards sustainability.

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

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

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

OPEN SOURCE SHARING STRATEGY SPECIFICS

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

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

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

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

SUMMARY

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

One Community Welcomes Mihaela Pinzaru to the Design Team!

Posted on February 25, 2018 by One Community

One Community welcomes Mihaela “Michelle” Pinzaru to the Design Team as our newest Volunteer/Consultant!

MS in Information Technology: Mihaela is an interior designer and architectural drafter with an IT and academic background. She’s been teaching programming to students for 9 years, but was also passionate about everything related to architecture. She started learning architectural drafting by modeling alongside her mother, an architect, at the early age of 15. Since then, she participated in hundreds of projects in the Republic of Moldova, from measurements on the site, to the final rendering, both for residential and commercial buildings. The last 3 years she worked as an interior 3D modeler. Coming from a crowded city, she believes that humankind needs a mind shift towards living in harmony with nature. Joining the One Community team, Mihaela is helping with the designs and renders for the Tree House Village.

WELCOME TO THE TEAM MIHAELA!

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Addressing Climate Change with Sustainable Communities – One Community Weekly Progress Update #257

Posted on February 25, 2018 by Kishan Sivakumar

ADDRESSING CLIMATE CHANGE WITH SUSTAINABLE COMMUNITIES – HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING: @6:28

How about addressing climate change with sustainable communities? One Community is an all-volunteer nonprofit forwarding this through a global collaboration for The Highest Good of all people and life on our planet using open source and free-shared sustainability components that include food, energy, and housing, education, for-profit and non-profit economic design, social architecture, fulfilled living, and global stewardship practices.

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

OUR MAIN OPEN SOURCE HUBS

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

One Community’s physical location will forward this movement as the first of many self-replicating teacher/demonstration communities, villages, and cities to be built around the world, addressing climate change with sustainable communities. This is the February 25th, 2018 edition (#257) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments:

Addressing Climate Change with Sustainable Communities
One Community Progress Update #257

Addressing Climate Change with Sustainable Communities - One Community Weekly Progress Update #257

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

ADDRESSING CLIMATE CHANGE WITH SUSTAINABLE COMMUNITIES INTRO: @0:34

Continued research needed for the next generation of the open source climate battery designs (see below)
Returned to working on the 7 villages online book. This week we updated and added missing images to the Compressed Earth Block Village spreads, updated all the main village images, and started researching images for the maker’s spaces (see below)
Created the complete Recycled Materials Village Cost Analysis page and shared it across all our social media platforms (see below)
Dean Scholz continued with the Cob Village AutoCAD layout updates (see below)
Aparna Tandon continued her work on the Compressed Earth Block Village external elements (see below)
Aparna also created this 2nd generation of the complete landscaping plans overview and summary (see below)
Jagannathan Shankar Mahadevan completed his 16th week volunteering and finished another round on the cost analysis calculations for the Tree House Village Cost Analysis page (see below)
Mihaela “Michelle” Pinzaru completed her 6th week working on the Tree House Village residential designs (see below)

ADDRESSING CLIMATE CHANGE WITH SUSTAINABLE COMMUNITIES – DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER: @8:35

Completed the final rollout and implementation details for the Highest Good Energy page (see below)
Completed a thorough review of the materials analysis and dead load report and tutorial (see below)
David Olivero completed his 12th week helping with the HVAC Designs for the Duplicable City Center (see below)

ADDRESSING CLIMATE CHANGE WITH SUSTAINABLE COMMUNITIES – HIGHEST GOOD FOOD: @9:29

Continued work on the food plans on the Food Self-sufficiency Transition Plan pages (see below)

ADDRESSING CLIMATE CHANGE WITH SUSTAINABLE COMMUNITIES – HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION: @9:57

ADDRESSING CLIMATE CHANGE WITH SUSTAINABLE COMMUNITIES – HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY: @10:15

Updated the Team page to reflect changes to our active volunteers (see below)
Sowmya Manohar, Shubhra Mittal, Priyanka Singh, and Asha Tadimari continued work on the Highest Good Network software (see below)

ADDRESSING CLIMATE CHANGE WITH SUSTAINABLE COMMUNITIES SUMMARY: @11:14

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HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

One Community is addressing climate change with sustainable communities 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

The core team continued research and design of the open source climate battery designs, addressing climate change with sustainable communities. What you see here are the newly updated pipe sizing and changes to the orientation and depth.

Addressing climate change with sustainable communities, The core team continued research and design of the open source climate battery designs. What you see here are the newly updated pipe sizing and changes to the orientation and depth.

Continued Working on Open Source Climate Battery Designs ” Click to Visit Page

And the core team returned to working on the 7 villages online book. This week we updated and added missing images to the Compressed Earth Block Village spreads, updated all the main village images, and started researching images for the maker’s spaces, contributed to addressing climate change with sustainable communities.

Addressing climate change with sustainable communities, And the core team returned to working on the 7 villages online book. This week we updated and added missing images to the Compressed Earth Block Village spreads, updated all the main village images, and started researching images for the maker's spaces. Â

Continued Working on the 7 Villages Online Book – Click to Visit

The core team also created the complete Recycled Materials Village (Pod 6) Cost Analysis page and shared it across all our social media platforms, in pursuit of addressing climate change with sustainable communities. You can see some of this new and finished page here.

Addressing climate change with sustainable communities, The core team also created the complete Recycled Materials Village (Pod 6) Cost Analysis page and shared it across all our social media platforms. You can see some of this new and finished page here.The core team also created the complete Recycled Materials Village (Pod 6) Cost Analysis page and shared it across all our social media platforms. You can see some of this new and finished page here.The core team also created the complete Recycled Materials Village (Pod 6) Cost Analysis page and shared it across all our social media platforms. You can see some of this new and finished page here.

Created the Complete Recycled Materials Village Cost Analysis Page – Click to Visit

Dean Scholz (Architectural Designer) continued with the Cob Village (Pod 3) AutoCAD layout updates. Here is update 102 of Dean’s work, exploring new bathroom layouts.

Addressing climate change with sustainable communities, Dean Scholz (Architectural Designer) continued with the Cob Village (Pod 3) AutoCAD layout updates. Here is update 102 of Dean's work, exploring new bathroom layouts.

Continued Helping with Cob Village AutoCAD Layouts ” Click for Page

Aparna Tandon (Architect) continued her work on the Compressed Earth Block Village external elements. What you see here is her 46th week of work that created this final presentation for zones 14, 15, and 16. It is now on the site.

Addressing climate change with sustainable communities, Aparna Tandon, Compressed Earth Block Village, final presentation for zones 14, 15, and 16.

Continued Work on Compressed Earth Block Village External Elements ” Click for Page

Aparna also created this 2nd generation of the complete landscaping plans overview and summary, dedicated to addressing climate change with sustainable communities.

Addressing climate change with sustainable communities, Aparna also created this 2nd generation of the complete landscaping plans overview and summary.

Created 2nd Generation of the Complete Landscaping Plans Overview and Summary – Click for Page

And Jagannathan Shankar Mahadevan (Mechanical Engineer) completed his 16th week volunteering and finished another round on the cost analysis calculations for the Tree House Village (Pod 7) Cost Analysis page. What you see here is a sample of this additional completed work.

Addressing climate change with sustainable communities, And Jagannathan Shankar Mahadevan (Mechanical Engineer) completed his 16th week volunteering and finished another round on the cost analysis calculations for the Tree House Village (Pod 7) Cost Analysis page. What you see here is a sample of this additional completed work.

Continued on Cost Analysis Calculations for Tree House Village Cost Analysis Page – Click to Visit

Mihaela “Michelle” Pinzaru (Interior Designer and Architectural Drafter) also completed her 6th week working on the Tree House Village (Pod 7) residential designs. This week she finished the AutoCAD floor plan updates and started working on the final texturing and lighting details for the interior. You can see some of this work here.

Addressing climate change with sustainable communities, Mihaela

Continued Working on Tree House Village Residential Designs ” Click to Visit

DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

One Community is addressing climate change with sustainable communities 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 completed the final rollout and implementation details for the Highest Good Energy page, addressing climate change with sustainable communities. You can see some of this work here, covering each phase of the energy infrastructure that will supply power to the City Center and other Phase I construction areas.

Addressing climate change with sustainable communities, This week the core team completed the final rollout and implementation details for the Highest Good Energy page. You can see some of this work here, covering each phase of the energy infrastructure that will supply power to the City Center and other Phase I construction areas.

Completed Final Rollout and Implementation Details for Highest Good Energy Page – Click to Visit

The core team also completed a thorough review of the materials analysis and dead load report and tutorial, which you can see here.

Addressing climate change with sustainable communities, The core team also completed a thorough review of the materials analysis and dead load report and tutorial, which you can see here.

Reviewed the Materials Analysis and Dead Load Report and Tutorial – Click for C.C. Engineering Page

David Olivero (Mechanical Engineer & Data Scientist) completed his 12th week helping with the HVAC Designs for the Duplicable City Center. This week’s focus was researching and creating the initial equipment plan.

Addressing climate change with sustainable communities, David Olivero (Mechanical Engineer & Data Scientist) completed his 12th week helping with the HVAC Designs for the Duplicable City Center. This week's focus was researching and creating the initial equipment plan.

Continued Helping with the HVAC Designs for the Duplicable City Center – Click for Page

HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

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

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

This week, the core team continued work on the food plans on the Food Self-sufficiency Transition Plan pages, and created two additional days of meals and recipes, as you see here.

Addressing climate change with sustainable communities, This week, the core team continued work on the food plans on the Food Self-sufficiency Transition Plan pages, and created two additional days of meals and recipes, as you see here.

Continued Work on Food Calculations on Food Self-Sufficiency Transition Plan Pages ” Click to Visit

HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

One Community is addressing climate change with sustainable communities 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

HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS

One Community is addressing climate change with sustainable communities through a Highest Good society approach to living that is founded on fulfilled living, the study of meeting human needs, Community, and making a difference in the world:

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

This week the core team updated the Team page to reflect changes to our active volunteers, moving all inactive volunteers lower on the page and updating their bios to reflect the work they performed.

Addressing climate change with sustainable communities, This week the core team updated the Team page to reflect changes to our active volunteers, moving all inactive volunteers lower on the page and updating their bios to reflect the work they performed.

Updated the Team Page to Reflect Changes to Our Active Volunteers – Click to Visit

This last week the Highest Good Network software team consists of Sowmya Manohar (Software Engineer, Web Developer & Net Application Developer), Shubhra Mittal (Software Delivery Manager), Priyanka Singh (Software Developer), and Asha Tadimari (Software Engineer). This week the team finished the UI for the logout option and changing a person’s password. Also timelog screen integration of notifications, management of action items for self and team, and ability to log time, scrolling for the badges display, and mouseover text for the badges.

Addressing climate change with sustainable communities, The Highest Good Network software team consists of Sowmya Manohar (Software Engineer, Web Developer & Net Application Developer), Shubhra Mittal (Software Delivery Manager), Priyanka Singh (Software Developer), and Asha Tadimari (Software Engineer). This week the team finished the UI for the logout option and changing a person's password. Also timelog screen integration of notifications, management of action items for self and team, and ability to log time, scrolling for the badges display, and mouseover text for the badges.

Continued Working on Highest Good Network Software ” Click for Page

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