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WHAT ONE COMMUNITY IS CREATING

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

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

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

BUILDING THE FIRST OF MANY

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

WHY ONE COMMUNITY IS CREATING THIS

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

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

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

INSPIRING SUSTAINABILITY WITH OPEN SOURCE

One Community’s four-phase strategy for the creation of solution models that create solution creating models uses open source blueprints for duplication that simultaneously address all aspects of the human experience (food, energy, housing, education, social inequality and injustice, fulfilled living, etc.), contributing to the science of sustainable 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, contributing to the science of sustainable ecology. By free-sharing the step-by-step plans people need for duplication, inviting people to participate, and demonstrating sustainable teacher/demonstration hubs as a more desirable way of living, the model will predictably expand on its own.

It is this approach we see uniting the world and leading to a new Golden Age for humanity, contributing to the science of sustainable ecology. 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, contributing to the science of sustainable ecology. 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 the science of sustainable ecology. 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.

SUMMARY

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

Ecological Outreach – One Community Weekly Progress Update #248

Posted on December 24, 2017 by Kishan Sivakumar

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

One Community is creating an ecological outreach program based on open source sustainability solutions. These solutions include food, energy, housing, education, for-profit and non-profit economic design, social architecture, fulfilled living, and global stewardship practices. They are designed to be implemented as individual components or complete teacher/demonstration hubs, communities, villages, or even cities.

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 24th, 2017 edition (#248) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments:

Ecological Outreach
One Community Progress Update #248

Ecological Outreach - One Community Weekly Progress Update #248

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:

ECOLOGICAL OUTREACH INTRO: @0:34

ECOLOGICAL OUTREACH HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING: @6:27

Continued Sketchup design for the open source outdoor areas of the Recycled Materials Village (see below)
Continued working on the Murphy bed instructions (see below)
Updated the Earthbag Village electrical design formatting and added the electrical details for the Vermiculture Bathroom designs (see below)
Finished the complete Compressed Earth Block Village Materials Cost Analysis webpage (see below)
Finished creating the thermal lag page by creating the header image and adding the final updates and edits to the main content (see below)
Hemanth Kotaru completed his 14th week with us doing research and running calculations for the Earthbag Village (see below)
Hamilton Mateca finished his 67th week helping with the Compressed Earth Block Village design and render details (see below)
Aparna Tandon continued her work on the Compressed Earth Block Village external elements (see below)
Mihaela “Michelle” Pinzaru joined the team and completed her 1st week taking over development of the Tree House Village residential designs (see below)

ECOLOGICAL OUTREACH DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER: @8:53

Finished first 30% of the LEED lighting tutorial details for the lighting design of the City Center and all other One Community structures (see below)
Haoxuan “Hayes” Lei continued work on the City Center structural engineering (see below)
David Olivero completed his 6th week helping with the HVAC Designs for the Duplicable City Center (see below)
Oruba Rabie continued working on the City Center structural engineering (see below)
Dipti Dhondarkar continued with her 62nd week of work on the lighting specifics for the City Center (see below)
Satish Ravindran completed his 5th week helping with the LEED lighting specifics for the City Center (see below)

ECOLOGICAL OUTREACH HIGHEST GOOD FOOD: @10:34

Continued work on the formulas and data for the food calculations on the Food Self-sufficiency Transition Plan pages (see below)

ECOLOGICAL OUTREACH HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION: @11:06

Created the formatting and began entering the content for the Information Maintenance and Sharing page (see below)

ECOLOGICAL OUTREACH HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY: @11:44

Continued the process of launching One Community’s Instagram page (see below)
Ashwin Patil created version 2.0 of the Highest Good of All search engine (see below)
Sowmya Manohar, Priti Kothari, Shubhra Mittal, and Priyanka Singh (theHighest Good Network software team) implemented model, controller, and routes for ‘Project’ and ‘Team’ entities and performed unit test using Postman (see below)

ECOLOGICAL OUTREACH ECOLOGICAL OUTREACH SUMMARY: @12:58

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ONE COMMUNITY WEEKLY UPDATE DETAILS

ECOLOGICAL OUTREACH: HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

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

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

The core team continued Sketchup design for the open source outdoor areas of the Recycled Materials Village (Pod 6). This week we researched exercise equipment ideas for the Gym, and continued the racetrack road design, as shown here.

Outdoor Areas of Recycled Materials Village ” Click to Visit Page

The core team also continued working on the Murphy bed instructions, finishing the first 10% of page 6.8.8 ” table trim cutting, shown here.

Continued Working on Murphy Bed Instructions ” Click to Visit Page

In addition, the core team updated the Earthbag Village electrical design formatting and added the electrical details for the Vermiculture Bathroom designs.

Ecological Outreach - One Community Weekly Progress Update #248, In addition, the core team updated the Earthbag Village electrical design formatting and added the electrical details for the Vermiculture Bathroom designs.

Added Details for the Vermiculture Bathroom Designs – Click for Electrical Design Page

The core team also finished the complete Compressed Earth Block Village Materials Cost Analysis webpage. This included adding and editing all the content, images, menus, and more. You can see some of this work here and the rest is live on the website, complete with links to all the open source spreadsheets used for our calculations.

Ecological Outreach - One Community Weekly Progress Update #248, The core team also finished the complete Compressed Earth Block Village Materials Cost Analysis webpage. This included adding and editing all the content, images, menus, and more. You can see some of this work here and the rest is live on the website, complete with links to all the open source spreadsheets used for our calculations.

Compressed Earth Block Village Materials Cost Analysis Webpage – Click to Visit

And the core team finished creating the thermal lag page by creating the header image and adding the final updates and edits to the main content.

Ecological Outreach - One Community Weekly Progress Update #248, And the core team finished creating the thermal lag page by creating the header image and adding the final updates and edits to the main content.

Finished Creating the Thermal Lag Page – Click to Visit

Hemanth Kotaru (Structural Engineering Masters Student) completed his 14th week with us doing research and running calculations for the Earthbag Village. This week’s focus was an extensive review of existing thermal lag and earthbag construction resources, helping us rename them all, and then we added them all to the website.

Ecological Outreach - One Community Weekly Progress Update #248 - Hemanth Kotaru (Structural Engineering Masters Student) completed his 14th week with us doing research and running calculations for the Earthbag Village. This week's focus was an extensive review of existing thermal lag and earthbag construction resources, helping us rename them all, and then we added them all to the website.

Research and Running Calculations for Earthbag Village – Click for Page

Hamilton Mateca (AutoCAD and Revit Drafter and Designer) also finished his 67th week helping with the Compressed Earth Block Village design and render details. This week’s focus was this new render perspective for Zone 17.

Ecological Outreach - One Community Weekly Progress Update #248, Hamilton Mateca (AutoCAD and Revit Drafter and Designer) also finished his 67th week helping with the Compressed Earth Block Village design and render details. This week's focus was this new render perspective for Zone 17.

Compressed Earth Block Village Design and Render Details – Click to Visit

Aparna Tandon (Architect) continued her work on the Compressed Earth Block Village external elements. What you see here is her 41st week of work, finishing the design overview image for Zones 12 and 18. This content is now live on the site also.

Ecological Outreach - One Community Weekly Progress Update #248, Earth Block Village Zone 12 and 18, One Community

Work on Compressed Earth Block Village External Elements – Click for Page

Mihaela “Michelle” Pinzaru (Interior Designer and Architectural Drafter) also joined the team and completed her 1st week taking over development of the Tree House Village (Pod 7) residential designs. This week she updated the AutoCAD layout and fixed the walls and roofs to match the new floor plan.

Ecological Outreach - One Community Weekly Progress Update #248, Mihaela

Took Over Development of Tree House Village Residential Designs – Click for Page

ECOLOGICAL OUTREACH: DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

One Community is leading ecological outreach 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

The core team finished the first 30% of the LEED lighting tutorial details for the lighting design of the City Center and all other One Community structures. You can see some of this work here and the rest is on the site.

Ecological Outreach - One Community Weekly Progress Update #248, The core team finished the first 30% of the LEED lighting tutorial details for the lighting design of the City Center and all other One Community structures. You can see some of this work here and the rest is on the site.

LEED Lighting Tutorial Details for City Center Lighting – Click for Page

Haoxuan “Hayes” Lei (Structural Engineer) continued work on the City Center structural engineering. What you see here are his calculations for the materials’ dead loads for the triangles that make up the domes themselves.

Ecological Outreach - One Community Weekly Progress Update #248, Haoxuan

Work on City Center Structural Engineering – Click for Page

David Olivero (Mechanical Engineer & Data Scientist) completed his 6th week helping with the HVAC Designs for the Duplicable City Center. This week’s focus was completing the second two of the 3 analyses for the indoor/outdoor Natural Pool impacts on the Social Dome. You can see some of this work here.

Ecological Outreach, David Olivero (Mechanical Engineer & Data Scientist) completed his 6th week helping with the HVAC Designs for the Duplicable City Center. This week's focus was completing the second two of the 3 analyses for the indoor/outdoor Natural Pool impacts on the Social Dome. You can see some of this work here.

Continued Working on HVAC Designs for Duplicable City Center ” Click for Page

Oruba Rabie (Ph.D, PE, and Civil Engineer) also continued working on the City Center structural engineering. This week’s focus was importing and beginning the process of applying loads to the dome structures.

Ecological Outreach - One Community Weekly Progress Update #248, Oruba Rabie (Ph.D, PE, and Civil Engineer) also continued working on the City Center structural engineering. This week's focus was importing and beginning the process of applying loads to the dome structures.

Working on City Center Structural Engineering – Click to Visit

Dipti Dhondarkar, (Electrical Engineer) continued with her 62nd week of work on the lighting specifics for the City Center. This week’s focus was continuing the modeling of the mezzanine areas in the central area of the City Center, as shown here.

Ecological Outreach - One Community Weekly Progress Update #248, Dipti Dhondarkar, (Electrical Engineer) continued with her 62nd week of work on the lighting specifics for the City Center. This week's focus was continuing the modeling of the mezzanine areas in the central area of the City Center, as shown here.

Ecological Outreach – Working on the Lighting Specifics for the City Center ” Click for Page

Satish Ravindran (Senior Mechanical and Industrial Engineer) also completed his 5th week helping with the LEED lighting specifics for the City Center. This week’s focus was double checking the bulb count, lumen, and wattage details on our spreadsheet for the entire City Center, as shown here.

Ecological Outreach - One Community Weekly Progress Update #248, Satish Ravindran (Senior Mechanical and Industrial Engineer) also completed his 5th week helping with the LEED lighting specifics for the City Center. This week's focus was double checking the bulb count, lumen, and wattage details on our spreadsheet for the entire City Center, as shown here.

Ecological Outreach – Working on LEED Lighting Specifics for City Center ” Click to Visit

ECOLOGICAL OUTREACH: HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

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

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

This week, the core team continued work on the formulas and data for the food calculations on the Food Self-sufficiency Transition Plan pages, bringing it to approximately 95% completion, as you see here.

Ecological Outreach - One Community Weekly Progress Update #248, This week, the core team continued work on the formulas and data for the food calculations on the Food Self-sufficiency Transition Plan pages, bringing it to approximately 95% completion, as you see here.

Ecological Outreach – Work on Formulas and Data for Food Calculations ” Click to Visit

ECOLOGICAL OUTREACH: HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

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

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

This week, the core team continued adding to the education Evaluation and Evolution process open source pages and tutorials. This week we created the formatting and began entering the content for the Information Maintenance and Sharing page, which is about taking records of your learnings with you beyond the education program, as you can see here.

Ecological Outreach - One Community Weekly Progress Update #248, This week, the core team continued adding to the education Evaluation and Evolution process open source pages and tutorials. This week we created the formatting and began entering the content for the Information Maintenance and Sharing page, which is about taking records of your learnings with you beyond the education program, as you can see here.

Ecological Outreach – Began Information Maintenance and Sharing Page ” Click to Visit

ECOLOGICAL OUTREACH: HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS

One Community is leading ecological outreach 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 continued the process of launching One Community’s Instagram page by adding 27 new images to the account, as shown here.

Ecological Outreach - One Community Weekly Progress Update #248, This week, the core team continued the process of launching One Community's Instagram page by adding 27 new images to the account, as shown here.

Ecological Outreach – Launching One Community’s Instagram Page ” Click for Page

Ashwin Patil (Web Developer) continued working on the search engines for the website. This week we created version 2.0 of the Highest Good of All search engine. You can see some of this work-in-progress here

Ecological Outreach – Created Version 2.0 of Highest Good of All Search Engine” Click for Page

The Highest Good Network software team consists of Sowmya Manohar (Software Engineer, Web Developer & Net Application Developer), Priti Kothari (Information Technology Enthusiast), Shubhra Mittal (Software Delivery Manager), and Priyanka Singh (Software Developer). This week the team implemented model, controller, and routes for ‘Project’ and ‘Team’ entities and performed unit test using Postman. They also created the query structure for dashboard/leaderboard data using promises framework, completed the setup of the GitHub from Atom, and investigated role-based access and authentication.

Ecological Outreach - One Community Weekly Progress Update #248, The Highest Good Network software team consists of Sowmya Manohar (Software Engineer, Web Developer & Net Application Developer), Priti Kothari (Information Technology Enthusiast), Â Shubhra Mittal (Software Delivery Manager), and Priyanka Singh (Software Developer). This week the team implemented model, controller, and routes for 'Project' and 'Team' entities and performed unit test using Postman. They also created the query structure for dashboard/leaderboard data using promises framework, completed the setup of the GitHub from Atom, and investigated role-based access and authentication.

Ecological Outreach – Working on Highest Good Network Software ” Click for Page

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WHAT ONE COMMUNITY IS CREATING

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

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

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

BUILDING THE FIRST OF MANY

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

WHY ONE COMMUNITY IS CREATING THIS

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

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

Even if we don’t achieve our ultimate goal of global transformation, a self-replicating teacher/demonstration model like this will take a relatively short period of time to positively affect millions while inspiring millions more, contributing to the science of sustainable ecology. 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.

SUMMARY

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

Eco-Flow and Function – One Community Weekly Progress Update #247

Posted on December 17, 2017 by Kishan Sivakumar

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

Establishing global eco-flow and function would mean creating a sustainable planet that would benefit all life. We can do this if we work together, open source solutions, and create new ways to motivate the average person to participate.

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 17th, 2017 edition (#247) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments:

Eco-Flow and Function
One Community Progress Update #247

Eco-flow and Function - One Community Weekly Progress Update #247

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:

ECO-FLOW AND FUNCTION INTRO: @0:34

ECO-FLOW AND FUNCTION HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING: @7:11

Continued Sketchup design for the open source outdoor areas of the Recycled Materials Village (see below)
Continued working on the Murphy bed instructions (see below)
Finished the second half of updating the complete Tree House Village open source hub (see below)
Started the final review process for the 60+ page Tree House Village online book we’ve been developing (see below)
Christian Ojeda further developed the Vermiculture toilet chamber designs (see below)
Dean Scholz continued helping us create quality Cob Village renders (see below)
Sangam Stanczak continued researching and contacting companies for the hardware we’ll be using to sterilize the greywater from the Communal Eco-showers (see below)
Hamilton Mateca finished his 66th week helping with the Compressed Earth Block Village design and render details (see below)
Jagannathan Shankar Mahadevan finished work on the Compressed Earth Block Village Materials Cost Analysis content and associated graphics (see below)

ECO-FLOW AND FUNCTION DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER: @9:51

David Olivero completed the first of 3 analyses for the indoor/outdoor Natural Pool impacts on the Social Dome (see below)
Dipti Dhondarkar continued with her 61st week of work on the lighting specifics for the City Center (see below)
Satish Ravindran completed his 4th week helping with the LEED lighting specifics for the City Center (see below)
Ricardo Carrillo helped create the updated City Center wall detail (see below)

ECO-FLOW AND FUNCTION HIGHEST GOOD FOOD: @11:07

Continued work on the formulas and data for the food calculations on the Food Self-sufficiency Transition Plan pages (see below)

ECO-FLOW AND FUNCTION HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION: @11:37

Created the formatting and began entering the content for the Surpassing Education Standards page (see below)

ECO-FLOW AND FUNCTION HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY: @12:11

Continued the process of launching One Community’s Instagram page (see below)
Sowmya Manohar, Priti Kothari, Shubhra Mittal, and Priyanka Singh (the Highest Good Network software team) finalized the application schema, merged the time entry updates, researched front-end role-based functionality options, and tried both collection and separate-collection approaches as a test (see below)

ECO-FLOW AND FUNCTION ECO-FLOW AND FUNCTION SUMMARY: @13:11

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

YOU CAN ALSO JOIN US THROUGH SOCIAL MEDIA

ONE COMMUNITY WEEKLY UPDATE DETAILS

ECO-FLOW AND FUNCTION: HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

One Community is creating eco-flow and function 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 global eco-flow and function with different village models: 7 Sustainable Village Models
  - Visit the open source portals for the first two: Earthbag Village OS Hub | Straw Bale Village OS Hub

The core team continued Sketchup design for the open source outdoor areas of the Recycled Materials Village (Pod 6). This week we added the racetrack road design, as shown here.

Eco-Flow and Function - Recycled Materials Village, One Community blog 247, The core team continued Sketchup design for the open source outdoor areas of the Recycled Materials Village (Pod 6). This week we added the racetrack road design, as shown here.

Working on Outdoor Areas of Recycled Materials Village ” Click to Visit Page

And the core team continued working on the Murphy bed instructions, worked on page 6.3.1, and made revisions to page 6.3.2 (wall frame panels) assembly page, as shown here.

Working on Murphy Bed Instructions ” Click to Visit

The core team also finished the second half of updating the complete Tree House Village (Pod 7) open source hub. This included new formatting, updated content, and new and updated images for all the sections related to the design and planning specifics to establish global eco-flow and function. You can see some of this work here.

Eco-Flow and Function - The core team also finished the second half of updating the complete Tree House Village (Pod 7) open source hub. This included new formatting, updated content, and new and updated images for all the sections related to the design and planning specifics. You can see some of this work here.

Complete Tree House Village Open Source Hub – Click to Visit

We also started the final review process for the 60+ page Tree House Village online book we’ve been developing. You can see some of the review notes here.

Eco-Flow and Function - We also started the final review process for the 60+ page Tree House Village online book we've been developing. You can see some of the review notes here.

Review Process for the 60+ Page Tree House Village – Click Here

Christian Ojeda (Mechatronic Engineer) completed his 31st week volunteering with our team. This week’s focus was further developing the Vermiculture toilet chamber designs by improving the bottom of the container so that it can be bolted together and constructed without welding while also having an easier mechanism for using pins to secure it to the pallet jack to establish global eco-flow and function.

Eco-Flow and Function - Christian Ojeda (Mechatronic Engineer) completed his 31st week volunteering with our team. This week's focus was further developing the Vermiculture toilet chamber designs by improving the bottom of the container so that it can be bolted together and constructed without welding while also having an easier mechanism for using pins to secure it to the pallet jack.

Developed the Vermiculture Toilet Chamber Designs – Click for Page

Dean Scholz (Architectural Designer) continued helping us create quality Cob Village (Pod 3) renders. Here is update 93 of Dean’s work, this week’s focus was continued work on the stage areas and lights that will illuminate the stages.

Eco-Flow and Function - Dean Scholz (Architectural Designer) continued helping us create quality Cob Village (Pod 3) renders. Here is update 93 of Dean's work, this week's focus was continued work on the stage areas and lights that will illuminate the stages.

Helping Create Quality Cob Village Renders – Click for Page

Sangam Stanczak (Ph.D. and P.E.) continued researching and contacting companies for the hardware we’ll be using to sterilize the greywater from the Communal Eco-showers. She also created the updated design schematic shown here for the complete system.

Eco-Flow and Function - Earthbag Village Grey Water Purification and Recirculation Diagram, One Community, Sangam Stanczak

Design Schematic shown for the Complete System – Click for Eco-Shower Page

Hamilton Mateca (AutoCAD and Revit Drafter and Designer) also finished his 66th week helping with the Compressed Earth Block Village design and render details. This week’s focus was the work leading to this additional final render of the Zone 17 Central Play and Recreation Area to establish global eco-flow and function, which can also now be viewed on the website.

Eco-Flow and Function - Hamilton Mateca (AutoCAD and Revit Drafter and Designer) also finished his 66th week helping with the Compressed Earth Block Village design and render details. This week's focus was the work leading to this additional final render of the Zone 17 Central Play and Recreation Area, which can also now be viewed on the website.

Final Render of Zone 17 Central Play and Recreation Area

Jagannathan Shankar Mahadevan (Mechanical Engineer) completed his 12th week volunteering. This week’s focus was finishing work on the Compressed Earth Block Village Materials Cost Analysis content and associated graphics, as shown here.

Eco-Flow and Function - Jagannathan Shankar Mahadevan (Mechanical Engineer) completed his 12th week volunteering. This week's focus was finishing work on the Compressed Earth Block Village Materials Cost Analysis content and associated graphics, as shown here.

Compressed Earth Block Village Materials Cost Analysis Content – Click for Page

ECO-FLOW AND FUNCTION: DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

One Community is creating eco-flow and function 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 as a part of global eco-flow and function: Duplicable City Center Open Source Hub

David Olivero (Mechanical Engineer & Data Scientist) completed his 5th week helping with the HVAC Designs for the Duplicable City Center. This week’s focus was completing the first of 3 analyses for the indoor/outdoor Natural Pool impacts on the Social Dome. You can see some of this work here.

Eco-Flow and Function - David Olivero (Mechanical Engineer & Data Scientist) completed his 5th week helping with the HVAC Designs for the Duplicable City Center. This week's focus was completing the first of 3 analyses for the indoor/outdoor Natural Pool impacts on the Social Dome. You can see some of this work here.

Eco-Flow and Function – Working on HVAC Designs for Duplicable City Center

Dipti Dhondarkar, (Electrical Engineer) continued with her 61st week of work on the lighting specifics for the City Center. This week’s focus was finishing updates to the lighting zones spreadsheet to match all the zone updates made in AutoCAD. You can see some of this work here.

Eco-Flow and Function - Dipti Dhondarkar, (Electrical Engineer) continued with her 61st week of work on the lighting specifics for the City Center. This week's focus was finishing updates to the lighting zones spreadsheet to match all the zone updates made in AutoCAD. You can see some of this work here.

Working on the Lighting Specifics for the City Center ” Click for Page

Satish Ravindran (Senior Mechanical and Industrial Engineer) also completed his 4th week helping with the LEED lighting specifics for the City Center. This week’s focus was writing all the pages of content shown here for the LEED recommendations tutorial.

Eco-Flow and Function - Satish Ravindran (Senior Mechanical and Industrial Engineer) also completed his 4th week helping with the LEED lighting specifics for the City Center. This week's focus was writing all the pages of content shown here for the LEED recommendations tutorial.

LEED Lighting Specifics for City Center ” Click to Visit

Ricardo Carrillo (Principal Consultant at Acumen Industries) also helped create the updated City Center wall detail you see here.

Eco-Flow and Function - Ricardo Carrillo (Principal Consultant at Acumen Industries) also helped create the updated City Center wall detail you see here.

Updated City Center Wall Detail – Click for Page

ECO-FLOW AND FUNCTION: HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

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

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

This week, the core team continued work on the formulas and data for the food calculations on the Food Self-sufficiency Transition Plan pages, bringing it to approximately 90% completion, as you see here.

Eco-Flow and Function - This week, the core team continued work on the formulas and data for the food calculations on the Food Self-sufficiency Transition Plan pages, bringing it to approximately 90% completion, as you see here.

Formulas and Data for Food Calculations on the Food Self-Sufficiency Transition Plan ” Click to Visit

ECO-FLOW AND FUNCTION: HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

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

- - Learn about the components for global eco-flow and function: Education open source hub
  - Learn how the components work together for global eco-flow and function: How to use the Education for Life Program

This week, the core team continued adding to the education Evaluation and Evolution process open source pages and tutorials. This week we created the formatting and began entering the content for the Surpassing Education Standards page, as you can see here.

Eco-Flow and Function - This week, the core team continued adding to the education Evaluation and Evolution process open source pages and tutorials. This week we created the formatting and began entering the content for the Surpassing Education Standards page, as you can see here.

Began Surpassing Education Standards Page ” Click to Visit

ECO-FLOW AND FUNCTION: HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS

One Community is creating eco-flow and function 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 continued the process of launching One Community’s Instagram page. We downloaded additional images, created a new Instagram spreadsheet to keep track of hashtags, and added the first 9 images to the account.

Launching One Community’s Instagram Page ” Click for Page

The Highest Good Network software team consists of Sowmya Manohar (Software Engineer, Web Developer & Net Application Developer), Priti Kothari (Information Technology Enthusiast), Shubhra Mittal (Software Delivery Manager), and Priyanka Singh (Software Developer). This week they finalized the application schema, merged the time entry updates, researched front-end role-based functionality options, and tried both collection and separate-collection approaches as a test. What you see here are some of this work along with pictures from our weekly collaborative call.

Eco-Flow and Function - The Highest Good Network software team consists of Sowmya Manohar (Software Engineer, Web Developer & Net Application Developer), Priti Kothari (Information Technology Enthusiast), Â Shubhra Mittal (Software Delivery Manager), and Priyanka Singh (Software Developer). This week they finalized the application schema, merged the time entry updates, researched front-end role-based functionality options, and tried both collection and separate-collection approaches as a test. What you see here are some of this work along with pictures from our weekly collaborative call.

Highest Good Network Software ” Click for Page

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WHAT ONE COMMUNITY IS CREATING

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

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

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

BUILDING THE FIRST OF MANY

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

WHY ONE COMMUNITY IS CREATING THIS

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

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

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

INSPIRING SUSTAINABILITY WITH OPEN SOURCE

One Community’s four-phase strategy for the creation of solution models that create solution creating models uses open source blueprints for duplication that simultaneously address all aspects of the human experience (food, energy, housing, education, social inequality and injustice, fulfilled living, etc.), contributing to the science of sustainable 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, contributing to the science of sustainable ecology. By free-sharing the step-by-step plans people need for duplication, inviting people to participate, and demonstrating sustainable teacher/demonstration hubs as a more desirable way of living, the model will predictably expand on its own.

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

SUMMARY

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

Systems for Sustainable Community Creation – One Community Weekly Progress Update #246

Posted on December 10, 2017 by Kishan Sivakumar

SYSTEMS FOR SUSTAINABLE COMMUNITY CREATION HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING: @6:35

Open source systems for sustainable community creation are one path to creating a sustainable world for everyone. One Community is creating these systems with that as our goal.

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 10th, 2017 edition (#246) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments:

Systems for Sustainable Community Creation
One Community Progress Update #246

Systems for Sustainable Community Creation - One Community Weekly Progress Update #246

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:

SYSTEMS FOR SUSTAINABLE COMMUNITY CREATION INTRO: @0:34

Continued Sketchup design for the open source outdoor areas of the Recycled Materials Village (see below)
Finished revisions to the Straw Bale Village pages of the online book we are creating (see below)
Continued working on the Murphy bed instructions (see below)
Finished the first half of updating the complete Tree House Village open source hub (see below)
Sangam Stanczak continued researching and contacting companies for the hardware we’ll be using to sterilize the greywater from the Communal Eco-showers (see below)
Hemanth Kotaru completed his 13th week with us doing research and running calculations for the Earthbag Village (see below)
Ashwini Ramesh helped write additional descriptions and update the cost analysis spreadsheets for the Earthbag Village equipment and materials (see below)
Hamilton Mateca finished his 65th week helping with the Compressed Earth Block Village design and render details (see below)
Jagannathan Shankar Mahadevan continued work on the Compressed Earth Block Village Materials Cost Analysis (see below)

SYSTEMS FOR SUSTAINABLE COMMUNITY CREATION DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER: @9:10

Haoxuan “Hayes” Lei continued work on the City Center structural engineering (see below)
David Olivero continued helping with the HVAC Designs for the Duplicable City Center (see below)
Oruba Rabie continued working on the City Center structural engineering (see below)
Falgun Patel continued the analysis process for updating the Highest Good energy page with more additions to the City Center Kitchen equipment list and version 2.0 of the complete details for the Earthbag Village (see below)
Dipti Dhondarkar continued with her 60th week of work on the lighting specifics for the City Center (see below)
Satish Ravindran completed his 3rd week helping with the LEED lighting specifics for the City Center (see below)

SYSTEMS FOR SUSTAINABLE COMMUNITY CREATION HIGHEST GOOD FOOD: @11:15

Continued work on the formulas and data for the food calculations on the Food Self-sufficiency Transition Plan pages (see below)

SYSTEMS FOR SUSTAINABLE COMMUNITY CREATION HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION: @11:46

Created the formatting and began entering the content for the Objective Data and Analysis page (see below)

SYSTEMS FOR SUSTAINABLE COMMUNITY CREATION HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY: @12:19

Began the process of officially launching One Community’s Instagram page (see below)
Sowmya Manohar, Priti Kothari, Shubhra Mittal, and Priyanka Singh (members of the Highest Good Network software team) developed schema version 2.0, got Priyanka up to speed on the basics of the app, and updated aggregate queries in mongo.db to reflect changes in the model from timelog to timeentry (see below)

SYSTEMS FOR SUSTAINABLE COMMUNITY CREATION SYSTEMS FOR SUSTAINABLE COMMUNITY CREATION SUMMARY: @13:17

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SYSTEMS FOR SUSTAINABLE COMMUNITY CREATION: HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

One Community is implementing systems for sustainable community creation 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 open source systems for sustainable community creation with different village models: 7 Sustainable Village Models
  - Visit the open source portals for the first two: Earthbag Village OS Hub | Straw Bale Village OS Hub

The core team continued Sketchup design for the open source outdoor areas of the Recycled Materials Village (Pod 6). This week we designed all the equipment for the kids’ playground for open source systems for sustainable community creation, as shown here.

Systems for Sustainable Community Creation - The core team continued Sketchup design for the open source outdoor areas of the Recycled Materials Village (Pod 6). This week we designed all the equipment for the kids' playground, as shown here.

Outdoor Areas of Recycled Materials Village ” Click to Visit Page

Additionally, the core team finished revisions to the Straw Bale Village pages of the online book we are creating and added the finished pages to the website as clic-to-enlarge images contributing to open source systems for sustainable community creation. You can see these new additions here.

Systems for Sustainable Community Creation, Additionally, the core team finished revisions to the Straw Bale Village pages of the online book we are creating and added the finished pages to the website as clic-to-enlarge images. You can see these new additions here.

Straw Bale Village Pages of Online Book – Click for Main Page

And the core team continued working on the Murphy bed instructions, working on page 6.3.2 (wall frame panels) assembly page to match the other pages, as shown here.

Systems for Sustainable Community Creation - And the core team continued working on the Murphy bed instructions, working on page 6.3.2 (wall frame panels) assembly page to match the other pages, as shown here.

Continued Working on Murphy Bed Instructions ” Click to Visit

The core team also finished the first half of updating the complete Tree House Village (Pod 7) open source hub. This included all new menus, formatting, and updated content covering the What, Why, and description sections for every structure within this village for open source systems for sustainable community creation, as shown here.

Systems for Sustainable Community Creation - The core team also finished the first half of updating the complete Tree House Village (Pod 7) open source hub. This included all new menus, formatting, and updated content covering the What, Why, and description sections for every structure within this village, as shown here.

Updating the Complete Tree House Village Page – Click to Visit

Sangam Stanczak (Ph.D. and P.E.) continued researching and contacting companies for the hardware we’ll be using to sterilize the greywater from the Communal Eco-showers. You can see some of the newest related notes and details here.

Systems for Sustainable Community Creation - Sangam Stanczak (Ph.D. and P.E.) continued researching and contacting companies for the hardware we'll be using to sterilize the greywater from the Communal Eco-showers. You can see some of the newest related notes and details here.

Companies for Hardware to Sterilize Greywater from Communal Eco-showers – Click to Visit Page

Hemanth Kotaru (Structural Engineering Masters Student) completed his 13th week with us doing research and running calculations for the Earthbag Village. This week’s focus was flooring construction details and beginning the research needed for structural engineering analysis of the domes themselves.

Systems for Sustainable Community Creation - Hemanth Kotaru (Structural Engineering Masters Student) completed his 13th week with us doing research and running calculations for the Earthbag Village. This week's focus was flooring construction details and beginning the research needed for structural engineering analysis of the domes themselves.

Calculations for Earthbag Village – Click to Visit Page

Ashwini Ramesh (Civil Engineer and Project Manager) helped write additional descriptions and updated the cost analysis spreadsheets for the Earthbag Village equipment and materials.

Systems for Sustainable Community Creation - Ashwini Ramesh (Civil Engineer and Project Manager) helped write additional descriptions and update the cost analysis spreadsheets for the Earthbag Village equipment and materials.

Cost Analysis Spreadsheets for Earthbag Village Equipment and Materials – Click to Visit Page

Hamilton Mateca (AutoCAD and Revit Drafter and Designer) also finished his 65th week helping with the Compressed Earth Block Village design and render details. This week’s focus was the work leading to this final render of the Zone 17 Central Play and Recreation Area, which can also now be viewed on the website.

Systems for Sustainable Community Creation - Hamilton Mateca (AutoCAD and Revit Drafter and Designer) also finished his 65th week helping with the Compressed Earth Block Village design and render details. This week's focus was the work leading to this final render of the Zone 17 Central Play and Recreation Area, which can also now be viewed on the website.

Created Final Render of Zone 17 Central Play and Recreation Area – Click to Visit Page

Jagannathan Shankar Mahadevan (Mechanical Engineer) completed his 11th week volunteering. This week’s focus was continuing work on the Compressed Earth Block Village Materials Cost Analysis by completing version 1.0 of the cost analysis and the associated narrative and pie charts shown here.

Systems for Sustainable Community Creation - Jagannathan Shankar Mahadevan (Mechanical Engineer) completed his 11th week volunteering. This week's focus was continuing work on the Compressed Earth Block Village Materials Cost Analysis by completing version 1.0 of the cost analysis and the associated narrative and pie charts shown here.

Compressed Earth Block Village Materials Cost Analysis – Click for Page

SYSTEMS FOR SUSTAINABLE COMMUNITY CREATION: DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

One Community is implementing systems for sustainable community creation 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 as a part of open source systems for sustainable community creation: Duplicable City Center Open Source Hub

Haoxuan “Hayes” Lei (Structural Engineer) continued work on the City Center structural engineering. What you see here are his edits and updates to his live and dead load tutorial as it’s being reviewed with another engineer.

Systems for Sustainable Community Creation - Haoxuan

Work on City Center Structural Engineering ” Click to Visit

David Olivero (Mechanical Engineer & Data Scientist) completed his 4th week helping with the HVAC Designs for the Duplicable City Center. This week’s focus was examining the cooling tonnage per sq ft from previous analysis, reviewing the cooling load calculation procedure, and researching and choosing coolcalc.com as our online heat load calculator for open source systems for sustainable community creation.

Systems for Sustainable Community Creation - David Olivero (Mechanical Engineer & Data Scientist) completed his 4th week helping with the HVAC Designs for the Duplicable City Center. This week's focus was examining the cooling tonnage per sq ft from previous analysis, reviewing the cooling load calculation procedure, and researching and choosing coolcalc.com as our online heat load calculator.

Working on HVAC Designs for Duplicable City Center ” Click for Page

Oruba Rabie (Ph.D, PE, and Civil Engineer) also continued working on the City Center structural engineering. This week’s focus was finishing review of the wind and seismic load data, some of which you can see here.

Systems for Sustainable Community Creation - Oruba Rabie (Ph.D, PE, and Civil Engineer) also continued working on the City Center structural engineering. This week's focus was finishing review of the wind and seismic load data, some of which you can see here.

Working on City Center Structural Engineering ” Click for Page

Falgun Patel (Mechanical Engineer) completed his 14th week volunteering with the team. This week’s focus was continuing the analysis process for updating the Highest Good energy page with more additions to the City Center Kitchen equipment list and version 2.0 of the complete details for the Earthbag Village, both of which you can see here.

Systems for Sustainable Community Creation - Falgun Patel (Mechanical Engineer) completed his 14th week volunteering with the team. This week's focus was continuing the analysis process for updating the Highest Good energy page with more additions to the City Center Kitchen equipment list and version 2.0 of the complete details for the Earthbag Village, both of which you can see here.

Analysis Process for Updating the Highest Good Energy Page – Click to Visit

Dipti Dhondarkar, (Electrical Engineer) continued with her 60th week of work on the lighting specifics for the City Center. This week’s focus was finishing updates to the lighting zones in AutoCAD, which we now have added to the website.

Systems for Sustainable Community Creation - Dipti Dhondarkar, (Electrical Engineer) continued with her 60th week of work on the lighting specifics for the City Center. This week's focus was finishing updates to the lighting zones in AutoCAD, which we now have added to the website.

Working on the Lighting Specifics for the City Center ” Click for Page

Satish Ravindran (Senior Mechanical and Industrial Engineer) also completed his 3rd week helping with the LEED lighting specifics for the City Center. This week’s focus was double checking and updating the lighting zone details. The green columns in the image shown here are Satish’s new work and calculations.

Systems for Sustainable Community Creation, Satish Ravindran (Senior Mechanical and Industrial Engineer) also completed his 3rd week helping with the LEED lighting specifics for the City Center. This week's focus was double checking and updating the lighting zone details. The green columns in the image shown here are Satish's new work and calculations.

Working on LEED Lighting Specifics for City Center – Click to Visit

SYSTEMS FOR SUSTAINABLE COMMUNITY CREATION: HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

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

- - Learn about the structures for open source systems for sustainable community creation in food: Hoop House Hub | Aquapini & Walipini Open Source Hub
  - See what we’ll be growing for open source systems for sustainable community creation in food: Gardens & Hoop Houses | Large-scale Structures | Food Forest | TA

This week, the core team continued work on the formulas and data for the food calculations on the Food Self-sufficiency Transition Plan pages, bringing it to approximately 75% completion, as you see here.

Systems for Sustainable Community Creation - This week, the core team continued work on the formulas and data for the food calculations on the Food Self-sufficiency Transition Plan pages, bringing it to approximately 75% completion, as you see here.

Formulas and Data for Food Calculations on the Food Self-Sufficiency Transition Plan – Click to Visit

SYSTEMS FOR SUSTAINABLE COMMUNITY CREATION: HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

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

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

This week, the core team continued adding to the education Evaluation and Evolution process open source pages and tutorials. This week we created the formatting and began entering the content for the Objective Data and Analysis page, as you can see here.

Systems for Sustainable Community Creation - This week, the core team continued adding to the education Evaluation and Evolution process open source pages and tutorials. This week we created the formatting and began entering the content for the Objective Data and Analysis page, as you can see here.

Began Objective Data and Analysis Page – Click to Visit

SYSTEMS FOR SUSTAINABLE COMMUNITY CREATION: HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS

One Community is implementing systems for sustainable community creation 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 began the process of officially launching One Community’s Instagram page. We downloaded all the best images from our website and created our initial strategy for uploading.

Systems for Sustainable Community Creation - This week, the core team began the process of officially launching One Community's Instagram page. We downloaded all the best images from our website and created our initial strategy for uploading.

Officially Launching One Community’s Instagram Page – Click for Page

The Highest Good Network software team consists of Sowmya Manohar (Software Engineer, Web Developer & Net Application Developer), Priti Kothari (Information Technology Enthusiast), Shubhra Mittal (Software Delivery Manager), and Priyanka Singh (Software Developer). This week they developed schema version 2.0, got Priyanka up to speed on the basics of the app, and updated aggregate queries in mongo.db to reflect changes in the model from timelog to timeentry. The pictures shown here are from our weekly call discussing all this.

Systems for Sustainable Community Creation - The Highest Good Network software team consists of Sowmya Manohar (Software Engineer, Web Developer & Net Application Developer), Priti Kothari (Information Technology Enthusiast), Â Shubhra Mittal (Software Delivery Manager), and Priyanka Singh (Software Developer). This week they developed schema version 2.0, got Priyanka up to speed on the basics of the app, and updated aggregate queries in mongo.db to reflect changes in the model from timelog to timeentry. The pictures shown here are from our weekly call discussing all this.

Working on Highest Good Network Software – Click for Page

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, contributing for open source systems for sustainable community creation. We are creating a space that helps each other live in integrity with each other and the planet as we strive to be the greatest versions of ourselves. We do this by harmoniously respecting each other, nature, and the rest of our one shared planet.

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

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

BUILDING THE FIRST OF MANY

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

WHY ONE COMMUNITY IS CREATING THIS

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

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

Even if we don’t achieve our ultimate goal of global transformation, a self-replicating teacher/demonstration model like this will take a relatively short period of time to positively affect millions while inspiring millions more, contributing to the science of sustainable ecology. 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.

SUMMARY

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

Biohacking Humanity’s Future – One Community Weekly Progress Update #245

Posted on December 3, 2017 by Kishan Sivakumar

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The time has come for biohacking humanity’s future! Working together as a species has never been easier and the needed technology exists. We can co-create a sustainable planet if we want to. One Community is open sourcing all the components as a starting point and prototype set including sustainable food, energy, housing, education, for-profit and non-profit economic design, social architecture, fulfilled living, global stewardship practices, and more.

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

OUR MAIN OPEN SOURCE HUBS

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

One Community’s physical location will forward this movement for biohacking humanity’s future as the first of many self-replicating teacher/demonstration communities, villages, and cities to be built around the world. This is the December 3rd, 2017 edition (#245) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments:

Biohacking Humanity’s Future
One Community Progress Update #245

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

BIOHACKING HUMANITY’S FUTURE INTRO: @0:34

BIOHACKING HUMANITY’S FUTURE: HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING: @6:17

Continued working on the thermal lag page (see below)
Created more spreadsheets and added screenshots to Earthbag Village Materials & Cost Analysis page (see below)
Continued working on the Murphy bed instructions (see below)
Christian Ojeda further developed the Vermiculture toilet chamber designs (see below)
Dean Scholz continued work on the Cob Village stage areas and lights that will illuminate the stages (see below)
Core team finished and added a video to the site that shares a progression of Dean’s many steps necessary to create the lighting in a real-to-life renders (see below)
Hamilton Mateca finished his 64th week helping with the Compressed Earth Block Village design and render details (see below)
Dan Alleck finished adding people and other aesthetic elements to final Compressed Earth Block Village render of the Waiting Area (see below)
Aparna Tandon continued her work on the Compressed Earth Block Village external elements, focusing on further developing the images to share the specifics of Zone 13 (see below)

BIOHACKING HUMANITY’S FUTURE: DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER: @9:19

Haoxuan “Hayes” Lei continued work on the City Center structural engineering tutorial (see below)
David Olivero completed his 3rd week helping with the HVAC Designs for the Duplicable City Center (see below)
Oruba Rabie continued working on the City Center structural engineering (see below)
Dipti Dhondarkar continued with her 59th week of work on the lighting specifics for the City Center (see below)

BIOHACKING HUMANITY’S FUTURE: HIGHEST GOOD FOOD: @10:36

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

BIOHACKING HUMANITY’S FUTURE: HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION: @11:06

Created the formatting and began entering content for the Collaborative Team Roles and Training page (see below)

BIOHACKING HUMANITY’S FUTURE: HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY: @11:40

Ashwin Patil created version 1.0 of the Highest Good of All search engine (see below)

BIOHACKING HUMANITY’S FUTURE: BIOHACKING HUMANITY’S FUTURE SUMMARY: @12:11

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ONE COMMUNITY WEEKLY UPDATE DETAILS

BIOHACKING HUMANITY’S FUTURE: HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

One Community is biohacking humanity’s future 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 biohacking humanity’s future with different village models: 7 Sustainable Village Models
  - Visit the open source portals for the first two: Earthbag Village OS Hub | Straw Bale Village OS Hub

The core team continued Sketchup design for the open source outdoor areas of the Recycled Materials Village (Pod 6). This week we updated the storage rack and added a border to the Scrabble game, designed a Four-In-a-Row Yard Game, a ping pong table, and began designing the children’s playground for biohacking humanity’s future. You can see all of these shown here.

Biohacking Humanity's Future - The core team continued Sketchup design for the open source outdoor areas of the Recycled Materials Village (Pod 6). This week we updated the storage rack and added a border to the Scrabble game, designed a Four-In-a-Row Yard Game, a ping pong table, and began designing the children's playground. You can see all of these shown here.

Outdoor Areas of Recycled Materials Village ” Click to Visit Page

And the core team continued working on the thermal lag page. This week redid the formatting and organization of the page, updated the menus and jump-to links, and added about 30% more content to help with readability and clarity contributing to biohacking humanity’s future. We’d say the page is now 95% complete.

Biohacking Humanity's Future - And the core team continued working on the thermal lag page. This week redid the formatting and organization of the page, updated the menus and jump-to links, and added about 30% more content to help with readability and clarity. We'd say the page is now 95% complete.

Continued Working on the Thermal Lag Page – Click to Visit

Additionally, the core team continued working on the Earthbag Village Materials & Cost Analysis page. We created more spreadsheets and added screenshots to the page to replace the existing tables. These images are now clickable and link directly to the specific spreadsheet tab that they are referring to.

Biohacking Humanity's Future - Additionally, the core team continued working on the Earthbag Village Materials & Cost Analysis page. We created more spreadsheets and added screenshots to the page to replace the existing tables. These images are now clickable and link directly to the specific spreadsheet tab that they are referring to.

Earthbag Village Materials & Cost Analysis Page- Click to Visit

And the core team continued working on the Murphy bed instructions, revising the nightstand assembly page to match the format of the other pages, as shown here.

Biohacking Humanity's Future - And the core team continued working on the Murphy bed instructions, revising the nightstand assembly page to match the format of the other pages, as shown here.

Working on Murphy Bed Instructions – Click to Visit

Christian Ojeda (Mechatronic Engineer) completed his 30th week volunteering with our team. This week’s focus was further developing the Vermiculture toilet chamber designs, continuing to improve last week’s designs for the emptying the chamber with pulleys and a winch. The latest progress is shown here.

Biohacking Humanity's Future - Christian Ojeda (Mechatronic Engineer) completed his 30th week volunteering with our team. This week's focus was further developing the Vermiculture toilet chamber designs, continuing to improve last week's designs for the emptying the chamber with pulleys and a winch. The latest progress is shown here.

Evolution of Vermiculture Toilet Chamber Designs ” Click for Page

Dean Scholz (Architectural Designer) continued helping us create quality Cob Village (Pod 3) renders. Here is update 92 of Dean’s work, this week’s focus was continued work on the stage areas and lights that will illuminate the stages.

Biohacking Humanity's Future - Dean Scholz (Architectural Designer) continued helping us create quality Cob Village (Pod 3) renders. Here is update 92 of Dean's work, this week's focus was continued work on the stage areas and lights that will illuminate the stages.

Helping us Create Quality Cob Village Renders ” Click to Visit Page

The core team also finished and added this video to the site that shares a progression of Dean’s many steps necessary to create the lighting in a real-to-life renders.

Hamilton Mateca (AutoCAD and Revit Drafter and Designer) also finished his 64th week helping with the Compressed Earth Block Village design and render details. This week’s focus was beginning to 3-D model in Revit the central play and recreation area shown here.

Biohacking Humanity's Future - Hamilton Mateca (AutoCAD and Revit Drafter and Designer) also finished his 64th week helping with the Compressed Earth Block Village design and render details. This week's focus was beginning to 3-D model in Revit the central play and recreation area shown here.

Compressed Earth Block Village Design and Render Details – Click for Page

Dan Alleck (Designer and Illustrator) completed his 9th week working on the Compressed Earth Block Village render additions. This week he finished adding people and other aesthetic elements to this final render of the Waiting Area. This image is now live on the site also.

Biohacking Humanity's Future - Compressed Earth Block Village Waiting Area with People, One Community, Dan Alleck

Compressed Earth Block Village Waiting Area – Click for Page

Aparna Tandon (Architect) continued her work on the Compressed Earth Block Village external elements. What you see here is her 40th week of work focusing on further developing the images to share the specifics of Zone 13.

Biohacking Humanity's Future - Aparna Tandon(Architect) continued her work on the Compressed Earth Block Village external elements. What you see here is her 40th week of work focusing on further developing the images to share the specifics of Zone 13.

Compressed Earth Block Village External Elements – Click for Page

BIOHACKING HUMANITY’S FUTURE: DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

One Community is biohacking humanity’s future 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 as a part of biohacking humanity’s future: Duplicable City Center Open Source Hub

Haoxuan “Hayes” Lei (Structural Engineer) continued work on the City Center structural engineering tutorial. What you see here is his 9th week of writing content. This week’s content focus was continuing to add more details to the snow load section, as seen here.

Work on City Center Structural Engineering Tutorial ” Click to Visit

David Olivero (Mechanical Engineer & Data Scientist) completed his 3rd week helping with the HVAC Designs for the Duplicable City Center. This week’s focus, as shown here, was finishing the thermal mass calculations for the structure and researching how the indoor/outdoor pool will affect the environment.

Biohacking Humanity's Future - David Olivero (Mechanical Engineer & Data Scientist) completed his 3rd week helping with the HVAC Designs for the Duplicable City Center. This week's focus, as shown here, was finishing the thermal mass calculations for the structure and researching how the indoor/outdoor pool will affect the environment.

Working on HVAC Designs for Duplicable City Center ” Click for Page

Oruba Rabie (Ph.D, PE, and Civil Engineer) also continued working on the City Center structural engineering. This week’s focus was finishing review of the snow load data for the cupola and doing all the calculations for the domes, which you can see here.

Biohacking Humanity's Future - Oruba Rabie (Ph.D, PE, and Civil Engineer) also continued working on the City Center structural engineering. This week's focus was finishing review of the snow load data for the cupola and doing all the calculations for the domes, which you can see here.

Working on City Center Structural Engineering – Click for Page

Dipti Dhondarkar, (Electrical Engineer) continued with her 59th week of work on the lighting specifics for the City Center. This week’s focus was 3 more rounds of updates to the lighting zones in AutoCAD for biohacking humanity’s future. We’d say the zonal update process is now 98% complete.

Biohacking Humanity's Future - Dipti Dhondarkar, (Electrical Engineer) continued with her 59th week of work on the lighting specifics for the City Center. This week's focus was 3 more rounds of updates to the lighting zones in AutoCAD. We'd say the zonal update process is now 98% complete.

Working on the Lighting Specifics for the City Center ” Click for Page

BIOHACKING HUMANITY’S FUTURE: HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

One Community is biohacking humanity’s future through Highest Good food that is more diverse, more nutritious, locally grown and sustainable, and part of our open source botanical garden model to support and share bio-diversity:

- - Learn about the structures for biohacking humanity’s future related to food: Hoop House Hub | Aquapini & Walipini Open Source Hub
  - See what we’ll be growing for biohacking humanity’s future at One Community: Gardens & Hoop Houses | Large-scale Structures | Food Forest | TA

This week, the core team continued work on the Food Self-sufficiency Transition Plan pages, including checking the formulas and data for the food calculations, bringing it to approximately 50% completion as you see here.

Biohacking Humanity's Future - This week, the core team continued work on the Food Self-sufficiency Transition Plan pages, including checking the formulas and data for the food calculations, bringing it to approximately 50% completion as you see here.

Work on Food Self-Sufficiency Transition Plan Pages – Click to Visit

BIOHACKING HUMANITY’S FUTURE: HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

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

- - Learn about the components for biohacking humanity’s future: Education open source hub
  - Learn how the components work together for biohacking humanity’s future: How to use the Education for Life Program

This week, the core team continued adding to the education Evaluation and Evolution process open source pages and tutorials. This week we created the formatting and began entering the content for the Collaborative Team Roles and Training page, as you can see here.

Biohacking Humanity's Future - This week, the core team continued adding to the education Evaluation and Evolution process open source pages and tutorials. This week we created the formatting and began entering the content for the Collaborative Team Roles and Training page, as you can see here.

Content for Collaborative Team Roles and Training Page ” Click to Visit

BIOHACKING HUMANITY’S FUTURE: HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS

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

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

Ashwin Patil (Web Developer) continued working on the search engines for the website. This week we created version 1.0 of the Highest Good of All search engine. You can see some of this work-in-progress here.

Biohacking Humanity's Future - Ashwin Patil (Web Developer) continued working on the search engines for the website. This week we created version 1.0 of the Highest Good of All search engine. You can see some of this work-in-progress here.

Working on Search engines for the Website ” Click for HGOA Page

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WHAT ONE COMMUNITY IS CREATING

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

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

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

BUILDING THE FIRST OF MANY

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

WHY ONE COMMUNITY IS CREATING THIS

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

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

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

INSPIRING SUSTAINABILITY WITH OPEN SOURCE

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

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

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

SUMMARY

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

Cooperative Community Building – One Community Weekly Progress Update #244

Posted on November 26, 2017 by Kishan Sivakumar

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Cooperative community building is one path to spreading and evolving sustainability. We think the ultimate expression of this is cooperative communities that incorporate, open-source share, and invite people to participate in sustainable approaches to the foundations of food, energy, and housing while also including sustainable and open source approaches to education, economics, social architecture, fulfilled living, and global stewardship practices too. With the goal for a positive and permanent shift to global sustainability, One Community calls this living and creating for The Highest Good of All.

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

OUR MAIN OPEN SOURCE HUBS

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

One Community’s physical location will forward this movement for cooperative community building as the first of many self-replicating teacher/demonstration communities, villages, and cities to be built around the world. This is the November 26th, 2017 edition (#244) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments:

Cooperative Community Building
One Community Progress Update #244

Cooperative Community Building - One Community Weekly Progress Update #244

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:

COOPERATIVE COMMUNITY BUILDING INTRO: @0:34

COOPERATIVE COMMUNITY BUILDING HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING: @6:40

Continued Sketchup design for the open source outdoor areas of the Recycled Materials Village (see below)
Added the outdoor resources we found to the Recycled Materials Village resources section (see below)
Updated the Earthbag Village Materials & Cost Analysis page (see below)
Continued work on the Tree House Village web graphics, creating these final graphics with the correct locations of the various buildings (see below)
Sangam Stanczak researched and contacted companies for the hardware we’ll be using to sterilize the greywater from the Communal Eco-showers (see below)
Christian Ojeda continued developing the Vermiculture toilet chamber designs (see below)
Dean Scholz continued helping us create quality Cob Village renders
Jagannathan Shankar Mahadevan continued work on the Compressed Earth Block Village Materials Cost Analysis (see below)
Dan Alleck completed his 8th week working on the Compressed Earth Block Village render additions (see below)
Samantha Robinson completed her 16th week working on the interior renders for the living structures in the Tree House Village (see below)

COOPERATIVE COMMUNITY BUILDING DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER: @9:18

Haoxuan “Hayes” Lei continued work on the City Center structural engineering tutorial (see below)
David Olivero completed his 2nd week helping with the HVAC Designs for the Duplicable City Center (see below)
Falgun Patel continued the analysis process for updating the Highest Good energy page (see below)
Dipti Dhondarkar continued with her 58th week of work on the lighting specifics for the City Center (see below)
Satish Ravindran completed his 2nd week helping with the LEED lighting specifics for the City Center (see below)
Aravind Vasudevan made 4th-generation edits to the Climate Battery Cost Analysis (see below)

COOPERATIVE COMMUNITY BUILDING HIGHEST GOOD FOOD: @11:19

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

COOPERATIVE COMMUNITY BUILDING HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION: @11:49

Continued adding to the education Evaluation and Evolution process open source pages and tutorials (see below)

COOPERATIVE COMMUNITY BUILDING HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY: @12:23

Ashwin Patil and the core team continued working on the search engines for the website (see below)
Jagannathan Shankar Mahadevan continued working on the climate battery designs and research (see below)

COOPERATIVE COMMUNITY BUILDING COOPERATIVE COMMUNITY BUILDING SUMMARY: @13:10

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ONE COMMUNITY WEEKLY UPDATE DETAILS

COOPERATIVE COMMUNITY BUILDING: HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

One Community is creating cooperative 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 cooperative community building with different village models: 7 Sustainable Village Models
  - Visit the open source portals for the first two: Earthbag Village OS Hub | Straw Bale Village OS Hub

The core team continued Sketchup design for the open source outdoor areas of the Recycled Materials Village (Pod 6). This week we lowered the Horse Shoe game send box, designed the Scrabble game, and completed the Kerplunk game. You can see all of these shown here.

Cooperative Community Building - The core team continued Sketchup design for the open source outdoor areas of the Recycled Materials Village (Pod 6). This week we lowered the Horse Shoe game send box, designed the Scrabble game, and completed the Kerplunk game. You can see all of these shown here.

Working on Outdoor Areas of Recycled Materials Village ” Click to Visit Page

Related to this, we also we added the outdoor resources we found to the Recycled Materials Village (Pod 6) resources section.

Cooperative Community Building - We also added the outdoor resources we found to the Recycled Materials Village (Pod 6) resources section.

Outdoor Resources we Found to Recycled Materials Village Page – Click to Visit

The core team also started working on the Earthbag Village Materials & Cost Analysis page. The 1 dome, 3-dome cluster, the Murphy bed, and the vermiculture toilet and accessories have all been imported into the new Google spreadsheet contributing towards cooperative community building. The prices were checked for accuracy and the links were updated and checked as well.

Cooperative Community Building - The core team also started working on the Earthbag Village Materials & Cost Analysis page. The 1 dome, 3-dome cluster, the Murphy bed, and the vermiculture toilet and accessories have all been imported into the new Google spreadsheet. The prices were checked for accuracy and the links were updated and checked as well.

Earthbag Village Materials and Cost Analysis Page – Click to Visit

In addition, the core team continued work on the Tree House Village (Pod 7) web graphics, creating these final graphics with the correct locations of the various buildings.

Cooperative Community Building - The core team also continued work on the Tree House Village (Pod 7) web graphics, creating these final graphics with the correct locations of the various buildings.

Work on the Tree House Village Web Graphics – Click for Page

Sangam Stanczak (Ph.D. and P.E.) researched and contacted companies for the hardware we’ll be using to sterilize the greywater from the Communal Eco-showers. You can see some of the related notes and details here.

Cooperative Community Building - Sangam Stanczak (Ph.D. and P.E.) researched and contacted companies for the hardware we'll be using to sterilize the greywater from the Communal Eco-showers. You can see some of the related notes and details here.

Hardware to Sterilize Greywater from the Communal Eco-Showers – Click to Visit

Christian Ojeda (Mechatronic Engineer) completed his 29th week volunteering with our team. This week’s focus was further developing the Vermiculture toilet chamber designs, continuing to improve last week’s designs for the emptying the chamber with pulleys and a winch contributing towards cooperative community building.

Cooperative Community Building - Christian Ojeda (Mechatronic Engineer) completed his 29th week volunteering with our team. This week's focus was further developing the Vermiculture toilet chamber designs, continuing to improve last week's designs for the emptying the chamber with pulleys and a winch.

Evolution of Vermiculture Toilet Chamber Designs ” Click for Page

Dean Scholz (Architectural Designer) continued helping us create quality Cob Village (Pod 3) renders. Here is update 91 of Dean’s work, this week’s focus was working on the stage areas and lights that will illuminate the stages.

Cooperative Community Building - Dean Scholz (Architectural Designer) continued helping us create quality Cob Village (Pod 3) renders. Here is update 91 of Dean's work, this week's focus was working on the stage areas and lights that will illuminate the stages.

Helping us Create Quality Cob Village Renders ” Click to Visit Page

Jagannathan Shankar Mahadevan (Mechanical Engineer) completed his 10th week volunteering. This week’s focus was continuing work on the Compressed Earth Block Village Materials Cost Analysis by creating the spreadsheet you see here that calculates how many earth blocks we’ll need.

Cooperative Community Building - Jagannathan Shankar Mahadevan (Mechanical Engineer) completed his 10th week volunteering. This week's focus was continuing work on the Compressed Earth Block Village Materials Cost Analysis by creating the spreadsheet you see here that calculates how many earth blocks we'll need.

Working on Compressed Earth Block Village Materials Cost Analysis ” Click for Page

Dan Alleck (Designer and Illustrator) completed his 8th week working on the Compressed Earth Block Village render additions. This week he finished adding people and other nature elements to this rooftop render looking East.

Cooperative Community Building - Compressed Earth Block Village, Rooftop View Looking East, One Community, Dan Alleck

Details to Rooftop Render Looking East ” Click to Visit Earth Block Village

Samantha Robinson (Graphic Designer) completed her 16th week working on the interior renders for the living structures in the Tree House Village (Pod 7). This week’s focus, as shown here, was final unwrapping and texturing of the lamps, clock, and rug.

Cooperative Community Building - Samantha Robinson (Graphic Designer) completed her 16th week working on the interior renders for the living structures in the Tree House Village (Pod 7). This week's focus, as shown here, was final unwrapping and texturing of the lamps, clock, and rug.

Working on Interior Design for Living Structure of Tree House Village ” Click to Visit Page

COOPERATIVE COMMUNITY BUILDING: DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

One Community is creating cooperative 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 as a part of cooperative community building: Duplicable City Center Open Source Hub

Haoxuan “Hayes” Lei (Structural Engineer) continued work on the City Center structural engineering tutorial. What you see here is his 8th week of writing content. This week’s content focus was adding more details to the snow load section for cooperative community building, as seen here.

Cooperative Community Building - Haoxuan

Work on City Center Structural Engineering Tutorial – Click to Visit

David Olivero (Mechanical Engineer & Data Scientist) completed his 2nd week helping with the HVAC Designs for the Duplicable City Center. This week’s focus, as shown here, was Rough estimates of thermal mass in the structure, without accounting for insulation and adding the heat capacity data to the FEA basement spreadsheet.

Cooperative Community Building - David Olivero (Mechanical Engineer & Data Scientist) completed his 2nd week helping with the HVAC Designs for the Duplicable City Center. This week's focus, as shown here, was Rough estimates of thermal mass in the structure, without accounting for insulation and adding the heat capacity data to the FEA basement spreadsheet.

Working on HVAC Designs for Duplicable City Center ” Click for Page

Falgun Patel (Mechanical Engineer) completed his 13th week volunteering with the team. This week’s focus was continuing the analysis process for updating the Highest Good energy page with more additions to the City Center Kitchen equipment list and beginning complete details for the Earthbag Village, both of which you can see here.

Cooperative Community Building - Falgun Patel (Mechanical Engineer) completed his 13th week volunteering with the team. This week's focus was continuing the analysis process for updating the Highest Good energy page with more additions to the City Center Kitchen equipment list and beginning complete details for the Earthbag Village, both of which you can see here.

Analysis Process for Updating the Highest Good Energy Page ” Click to Visit

Dipti Dhondarkar, (Electrical Engineer) continued with her 58th week of work on the lighting specifics for the City Center. This week’s focus was continuing the process of modeling the 2nd floor mezzanine level in Dialux and more updates to the lighting zones in AutoCAD.

Cooperative Community Building - Dipti Dhondarkar, (Electrical Engineer) continued with her 58th week of work on the lighting specifics for the City Center. This week's focus was continuing the process of modeling the 2nd floor mezzanine level in Dialux and more updates to the lighting zones in AutoCAD.

Lighting Specifics for the City Center ” Click for Page

Satish Ravindran (Senior Mechanical and Industrial Engineer) also completed his 2nd week helping with the LEED lighting specifics for the City Center. This week’s focus was researching and writing the LEED content shown here.

Cooperative Community Building - Satish Ravindran (Senior Mechanical and Industrial Engineer) also completed his 2nd week helping with the LEED lighting specifics for the City Center. This week's focus was researching and writing the LEED content shown here.

Continued with Lighting Specifics for City Center ” Click for Page

Aravind Vasudevan (Mechanical Engineer) continued his calculations and research for climate battery component of the City Center Heating and Cooling open source hub. This week’s focus was 4th-generation edits to the Climate Battery Cost Analysis contributing for cooperative community building. You can see here some of the edited and updated pages.

Cooperative Community Building - Aravind Vasudevan (Mechanical Engineer) continued his calculations and research for climate battery component of the City Center Heating and Cooling open source hub. This week's focus was 4th-generation edits to the Climate Battery Cost Analysis. You can see here some of the edited and updated pages.

Made Edits to the Climate Battery Cost Analysis ” Click for Page

COOPERATIVE COMMUNITY BUILDING: HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

One Community is creating cooperative 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 for cooperative community building: Hoop House Hub | Aquapini & Walipini Open Source Hub
  - See what we’ll be growing for cooperative community building: Gardens & Hoop Houses | Large-scale Structures | Food Forest | TA

This week, the core team continued work on the Food Self-sufficiency Transition Plan pages, including preparing the macronutrient ratio data for the food calculations, as you see here.

Cooperative Community Building - This week, the core team continued work on the Food Self-sufficiency Transition Plan pages, including preparing the macronutrient ratio data for the food calculations, as you see here.

Working on Food Self-Sufficiency Transition Plan Pages – Click to Visit

COOPERATIVE COMMUNITY BUILDING: HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

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

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

This last week the core team continued adding to the education Evaluation and Evolution process open source pages and tutorials. This week we created the formatting and began entering the content for the Transference of Knowledge page, as you can see here.

Cooperative Community Building - This last week the core team continued adding to the education Evaluation and Evolution process open source pages and tutorials. This week we created the formatting and began entering the content for the Transference of Knowledge page, as you can see here.

Content for the Transference of Knowledge Page – Click to Visit

COOPERATIVE COMMUNITY BUILDING: HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS

One Community is creating cooperative 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 last week the core team and Ashwin Patil (Web Developer) continued working on the search engines for the website. This week we created a video tutorial for teaching people how to edit the search engines. You can see screenshots here from the video.

Cooperative Community Building - This last week the core team and Ashwin Patil (Web Developer) continued working on the search engines for the website. This week we created a video tutorial for teaching people how to edit the search engines. You can see screenshots here from the video.

Working on Search engines for the Website – Click for Page

Jagannathan Shankar Mahadevan (Mechanical Engineer) also continued working on the climate battery designs and research. What you see here is the updated spreadsheet he’s creating to calculate how much heat is stored in the battery at any time we wish to analyze during the year contributing for cooperative community building.

Cooperative Community Building - Jagannathan Shankar Mahadevan (Mechanical Engineer) also continued working on the climate battery designs and research. What you see here is the updated spreadsheet he's creating to calculate how much heat is stored in the battery at any time we wish to analyze during the year.

Working on the Climate Battery Designs and Research ” Click for Page

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

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WHAT ONE COMMUNITY IS CREATING

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

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

Throughout our design process we are open sourcing and free-sharing everything needed for construction and replication for cooperative community building. 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 for cooperative community building. It will function as an experiential-learning model that facilitates mass participation to address humanity’s most pressing challenges through: A replicable model for expansion, building seven self-sufficient village/city prototypes, becoming the world leader in open-source sustainability solutions, and evolving and expanding ALL aspects of sustainable living.

WHY ONE COMMUNITY IS CREATING THIS

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

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

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

INSPIRING SUSTAINABILITY WITH OPEN SOURCE

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

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

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

SUMMARY

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

Managing Sustainable Change – One Community Weekly Progress Update #243

Posted on November 19, 2017 by Kishan Sivakumar

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Managing sustainable change will require trained and motivated individuals covering the foundations of a sustainable civilization: food, energy, housing, education, sustainable economic design, and social architecture. A model for inspiring people to participate and providing the skills so they can also teach others is one path to creating a sustainable planet that will benefit us and all other life too. One Community calls this living and creating for The Highest Good of All.

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

OUR MAIN OPEN SOURCE HUBS

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

One Community’s physical location will forward this movement for managing sustainable change as the first of many self-replicating teacher/demonstration communities, villages, and cities to be built around the world. This is the November 19th, 2017 edition (#243) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments:

Managing Sustainable Change
One Community Progress Update #243

Managing Sustainable Change - One Community Weekly Progress Update #243

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:

MANAGING SUSTAINABLE CHANGE INTRO: @0:34

MANAGING SUSTAINABLE CHANGE HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING: @6:46

Continued Sketchup design for the open source outdoor areas of the Recycled Materials Village (see below)
Continued work on the Tree House Village web graphic, clarifying the locations of the various building as shown here (see below)
Continued creating the thermal lag page (see below)
Made sizing corrections to the people in relation to the furniture to create this final render of the Compressed Earth Block Village Classroom Looking West (see below)
Added more image descriptions for the newest Zone 2 and 4 images to the Compressed Earth Block Village open source hub (see below)
Christian Ojeda continued the evolution of the Vermiculture toilet chamber designs with new approaches to emptying the chamber using pulleys and an electric winch (see below)
Dean Scholz continued helping us create quality Cob Village renders (see below)
Jagannathan Shankar Mahadevan began work on the Compressed Earth Block Village Materials Cost Analysis (see below)
Hamilton Mateca finished his 63rd week helping with the Compressed Earth Block Village design and render details (see below)
Dan Alleck completed his 7th week working on the Compressed Earth Block Village render additions. This week he focused on adding external details to this rooftop render looking East (see below)
Aparna Tandon continued her work on the Compressed Earth Block Village external elements (see below)
Samantha Robinson completed her 15th week working on the interior renders for the living structures in the Tree House Village (see below)

MANAGING SUSTAINABLE CHANGE DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER: @10:02

David Olivero joined the team and began to take over on the HVAC Designs for the Duplicable City Center (see below)
Falgun Patel continued the analysis process for updating the Highest Good energy page (see below)
Dipti Dhondarkar continued with her 57th week of work on the lighting specifics for the City Center (see below)
Satish Ravindran joined the team and completed his 1st week helping with the lighting specifics for the City Center (see below)

MANAGING SUSTAINABLE CHANGE HIGHEST GOOD FOOD: @11:19

Reviewed and made edits to some of the Food Self-sufficiency Transition Plan pages (see below)

MANAGING SUSTAINABLE CHANGE HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION: @11:54

Continued adding to the education Evaluation and Evolution process open source pages and tutorials (see below)

MANAGING SUSTAINABLE CHANGE HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY: @12:26

Priti Kothari continued her work developing the Highest Good Network software (see below)
Jagannathan Shankar Mahadevan continued working on the climate battery designs and research (see below)

MANAGING SUSTAINABLE CHANGE MANAGING SUSTAINABLE CHANGE SUMMARY: @13:24

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ONE COMMUNITY WEEKLY UPDATE DETAILS

MANAGING SUSTAINABLE CHANGE: HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

One Community is managing sustainable change 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 managing sustainable change with different village models: 7 Sustainable Village Models
  - Visit the open source portals for the first two: Earthbag Village OS Hub | Straw Bale Village OS Hub

The core team continued Sketchup design for the open source outdoor areas of the Recycled Materials Village (Pod 6). This week we researched information for the DIY outside games, began designing the Kerplunk game, and designed three Toss games, as shown here.

Managing Sustainable Change - The core team continued Sketchup design for the open source outdoor areas of the Recycled Materials Village (Pod 6). This week we researched information for the DIY outside games, began designing the Kerplunk game, and designed three Toss games, as shown here.

Open Source Outdoor Areas of Recycled Materials Village ” Click to Visit Page

The core team also continued work on the Tree House Village (Pod 7) web graphic, clarifying the locations of the various building as shown here.

Managing Sustainable Change - The core team also continued work on the Tree House Village (Pod 7) web graphic, clarifying the locations of the various building as shown here.

Work on the Tree House Village Web Graphic ” Click for Page

And the core team continued creating the thermal lag page. This week we continued to improve the formatting and revamped the images on the page to remove the large blocks of text and move that text instead to the page itself to improve SEO and readability.

Managing Sustainable Change - And the core team continued creating the thermal lag page. This week we continued to improve the formatting and revamped the images on the page to remove the large blocks of text and move that text instead to the page itself to improve SEO and readability.

Creating the Thermal Lag Page and Related Images ” Click to Visit

The core team also made sizing corrections to the people in relation to the furniture to create this final render of the Compressed Earth Block Village Classroom Looking West, which you can also now see on the website.

Managing Sustainable Change - The core team also made sizing corrections to the people in relation to the furniture to create this final render of the Compressed Earth Block Village Classroom Looking West, which you can also now see on the website.

Compressed Earth Block Village Classroom Looking West Render – Click for Page

In addition, the core team added more image descriptions for the newest Zone 2 and 4 images to the Compressed Earth Block Village (Pod 4) open source hub.

Managing Sustainable Change - The core team also added more image descriptions for the newest Zone 2 and 4 images to the Compressed Earth Block Village (Pod 4) open source hub.

Images and Descriptions for Zone 2 and 4 to Compressed Earth Block Village Hub

And Christian Ojeda (Mechatronic Engineer) completed his 28th week volunteering with our team. This week’s focus was continuing the evolution of the Vermiculture toilet chamber designs with new approaches to emptying the chamber using pulleys and an electric winch.

Managing Sustainable Change - And Christian Ojeda (Mechatronic Engineer) completed his 28th week volunteering with our team. This week's focus was continuing the evolution of the Vermiculture toilet chamber designs with new approaches to emptying the chamber using pulleys and an electric winch.

Evolution of Vermiculture Toilet Chamber Designs – Click for Page

Dean Scholz (Architectural Designer) continued helping us create quality Cob Village (Pod 3) renders. Here is update 90 of Dean’s work, rebuilding the pantry so it will have glass walls and running this initial test of the complete kitchen.

Managing Sustainable Change - Dean Scholz (Architectural Designer) continued helping us create quality Cob Village (Pod 3) renders. Here is update 90 of Dean's work, rebuilding the pantry so it will have glass walls and running this initial test of the complete kitchen.

Helping us Create Quality Cob Village Renders ” Click to Visit Page

Jagannathan Shankar Mahadevan (Mechanical Engineer) completed his 9th week volunteering. This week’s focus was beginning work on the Compressed Earth Block Village Materials Cost Analysis. What you see here are the initial calculations for the number of earth blocks that will be needed and a couple of the spreadsheets calculating other materials, furniture, and equipment.

Managing Sustainable Change - Jagannathan Shankar Mahadevan (Mechanical Engineer) completed his 9th week volunteering. This week's focus was beginning work on the Compressed Earth Block Village Materials Cost Analysis. What you see here are the initial calculations for the number of earth blocks that will be needed and a couple of the spreadsheets calculating other materials, furniture, and equipment.

Working on Compressed Earth Block Village Materials Cost Analysis – Click for Page

Hamilton Mateca (AutoCAD and Revit Drafter and Designer) also finished his 63rd week helping with the Compressed Earth Block Village design and render details. This week’s focus was two new final renders of the front of the village. Both of which you can see here and live on the site too.

Managing Sustainable Change - Hamilton Mateca (AutoCAD and Revit Drafter and Designer) also finished his 63rd week helping with the Compressed Earth Block Village design and render details. This week's focus was two new final renders of the front of the village. Both of which you can see here and live on the site too.

Compressed Earth Block Village Design and Render Details – Click for Page

Dan Alleck (Designer and Illustrator) completed his 7th week working on the Compressed Earth Block Village render additions. This week he focused on adding external details to this rooftop render looking East.

Managing Sustainable Change - Earth Block Village, Rooftop View Looking East, One Community, Dan Alleck

External Details to Rooftop Render Looking East – Click to Visit

Aparna Tandon (Architect) continued her work on the Compressed Earth Block Village external elements. What you see here is her 39th week of work focusing on developing the images to share the specifics of Zone 13.

Managing Sustainable Change - Aparna Tandon (Architect) continued her work on the Compressed Earth Block Village external elements. What you see here is her 39th week of work focusing on developing the images to share the specifics of Zone 13.

Working on Compressed Earth Block Village External Elements ” Click to Visit

Samantha Robinson (Graphic Designer) completed her 15th week working on the interior renders for the living structures in the Tree House Village (Pod 7). This week’s focus, as shown here, was more unwrapping and texturing of the bed, door, and bean bag elements.

Managing Sustainable Change - Samantha Robinson (Graphic Designer) completed her 15th week working on the interior renders for the living structures in the Tree House Village (Pod 7). This week's focus, as shown here, was more unwrapping and texturing of the bed, door, and bean bag elements.

Working on Interior Design for Living Structure of Tree House Village ” Click to Visit Page

MANAGING SUSTAINABLE CHANGE: DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

One Community is managing sustainable change 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 as a part of managing sustainable change: Duplicable City Center Open Source Hub

David Olivero (Mechanical Engineer & Data Scientist) joined the team and completed his 1st week volunteering. What you see here is his work beginning to take over on the HVAC Designs for the Duplicable City Center.

Managing Sustainable Change - David Olivero (Mechanical Engineer & Data Scientist) joined the team and completed his 1st week volunteering. What you see here is his work beginning to take over on the HVAC Designs for the Duplicable City Center.

HVAC Designs for Duplicable City Center – Click for Page

Falgun Patel (Mechanical Engineer) completed his 12th week volunteering with the team. This week’s focus was continuing the analysis process for updating the Highest Good energy page by reviewing, integrating, and updating the Hydronic and Sustainable Water Heating details and pages.

Managing Sustainable Change - Falgun Patel (Mechanical Engineer) completed his 12th week volunteering with the team. This week's focus was continuing the analysis process for updating the Highest Good energy page by reviewing, integrating, and updating the Hydronic and Sustainable Water Heating details and pages.

Analysis Process for Updating the Highest Good Energy Page – Click to Visit

Dipti Dhondarkar, (Electrical Engineer) continued with her 57th week of work on the lighting specifics for the City Center. This week’s focus was beginning the process of modeling the 2nd floor mezzanine level in Dialux, as shown here.

Managing Sustainable Change - Dipti Dhondarkar, (Electrical Engineer) continued with her 57th week of work on the lighting specifics for the City Center. This week's focus was beginning the process of modeling the 2nd floor mezzanine level in Dialux, as shown here.

Working on the Lighting Specifics for the City Center ” Click for Page

Satish Ravindran (Senior Mechanical and Industrial Engineer) also joined the team and completed his 1st week helping with the lighting specifics for the City Center. This week’s focus was beginning the process of double checking that our designs will achieve our LEED Platinum goals for this structure.

Managing Sustainable Change - Satish Ravindran (Senior Mechanical and Industrial Engineer) also joined the team and completed his 1st week helping with the lighting specifics for the City Center. This week's focus was beginning the process of double checking that our designs will achieve our LEED Platinum goals for this structure.

Helped with Lighting Specifics for City Center – Click for Page

MANAGING SUSTAINABLE CHANGE: HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

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

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

This last week the core team reviewed and made edits to some of the Food Self-sufficiency Transition Plan pages, including removing redundant data from and correcting page menus on the Food Bars page to bring it to as much completion as we can at this time, as you see here.

Managing Sustainable Change - This last week the core team reviewed and made edits to some of the Food Self-sufficiency Transition Plan pages, including removing redundant data from and correcting page menus on the Food Bars page to bring it to as much completion as we can at this time, as you see here.

Continued Edits to the Food Bars Page – Click to Visit Page

MANAGING SUSTAINABLE CHANGE: HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

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

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

This week, the core team continued adding to the education Evaluation and Evolution process open source pages and tutorials. This week we created the formatting and began entering the content for the Assessment Forms page, as you can see here.

Managing Sustainable Change - This week, the core team continued adding to the education Evaluation and Evolution process open source pages and tutorials. This week we created the formatting and began entering the content for the Assessment Forms page, as you can see here.

Formatting and Began Entering Content for the Assessment Forms – Click to Visit

MANAGING SUSTAINABLE CHANGE: HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS

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

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

This last week Priti Kothari (Information Technology Enthusiast) also continued her work developing the Highest Good Network software. This week’s focus was welcoming and getting Shubhra running as the newest member of the design team and confirming that the component (e.g. hgn-data) is the correct design for our Leaderboard.

Managing Sustainable Change - This last week Priti Kothari (Information Technology Enthusiast) also continued her work developing the Highest Good Network software. This week's focus was welcoming and getting Shubhra running as the newest member of the design team and confirming that the component (e.g. hgn-data) is the correct design for our Leaderboard.

Developing the Highest Good Network Software ” Click to Visit

Jagannathan Shankar Mahadevan (Mechanical Engineer) also continued working on the climate battery designs and research. What you see here is some of his research and the new spreadsheet we’re creating to calculate how much heat is stored in the battery at any time we wish to analyze during the year.

Managing Sustainable Change - Jagannathan Shankar Mahadevan (Mechanical Engineer) also continued working on the climate battery designs and research. What you see here is some of his research and the new spreadsheet we're creating to calculate how much heat is stored in the battery at any time we wish to analyze during the year.

Working on the Climate Battery Designs and Research ” Click for Page

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.

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

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

BUILDING THE FIRST OF MANY

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

SUMMARY

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

Experiential Global Transformation – One Community Weekly Progress Update #242

Posted on November 12, 2017 by One Community

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One Community is meant to be a source of experiential global transformation by building an open-source replicable model of sustainable living that anyone can experience as an eco-tourism destination. When they visit they will have access to open source and sustainable models for food, energy, housing, education, economic design, social architecture, and more ” all open source and all designed for the purpose of positive and sustainable global change.

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

OUR MAIN OPEN SOURCE HUBS

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

One Community’s physical location will forward this movement for experiential global transformation as the first of many self-replicating teacher/demonstration communities, villages, and cities to be built around the world. This is the November 12, 2017 edition (#242) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments:

Experiential Global Transformation
One Community Progress Update #242

Experiential Global Transformation - One Community Weekly Progress Update #242

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:

EXPERIENTIAL GLOBAL TRANSFORMATION INTRO: @0:34

EXPERIENTIAL GLOBAL TRANSFORMATION HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING: @7:51

Continued Sketchup design for the open source outdoor areas of the Recycled Materials Village (see below)
Redrew the Tree House Village floor plan and added this new image to the website (see below)
Continued working on the Murphy bed instructions (see below)
Continued creating the thermal lag page (see below)
Added more image descriptions and updated the complete formatting for the Compressed Earth Block Village open source hub (see below)
Added more image descriptions and updated the complete formatting for the Shipping Container Village (see below)
Sangam Stanczak continued her work on the open source wet lab that will be used to test and assure the safety of the filtered greywater from the Communal Eco-shower (see below)
Hemanth Kotaru completed his 12th week with us doing research and running calculations for the Earthbag Village (see below)
Christian Ojeda completed his 27th week volunteering with our team and focused on taking over the Vermiculture toilet chamber designs (see below)
Dean Scholz continued helping us create quality Cob Village renders (see below)
Hamilton Mateca finished his 62nd week helping with the Compressed Earth Block Village design and render details (see below)
Dan Alleck completed his 6th week working on the Compressed Earth Block Village render additions (see below)
Aparna Tandon continued her work on the Compressed Earth Block Village external elements (see below)
Samantha Robinson completed her 14th week working on the interior design for the living structure of the Tree House Village (see below)

EXPERIENTIAL GLOBAL TRANSFORMATION DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER: @11:20

Haoxuan “Hayes” Lei continued work on the City Center structural engineering tutorial (see below)
Falgun Patel focused on editing new content on the Highest Good energy page and thoroughly reviewing the Hydronic and Sustainable Water Heating pages (see below)
Dipti Dhondarkar continued with her 56th week of work on the lighting specifics for the City Center (see below)

EXPERIENTIAL GLOBAL TRANSFORMATION HIGHEST GOOD FOOD: @12:30

Continued researching data for nutrition guidelines for our Food Self-sufficiency Transition Plan and Sustainable Food Nutrition Calculations page and organized and prepared items to add to the website (see below)

EXPERIENTIAL GLOBAL TRANSFORMATION HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION: @13:01

Created the formatting and began entering the content for the Collaborative Ongoing Growth Strategies page (see below)

EXPERIENTIAL GLOBAL TRANSFORMATION HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY: @13:35

Ashwin Patil and the core team finished the edits and updates to the Highest Good society and Highest Good energy search engines (see below)
Sowmya Manohar continued her work developing the Highest Good Network software (see below)
Jagannathan Shankar Mahadevan and Aravind Vasudevan continued working on the climate battery designs and research (see below)

EXPERIENTIAL GLOBAL TRANSFORMATION SUMMARY: @14:41

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EXPERIENTIAL GLOBAL TRANSFORMATION: HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

One Community is creating experiential global transformation 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 experiential global transformation with different village models: 7 Sustainable Village Models
  - Visit the open source portals for the first two: Earthbag Village OS Hub | Straw Bale Village OS Hub

This last week the core team continued Sketchup design for the open source outdoor areas of the Recycled Materials Village (Pod 6). This week we designed the horseshoe game area, worked on the croquet area, and finished designing the domino game area.

Open Source Outdoor Areas of Recycled Materials Village ” Click to Visit Page

The core team also redrew the Tree House Village (Pod 7) floor plan and added this new image to the website.

Redrew Tree House Village Floor Plan and Added New Image to Website – Click for Page

In addition, the core team continued working on the Murphy bed instructions, continuing to test different layouts. Shown here are the latest layouts with this week’s revisions.

Continued Working on Murphy Bed Instructions ” Click for Page

And the core team continued creating the thermal lag page. This week we added and organized all of the data and images, created all the different sections, and proofread the page. We also created click-to-enlarge options for all the detailed images.

Creating the Thermal Lag Page and Related Images ” Click to Visit

The core team also added more image descriptions and updated the complete formatting for the Compressed Earth Block Village (Pod 4) open source hub, some of which you can see here.

Formatting for the Compressed Earth Block Village – Click for Page

And the core team added more image descriptions and updated the complete formatting for the Shipping Container Village (Pod 5) open source hub, some of which you can see here.

Formatting for the Shipping Container Village – Click for Page

Sangam Stanczak (Ph.D. and P.E.) continued her work on the open source wet lab that will be used to test and assure the safety of the filtered greywater from the Communal Eco-shower. This week’s focus was writing additional content for what will become the wet lab creation tutorial.

Open Source Wet Lab to Test the Filtered Greywater From the Communal Eco-Shower

Hemanth Kotaru (Structural Engineering Masters Student) completed his 12th week with us doing research and running calculations for the Earthbag Village. This week’s focus was research and calculations for the buttresses, as shown here.

Research and Running Calculations for the Earthbag Village – Click for Page

And Christian Ojeda (Mechatronic Engineer) completed his 27th week volunteering with our team. This week’s focus was taking over the Vermiculture toilet chamber designs. You can see some of this last week’s work-in-progress designs here.

The Vermiculture Toilet Chamber Designs – Click for Page

Dean Scholz (Architectural Designer) continued helping us create quality Cob Village (Pod 3) renders. Here is update 89 of Dean’s work, rebuilding pantry so it will have glass walls.

Helping us Create Quality Cob Village Renders ” Click to Visit Page

Hamilton Mateca (AutoCAD and Revit Drafter and Designer) also finished his 62nd week helping with the Compressed Earth Block Village design and render details. This week’s focus was a new final render of the 3rd-floor Rooftop View Looking West, new section-view images, and working on the 3D details needed so we can create quality renders of the front of the village.

Compressed Earth Block Village Design and Render Details – Click for Page

Dan Alleck (Designer and Illustrator) completed his 6th week working on the Compressed Earth Block Village render additions. This week he finished adding people and additional aesthetics to this final render of the Earth Block Village Massage Room Looking Northeast, which you can also now see on the website.

Final Render of Earth Block Village Massage Room Looking Northeast

Aparna Tandon (Architect) continued her work on the Compressed Earth Block Village external elements. What you see here is her 38th week of work, finishing the presentation for Zones 2 and 4 ” which is now live on the website also.

Working on Compressed Earth Block Village External Elements

Samantha Robinson (Graphic Designer) completed her 14th week working on the interior design for the living structure of the Tree House Village (Pod 7). This week’s focus, as shown here, was more unwrapping and texturing of the stairs and bed components and related objects.

Working on Interior Design for Living Structure of Tree House Village

EXPERIENTIAL GLOBAL TRANSFORMATION: DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

One Community is creating experiential global transformation 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 as a part of experiential global transformation: Duplicable City Center Open Source Hub

Haoxuan “Hayes” Lei (Structural Engineer) continued work on the City Center structural engineering tutorial. What you see here is his 7th week of writing content. This week’s content focus was adding more details to the snow load section, as seen in these screenshots taken during our weekly collaborative call.

Work on City Center Structural Engineering Tutorial ” Click to Visit Page

Falgun Patel (Mechanical Engineer) completed his 11th week volunteering with the team. This week’s focus was editing his new content on the Highest Good energy page and thoroughly reviewing the Hydronic and Sustainable Water Heating pages to understand the systems and update the energy rollout spreadsheet with new values and items.

Highest Good Energy, Hydronic, and Sustainable Water Heating Page ” Click for Energy Page

Dipti Dhondarkar, (Electrical Engineer) continued with her 56th week of work on the lighting specifics for the City Center. This week’s focus was fixing software problems and continuing to update the 2nd floor zones over the mezzanine level, as shown here.

Working on the Lighting Specifics for the City Center ” Click for Page

EXPERIENTIAL GLOBAL TRANSFORMATION: HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

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

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

This week, the core team continued researching data for nutrition guidelines for our Food Self-sufficiency Transition Plan and Sustainable Food Nutrition Calculations page, and organized and prepared items to add to the website, as you see here.

Researching Data for Nutrition Guidelines for Food Self-Sufficiency Transition Plan

EXPERIENTIAL GLOBAL TRANSFORMATION: HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

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

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

This week, the core team continued adding to the education Evaluation and Evolution process open source pages and tutorials. This week we created the formatting and began entering the content for the Collaborative Ongoing Growth Strategies page, as you can see here.

Collaborative Ongoing Growth Strategies Page – Click to Visit

EXPERIENTIAL GLOBAL TRANSFORMATION: HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS

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

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

This last week the core team and Ashwin Patil (Web Developer) finished the edits and updates to the Highest Good society and Highest Good energy search engines. Both are now 100% complete and live on the site.

Highest Good Society and Highest Good Energy Search Engines – Click for Society Page

Sowmya Manohar (Software Engineer, Web Developer & Net Application Developer) continued her work developing the Highest Good Network software. This week’s focus was tested the schema with Mongo.db and researched the badges and badge relationships, some of which you can see here.

Developing the Highest Good Network Software ” Click to Visit

Jagannathan Shankar Mahadevan (Mechanical Engineer) and Aravind Vasudevan (BA Mechanical Engineering), continued working on the climate battery designs and research by using these equations to start building a new spreadsheet that will calculate how much heat is stored in the battery at any time during the year.

Working on the Climate Battery Designs and Research ” Click for Page

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WHAT ONE COMMUNITY IS CREATING

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

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

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

BUILDING THE FIRST OF MANY

One Community will be the first teacher/demonstration hub, spearheading benefits experiential global transformation. 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.

SUMMARY

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

One Community Welcomes Dan Alleck to the Graphic Design Team

Posted on November 8, 2017 by One Community

One Community welcomes Dan Alleck to the Graphic Design Team as our newest Volunteer/Consultant!

Designer & Illustrator: Dan Alleck comes from a background in Entertainment and the Arts. He is a graduate of EORA TAFE College in 2002 and The Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts in 2006 where he studied Design for Performance. He works across multiple disciplines as a Designer and Creative. Dan is thrilled to be part of the One Community project, and sees within it the the seeds of a new model for living. As a member of the team Dan is helping with real-to-life render creations for the 7 different village models.

WELCOME TO THE TEAM DAN!

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Building a Sustainable World – One Community Weekly Progress Update #241

Posted on November 5, 2017 by One Community

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Building a sustainable world that will benefit us all will need to be a collaborative effort if we are ever to succeed. Sustainable and open source approaches to food, energy, housing, education, for-profit and non-profit economic design, social architecture, fulfilled living, and global stewardship practices will make this easier. One Community is creating these as part of our approach to Highest Good of All global transformation.

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

OUR MAIN OPEN SOURCE HUBS

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

One Community’s physical location will forward this movement for building a sustainable world as the first of many self-replicating teacher/demonstration communities, villages, and cities to be built around the world. This is the November 5, 2017 edition (#241) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments:

Building a Sustainable World
One Community Progress Update #241

Building a Sustainable World - One Community Weekly Progress Update #241

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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:

BUILDING A SUSTAINABLE WORLD INTRO: @0:34

BUILDING A SUSTAINABLE WORLD: HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING: @6:19

Continued Sketchup design for the open source outdoor areas of the Recycled Materials Village (see below)
Continued working on the Murphy bed instructions, continuing to test different layouts (see below)
Worked on creating the thermal lag page and it’s related images (see below)
Finished editing and updating the content and formatting on the Earthbag Village Tools & Equipment page (see below)
Sangam Stanczak continued her work on the open source wet lab that will be used to test and assure the safety of the filtered greywater from the Communal Eco-shower (see below)
Dean Scholz continued helping us create quality Cob Village renders (see below)
Dan Alleck completed his 5th week working on the Compressed Earth Block Village render additions (see below)
Aparna Tandon continued her work on the Compressed Earth Block Village external elements (see below)
Samantha Robinson completed her 13th week working on the interior design for the living structure of the Tree House Village (see below)

BUILDING A SUSTAINABLE WORLD: DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER: @9:21

Continued updating the website with the new Highest Good energy rollout details for the landing parties (see below)
Haoxuan “Hayes” Lei continued work on the City Center structural engineering tutorial (see below)
Falgun Patel updated all gas appliances to electric and completing the initial power needs analysis for the City Center Kitchen (see below)
Dipti Dhondarkar continued with her 55th week of work on the lighting specifics for the City Center (see below)
Oruba Rabie continued working on the City Center structural engineering AutoCAD and SAP2000 models corrections (see below)
Aravind Vasudevan continued his calculations and research for climate battery component of the City Center Heating and Cooling open source hub (see below)

BUILDING A SUSTAINABLE WORLD: HIGHEST GOOD FOOD: @11:22

Continued researching data for nutrition guidelines for our Food Self-sufficiency Transition Plan and Sustainable Food Nutrition Calculations page and compiled additional data for vegetarian and vegan diets (see below)

BUILDING A SUSTAINABLE WORLD: HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION: @11:53

Continued adding to the education Assessment Format open source page and tutorial (see below)

BUILDING A SUSTAINABLE WORLD: HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY: @12:23

Finished three rounds of edits and integration into the wind energy design and implementation tutorial (see below)
Sowmya Manohar and Priti Kothari continued their work developing the Highest Good Network software (see below)
Jagannathan Shankar Mahadevan worked on climate battery designs and research (see below)

BUILDING A SUSTAINABLE WORLD SUMMARY: @13:29

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BUILDING A SUSTAINABLE WORLD: HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

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

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

The core team continued Sketchup design for the open source outdoor areas of the Recycled Materials Village (Pod 6). This week’s focus was continuing on the obstacle course. We updated the textures, shadows, changed the size of the monkey bar net, and added a bench with back support to the finished obstacle. We also added one more section to the climbing wall obstacle, landscape items with plants and rocks, planters with flowers to the maze obstacle, a tetherball, and tire-flower-bed and hill essential component of One Community’s open source model for building a sustainable world.

Building a Sustainable World, One Community Weekly Progress Update #241, The core team continued Sketchup design for the open source outdoor areas of the Recycled Materials Village (Pod 6). This week's focus was continuing on the obstacle course. We updated the textures, shadows, changed the size of the monkey bar net, and added a bench with back support to the finished obstacle. We also added one more section to the climbing wall obstacle, landscape items with plants and rocks, planters with flowers to the maze obstacle, a tetherball, and tire-flower-bed and hill.

Working on Open Source Outdoor Areas of Recycled Materials Village

In addition, the core team continued working on the Murphy bed instructions, continuing to test different layouts. We also researched Canva and other documentation software and sketched up the layout for building a sustainable world. You can see this work here.

Building a Sustainable World, One Community Weekly Progress Update #241, In addition, the core team continued working on the Murphy bed instructions, continuing to test different layouts. We also researched Canva and other documentation software and sketched up the layout. You can see this work here.

Continued Working on Murphy Bed Instructions ” Click for Page

The core team also worked on creating the thermal lag page and it’s related images. The page now has its’ basic structure and table of contents added, as well as the images created by Vamsi Pulugurtha. There are also 13 more images that have been edited, cropped, and saved, and will be added to the page next week.

Building a Sustainable World, One Community Weekly Progress Update #241, The core team also worked on creating the thermal lag page and it's related images. The page now has its' basic structure and table of contents added, as well as the images created by Vamsi Pulugurtha. There are also 13 more images that have been edited, cropped, and saved, and will be added to the page next week.

Thermal Lag Page and Related Images – Click to Visit

And the core team finished editing and updating the content and formatting on the Earthbag Village Tools & Equipment page. You can see some of this finished work here.

Building a Sustainable World, One Community Weekly Progress Update #241, And the core team finished editing and updating the content and formatting on the Earthbag Village Tools & Equipment page. You can see some of this finished work here.

Earthbag Village Tools & Equipment Page – Click to Visit

Sangam Stanczak (Ph.D. and P.E.) continued her work on the open source wet lab that will be used to test and assure the safety of the filtered greywater from the Communal Eco-shower. This week’s focus was calculating updated flow rates and drawing out version 2.0 filtration and sterilization details.

Building a Sustainable World, One Community Weekly Progress Update #241, Sangam Stanczak (Ph.D. and P.E.) continued her work on the open source wet lab that will be used to test and assure the safety of the filtered greywater from the Communal Eco-shower. This week's focus was calculating updated flow rates and drawing out version 2.0 filtration and sterilization details.

Design of Open Source Wet Lab to Test the Filtered Greywater From the Communal Eco-Shower

Dean Scholz (Architectural Designer) continued helping us create quality Cob Village (Pod 3) renders. Here is update 88 of Dean’s work, continuing to test and develop the textures and lighting from the skylights and windows for the central dining, presentation hall, and adjacent kitchen areas, contributing in building a sustainable world.

Building a Sustainable World, One Community Weekly Progress Update #241, Dean Scholz (Architectural Designer) continued helping us create quality Cob Village (Pod 3) renders. Here is update 88 of Dean's work, continuing to test and develop the textures and lighting from the skylights and windows for the central dining, presentation hall, and adjacent kitchen areas.

Helping us Create Quality Cob Village Renders ” Click to Visit Page

Dan Alleck (Designer and Illustrator) completed his 5th week working on the Compressed Earth Block Village render additions. This week he finished adding people and additional aesthetics to this final render of the Earth Block Village Classroom Looking West, which you can also now see on the website.

Working on Compressed Earth Block Village Render Additions ” Click for Page

Aparna Tandon (Architect) continued her work on the Compressed Earth Block Village external elements. What you see here is her 37th week of work, focusing on the beginnings of the presentation for Zones 2 and 4.

Building a Sustainable World, One Community Weekly Progress Update #241, Aparna Tandon (Architect) continued her work on the Compressed Earth Block Village external elements. What you see here is her 37th week of work, focusing on the beginnings of the presentation for Zones 2 and 4.

Working on Compressed Earth Block Village External Elements ” Click to Visit

Samantha Robinson (Graphic Designer) completed her 13th week working on the interior design for the living structure of the Tree House Village (Pod 7). This week’s focus, as shown here, was more unwrapping and texturing of the stairs component.

Working on Interior Design for Living Structure of Tree House Village – Click to Visit Page

BUILDING A SUSTAINABLE WORLD: DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

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

- - Learn about this building and it’s function as a part of building a sustainable world: Duplicable City Center Open Source Hub

The core team continued updating the website with the new Highest Good energy rollout details for the landing parties. This week we updated the What and Why sections, imagery for the 10-20 person section, and completed the 20-50 person rollout details section. You can see examples of this work here.

Website with New Highest Good Energy Rollout Details – Click for Page

Haoxuan “Hayes” Lei (Structural Engineer) continued work on the City Center structural engineering tutorial. What you see here is his 6th week of writing content. This week’s content focus was beginning the snow load details and making additional updates to the AutoCAD file, as seen here.

Work on City Center Structural Engineering Tutorial ” Click to Visit Page

Falgun Patel (Mechanical Engineer) completed his 10th week volunteering with the team. This week’s focus was updating all gas appliances to electric and completing the initial power needs analysis for the City Center Kitchen. You can see some of this work here.

Initial Power Needs Analysis for City Center Kitchen ” Click for Page

Dipti Dhondarkar, (Electrical Engineer) continued with her 55th week of work on the lighting specifics for the City Center. This week’s focus was updating the 2nd floor zones over the mezzanine level, as shown here.

Working on the Lighting Specifics for the City Center – Click for Page

Oruba Rabie (Ph.D, PE, and Civil Engineer) also continued working on the City Center structural engineering AutoCAD and SAP2000 models corrections. This week she focused on identifying SAP2000 and AutoCAD discrepancies and potential engineering challenges in the Living and Social domes.

Working on City Center Structural Engineering Details ” Click for Page

Aravind Vasudevan (Mechanical Engineer) continued his calculations and research for climate battery component of the City Center Heating and Cooling open source hub. This week’s focus was 3rd-generation edits to the Climate Battery Cost Analysis, contributing in building a sustainable world. You can see here some of the edited and updated pages.

Calculations and Research for Climate Battery Component

BUILDING A SUSTAINABLE WORLD: HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

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

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

This week, the core team continued researching data for nutrition guidelines for our Food Self-sufficiency Transition Plan and Sustainable Food Nutrition Calculations page, and compiled additional data for vegetarian and vegan diets, as you see here.

Data for Nutrition Guidelines for Food Self-Sufficiency Transition Plan – Click to Visit

BUILDING A SUSTAINABLE WORLD: HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

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

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

This week, the core team continued adding to the education Assessment Format open source page and tutorial. This week we finished adding all the details to each of the steps of the assessment process, as shown here.

Education Assessment Format Open Source Tutorial ” Click for Page

BUILDING A SUSTAINABLE WORLD: HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS

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

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

This week the core team finished three rounds of edits and integration into the wind energy design and implementation tutorial.

Wind Energy Design and Implementation Tutorial – Click to Visit

Sowmya Manohar (Software Engineer, Web Developer & Net Application Developer) and Priti Kothari (Information Technology Enthusiast) also continued their work developing the Highest Good Network software. This week’s focus was researching the model relationships and creating a schema for managing the overall application.

Building a Sustainable World, One Community Weekly Progress Update #241, Sowmya Manohar (Software Engineer, Web Developer & Net Application Developer) and Priti Kothari (Information Technology Enthusiast) also continued their work developing the Highest Good Network software. This week's focus was researching the model relationships and creating a schema for managing the overall application.

Developing the Highest Good Network Software – Click to Visit

Jagannathan Shankar Mahadevan (Mechanical Engineer) completed his 8th week volunteering with the team. This week’s focus was joining the team working on the climate battery designs and research and double checking the calculation and design details, adding further research, and helping create new imagery, contributing in building a sustainable world.

Building a Sustainable World, One Community Weekly Progress Update #241, Jagannathan Shankar Mahadevan (Mechanical Engineer) completed his 8th week volunteering with the team. This week's focus was joining the team working on the climate battery designs and research and double checking the calculation and design details, adding further research, and helping create new imagery.

Worked on the Climate Battery Designs and Research – Click for Page

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