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

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

OUR MAIN OPEN SOURCE HUBS

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

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

Sustainable Global Energy Access
One Community Progress Update #334

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

SUSTAINABLE GLOBAL ENERGY ACCESS INTRO: @0:30

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

SUSTAINABLE GLOBAL ENERGY ACCESS SUMMARY: @12:13

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

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Sustainable Global Energy Access

ONE COMMUNITY WEEKLY UPDATE DETAILS

SUSTAINABLE GLOBAL ENERGY ACCESS HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

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

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

This week the core team finished the rest of the content for the most sustainable insulation options page. This week we added the Resources, Summary, and FAQ sections. You can see all of these additions here and this brings this page to 100% complete!

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

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

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

SUSTAINABLE GLOBAL ENERGY ACCESS DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

SUSTAINABLE GLOBAL ENERGY ACCESS HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

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

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

This week the core team continued with week 21 of our development of the open source dams, lakes, and water-retention landscape design tutorial.  This week we created all the separate SketchUp files and added download links for each of them.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

SUSTAINABLE GLOBAL ENERGY ACCESS HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

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

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

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

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

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

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

SUSTAINABLE GLOBAL ENERGY ACCESS HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS

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

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

This week the core team created our new Privacy Page and cookies compliance footer shown here. This brings us into compliance with the EU Users’ Rights under the new General Data Protection Regulation.

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

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

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

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

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

WHAT ONE COMMUNITY IS CREATING

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

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

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

WHY ONE COMMUNITY IS CREATING THIS

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

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

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

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

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

 

INVESTOR PAGES

OVERVIEW | LOCATION | FUNDING

GET INVOLVED

CONSULTANTS | WAYS ANYONE CAN HELP | MEMBERSHIP

CLICK HERE FOR ALL PAST UPDATES

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

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

OUR MAIN OPEN SOURCE HUBS

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

One Community’s physical location will forward this movement as the first of many self-replicating teacher/demonstration communities, villages, and cities to be built around the world. This is the August 11th, 2019 edition (#333) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments:

Open Source Sustainability
One Community Progress Update #333

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

OPEN SOURCE SUSTAINABILITY INTRO: @0:34

OPEN SOURCE SUSTAINABILITY HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING: @7:12

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

OPEN SOURCE SUSTAINABILITY DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER: @8:36

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

OPEN SOURCE SUSTAINABILITY HIGHEST GOOD FOOD: @10:08

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

OPEN SOURCE SUSTAINABILITY HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION: @11:25

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

OPEN SOURCE SUSTAINABILITY HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY: @12:46

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

OPEN SOURCE SUSTAINABILITY SUMMARY: @13:48

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

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

YOU CAN ALSO JOIN US THROUGH SOCIAL MEDIA

 

Open Source Sustainability

ONE COMMUNITY WEEKLY UPDATE DETAILS

OPEN SOURCE SUSTAINABILITY HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

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

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

This week the core team continued adding the content to the most sustainable insulation options page. This week we finished the final six insulation sections. You can see all these new sections here. We’d say this brings the page to 80% complete. 

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

OPEN SOURCE SUSTAINABILITY DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

OPEN SOURCE SUSTAINABILITY HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

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

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

This week the core team continued with week 20 of our development of the open source dams, lakes, and water-retention landscape design tutorial.  This week we finished the dam construction notes, Resources, Summary, and FAQ sections.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

OPEN SOURCE SUSTAINABILITY HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

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

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

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

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

OPEN SOURCE SUSTAINABILITY HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

WHAT ONE COMMUNITY IS CREATING

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

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

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

WHY ONE COMMUNITY IS CREATING THIS

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

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

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

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

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

 

INVESTOR PAGES

OVERVIEW | LOCATION | FUNDING

GET INVOLVED

CONSULTANTS | WAYS ANYONE CAN HELP | MEMBERSHIP

CLICK HERE FOR ALL PAST UPDATES

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

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

OUR MAIN OPEN SOURCE HUBS

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

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

Sustainably Addressing Global Poverty
One Community Progress Update #332

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

SUSTAINABLY ADDRESSING GLOBAL POVERTY INTRO: @0:34

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

SUSTAINABLY ADDRESSING GLOBAL POVERTY SUMMARY: @14:56

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ONE COMMUNITY WEEKLY UPDATE DETAILS

SUSTAINABLY ADDRESSING GLOBAL POVERTY HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

SUSTAINABLY ADDRESSING GLOBAL POVERTY DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

SUSTAINABLY ADDRESSING GLOBAL POVERTY HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

SUSTAINABLY ADDRESSING GLOBAL POVERTY HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

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

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

This week Dan Alleck (Designer and Illustrator) completed his 50th week helping. His work now is focused on final edits to the Ultimate Classroom renders. This week he started work on this Orange room where he added in new elements, replaced some items, and resized the people.

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

SUSTAINABLY ADDRESSING GLOBAL POVERTY HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS

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

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

This week the core team created the new collage format we’re using for these blogs.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Wrote Hours Estimates for Complete Highest Good Network Work Breakdown Structure

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

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

Sustainably Addressing Global Poverty

WHAT ONE COMMUNITY IS CREATING

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

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

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

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

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

 

INVESTOR PAGES

OVERVIEW | LOCATION | FUNDING

GET INVOLVED

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The need and potential for conscious and conscientious global stewardship has never been greater. We can regenerate our planet and help ourselves at the same time. One Community is creating models for teacher/demonstration hubs that will demonstrate and free-share how to do this. They include “Highest Good” approaches for all the necessary foundations: food, energy, housing, education, for-profit and non-profit economic design, social architecture, fulfilled living, global stewardship practices, and more.

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

OUR MAIN OPEN SOURCE HUBS

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

One Community’s physical location will forward this movement as the first of many self-replicating teacher/demonstration communities, villages, and cities to be built around the world. This is the July 28th, 2019 edition (#331) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments:

Global Stewardship
One Community Progress Update #331

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

GLOBAL STEWARDSHIP INTRO: @0:34

GLOBAL STEWARDSHIP HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING: @6:36

• Continued adding the content to the most sustainable insulation options page; created and added the new insulation icons, header and social media images, and finished the sections shown here and covering Air Krete and Straw Bale insulation (see below)
• Brianna Olsen continued final research on the most sustainable insulation options page; wrote the FAQ section and did more research and writing to discuss the products not included in the article (see below)
• Dean Scholz continued working on the Earthbag Village; worked on creating the new and larger windows that are fire code compliant and necessary for the 3-bedroom home designs (see below)
• Shadi Kennedy continued developing the Murphy bed instructions; continued standardization of the page layouts, part colors, labels, and other details (see below)

GLOBAL STEWARDSHIP DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER: @8:06

• Created final Duplicable City Center library renders that show the final plans for the furniture layouts, custom bench and table designs, shelving, lighting, polished concrete floors, and aesthetic details added to make the columns look like trees (see below)
• Anvita Kumari Pandey continued research to find the right outdoor patio lights for installation along the City Center patio areas (see below)
• Ron Huang continued working on the Energy Modeling for our LEED Platinum certification and City Center open source HVAC design tutorial; finished the Baseline Model (see below)
• Sneha Dongre continued helping with the Duplicable City Center structural details; worked on deleting extra members in 3D and testing and retesting the model in SAP and researching about entryway designs to determine the best way to integrate our sliding glass door entries into the domes (see below)

GLOBAL STEWARDSHIP HIGHEST GOOD FOOD: @9:35

• Continued developing the behind-the-scenes content for the Open Source Permaculture Design page; focused on completing the ethics, principles and domains section and began work on the initial Design Considerations section (see below)
• Continued developing the goat barn in SketchUp 3D (see below)
• Researched various articles on breeds of sheep and incorporated what we learned into the behind-the-scenes sheep-tutorial Google Doc (see below)

GLOBAL STEWARDSHIP HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION: @10:28

• With over 8 years of development invested in the Education for Life component, this part of One Community is now complete enough to no longer focus and report on it with weekly updates. That is, of course, until we move onto the property and continue the development and open sourcing process with teachers and students. Visit the Education section below for links to all the completed elements of this component and details on the final remaining action items for this area of One Community before moving onto the property and fully launching it.
• Continued working on the redesign of the Ultimate Classroom; replaced the straw bales with solid walls (see below)
• Guy Grossfeld continued with week 3 of his work adding people and object additions to the redesigned and re-rendered sections of the Ultimate Classroom (see below)

GLOBAL STEWARDSHIP HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY: @11:58

• Edited and reformatted our complete volunteer agreement as a Google Form that can now be completed online (see below)
• Core team working with Brian Gilb rewrote our new volunteer Welcome Page and policies again (see below)
• Core team and Brian finished creation of our new internal communications procedures structure and document and a final revision of our new onboarding procedure (see below)
• Emilio Nájera continued with the marketing team by creating and launching all the sub-groups ad campaigns of the Highest Good of All campaign (see below)

GLOBAL STEWARDSHIP SUMMARY: @13:08

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

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Global Stewardship

ONE COMMUNITY WEEKLY UPDATE DETAILS

GLOBAL STEWARDSHIP HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

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

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

This week the core team continued adding the content to the most sustainable insulation options page. This week we created and added the new insulation icons, header and social media images, and finished the sections shown here and covering Air Krete and Straw Bale insulation. 

Global Stewardship ” Continued Adding Content to the Most Sustainable Insulation Options Page

Also working on the most sustainable insulation options page, Brianna Olsen (Sustainability Researcher) completed her 8th week to finalize this research. This week she wrote the FAQ section and did more research and writing to discuss the products not included in the article. This brings the behind-the-scenes work on this to 99% complete.

Continued Researching the Most Sustainable Insulation Options ” Click To Visit Page

Dean Scholz (Architectural Designer) finished week #166 working on the Earthbag Village (Pod 1). This week he worked on creating the new and larger windows that are fire code compliant and necessary for these 3-bedroom home designs.

Global Stewardship ” Worked on Creating Larger Fire Code Compliant Windows – Click for Page

Shadi Kennedy (Artist and Graphic Designer) also completed his 61st week developing the Murphy bed instructions. This week’s focus was continued standardization of the page layouts, part colors, labels, and other details. Almost every one of these images has been edited in some way during the last week.

Continued Standardization of the Murphy Bed Page Layouts, Part Colors, and Labels ” Click for Page

GLOBAL STEWARDSHIP DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

One Community is facilitating global stewardship 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 created these final Duplicable City Center library renders. These new renders show the final plans for the furniture layouts, custom bench and table designs, shelving, lighting, polished concrete floors, and aesthetic details added to make the columns look like trees.

Global Stewardship ” Created Final Duplicable City Center Library Renders – Click for Page

Anvita Kumari Pandey (Civil Engineer) continued research to find the right outdoor patio lights for installation along the City Center patio areas.

Continued Researching Outdoor Patio Lights for Installation Along the City Center Patio Areas

Ron Huang (Mechanical Engineer) continued with his 12th week working on the Energy Modeling for our LEED Platinum certification and City Center open source HVAC design tutorial. This week he finished the Baseline Model. You can see some of the baseline calculations here.

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

Sneha Dongre (Structural Engineer) additionally continued with her 17th week helping with the Duplicable City Center structural details. This week’s focus was continued work deleting extra members in 3D and testing and retesting the model in SAP, and researching about entryway designs to determine the best way to integrate our sliding glass door entries into the domes. You can see some of this work here.

Global Stewardship ” Continued Helping With the Duplicable City Center Structural Details

GLOBAL STEWARDSHIP HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

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

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

This week the core team continued developing the behind-the-scenes content for the Open Source Permaculture Design page. This week’s focus was completing the ethics, principles and domains section. We also began work on the initial Design Considerations section. You can see some of this work here.

Completed the Ethics, Principles and Domains Section of the Permaculture Design Page ” Click to Visit

The core team also continued developing the goat barn in SketchUp 3D. Here you can see the designs evolving.

Global Stewardship ” Continued Developing the Goat Barn in SketchUP 3D ” Click for Page

And, last but not least, the core team researched various articles on breeds of sheep and incorporated what we learned into the behind-the-scenes sheep-tutorial Google Doc shown here.

Researched Various Articles on Breeds of Sheep and Incorporated into Google Doc ” Click for Page

GLOBAL STEWARDSHIP HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

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

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

This week the core team continued working on the redesign of the Ultimate Classroom. This week we replaced the straw bales with solid walls so we could produce these outdoor renders.

Replaced the Straw Bales With Solid Walls on the Ultimate Classroom ” Click to Visit

Guy Grossfeld (Graphic Designer) continued with week 3 of his work adding people and object additions to the redesigned and re-rendered sections of the Ultimate Classroom. Here are the latest drafts of the red and green rooms and a view looking South.

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

GLOBAL STEWARDSHIP HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS

One Community is facilitating global stewardship 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 edited and reformatted our complete volunteer agreement as a Google Form that can now be completed online.

Edited and Reformatted Complete Volunteer Agreement as a Google Form ” Click to Visit Helping Page

The core team working with Brian Gilb (Project Management Professional ” PMP) also rewrote our new volunteer Welcome Page and policies again. We added more details and made it easier to understand.

Global Stewardship ” Rewrote Our New Volunteer Welcome Page and Policies Again – Click for Page

The core team and Brian additionally finished creation of our new internal communications procedures structure and document and a final revision of our new onboarding procedure promoting global stewardship. We also officially launched the new onboarding process with two new volunteers.

Finished Creation of Our New Internal Communications Procedures Structure – Click To Visit Page

Emilio Nájera (Digital Marketer) also continued with his 38th week as part of the marketing team by creating and launching all the sub-groups ad campaigns of the Highest Good of All campaign. You can see some of this work here.

Created and Launched All the Sub-groups Ad Campaigns of the Highest Good of All Campaign

WHAT ONE COMMUNITY IS CREATING

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

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

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

WHY ONE COMMUNITY IS CREATING THIS

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

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

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

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

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

 

INVESTOR PAGES

OVERVIEW | LOCATION | FUNDING

GET INVOLVED

CONSULTANTS | WAYS ANYONE CAN HELP | MEMBERSHIP

CLICK HERE FOR ALL PAST UPDATES

Creating a sustainable civilization is possible if enough people want it. One Community is working to make this happen by open-source developing resources for sustainable food, energy, housing, education, for-profit and non-profit economic design, social architecture, fulfilled living, and global stewardship practices. We’ll then use and refine these resources as we build the prototype city that will demonstrate the kind of sustainability that could accomplish this as easy, enough, affordable enough, and attractive enough to spread on its own.

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

OUR MAIN OPEN SOURCE HUBS

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

One Community’s physical location will forward this movement as the first of many self-replicating teacher/demonstration communities, villages, and cities to be built around the world. This is the July 21st, 2019 edition (#330) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments:

Creating a Sustainable Civilization
One Community Progress Update #330

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

CREATING A SUSTAINABLE CIVILIZATION INTRO: @0:34

CREATING A SUSTAINABLE CIVILIZATION HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING: @6:49

• Began adding the content to the most sustainable insulation options page; finished the initial formatting and completed the Why and Understanding R-Values sections (see below)
• Brianna Olsen completed her 7th week researching the insulation details and finished her second round of revisions on the most sustainable insulation options page (see below)
• Shadi Kennedy continued developing the Murphy bed instructions; continued standardization of the page layouts, parts colors, labels, and other details (see below)

CREATING A SUSTAINABLE CIVILIZATION DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER: @8:01

• This week Yuqiao Zhang continued helping update the City Center AutoCAD and SketchUp files and designing the rainwater harvesting system (see below)
• Ron Huang continued working on the Energy Modeling for our LEED Platinum certification and City Center open source HVAC design tutorial (see below)
• Sneha Dongre continued helping with the Duplicable City Center structural details; solving more missing 3D face (area) issues in AutoCAD, deleting extra members, and testing and retesting the model in SAP (see below)

CREATING A SUSTAINABLE CIVILIZATION HIGHEST GOOD FOOD: @9:30

• Continued our development of the open source lake and water-retention landscape design tutorial; created all the missing and behind-the-scenes construction, lake-sealing, individual dam description, and FAQ details (see below)
• Continued developing the behind-the-scenes content for the Open Source Permaculture Design page; focused on What and Why sections, history of permaculture details, and beginning describing Holmgren’s 12 principles of design (see below)
• Started developing the goat barn in Sketchup 3D (see below)
• Continued researching sheep (see below)

CREATING A SUSTAINABLE CIVILIZATION HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION: @10:43

• With over 8 years of development invested in the Education for Life component, this part of One Community is now complete enough to no longer focus and report on it with weekly updates. That is, of course, until we move onto the property and continue the development and open sourcing process with teachers and students. Visit the Education section below for links to all the completed elements of this component and details on the final remaining action items for this area of One Community before moving onto the property and fully launching it.
• Continued working on the redesign of the Ultimate Classroom; added a temporary roof so we could create external renders and created a new render of the interior looking Southeast (see below0
• Guy Grossfeld continued adding people and object additions to the redesigned and re-rendered sections of the Ultimate Classroom (see below)

CREATING A SUSTAINABLE CIVILIZATION HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY: @12:17

• Rewrote our new volunteer Welcome Page and policies (see below)
• Core team working with Brian Gilb completed the Highest Good Network information flow graphics and version 2 of the work breakdown structure shown here (see below)
• Emilio Nájera continued with his 37th week as part of the marketing team by creating the first versions of the Foundation for World Change and Nonprofit Organization sub-groups of the Highest Good of All ad campaign (see below)

CREATING A SUSTAINABLE CIVILIZATION SUMMARY: @13:12

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ONE COMMUNITY WEEKLY UPDATE DETAILS

CREATING A SUSTAINABLE CIVILIZATION HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

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

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

This week the core team began adding the content to the most sustainable insulation options page. This week we finished the initial formatting and completed the Why and Understanding R-Values sections.

Began Adding Content to the Most Sustainable Insulation Options Page – Click to Visit

Also working on the most sustainable insulation options page, Brianna Olsen (Sustainability Researcher) completed her 7th week researching the details and finished her second round of revisions. She added a more high-level overview of the different types of insulations vs. specific products/brands and included insulations we didn’t add in the spreadsheet because the health consequences invalidated them. We’d say this behind-the-scenes work is now 95% complete.

Continued Researching the Most Sustainable Insulation Options ” Click for Page

Continued Standardization of the Murphy Bed Page Layouts, Part Colors, and Labels ” Click To Visit

CREATING A SUSTAINABLE CIVILIZATION DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

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

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

This week Yuqiao Zhang (Architectural Designer/Drafter) completed his 9th week helping update the City Center AutoCAD and SketchUp files and designing the rainwater harvesting system. This week he added the ground trench system and the basement drainage systems, researched and applied design codes, color-coded all the sections of the system, and revised the AutoCAD basement entryway and several other areas. You can see some of this work here.

Continued Updating the AutoCAD and SketchUp Files and Designing the Rainwater Harvesting System

Ron Huang (Mechanical Engineer) continued with his 11th week working on the Energy Modeling for our LEED Platinum certification and City Center open source HVAC design tutorial. This week he continued to create the baseline model by modeling the building with a window-to-wall ratio of 40% and calculating baseline equipment performance and plug loads. You can see some of this work here.

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

Sneha Dongre (Structural Engineer) additionally continued with her 17th week helping with the Duplicable City Center structural details. This week’s focus was solving more missing 3D face (area) issues in AutoCAD, deleting extra members, and testing and retesting the model in SAP. You can see some of this work here.

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

CREATING A SUSTAINABLE CIVILIZATION HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

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

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

This week the core team continued with week 18 of our development of the open source lake and water-retention landscape design tutorial. This week we created all the missing and behind-the-scenes construction, lake-sealing, individual dam description, and FAQ details. Most of which you can see here.

Continued on Lake and Water-retention Landscape Design Tutorial – Click for Page

The core team also continued developing the behind-the-scenes content for the Open Source Permaculture Design page. This week’s focus was the What and Why sections, history of permaculture details, and beginning describing Holmgren’s 12 principles of design.

Continued Developing Content for the Open Source Permaculture Design Page – Click to Visit

The core team additionally started developing the goat barn in SketchUp 3D. What you see here are our initial layout tests.

Started Developing the Goat Barn in SketchUP 3D – Click for Page

And, last but not least, the core team continued researching sheep. We reviewed and extracted information from Sheep 101 and Wikipedia Sheep and added all we learned to our new behind-the-scenes sheep-tutorial Google Doc, as shown here.

Reviewed and Extracted Information From Sheep 101 and Wikipedia Sheep – Click To Visit Page

CREATING A SUSTAINABLE CIVILIZATION HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

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

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

This week the core team continued working on the redesign of the Ultimate Classroom. This week we added a temporary roof so we could create external renders and created this new render of the interior looking Southeast. This helps One Community’s mission of creating a sustainable civilization and our commitment to a better living quality for all people.

Continued Working on the Redesign of the Ultimate Classroom, Adding a Temporary Roof

Guy Grossfeld (Graphic Designer) continued with week 2 of his work adding people and object additions to the redesigned and re-rendered sections of the Ultimate Classroom. Here are the second drafts of the orange, red, blue and indigo classroom spaces. The classrooms will One Community to teach the future generations the importance of creating a sustainable civilization.

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

CREATING A SUSTAINABLE CIVILIZATION HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS

One Community is creating a sustainable civilization 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 rewrote our new volunteer Welcome Page and policies. You can see some of this new page here.

Rewrote Our New Volunteer Welcome Page and Policies ” Click to Visit Page

The core team working with Brian Gilb (Project Management Professional ” PMP) also completed the Highest Good Network information flow graphics and version 2 of the work breakdown structure shown here.

Completed Highest Good Network Information Flow Graphics and Version 2 of WBS ” Click to Visit

And Emilio Nájera (Digital Marketer) continued with his 37th week as part of the marketing team by creating the first versions of the Foundation for World Change and Nonprofit Organization sub-groups of the Highest Good of All ad campaign. Work on the ad campaging helps One Community get the word out about creating a sustainable civilization. You can see some of this work here.

Continued Working on the Highest Good of All Ad Campaign ” Click to Visit Page

WHAT ONE COMMUNITY IS CREATING

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

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

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

WHY ONE COMMUNITY IS CREATING THIS

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

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

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

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

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

 

INVESTOR PAGES

OVERVIEW | LOCATION | FUNDING

GET INVOLVED

CONSULTANTS | WAYS ANYONE CAN HELP | MEMBERSHIP

CLICK HERE FOR ALL PAST UPDATES

Let’s make replicable sustainability the new Occupy Movement and let’s do it globally. We can work together and create a planet that works for everyone by building and open sourcing self-replicating teacher/demonstration hubs that empower people to become sustainable and self-sufficient. We can simultaneously address the greatest challenges of this generation and generations to come while also providing a better way of life for ourselves and our families. We can help ourselves while helping others. One Community calls this living and creating for “The Highest Good of All” and we are developing all necessary tools, tutorials, and resources for implementation and duplication.

• 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 for replicable sustainability as the first of many self-replicating teacher/demonstration communities, villages, and cities to be built around the world. This is the July 14th, 2019 edition (#329) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments:

Replicable Sustainability – The New Occupy Movement
One Community Progress Update #329

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

REPLICABLE SUSTAINABILITY – THE NEW OCCUPY MOVEMENT INTRO: @0:34

REPLICABLE SUSTAINABILITY – HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING: @6:23

REPLICABLE SUSTAINABILITY – DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER: @7:40

• Added all the sustainability-benchmarking details for all the major faucet-providing companies to the most sustainable faucets page (see below)
• Yuqiao Zhang continued helping update the City Center AutoCAD and SketchUp files and designing and calculating the needs for the rainwater harvesting system (see below)
• Ron Huang continued working on the Energy Modeling for our LEED Platinum certification and City Center open source HVAC design tutorial (see below)
• Sneha Dongre continued with her 16th week helping with the Duplicable City Center structural details; adding 3D surfaces to the remaining dome and patio areas and testing them in SAP 2000 (see below)

REPLICABLE SUSTAINABILITY – HIGHEST GOOD FOOD: @9:08

• Continued development of the open source lake and water-retention landscape design tutorial (see below)
• Added all the researched fencing content to the open source Goats page (see below)

REPLICABLE SUSTAINABILITY – HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION: @9:46

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

REPLICABLE SUSTAINABILITY – HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY: @11:05

• Updated our healthy living policy and page to clarify we’ll be demonstrating a smoke-free property (see below)
• Core team working with Brian Gilb completed the Project Charter and initial Work Breakdown Structure for the Highest Good Network Software and created charts and graphs for interpreting data in the Work Breakdown Structure for the complete project (see below)
• Emilio Nájera continued researching how subgrouping works and creating the sub-groups for the Highest Good of All landing page covering “Foundations for world change and nonprofit organizations” and “Sustainable Food and Sustainable Housing” (see below)

REPLICABLE SUSTAINABILITY – THE NEW OCCUPY MOVEMENT SUMMARY: @12:10

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

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ONE COMMUNITY WEEKLY UPDATE DETAILS

HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

One Community is free sharing replicable sustainability – the new Occupy Movement 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 for replicable sustainability: 7 Sustainable Village Models
    • Visit the open source portals for the first two: Earthbag Village OS Hub | Straw Bale Village OS Hub

This week the core team did another round of testing last week’s Murphy bed assembly instruction updates. What you see here are the errors we found.

Did Another Round of Testing the Murphy Bed Assembly Instructions ” Click for Page

Brianna Olsen (Sustainability Researcher) completed her 6th week researching the most sustainable insulation options. This week she finished the first draft of the summary of the products, their key features, and their pros and cons as a part of replicable sustainability. You can see some of this work here and we’d say this behind-the-scenes work is now 90% complete.

Continued Researching the Most Sustainable Insulation Options ” Click for Page

Dan Alleck (Designer and Illustrator) also completed his 49th week helping with Earthbag Village renders. This week he did one additional round of edits to finish this Earthbag Village looking South image for replicable sustainability. You can now find this updated on the website also.

One Additional Round of Edits to Finish this Earthbag Village Looking South Render ” Click for Page

Shadi Kennedy (Artist and Graphic Designer) also completed his 59th week developing the Murphy bed instructions. This week’s focus was continued updates and revisions to the Bed Box section for replicable sustainability. Almost every page shown here has had changes made to it and several are new.

Updates and Revisions to the Murphy Bed Box Section ” Click for Earthbag Furniture Page

DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

One Community is free sharing replicable sustainability – the new Occupy Movement 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 for replicable sustainability: Duplicable City Center Open Source Hub

This week the core team added all the sustainability-benchmarking details for all the major faucet-providing companies to the most sustainable faucets page.

Sustainability-Benchmarking Details for Faucet-providing Companies to Sustainable Faucets Page

This week Yuqiao Zhang (Architectural Designer/Drafter) completed his 8th week helping update the City Center AutoCAD and SketchUp files and designing and calculating the needs for the rainwater harvesting system. This week he made updates to the window and door plan and created the second draft of the new zoning and harvesting strategy for replicable sustainability. You can see some of this work here.

Continued Finalizing City Center AutoCAD and SketchUp Files ” Click for Duplicable City Center

Ron Huang (Mechanical Engineer) continued with his 10th week working on the Energy Modeling for our LEED Platinum certification and City Center open source HVAC design tutorial. This week he calculated heating and cooling coefficients to assess performance and fine-tuned the proposed building model to confirm it met ASHRAE requirements for unmet hours for replicable sustainability. You can see some of this work here.

Calculated Heating and Cooling Coefficients to Assess Performance – Click for City Center HVAC Page

Sneha Dongre (Structural Engineer) additionally continued with her 16th week helping with the Duplicable City Center structural details. This week’s focus was adding 3D surfaces to the remaining dome and patio areas and testing them in SAP 2000 for replicable sustainability. You can see some of this work here.

Added 3D Surfaces to Remaining Dome and Patio Areas and Tested them in SAP 2000 ” Click for Page

HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

One Community is free sharing replicable sustainability – the new Occupy Movement 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 for replicable sustainability: Hoop House Hub | Aquapini & Walipini Open Source Hub
    • See what we’ll be growing for replicable sustainability: Gardens & Hoop Houses | Large-scale Structures | Food Forest | TA

This week the core team continued with week 17 of our development of the open source lake and water-retention landscape design tutorial. This week we created all the imagery shown here.

Created All the Imagery for our Lake and Water-Retention Landscape Design Tutorial ” Click for Page

The core team also added all the researched fencing content to the open source Goats page. You can see some of this new content here.

Added All the Researched Fencing Content to the Open Source Goats Page ” Click for Page

HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

One Community is free sharing replicable sustainability – the new Occupy Movement through Highest Good education that is for all ages, applicable in any environment, adaptable to individual needs, far exceeds traditional education standards, and more fun for both the teachers and the students.

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

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

This week Guy Grossfeld (Graphic Designer) rejoined the team and started helping with people and object additions to the redesigned and re-rendered sections of the Ultimate Classroom. Here are the first-drafts of four of these new classroom spaces.

Helping with People and Object Additions to the Redesigned Sections of the Ultimate Classroom

HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS

One Community is free sharing replicable sustainability – the new Occupy Movement 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 for replicable sustainability: A Day in the Life
    • Learn about the 4 economic models: RBE | For-profit | Non-profit | Entrepreneurship
    • Learn about our open source community collaboration and management software: The Highest Good Network

This week the core team updated our healthy living policy and page to clarify we’ll be demonstrating a smoke-free property.

Updated Our Healthy Living Policy and Page – Click to Visit

The core team working with Brian Gilb (Project Management Professional ” PMP) also completed the Project Charter and initial Work Breakdown Structure for the Highest Good Network Software.

Completed Project Charter and Initial Work Breakdown Structure for HGN Software – Click for Page

Also these charts and graphs for interpreting data in the Work Breakdown Structure for the complete project.

Charts and Graphs for Interpreting Data in Work Breakdown Structure for the Complete Project

Emilio Nájera (Digital Marketer) continued with his 36th week as part of the marketing team by researching how subgrouping works and creating the sub-groups for the Highest Good of All landing page covering “Foundations for world change and nonprofit organizations” and “Sustainable Food and Sustainable Housing.” You can see some of this work here.

Researched and Created Sub-groups for the Highest Good of All Landing Page – Click to Visit

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

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

 

INVESTOR PAGES

OVERVIEW | LOCATION | FUNDING

GET INVOLVED

CONSULTANTS | WAYS ANYONE CAN HELP | MEMBERSHIP

CLICK HERE FOR ALL PAST UPDATES

WHAT ONE COMMUNITY IS CREATING

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

Our goal is to demonstrate what we feel is the most sustainable, healthy, and fun environment we can create, fostering the replicable sustainability. 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, contributing to the replicable sustainability. This includes what we call “Highest Good” approaches to food, energy, housing, education, for-profit and non-profit economics design, social architecture, fulfilled living, stewardship practices and more. 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, spearheading the replicable sustainability. 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 with the help of the replicable sustainability. We will achieve this by establishing successful teacher/demonstration hubs on every continent. Villages include designs appropriate for each of the five main types of climates. They also include options for even the most challenged economies. These hubs will collaborate with one another, share ideas, resources, and work together as a network to heal the planet. 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, contributing to the replicable sustainability. For One Community residents (the Pioneer Team), the idea of creating and sharing the social and recreational experience with visitors is also fun, exciting, fulfilling, and an additional reason why we are creating this.

Open source sustainability is a path to solving the global housing crisis. The last time a global survey was attempted by the United Nations, an estimate 100 million people were homeless and 1.6 billion lacked adequate housing.¹ That was in 2005. One Community sees a global network of teacher/demonstration hubs sharing needed resources, open source construction strategies for affordable and more durable housing, and demonstrating living models for The Highest Good of All as a path to solving 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 to solving the global housing crisis as the first of many self-replicating teacher/demonstration communities, villages, and cities to be built around the world. This is the July 7th, 2019 edition (#328) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments:

Solving the Global Housing Crisis
One Community Progress Update #328

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

SOLVING THE GLOBAL HOUSING CRISIS INTRO: @0:34

SOLVING THE GLOBAL HOUSING CRISIS HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING: @7:04

SOLVING THE GLOBAL HOUSING CRISIS DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER: @8:29

• Yuqiao Zhang continued helping finalize the City Center AutoCAD and SketchUp files (see below)
• Ron Huang continued working on the Energy Modeling for our LEED Platinum certification and City Center open source HVAC design tutorial (see below)
• Sneha Dongre continued helping with the Duplicable City Center structural details; adding 3D surfaces to the cupola and surrounding patio and testing them in SAP 2000 (see below)

SOLVING THE GLOBAL HOUSING CRISIS HIGHEST GOOD FOOD: @9:46

• Continued development of the open source lake and water-retention landscape design tutorial; wrote the Why and Details sections and draft 1 of the Construction Steps (see below)
• Continued developing the behind-the-scenes content for the Open Source Permaculture Design page (see below)
• Began researching sheep by reviewing Raising Sheep: The Basics, 5 Reasons to Consider Sheep and What I Wish I Knew Before Starting a Sheep Farm, took notes on the relevant content (see below)

SOLVING THE GLOBAL HOUSING CRISIS HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION: @10:51

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

SOLVING THE GLOBAL HOUSING CRISIS HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY: @11:56

• Created a new donations page that we’ll be using our marketing grant to promote (see below)
• Core team working with Brian Gilb created a new volunteer on-boarding strategy and process and finished the Administrator-user functionality of the Highest Good Network Software (see below)
• Emilio Nájera continued with his 35th week as part of the marketing team by researching what is and isn’t working in the new keyword campaigns (see below)
  

SOLVING THE GLOBAL HOUSING CRISIS SUMMARY: @12:56

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HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

One Community is solving the global housing crisis 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 for solving the global housing crisis: 7 Sustainable Village Models
    • Visit the open source portals for the first two: Earthbag Village OS Hub | Straw Bale Village OS Hub

This week the core team did another round of testing the Murphy bed assembly instructions for the changing area for solving the global housing crisis. What you see here are the errors we found.

Did Another Round of Testing the Murphy Bed Assembly Instructions for the Changing Area

Brianna Olsen (Sustainability Researcher) completed her 5th week researching the most sustainable insulation options. This week she continued compiling the data from her research table into the tutorial template. You can see some of this work here we’d say we’re now about 70% done.

Compiling the Data from her Research Table Into the Tutorial Template

Dean Scholz (Architectural Designer) finished week #165 working on the Earthbag Village (Pod 1). This week he updated the stairs and front door to meet code and added more south wall details.

Updated Stairs and Front Door to Meet Code and Added More South Wall Details

Dan Alleck (Designer and Illustrator) completed his 48th week helping with Earthbag Village renders. This week he finished work on the people, plant, and texture updates to this final view of the Earthbag Village looking South for solving the global housing crisis.

Finished Work on People, Plant, and Texture Updates to Final View of Earthbag Village Looking South

Shadi Kennedy (Artist and Graphic Designer) also completed his 58th week developing the Murphy bed instructions. This week’s focus was checking the details of the Bed Box section, integrating last week’s feedback on the benches section, and identifying final checks needed for the storage area as a part of solving the global housing crisis.

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

DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

One Community is solving the global housing crisis 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 for solving the global housing crisis: Duplicable City Center Open Source Hub

This week Yuqiao Zhang (Architectural Designer/Drafter) completed his 7th week helping finalize the City Center AutoCAD and SketchUp files. This week he started designing and calculating the needs for the rainwater harvesting system, created the first draft of the new zoning and harvesting strategy, and kept adding furniture and window details in the AutoCAD and Sketchup models. You can see some of this work here.

Continued Finalizing City Center AutoCAD and SketchUp Files ” Click for Duplicable City Center

Ron Huang (Mechanical Engineer) continued with his 9th week working on the Energy Modeling for our LEED Platinum certification and City Center open source HVAC design tutorial. This week he began analyzing and updating the proposed building model to meet LEED requirements. You can see some of this here.

Began Analyzing and Updating the Proposed Building Model to Meet LEED Requirements

Sneha Dongre (Structural Engineer) additionally continued with her 15th week helping with the Duplicable City Center structural details. This week’s focus was adding 3D surfaces to the cupola and surrounding patio and testing them in SAP 2000. You can see some of this work here.

Added 3D Surfaces to Cupola and Surrounding Patio and Tested Them in SAP 2000 ” Click for Page

HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

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

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

This week the core team continued with week 16 of our development of the open source lake and water-retention landscape design tutorial. This week we wrote the Why and Details sections and draft 1 of the Construction Steps. You can see some of this work here.

Wrote the Why and Details Sections and Draft 1 of the Construction Steps ” Click for Dam Design Page

The core team also continued developing the behind-the-scenes content for the Open Source Permaculture Design page. What you see here are some of our tutorial outline and notes so far.

Continued Developing Content for the Open Source Permaculture Design Page

Last but not least, the core team began researching sheep by reviewing Raising Sheep: The Basics. We also watched 5 Reasons to Consider Sheep and What I Wish I Knew Before Starting a Sheep Farm, took notes on the relevant content, broke out time frames, and added all we learned to our new behind-the-scenes sheep-tutorial Google Doc.

Began Researching Sheep and Added All We Learned to Our New Google Doc – Click for Food Page

HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

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

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

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

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

HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS

One Community is solving the global housing crisis 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 for solving the global housing crisis: A Day in the Life
    • Learn about the 4 economic models: RBE | For-profit | Non-profit | Entrepreneurship
    • Learn about our open source community collaboration and management software: The Highest Good Network

This week the core team created a new donations page that we’ll be using our marketing grant to promote. You can see some of the new page here.

Created a New Donations Page We’ll Be Using Our Marketing Grant to Promote ” Click to Visit

The core team working with Brian Gilb (Project Management Professional – PMP) also created a new volunteer on-boarding strategy and process and finished the Administrator-user functionality of the Highest Good Network Software. You can see some of this work here.

Created a New Volunteer On-boarding Strategy for the Highest Good Network Software ” Click to Visit

And Emilio Nájera (Digital Marketer) continued with his 35th week as part of the marketing team by researching what is and isn’t working in the new keyword campaigns. The number of keywords per ad group was the main focus this week. You can see some of this work here.

Researched What Is and Isn’t Working in the New Keyword Campaigns ” Click to Visit Site Map

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WHAT ONE COMMUNITY IS CREATING

One Community is creating a place to grow together and change the world together, contributing to solving the global housing crisis. 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, fostering solving the global housing crisis. 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, contributing to solving the global housing crisis. This includes what we call “Highest Good” approaches to food, energy, housing, education, for-profit and non-profit economics design, social architecture, fulfilled living, stewardship practices and more. We are creating these resources for implementation as individual components or complete developments called teacher/demonstration hubs. These hubs will help launch additional hubs as awareness and knowledge grow.

BUILDING THE FIRST OF MANY

One Community will be the first teacher/demonstration hub, spearheading solving the global housing crisis. 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 with the help of solving the global housing crisis. 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, contributing to solving the global housing crisis. 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.

One Community welcomes Brianna Olsen to the Sustainability Research Team as our newest Volunteer/Consultant!

Brianna earned her BA from Saint Mary’s College of California in 2018 as a member of the first graduating cohort of the Justice, Community, and Leadership major. Brianna also received minors in Math/Computer Science and French. During her undergraduate studies Brianna developed a strong affinity for environmental justice. She spent a summer internship doing funding development work for The Nature Conservancy and is presently working in financial and risk analysis in the health insurance industry. She aspires to continue her studies in environmental justice by applying for graduate school working toward a Masters in Public Policy with a concentration in environmental policy. Brianna is utilizing her time on the Highest Good Housing project to develop her professional research skills, learn more about sustainability and associated industries, and compiling her research into accessible channels for others to integrate into their own lives, thus furthering green living.

WELCOME TO THE TEAM BRIANNA!

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One Community welcomes Yuqiao Zhang to the Architectural Design Team as our newest Volunteer/Consultant!

Yuqiao is a graduate from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, with Master of Architecture and M.S. Civil Engineering: Construction Management. With a diversity of experience in architectural design and drafting, Yuqiao is working to apply his construction-education backgrounds with designs that create value and serve society. As part of this, Yuqiao also became a LEED GA in 2018. This further deepened his understanding of the importance of sustainability and how much people can reduce their impact with environment-friendly designs and construction techniques. Yuqiao joined the One Community team working on the Duplicable City Center designs to contribute this passion and his knowledge to make positive change in the world.

WELCOME TO THE TEAM YUQIAO!

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Is it finally time for humanity to start stewarding global sustainability? One Community thinks it is and we’re creating open source food, energy, housing, education, for-profit and non-profit economic models, social architecture models, fulfilled living models, and global stewardship tutorials to help. Together, these will be implemented in teacher/demonstration hubs to help others replicated and further evolve all these foundations as a pathway to global sustainability 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 to start stewarding global sustainability as the first of many self-replicating teacher/demonstration communities, villages, and cities to be built around the world. This is the June 30th, 2019 edition (#327) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments:

Stewarding Global Sustainability
One Community Progress Update #327

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

STEWARDING GLOBAL SUSTAINABILITY INTRO: @0:29

HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING: @6:26

• Used the Murphy bed assembly instructions to test build the benches and a table again in 3D (see below)
• Brianna Olsen continued researching the most sustainable insulation options (see below)
• Dean Scholz continued working on the Earthbag Village; researched stair and window codes and updated those areas to fit the new south wall (see below)
• Dan Alleck continued helping with Earthbag Village renders; finished work on the people, plant, and texture updates to final view of the Earthbag Village looking Northeast (see below)
• Shadi Kennedy continued developing the Murphy bed instructions; integrating last week’s feedback on the storage and changing areas (see below)

STEWARDING GLOBAL SUSTAINABILITY DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER: @7:53

• Anvita Kumari Pandey measured all the floor areas in AutoCAD and created the initial cost analysis for these areas in the Duplicable City Center Costs spreadsheet (see below)
• Yuqiao Zhang continued helping finalize the City Center AutoCAD and SketchUp files; further revised the swimming pool details, Social Dome loft and main door details, laundry room details, and central pool and front area furniture (see below)
• Ron Huang continued working on the Energy Modeling for our LEED Platinum certification and City Center open source HVAC design tutorial; modeled the refrigeration systems and began creation of HVAC system model (see below)
• Sneha Dongre continued with her 14th week helping with the Duplicable City Center structural details; adding 3D surfaces to the Social Dome triangles and testing them in SAP 2000 (see below)
• Elizabeth Kahn finished the Why and detailed introductions for the upcoming most sustainable hand dryer options page (see below)

STEWARDING GLOBAL SUSTAINABILITY HIGHEST GOOD FOOD: @9:34

• Continued with week 15 of our development of the open source lake and water-retention landscape design tutorial; added and tested initial formatting and anchor links, edited and created and added a new dam-summary image and the image from last week (see below)

STEWARDING GLOBAL SUSTAINABILITY HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION: @10:10

• With over 8 years of development invested in the Education for Life component, this part of One Community is now complete enough to no longer focus and report on it with weekly updates. That is, of course, until we move onto the property and continue the development and open sourcing process with teachers and students. Visit the Education section below for links to all the completed elements of this component and details on the final remaining action items for this area of One Community before moving onto the property and fully launching it.
• Continued working on the redesign of the Ultimate Classroom; added ceilings and lights and produced the new set of renders shown here (see below)

STEWARDING GLOBAL SUSTAINABILITY HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY: @11:24

• Core team working with Brian Gilb created version 1 of our Communications Procedure and manager-user functionality of the Highest Good Network Software (see below)

STEWARDING GLOBAL SUSTAINABILITY SUMMARY: @12:00

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STEWARDING GLOBAL SUSTAINABILITY: HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

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

• • • Learn about: Our Upcoming Crowdfunding Campaign
    • Learn about the different village models to start stewarding global sustainability: 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 used the Murphy bed assembly instructions to test build the benches and a table again in 3D. Only a couple fixes were needed this time. You can see some of this work here.

Used Murphy Bed Assembly Instructions to Test Build Benches and a Table Again in 3D – Click for Page

And Brianna Olsen (Sustainability Researcher) completed her 4th week researching the most sustainable insulation options. This week she emailed companies again about the outstanding questions related to the insulation products being evaluated, finalized details for the generic wool and straw insulation, and wrote the first parts of the article covering airkrete.

Continued Researching the Most Sustainable Insulation Options ” Click for Page

Dean Scholz (Architectural Designer) finished week #164 working on the Earthbag Village (Pod 1). This week he researched stair and window codes and updated those areas to fit the new south wall.

Researched Stair and Window Codes and Updated Those Areas to Fit the New South Wall

Dan Alleck (Designer and Illustrator) completed his 47th week helping with Earthbag Village renders. This week he finished work on the people, plant, and texture updates to this final view of the Earthbag Village looking Northeast to start stewarding global sustainability.

Finished Final View of the Earthbag Village Looking Northeast ” Click for Page

Shadi Kennedy (Artist and Graphic Designer) also completed his 57th week developing the Murphy bed instructions. This week’s focus was integrating last week’s feedback on the storage and changing areas shown here.

Made Updates to Murphy Bed Storage and Changing Areas ” Click for Furniture Page

STEWARDING GLOBAL SUSTAINABILITY: DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

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

• • • Learn about this building and it’s function to start stewarding global sustainability: Duplicable City Center Open Source Hub

This week Anvita Kumari Pandey (Civil Engineer) measured all the floor areas in AutoCAD and created the initial cost analysis for these areas in the Duplicable City Center Costs spreadsheet.

Measured Floor Areas in AutoCAD and Created Initial Cost Analysis in City Center Costs Spreadsheet

Yuqiao Zhang (Architectural Designer/Drafter) completed his 6th week helping finalize the City Center AutoCAD and SketchUp files. This week he further revised the swimming pool details, Social Dome loft and main door details, laundry room details, and central pool and front area furniture. You can see some of this work here.

Continued Finalizing City Center AutoCAD and SketchUp Files – Click for Duplicable City Center

Ron Huang (Mechanical Engineer) continued with his 8th week working on the Energy Modeling for our LEED Platinum certification and City Center open source HVAC design tutorial. This week he modeled the refrigeration systems and began creation of HVAC system model.

Modeled the Refrigeration Systems and Began Creation of HVAC System Model – Click for Page

Sneha Dongre (Structural Engineer) additionally continued with her 14th week helping with the Duplicable City Center structural details. This week’s focus was adding 3D surfaces to the Social Dome triangles and testing them in SAP 2000. You can see some of this work here.

Added 3D Surfaces to Social Dome Triangles and Tested Them in SAP 2000 – Click for Page

Elizabeth Kahn (Environmental Consultant) also completed her 19th and final week as a researcher. This week she finished the Why and detailed introductions for the upcoming most sustainable hand dryer options page. You can see her work here.

Finished Why and Detailed Introductions for Most Sustainable Hand Dryer Options Page

STEWARDING GLOBAL SUSTAINABILITY: HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

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

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

This week the core team continued with week 15 of our development of the open source lake and water-retention landscape design tutorial. This week we added and tested initial formatting and anchor links, edited and created and added a new dam-summary image and the image from last week.

Continued Our Research Into Lake and Water Retention Landscape Creation

STEWARDING GLOBAL SUSTAINABILITY: HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

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

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

This week the core team continued working on the redesign of the Ultimate Classroom. This week we added ceilings and lights and produced the new set of renders shown here.

Added Ceilings and Lights to the Ultimate Classroom and Produced Renders – Click for Page

STEWARDING GLOBAL SUSTAINABILITY: HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS

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

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

This week the core team working with Brian Gilb (Project Management Professional ” PMP) created version 1 of our Communications Procedure and manager-user functionality of the Highest Good Network Software. You can see some of this work here.

Version 1 of Communications Procedure, Manager-user Functionality of HGN Software

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, contributing to stewarding global sustainability. We are creating a space that helps each other live in integrity with each other and the planet as we strive to be the greatest versions of ourselves. We do this by harmoniously respecting each other, nature, and the rest of our one shared planet.

Our goal is to demonstrate what we feel is the most sustainable, healthy, and fun environment we can create, fostering stewarding global sustainability. 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, contributing to stewarding global sustainability. This includes what we call “Highest Good” approaches to food, energy, housing, education, for-profit and non-profit economics design, social architecture, fulfilled living, stewardship practices and more. 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, spearheading stewarding global sustainability. 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 with the help of stewarding global sustainability. We will achieve this by establishing successful teacher/demonstration hubs on every continent. Villages include designs appropriate for each of the five main types of climates. They also include options for even the most challenged economies. These hubs will collaborate with one another, share ideas, resources, and work together as a network to heal the planet. 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, contributing to stewarding global sustainability. For One Community residents (the Pioneer Team), the idea of creating and sharing the social and recreational experience with visitors is also fun, exciting, fulfilling, and an additional reason why we are creating this.

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.), contributing to stewarding global sustainability. 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, contributing to stewarding global sustainability. 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, contributing to stewarding global sustainability. 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.

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.