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One Community is creating a place to grow together and change the world together thereby Creating a Better World and setting up the Global Conservation Plan.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.

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 and Creating a Better World . 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 Sam Robinson to the Graphic Design Team

Posted on September 22, 2017 by One Community

One Community welcomes Sam Robinson to the Graphics Team as our newest Volunteer/Consultant!

3D Designer: Sam has a B.S. in Game Arts & Design from The Art Institute of Pittsburgh. Ever since Sam was a 12-years old, she has wanted to become a 3D designer for levels and objects/assets for video games, and maybe someday, bring her own ideas to life. To this day, she is determined to grow as a designer and earn her way into the industry. Sam believes that without sustainability, there would be no balance in the quality of life and the world around it. As a member of the One Community Team, Sam is applying her 3D design skills to help with the internal renders for the Tree House Village.

WELCOME TO THE TEAM SAM!

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Global Conservation Plan – One Community Weekly Progress Update #234

Posted on September 17, 2017 by One Community

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A global conservation plan is needed if humanity is going to achieve sustainability. One Community is helping create this by open sourcing sustainable approaches to every area of civilization that we see as essential. These areas include food, energy, housing, education, for-profit and non-profit economic design, social architecture, fulfilled living, global stewardship practices, and more. We call this living and creating for The Highest Good of All.

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

OUR MAIN OPEN SOURCE HUBS

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

One Community’s physical location will forward this movement as the first of many self-replicating teacher/demonstration communities, villages, and cities to be built around the world. This is the September 17, 2017 edition (#234) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments:

Global Conservation Plan
One Community Progress Update #234

Global Conservation Plan - One Community Weekly Progress Update #234

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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:

GLOBAL CONSERVATION PLAN INTRO: @0:34

HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING: @7:39

Continued Sketchup design for the open source outdoor areas of the Recycled Materials Village (see below)
Continued working on the complete Tree House Village (Pod 7) village render (see below)
Jagannathan Shankar Mahadevan joined the team and completed his 1st week familiarizing himself with the Straw Bale Village and researching the details needed to compile a total-village cost analysis (see below)
Hamilton Mateca finished his 55th 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)
Samantha Robinson completed her 7th week working on the interior design for the living structure of the Tree House Village (see below)

DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER: @9:40

Falgun Patel completed his 3rd week continuing to review, run calculations, and update the specifics of the remote-energy setup plan so we can update the Highest Good energy page (see below)
Dipti Dhondarkar continued with her 50th week of work on the lighting specifics for the City Center (see below)
Renan Dantas continued with his 19th week working on the Duplicable City CenterAutoCAD updates (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)
Vamsi Pulugurtha continued work on the thermal lag research and reports for the City Center Heating and Cooling open source hub (see below)

HIGHEST GOOD FOOD: @11:18

Researched details for our food needs to review the details for the Food Self-sufficiency Transition Plan (see below)

HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION: @11:52

Working with Sangam Stanczak, the core team added a What and Why section, updated formatting, and new table of contents to the Teaching Strategies for Life page (see below)

HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY: @12:30

Continued developing the graphic showing where all our collaborators and volunteers are from (see below)
Continued working on proofreading and updating the formatting for the taxes page (see below)
Continued reviewing the Highest Good society search engine version 2.0 details, checking links, formatting, titles and other details so Ashwin Patil can continue the process of finishing this amazing tool (see below)
Priti Kothari completed her 5th week helping with the Highest Good Network software (see below)

GLOBAL CONSERVATION PLAN SUMMARY: @14:13

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HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

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

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

This week the core team continued Sketchup design for the open source outdoor areas of the Recycled Materials Village (Pod 6). We finalized 8 new renders of the outdoor Art and Library Areas and added the images to the site. Here are the images showing several different perspectives for each of these two areas that function as outdoor extensions of the indoor spaces purposed for the same use.

Global Conservation Plan , This week the core team continued Sketchup design for the open source outdoor areas of the Recycled Materials Village (Pod 6). We finalized 8 new renders of the outdoor Art and Library Areas and added the images to the site. Here are the images showing several different perspectives for each of these two areas that function as outdoor extensions of the indoor spaces purposed for the same use.

Global Conservation Plan – Open Source Outdoor Areas of Recycled Materials Village – Click to Visit

The core team also continued working on the complete Tree House Village (Pod 7) village render, which is now approximately 80% complete and shown here.

Global Conservation Plan - The core team also continued working on the complete Tree House Village (Pod 7) village render, which is now approximately 80% complete and shown here.

Global Conservation Plan – Continued Work – Tree House Village Village Render – Click for Page

Jagannathan Shankar Mahadevan (Mechanical Engineer) also joined the team and completed his 1st week familiarizing himself with the Straw Bale Village and researching the details needed to compile a total-village cost analysis.

Global Conservation Plan , Jagannathan Shankar Mahadevan (Mechanical Engineer) also joined the team and completed his 1st week familiarizing himself with the Straw Bale Village and researching the details needed to compile a total-village cost analysis.

Global Conservation Plan – Research – Total-Village Cost Analysis of Straw Bale Village – Click for Page

Hamilton Mateca (AutoCAD and Revit Drafter and Designer) also finished his 55th week helping with the Compressed Earth Block Village design and render details. This week’s focus was finishing the final kitchen render looking North, as shown here and now live on the website too.

Global Conservation Plan , Hamilton Mateca (AutoCAD and Revit Drafter and Designer) also finished his 55th week helping with the Compressed Earth Block Village design and render details. This week's focus was finishing the final kitchen render looking North, as shown here and now live on the website too.

Global Conservation Plan – Earth Block Village Final Kitchen Render Looking North – Click for Page

Aparna Tandon (Architect) continued her work on the Compressed Earth Block Village external elements. What you see here is her 33rd week of work, focusing on the final presentation shown here (and live on the site) for the central area between the North and South residential wings.

Global Conservation Plan , Aparna Tandon (Architect) continued her work on the Compressed Earth Block Village external elements. What you see here is her 33rd week of work, focusing on the final presentation shown here (and live on the site) for the central area between the North and South residential wings.

Global Conservation Plan – Continued Work – Earth Block Village External Elements – Click for Page

Samantha Robinson (3D Designer) completed her 7th 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 revisions for the drawers under the bed, adjustments to the floor plan, and working on the stairway railing details.

Global Conservation Plan, Samantha Robinson (3D Designer) completed her 7th 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 revisions for the drawers under the bed, adjustments to the floor plan, and working on the stairway railing details.

Global Conservation Plan – Tree House Village Interior Design for the Living Structure ” Click for Page

DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

One Community is designing a global conservation plan 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

Falgun Patel (Mechanical Engineer) completed his 3rd week continuing to review, run calculations, and update the specifics of the remote-energy setup plan so we can update the Highest Good energy page. You can see some of this last week’s work here.

Global Conservation Plan, Falgun Patel (Mechanical Engineer) completed his 3rd week continuing to review, run calculations, and update the specifics of the remote-energy setup plan so we can update the Highest Good energy page. You can see some of this last week's work here.

Global Conservation Plan – Reviewed & Updated Specifics of Remote-Energy Setup ” Click for Page

Dipti Dhondarkar, (Electrical Engineer) continued with her 50th week of work on the lighting specifics for the City Center. This week’s focus was continuing to model the Dining Dome in preparation for applying and testing the best of the lighting designs from the Social Dome.

Global Conservation Plan , Dipti Dhondarkar, (Electrical Engineer) continued with her 50th week of work on the lighting specifics for the City Center. This week's focus was continuing to model the Dining Dome in preparation for applying and testing the best of the lighting designs from the Social Dome.

Global Conservation Plan – Continued Work – Lighting Specifics for the City Center ” Click for Page

Renan Dantas (Mechanical Engineer) continued with his 19th week working on the Duplicable City Center AutoCAD updates. This week’s focus was reviewing the complete window and door plan to simplify and improve it.

Global Conservation Plan , Renan Dantas (Mechanical Engineer) continued with his 19th week working on the Duplicable City Center AutoCAD updates. This week's focus was reviewing the complete window and door plan to simplify and improve it.

Global Conservation Plan – Continued work – Duplicable City Center AutoCAD Updates ” 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. You can see here his fan-use break-even cost analysis and some of his hand calculations related to this.

Global Conservation Plan , Aravind Vasudevan (Mechanical Engineer) continued his calculations and research for climate battery component of the City Center Heating and Cooling open source hub. You can see here his fan-use break-even cost analysis and some of his hand calculations related to this.

Global Conservation Plan – Calculations and Research for Climate Battery Component – Click to Visit

Vamsi Pulugurtha (Mechanical Engineer) also continued work on the thermal lag research and reports for the City Center Heating and Cooling open source hub. What you see here is Vamsi’s work comparing how heat transfers from the basement and boiler room to the outside when built in-ground versus above ground.

Global Conservation Plan, Vamsi Pulugurtha (Mechanical Engineer) also continued work on the thermal lag research and reports for the City Center Heating and Cooling open source hub. What you see here are Vamsi's work comparing how heat transfers from the basement and boiler room to the outside when built in-ground versus above ground.

Global Conservation Plan – Thermal Lag Research and Reports Heating & Cooling Hub ” Click for Page

HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

One Community is designing a global conservation plan 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 editing the food pages. We researched details for our food needs to review the details for the Food Self-sufficiency Transition Plan and found 38 resources for checking calculations on the Sustainable Food Nutrition Calculations page, as you see here.

Global Conservation Plan, This week, the core team continued editing the food pages. We researched details for our food needs to review the details for the Food Self-sufficiency Transition Plan and found 38 resources for checking calculations on the Sustainable Food Nutrition Calculations page, as you see here.

Global Conservation Plan – Continued Edit the Food Pages – Click for Food Self-Sufficiency Page

HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

One Community is designing a global conservation plan 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 working with Sangam Stanczak (Ph.D. and P.E.), added a What and Why section, updated formatting, and new table of contents to the Teaching Strategies for Life page. This completes this page’s update to the newest formatting we’re using for all the other pages of the site.

Global Conservation Plan , This week, the core team working with Sangam Stanczak (Ph.D. and P.E.), added a What and Why section, updated formatting, and new table of contents to the Teaching Strategies for Life page. This completes this page's update to the newest formatting we're using for all the other pages of the site.

Global Conservation Plan – Updated the Teaching Strategies for Life Page – Click to Visit

HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS

One Community is designing a global conservation plan 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 invested several more hours developing the graphic showing where all our collaborators and volunteers are from. The focus was adding three more volunteers into their respective locations in the master layer for the video map, and creating and adding an enhanced web version to the team page.

Global Conservation Plan, This week the core team invested several more hours developing the graphic showing where all our collaborators and volunteers are from. The focus was adding three more volunteers into their respective locations in the master layer for the video map, and creating and adding an enhanced web version to the team page.

Global Conservation Plan – Graphic Showing All Our Collaborators and Volunteers ” Click for Team

The core team also continued working on proofreading and updating the formatting for the taxes page. We checked for errors in spelling, punctuation, image placement and functionality, and checked all of the ~300 different hyperlinks. We also created the beginnings of a new and standalone state-by-state resource page for the US Departments of Taxation, which will be a useful page that anyone can find via a Google search.

Global Conservation Plan, The core team also continued working on proofreading and updating the formatting for the taxes page. We checked for errors in spelling, punctuation, image placement and functionality, and checked all of the ~300 different hyperlinks. We also created the beginnings of a new and standalone state-by-state resource page for the US Departments of Taxation, which will be a useful page that anyone can find via a Google search.

Global Conservation Plan – Proofreading and Updating the Formatting for Taxes Page – Click to Visit

The core team also continued reviewing the Highest Good society search engine version 2.0 details, checking links, formatting, titles and other details so Ashwin Patil (Web Developer) can continue the process of finishing this amazing tool. You can see some of this work-in-progress here and we’d say this search engine is now 70% complete.

Global Conservation Plan, The core team also continued reviewing the Highest Good society search engine version 2.0 details, checking links, formatting, titles and other details so Ashwin Patil (Web Developer) can continue the process of finishing this amazing tool. You can see some of this work-in-progress here and we'd say this search engine is now 70% complete.

Global Conservation Plan – Review – Highest Good Society Search Engine Version 2.0 – Click for Page

In addition to this, Priti Kothari (Information Technology Enthusiast) also completed her 5th week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week’s focus was researching, testing, and debugging the “D3” software we’ll be using to create the Leaderboard charts of everyone’s hours. You can see some of this work here.

Global Conservation Plan, In addition to this, Priti Kothari (Information Technology Enthusiast) also completed her 5th week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week's focus was researching, testing, and debugging the "D3" software we'll be using to create the Leaderboard charts of everyone's hours. You can see some of this work here.

Global Conservation Plan – Continued Helping with Highest Good Network Software – Click to Visit

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WHAT ONE COMMUNITY IS CREATING

One Community is creating a place to grow together and change the world together thereby Creating a Better World and setting up the Global Conservation Plan.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.

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 and Creating a Better World . 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 Eco-Freedom – One Community Weekly Progress Update #233

Posted on September 10, 2017 by One Community

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Systems for eco-freedom are also systems for creating global sustainability. These systems are about freedom through replicable and do-it-yourself models for food, energy, and housing self-sufficiency and sustainability. One Community is also designing them to cover education, for-profit and non-profit economic design, social architecture, fulfilled living practices, and global stewardship models. Combined, we call this living and creating for The Highest Good of All.

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

OUR MAIN OPEN SOURCE HUBS

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

One Community’s physical location will forward this movement as the first of many self-replicating teacher/demonstration communities, villages, and cities to be built around the world. This is the September 10, 2017 edition (#233) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments:

Systems for Eco-Freedom
One Community Progress Update #233

Systems for Eco-freedom - One Community Weekly Progress Update #233

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 ECO-FREEDOM INTRO: @0:34

HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING: @6:52

Continued Sketchup design for the open source outdoor areas of the Recycled Materials Village (see below)
Added 3 final Tree House Village (Pod 7) renders to the page and began working on the complete village render (see below)
Updated Cob Village open source hub to include summary introductions to all the image sections (see below)
Dijimba “Joss” Kabuyi Ilunga completed his final week working on the electrical design details for the Vermiculture Bathrooms (see below)
Hemanth Kotaru completed his 6th week with us by conducting additional Earthbag Village construction research (see below)
Christian Ojeda completed his 26th week helping with the plumbing details for the heat-recycling Communal Eco-shower, Vermiculture Bathroom, and Net-zero Communal Bathroom Designs (see below)
Dean Scholz continued helping us create quality Cob Village renders
Hamilton Mateca finished his 54th week helping with the Compressed Earth Block Village design and render details (see below)
Guy Grossfeld continued helping with the Tree House Village renders (see below)
Samantha Robinson completed her 6th week working on the interior design for the living structure of the Tree House Village (see below)

DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER: @10:05

Falgun Patel began the process of reviewing the specifics of the remote-energy setup plan and starting the calculations to confirm the energy-needs details so we can update the Highest Good energy page (see below)
Haoxuan “Hayes” Lei continued work on the City Center structural engineering tutorial (see below)
Dipti Dhondarkar continued with her 49th week of work on the lighting specifics for the City Center (see below)
Renan Dantas continued with his 18th week working on the Duplicable City Center AutoCAD updates
Vamsi Pulugurtha continued work on the thermal lag research and reports for the City Center Heating and Cooling open source hub (see below)

HIGHEST GOOD FOOD: @11:40

Recalculated food needs and created replacement charts for the Food Procurement and Storage Plan and the Food Self-sufficiency Transition Plan pages (see below)

HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION: @12:11

Completed the process of a final proofreading and editing of all 52 lesson plans (see below)
Completed a full-page update for the Reggio teaching methodology page (see below)

HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY: @13:02

Invested several more hours developing the graphic showing where all our collaborators and volunteers are from (see below)
Created a new and updated summary video (see below)
Worked on proofreading and updating the formatting for the taxes page (see below)

SYSTEMS FOR ECO-FREEDOM SUMMARY: @14:12

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HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

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

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

This week the core team continued Sketchup design for the open source outdoor areas of the Recycled Materials Village (Pod 6). We completed the table with benches by adding flower boxes on each side, support rails underneath the tables, and backs to the benches. We also designed a single-person cable spoon bench, set up the library outside furniture layer, and placed plants around the library area.

Systems for Eco-FreedomThis week the core team continued Sketchup design for the open source outdoor areas of the Recycled Materials Village (Pod 6). We completed the table with benches by adding flower boxes on each side, support rails underneath the tables, and backs to the benches. We also designed a single-person cable spoon bench, set up the library outside furniture layer, and placed plants around the library area.

Systems for Eco-Freedom – Continued Work – Sketchup on Recycled Materials Village ” Click for Page

The core team also added 3 final Tree House Village (Pod 7) renders to the page and began working on the complete village render, which is now approximately 15% complete.

Systems for Eco-Freedom - The core team also added 3 final Tree House Village (Pod 7) renders to the page and began working on the complete village render, which is now approximately 15% complete.

Systems for Eco-Freedom – Continued Development – Tree House Village Renders ” Click to Visit Page

In addition to this, we updated the Cob Village (Pod 3) open source hub to include summary introductions to all the image sections, as shown here.

Systems for Eco-Freedom - In addition to this, we updated the Cob Village (Pod 3) open source hub to include summary introductions to all the image sections, as shown here.

Systems for Eco-Freedom – Updated the Cob Village Open Source Hub – Click to Visit Page

Dijimba “Joss” Kabuyi Ilunga (Electrical Engineer) completed his final week working on the electrical design details for the Vermiculture Bathrooms. Joss finished the designs in AutoCAD and wrote the summary of his work. This brings the electrical designs for this structure to 100% complete.

Systems for Eco-Freedom – Electrical Design Details for the Vermiculture Bathrooms ” Click to Visit

Hemanth Kotaru (Structural Engineering Masters Student) completed his 6th week with us by conducting additional Earthbag Village construction research. This week’s focus was finalizing the research and summaries of findings for the french drain, indoor floor screeding, and optimal bag thickness.

Systems for Eco-Freedom, Hemanth Kotaru (Structural Engineering Masters Student) completed his 6th week with us by conducting additional Earthbag Village construction research. This week's focus was finalizing the research and summaries of findings for the french drain, indoor floor screeding, and optimal bag thickness.

Systems for Eco-Freedom – Continued with Earthbag Village Construction Research ” Click to Visit

And Christian Ojeda (Mechatronic Engineer) completed his 26th week helping with the plumbing details for the heat-recycling Communal Eco-shower, Vermiculture Bathroom, and Net-zero Communal Bathroom Designs. This week’s work was increasing wall thicknesses in the shower to 6″ to accommodate the plumbing, adding basement drains to all 3 structures, and more piping updates. This brings us to 98% complete with the plumbing for the whole Earthbag Village.

Systems for Eco-Freedom,And Christian Ojeda (Mechatronic Engineer) completed his 26th week helping with the plumbing details for the heat-recycling Communal Eco-shower, Vermiculture Bathroom, and Net-zero Communal Bathroom Designs. This week's work was increasing wall thicknesses in the shower to 6″ to accommodate the plumbing, adding basement drains to all 3 structures, and more piping updates. This brings us to 98% complete with the plumbing for the whole Earthbag Village.

Systems for Eco-Freedom – Plumbing Details for Eco-Shower and Bathroom Designs ” Click to Visit

Dean Scholz (Architectural Designer) continued helping us create quality Cob Village (Pod 3) renders. Here is update 83 of Dean’s work, continuing to test and develop the textures and lighting from the skylights and windows for the central dining and presentation hall.

Systems for Eco-Freedom, Cob Village blog 233

Systems for Eco-Freedom, Continued Helping us Create Quality Cob Village Renders ” Click for Page

Hamilton Mateca (AutoCAD and Revit Drafter and Designer) also finished his 54th week helping with the Compressed Earth Block Village design and render details. This week’s focus was beginning work on the final kitchen render looking North, as shown here.

Systems for Eco-Freedom, Hamilton Mateca (AutoCAD and Revit Drafter and Designer) also finished his 54th week helping with the Compressed Earth Block Village design and render details. This week's focus was beginning work on the final kitchen render looking North, as shown here.

Systems for Eco-Freedom -Compressed Earth Block Village Design and Render Details – Click for Page

Guy Grossfeld (Graphic Designer) continued helping with the Tree House Village (Pod 7) renders. This week’s focus was completing the initial stairway and artistic tree elements for inside the living structures, as shown here.

Systems for Eco-Freedom, Guy Grossfeld (Graphic Designer) continued helping with the Tree House Village (Pod 7) renders. This week's focus was completing the initial stairway and artistic tree elements for inside the living structures, as shown here.

Systems for Eco-Freedom – Continued Helping with the Tree House Village Renders ” Click to Visit

Samantha Robinson (3D Designer) completed her 6th 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 shelving revisions for behind the bed, adding drawers under the bed, and more custom door design details.

Systems for Eco-Freedom, Samantha Robinson (3D Designer) completed her 6th 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 shelving revisions for behind the bed, adding drawers under the bed, and more custom door design details.

Systems for Eco-Freedom – Tree House Village Interior Design for the Living Structure ” Click for Page

DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

One Community is creating systems for eco-freedom 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

Falgun Patel (Mechanical Engineer) completed his 2nd week volunteering. This week’s focus was beginning the process of reviewing the specifics of the remote-energy setup plan and starting the calculations to confirm the energy-needs details so we can update the Highest Good energy page.

Systems for Eco-Freedom, Falgun Patel (Mechanical Engineer) completed his 2nd week volunteering. This week's focus was beginning the process of reviewing the specifics of the remote-energy setup plan and starting the calculations to confirm the energy-needs details so we can update the Highest Good energy page.

Systems for Eco-Freedom – Reviewing the Specifics of the Remote-Energy Setup Plan – 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 pressure coefficients and considerations.

Systems for Eco-Freedom – City Center Structural Engineering Tutorial ” Click for Page

Dipti Dhondarkar, (Electrical Engineer) continued with her 49th week of work on the lighting specifics for the City Center. This week’s focus was adding in the pool and walkway lighting details for the Social Dome and beginning to model the Dining Dome, as shown here.

Systems for Eco-Freedom, Dipti Dhondarkar, (Electrical Engineer) continued with her 49th week of work on the lighting specifics for the City Center. This week's focus was adding in the pool and walkway lighting details for the Social Dome and beginning to model the Dining Dome, as shown here.

Systems for Eco-Freedom – Continued Work – Lighting Specifics for the City Center ” Click for Page

Renan Dantas (Mechanical Engineer) continued with his 18th week working on the Duplicable City Center AutoCAD updates. This week’s focus was the under-stair locker and rinse-shower details shown in the sections here.

Systems for Eco-Freedom, Renan Dantas: Mechanical Engineer continued with his 18th week working on the Duplicable City Center AutoCAD updates. This week's focus was the under-stair locker and rinse-shower details shown in the sections here.

Systems for Eco-Freedom – Continued Work – Duplicable City Center AutoCAD Updates – Click for Page

Vamsi Pulugurtha (Mechanical Engineer) also continued work on the thermal lag research and reports for the City Center Heating and Cooling open source hub. What you see here are Vamsi’s calculations showing how heat from the basement and boiler room transfers into and through the soil around these areas.

Systems for Eco-Freedom, Vamsi Pulugurtha (Mechanical Engineer) also continued work on the thermal lag research and reports for the City Center Heating and Cooling open source hub. What you see here are Vamsi's calculations showing how heat from the basement and boiler room transfers into and through the soil around these areas.

Systems for Eco-Freedom – Thermal Lag Research – Reports – Heating, Cooling Hub ” Click for Page

HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

One Community is creating systems for eco-freedom 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 editing the food pages. We recalculated food needs and created replacement charts for the Food Procurement and Storage Plan and the Food Self-sufficiency Transition Plan pages, as you see here.

Systems for Eco-Freedom, This week, the core team continued editing the food pages. We recalculated food needs and created replacement charts for the Food Procurement and Storage Plan and the Food Self-sufficiency Transition Plan pages, as you see here.

Systems for Eco-Freedom – Continued Edit -Food Pages ” Click for Food Procurement & Storage Plan

HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

One Community is creating systems for eco-freedom 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 the process of a final proofreading and editing of all 52 lesson plans. This week we completed the final two lesson plans, the Consensus and Decision Making Lesson Plan and the Contribution Lesson Plan. This brings us to 52 of 52 finished, which is 100% completion!

Systems for Eco-Freedom, This week, the core team continued the process of a final proofreading and editing of all 52 lesson plans. This week we completed the final two lesson plans, the Consensus and Decision Making Lesson Plan and the Contribution Lesson Plan. This brings us to 52 of 52 finished, which is 100% completion!

Systems for Eco-Freedom – All the Lesson Plan Pages – Click for Lesson Plans for Life Page

The core team also completed a full-page update for the Reggio teaching methodology page. This included integrating all our research from two weeks ago, adding a new resource section, and updating the formatting.

Systems for Eco-Freedom, The core team also completed a full-page update for the Reggio teaching methodology page. This included integrating all our research from two weeks ago, adding a new resource section, and updating the formatting.

Systems for Eco-Freedom – Completed Update – Reggio Teaching Methodology Page – Click to Visit

HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS

One Community is creating systems for eco-freedom 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 invested several more hours developing the graphic showing where all our collaborators and volunteers are from. The focus was adding and organizing the interns we had from Brazil into their respective locations in the master layer for the video map. This information will be featured in our overview video and on the Team page. You can see here this work in progress.

Systems for Eco-Freedom – Graphic Showing – All Collaborators and Volunteers ” Click for Team

We also created a new and updated summary video showing all our most current work. This video is also the most clear and concise video we’ve made, coming in at only 60 seconds in length and covering all the most important details of the project.

One Community 60-second Summary

Watch this video on YouTube

And the core team worked on proofreading and updating the formatting for the taxes page. The page is now 75% complete.

Systems for Eco-Freedom – Proofread and Updated the Formatting for the Taxes Pages – Click to Visit

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

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

INVESTOR PAGES

GET INVOLVED

WHAT ONE COMMUNITY IS CREATING

One Community is creating a place to grow together and change the world together thereby Creating a Better World.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.

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 and Creating a Better World . 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.

A Blueprint for Transforming the Planet – One Community Weekly Progress Update #232

Posted on September 3, 2017 by One Community

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A blueprint for transforming the planet is being created. It includes open source and free-shared sustainable approaches to food, energy, housing, education, Highest Good economic design, social architecture, fulfilled living, and global stewardship practices. It is being designed to be easy enough, affordable enough, and an attractive enough way of living such that it becomes self-replicating.

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 September 3rd, 2017 edition (#232) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments:

A Blueprint for Transforming the Planet
One Community Progress Update #232

A Blueprint for Transforming the Planet - One Community Weekly Progress Update #232

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:

A BLUEPRINT FOR TRANSFORMING THE PLANET INTRO: @0:34

HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING: @7:45

Continued Sketchup design for the open source outdoor areas of the Recycled Materials Village (see below)
Continued development of the Tree House Village renders (see below)
Dijimba “Joss” Kabuyi Ilunga completed his 4th week working on the electrical design details for the Vermiculture Bathrooms (see below)
Hemanth Kotaru completed his 5th week with us by conducting additional Earthbag Village construction research (see below)
Christian Ojeda completed his 25th week helping with the plumbing details for the heat-recycling Communal Eco-shower, Vermiculture Bathroom, and Net-zero Communal Bathroom Designs (see below)
Dean Scholz continued helping us create quality Cob Village renders (see below)
Hamilton Mateca finished a final high-quality render for the Compressed Earth Block Village 2nd Floor Game and Recreation Room (see below)
Aparna Tandon continued her work on the Compressed Earth Block Village external elements (see below)
Guy Grossfeld continued helping with the Tree House Village renders (see below)
Samantha Robinson completed her 5th week working on the interior design for the living structure of the Tree House Village (see below)

DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER: @10:56

Falgun Patel and the core team created a new 100% Off-grid Energy Setup for Eco-village Construction page (see below)
Haoxuan “Hayes” Lei continued work on the City Center structural engineering tutorial (see below)
Dipti Dhondarkar continued with her 48th week of work on the lighting specifics for the City Center (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)
Vamsi Pulugurtha continued work on the thermal lag research and reports for the City Center Heating and Cooling open source hub (see below)

HIGHEST GOOD FOOD: @12:24

Added the “Suggested Initial Dry Pantry” section of the Food Procurement and Storage Plan and the “Bulk Dried Goods” section of the Food Self-sufficiency Transition Plan pages (see below)
Updated the Transition Kitchen with new cost analysis details, additional hexayurt resources, and better formatting and menus (see below)

HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION: @13:06

Continued the process of a final proofreading and editing of all 52 lesson plans (see below)
Working with Sangam Stanczak we also finished behind-the-scenes development of the documentation for the Evaluation and Evolution component and finished 4 rounds to testing the use of the documents (see below)

HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY: @13:56

Continued developing the graphic showing where all our collaborators and volunteers are from. This information will be featured in our overview video and on the Team page (see below)
Ashwin Patil began creation of the Highest Good society search engine version 2.0, integrating suggested edits and missing pages (see below)
Neha Verma finished her 3rd week helping with the development of the Highest Good Network software (see below)

A BLUEPRINT FOR TRANSFORMING THE PLANET SUMMARY: @15:08

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ONE COMMUNITY WEEKLY UPDATE DETAILS

HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

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

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

This week the core team continued Sketchup design for the open source outdoor areas of the Recycled Materials Village (Pod 6). We continued designing the cable spool tables and seats (to match existing designs found online) and also designed a bicycle rack that uses recycled tires. We also completed the table and bench made from tires.

A Blueprint for Transforming the Plane, Continued Working in Sketchup on the Recycled Materials Village

A Blueprint for Transforming the Planet – Sketchup on the Recycled Materials Village ” Click for Page

The core team also continued development of the Tree House Village (Pod 7) renders shown here, revising and retouching the flower pots and other aesthetic elements.

A Blueprint for Transforming the Planet - Continued Development of the Tree House Village Renders

A Blueprint for Transforming the Planet – Development of Tree House Village Renders ” Click to Visit

Dijimba “Joss” Kabuyi Ilunga (Electrical Engineer) completed his 4th week working on the electrical design details for the Vermiculture Bathrooms. This week’s focus was the final breaker panel design, riser detail, and initial cost analysis. We’d say we are now 80% complete with the electrical design details for this component.

A Blueprint for Transforming the Planet, Dijimba

A Blueprint for Transforming the Planet – Electrical Design for Vermiculture Bathrooms – Click to Visit

Hemanth Kotaru (Structural Engineering Masters Student) completed his 5th week with us by conducting additional Earthbag Village construction research. This week’s focus was more french drain and flooring research and you can see a summary of the findings so far here.

A Blueprint for Transforming the Planet, Hemanth Kotaru (Structural Engineering Masters Student) completed his 5th week with us by conducting additional Earthbag Village construction research. This week's focus was more french drain and flooring research and you can see a summary of the findings so far here.

A Blueprint for Transforming the Planet – Earthbag Village Construction Research ” Click to Visit

And Christian Ojeda (Mechatronic Engineer) completed his 25th week helping with the plumbing details for the heat-recycling Communal Eco-shower, Vermiculture Bathroom, and Net-zero Communal Bathroom Designs. This week’s work was adding shower head, drain pipe, and water heater details. This brings us to 95% complete with the plumbing for the whole Earthbag Village.

A Blueprint for Transforming the Planet, And Christian Ojeda (Mechatronic Engineer) completed his 25th week helping with the plumbing details for the heat-recycling Communal Eco-shower, Vermiculture Bathroom, and Net-zero Communal Bathroom Designs. This week's work was adding shower head, drain pipe, and water heater details. This brings us to 95% complete with the plumbing for the whole Earthbag Village.

A Blueprint for Transforming the Planet – Communal Eco-Shower, Bathroom Designs – Click to Visit

Dean Scholz (Architectural Designer) continued helping us create quality Cob Village (Pod 3) renders. Here is update 82 of Dean’s work, continuing to test and develop the lighting from the skylights and windows for the central dining and presentation hall.

A Blueprint for Transforming the Planet, Dean Scholz (Architectural Designer) continued helping us create quality Cob Village (Pod 3) renders. Here is update 82 of Dean's work, continuing to test and develop the lighting from the skylights and windows for the central dining and presentation hall.

A Blueprint for Transforming the Planet – Continued Help – Quality Cob Village Render – Click for Page

Hamilton Mateca (AutoCAD and Revit Drafter and Designer) also finished his 53rd week helping with the Compressed Earth Block Village design and render details. This week’s focus was finishing this final high-quality render for the 2nd Floor Game and Recreation Room, which you can see here and is now also added to the website.

A Blueprint for Transforming the Planet, One Community Earth Block Village Game Room, Final Render, Hamilton Mateca, blog 232

A Blueprint for Transforming the Planet – Final Earth Block Village Render – 2nd Floor ” Click for Page

Aparna Tandon (Architect) continued her work on the Compressed Earth Block Village external elements. What you see here is her 32nd week of work, focusing on additional elevation and texture details for the central area between the North and South residential wings.

A Blueprint for Transforming the Planet, Aparna Tandon (Architect) continued her work on the Compressed Earth Block Village external elements. What you see here is her 32nd week of work, focusing on additional elevation and texture details for the central area between the North and South residential wings.

A Blueprint for Transforming the Planet – Compressed Earth Block Village Elements ” Click to Enlarge

Guy Grossfeld (Graphic Designer) continued helping with the Tree House Village (Pod 7) renders. This week he took over stairway design for the living structures. You can see the beginnings of his design work here.

A Blueprint for Transforming the Planet, Guy Grossfeld (Graphic Designer) continued helping with the Tree House Village (Pod 7) renders. This week he took over stairway design for the living structures. You can see the beginnings of his design work here.

A Blueprint for Transforming the Planet – Continued Help Tree House Village Renders ” Click to Visit

Samantha Robinson (3D Designer) completed her 5th 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 shelving behind the bed on the main floor and custom door design.

A Blueprint for Transforming the Planet, Samantha Robinson (3D Designer) completed her 5th 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 shelving behind the bed on the main floor and custom door design.

A Blueprint for Transforming the Planet – Continued Work Tree House Village Interior ” Click for Page

DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

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

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

This week, the core team working with Falgun Patel (Mechanical Engineer) created a new 100% Off-grid Energy Setup for Eco-village Construction page sharing our work designing the complete energy setup and rollout process for a 100% off-grid eco-village. You can see screenshots of the page here.

A Blueprint for Transforming the Planet, This week, the core team working with Falgun Patel (Mechanical Engineer) created a new 100% Off-grid Energy Setup for Eco-village Construction page sharing our work designing the complete energy setup and rollout process for a 100% off-grid eco-village. You can see screenshots of the page here.

A Blueprint for Transforming the Planet – Off-grid Energy – Eco-village Construction – Click to Visit

Haoxuan “Hayes” Lei (Structural Engineer) continued work on the City Center structural engineering tutorial. What you see here is his 5th week of writing content. This week’s content focus was wind gust calculations and considerations.

A Blueprint for Transforming the Planet – City Center Structure – Click for Page

Dipti Dhondarkar, (Electrical Engineer) continued with her 48th week of work on the lighting specifics for the City Center. This week’s focus was combining the spotlight lighting plan with the table-top and loft-overhang plan to visualize and test all the lighting together, as shown here.

A Blueprint for Transforming the Planet, Dipti Dhondarkar, (Electrical Engineer) continued with her 48th week of work on the lighting specifics for the City Center. This week's focus was combining the spotlight lighting plan with the table-top and loft-overhang plan to visualize and test all the lighting together, as shown here.

A Blueprint for Transforming the Planet – Continued Lighting Specifics for City Center ” Click for Page

Vamsi Pulugurtha (Mechanical Engineer) also continued work on the thermal lag research and reports for the City Center Heating and Cooling open source hub. What you see here is some of last week’s work and how it ties into the most recent calculations for heat loss and retention by the basement and into the surrounding soil.

A Blueprint for Transforming the Planet, Vamsi Pulugurtha (Mechanical Engineer) also continued work on the thermal lag research and reports for the City Center Heating and Cooling open source hub. What you see here is some of last week's work and how it ties into the most recent calculations for heat loss and retention by the basement and into the surrounding soil.

A Blueprint for Transforming the Planet – Research, Reports for City Center Hub – Click for Page

HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

One Community is building a blueprint for transforming the planet 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 editing the food pages. We added to the “Suggested Initial Dry Pantry” section of the Food Procurement and Storage Plan and the “Bulk Dried Goods” section of the Food Self-sufficiency Transition Plan pages, as you see here.

A Blueprint for Transforming the Planet - This week, the core team continued editing the food pages. We added to the

A Blueprint for Transforming the Planet – Continued Editing the Food Pages – Click to Visit Page

The core team also updated the Transition Kitchen with new cost analysis details, additional hexayurt resources, and better formatting and menus.

A Blueprint for Transforming the Planet, The core team also updated the Transition Kitchen with new cost analysis details, additional hexayurt resources, and better formatting and menus.

A Blueprint for Transforming the Planet – Transition Kitchen with New Cost Analysis – Click for Page

HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

One Community is building a blueprint for transforming the planet 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 the process of a final proofreading and editing of all 52 lesson plans. This week we completed the Reality Lesson Plan and the Fulfilled Living Lesson Plan . This brings us to 50 of 52 finished, which is 96.2% completion.

A Blueprint for Transforming the Planet, This week, the core team continued the process of a final proofreading and editing of all 52 lesson plans. This week we completed the Reality Lesson Plan and the Fulfilled Living Lesson Plan. This brings us to 50 of 52 finished, which is 96.2% completion.

A Blueprint for Transforming the Planet – 52 Lesson Plans Edit” Click for Lesson Plans for Life

Working with Sangam Stanczak (Ph.D. and P.E.), we also finished behind-the-scenes development of the documentation for the Evaluation and Evolution component and finished 4 rounds to testing the use of the documents. You can see some of this work here.

A Blueprint for Transforming the Planet, Working with Sangam Stanczak (Ph.D. and P.E.), we also finished behind-the-scenes development of the documentation for the Evaluation and Evolution component and finished 4 rounds to testing the use of the documents. You can see some of this work here.

A Blueprint for Transforming the Planet -Documentation for Evaluation and Evolution – Click to Visit

HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS

One Community is building a blueprint for transforming the planet 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 invested several more hours developing the graphic showing where all our collaborators and volunteers are from. The focus was continuing to add and organize people into their respective locations in the master layer for the video map. This information will be featured in our overview video and on the Team page. You can see here this work in progress.

A Blueprint for Transforming the Planet, This week the core team invested several more hours developing the graphic showing where all our collaborators and volunteers are from. The focus was continuing to add and organize people into their respective locations in the master layer for the video map. This information will be featured in our overview video and on the Team page. You can see here this work in progress.

A Blueprint for Transforming the Planet – Collaborators and Volunteers Locations” Click for Team

Ashwin Patil (Web Developer) began creation of the Highest Good society search engine version 2.0, integrating suggested edits and missing pages. You can see some of this work-in-progress here and we’d say this search engine is now 50% complete.

A Blueprint for Transforming the Planet, Ashwin Patil (Web Developer) began creation of the Highest Good society search engine version 2.0, integrating suggested edits and missing pages. You can see some of this work-in-progress here and we'd say this search engine is now 50% complete.

A Blueprint for Transforming the Planet – The Highest Good Society Search Engine – Click to Visit Page

In addition to this, Neha Verma (Software Development Manager) finished her 3rd week helping with the development of the Highest Good Network software. This week’s focus was learning the basics of Ember.js through online tutorials, as shown here.

A Blueprint for Transforming the Planet – Continued Working – Highest Good Network ” 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 thereby Creating a Better World.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.

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 and Creating a Better World . 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 Vivian Rodrigues to the Translation Team

Posted on August 31, 2017 by One Community

One Community welcomes Vivian Rodrigues to the Translation Team as our newest Volunteer/Consultant!

Translator: With a special passion for words, Vivian has spent years doing translations. She began translating even as a child, translating to help people access and understand materials previously inaccessible for them. For years she has continued applying her passion, translating (for free) written and video contents, both recreational and educational. A student of education and self-taught in many other areas, Vivian also enjoys game design and gamification, entrepreneurship, psychology, and music. When she saw her friends becoming unhappy and sick for avoidable reasons, she became motivated to work towards creating a better world. Now, as a One Community Consultant, she is helping to translate key pages of the website (Open Source, Highest Good, Solutions that Create Solutions, etc.) into Portuguese.

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One Community Welcomes Dijimba “Joss” Kabuyi Ilunga to the Electrical Engineering Team

Posted on August 27, 2017 by One Community

One Community welcomes Dijimba “Joss” Kabuyi Ilunga to the Electrical Engineering Team as our newest Volunteer/Consultant!

Electrical Engineer: Dijimba earned a Bachelor of Science in Electrical and Electronics Engineering from the University of Texas at Arlington. By his secondary school graduation in the Democratic Republic of Congo, he had a strong affinity for science subjects and decided to pursue an engineering degree in Arlington because of his uncle, a UT Arlington mechanical engineer alumni. During the end of his undergraduate degree, Dijimba became passionate with microelectromechanical systems and power, especially and specifically renewable energy. He has taken graduate classes in both subjects and will pursue his Masters with emphasis on those subjects. He is bilingual in French and English, and he is currently learning Chinese (Mandarin). For recreation, Joss likes video games and is very fond of Sudoku. As a member of the One Community team, Joss completed the Vermiculture Bathroom electrical designs.

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One Community Welcomes Sowmya Manohar to the Software Development Team

Posted on August 27, 2017 by One Community

One Community welcomes Sowmya Manohar to the Software Development Team as our newest Volunteer/Consultant!

Software Engineer, Web Developer & Net Application Developer: Sowmya received her Bachelor’s in Electrical and Electronics Engineering with distinction (Gold Medalist) from one of India’s reputed universities, Pondicherry University. Due to her passion in programming, she pursued her career as a programmer and application developer. She is also a Microsoft Certified Technology specialist. In her spare time, Sowmya enjoys painting, creating with beads, and solving sudoku puzzles. She strongly believes that change starts from within and, as a member of the One Community Team, is helping develop the Highest Good Network Software.

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Creating Something Good for Everyone – One Community Weekly Progress Update #231

Posted on August 27, 2017 by One Community

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Open source sustainability means creating something good for everyone. Expanding open sourcing and free-sharing sustainability beyond food, energy, and housing to also include education, for-profit and non-profit economic design, social architecture, fulfilled living, and global stewardship practices is even better. One Community is an all-volunteer nonprofit developing all of these in support of a global collaboration for The Highest Good of all people and life on our planet.

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

OUR MAIN OPEN SOURCE HUBS

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

One Community’s physical location will forward this movement as the first of many self-replicating teacher/demonstration communities, villages, and cities to be built around the world. This is the August 27th, 2017 edition (#231) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments:

Creating Something Good for Everyone
One Community Progress Update #231

Creating Something Good for Everyone - One Community Weekly Progress Update #231

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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:

CREATING SOMETHING GOOD FOR EVERYONE INTRO: @0:34

HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING: @5:36

Continued updating the images and formatting for the Earthbag Village Communal Eco-shower page (see below)
Updated the complete thermostatic mixing valve page (see below)
Continued working in Sketchup on the open source outdoor areas of the Recycled Materials Village (see below)
Continued development of the Tree House Village renders (see below)
Hemanth Kotaru completed his 4th week with us by conducting additional Earthbag Village construction research (see below)
Christian Ojeda completed his 24th week helping with the plumbing details for the heat-recycling Communal Eco-shower, Vermiculture Bathroom, and Net-zero Communal Bathroom Designs (see below)
Dean Scholz continued helping us create quality Cob Village renders (see below)
Hamilton Mateca finished his 52nd 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)
Guy Grossfeld continued helping with the Tree House Village renders (see below)
Samantha Robinson completed her 4th week working on the interior design for the living structure of the Tree House Village (see below)

DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER: @8:53

Added the final updated header and social media images to the Pipe Furniture page and shared it for the first time across social media (see below)
Haoxuan “Hayes” Lei continued work on the City Center structural engineering tutorial (see below)
Dipti Dhondarkar continued with her 47th week of work on the lighting specifics for the City Center (see below)
Aravind Vasudevan and Vamsi Pulugurtha continued work on their thermal lag and climate battery research and reports for the City Center Heating and Cooling open source hub (see below)

HIGHEST GOOD FOOD: @10:10

Created images for the Food Procurement and Storage Plan and Food Self-sufficiency Transition Plan pages (see below)

HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION: @10:40

Continued the process of a final proofreading and editing of all 52 lesson plans (see below)
Completed the draft of the Orff page, and reviewed and reedited the Reggio, Waldorf behind-the-scenes content and began work on the additional Multi-intelligences research and content (see below)

HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY: @11:28

Invested several more hours developing the graphic showing where all our collaborators and volunteers are from. This information will be featured in our overview video and on the Team page (see below)
Sowmya Manohar, working on the Highest Good Network software, finished coding in Express.js for retrieving data from MongoDB based on a specific id (see below)
Priti Kothari completed her 2nd week helping with the Highest Good Network software by finishing version 1.0 of the Leaderboard element (see below)
Neha Verma finished her 2nd week helping with the Highest Good Network software by finishing implementation of the time log widget (see below)

CREATING SOMETHING GOOD FOR EVERYONE SUMMARY: @12:46

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HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

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

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

This week the core team continued updating the images and formatting for the Earthbag Village Communal Eco-shower page, separating out the different designs and adding several new sections. You can see some of this work here.

Creating Something Good for Everyone, This week the core team continued updating the images and formatting for the Earthbag Village Communal Eco-shower page, separating out the different designs and adding several new sections. You can see some of this work here.

Creating Something Good for Everyone – Updated Earthbag Village Eco-shower page – Click to Visit

Related to this, we also updated the complete thermostatic mixing valve page. You can see some of the updated page here.

Creating Something Good for Everyone, updated the complete thermostatic mixing valve page.

Creating Something Good for Everyone – Updated Thermostatic Mixing Valve Page – Click to Visit

The core team additionally continued Sketchup design for the open source outdoor areas of the Recycled Materials Village (Pod 6). We designed a cable spool table with seats, and finished designing the bench with roof and bookshelves. The team also began designing a table with a bench made from tires. The top-right picture inspired the idea.

Creating Something Good for Everyone, The core team additionally continued Sketchup design for the open source outdoor areas of the Recycled Materials Village (Pod 6). We designed a cable spool table with seats, and finished designing the bench with roof and bookshelves. The team also began designing a table with a bench made from tires. The top-right picture inspired the idea.

Creating Something Good for Everyone – Continued Sketchup on Recycled Materials – Click for Page

In addition to this, the core team continued development of the two Tree House Village (Pod 7) renders shown here, updating trees, adding people, and other aesthetic elements.

Creating Something Good for Everyone, In addition to this, the core team continued development of the two Tree House Village (Pod 7) renders shown here, updating trees, adding people, and other aesthetic elements.

Creating Something Good for Everyone – Continued Tree House Village Renders – Click to Visit

Hemanth Kotaru (Structural Engineering Masters Student) completed his 4th week with us by conducting additional Earthbag Village construction research. This week’s focus was more french drain and water proofing research and you can see a summary of the findings so far here.

Creating Something Good for Everyone, Hemanth Kotaru (Structural Engineering Masters Student) completed his 4th week with us by conducting additional Earthbag Village construction research. This week's focus was more french drain and water proofing research and you can see a summary of the findings so far here.

Creating Something Good for Everyone – Earthbag Village Construction Research ” Click to Visit

And Christian Ojeda (Mechatronic Engineer) completed his 24th week helping with the plumbing details for the heat-recycling Communal Eco-shower, Vermiculture Bathroom, and Net-zero Communal Bathroom Designs. This week’s work on the plumbing was focused on the water heater details, integration of the rainwater collection system, and other minor changes. This brings us to 90% complete with the plumbing for the whole Earthbag Village.

Creating Something Good for Everyone, And Christian Ojeda(Mechatronic Engineer) completed his 24th week helping with the plumbing details for the heat-recycling Communal Eco-shower, Vermiculture Bathroom, and Net-zero Communal Bathroom Designs. This week's work on the plumbing was focused on the water heater details, integration of the rainwater collection system, and other minor changes. This brings us to 90% complete with the plumbing for the whole Earthbag Village.

Creating Something Good for Everyone – Heat-Recycling Eco-Shower, Bathroom Design ” Click to Visit

Dean Scholz (Architectural Designer) continued helping us create quality Cob Village (Pod 3) renders. Here is update 81 of Dean’s work, continuing to test and develop the lighting from the skylights and windows for the central dining and presentation hall.

Creating Something Good for Everyone, Dean Scholz (Architectural Designer) continued helping us create quality Cob Village (Pod 3) renders. Here is update 81 of Dean's work, continuing to test and develop the lighting from the skylights and windows for the central dining and presentation hall.

Creating Something Good for Everyone – Continued Help – Quality Cob Village Renders – Click for Page

Hamilton Mateca (AutoCAD and Revit Drafter and Designer) also finished his 52nd week helping with the Compressed Earth Block Village design and render details. This week’s focus was finishing this final high-quality render for the East-wing office spaces, which you can see here and is now also added to the website.

Creating Something Good for Everyone, One Community Earth Block Village Final Render East-wing office spaces

Creating Something Good for Everyone – Earth Block Village Render East-Wing Office – Click for Page

Aparna Tandon (Architect) continued her work on the Compressed Earth Block Village external elements. What you see here is her 31st week of work, focusing on 3D Sketchup development of the central area between the North and South residential wings, plus zones 12 and 14 by the East offices.

Creating Something Good for Everyone - Aparna Tandon(Architect) continued her work on the Compressed Earth Block Village external elements. What you see here is her 31st week of work, focusing on 3D Sketchup development of the central area between the North and South residential wings, plus zones 12 and 14 by the East offices.

Creating Something Good for Everyone – Earth Block Village External Elements – Click to Enlarge

Guy Grossfeld (Graphic Designer) continued helping with the Tree House Village (Pod 7) renders. This week he made final changes and ran the final master render for the village, which you can see here.

Creating Something Good for Everyone, Guy Grossfeld (Graphic Designer) continued helping with the Tree House Village (Pod 7) renders. This week he made final changes and ran the final master render for the village, which you can see here.

Creating Something Good for Everyone – Continued Help – Tree House Village Renders ” Click to Visit

Samantha Robinson (3D Designer) completed her 4th 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 mostly work on the staircase, 2nd floor door, and light design.

Creating Something Good for Everyone, Samantha Robinson (3D Designer) completed her 4th 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 mostly work on the staircase, 2nd floor door, and light design.

Creating Something Good for Everyone – Tree House Village Interior Design ” Click for Page

DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

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

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

This week, the core team added the final updated header and social media images to the Pipe Furniture page and shared it for the first time across social media.

Creating Something Good for Everyone, This week, the core team added the final updated header and social media images to the Pipe Furniture page and shared it for the first time across social media.

Creating Something Good for Everyone – Header, Social Media Images to Pipe Furniture – Click to Visit

Haoxuan “Hayes” Lei (Structural Engineer) continued work on the City Center structural engineering tutorial. What you see here is his 4th week of writing content. This week’s content focus was exposure and topographic considerations.

Creating Something Good for Everyone, Haoxuan

Creating Something Good for Everyone – City Center Structural Engineering Tutorial ” Click for Page

Dipti Dhondarkar, (Electrical Engineer) continued with her 47th week of work on the lighting specifics for the City Center. This week’s focus was adding the loft-overhang accent lights and updating the table lamps and bulbs to better match those we’ll be actually using.

Creating Something Good for Everyone, Dipti Dhondarkar, (Electrical Engineer) continued with her 47th week of work on the lighting specifics for the City Center. This week's focus was adding the loft-overhang accent lights and updating the table lamps and bulbs to better match those we'll be actually using.

Creating Something Good for Everyone – The Lighting Specifics for the City Center ” Click for Page

Aravind Vasudevan: (Mechanical Engineer) and Vamsi Pulugurtha (Mechanical Engineer) also continued work on their thermal lag and climate battery research and reports for the City Center Heating and Cooling open source hub. What you see here are pictures from our weekly collaborative call and some of their work on the fan and heat transfer calculations.

Creating Something Good for Everyone, Aravind Vasudevan (Mechanical Engineer) and Vamsi Pulugurtha (Mechanical Engineer) also continued work on their thermal lag and climate battery research and reports for the City Center Heating and Cooling open source hub. What you see here are pictures from our weekly collaborative call and some of their work on the fan and heat transfer calculations.

Creating Something Good for Everyone – Research and Reports for City Center Hub” Click for Page

HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

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

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

This last week the core team continued editing the food pages. We created these images for the Food Procurement and Storage Plan and Food Self-sufficiency Transition Plan pages, as you see here.

Creating Something Good for Everyone, This last week the core team continued editing the food pages. We created these images for the Food Procurement and Storage Plan and Food Self-sufficiency Transition Plan pages.

Creating Something Good for Everyone – Continued Editing the Food Pages – Click to Visit Food

HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

One Community is creating something good for everyone 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 the process of a final proofreading and editing of all 52 lesson plans. This week we completed the Diversity Lesson Plan and the Caring and Kindness Lesson Plan . This brings us to 48 of 52 finished, which is 92.3% completion.

Creating Something Good for Everyone, This week, the core team continued the process of a final proofreading and editing of all 52 lesson plans. This week we completed the Diversity Lesson Plan and the Caring and Kindness Lesson Plan. This brings us to 48 of 52 finished, which is 92.3% completion.

Creating Something Good for Everyone – Continued Process – 52 Lesson Plans ” Click to Visit Page

The core team also completed the draft of the Orff page, and reviewed and reedited the Reggio, Waldorf behind-the-scenes content and began work on the additional Multi-intelligences research and content.

Creating Something Good for Everyone, The core team also completed the draft of the Orff page, and reviewed and reedited the Reggio, Waldorf behind-the-scenes content and began work on the additional Multi-intelligences research and content.

Creating Something Good for Everyone – Orff, Reggio, Waldorf, Multi-Intellegences Content – Click for Page

HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS

One Community is creating something good for everyone 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 invested several more hours developing the graphic showing where all our collaborators and volunteers are from. The focus was adding and organizing what will be the first wave of images that will appear. This information will be featured in our overview video and on the Team page. You can see here this work in progress.

Creating Something Good for Everyone, This last week the core team invested several more hours developing the graphic showing where all our collaborators and volunteers are from. The focus was adding and organizing what will be the first wave of images that will appear. This information will be featured in our overview video and on the Team page. You can see here this work in progress.

Creating Something Good for Everyone – Graphic of collaborators & volunteers locations – Click for Team

In addition to this, Sowmya Manohar (Software Engineer, Web Developer & Net Application Developer) working on the Highest Good Network software, finished coding in Express.js for retrieving data from MongoDB based on a specific id. Priti Kothari (Information Technology Enthusiast) also completed her 2nd week helping with this part of the project by finishing version 1.0 of the Leaderboard element, and Neha Verma (Software Development Manager) finished her 2nd week helping with this component by finishing implementation of the time log widget. Snapshots of all of this work are shown here.

Creating Something Good for Everyone – Continued Work – Highest Good Network – 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 thereby Creating a Better World.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.

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 and Creating a Better World . 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.

Creating a Better World – One Community Weekly Progress Update #230

Posted on August 20, 2017 by One Community

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Creating a better world is possible if enough people want it. In many ways it is already happening, in other areas much work remains. Open source and free-shared sustainability components that include food, energy, and housing, education, for-profit and non-profit economic design, social architecture, fulfilled living, and global stewardship practices are one approach for global improvement. One Community is an all-volunteer nonprofit developing all of these in support of a global collaboration for The Highest Good of all people and life on our planet.

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

OUR MAIN OPEN SOURCE HUBS

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

One Community’s physical location will forward this movement as the first of many self-replicating teacher/demonstration communities, villages, and cities to be built around the world. This is the August 20th, 2017 edition (#230) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments:

Creating a Better World
One Community Progress Update #230

Creating a Better World - One Community Weekly Progress Update #230

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:

CREATING A BETTER WORLD INTRO: @0:34

HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING: @7:40

Finished the heat exchanger video that shows our initial testing and results for the heat exchangers that will be used in the Earthbag Village Communal Eco-shower Designs (see below)
Added heat exchanger video to the Communal Eco-shower page and updated the page with a parts list, testing descriptions, and other details (see below)
Remastered and added the final 18 images to the Communal Eco-shower page (see below)
Continued working in Sketchup on the open source outdoor areas of the Recycled Materials Village (see below)
Created Initial Render of View from Inside the Tree House Village (see below)
Hemanth Kotaru completed his 3rd week with us by conducting additional Earthbag Village construction research (see below)
Christian Ojeda completed his 23rd week helping with the heat-recycling Communal Eco-shower and Vermiculture Bathroom designs (see below)
Continued working in Sketchup on the open source outdoor areas of the Recycled Materials Village (see below)
Guy Grossfeld continued helping with the Tree House Village renders (see below)
Samantha Robinson completed her 3rd week working on the interior design for the living structure of the Tree House Village (see below)
Rufino Lagundaon completed his 2nd week working on the Tree House Village internal renders for the dining structure and started updating the AutoCAD layout to reflect the new layout details (see below)

DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER: @10:36

Haoxuan “Hayes” Lei continued work on the City Center structural engineering tutorial (see below)
Dipti Dhondarkar continued with her 46th week of work on the lighting specifics for the City Center (see below)
Aravind Vasudevan continued his work on the City Center basement heating and cooling details (see below)
Vamsi Pulugurtha completed updated heat loss into the ground report as part of the City Center Heating and Cooling open source hub (see below)

HIGHEST GOOD FOOD: @12:11

Streamlined the Food Bars page and created the long term and short term strategy sections on the new Food Procurement and Storage Plan page (see below)

HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION: @12:43

Continued the process of a final proofreading and editing of all 52 lesson plans (see below)
Researched additional content and resources to expand our Reggio, Waldorf, and Orff web pages (see below)
Added all our related lesson plans to each of our key values pages linked to from our One Community World-change Pledge page (see below)

HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY: @13:38

Finished the Open Source AutoCAD Template page and tutorial (see below)
Invested several more hours developing the graphic showing where all our collaborators and volunteers are from (see below)
Sowmya Manohar, working on the Highest Good Network software, fixed the known issues in the modals and provided a solution for an addon error that made installing the software problematic
Priti Kothari completed her first week helping with the Highest Good Network software by taking over development of the Leaderboard element (see below)
Neha Verma joined the team and began work on the Highest Good Network time logging component (see below)

CREATING A BETTER WORLD SUMMARY: @14:59

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HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

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

This last week the core team finished the heat exchanger video that shows our initial testing and results for the heat exchangers that will be used in the Earthbag Village Communal Eco-shower Designs. Once we finished this video, we also added it to the Communal Eco-shower page and updated the page with a parts list, testing descriptions, and other details, as shown here.

Creating a Better World, Once we finished this video, we also added it to the Communal Eco-shower page and updated the page with a parts list, testing descriptions, and other details, as shown here.

Creating a Better World – Communal Eco-Shower Page – Parts List and Other Details – Click to Visit

…And we remastered and added the final 18 images:

Creating a Better World, Remastered and added the final 18 images to the Â Communal Eco-shower page

Creating a Better World – Added Final 18 images to Communal Eco-Shower Page – Click to Visit

The core team also continued working in Sketchup on the open source outdoor areas of the Recycled Materials Village (Pod 6). We checked and replaced all repetitive items with easier to render components, created a bench with back support and tires (see top right pic that inspired the idea), and began designing a bench with roof and bookshelves.

Creating a Better World, The core team also continued working in Sketchup on the open source outdoor areas of the Recycled Materials Village (Pod 6). We checked and replaced all repetitive items with easier to render components, created a bench with back support and tires (see top right pic that inspired the idea), and began designing a bench with roof and bookshelves.

Creating a Better World – Sketchup work on the Recycled Materials Village ” Click for Page

In addition to this, the core team created this initial render of this view from inside the Tree House Village (Pod 7). You can see the before and after here with notes showing we’ll be updating the trees next.

Creating a Better World, In addition to this, the core team created this initial render of this view from inside the Tree House Village (Pod 7). You can see the before and after here with notes showing we'll be updating the trees next.

Creating a Better World – Initial Render of View From Inside the Tree House Village – Click for Page

Hemanth Kotaru (Structural Engineering Masters Student) completed his 3rd week with us by conducting additional Earthbag Village construction research. This week’s focus was buttressing and doorways and you can see a summary of the findings so far here.

Creating a Better World, Hemanth Kotaru (Structural Engineering Masters Student) completed his 3rd week with us by conducting additional Earthbag Village construction research. This week's focus was buttressing and doorways and you can see a summary of the findings so far here.

Creating a Better World – Continued with Earthbag Village Construction Research – Click to Visit Page

And Christian Ojeda (Mechatronic Engineer) completed his 23rd week helping with the heat-recycling Communal Eco-shower and Vermiculture Bathroom designs. This week’s focus was an updated plumbing layout that placed the plumbing side-by-side and added in overflow safety pipes for the Net-zero Communal Bathroom Designs.

Creating a Better World, And Christian Ojeda (Mechatronic Engineer) completed his 23rd week helping with the heat-recycling Communal Eco-shower and Vermiculture Bathroom designs. This week's focus was an updated plumbing layout that placed the plumbing side-by-side and added in overflow safety pipes for the Net-zero Communal Bathroom Designs.

Creating a Better World – Heat-Recycling Communal Eco-Shower – Vermiculture Bathroom – Click to Visit

Guy Grossfeld (Graphic Designer) continued helping with the Tree House Village (Pod 7) renders. This week he ran final high-quality renders for all the different side views and the first new test render for the complete village, all of which you can see here.

Samantha Robinson (3D Designer) completed her 3rd 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 fixing the custom end table designs to not conflict with the under-bed shelving, new clock, lamp, and shelving details, and beginning work on the staircase.

Continued Working on Tree House Village Interior Design for the Living Structure ” Click for Page

Rufino Lagundaon (3D Designer) also completed his 2nd week working on the Tree House Village internal renders for the dining structure. Here is the most recent kitchen render.

Creating a Better World, Rufino Lagundaon (3D Designer) also completed his 2nd week working on the Tree House Village internal renders for the dining structure. Here is the most recent kitchen render.

Creating a Better World – Tree House Village Internal Renders for the Dining Structure ” Click for Page

Rufino also started updating the AutoCAD layout to reflect the new layout details, as shown here.

Creating a Better World – Updating AutoCAD Layout to Reflect the New Layout Details – Click for Page

DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

One Community is creating a better 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: Duplicable City Center Open Source Hub

This last week Haoxuan “Hayes” Lei (Structural Engineer) continued work on the City Center structural engineering tutorial. What you see here is his 3rd week of writing content. This week’s content focus was live loads and wind loads.

Creating a Better World, This last week Haoxuan

Creating a Better World – Continued Work – City Center Structural Engineering Tutorial – Click for Page

Dipti Dhondarkar, (Electrical Engineer) continued with her 46th week of work on the lighting specifics for the City Center. This week’s focus was fixing last week’s program errors, finishing updating the tables and chairs, testing 2 more lighting layouts for the wall, and adding the loft overhang where we’ll be placing additional accent lights.

Creating a Better World, Dipti Dhondarkar, (Electrical Engineer) continued with her 46th week of work on the lighting specifics for the City Center. This week's focus was fixing last week's program errors, finishing updating the tables and chairs, testing 2 more lighting layouts for the wall, and adding the loft overhang where we'll be placing additional accent lights.

Creating a Better World – Continued Work – Lighting Specifics for the City Center ” Click for Page

Aravind Vasudevan (Mechanical Engineer) also continued his work on the City Center basement heating and cooling details. This week’s focus was completing version 2.0 of the climate battery calculations spreadsheet that we’ll be linking to from the City Center Heating and Cooling open source hub. You can see this work here.

Creating a Better World, Aravind Vasudevan: (Mechanical Engineer) also continued his work on the City Center basement heating and cooling details. This week's focus was completing version 2.0 of the climate battery calculations spreadsheet that we'll be linking to from the City Center Heating and Cooling open source hub. You can see this work here.

Creating a Better World – Continued Work – City Center Basement Heating, Cooling – Click for Page

Vamsi Pulugurtha (Mechanical Engineer) also completed this updated heat loss into the ground report as part of the City Center Heating and Cooling open source hub. This updated report now includes cross sections showing how the heat from the building decreases as you get deeper into the ground and how heat dissipates differently inside the basement based on the temperature of the surrounding earth.

Creating a Better World, Vamsi Pulugurtha (Mechanical Engineer) also completed this updated heat loss into the ground report as part of the City Center Heating and Cooling open source hub. This updated report now includes cross sections showing how the heat from the building decreases as you get deeper into the ground and how heat dissipates differently inside the basement based on the temperature of the surrounding earth.

Creating a Better World – Completed Updated Heat Loss into the Ground Report – Click for Page

HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

One Community is creating a better 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: 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 editing the Food Self-sufficiency Transition Plan pages. We streamlined the Food Bars page and created the long term and short term strategy sections on the new Food Procurement and Storage Plan page, as you see here.

Creating a Better World, This week, the core team continued editing the Food Self-sufficiency Transition Plan pages. We streamlined the Food Bars page and created the long term and short term strategy sections on the new Food Procurement and Storage Plan page, as you see here.

Creating a Better World – Continued Edit – Food Self-Sufficiency Transition Plan Pages – Click to Visit

HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

One Community is creating a better 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: Education open source hub
  - Learn how the components work together: How to use the Education for Life Program

This week, the core team continued the process of a final proofreading and editing of all 52 lesson plans. This week we completed the Play Lesson Plan and the Sharing Lesson Plan . This brings us to 46 of 52 finished, which is 88.5% completion.

Creating a Better World, This week, the core team continued the process of a final proofreading and editing of all 52 lesson plans. This week we completed the Play Lesson Plan and the Sharing Lesson Plan. This brings us to 46 of 52 finished, which is 88.5% completion.

Creating a Better World – Continued Process Editing – 52 Lesson Plans ” Click for Lesson Plans for Life

The core team also researched additional content and resources to expand our Reggio, Waldorf, and Orff web pages. You can see some of this behind-the-scenes work here.

Creating a Better World, The core team also researched additional content and resources to expand our Reggio, Waldorf, and Orff web pages. You can see some of this behind-the-scenes work here.

Creating a Better World – Additional Research to Expand Reggio, Waldorf, Orff Pages- Click to Visit

We also added all our related lesson plans to each of our key values pages linked to from our One Community World-change Pledge page. You can see some of these here.

Creating a Better World ,Added All Our Related Lesson Plans to Each of Our Key Values Pages, Click to Visit O.C. Pledge Page

Creating a Better World – Added Related Lesson Plans to Each of Our Key Values Pages – Click to Visit

HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS

One Community is creating a better 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 the Open Source AutoCAD Template page and tutorial. This included updated menus, images, formatting, added resources, and more. You can see some of this work here.

Creating a Better World , This week the core team finished the Open Source AutoCAD Template page and tutorial. This included updated menus, images, formatting, added resources, and more

Creating a Better World – Finished Open Source AutoCAD Template Page and Tutorial – Click to Visit

The core team also invested several more hours developing the graphic showing where all our collaborators and volunteers are from. This information will be featured in our overview video and on the Team page.

Creating a Better World , The core team also invested several more hours developing the graphic showing where all our collaborators and volunteers are from. This information will be featured in our overview video and on the Team page.

Creating a Better World – Graphic showcasing collaborators and volunteers locations – Click for Team

In addition to this, Sowmya Manohar (Software Engineer, Web Developer & Net Application Developer) working on the Highest Good Network software fixed the known issues in the modals and provided a solution for an addon error that made installing the software problematic. Priti Kothari (Information Technology Enthusiast) also completed her first week helping with this part of the project by taking over development of the Leaderboard element, and Neha Verma (Software Development Manager) joined the team and began work on the time logging component.

Creating a Better World, In addition to this, Sowmya Manohar (Software Engineer, Web Developer & Net Application Developer) working on the Highest Good Network software fixed the known issues in the modals and provided a solution for an addon error that made installing the software problematic. Priti Kothari (Information Technology Enthusiast) also completed her first week helping with this part of the project by taking over development of the Leaderboard element, and Neha Verma (Software Development Manager) joined the team and began work on the time logging component.

Creating a Better World – Continued Working on the Highest Good Network Software – Click for Page

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