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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, in alignment with principles of highest good living.

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, embodying principles of the highest good living. This replicable community will serve as an example of 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, all aimed at promoting principles of highest good living. 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.

HIGHEST GOOD LIVING: 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, all grounded in principles of highest good 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, and resources, and work together as a network to heal the planet, promoting a lifestyle grounded in principles of the highest good living. They will also transform the global lifestyle into 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 in our Research and Resources Articles Archive, emphasizing the principles and practices of highest good living.

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, and fulfilling, and an additional reason why we are creating this, is promoting the values of the highest good living.

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, promoting the principles of the highest good living.

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, fostering the principles of highest good living.

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, promoting the principles of highest good living.

COMPREHENSIVE SOLUTION TO HUMANITY’S NEEDS

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

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

GLOBALLY IMPLEMENTABLE REPLICATION MODEL

The more people that are inspired and desiring for themselves what it is that One Community creates, the more demand there will be for spreading the One Community model. This leads to the directing of financial resources and resourceful people where we believe they are needed most: the establishment of additional sustainable communities around the world. We also feel this duplication will specifically happen quickly internationally due to the affordability of overseas land, less restrictive building environments, and the spirit of adventure in many people who really desire to make a difference for those who need it most, thus promoting the principles of highest good living.

To meet the increasing demand for sustainability that we are contributing to, we are coordinating with manufacturers, education institutions, individuals, and vendors. This is also part of this model to help the world. Its purpose is to facilitate more engagement in the sustainability industry, produce the absolute best possible consumer value, and the most convenient delivery of goods and methodologies for building sustainable living communities and sustainable living components, all aligned with the principles of highest good living.

This means we not only provide education and increase needed sustainability resources, but we also address the underlying roadblocks to a sustainable planet by decreasing the cost and simultaneously increasing the demand and generating financial support for global sustainability, philanthropy, and humanitarian movements and organizations, all in alignment with the principles of highest good living.

As demand increases, so too will the ways to participate. Right now people are participating as consultants or partners donating time to our 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization, and others are more involved as Pioneers of the core team that will be moving to the property. We also have options for people to just follow our progress or participate through internet contribution, all with the intention of fostering highest good living.

Once the supportive physical infrastructure is about 30% developed, One Community will be ready to additionally expand what we offer to include scholarships, free weekend learning groups, core team members choosing to travel abroad to help others get established too, handling the marketing for all similar models operating for The Highest Good of All, and hosting classes and other sponsored events to promote and demonstrate additional methodologies, all in alignment with fostering highest good living.

We also imagine the high likelihood that our organization will become a foundation that can be trusted as the donation point for the distribution of monies to help others to establish this model, further advancing the principles of highest good living.

Better Living Through Ecological Living – One Community Weekly Progress Update #353

Posted on January 29, 2019 by Rachna Malav

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We can create better living through ecological living. Ecological living that includes sustainable approaches to food, energy, housing, education, for-profit and non-profit economic design, social architecture, fulfilled living, and global stewardship practices can reduce our living expenses, increase our free time, reduce transportation costs and time, and provide a broader diversity of social and recreational activities for ourselves and others.

One Community is creating and open sourcing and free-sharing the necessary plans to build teacher/demonstration hubs that will demonstrate, share, and evolve all these areas and many more.

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

OUR MAIN OPEN SOURCE HUBS

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

One Community’s physical location will forward this movement as the first of many self-replicating teacher/demonstration communities, villages, and cities to be built around the world. This is the December 29th, 2019 edition (#353) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments:

Better Living Through Ecological Living
One Community Progress Update #353

Better Living Through Ecological Living - One Community Weekly Progress Update #353

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HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

One Community is demonstrating better living through ecological living through Highest Good housing that is artistic and beautiful, more affordable, more space efficient, lasts longer, DIY buildable, and constructed with healthy and sustainable materials:

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

This week Oluyomi “Yomi” Sanyaolu (Technical Writer and Researcher) completed his 10th week with the team. This week Oluyomi began the trompe implementation research. His focus was on the history & uses of trompes, the process of air compression in the system, and the design details of the system. Initial outlining of the research needed for the the construction details, cost analysis, and how well it can work with a ram pump was also started.

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Began the Trompe Implementation Research – Click for Hydro Energy Page

Dean Scholz (Architectural Designer) also continued helping with the Earthbag Village (Pod 1) 4-dome cluster designs. This week was week #174 of Dean’s work and the focus was adding the window that looks out onto the new rooftop-patio stairway access. You can see some of this ongoing work here.

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Added the Window Looking Out Onto the New Rooftop-patio Stairway Access – Click for Earthbag Village

DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

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

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

This week the core team working with Ron Huang (Mechanical Engineer) continued with his 33rd week developing and refining the Energy Modeling tutorial needed to achieve our LEED Platinum certification. This consisted of several rounds of revisions and collaborative updates to the content and new imagery and details for the space definition section. You can see some of this work here and we’d say this brings completion of the City Center energy analysis component to 93% complete.

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Continued Refining the Energy Modeling Tutorial Needed to Achieve Our LEED Platinum Certification ” Click for HVAC Page

HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

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

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

This week the core team continued working on our behind-the-scenes chicken Google Doc. We summarized the time frames from two of the most comprehensive chicken-raising videos we could find (Beginners Guide To Raising Backyard Chickens, and How to Design a Chicken Coop). They cover everything from selection, to raising them, shelter, feed, cleaning, care, etc. You can see some of this work here.

Chicken-raising Videos, Better Living Through Ecological Living, One Community Weekly Progress Update #353

Summarized the Time Frames From Two of the Most Comprehensive Chicken-raising Videos We Could Find – Click for Chicken Page

The core team also continued creating the chicken coop step-by-step building instruction on our behind-the-scenes Google Doc. This week we worked on the wall assembly instructions and tested two different design strategies. You can see some of this work here and we’d say we’re about 85% done.

Chicken coop Assembly Instructions, Better Living Through Ecological Living, One Community Weekly Progress Update #353

Worked on the Wall Assembly Instructions and Tested Two Different Design Strategies – Click for Chicken Page

The core team also continued developing the open source permaculture design and DIY Dam Design and Construction content. This week we did the final organization, editing and formatting of the information from Lawton’s videos for the Dam Design case study section. We also began work on Step 2 of the Permaculture Case Study section, “Assess Site Through Observation And Research.” You can see some of this behind-the-scenes work here.

Open Source, Permaculture Design, Better Living Through Ecological Living, One Community Weekly Progress Update #353

Continued Developing the Open Source Permaculture Design Content, Specifically Organization and Editing ” Click for Page

Mohammad Almuzaial (Civil and Construction Engineer) also continued with his 6th week helping with the Aquapini/Walipini civil engineering details. This week Mohammad finished all 6 botanical gardens interior and exterior elements, adjusted the level of the central pond, adjusted the level of the cool air pipes to be higher than 1m, and rerouted the cool air pipes to run outside the structure.

Minimum cool air elevation difference is now 3′ 4″ (which is higher than 1m), central pond total depth is 10′, and the effective central pond depth is 6′ 8″. You can see some of this work here and we’d say this brings this part of this component to 70% complete.

Aquapini/Walipini civil engineering details, Better Living Through Ecological Living, One Community Weekly Progress Update #353

Continued Helping With the Aquapini/Walipini Civil Engineering Details ” Click for Page

Ali Ghahremannezhad (Mechanical Engineer) also continued with his 4th week as a member of the team and working on the climate batteries for the Aquapini/Walipini structures. This week Ali worked on typical Re number of the flow inside the pipes of the climate battery to determine the range and usual flow types and considering change of properties of air due to temperature change during different seasons. He also started preparing the first simple model for CFD analysis of climate batteries. You can see some of this work here.

Climate Batteries for the Aquapini/Walipini Structures, Better Living Through Ecological Living, One Community Weekly Progress Update #353

Continued Working on the Climate Batteries for the Aquapini/Walipini Structures – Click for Page

HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

One Community is demonstrating better living through ecological living through Highest Good education that is for all ages, applicable in any environment, adaptable to individual needs, far exceeds traditional education standards, and more fun for both the teachers and the students. This component of One Community is about 95% complete with only the Open Source School Licensing and Ultimate Classroom construction and assembly details remaining to be finished.

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

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

This week Dan Alleck (Designer and Illustrator) completed his 61st week helping with render additions and finishing work for the rooms in the the Ultimate Classroom. This week he continued revisions and additions to the indigo room representing “Social Sciences.” What you see here are his third round of revisions and additions to this room.

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Continued Revisions and Additions to the Indigo Room Representing “Social Sciences” – Click for Ultimate Classroom

Ziqian Zheng (Architectural Designer and Drafter) also continued with week 7 as a member of the team and now working on the the Ultimate Classroom. This week Ziqian completed the new roof structure and columns designs. You can see some of this work promoting better living through ecological living here.

Completed New Roof Structure and Columns Designs of Ultimate Classroom – Click for Page

HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS

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

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

This week the core team created 9 more volunteer ads and brought on 2 new volunteers to restart work on the Highest Good Network software to make meaningful contributions towards the mission of better living through ecological living.

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Created 9 More Volunteer Ads and Brought on 2 New Volunteers to Restart Work on the Highest Good Network Software – Click for Page

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BETTER LIVING THROUGH ECOLOGICAL LIVING – 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. Thus, we are promoting better living through ecological living through our various initiatives.

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, i.e., better living through ecological living.

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

BETTER LIVING THROUGH ECOLOGICAL 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 better living through ecological living 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. Hence, supporting better living through ecological living.

The specifics of how One Community is accomplishing better living through ecological living 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 and promote better living through ecological living. 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 better living through ecological living.

BETTER LIVING THROUGH ECOLOGICAL LIVING – WHY OPEN SOURCE

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

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

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

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

BETTER LIVING THROUGH ECOLOGICAL LIVING – 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 such as better living through ecological living. 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 to promote better living through ecological living.

One Community Welcomes James Herrigel to the Research Team!

Posted on January 29, 2019 by One Community

One Community welcomes James Herrigel to the Research Team as our newest Volunteer/Consultant!

James is a senior in high school at Jones College Prep in Chicago, Illinois. Although only 17, James is passionate about sustainability and spends much of his free time volunteering for projects related to his ideals. Over the summer of 2018, James interned as a research assistant at the University of Chicago’s Abrams Environmental Law Clinic, where he conducted and organized research that eventually contributed to a published legal analysis. James hopes to continue developing his skills and continue working to mitigate climate change in order to shape a more sustainable future. As a member of the One Community team, James is conducting detailed research into the most ecological and sustainable paints, adhesives, and other construction materials (carpet, structural elements, etc.).

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One Community Welcomes Tyler Calvert to the Software Development Team!

Posted on January 29, 2019 by One Community

One Community welcomes Tyler Calvert to the Software Development Team as our newest Volunteer/Consultant!

Tyler is a software engineer and Texas native who believes strongly in building self-sufficient communities, and the need for the world to transition towards renewable energy. He is also a teaching assistant for Southern Methodist University’s coding and web development program where he helps students become proficient in cutting-edge software technologies. Tyler has had a passion for the outdoors from a young age. When he’s not writing code, he enjoys kayaking and rock climbing. As a part of the One Community software development team, Tyler hopes to make a difference by creating software that helps to grow and spread the ideas of the Highest Good Network.

WELCOME TO THE TEAM TYLER!

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Sustainable Economics – One Community Weekly Progress Update #305

Posted on January 27, 2019 by One Community

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Sustainable economics combine all the open source and sustainable components of One Community. We do this as the foundation for reducing or eliminating the most burdensome expenses in people’s lives. We add to that social architecture, fulfilled living, and global stewardship practices to provide a way of living that we feel most people will consider to be better than how they are living now.

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 27th, 2019 edition (#305) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments:

Sustainable Economics
One Community Progress Update #305

Sustainable Economics - One Community Weekly Progress Update #305

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

SUSTAINABLE ECONOMICS: INTRO: @0:34

SUSTAINABLE ECONOMICS: HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING: @6:04

Continued design updates to the open source Murphy bed furniture assembly details (see below)
Created an action list of everything needed to be ready for the crowdfunding campaign and complete village construction (see below)
Anvita Kumari Pandey completed her 30th week volunteering and now helping with the Earthbag Village Materials and Costs (see below)
Shadi Kennedy completed his 37th week leading the development of the Murphy bed instructions (see below)
Dan Alleck finished revisions and additions to the complete Earthbag Village looking South see below)
Dean Scholz worked on Earthbag Village furniture elements in kitchen and bathroom dome (see below)

SUSTAINABLE ECONOMICS: DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER: @7:53

Continued building the new page sharing the best, safest, and most sustainable paints, stains, varnishes, and sealants (see below)
Updated the Duplicable City Center Sprinkler and Emergency Systems designs page and tutorial (see below)
Continued with week 3 of our research into lake and water retention landscape creation as an alternative source of water for the Duplicable City Center Sprinkler and Emergency Systems Designs, agriculture, greywater processing, and more (see below)
D i pti Dhondarkar continued developing the lighting specifics for the City Center (see below)
Tanya Griffin, Aubryanne Boyle, and Allie Marsh completed their 5th week helping with the Duplicable City Center interior design details (see below)
David Olivero continued helping finish the City Center HVAC Designs (see below)
James Herrigel completed his 8th week researching the best, safest, and most sustainable paints (see below)

SUSTAINABLE ECONOMICS: HIGHEST GOOD FOOD: @10:17

Continued writing the behind-the-scenes narrative and detailed food rollout plan for the various stages of development (see below)
Guy Grossfeld completed his 4th week working on creating an open source icon and symbol set for our permaculture designs (see below)

SUSTAINABLE ECONOMICS: HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION: @11:00

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

SUSTAINABLE ECONOMICS: HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY: @12:06

Wrote all the sets of ads for all the AdWords campaigns we’ve been researching all the keywords for (see below)
Emilio Nájera added additional keywords for Lesson Plans for Life and Resource Based Economy pages and keyword research for Open Source, Thermal Lag, Open Source AutoCAD Template, and Highest Good Food pages (see below)
Highest Good Network software team consisting of Jordan Miller and Tyler Calvert continued developing the software (see below)

SUSTAINABLE ECONOMICS: SUMMARY: @13:27

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SUSTAINABLE ECONOMICS: HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

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

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

This week the core team continued design updates to the open source Murphy bed furniture assembly details. This week we updated the design to test a 9-foot ceiling. You can see some of this work here.

Murphy Bed Furniture, Sustainable Economics, One Community Weekly Progress Update #305

Continued Design Updates to the Open Source Murphy Bed Furniture Assembly Details ” Click to Visit

The core team also created this action list of everything needed to be ready for the crowdfunding campaign and complete village construction. You can see this action item list here.

Created action list, Sustainable Economics, One Community Weekly Update #305

Created Action List for Crowdfunding Campaign and Complete Village Construction – Click for Page

Anvita Kumari Pandey (Civil Engineer) also completed her 30th week volunteering and now helping with the Earthbag Village Materials and Costs. This week she continued updating the materials’ quantities, costs, and reference links, and further refined her AutoCAD drawing of 1 dome to better calculate the earthbag and cement quantities.

Earthbag Village Materials and Costs, Sustainable Economics, One Community Weekly Update #305

Continued Helping w/Earthbag Village Materials And Costs – Click for Page

Shadi Kennedy (Artist and Graphic Designer) also completed his 37th week leading the development of the Murphy bed instructions. This week’s focus was continuing to create diagrams illustrating the wall section assembly, making changes to the under-loft lighting box, and further simplifying the pieces and identifying more areas needing to be tested in Sketchup 3D. You can see some of this work-in-progress here.

Murphy bed instructions, Sustainable Economics, One Community Weekly Update #305

Continued Leading the Development of the Murphy Bed Instructions ” Click to Visit

Dan Alleck (Designer and Illustrator) completed his 34th week helping with Earthbag Village render additions. This week he completed revisions and additions to this view of the complete village looking South. This is on the website now too.

Earthbag Village render, Render with Plants and People, Sustainable Economics, One Community Weekly Update #305

Completed Revisions and Additions to View of the Complete Village Looking South – Click for Page

Dean Scholz (Architectural Designer) continued working on the Earthbag Village (Pod 1). Here is weekly update #146 from Dean. This week’s focus, as shown in these images, was working on the furniture elements in the kitchen and bathroom dome.

Earthbag Village, Sustainable Economics, One Community Weekly Update #305

Worked on Furniture Elements in Kitchen and Bathroom Dome – Click for Earthbag Village

SUSTAINABLE ECONOMICS: DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

One Community is supporting sustainable economics 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 building the new page sharing the best, safest, and most sustainable paints, stains, varnishes, and sealants. We created the social media image and finished all the parts related to the best paints. You can see some of this work here.

most sustainable paints, City Center, Sustainable Economics, One Community Weekly Update #305

Continued Building the New Page Sharing the Best, Safest, and Most Sustainable Paints ” Click to Visit

The core team also updated the Duplicable City Center Sprinkler and Emergency Systems designs page and tutorial by replacing all the graphics referencing 3.5″ pipes and their calculations with graphics showing the much more readily available 4″ pipes and fittings. You can see some of this work here.

Duplicable City Center Sprinkler and Emergency Systems designs page and tutorial, Sustainable Economics, One Community Weekly Update #305

Updated Duplicable City Center Sprinkler and Emergency Systems Designs Page and Tutorial

And the core team continued with week 3 of our research into lake and water retention landscape creation as an alternative source of water for the Duplicable City Center Sprinkler and Emergency Systems Designs, agriculture, greywater processing, and more. This week we reviewed video and took notes on what Zachary Weiss had to say on the topic, you can see some of these notes here.

Duplicable City Center Sprinkler and Emergency Systems Designs, Sustainable Economics, One Community Weekly Update #305

Continued Research Into Lake and Water Retention Landscape Creation for the Duplicable City Center

D i pti Dhondarkar (Electrical Engineer) also continued developing the lighting specifics for the City Center. This is Dipti’s 110th week volunteering on this task and the focus this week was integrating several rounds of requested changes to the AutoCAD layouts. You can see some of this work here.

lighting specifics for the City Center, Sustainable Economics, One Community Weekly Update #305

Continued Developing the Lighting Specifics for the City Center – Click for Page

Tanya Griffin, Aubryanne Boyle, and Allie Marsh (Interior Designers from Lotus Designs) also completed their 5th week helping with the Duplicable City Center interior design details. This week they made adjustments to the layout to improve circulation, added more furniture and fixtures, made adjustments to the seating and storage, and created the first round of renders. You can see some of this work here.

Duplicable City Center, interior design details, Sustainable Economics, One Community Weekly Update #305

Continued with Duplicable City Center Interior Design Details ” Click to Visit

David Olivero (Mechanical Engineer & Data Scientist) continued helping finish the City Center HVAC Designs. This week he focused on AutoCAD updates, finding installation manuals, and helping with some of the cost analysis details, some of which you can see here.

City Center HVAC Designs, Sustainable Economics, One Community Weekly Update #305

Continued Helping Finish the City Center HVAC Designs – Click to Visit Page

And James Herrigel (Student Researcher) also completed his 8th week researching the best, safest, and most sustainable paints. This week’s focus was continuing the process of integrating the LEED points details related to paints, stains, and varnishes. You can see some of this behind-the-scenes work here.

Most sustainable paints Research, Sustainable Economics, One Community Weekly Update #305

Continued Researching the Safest and Most Sustainable Paints ” Click to Visit Page

SUSTAINABLE ECONOMICS: HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

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

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

This week the core team continued writing the behind-the-scenes narrative and detailed food rollout plan for the various stages of development. This week we updated the fuel storage and goat details and construction summaries. You can see some of this behind-the-scenes work here.

Highest Good food, Sustainable Economics, One Community Weekly Progress Update #305

Continued with BTS Narrative & Detailed Food Rollout Plan for Various Stages of Development

Guy Grossfeld (Graphic Designer) also completed his 4th week working on creating an open source icon and symbol set for our permaculture designs. What you see here are the icons created so far.

permaculture designs, Sustainable Economics, One Community Weekly Update #305

Continued Creating an Open Source Icon and Symbol Set for Our Permaculture Designs ” Click to Visit

SUSTAINABLE ECONOMICS: HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

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

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

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

Highest Good education, open source education, progressive education, One Community education, forward-thinking education, learning skills, Sustainable Economics

Highest Good Education: All Subjects | All Learning Levels | Any Age – Click image to Visit

SUSTAINABLE ECONOMICS: HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS

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

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

This week the core team wrote all the sets of ads for all the AdWords campaigns we’ve been researching all the keywords for. You can see some of this work here.

AdWords campaigns, Sustainable Economics, One Community Weekly Update #305

Wrote Sets of Ads for All the Adwords Campaigns – Click for Helping Page

Emilio Nájera (Digital Marketer) also continued with his 16th week as part of the marketing team. This week he added additional keywords for the Lesson Plans for Life and Resource Based Economy pages and then did keyword research for the Open Source, Thermal Lag, Open Source AutoCAD Template, and Highest Good Food pages. You can see some of this work here.

Marketing Keywords-Sustainable Economics - One Community Weekly Update #305

Continued Researching Keywords for Several Pages ” Click to Visit our Site Map

In addition to this, the Highest Good Network software team consisting of Jordan Miller (Web Developer) and Tyler Calvert (Full-stack Software Engineer) continued developing the software. This week the team continued the transition to Redux and started exploring future development features, changed reducers to return empty objects/arrays instead of null, added the leaderboard to the timelog page, and started working on giving Admins the ability to change timelogs for anyone. You can see some of this work here.

Highest Good Network software, Sustainable Economics, One Community Weekly Update #305

Continued Developing the Highest Good Network Software ” Click to Visit

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

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INVESTOR PAGES

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WHAT ONE COMMUNITY IS CREATING

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

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 of what is possible while promoting sustainable economics.

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

SUSTAINABLE ECONOMICS: 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, including sustainable economics.

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, and resources, and work together as a network to heal the planet. They will also transform the global lifestyle into a more enjoyable, fulfilling, healthy, and sustainable one, integrating sustainable economics.

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 in our Research and Resources Articles Archive, including insights into sustainable economics.

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, integrating elements of sustainable economics.

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

COMPREHENSIVE SOLUTION TO HUMANITY’S NEEDS

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

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

GLOBALLY IMPLEMENTABLE REPLICATION MODEL

The more people that are inspired and desiring for themselves what it is that One Community creates, the more demand there will be for spreading the One Community model. This leads to the directing of financial resources and resourceful people where we believe they are needed most: the establishment of additional sustainable communities around the world. We also feel this duplication will specifically happen quickly internationally due to the affordability of overseas land, less restrictive building environments, and the spirit of adventure in many people who really desire to make a difference for those who need it most, all driven by sustainable economics.

To meet the increasing demand for sustainability that we are contributing to, we are coordinating with manufacturers, education institutions, individuals, and vendors. This is also part of this model to help the world. Its purpose is to facilitate more engagement in the sustainability industry, produce the absolute best possible consumer value, and the most convenient delivery of goods and methodologies for building sustainable living communities and sustainable living components, all within the framework of sustainable economics.

This means we not only provide education and increase needed sustainability resources, but we also address the underlying roadblocks to a sustainable planet by decreasing the cost and simultaneously increasing the demand and generating financial support for global sustainability, philanthropy, and humanitarian movements and organizations, all within the framework of sustainable economics.

As demand increases, so too will the ways to participate. Right now people are participating as consultants or partners donating time to our 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization, and others are more involved as Pioneers of the core team that will be moving to the property. We also have options for people to just follow our progress or participate through internet contribution, all within the framework of sustainable economics.

Once the supportive physical infrastructure is about 30% developed, One Community will be ready to additionally expand what we offer to include scholarships, free weekend learning groups, core team members choosing to travel abroad to help others get established too, handling the marketing for all similar models operating for The Highest Good of All, and hosting classes and other sponsored events to promote and demonstrate additional methodologies, all within the framework of sustainable economics.

We also imagine the high likelihood that our organization will become a foundation that can be trusted as the donation point for the distribution of monies to help others to establish this model, within the framework of sustainable economics.

Open Source Community Ecology – One Community Weekly Progress Update #304

Posted on January 20, 2019 by One Community

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Open source community ecology combines sustainable and open source approaches to food, energy, housing, education, for-profit and non-profit economic design, social architecture, fulfilled living, global stewardship practices, and more. By living and creating this way, we can improve our own lives and the lives of others while also helping to regenerate 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 20, 2019 edition (#304) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments:

Open Source Community Ecology
One Community Progress Update #304

Open Source Community Ecology - One Community Weekly Progress Update #304

Watch this video on YouTube

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

OPEN SOURCE COMMUNITY ECOLOGY: INTRO: @0:34

OPEN SOURCE COMMUNITY ECOLOGY: HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING: @6:46

Continued design updates to the open source Murphy bed furniture assembly details (see below)
Continued with one more round of edits and additions to the finished most sustainable toilet options page (see below)
Shadi Kennedy completed his 36th week leading the development of the Murphy bed instructions (see below)
Dean Scholz finished the 3D-model updates to Earthbag Village entryway and windows (see below)

OPEN SOURCE COMMUNITY ECOLOGY: DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER: @8:10

Started building the new page sharing the best, safest, and most sustainable paints (see below)
Dehua Feng further updated the Duplicable City Center Sprinkler and Emergency Systems designs (see below)
Tanya Griffin, Aubryanne Boyle, and Allie Marsh completed their 4th week helping with the Duplicable City Center interior design details (see below)
James Herrigel completed his 7th week researching the best, safest, and most sustainable paints (see below)

OPEN SOURCE COMMUNITY ECOLOGY: HIGHEST GOOD FOOD: @9:38

Started adding all the Highest Good Food rollout plan details to a staging page (see below)
Continued writing the behind-the-scenes narrative and detailed food rollout plan for the various stages of development (see below)
And Guy Grossfeld completed his 3rd week working on creating an open source icon and symbol set for our permaculture designs (see below)

OPEN SOURCE COMMUNITY ECOLOGY: HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION: @10:45

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

OPEN SOURCE COMMUNITY ECOLOGY: HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY: @12:06

Emilio Nájera added additional keywords for the Highest Good Education pages and then worked on the keywords for the Resource Based Economy, Wind Microgrid, Solar Microgrid, Consensus, and Evolving Sustainability (see below)
Highest Good Network software team consisting of Jordan Miller and Tyler Calvert continued developing the software (see below)

OPEN SOURCE COMMUNITY ECOLOGY: SUMMARY: @13:18

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ONE COMMUNITY WEEKLY UPDATE DETAILS

OPEN SOURCE COMMUNITY ECOLOGY: HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

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

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

This week the core team continued design updates to the open source Murphy bed furniture assembly details. This week we continued checking measurements, created two different layouts for the loft joists, and worked on further improving the assembly step order.

Murphy Bed Furniture, Earthbag Village, Open Source Community Ecology, One Community Weekly Progress Update #304

Continued Design Updates to the Open Source Murphy Bed Furniture Assembly Details – Click to Visit

And the core team did one more round of edits and additions to the finished most sustainable toilet options page. This included adding more details about the brands we didn’t select, adding new icons, and adding more resources.

Sustainable Toilets, Open Source Community Ecology, One Community Weekly Progress Update #304

Made Edits and Additions to the Finished Most Sustainable Toilet Options Page – Click to Visit

Shadi Kennedy (Artist and Graphic Designer) also completed his 36th week leading the development of the Murphy bed instructions. This week’s focus was creating new parts files from the updated 3D parts list, double checked all measurements and labeled all areas where improvement could be possible, outlined the new plan for descriptive and illustrative renders, and created new instructional diagrams for the frame section based on the newly revised assembly method. You can see some of this work-in-progress here.

Murphy bed instructions, Open Source Community Ecology, One Community Weekly Progress Update #304

Continued Leading the Development of the Murphy Bed Instructions ” Click to Visit

Dean Scholz (Architectural Designer) continued working on the Earthbag Village (Pod 1). Here is weekly update #145 from Dean. This week’s focus, as shown in these images, was finishing the 3D-model updates to the entryway and windows.

Earthbag Village, Open Source Community Ecology, One Community Weekly Progress Update #304

Continued Updating the Earthbag Village Designs ” Click for Page

OPEN SOURCE COMMUNITY ECOLOGY: DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

One Community is expanding open source community ecology 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 started building the new page sharing the best, safest, and most sustainable paints. We created the initial page setup, header and social media images, and wrote the Why, Summary, and FAQ sections. You can see some of this work here.

best, safest, and most sustainable paints, Open Source Community Ecology - One Community Weekly Progress Update #304

Started Building the New Page Sharing the Best, Safest, and Most Sustainable Paints – Click to Visit

Dehua Feng (Civil Engineer) further updated the Duplicable City Center Sprinkler and Emergency Systems designs. This week he eliminated all 3.5″ pipes and replaced them with more readily available 4″ pipes and fittings in AutoCAD and redid all the related calculations. You can see some of this work here.

Duplicable City Center Sprinkler and Emergency Systems designs, Open Source Community Ecology, One Community Weekly Progress Update #304

Further Updated the Duplicable City Center Sprinkler and Emergency Systems Designs – Click to Visit

Tanya Griffin, Aubryanne Boyle, and Allie Marsh (Interior Designers from Lotus Designs) also completed their 4th week helping with the Duplicable City Center interior design details. This week they explored options for pendent and track lights, additional corner seating, and staggered seating with storage and work spaces along the back wall. You can see some of this work here.

Duplicable City Center, interior design details, Open Source Community Ecology, One Community Weekly Progress Update #304

Continued with Duplicable City Center Interior Design Details – Click to Visit

And James Herrigel (Student Researcher) also completed his 7th week researching the best, safest, and most sustainable paints. This week’s focus was beginning the process of integrating in the LEED points details related to paints. You can see some of this behind-the-scenes work here.

most sustainable paints, Open Source Community Ecology, One Community Weekly Progress Update #304

Continued Researching the Safest and Most Sustainable Paints ” Click to Visit Page

OPEN SOURCE COMMUNITY ECOLOGY: HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

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

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

This week, the core team started adding all the Highest Good Food rollout plan details to a staging page. This week we rebuilt the menus and updated all the formatting, rewrote the What and Why sections, and added the completed details for the initial 3-person survey team. You can see some of this behind-the-scenes work here.

Highest Good Food, Open Source Community Ecology, One Community Weekly Progress Update #304

Started Adding All the Highest Good Food Rollout Plan Details to a Staging Page – Click to Visit

The core team also continued writing the behind-the-scenes narrative and detailed food rollout plan for the various stages of development. This week we wrote the initial rollout details covering food infrastructure for the first 20-50 people on the property, a newly added component “maintenance building,” and completed the fuel storage summary. You can see some of this behind-the-scenes work here.

Continued with BTS Narrative & Detailed Food Rollout Plan for Various Stages of Development

And Guy Grossfeld (Graphic Designer) completed his 3rd week working on creating an open source icon and symbol set for our permaculture designs. What you see here are the icons created so far.

Continued Creating an Open Source Icon and Symbol Set for Our Permaculture Designs ” Click to Visit

OPEN SOURCE COMMUNITY ECOLOGY: HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

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

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

This week the core team continued working on the structural aspects of the Ultimate Classroom. We changed the height of the wall from 4 feet to 5 feet and updated the window wall with a window header and cripple studs. We also added sill plates and designed the foundation and the framing for the glass door.

Ultimate Classroom, Open Source Community Ecology, One Community Weekly Progress Update #304

Continued on the Structural Aspects of the Ultimate Classroom ” Click for Page

OPEN SOURCE COMMUNITY ECOLOGY: HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS

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

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

This week Emilio Nájera (Digital Marketer) continued with his 14th week as part of the marketing team. This week he added additional keywords for the Highest Good Education pages and then worked on the keywords for the Resource Based Economy, Wind Microgrid, Solar Microgrid, Consensus, and Evolving Sustainability pages. You can see some of this work here.

Keywords for Marketing, Open Source Community Ecology, One Community Weekly Progress Update #304

Continued Researching Keywords for Several Pages ” Click to Visit our Site Map

In addition to this, the Highest Good Network software team consisting of Jordan Miller (Web Developer) and Tyler Calvert (Full-stack Software Engineer) continued developing the software. This week the team continued to work on the Redux transition, researched Mailgun to replace Gmail for the application emails, revamped our test for onboarding new test engineers, removed all the remaining bootstrap imports, debugged a 400 error, and merged our updated README into the current branch. You can see some of this work here.

Highest Good Network software, Open Source Community Ecology, One Community Weekly Progress Update #304

Continued Developing the Highest Good Network Software ” 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

GET INVOLVED

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, fostering open source community ecology.

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 of what is possible, showcasing open source community ecology.

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, promoting open source community ecology.

OPEN SOURCE COMMUNITY ECOLOGY: BUILDING THE FIRST OF MANY

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

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, and resources, and work together as a network to heal the planet, emphasizing open source community ecology. They will also transform the global lifestyle into 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 in our Research and Resources Articles Archive, emphasizing open source community ecology.

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, emphasizing open source community ecology.

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.), emphasizing open source community ecology. 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, fostering open source community ecology.

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, fostering open source community ecology.

COMPREHENSIVE SOLUTION TO HUMANITY’S NEEDS

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

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

GLOBALLY IMPLEMENTABLE REPLICATION MODEL

The more people that are inspired and desiring for themselves what it is that One Community creates, the more demand there will be for spreading the One Community model. This leads to the directing of financial resources and resourceful people where we believe they are needed most: the establishment of additional sustainable communities around the world. We also feel this duplication will specifically happen quickly internationally due to the affordability of overseas land, less restrictive building environments, and the spirit of adventure in many people who really desire to make a difference for those who need it most through open source community ecology.

To meet the increasing demand for sustainability that we are contributing to, we are coordinating with manufacturers, education institutions, individuals, and vendors. This is also part of this model to help the world. Its purpose is to facilitate more engagement in the sustainability industry, produce the absolute best possible consumer value, and the most convenient delivery of goods and methodologies for building sustainable living communities and sustainable living components through open source community ecology.

This means we not only provide education and increase needed sustainability resources, but we also address the underlying roadblocks to a sustainable planet by decreasing the cost and simultaneously increasing the demand and generating financial support for global sustainability, philanthropy, and humanitarian movements and organizations through open source community ecology.

As demand increases, so too will the ways to participate. Right now people are participating as consultants or partners donating time to our 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization, and others are more involved as Pioneers of the core team that will be moving to the property. We also have options for people to just follow our progress or participate through internet contribution in open source community ecology.

Once the supportive physical infrastructure is about 30% developed, One Community will be ready to additionally expand what we offer to include scholarships, free weekend learning groups, core team members choosing to travel abroad to help others get established too, handling the marketing for all similar models operating for The Highest Good of All, and hosting classes and other sponsored events to promote and demonstrate additional methodologies.

We also imagine the high likelihood that our organization will become a foundation that can be trusted as the donation point for the distribution of monies to help others to establish this model also.

Human Ecosystem Construction – One Community Weekly Progress Update #303

Posted on January 13, 2019 by One Community

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

Every one of us is a contributor to our local communities and the global environment. Human ecosystem construction takes a proactive and regenerative approach to this contribution. Through permaculture and holistic sustainability practices, we can live better lives while also being part of the global solution.

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 13, 2019 edition (#303) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments:

Human Ecosystem Construction
One Community Progress Update #303

Human Ecosystem Construction - One Community Weekly Progress Update #303

Watch this video on YouTube

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

HUMAN ECOSYSTEM CONSTRUCTION: INTRO: @0:34

HUMAN ECOSYSTEM CONSTRUCTION: HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING: @6:45

Fixed our Highest Good Housing online book functionality and created a short code for more easily updating the related code in the future (see below)
Finished updating the complete Vermiculture Bathroom page (see below)
Michael Hagler created 6 icons, including the icon for the new most sustainable toilet options page and icons for all the other upcoming sustainable infrastructure pages (see below)
Shadi Kennedy completed his 35th week leading the development of the Murphy bed instructions (see below)
Dean Scholz continued working on 3D-model updates to the entryway and windows Earthbag Village (see below)

HUMAN ECOSYSTEM CONSTRUCTION: DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER: @7:53

Finished our final review of the City Center lighting spreadsheet, light placement, symbols, and layers in AutoCAD, and correlating website details (see below)
Anvita Kumari Pandey continued updating the Duplicable City Center Costs with additional details for the City Center HVAC Designs (see below)
David Olivero continued helping finish the City Center HVAC Designs (see below)
James Herrigel completed his 6th week researching the best, safest, and most sustainable paints (see below)

HUMAN ECOSYSTEM CONSTRUCTION: HIGHEST GOOD FOOD: @9:15

Finished work on the open source Apiary page (see below)
Worked on a complete update of the open source goats page (see below)
Guy Grossfeld completed his 2nd week working on creating an open source icon and symbol set for our permaculture designs (see below)

HUMAN ECOSYSTEM CONSTRUCTION: HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION: @10:10

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

HUMAN ECOSYSTEM CONSTRUCTION: HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY: @11:30

Emilio Nájera added additional keywords for each of the Highest Good Housing models and also started all of the research for two of the Highest Good Education pages (see below)
Highest Good Network software team consisting of Shubhra Mittal, Jordan Miller, and Tyler Calvert continued developing the software (see below)

HUMAN ECOSYSTEM CONSTRUCTION: SUMMARY: @12:54

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

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ONE COMMUNITY WEEKLY UPDATE DETAILS

HUMAN ECOSYSTEM CONSTRUCTION: HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

One Community is assisting human ecosystem construction through Highest Good housing that is artistic and beautiful, more affordable, more space efficient, lasts longer, DIY buildable, and constructed with healthy and sustainable materials:

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

This week the core team fixed our Highest Good Housing online book functionality and created a short code for more easily updating the related code in the future.

Highest Good Housing, Human Ecosystem Construction, One Community Weekly Progress Update #303

Fixed Our Highest Good Housing Online Book Functionality – Click to Visit

The core team also finished updating the complete Vermiculture Bathroom page. This week we added all the design-version 2 graphics and details. You can see some of this work here.

Vermiculture Bathroom, Human Ecosystem Construction, One Community Weekly Progress Update #303

Finished Updating the Complete Vermiculture Bathroom Page ” Click to Visit

Michael Hagler (Senior Graphic Designer and Artist) created the 6 icons shown here. These include the icon for the new most sustainable toilet options page and icons for all the other upcoming sustainable infrastructure pages.

icons, most sustainable toilet options, Human Ecosystem Construction, One Community Weekly Progress Update #303

Created 6 Icons Including the Icon for the New Most Sustainable Toilet Options Page – Click to Visit

Shadi Kennedy (Artist and Graphic Designer) also completed his 35th week leading the development of the Murphy bed instructions. This week’s focus was updating the parts lists, graphics, and layouts to reflect new design changes and brainstorming a new design for the top part of the bed that will house the lights and related wiring. You can see some of this work-in-progress here.

Murphy bed instructions, Human Ecosystem Construction, One Community Weekly Progress Update #303

Continued Leading the Development of the Murphy Bed Instructions – Click to Visit

Dean Scholz (Architectural Designer) continued working on the Earthbag Village (Pod 1). Here is weekly update #145 from Dean. This week’s focus, as shown in these images, was continued 3D-model updates to the entryway and windows.

Earthbag Village, Human Ecosystem Construction, One Community Weekly Progress Update #303

Continued Updating the Earthbag Village Designs ” Click for Page

HUMAN ECOSYSTEM CONSTRUCTION: DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

One Community is assisting human ecosystem construction 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 our final review of the City Center lighting spreadsheet, light placement, symbols, and layers in AutoCAD, and correlating website details. Next is integration of the changes still needed and we’d say we are about 90% complete with these designs.

City Center lighting, Human Ecosystem Construction, One Community Weekly Progress Update #303

Finished Our Final Review of the City Center Lighting ” Click to Visit

Anvita Kumari Pandey (Civil Engineer) also continued updating the Duplicable City Center Costs with additional details for the City Center HVAC Designs. She improved categorization of all items and added more images and reference URLs. She also researched HVAC parts lists and specs sheets.

Duplicable City Costs, Human Ecosystem Construction, One Community Weekly Progress Update #303

Continued Updating the Duplicable City Center Costs – Click to Visit

David Olivero (Mechanical Engineer & Data Scientist) continued helping finish the City Center HVAC Designs. This week he wrote more content for the tutorial, some of which you can see here.

City Center HVAC Designs, Human Ecosystem Construction, One Community Weekly Progress Update #303

Continued Helping Finish the City Center HVAC Designs – Click to Visit

And James Herrigel (Student Researcher) also completed his 6th week researching the best, safest, and most sustainable paints. This week he finished draft 1 of the tutorial for purchasing responsible paints. You can see some of this behind-the-scenes work here.

most sustainable paints, most sustainable carpet, building materials, Human Ecosystem Construction, One Community Weekly Progress Update #303

Continued Researching the Safest and Most Sustainable Paints ” Click to Visit Page

HUMAN ECOSYSTEM CONSTRUCTION: HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

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

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

This week, the core team finished work on the open source Apiary page. This included adding more resources and completing the section with instructions for building your own hive. You can see some of this work here.

Apiary, Human Ecosystem Construction, One Community Weekly Progress Update #303

Finished the Open Source Apiary Page – Click to Visit

The core team also did a complete update of the open source goats page. This included adding all our latest research, new graphics, and new resources. You can see some of this here.

Goats, Human Ecosystem Construction, One Community Weekly Progress Update #303

Did a Complete Update of the Open Source Goats Page – Click to Visit

And Guy Grossfeld (Graphic Designer) completed his 2nd week working on creating an open source icon and symbol set for our permaculture designs. This week he created the 19 icons shown here.

permaculture designs, Human Ecosystem Construction, One Community Weekly Progress Update #303

Continued Creating an Open Source Icon and Symbol Set for Our Permaculture Designs – Click to Visit

HUMAN ECOSYSTEM CONSTRUCTION: HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

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

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

This week the core team worked on the structural aspects of the Ultimate Classroom. We cleaned up all the content that needed to be removed so we can focus on the structural design and then updated the outside walls to use 2x6s for the frame and added all the planned 2’x3′ windows.

Ultimate Classroom, Human Ecosystem Construction, One Community Weekly Progress Update #303

Worked on the Structural Aspects of the Ultimate Classroom – Click for Page

HUMAN ECOSYSTEM CONSTRUCTION: HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS

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

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

This week Emilio Nájera (Digital Marketer) continued with his 13th week as part of the marketing team. This week he added additional keywords for each of the Highest Good Housing models and also started all of the research for two of the Highest Good Education pages. You can see some of this work here.

keywords, Human Ecosystem Construction, One Community Weekly Progress Update #303

Continued Researching Keywords for Housing and Education Pages ” Click to Visit our Site Map

In addition to this, the Highest Good Network software team consisting of Shubhra Mittal (Software Delivery Manager), Jordan Miller (Web Developer), and Tyler Calvert (Full-stack Software Engineer) continued developing the software. This week the team updated our workweek definition from Monday to Sunday to Sunday to Saturday, updated all our Readme content for new developers, fixed a Redux error, added Post/Put actions and reducers, updated routes, fixed a security vulnerability and improved team access and monitoring to address these in the future, reset the GitHub flow, and continued working on rewriting our leaderboard to use Redux. You can see some of this work here.

Highest Good Network software, Human Ecosystem Construction, One Community Weekly Progress Update #303

Continued Developing the Highest Good Network Software ” Click to Visit

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

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WHAT ONE COMMUNITY IS CREATING

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

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 of what is possible through human ecosystem construction.

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 through human ecosystem construction.

HUMAN ECOSYSTEM CONSTRUCTION: 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 through human ecosystem construction.

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, and resources, and work together as a network to heal the planet through human ecosystem construction. They will also transform the global lifestyle into 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 in our Research and Resources Articles Archive, focusing on aspects of human ecosystem construction

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, and fulfilling, and an additional reason why we are creating this, emphasizing the importance of human ecosystem construction.

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, emphasizing the importance of human ecosystem construction.

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, fostering human ecosystem construction.

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, contributing to human ecosystem construction

COMPREHENSIVE SOLUTION TO HUMANITY’S NEEDS

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

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

GLOBALLY IMPLEMENTABLE REPLICATION MODEL

The more people that are inspired and desiring for themselves what it is that One Community creates, the more demand there will be for spreading the One Community model. This leads to the directing of financial resources and resourceful people where we believe they are needed most: the establishment of additional sustainable communities around the world. We also feel this duplication will specifically happen quickly internationally due to the affordability of overseas land, less restrictive building environments, and the spirit of adventure in many people who really desire to make a difference for those who need it most, contributing to human ecosystem construction.

To meet the increasing demand for sustainability that we are contributing to, we are coordinating with manufacturers, education institutions, individuals, and vendors. This is also part of this model to help the world. Its purpose is to facilitate more engagement in the sustainability industry, produce the absolute best possible consumer value, and the most convenient delivery of goods and methodologies for building sustainable living communities and sustainable living components, thus contributing to human ecosystem construction.

This means we not only provide education and increase needed sustainability resources, but we also address the underlying roadblocks to a sustainable planet by decreasing the cost and simultaneously increasing the demand and generating financial support for global sustainability, philanthropy, and humanitarian movements and organizations, thereby contributing to human ecosystem construction.

As demand increases, so too will the ways to participate. Right now people are participating as consultants or partners donating time to our 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization, and others are more involved as Pioneers of the core team that will be moving to the property. We also have options for people to just follow our progress or participate through internet contribution, all contributing to human ecosystem construction.

Once the supportive physical infrastructure is about 30% developed, One Community will be ready to additionally expand what we offer to include scholarships, free weekend learning groups, core team members choosing to travel abroad to help others get established too, handling the marketing for all similar models operating for The Highest Good of All, and hosting classes and other sponsored events to promote and demonstrate additional methodologies, all contributing to human ecosystem construction.

We also imagine the high likelihood that our organization will become a foundation that can be trusted as the donation point for the distribution of monies to help others to establish this model, contributing to human ecosystem construction.

One Community Welcomes Jordan Miller to the Software Development Team!

Posted on January 10, 2019 by One Community

One Community welcomes Jordan Miller to the Software Development Team as our newest Volunteer/Consultant!

Jordan Miller is a web developer from Raleigh, North Carolina. Graduating from the University of North Carolina Coding Bootcamp, he hopes his contribution through programming can help future generations follow sustainable lifestyle. He and his family do their utmost to follow a zero-waste lifestyle, eliminating as many waste producing activities from their home as possible. As a member of the One Community team, Jordan is helping develop the open source Highest Good Network software.

WELCOME TO THE TEAM JORDAN!

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One Community Welcomes Elizabeth Kahn to the Research Team!

Posted on January 10, 2019 by One Community

One Community welcomes Elizabeth Kahn to the Research Team as our newest Volunteer/Consultant!

Elizabeth has a Bachelor of Arts in Sustainable Community Development and minors in Business Management and Environmental Studies. She also has a Masters of Environmental Law and Policy (M.E.L.P.) from Vermont Law School and a Master of Public Policy (M.P.P.) with a minor in Urban & Regional Planning from the University of Minnesota. Her passion for the environment and sustainability led her to pursue all of these degrees and dedicate her career path to pursuing it in the environmental/sustainability/policy sectors. She eagerly shares her love for nature and the planet by applying her analytical and analysis skills as a member of the One Community team doing research for open source tutorials covering water-saving toilets and other sustainable infrastructure components.

WELCOME TO THE TEAM ELIZABETH!

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Permaculture Community Building – One Community Weekly Progress Update #302

Posted on January 6, 2019 by One Community

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

One Community is open sourcing and free-sharing permaculture community building with DIY-replicable designs covering all aspects of sustainable living. This includes food, energy, housing, education, for-profit and non-profit economic design, social architecture, fulfilled living, global stewardship practices, and more. We call this living and creating for The Highest Good of All.

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

OUR MAIN OPEN SOURCE HUBS

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

One Community’s physical location will forward this movement as the first of many self-replicating teacher/demonstration communities, villages, and cities to be built around the world. This is the January 6, 2019 edition (#302) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments:

Permaculture Community Building
One Community Progress Update #302

Permaculture Community Building - One Community Weekly Progress Update #302

Watch this video on YouTube

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

PERMACULTURE COMMUNITY BUILDING: INTRO: @0:34

PERMACULTURE COMMUNITY BUILDING: HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING: @6:29

Continued design updates to the open source Murphy bed furniture assembly details (see below)
Finished development of the new page sharing our research into the most sustainable toilet options (see below)
Continued updating the complete Vermiculture Bathroom page (see below)
Dean Scholz continued working on 3D-model updates the entryway and windows Earthbag Village (see below)

PERMACULTURE COMMUNITY BUILDING: DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER: @7:43

Continued working on the Sketchup Duplicable City Center updates (see below)
Continued with week 2 of our research into lake and water retention landscape creation as an alternative source of water for the Duplicable City Center Sprinkler and Emergency Systems Designs, agriculture, greywater processing, and more (see below)
Continued our final review of the City Center lighting spreadsheet, light placement, symbols, and layers in AutoCAD, and correlating website details (see below)
James Herrigel completed his 5th week researching the best, safest, and most sustainable paints, carpet, and other building materials (see below)

PERMACULTURE COMMUNITY BUILDING: HIGHEST GOOD FOOD: @9:26

Continued adding more content to the open source Apiary page (see below)
Continued writing the behind-the-scenes narrative and detailed food rollout plan for the various stages of development (see below)
Guy Grossfeld began creating an open source icon and symbol set for our permaculture designs (see below)

PERMACULTURE COMMUNITY BUILDING: HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION: @10:46

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

PERMACULTURE COMMUNITY BUILDING: HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY: @11:52

Emilio Nájera researched keywords for five of our top-level housing-related pages: Cob Village, Compressed Earth Block Village, Shipping Container Village, and Recycled Materials Village (see below)
Highest Good Network software team consisting of Shubhra Mittal, Jordan Miller, and Tyler Calvert continued developing the software (see below)

PERMACULTURE COMMUNITY BUILDING: SUMMARY: @13:02

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ONE COMMUNITY WEEKLY UPDATE DETAILS

PERMACULTURE COMMUNITY BUILDING: HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

One Community is supporting and expanding permaculture community building through Highest Good housing that is artistic and beautiful, more affordable, more space efficient, lasts longer, DIY buildable, and constructed with healthy and sustainable materials:

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

This week the core team continued design updates to the open source Murphy bed furniture assembly details by double checking our clearances for the entire structure. You can see some of this work here.

Murphy bed furniture assembly details, Permaculture Community Building, One Community Weekly Update #302

Continued Design Updates to Open Source Murphy Bed Furniture Assembly Instructions

The core team also finished development of the new page sharing our research into the most sustainable toilet options. To complete the page we finished the composting toilet section, water-saving accessories section, summary and FAQ sections, and shared it through social media.

most sustainable toilet options, Permaculture Community Building, One Community Weekly Update #302

Finished Most Sustainable Toilet Options Page ” Click to Visit

And the core team continued updating the complete Vermiculture Bathroom page. This week we finished reviewing and updating all the text and design details for design-version 1. You can see some of this work here.

Vermiculture Bathroom page, Permaculture Community Building, One Community Weekly Update #302

Continued Updating the Complete Vermiculture Bathroom Page – Click to Visit

Dean Scholz (Architectural Designer) continued working on the Earthbag Village (Pod 1). Here is weekly update #144 from Dean. This week’s focus, as shown in these images, was continued 3D-model updates to the entryway and windows.

Earthbag Village, Permaculture Community Building, One Community Weekly Progress Update #302

Continued Updating the Earthbag Village Designs ” Click for Page

PERMACULTURE COMMUNITY BUILDING: DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

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

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

This week, the core team continued working on the Sketchup Duplicable City Center updates. We updated all the hexagon windows, ceiling, and floor heights in the Dining and Social Domes. We also added complete furniture details to one of the Living Dome rooms, changed door opening directions where needed, updated windows on the Dining Dome second floor, raised the Sunrise Patio deck, redesigned the laundry room door frame details, and updated the Social Dome shell to accommodate the pedestrian door connecting the inside and outside swimming pool areas. You can see some of these details here.

Sketchup Duplicable City Center, Permaculture Community Building, One Community Weekly Update #302

Continued Working on Sketchup Duplicable City Center Updates – Click to Visit

The core team also continued with week 2 of our research into lake and water retention landscape creation as an alternative source of water for the Duplicable City Center Sprinkler and Emergency Systems Designs, agriculture, greywater processing, and more. This week we reviewed video and took notes on Sepp Holzer’s work on the topic.

Duplicable City Center Sprinkler and Emergency Systems Designs, Permaculture Community Building, One Community Weekly Update #302

Continued Research Into Lake and Water Retention Landscape Creation for the Duplicable City Center

The core team also continued our final review of the City Center lighting spreadsheet, light placement, symbols, and layers in AutoCAD, and correlating website details. You can see some of this work here and we’d say we are about 50% complete.

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Continued Our Final Review of the City Center Lighting – Click to Visit

And James Herrigel (Student Researcher) also completed his 5th week researching the best, safest, and most sustainable paints, carpet, and other building materials. This week he finished his research into responsible paints and began the process of writing the detailed tutorial. You can see some of this behind-the-scenes work here.

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Continued Researching the Safest and Most Sustainable Paints, Carpet, and Other Building Materials

PERMACULTURE COMMUNITY BUILDING: HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

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

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

This week, the core team continued working on the open source Apiary page. We finished the tools and equipment sections and added a section teaching what’s needed for buying bees. You can see some of this work here and we’d say we are now 90% complete with the page.

Apiary, Permaculture Community Building, One Community Weekly Update #302

Continued Adding More Content to the Open Source Apiary Page – Click to Visit

The core team also continued writing the behind-the-scenes narrative and detailed food rollout plan for the various stages of development. This week we added the post hole/auger info, chainsaw tool kit info, and researched the Bio 400 shredder/chipper. In addition we added examples of necessary activities for the 50-100 person third team, and food for 400+ on the food Google Doc. You can see some of this behind-the-scenes work here.

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Continued with Behind-the-Scenes Narrative and Food Rollout Plan ” Click for Page

And the core team working with Guy Grossfeld (Graphic Designer) completed our 1st week working on creating an open source icon and symbol set for our permaculture designs. This week we created the initial design template, researched textures, and Guy created the first icon samples. You can see some of this work here.

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Began Creating an Open Source Icon and Symbol Set for Our Permaculture Designs – Click to Visit

PERMACULTURE COMMUNITY BUILDING: HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

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

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

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

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Highest Good Education: All Subjects | All Learning Levels | Any Age – Click image to Visit

PERMACULTURE COMMUNITY BUILDING: HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS

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

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

This week Emilio Nájera (Digital Marketer) continued with his 12th week as part of the marketing team. This week he researched keywords for five of our top-level housing-related pages: Cob Village, Compressed Earth Block Village, Shipping Container Village, and Recycled Materials Village.

Keyword research, Permaculture Community Building, One Community Weekly Update #302

Researched Keywords for Five More of our Top-level Housing-related Pages ” Click to Visit Site Map

In addition to this, the Highest Good Network software team consisting of Shubhra Mittal (Software Delivery Manager), Jordan Miller (Web Developer), and Tyler Calvert (Full-stack Software Engineer) continued developing the software. This week the team debugged the unit tests for header and leaderboard components, wrote test for new front-end developers, started working on transitioning non-redux components to use Redux, and updated our documentation so it will be easier to read for new developers. You can see some of this work here.

Highest Good Network, Permaculture Community Building, One Community Weekly Progress Update #302

Continued Developing the Highest Good Network Software – Click to Visit

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