Making a global difference is something a lot of people would like to do, but don’t know where to start. Open source solutions for food, energy, housing, education, economics, fulfilled living models, Earth stewardship, and other sustainability foundations can provide options for anyone to help through participation as individuals or a part of a globally collaborative team. One Community calls this a path to living and creating for The Highest Good of All:

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

OUR MAIN OPEN SOURCE HUBS

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

One Community’s physical location will forward the movement of making a global difference as the first of many self-replicating teacher/demonstration communities, villages, and cities to be built around the world. This is the February 7, 2016 edition (#150) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments:

Making a Global Difference
One Community Progress Update #150

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

MAKING A GLOBAL DIFFERENCE INTRO: @1:02

MAKING A GLOBAL DIFFERENCE HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION: @1:54

• Transferred the first 25% of the written content for the Work Lesson Plan to the website (see below)
• Behind the scenes: wrote the final 25% of the written part of the Work Lesson Plan
• Completed the first 25% of the mindmap for the Community Lesson Plan and added the icons to the Community Lesson Plan (see below)

MAKING A GLOBAL DIFFERENCE HIGHEST GOOD FOOD: @3:06

• Completed another round organizing the streamlined version of our Food Self-sufficiency Transition Plan page, which includes contributions provided by Naturopathic Doctor Matt Marturano (see below)

MAKING A GLOBAL DIFFERENCE HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING: @4:01

• Behind the scenes: Put another 10 hours into the revision for the Footers, Foundations and Flooring page for the upcoming crowdfunding campaign (see below)
• Jesika Rohrbach continued working on the Tree House Village (Pod 7) updates (see below)
• Shilcy Augustine continued developing the Compressed Earth Block Village (Pod 4) massage and treatment room spaces (see below)
• Dean Scholz further developed what’s necessary for us to create quality Cob Village (Pod 3) renders (see below)
• Brianna Johnson began exploring color templates and materials for the Straw Bale Village (Pod 2) (see below)

MAKING A GLOBAL DIFFERENCE DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER: @5:49

• Continued the process of learning how to do our own renders for the Duplicable City Center (see below)
• Completed a huge update of the Duplicable City Center open source portal (see below)
• Bupesh Seethala did research into different interface options for the Control Systems faceplate for the visitor rooms’ pallet furniture beds (see below)
• Iris Hsu created additional Pipe Couch designs for the Duplicable City Center library (see below)
• Brianna Johnson took over designing the pipe shelving for the Duplicable City Center library (see below)
• Behind the scenes: Mike Hogan and Lucas Tsutsui da Silva continued discussion about appearance and functional design for the beside-bed Control Systems interface (see below)

MAKING A GLOBAL DIFFERENCE HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY: @7:29

• Began working on a complete update of the One Community Business plan (see below)
• Finished working with Ivan Manzurov to create new icons for all of our pages. This week he created icons for the Highest Good for All component (see below)
• Jacky Tustain began helping us convert LEED Certification research done by Matheus Manfredini into the new LEED Tutorial page (see below)

MAKING A GLOBAL DIFFERENCE SUMMARY: @8:29

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ONE COMMUNITY WEEKLY UPDATE DETAILS

MAKING A GLOBAL DIFFERENCE HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

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

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

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

Making a Global Difference – Work Lesson Plan – 25% Complete – Click to Visit Page

Behind the scenes, we wrote the final 25% of the written part of this same lesson plan, bringing it to 100% complete and ready for the next steps of transferring it to the website.

We also completed the first 25% of the mindmap for the Community Lesson Plan, and we added the icons to the Community Lesson Plan web page. What you see here is the mindmap:

Making a Global Difference – Community Lesson Plan Mindmap – 25% Complete – Click to Visit Page

MAKING A GLOBAL DIFFERENCE HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

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

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

This last week the core team completed another round organizing the streamlined version of our Food Self-sufficiency Transition Plan page, which includes contributions provided by Naturopathic Doctor Matt Marturano (creator of the COHERENT model for comprehensive digestive health). This week we further organized the recipes including creating a page for week 4 recipes. The Organization is now approximately 95% complete:

Making a Global Difference – Organized Recipes, Created a Page for Week 4 Recipes – Click for Page

MAKING A GLOBAL DIFFERENCE HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

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

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

This last week the core team put another 10 hours into the behind-the-scenes revision for the Footers, Foundations and Flooring page for the crowdfunding campaign we are developing. This week’s focus was finishing the narrative for Dome Exterior Finishing and adding title insertions, video title inserts, and the beginning of the step-by-step write-up and review for Section 14: Gutter Construction. We’d say we are now 67% complete with this total update and rewrite behind the scenes.

Making a Global Difference – Revision of the Footers, Foundations and Flooring Info – Click to Visit Page

Working on the Tree House Village (Pod 7), Jesika Rohrbach (Architectural Drafter, Designers, and 3-D Modeler) continued working on the social and recreational space updates you see here. These are design updates 3.0 from Jesika and include reading spaces, kids’ play spaces, game spaces, and the patios for these tree house spaces.

Making a Global Difference –  Tree House Village Social & Recreational Space Updates – Click to Visit

Shilcy Augustine (Architect) also continued developing the Compressed Earth Block Village (Pod 4) massage and treatment room spaces. What you see here are the layouts we decided on, including sinks and the addition of sliding glass doors for all the south-facing walls.

Continued Developing the Compressed Earth Block Village Massage and Treatment Room Spaces

Dean Scholz, Architectural Designer, further developed what’s necessary for us to create quality Cob Village (Pod 3) renders. Here is update 5.0 of this work that focused on the addition of roads and pathways between the North and South wings.

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

Brianna Johnson (Interior Designer), also began exploring color templates and materials for the Straw Bale Village (Pod 2). Here are examples of what we ultimately settled on.

Began Exploring Color Templates and Materials for the Straw Bale Village – Click to Visit Page

MAKING A GLOBAL DIFFERENCE DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

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

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

This week the core team continued the process of learning how to do our own renders for the Duplicable City Center. You can see this work-in-progress here, returning to the kitchen with more focus on lights, windows, and materials.

Continued Learning How to do Our Own Renders for the Duplicable City Center – Click to Visit Page

The core team also completed a huge update of the Duplicable City Center open source portal, improving the formatting and adding updated floor plan exports from AutoCAD. You can see all this great work here, and visit the updated page for clickable and enlargeable images.

Completed a Huge Update of the Duplicable City Center Open Source Portal – Click to Visit Page

Bupesh Seethala (Interior Designer) also did this research into different interface options for the Control Systems faceplate that will be built into the visitor rooms’ pallet furniture beds.

Conducted Research into Different Interface Options for the Control Systems Faceplate – Click to Visit

Iris Hsu (Industrial Designer), continued with these additional Pipe Couch designs for the Duplicable City Center library. The drawings you see here are her 9th generation drawings focusing on ways to support the back and secure the cushions.

Continued with the Pipe Couch Designs for the Duplicable City Center Library – Click for Page

Brianna Johnson (Interior Designer), also took over designing the pipe shelving for the Duplicable City Center library.

Started Designing the Pipe Shelving for the Duplicable City Center Library – Click to Visit Page

Behind the scenes Mike Hogan (Automation Systems Developer and Business Systems Consultant) and Lucas Tsutsui da Silva (4th-year Computer Engineering Student) continued discussion about what the appearance and best functional design should be for the beside-bed Control Systems interface. Here’s Mike showing a 3-D printed box he made.

Continued Work on the Beside-Bed Control Systems Interface – Click to Visit the Control Systems Page

MAKING A GLOBAL DIFFERENCE HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS

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

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

This last week the core team began working on a complete update of the One Community Business plan. What you see here is the beginning of reformatting the plan on a GoogleDoc for easier collaboration and sharing. We’d say we are about 2% done with the complete rewrite and update.

Behind the Scenes Began a Complete Update of the One Community Business Plan – Click to Visit Page

We also finished working with Ivan Manzurov (Artist and Illustrator) to create new icons for all of our pages. Here are the icons Ivan created for the Highest Good for All component.

Making a Global Difference – Create New Icons for Highest Good for All Component – Click to Visit

Jacky Tustain (Project Manager) also began helping us convert LEED Certification research done by Matheus Manfredini (Civil Engineering Student and Urban Design Coordinator) into a webpage. Here are the first pictures of this LEED Tutorial page developing on the site, starting with initial formatting and content editing. We’d say we’re about 15% complete with this tutorial.

Making a Global Difference – LEED Tutorial Page Developing on the Site – Click to Visit

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

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

 

INVESTOR PAGES

OVERVIEW       ●       LOCATION       ●       FUNDING

GET INVOLVED

CONSULTANTS     ●     WAYS ANYONE CAN HELP     ●     MEMBERSHIP

CLICK HERE FOR ALL PAST UPDATES

WHAT ONE COMMUNITY IS CREATING

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

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

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

BUILDING THE FIRST OF MANY

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

WHY ONE COMMUNITY IS CREATING THIS

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

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

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

INSPIRING SUSTAINABILITY WITH OPEN SOURCE

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

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

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

Igniting a new paradigm of sustainable ideas is one path to finally creating a sustainable world that works for everyone. Through open source and new-paradigm solutions for food, energy, housing, education, economics, food, energy, housing, education, economics,  fulfilled living models, and Earth Stewardship, we can make these ideas affordable enough, easy enough, and demonstrate them as attractive enough so they will replicate, evolve, and expand on their own. One Community calls this a path to living and creating for The Highest Good of All:

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

OUR MAIN OPEN SOURCE HUBS

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

One Community’s physical location will forward this movement as the first of many self-replicating teacher/demonstration communities, villages, and cities to be built around the world. This is the January 31, 2016 edition (#149) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments:

Igniting a New Paradigm of Sustainable Ideas
One Community Progress Update #149

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

IGNITING A NEW PARADIGM OF SUSTAINABLE IDEAS INTRO: @1:04

HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION: @1:56

• Transferred the final 25% of the written content for the Community Lesson Plan to the website (see below)
• Behind the scenes: wrote an additional 25% of the Work Lesson Plan
• Completed the final 25% of the mindmap for the Winter Lesson Plan (see below)

HIGHEST GOOD FOOD: @3:11

• Completed another round of organizing the streamlined version of our Food Self-sufficiency Transition Plan page, which includes contributions provided by Naturopathic Doctor Matt Marturano (coming soon)

HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING: @4:02

• Behind the scenes: Put another 10 hours into the revision for the Footers, Foundations and Flooring page for the upcoming crowdfunding campaign (see below)
• Jesika Rohrbach continued working on the Tree House Village (Pod 7) updates (see below)
• Shilcy Augustine continued developing the Compressed Earth Block Village (Pod 4) massage and treatment room spaces (see below)
• Dean Scholz further developed what’s necessary for us to create quality Cob Village (Pod 3) renders (see below)

DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER: @5:37

• Continued the process of learning how to do our own renders for the Duplicable City Center (see below)
• Integrated Bupesh Seethala’s pallet furniture closet changes in AutoCAD (from last week) into 3D models (see below)
• Iris Hsu continued with additional Pipe Couch designs for the Duplicable City Center library (see below)
• Neha Verma assumed leadership of the development aspects of the Duplicable City Center and created the updates for storage and the bathroom entryway area (see below)
• Behind the scenes: Mike Hogan and Lucas Tsutsui da Silva continued discussion about what the appearance and best functional design should be for the beside-bed Control Systems interface (see below)
• Lucas also started building the 2nd prototype of the control system so that he and Mike could continue to test it and correct some programming challenges they’ve encountered (see below)

HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY: @7:09

• Continued our work on the Highest Good Network with Andrew Herman (see below)
• Continued working with Ivan Manzurov to create new icons for all of our pages. This week he created icons for the Highest Good Energy component (see below)
• Working with Oz Czerski we finished the licensing agreements for all our trademarked slogans and logos and added them to our open source Legal Documents page (see below)

IGNITING A NEW PARADIGM OF SUSTAINABLE IDEAS SUMMARY: @8:02

• • • 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

 

ONE COMMUNITY WEEKLY UPDATE DETAILS

HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

One Community is igniting a new paradigm of sustainable ideas through Highest Good education that is for all ages, applicable in any environment, adaptable to individual needs, far exceeds traditional education standards, and more fun for both the teachers and the students:

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

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

Igniting a New Paradigm of Sustainable Ideas – Community Lesson Plan Complete – Click to Visit Page

Behind the scenes, we wrote an additional 25% of the Work Lesson Plan, bringing the behind-the-scenes written part of that lesson plan to approximately 75% complete.

We also completed the final 25% of the mindmap for the Winter Lesson Plan, bringing that to 100% complete, as you see here:

Igniting a New Paradigm of Sustainable Ideas  -Winter Lesson Plan Mindmap – Click to Visit Page

HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

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

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

This last week the core team completed another round of organizing the streamlined version of our Food Self-sufficiency Transition Plan page, which includes contributions provided by Naturopathic Doctor Matt Marturano (creator of the COHERENT model for comprehensive digestive health). This week we further organized the recipes including creating a page for week 3 recipes. The Organization is now approximately 90% complete.

Igniting a New Paradigm of Sustainable Ideas  – Organized Recipes -Week 3 Recipes – Click to Visit

HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

One Community is igniting a new paradigm of sustainable ideas through Highest Good housing that is artistic and beautiful, more affordable, more space efficient, lasts longer, DIY buildable, and constructed with healthy and sustainable materials:

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

This last week the core team put another 10 hours into the behind-the-scenes revision for the Footers, Foundations and Flooring page for the crowdfunding campaign we are developing. This week’s focus was finishing researching and adding photos for concrete pouring and screening, elaborating on the narrative, and beginning the narrative for Section 13: Dome Exterior Finishing. We’d say we are now 66% complete with this total update and rewrite behind the scenes, supporting one community is igniting a new paradigm of sustainable ideas.

Igniting a New Paradigm of Sustainable Ideas – Revision – Footers, Foundations Flooring – Click to Visit

Working on the Tree House Village (Pod 7), Jesika Rohrbach (Architectural Drafter, Designers, and 3-D Modeler) continued working on the updates you see here. This is update 2.0 from Jesika and the focus is on the internal and external specifics of the communal kitchen and dining spaces.

Igniting a New Paradigm of Sustainable Ideas – Aesthetic Details, Floor Plan – Tree House – Click to Enlarge

Shilcy Augustine (Architect) also continued developing the Compressed Earth Block Village (Pod 4) massage and treatment room spaces. What you see here are some of the different layouts we’re discussing.

Igniting a New Paradigm of Sustainable Ideas – Village Massage, Treatment Room Spaces – Click to Visit

Dean Scholz, Architectural Designer, further developed what’s necessary for us to create quality Cob Village (Pod 3) renders. Here is update 4.0 of this work that focused mostly on finding and creating textures for the southeast wing and beginning working on the roads and pathways you see here.

Igniting a New Paradigm of Sustainable Ideas – Developed  Cob Village Renders – Click to Visit

DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

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

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

This week the core team continued the process of learning how to do our own renders for the Duplicable City Center. You can see here this work-in-progress here, covering bathroom renders working on textures, mirrors, sink, floor, and more lights in the public bathrooms.

Igniting a New Paradigm of Sustainable Ideas –  Learning How to Render – Click to Visit

The core team also integrated Bupesh Seethala’s pallet furniture closet changes in AutoCAD (from last week) into the 3D models you see here:

Igniting a New Paradigm of Sustainable Ideas – Integrated Pallet Furniture Closet – Click to Visit

Iris Hsu (Industrial Designer), continued with these additional Pipe Couch designs for the Duplicable City Center library, thereby be successful in igniting a new paradigm of sustainable ideas. The drawings you see here are her 8th generation drawings continuing development of the couch idea with non-backed designs and a couple more options for the fixed back.

Igniting a New Paradigm of Sustainable Ideas – Pipe Couch Designs – Click to Visit

Neha Verma (Construction Project Manager and Bachelor’s of Architecture) also assumed leadership of the development aspects of the Duplicable City Center and created the updates highlighted here for storage and the bathroom entryway area.

Igniting a New Paradigm of Sustainable Ideas – Storage, Bathroom Entryway Area Updates – Click to Visit

Behind the scenes Mike Hogan (Automation Systems Developer and Business Systems Consultant) and Lucas Tsutsui da Silva (4th-year Computer Engineering Student) continued discussion about what the appearance and best functional design should be for the beside-bed Control Systems interface.

Igniting a New Paradigm of Sustainable Ideas – Beside-Bed Control Systems Interface – Click to Visit

Lucas also started building the 2nd prototype of the control system so that he and Mike could continue to test it and correct some programming challenges they’ve encountered.

Igniting a New Paradigm of Sustainable Ideas – 2nd Prototype of the Control System – Click to Visit

HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS

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

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

This last week the core team continued our work on the Highest Good Network with Andrew Herman (Software Engineer and Core Member of Futurist Playground). What you see here is brainstorming and outlining on how to integrate customizable options and widgets as well as our exploration into a possible tool for helping with decision making and task allocation.

Igniting a New Paradigm of Sustainable Ideas – Highest Good Network – Click to Learn About This

We also continued working with Ivan Manzurov (Artist and Illustrator) to create new icons for all of our pages. Here are the icons Ivan created for the Highest Good Energy component.

Igniting a New Paradigm of Sustainable Ideas – Icons for Highest Good Energy Component – Click to Visit

Working with Oz Czerski, Lawyer Specializing in Trademark and Copyright Law, we also finished the licensing agreements for all our trademarked slogans and logos and added them to our open source Legal Documents page.

Igniting a New Paradigm of Sustainable Ideas – Finished Licensing Agreements – Click for Legal

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 how to make a change in the world together and they are Igniting a New Paradigm of Sustainable Ideas 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 on how to make a change in the world.

BUILDING THE FIRST OF MANY

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

WHY ONE COMMUNITY IS CREATING THIS

The One Community self-replicating model is capable of creating a sustainable planet within 30 years. We will achieve this by establishing successful teacher/demonstration hubs on every continent on how to make a change in the world. 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 and learn how to make a change in the world. They will also transform the global lifestyle to a more enjoyable, fulfilling, healthy, and sustainable one, thereby be successful in igniting a new paradigm of sustainable ideas

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 how to make a change in the world and global transformation, a self-replicating teacher/demonstration model like this will take a relatively short period of time to positively affect millions while inspiring millions more.  For One Community residents (the Pioneer Team), the idea of creating and sharing the social and recreational experience with visitors is also fun, exciting, fulfilling, and an additional reason why we are creating this.

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

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

SUMMARY

One Community sees the issues of the world as interdependent and interconnected and focus towards. 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 learn how to make a change in the world and 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.

Conscious stewardship of our biosphere has never been more needed or possible. Never in the history of humanity have we had such an amazing ability to globally collaborate on this and share ideas and solutions. Through open source sustainability and consciously living and creating for The Highest Good of All, we have the ability to steward and regenerate our one shared planet for us and all future generations too. This is what One Community is doing:

• 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 January 24, 2016 edition (#148) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments:

Conscious Stewardship of Our Biosphere
One Community Progress Update #148

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

CONSCIOUS STEWARDSHIP OF OUR BIOSPHERE INTRO: @1:00

HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION: @1:57

• Transferred another 25% of the written content for the Community Lesson Plan to the website (see below)
• Behind the scenes: finished the final written portion of the Community Lesson Plan
• Completed another 25% of the mindmap for the Winter Lesson Plan (see below)

HIGHEST GOOD FOOD: @3:08

• Added the nutritional and caloric targets for all the major food categories that Naturopathic Doctor Matt Marturano calculated for our Food Self-sufficiency Transition Plan (see below)

HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING: @3:52

• Behind the scenes: Put another 10 hours into the revision for the Footers, Foundations and Flooring page for the upcoming crowdfunding campaign (see below)
• Behind the scenes: Added an additional 7% of edits and content to the Tree House Village (Pod 7) presentation begun by the Intern Team over the summer (see below)
• Jesika Rohrbach started adding the aesthetic details and floor plan updates to the Tree House Village (Pod 7) (see below)
• Shilcy Augustine continued developing the Compressed Earth Block Village (Pod 4) classroom and other shared community spaces (see below)
• Dean Scholz further developed what’s necessary for us to create quality Cob Village (Pod 3) renders (see below)

DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER: @5:56

• Continued the process of learning how to do our own renders for the Duplicable City Center (see below)
• Bupesh Seethala built the complete pallet closet in AutoCAD (see below)
• Iris Hsu continued with additional Pipe Couch designs for the Duplicable City Center library (see below)
• Behind the scenes: Mike Hogan developed 2nd-generation design ideas for users to manually interface with the Control Systems through hardware built into the bed design (see below)

HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY: @7:19

• Continued our work on the Highest Good Network with Andrew Herman (see below)
• Working with Oz Czerski, we created 2nd generation draft of the licensing agreement for our trademarked slogans and logos (see below)

CONSCIOUS STEWARDSHIP OF OUR BIOSPHERE SUMMARY: @8:05

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ONE COMMUNITY WEEKLY UPDATE DETAILS

HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

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

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

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

Conscious Stewardship of Our Biosphere – Community Lesson Plan – 75% Complete – Click to Visit

Behind the scenes, we finished the final written portion of the Community Lesson Plan.

We also completed another 25% of the mindmap for the Winter Lesson Plan, bringing that to 75% complete wh, as you see here.

Conscious Stewardship of Our Biosphere – Winter Lesson Plan Mindmap – Click to Visit Page

HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

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

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

This last week for our Food Self-sufficiency Transition Plan page, the core team added the nutritional and caloric targets for all the major food categories that Naturopathic Doctor Matt Marturano (creator of the COHERENT model for comprehensive digestive health) calculated, which you can see here:

Conscious Stewardship of Our Biosphere – Nutritional and Caloric Targets – Click to Visit Page

HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

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

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

This last week the core team put another 10 hours into the behind-the-scenes revision for the Footers, Foundations and Flooring page for the crowdfunding campaign we are developing. This week’s focus was finishing a huge update of the AutoCAD for the footer, foundation and flooring and updates to section 11 and 12 steps of the content rewrite, both of which can be seen in this image. We’d say we are now 65% complete with this total update and rewrite behind the scenes.

Conscious Stewardship of Our Biosphere – Revision of the Footers, Foundations, Flooring – Click to Visit

Also behind the scenes, we added an additional 7% of edits and content to the Tree House Village (Pod 7) presentation begun by the Intern Team over the summer, including adding live hyperlinks to our website. As part of these updates, we’ve included a section on Conscious Stewardship of Our Biosphere. You can see an example of this work here. The updates to the presentation are now approximately 92% finished and the presentation will be released on our website when the revision process is 100% complete.

Conscious Stewardship of Our Biosphere – Tree House Village – Intern Team – Click to Visit

In addition to this, and working on the Tree House Village (Pod 7), Jesika Rohrbach (Architectural Drafter, Designers, and 3-D Modeler) started adding the aesthetic details and floor plan updates you see here. These updates include adding a Victorian look and increasing space efficiency, starting with the communal kitchen and social space layouts.

Conscious Stewardship of Our Biosphere – Aesthetic Details & Floor Plan – Tree House – Click to Enlarge

Shilcy Augustine (Architect) also continued developing the Compressed Earth Block Village (Pod 4) classroom and other shared community spaces, which you can see here. This week’s focus on facilitating conscious stewardship of our biosphere and on adding furniture and storage areas to the classroom spaces.

Conscious Stewardship of Our Biosphere – Compressed Earth Block Village – Click to Visit

Dean Scholz, Architectural Designer, further developed what’s necessary for us to create quality Cob Village (Pod 3) renders. Here is update 3.0 of this work that focused mostly on finding and creating textures for the two North wings.

Conscious Stewardship of Our Biosphere – Developed Quality Cob Village Renders – Click to Visit

DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

One Community is facilitating conscious stewardship of our biosphere through a Duplicable and Sustainable City Center that is LEED Platinum certified/Sustainable, can feed 200 people at a time, provide laundry for over 300 people, is beautiful, spacious, and saves resources, money, and space:

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

This week the core team continued the process of learning how to do our own renders for the Duplicable City Center. You can see here this work-in-progress covering faucets, wall lights, and counter top materials set up. Our written blog has links to the tutorial videos we are learning from.

Twilight Render Tutorial – Materials And Studio Lighting
Twilight Render Tutorial SketchUp Section Cuts
Twilight Render Tutorial – DOF Depth of Field

Conscious Stewardship of Our Biosphere – How to do Own Renders – Duplicable City Center – Click to Visit

Bupesh Seethala, Interior Designer, also built the complete pallet closet in AutoCAD as seen here, checking the details originally designed by the summer Intern Team against the recreation and updates by our core team, and then adding in additional construction details as necessary.

Conscious Stewardship of Our Biosphere – Built the Complete Pallet Closet in AutoCAD – Click to Visit 

Iris Hsu (Industrial Designer), continued with these additional Pipe Couch designs for the Duplicable City Center library facilitating conscious stewardship of our biosphere. The drawings you see here are her 7th generation drawings continuing development of the couch idea, continuing with a simplified design and angled and fixed seat back.

Conscious Stewardship of Our Biosphere – Pipe Couch Designs – Click to Visit

Behind the scenes Mike Hogan (Automation Systems Developer and Business Systems Consultant) developed this 2nd-generation design ideas for users to manually interface with the Control Systems through hardware built into the bed design. Here you see the inside and outside of the design for a removable and replaceable box with a micro-controller that would allow for easy bedside control of all key system elements in the room.

Conscious Stewardship of Our Biosphere – 2nd-Generation Control Systems Design – Click to Visit

HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS

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

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

This last week the core team continued our work on the Highest Good Network with Andrew Herman (Software Engineer and Core Member of Futurist Playground). What you see here is brainstorming and outlining on activity types and how to track and organize time and other data in a way that will be useful to dramatically different organizations, in a way that can be customized to diverse needs, but still be useful to the global collaboration of these organizations.

Conscious Stewardship of Our Biosphere – Highest Good Network – Click to Learn About This

Working with Oz Czerski, Lawyer Specializing in Trademark and Copyright Law, we also created this 2nd generation draft of the licensing agreement for our trademarked slogans and logos.

Conscious Stewardship of Our Biosphere – 2nd Generation Draft Licensing Agreement – 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 how to make a change in the world together and one of our key focus is to create conscious stewardship of our biosphere . 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 on how to make a change in the world.

BUILDING THE FIRST OF MANY

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

WHY ONE COMMUNITY IS CREATING THIS

The One Community self-replicating model is capable of creating a sustainable planet within 30 years. We will achieve this by establishing successful teacher/demonstration hubs on every continent on how to make a change in the world. 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 and learn how to make a change in the world. They will also transform the global lifestyle to a more enjoyable, fulfilling, healthy, and sustainable one.

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

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

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

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

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. Igniting a new paradigm of sustainable ideas epresents a crucial step towards realizing a world that sustains every individual.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 learn how to make a change in the world and 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.

Global ecology implementation will happen when it is made easy enough, affordable enough, and demonstrated as attractive enough so that it will spread on its own. A model that does this is possible and implementation would be for The Highest Good of All people and life on our 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 January 17, 2016 edition (#147) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments:

Global Ecology Implementation
One Community Progress Update #147

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

GLOBAL ECOLOGY IMPLEMENTATION INTRO: @1:02

HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION: @1:55

• Transferred the second 25% of the written content for the Community Lesson Plan to the website (see below)
• Behind the scenes: Wrote an additional 25% of the Work Lesson Plan
• Completed the second 25% of the mindmap for the Winter Lesson Plan (see below)

HIGHEST GOOD FOOD: @3:07

• Completed another round organizing the streamlined version of our Food Self-sufficiency Transition Plan page, which includes contributions provided by Naturopathic Doctor Matt Marturano (see below)

HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING: @3:53

• Behind the scenes: Put another 10 hours into the revision for the Footers, Foundations and Flooring page for the upcoming crowdfunding campaign (see below)
• Behind the scenes: Added an additional 10% of edits and content to the Tree House Village (Pod 7) presentation begun by the Intern Team over the summer (see below)

DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER: @5:13

• Continued the process of learning how to do our own renders for the Duplicable City Center (see below)
• Iris Hsu continued with additional Pipe Couch designs for the Duplicable City Center library (see below)
• Behind the scenes: Mike Hogan developed the first couple design ideas for users to manually interface with the Control Systems through hardware built into the bed design (see below)

HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY: @6:26

• Continued our work on the Highest Good Network with Andrew Herman (see below)
• Working with Oz Czerski we filed Trademarking paperwork for the Highest Good Network and our logo. We also added additional FAQs to copyrights and trademarks pages and a new resources section to the open source tutorial about patents (see below)

GLOBAL ECOLOGY IMPLEMENTATION SUMMARY: @7:13

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

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

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ONE COMMUNITY WEEKLY UPDATE DETAILS

HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

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

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

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

Global Ecology Implementation – Community Lesson Plan – 50% Complete – Click to Visit Page

Behind the scenes, we wrote an additional 25% of the Work Lesson Plan, bringing the behind-the-scenes written part of that lesson plan to approximately 50% complete.

We also completed the second 25% of the mindmap for the Winter Lesson Plan, bringing that to 50% complete, as you see here:

Global Ecology Implementation – Winter Lesson Plan Mindmap – 50% Complete – Click to Visit Page

HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

One Community is forwarding global ecology implementation through Highest Good food and it will be successful in Global Ecology Implementation.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, for our Food Self-sufficiency Transition Plan page, Naturopathic Doctor Matt Marturano (creator of the COHERENT model for comprehensive digestive health) completed a final spreadsheet for the food transition plan, which you can see here. We now have nutritional and caloric targets for all the major food categories.

Global Ecology Implementation – Final Spreadsheet for the Food Transition Plan – Click to Visit

HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

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

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

This last week the core team put another 10 hours into the behind-the-scenes revision for the Footers, Foundations and Flooring page for the crowdfunding campaign we are developing. This week’s focus was editing, rearranging sequential changes, and a new narrative for the updated version of the slider we’ll be using to make building these safer and easier than other methods. You can see an example of this new work here and we’d say we are about 61% complete with the total update of this section, supporting One community in global ecology .implementation.

Global Ecology Implementation –  Revision of the Footers, Foundations and Flooring – Click to Visit

Behind the scenes, we also added an additional 10% of edits and content to the Tree House Village (Pod 7) presentation begun by the Intern Team over the summer, including rewriting the text in a few sections. You can see an example of this work here. The updates to the presentation are now approximately 85% finished and the presentation will be released on our website when the revision process is 100% complete.

Global Ecology Implementation – Edits to the Tree House Village – Intern Team – Click to Visit

DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

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

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

This week the core team continued the process of learning how to do our own renders for the Duplicable City Center. These renders are the result of this learning process and experimentation with textures and lighting:

Global Ecology Implementation – Render of Guest Room in Duplicable City Center – Click to Visit Page

Iris Hsu (Industrial Designer), continued with these additional Pipe Couch designs for the Duplicable City Center library which will help One Community to be successful in global ecology implementation. The drawings you see here are her 6th generation drawings continuing development of the couch idea with an adjustable back and exploring different ways to support it.

Global Ecology Implementation –  Pipe Couch Designs for the Duplicable City Center – Click for Page

Here you see her 7th generation drawings returning to the stationary back and exploring how to significantly simplify it all:

Global Ecology Implementation – 7th Generation Drawings Returning to the Stationary – Click to Visit

Behind the scenes Mike Hogan (Automation Systems Developer and Business Systems Consultant) developed the first couple design ideas for users to manually interface with the Control Systems through hardware built into the bed design. These designs are for a removable and replaceable box with a micro-controller that would allow for easy bedside control of all key system elements in the room.

Global Ecology Implementation – Ideas for Users to Manually Interface w/ Control Systems – Click to Visit

HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS

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

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

This last week the core team continued our work on the Highest Good Network with Andrew Herman (Software Engineer and Core Member of Futurist Playground). Here is a collage showing the mockups Andrew has created for what the application will look like and how the different functions and fields may be accessed and edited.

Global Ecology Implementation – Continued Our Work on the Highest Good Network – Click to Visit

Working with Oz Czerski, Lawyer Specializing in Trademark and Copyright Law, we filed Trademarking paperwork for the Highest Good Network and our logo. We also added additional FAQs to copyrights and trademarks pages:

Global Ecology Implementation – FAQs to Copyrights and Trademarks Pages – Click to Visit

….and this new resources section to the open source tutorial about patents.

Global Ecology Implementation – New Resources Section Open Source Tutorial – Patents – 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 how to make a change in the world together. One community will be successful in forwarding Global Ecology Implementation. 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 on how to make a change in the world.

BUILDING THE FIRST OF MANY

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

WHY ONE COMMUNITY IS CREATING THIS

The One Community self-replicating model is capable of creating a sustainable planet within 30 years and also be successful in forwarding global ecology implementation.We will achieve this by establishing successful teacher/demonstration hubs on every continent on how to make a change in the world. 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 and learn how to make a change in the world. They will also transform the global lifestyle to a more enjoyable, fulfilling, healthy, and sustainable one.

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

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

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

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

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.) and thereby supporting Global Ecology Implementation. We see these areas as interdependent and requiring a comprehensive solution if humanity is to move ecologically, socially, economically, and permanently towards a truly sustainable future for everyone.

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

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

OPEN SOURCE SHARING STRATEGY SPECIFICS

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

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

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

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

SUMMARY

One Community sees the issues of the world as interdependent and interconnected. One community will be successful in Global Ecology Implementation. 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. One Community will be successful in forwarding global ecology implementation. We will model these within a comprehensive “village/city” which will be built in the southwestern U.S. including other areas in focus.This teacher/demonstration hub will be a place people learn how to make a change in the world and 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.

Has the time finally come to teach the world how to create global sustainable progress? Are we reaching the tipping point of tolerance for progress that is clearly not sustainable? Living and progressing for The Highest Good of All life on our shared planet is possible, sustainable, and timely:

• • 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 January 10, 2016 edition (#146) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments:

How to Create Global Sustainable Progress
One Community Progress Update #146

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

HOW TO CREATE GLOBAL SUSTAINABLE PROGRESS INTRO: @1:02

HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION: @1:55

• Transferred the first 25% of the written content for the Community Lesson Plan to the website (see below)
• Behind the scenes: wrote an additional 25% of the Community Lesson Plan
• Completed the first 25% of the mindmap for the Winter Lesson Plan and added the icons to the web page (see below)

HIGHEST GOOD FOOD: @3:08

• Completed another round organizing the streamlined version of our Food Self-sufficiency Transition Plan page, which includes contributions provided by Naturopathic Doctor Matt Marturano (see below)
• Added three additional recipes from Sandra Sellani to the Food Self-sufficiency Transition Plan (see below)

HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING: @4:20

• Behind the scenes: Put another 10 hours into the revision for the Footers, Foundations and Flooring page for the upcoming crowdfunding campaign (see below)
• Behind the scenes: Added an additional 10% of edits and content to the Tree House Village (Pod 7) presentation begun by the Intern Team over the summer (see below)

DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER: @5:34

• Began the process of learning how to do our own renders for the Duplicable City Center using one of the guest rooms (see below)
• Started double checking the construction details for the pallet bed (see below)
• Bupesh Seethala built the complete pallet bed in AutoCAD and added in additional construction details (see below)
• Iris Hsu continued with additional Pipe Couch designs for the Duplicable City Center library (see below)
• Behind the scenes: Mike Hogan and Jae began exploring how the Control Systems can be built into the furniture of the City Center rooms (see below)

HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY: @6:56

• This last week the core team continued our work on the Highest Good Network with Andrew Herman (see below)
• Working with Oz Czerski we also created an open source tutorial about patents (see below)

HOW TO CREATE GLOBAL SUSTAINABLE PROGRESS SUMMARY: @7:46

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

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ONE COMMUNITY WEEKLY UPDATE DETAILS

HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

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

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

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

How to Create Global Sustainable Progress – Community Lesson Plan – 25% Complete – Click to Visit

Behind the scenes, we wrote an additional 25% of the Community Lesson Plan, bringing the behind-the-scenes written part of that lesson plan to approximately 85% complete.

We also completed the first 25% of the mindmap for the Winter Lesson Plan and added the icons to the web page, which you can see here:

How to Create Global Sustainable Progress – Winter Lesson Plan – 25% Complete – Click to Visit

HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

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

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

This last week the core team completed another round organizing the streamlined version of our Food Self-sufficiency Transition Plan page, which includes contributions provided by Naturopathic Doctor Matt Marturano (creator of the COHERENT model for comprehensive digestive health). This week we further organized the recipes behind the scenes, creating a page for bonus recipes. The Organization is now approximately 85% complete:

How to Create Global Sustainable Progress – Page for Bonus Recipes – Click to Visit Main food

We also added three additional recipes from Sandra Sellani (Vegan Chef and author of What’s Your BQ?) to the Food Self-sufficiency Transition Plan – These recipes are: Chopped Winter Fruit Salad, Swiss Chard Pizza with Toasted Pine Nuts, and Lentil Couscous Salad with Orange Essence:

How to Create Global Sustainable Progress – Recipes Food Transition Plan Page – Click to Visit

HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

One Community is teaching people how to create global sustainable progress through Highest Good housing that is artistic and beautiful, more affordable, more space efficient, lasts longer, DIY buildable, and constructed with healthy and sustainable materials:

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

This last week the core team put another 10 hours into the behind-the-scenes revision for the Footers, Foundations and Flooring page for the crowdfunding campaign we are developing. This week’s focus was finishing the stem wall details and slider parts and tools that supports How to Create Global Sustainable Progress. The slider design will make building these domes cheaper, safer, and easier. You can see an example of this new work here and we’d say we are about 60% complete with the total update of this section.

How to Create Global Sustainable Progress – Behind the scenes: Revision for the Footers, Foundations

Behind the scenes, we also added an additional 10% of edits and content to the Tree House Village (Pod 7) presentation begun by the Intern Team over the summer that supports How to Create Global Sustainable Progress. You can see an example of this work here. The updates to the presentation are now approximately 75% finished and the presentation will be released on our website when the revision process is 100% complete.

How to Create Global Sustainable Progress – Tree House Village – Intern Team – Click to Visit

DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

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

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

This week the core team began the process of learning how to do our own renders for the Duplicable City Center. You can see our first render here showing one of the guest rooms:

How to Create Global Sustainable Progress – Render of Guest Room in Duplicable City – Click to Visit

We also started double checking the construction details for the pallet bed. Here you can see a breakdown of the construction components:

How to Create Global Sustainable Progress – Pallet Bed Breakdown Construction Components – Click to Visit

These details were checked against the excellent work you see here from Bupesh Seethala, Interior Designer that supports How to Create Global Sustainable Progress. Bupesh has built the complete furniture in AutoCAD as seen here, checking the details originally designed by the summer Intern Team against the recreation and updates by our core team, and then adding in additional construction details as necessary.

How to Create Global Sustainable Progress – Pallet Furniture in AutoCAD

Iris Hsu (Industrial Designer), continued with these additional Pipe Couch designs for the Duplicable City Center library. The drawings you see here are her 5th generation drawings continuing development of the couch idea with a stationary back.

How to Create Global Sustainable Progress – Pipe Couch Designs – Click to Visit

Behind the scenes Mike Hogan (Automation Systems Developer and Business Systems Consultant) and myself began exploring how the Control Systems can be built into the furniture of the City Center rooms. Here are 4 pictures of us using the 3-D model of the furniture and room to discuss how to create easy ways for users to interact with these systems thus supporting that supports How to Create Global Sustainable Progress.

How to Create Global Sustainable Progress – Control Systems – Click to Visit

HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS

One Community is teaching people how to create global sustainable progress through a Highest Good society approach to living that is founded on fulfilled living, the study of meeting human needs, Community, and making a difference in the world:

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

This last week the core team continued our work on the Highest Good Network with Andrew Herman (Software Engineer and Core Member of Futurist Playground). Here is a snapshot of this work developing behind the scenes. What you see here is brainstorming and outlining for how multiple organizations will be able to use this software to track time, resources, and more in different ways that are useful for each other but specific to each organization.

How to Create Global Sustainable Progress – Behind-the-Scenes: Highest Good Network – Click to Visit

Working with Oz Czerski, Lawyer Specializing in Trademark and Copyright Law, we also created this open source tutorial about patents. This new page teaches the history of patents and what is needed for anyone interested in keeping their inventions and ideas in the open source domain.

How to Create Global Sustainable Progress – Open Source Tutorial about Patents – 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 how to make a change in 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 on how to make a change in the world.

BUILDING THE FIRST OF MANY

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

WHY ONE COMMUNITY IS CREATING THIS

The One Community self-replicating model is capable of creating a sustainable planet within 30 years. We will achieve this by establishing successful teacher/demonstration hubs on every continent on how to make a change in the world. 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 and learn how to make a change in the world. They will also transform the global lifestyle to a more enjoyable, fulfilling, healthy, and sustainable one.

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

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

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

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

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 learn how to make a change in the world and can experience a new way of living and then replicate it with our open source blueprints: creating a model solution that creates additional solution-creating models.

One Community welcomes Iris Hsu to the Design Team as our newest Volunteer/Consultant!

Industrial Designer: Iris earned her BFA in Industrial Design from the California College of the Arts in San Francisco. During her time there she developed an effective design thinking process through observing people in their daily life and focusing on user-friendly designs and practices. Iris believes that a good design should be emotionally expressive as well as functional, building a connection between people and the things they use. Her focus is on designing products that benefit our living environment in a sustainable way and through inventive and playful features. In Iris’ words, “Design is like making a gift for someone, and having love and empathy to the surroundings with effective solutions.” As a One Community Industrial Designer, Iris has been the design lead for the open source pipe chair/table and couch designs, cost analysis research, and assembly instructions.

WELCOME TO THE TEAM IRIS!

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

INVESTOR PAGES

OVERVIEW       ●       LOCATION       ●       FUNDING

GET INVOLVED

CONSULTANTS     ●     WAYS ANYONE CAN HELP     ●     MEMBERSHIP

Green-living community solutions are being developed that include a more holistic approach to sustainability. They combine sustainable approaches to food, energy, and housing with fulfilled living, open source and free education, and Highest Good economics models. The purpose is to develop a more enjoyable way of living that is sustainable and for The Highest Good of All life on our shared 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 January 3, 2016 edition (#145) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments:

Green-Living Community Solutions
One Community Progress Update #145

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

GREEN-LIVING COMMUNITY SOLUTIONS INTRO: @1:00

HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION: @1:57

• Transferred the final 25% of the written content for the Winter Lesson Plan to the website (see below)
• Completed the final third of the mindmap for the Sustainability Lesson Plan (see below)
• Behind the scenes: wrote an additional 1/4 of the Community Lesson Plan

HIGHEST GOOD FOOD: @3:11

• Completed another round of organizing on the streamlined version of our Food Self-sufficiency Transition Plan page, which includes contributions provided by Naturopathic Doctor Matt Marturano (see below)
• Added three additional recipes from Sandra Sellani to the Food Self-sufficiency Transition Plan (see below)

HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING: @4:19

• Behind the scenes: Put another 10 hours into the revision for the Footers, Foundations and Flooring page for the upcoming crowdfunding campaign (see below)
• Added additional edits from the text portions on our web page for the Tree House Village (Pod 7) to the presentation the Intern Team created over the summer (see below)

DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER: @5:22

• Finalized the natural pool details in 3-D for the center of the Duplicable City Center and constructed the bed in Sketchup 3-D, the chair, the wardrobe/closet, and made some minor adjustments to the table from last week (see below)
• Bupesh Seethala built the Pallet bed in AutoCAD (see below)
• Iris Hsu continued with additional Pipe Couch designs for the Duplicable City Center library (see below)
• Behind the scenes: Mike Hogan and Lucas Tsutsui da Silva began exploring the next steps for physical testing of the Control Systems design (see below)

HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY: @6:49

• This last week the core team continued our work on the Highest Good Network with Andrew Herman (see below)
• Continued working with Ivan Manzurov to create new icons for all of our pages. This week Ivan created icons for the Duplicable City Center component (see below)
• Oz Czerski helped us by writing this first behind-the-scenes draft of our open source tutorial about patents (see below)

GREEN-LIVING COMMUNITY SOLUTIONS SUMMARY: @7:31

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

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

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ONE COMMUNITY WEEKLY UPDATE DETAILS

HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

One Community is developing green-living community solutions through Highest Good education that is for all ages, applicable in any environment, adaptable to individual needs, far exceeds traditional education standards, and more fun for both the teachers and the students:

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

This last week the core team transferred the final 25% of the written content for the Winter Lesson Plan to the website, as you see here, which supports our exploration for Green-Living Community Solutions. This lesson plan is purposed to teach all subjects, to all learning levels, in any learning environment, using the central theme of “Winter” and the written part is now complete on our site.

Green-Living Community Solutions – Winter Lesson Plan – Final 25% Complete – Click to Visit Page

We also completed the final third of the mindmap for the Sustainability Lesson Plan, bringing that to 100% complete, which you can see here:

Green-Living Community Solutions – Sustainability Mindmap Complete – Click for Page

Behind the scenes, we wrote an additional 1/4 of the Community Lesson Plan, bringing the behind-the-scenes written part of that lesson plan to approximately 60% complete.

HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

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

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

This last week the core team completed another round of organizing on the streamlined version of our Food Self-sufficiency Transition Plan page, supporting our exploration for Green-Living Community Solutionswhich includes contributions provided by Naturopathic Doctor Matt Marturano (creator of the COHERENT model for comprehensive digestive health)This week we added additional images and links to the page, bringing the page to 80% complete.

Green-Living Community Solutions – Streamlined Version – Food Transition Plan – Click to Visit

We also added three additional recipes from Sandra Sellani (Vegan Chef and author of What’s Your BQ?) to the Food Self-sufficiency Transition Plan – These recipes are: Christmas Muesli, Sweet & Sour Cabbage & Vegan Beef Soup, and Spicy Vegan Sausage & Black Bean Soup:

Green-Living Community Solutions – Recipes – Food Self-sufficiency Transition Plan – Click to Visit

HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

One Community is developing green-living community solutions through Highest Good housing that is artistic and beautiful, more affordable, more space efficient, lasts longer, DIY buildable, and constructed with healthy and sustainable materials:

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

This last week the core team put another 10 hours into the behind-the-scenes revision for the Footers, Foundations and Flooring page for the crowdfunding campaign we are developing. This week’s focus was writing up steps for constructing the stem wall and domes, backfilling, and more gutter construction details.

Green-Living Community Solutions – Revision of the Footers, Foundations Flooring – Click to Visit

We also added additional edits from the text portions on our web page for the Tree House Village (Pod 7) to the presentation the Intern Team created over the summer. The updates to the presentation are now approximately 65% finished and the presentation will be released on our website when the revision process is 100% complete.

Green-Living Community Solutions – Tree House Village Presentation – Intern Team – Click to Visit

DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

One Community is developing green-living community solutions 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 finalized the natural pool details in 3-D for the center of the Duplicable City Center.

Green-Living Community Solutions – Finalized the Natural Pool Details in 3-D – Click to Visit

In Sketchup 3-D we also constructed the wardrobe/closet, chair, and the bed and made some minor adjustments to the table from last week. This brings us to what we think is 100% complete with the City Center 3-D design work needed for renders which supports the Green-Living Community Solutions.

Green-Living Community Solutions – Duplicable City Center 3-D Design Work – Click to Visit

In addition to this, Bupesh Seethala, Interior Designer, also built the Pallet bed in AutoCAD, as you can see here:

Green-Living Community Solutions – Pallet Bed Built in AutoCAD – Duplicable City Center – Click to Visit

And Iris Hsu (Industrial Designer), continued with these additional Pipe Couch designs for the Duplicable City Center library. The drawing you see here are her 4th generation drawing exploring additional adjustment options for the back of the couch as well as stationary couch-back options.

Green-Living Community Solutions – The Pipe Couch Designs Duplicable City Center – Click for Visit

Behind the scenes Mike Hogan (Automation Systems Developer and Business Systems Consultant) and Lucas Tsutsui da Silva (4th-year Computer Engineering Student) began exploring the next steps for physical testing of the Control Systems design, which supports our exploration for Green-Living Community Solutions, seeking to integrate them seamlessly into the frameworkHere is a picture of Lucas holding up the box of components Mike sent him…

Green-Living Community Solutions – Box of Components Mike Sent Lucas – Click to Visit

…and here is a picture of them all laid out on a table. These are the components Mike and Lucas will be building the first prototype with:

Green-Living Community Solutions -The first First Prototype Components – Click to Visit

HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS

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

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

This last week the core team continued our work on the Highest Good Network with Andrew Herman (Software Engineer and Core Member of Futurist Playground). Here is a snapshot of this work developing behind the scenes which supports our exploration for green-living community solutions, seeking to integrate them seamlessly into the framework

Green-Living Community Solutions – Behind-the-Scenes – The Highest Good Network – Click to Visit

We also continued working with Ivan Manzurov (Artist and Illustrator) to create new icons for all of our pages. Here are the icons Ivan created for the Duplicable City Center component:

Green-Living Community Solutions – Createted New Icons for Duplicable City Center – Click to Visit

Oz Czerski, Lawyer Specializing in Trademark and Copyright Law, also helped us by writing this first behind-the-scenes draft of our open source tutorial about patents which supports our exploration for Green-Living Community Solutions

Green-Living Community Solutions – Behind-the-Scenes – Open Source Tutorial – 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 how to make a change in 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 on how to make a change in the world.

BUILDING THE FIRST OF MANY

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

WHY ONE COMMUNITY IS CREATING THIS

The One Community self-replicating model is capable of creating a sustainable planet within 30 years and exploring for Green-Living Community Solutions, seeking to integrate them seamlessly into the framework.We will achieve this by establishing successful teacher/demonstration hubs on every continent on how to make a change in the world. 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 and learn how to make a change in the world. They will also transform the global lifestyle to a more enjoyable, fulfilling, healthy, and sustainable one.

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

Even if we don’t achieve our ultimate goal of how to make a change in the world and 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.

ONE COMMUNITY’S 4-PHASE STRATEGY

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

Phase I: Demonstrating a Better Way

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

Phase II: Open Source Project-Launch Blueprinting

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

Phase III: Inviting the World to Participate

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

Phase IV: Universal Appeal and Global Expansion

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

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

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 learn how to make a change in the world and 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.

Ecological prosperity is the creation of an abundant and more fulfilling life through ecological living. “Prosperity,” in this context, is the combination of sustainable approaches to food, energy, and housing combined with fulfilled living, open source and free education, and Highest Good economics models to create a way of living that most people would consider better than how they are living now. One Community calls this living and creating for The Highest Good of All:

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

OUR MAIN OPEN SOURCE HUBS

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

One Community’s physical location will forward this movement as the first of many self-replicating teacher/demonstration communities, villages, and cities to be built around the world. This is the December 27th, 2015 edition (#144) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments:

Ecological Prosperity
One Community Progress Update #144

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

ECOLOGICAL PROSPERITY INTRO: @1:02

HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION: @1:58

• Transferred additional 25% of written content for the Winter Lesson Plan to the website (see below)
• Completed second third of the mindmap for the Sustainability Lesson Plan (see below)
• Behind the scenes: Wrote the first 1/4 of the Work Lesson Plan

HIGHEST GOOD FOOD: @3:13

• Completed another round of updating calculations for the organization of the streamlined version of our Food Self-sufficiency Transition Plan page, which includes contributions provided by Naturopathic Doctor Matt Marturano (see below)
• Added three additional recipes from Sandra Sellani to the Food Self-sufficiency Transition Plan (see below)

HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING: @4:20

• Behind the scenes: Put another 10 hours into the revision for the Footers, Foundations and Flooring page for the upcoming crowdfunding campaign (see below)
• Added additional structural design images from the presentation the Intern Team created for the Tree House Village (Pod 7) (see below)

DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER: @5:28

• Worked on the internal design for the natural pool for the Duplicable City Center (see below)
• Started converting our SolidWorks pallet furniture designs (started by the summer Intern Team) into 3-D Sketchup models (see below)
• Bupesh Seethala is converting the SolidWorks pallet furniture designs into AutoCAD (see below)
• Iris Hsu continued finalizing the Pipe Furniture design renders for the Duplicable City Center library (see below)
• Michelle Wu continued working on the designs for the pipe shelving for the library (see below)
• Behind the scenes: Mike Hogan and Lucas Tsutsui da Silva continued work on the the Control Systems design (see below)

HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY: @7:14

• Updated our help wanted page for Software Engineers to work on the Highest Good Network with us. These updates were made possible with the help of Andrew Herman (see below)
• Continued working with Ivan Manzurov to create new icons for all of our pages. This week Ivan created icons for our Highest Good Economics component (see below)
• Oz Czerski helped us by writing the first draft of our licensing agreement for all of our open source and trademarked titles (see below)

ECOLOGICAL PROSPERITY SUMMARY: @8:00

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

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

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ONE COMMUNITY WEEKLY UPDATE DETAILS

HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

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

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

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

Ecological Prosperity – Winter Lesson Plan – 75% Complete – Click to Visit Page

We also completed the second third of the mindmap for the Sustainability Lesson Plan, bringing that to about 70% complete, which you can see here:

Ecological Prosperity – Sustainability Mindmap 70% Complete – Click for Page

Behind the scenes, we wrote the first 1/4 of the Work Lesson Plan, bringing the behind-the-scenes written part to approximately 25% complete.

HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

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

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

This last week the core team completed another round of updating calculations for the organization of the streamlined version of our Food Self-sufficiency Transition Plan page, which includes contributions provided by Naturopathic Doctor Matt Marturano (creator of the COHERENT model for comprehensive digestive health). This week we added corrected calculations to the website, including required foods for a new category, vegetarians.

Ecological Prosperity – Streamlined Version of our Food Self-sufficiency Transition Plan – Click to Visit

We also added three additional recipes from Sandra Sellani (Vegan Chef and author of What’s Your BQ?) to the Food Self-sufficiency Transition Plan – These recipes are: Apple “Sausage” Tacos, Orange “Chick’n” Lettuce Wraps, and Beefy Kale & Cranberry Salad.

Ecological Prosperity – Vegan Recipes – Food Self-sufficiency Transition Plan Page – Click to Visit

HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

One Community is developing a model for ecological prosperity through Highest Good housing that is artistic and beautiful, more affordable, more space efficient, lasts longer, DIY buildable, and constructed with healthy and sustainable materials:

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

This last week the core team put another 10 hours into the behind-the-scenes revision for the Footers, Foundations and Flooring page for the crowdfunding campaign we are developing. This week’s focus was researching and experimenting with poly versus cotton string for securing stucco netting, blind nail versus finishing nail research for connecting the different courses of earthbags, gutter design, and dome construction crew positions and responsibilities. We’d say this brings us to about 58% complete with this total rewrite and update.

Ecological Prosperity – Behind-the-Scenes Revision of Footers, Foundations, Flooring – Click to Visit

We also added additional structural design images to our web page for the Tree House Village (Pod 7), as you can see here. These images are from the presentation the Intern Team created over the summer.

Ecological Prosperity – The Tree House Village Page with Work From the Intern Team – Click to Visit

DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

One Community is developing a model for ecological prosperity 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 worked on the internal design for the natural pool for the Duplicable City Center. What you see here are various 3-D explorations into a walk-in entry to the part of the pool that will be in the center of the City Center. We’d say we are now 95% done with the complete 3-D update.

Ecological Prosperity – Internal Design Added to 3-D Natural Pool – Click to Visit

We also started converting our SolidWorks pallet furniture designs (started by the summer Intern Team) into 3-D Sketchup models. Here is the table that will be included in the City Center visitor rooms:

Ecological Prosperity – SolidWorks Pallet Furniture Designs into 3-D Sketchup Models – Click to Visit

Bupesh Seethala, Architectural Drafter & Designer, is additionally converting these furniture designs into AutoCAD to support Ecological Prosperity. Here you can see draft 1 of the pallet furniture chair.

Ecological Prosperity – Furniture Designs into AutoCAD – Click to Visit the Duplicable City Center

Iris Hsu (Industrial Designer), continued finalizing the Pipe Furniture design renders for the Duplicable City Center library in support of Ecological Prosperity. What you see here are some different options for making the seat back adjustable:

Ecological Prosperity – Pipe Furniture Design Renders for the Duplicable City Center – Click to Visit

Iris also created these construction plans for the pipe chair that converts into a table:

Ecological Prosperity – Construction Plans for Pipe Chair that Converts into a Table – Click for Page

… and Iris also created this last render of this furniture piece being used as both chairs and tables:

Ecological Prosperity – Render of Furniture Piece Being Used as Both Chairs and Tables – Click to Visit

Michelle Wu, also an industrial designer, continued working on the designs for the pipe shelving for the library. Here are Michelle’s 2nd generation explorations in to different pipe shelving layouts:

Ecological Prosperity – Designs for the Pipe Shelving for the Library – Click to Visit

Behind the scenes Mike Hogan (Automation Systems Developer and Business Systems Consultant) and Lucas Tsutsui da Silva (4th-year Computer Engineering Student), continued work on the the Control Systems design. Here’s revision #8 for this:

Ecological Prosperity – The Control Systems Design Behind the Scenes – Click to Visit Page

Also, here is mike showing the first prototype he has wired up and demonstrating the functioning circuits lighting up different LEDs and the software that drives the hardware.

Ecological Prosperity – Mike Showing the First Prototype he has Wired Up – Click to Visit

HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS

One Community is developing a model for ecological prosperity through a Highest Good society approach to living that is founded on fulfilled living, the study of meeting human needs, Community, and making a difference in the world:

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

This last week the core team updated our help wanted page for Software Engineers to work on the Highest Good Network with us. These updates were made possible with the help of Andrew Herman (Software Engineer and Core Member of Futurist Playground).

Ecological Prosperity – Updated our Help Wanted Page for Software Engineers – Click to Visit Page

We also continued working with Ivan Manzurov (Artist and Illustrator) to create new icons for all of our pages. Here are the icons Ivan created for our Highest Good Economics component:

Ecological Prosperity – New Icons for Highest Good Economics Page – Click to Page

Oz Czerski, Lawyer Specializing in Trademark and Copyright Law, also helped us by writing this first draft of our licensing agreement for all of our open source and trademarked titles:

Ecological Prosperity – Draft – Licensing Agreement Open Source, Trademarked Titles – Click to Visit

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

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

 

INVESTOR PAGES

OVERVIEW       ●       LOCATION       ●       FUNDING

GET INVOLVED

CONSULTANTS     ●     WAYS ANYONE CAN HELP     ●     MEMBERSHIP

CLICK HERE FOR ALL PAST UPDATES

WHAT ONE COMMUNITY IS CREATING

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

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

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

BUILDING THE FIRST OF MANY

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

WHY ONE COMMUNITY IS CREATING THIS

The One Community self-replicating model is capable of creating a sustainable planet within 30 years and contributing to Ecological Prosperity as well. 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.

ONE COMMUNITY’S 4-PHASE STRATEGY

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

Phase I: Demonstrating a Better Way

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

Phase II: Open Source Project-Launch Blueprinting

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

Phase III: Inviting the World to Participate

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

Phase IV: Universal Appeal and Global Expansion

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

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

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.

Facilitating sustainability engagement is essential if we are to create a sustainable planet that meets the needs of all its inhabitants. Improving affordability through open source and free-shared sustainable approaches to food, energy, and housing is one way to accomplish this. Making sustainability more holistic and attractive by including fulfilled living, open source and free education, and Highest Good economics models is another way to accomplish this. One Community calls this living and creating for The Highest Good of All:

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

OUR MAIN OPEN SOURCE HUBS

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

One Community’s physical location will forward this movement as the first of many self-replicating teacher/demonstration communities, villages, and cities to be built around the world. This is the December 20th, 2015 edition (#143) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments:

Facilitating Sustainability Engagement
One Community Progress Update #143

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

FACILITATING SUSTAINABILITY ENGAGEMENT INTRO: @1:04

HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION: @2:00

• Transferred the final 50% of the written content for the Sustainability Lesson Plan to the website (see below)
• Completed the first third of the mindmap for the Sustainability Lesson Plan (see below)
• Behind the scenes: Wrote the first 1/3 of the Community Lesson Plan

HIGHEST GOOD FOOD: @3:17

• Behind the scenes: completed another 10% on the organization of the streamlined version of our Food Self-sufficiency Transition Plan page, which includes contributions provided by Naturopathic Doctor Matt Marturano (see below)
• Added three additional recipes from Sandra Sellani to the Food Self-sufficiency Transition Plan (see below)

HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING: @4:23

• Behind the scenes: Put another 10 hours into the revision for the Footers, Foundations and Flooring page for the upcoming crowdfunding campaign (see below)
• Added images from the presentation the Intern Team created for the Tree House Village (Pod 7) (see below)
• Vlado Cavar started converting the AutoCAD and Sketchup files for the Straw Bale Village (Pod 2) into Revit (see below)

DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER: @5:32

• Added 3-D outdoor natural pool details to our continued development of the Duplicable City Center 3-D specifics (see below)
• Iris Hsu began sketching the Pipe Couch designs for the Duplicable City Center library (see below)
• Jarvis Zhao and Michelle Wu continued with version 2 of the designs for the pipe shelving for the library (see below)
• James Nance began redesigning the plumbing for the Duplicable City Center (see below)
• Behind the scenes: Mike Hogan and Lucas Tsutsui da Silva continued work on the the Control Systems design (see below)

HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY: @7:12

• Finished updating the Highest Good Network page with Andrew Herman (see below)
• Continued working with Ivan Manzurov to create new icons for all of our pages (see below)
• Lisa Ramos completed several logo variations for exploring possible font alternatives for our horizontal logo (see below)

FACILITATING SUSTAINABILITY ENGAGEMENT SUMMARY: @8:26

• • • 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

 

ONE COMMUNITY WEEKLY UPDATE DETAILS

HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

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

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

This last week the core team transferred the final 50% of the written content for the Sustainability Lesson Plan to the website, as you see here. This lesson plan purposed to teach all subjects, to all learning levels, in any learning environment, using the central theme of “Sustainability” is now 100% complete.

Facilitating Sustainability Engagement – Sustainability Lesson Plan Complete – Click to Visit Page

We also completed the first third of the mindmap for the Sustainability Lesson Plan, which you can see here. We also added the theme icons from the mindmap to the lesson plan page.

Facilitating Sustainability Engagement – Sustainability Mindmap 33% Complete – Click for Page

Behind the scenes, we wrote the first 1/3 of the Community Lesson Plan, bringing the behind-the-scenes written part to approximately 30% complete.

HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

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

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

This last week the core team completed another 10% on the organization of the streamlined version of our Food Self-sufficiency Transition Plan page, which includes contributions provided by Naturopathic Doctor Matt Marturano (creator of the COHERENT model for comprehensive digestive health). This week we organized more recipes on breakout pages. The food transition page organization is now 70% complete behind the scenes:

Facilitating Sustainability Engagement – Streamlined Version – Self-sufficiency Transition – Click to Visit

We also added three additional recipes from Sandra Sellani (Vegan Chef and author of What’s Your BQ?) to the Food Self-sufficiency Transition Plan – These recipes are: Spinach Cheese Toast, Thanksgiving Shells, Tomato Soup with Cornbread Stuffing:

Facilitating Sustainability Engagement – Recipes – Food Self-sufficiency Transition Plan – Click to Visit

HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

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

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

This last week the core team put another 10 hours into the behind-the-scenes revision for the Footers, Foundations and Flooring page for the upcoming crowdfunding campaign. This week’s focus was on stucco netting details and updates and we’d say this brings us to 57% complete with this total rewrite and update.

Facilitating Sustainability Engagement – Revision of Footers, Foundations, Flooring – Click to Visit

We also added images from the presentation the Intern Team created for the Tree House Village (Pod 7), as you can see here. This includes the considerations and rational for the service design, interior/exterior design, and structural design choices the interns made.

Facilitating Sustainability Engagement – Tree House Village Page – Intern Team – Click to Visit

Vlado Cavar, a Revit BIM manager, also started converting the AutoCAD and Sketchup files for the Straw Bale Village (Pod 2) into Revit as you see here:

Facilitating Sustainability Engagement – AutoCAD and Sketchup – Straw Bale Village Revit- Click to Visit

DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

One Community is facilitating sustainability engagement 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 3-D outdoor natural pool details to our continued development of the Duplicable City Center 3-D specifics. This included more plants, walk-over bridge details, people, and other aesthetic details:

Facilitating Sustainability Engagement – 3-D Outdoor Natural Pool Details – Click to Visit

We also added additional Social Dome internal details showing a band playing next to the natural pool and some final touches to the internal aspects of the natural pool. With these additions we’d say we are now 90% done with the complete 3-D update which helps to contribute Facilitating Sustainability Engagement.

Facilitating Sustainability Engagement – Upper Loft Social Recreation Space – Social Dome – Click to Visit

Iris Hsu (Industrial Designer), began sketching the Pipe Couch designs for the Duplicable City Center library. The drawing you see here are her initial design ideas:

Facilitating Sustainability Engagement – The Pipe Couch Designs – Duplicable City Center – Click to Visit

Jarvis Zhao and Michelle Wu, both Industrial Designers, also continued with version 2 of the designs for the pipe shelving for the library. What you see here are Michelle’s 2-D layout proposals:

Facilitating Sustainability Engagement – Designs for the Pipe Shelving for the Library – Click to Visit

And here are a series of Jarvis’ shelving layout proposals:

Facilitating Sustainability Engagement – Shelving Designs Incorporating Movable Box Option – Click to Visit

James Nance (Mechanical Engineer and Project Manager) also began redesigning the plumbing for the Duplicable City Center. You can see this work in progress here:

Facilitating Sustainability Engagement – Redesigning – Plumbing Duplicable City Center – Click to Visit

Behind the scenes Mike Hogan (Automation Systems Developer and Business Systems Consultant) and Lucas Tsutsui da Silva (4th-year Computer Engineering Student), continued work on the the Control Systems design. Here’s Revision #7 for this:

Facilitating Sustainability Engagement – W Control Systems Design Behind the Scenes – Click to Visit

And here are a few pictures of mike explaining to Lucas and Jae how the breadboard soldering will work to build the prototype for testing before manufacturing:

Facilitating Sustainability Engagement – How the Breadboard Soldering Works – Click to Visit

HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS

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

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

This last week the core team finished updating the Highest Good Network page with Andrew Herman (Software Engineer and Core Member of Futurist Playground). The updated page shares the details of the open source software we’re creating together for complete teacher/demonstration hub management, data gathering, open source collaboration and more. This week’s finishing work finished outlining our software development details leading to where we are now, adding details about what has already been developed, and links to our googledocs in progress detailing the work we are doing behind the scenes with multiple options for collaboration supporting Facilitating Sustainability Engagement.

Facilitating Sustainability Engagement – Updating the Highest Good Network Page – Click to Visit

We also continued working with Ivan Manzurov (Artist and Illustrator) to create new icons for all of our pages. Here are the icons Ivan created for the Highest Good society:

Facilitating Sustainability Engagement – New Icons for Highest Good Society – Click to Visit

…Highest Good food:

Facilitating Sustainability Engagement – New Icons for Highest Good Food – Click to Visit

…and Highest Good housing:

Facilitating Sustainability Engagement – New Icons for Highest Good Housing – Click to Visit

In addition to this, Lisa Ramos (Graphic Designer) completed all these logo variations for exploring possible font alternatives for our horizontal logo:

Facilitating Sustainability Engagement – Logo Variations for Possible Font Alternatives – Click to Visit

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

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

 

INVESTOR PAGES

OVERVIEW       ●       LOCATION       ●       FUNDING

GET INVOLVED

CONSULTANTS     ●     WAYS ANYONE CAN HELP     ●     MEMBERSHIP

CLICK HERE FOR ALL PAST UPDATES

WHAT ONE COMMUNITY IS CREATING

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

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

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

BUILDING THE FIRST OF MANY

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

WHY ONE COMMUNITY IS CREATING THIS

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

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

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

ONE COMMUNITY’S 4-PHASE STRATEGY

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

Phase I: Demonstrating a Better Way

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

Phase II: Open Source Project-Launch Blueprinting

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

Phase III: Inviting the World to Participate

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

Phase IV: Universal Appeal and Global Expansion

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

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

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.

Community organized eco-restoration is one path to regenerating and restoring our planet. Through holistically sustainable communities, ecological and sustainable approaches to food, energy, and housing can be combined with sustainable and more enriching fulfilled living, education, and economics models to improve people’s lives while also teaching them to sustainably rejuvenate the earth for The Highest Good of All. This is what One Community is doing:

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

OUR MAIN OPEN SOURCE HUBS

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

One Community’s physical location will forward this movement as the first of many self-replicating teacher/demonstration communities, villages, and cities to be built around the world. This is the December 13th, 2015 edition (#142) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments:

Community Organized Eco-Restoration
One Community Progress Update #142

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

COMMUNITY ORGANIZED ECO-RESTORATION INTRO: @1:03

HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION: @1:56

• Transferred the first 50% of the written content for the Winter Lesson Plan to the website (see below)
• Behind the scenes: wrote the final 1/3 of the Winter Lesson Plan (see below)
• Completed the final third of the mindmap for the Fall Lesson Plan (see below)

HIGHEST GOOD FOOD: @3:07

• Behind the scenes: updated calculations for our Food Self-sufficiency Transition Plan, which includes contributions provided by Naturopathic Doctor Matt Marturano (see below)
• Added three additional recipes from Sandra Sellani to the Food Self-sufficiency Transition Plan (see below)

HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING: @4:11

• Behind the scenes: Put another 10 hours into the revision for the Footers, Foundations and Flooring page for the upcoming crowdfunding campaign (see below)
• Added the written portion of the presentation the Intern Team created for the Tree House Village (Pod 7) (see below)

DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER: @5:23

• Finished the 3-D natural pool and spa internal details for the Duplicable City Center 3-D specifics (see below)
• Iris Hsu continued finalizing the Pipe Furniture design renders for the Duplicable City Center library (see below)
• Jarvis Zhao and Michelle Wu continued together working on the designs for the pipe shelving for the library (see below)
• Behind the scenes: Mike Hogan and Lucas Tsutsui da Silva continued work on the the Control Systems design (see below)

HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY: @6:55

• Began updating the Highest Good Network page with what has been weeks of work with Andrew Herman (see below)
• Continued working with Ivan Manzurov to create new icons for all of our pages (see below)
• Lisa Ramos completed logo variations that led to a new and updated design for our logo (see below)

COMMUNITY ORGANIZED ECO-RESTORATION SUMMARY: @7:52

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ONE COMMUNITY WEEKLY UPDATE DETAILS

HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

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

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

This last week the core team transferred the first 50% of the written content for the Winter Lesson Plan to the website, as you see here which focuses on community Organized Eco-Restoration This lesson plan is purposed to teach all subjects, to all learning levels, in any learning environment, using the central theme of “Winter.”

Community Organized Eco-Restoration – Winter Lesson Plan – 50% Complete – Click to Visit Page

Behind the scenes, we wrote the final 1/3 of the Winter Lesson Plan, bringing the behind-the-scenes written part for that to 100% complete and ready for addition to the site.

We also completed the final third of the mindmap for the Fall Lesson Plan. That brings this mindmap to 100% complete, which you can see here:

Community Organized Eco-Restoration – Fall Mindmap Complete – Click for Page

HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

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

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

This last week the core team updated calculations for our Food Self-sufficiency Transition Plan behind the scenes. Naturopathic Doctor Matt Marturano (creator of the COHERENT model for comprehensive digestive health) made the updates to the calculations by taking into account the specific nutrient needs of our current pioneer team.

Community Organized Eco-Restoration – Streamlined Version – Food Self-sufficiency Plan – Click to Visit

We also added three additional recipes from Sandra Sellani (Vegan Chef and author of What’s Your BQ?) to the Food Self-sufficiency Transition Plan – These recipes are: Chestnut & Avocado Bruschetta, “Meatball” Soup, and Zucchini Pizza with pine nut cheese:

Community Organized Eco-Restoration – Recipes – Food Self-sufficiency Transition Plan – Click to Visit

HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

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

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

This last week the core team put another 10 hours into the behind-the-scenes revision for the Footers, Foundations and Flooring page for the upcoming crowdfunding campaign. This week’s focus was converting single bag details over to tubed bags, bailing twine tying updates due to exclusion of the buttress wall, and re-writing the foundation construction due to exclusion of the buttress wall.. You can see some of this work here and we’d say this brings us to 56% complete with this total rewrite and update.

Community Organized Eco-Restoration – Revision of the Footers, Foundations, Flooring – Click to Visit

We also added the written portion of the presentation the Intern Team created for the Tree House Village (Pod 7), as you can see here. This includes the considerations and rational for the service design, interior/exterior design, and structural design choices the interns made.

Community Organized Eco-Restoration – Tree House Village Page – Intern Team – Click to Visit Page

DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

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

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

This week the core team finished the 3-D natural pool and spa internal details for the Duplicable City Center 3-D specifics. You can see these additions here with plants, rocks, the design of the transition door, people and other aesthetic touches which contributes to community organized eco-restoration.

Community Organized Eco-Restoration – 3-D Natural Pool, Spa – Click to Visit the Duplicable City Center

We also finished designing the upper loft social and recreation space for the Social Dome. You can see this addition of furniture and people here. We’d say we are now 85% done with the complete 3-D update.

Community Organized Eco-Restoration – Upper Loft Social Recreation Space – Social dome – Click to Visit

Iris Hsu (Industrial Designer), continued finalizing the Pipe Furniture design renders for the Duplicable City Center library. The new renders you see here show an additional layout for the chair/table combination designs:

Community Organized Eco-Restoration – Pipe Furniture Designs for Library – Click to Visit city center

Michelle Wu and Jarvis Zhao, both Industrial Designers, also continued together working on the designs for the pipe shelving for the library. Here are some of Michelle’s explorations in to different furniture options:

Community Organized Eco-Restoration – Designs for the Pipe Shelving for the Library – Click to Visit

And here are Jarvis’ designs for the shelving that incorporate a movable box option we all explored supporting community organized eco-restoration.

Community Organized Eco-Restoration – Shelving Designs- Incorporating Movable Box – Click to Visit

Behind the scenes Mike Hogan (Automation Systems Developer and Business Systems Consultant) and Lucas Tsutsui da Silva (4th-year Computer Engineering Student), continued work on the the Control Systems design. Here’s revision #6 for this:

Community Organized Eco-Restoration – Control Systems Design Behind the Scenes – Click to Visit Page

And here is one of Mike’s other designs he was using for clarification and some drawing he was doing to explain it to Lucas and Jae on their weekly call.

Community Organized Eco-Restoration – Control Systems Drawings and Clarifications – Click to Visit Page

HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS

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

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

This last week the core team began updating the Highest Good Network page with what has been weeks of work with Andrew Herman (Software Engineer and Core Member of Futurist Playground) which also supports the community organized eco-restoration.This page shares the details of the open source software we’re creating together for complete teacher/demonstration hub management, data gathering, open source collaboration and more. We’d say this page is about 50% complete:

Community Organized Eco-Restoration – Began Updating the Highest Good Network Page – Click to Visit

We also continued working with Ivan Manzurov (Artist and Illustrator) to create new icons for all of our pages. Here are the icons Ivan created for the Highest Good education component:

Community Organized Eco-Restoration – Continued Creating New Icons for All the Pages – Click to Visit the Highest Good Education Page

In addition to this, Lisa Ramos (Graphic Designer) completed all these logo variations for us….

Community Organized Eco-Restoration – Logo Variations – Click to Visit the Overview Page

…which led to this new and updated design for our logo!

Community Organized Eco-Restoration – New and Updated Logo – Click to Visit the Overview Page

Here is the old version of our logo for easy comparison. This will be updated across our pages in the near future.

Community Organized Eco-Restoration – Old Logo for Comparison – Click for Overview Page

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

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

 

INVESTOR PAGES

OVERVIEW       ●       LOCATION       ●       FUNDING

GET INVOLVED

CONSULTANTS     ●     WAYS ANYONE CAN HELP     ●     MEMBERSHIP

CLICK HERE FOR ALL PAST UPDATES

WHAT ONE COMMUNITY IS CREATING

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

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

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

BUILDING THE FIRST OF MANY

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

WHY ONE COMMUNITY IS CREATING THIS

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

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

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

ONE COMMUNITY’S 4-PHASE STRATEGY

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

Phase I: Demonstrating a Better Way

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

Phase II: Open Source Project-Launch Blueprinting

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

Phase III: Inviting the World to Participate

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

Phase IV: Universal Appeal and Global Expansion

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

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

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.