It is interesting to observe the stigma against mentioning utopia, or making utopia a reality on Earth, when war, destruction, and the newest multi-billion dollar casino are accepted as part of our current reality. The fact is, however, that amazing things are being created and for any utopian vision to happen, all it needs is to be something that is accessible to everyone and accomplishable with resources available to average people. A viable society or civilization such as this should address human needs from a perspective of fulfilled living as well as sustainable food, energy, and construction practices to combine internal/emotional needs with external/survival needs and provide sustainability for the complete human experience structured 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 August 13th, 2017 edition (#229) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments:

Making Utopia a Reality
One Community Progress Update #229

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

MAKING UTOPIA A REALITY INTRO: @0:34

MAKING UTOPIA A REALITY: HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING: @5:54

MAKING UTOPIA A REALITY: DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER: @8:11

• Completed the final round of revisions for the DIY Pipe Furniture page (see below)
• Finished adding the rest of the text to the PV Solar micro-grid tutorial (see below)
• Dipti Dhondarkar continued with her 45th week of work on the lighting specifics for the City Center (see below)
• Vamsi Pulugurtha completed initial heat loss into the ground report as part of the City Center Heating and Cooling open source hub (see below)

MAKING UTOPIA A REALITY: HIGHEST GOOD FOOD: @9:27

• Continued editing the Food Self-sufficiency Transition Plan pages, and created the new Food Procurement and Storage Plan page (see below)

MAKING UTOPIA A REALITY: HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION: @9:56

• Continued the process of a final proofreading and editing of all 52 lesson plans (see below)
• Added our research from last week to the Montessori page and updated all that page’s formatting (see below)

MAKING UTOPIA A REALITY: HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY: @10:43

• Updated and expanded our social media reach by setting up and including another 8 networks in our list of those we post to each week (see below)
• Invested several more hours finishing developing the spreadsheet showing where all our collaborators and volunteers are from (see below)
• Updated our profile and other details necessary to gain Platinum status on GuideStar and added a footer GuideStar link that will take you to our profile there (see below)
• Sowmya Manohar working on the Highest Good Network software began adding Ember views on the My Account page for displaying Details and Edit modes (see below)
• Vivian Rodrigues finished translating the Open Source page in Portuguese (see below)

MAKING UTOPIA A REALITY SUMMARY: @12:09

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MAKING UTOPIA A REALITY: HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

One Community is making utopia a reality 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 updated the header and other website graphics related to the Compressed Earth Block Village master render from last week.

Updated Compressed Earth Block Village Header and Other Website Graphics – Click for Page

Here’s what this looks like as part of the 7 villages online book we’re developing.

Created Compressed Earth Block Village Image for 7 Villages Online Book – Click for Page

The core team also continued working in Sketchup on the open source outdoor areas of the Recycled Materials Village (Pod 6). We added plants, a playground, and created and added three-legged tire planters. We also updated the walking path and added sitting areas around it.

Continued Working in Sketchup on the Recycled Materials Village ” Click for Page

And the core team updated the Enviroartistic Design page with the new graphic and others, plus new content, as shown here.

Updated the Enviroartistic Design Page with New Graphics -Click to Visit

Hemanth Kotaru (Structural Engineering Masters Student) completed his 2nd week with us by conducting additional Earthbag Village construction research for the foundation, french drain design, and waterproofing. You can see some of his initial report here:

Researched Earthbag Village Foundation, French Drain Design, and Waterproofing ” Click to Visit

Hamilton Mateca (AutoCAD and Revit Drafter and Designer) also finished his 51st week helping with the Compressed Earth Block Village design and render details. This week’s focus was working on the high-quality render details for the East-wing office spaces. You can see some of this work-in-progress here.

Continued Working on 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 he ran final high-quality renders for all the internal village perspectives, as shown here.

Continued Working on Tree House Village Renders ” Click for Page

Samantha Robinson (3D Designer) completed her 2nd 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 adding shelving under the bed design and beginning work on the loft shelving.

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

Rufino Lagundaon (3D Designer) also joined the team and began working on the Tree House Village internal renders for the dining structure, as shown here.

Began Working on Tree House Village Internal Renders for the Dining Structure – Click for Page

MAKING UTOPIA A REALITY: DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

One Community is making utopia a reality 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 completed the final round of revisions for the DIY Pipe Furniture page. These included reorganizing the order of the sections and many of the images, adding the open source files to the open source folders, updating the table of contents links, and beginning the creation process for the final header and social media images.

Completed Final Round of Revisions for the DIY Pipe Furniture Page – Click to Visit

The core team also finished adding the rest of the text to the PV Solar micro-grid tutorial. You can see some of the final additions here.

Finished Adding Text to the PV Solar Micro-Grid Tutorial – Click for Page

Dipti Dhondarkar, (Electrical Engineer) continued with her 45th week of work on the lighting specifics for the City Center. This week’s focus was adding additional chair and table details to the Social Dome. These extra details created program errors and so we’re exploring lesser approaches.

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

Vamsi Pulugurtha (Mechanical Engineer) also completed this initial heat loss into the ground report as part of the City Center Heating and Cooling open source hub.

Completed Initial Heat Loss Into the Ground Report for City Center Heating and Cooling Hub

MAKING UTOPIA A REALITY: HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

One Community is making utopia a reality 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, and created the new Food Procurement and Storage Plan page, as you see here.

Created New Food Procurement and Storage Plan Page ” Click to Visit

MAKING UTOPIA A REALITY: HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

One Community is making utopia a reality 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 Cognition Lesson Plan and the Cosmos Lesson Plan. This brings us to 44 of 52 finished, which is 84.6% completion.

Continued Process of Editing all 52 Lesson Plans ” Click for Lesson Plans for Life Page

The core team also added our research from last week to the Montessori page and updated all that page’s formatting, you can see some of that work here.

Added Our Research from Last Week to the Montessori Page – Click to Visit

MAKING UTOPIA A REALITY: HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS

One Community is making utopia a reality 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 updated and expanded our social media reach by setting up and including another 8 networks in our list of those we post to each week. You can see the complete list here.

Included Another 8 Networks in Our Social Media List – Click for Homepage

The core team also invested several more hours finishing developing the spreadsheet showing where all our collaborators and volunteers are from. This information is needed for the new graphic and video we’re creating to highlight the global nature of our team.

Finished Developing the Spreadsheet Showing Where Our Team Members are From for a Future Video

And we updated our profile and other details necessary to gain Platinum status on GuideStar and added a footer GuideStar link that will take you to our profile there.

Updated Our Profile and Other Necessary Details to Gain Platinum Status on GuideStar

In addition to this, Sowmya Manohar (Software Engineer, Web Developer & Net Application Developer) working on the Highest Good Network software began adding Ember views on the My Account page for displaying Details and Edit modes. You can see some of this work here.

Continued Working on the Highest Good Network Software ” Click for Page

And Vivian Rodrigues (Translator) also continued helping translate our overview pages. This week she finished the Open Source page as shown here in Portuguese.

Finished Translating the Open Source Page to Portuguese – Click for New Page

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

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WHAT ONE COMMUNITY IS CREATING

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

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

Throughout our design process of making utopia a reality, 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, making utopia a reality. 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 making utopia a reality by creating a sustainable planet within 30 years. We will achieve this by establishing successful teacher/demonstration hubs on every continent. Villages include designs appropriate for each of the five main types of climates. They also include options for even the most challenged economies. These hubs will collaborate with one another, share ideas, and resources, and work together as a network to heal the planet. They will also transform the global lifestyle into a more enjoyable, fulfilling, healthy, and sustainable one.

The specifics of how One Community is accomplishing this can be found on the One Community Solution Model to Create Solution-creating Models Page, making utopia a reality. Research supporting and showing the benefits of a model like this can be found in 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, making utopia a reality. For One Community residents (the Pioneer Team), the idea of creating and sharing the social and recreational experience with visitors is also fun, exciting, fulfilling, and an additional reason why we are creating this.

INSPIRING SUSTAINABILITY WITH OPEN SOURCE

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

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

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

COMPREHENSIVE SOLUTION TO HUMANITY’S NEEDS

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

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

GLOBALLY IMPLEMENTABLE REPLICATION MODEL

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

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

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

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

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

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

ONE COMMUNITY’S 4-PHASE STRATEGY

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

Making Utopia a Reality Phase I: Demonstrating a Better Way

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

Making Utopia a Reality Phase II: Open Source Project-Launch Blueprinting

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

Making Utopia a Reality Phase III: Inviting the World to Participate

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

Making Utopia a Reality Phase IV: Universal Appeal and Global Expansion

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

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

The technology and know-how exist now for sustainable civilization engineering. We can create a completely sustainable world that meets the needs of all people if we want to. We can solve starvation, homelessness, lack of energy infrastructure, pollution, and more through sustainable food, energy, and housing. We can further address crime, poverty, social injustice and inequality, and war if we include sustainable and open source economic and education models. One Community is developing tools, tutorials, and open source resources for all these sustainable civilization foundations because we believe now is the time to create the sustainable planet we know is possible.

• 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 6th, 2017 edition (#228) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments:

Sustainable Civilization Engineering
One Community Progress Update #228

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

SUSTAINABLE CIVILIZATION ENGINEERING INTRO: @0:34

SUSTAINABLE CIVILIZATION ENGINEERING: HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING: @7:47

SUSTAINABLE CIVILIZATION ENGINEERING: DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER: @10:05

• Completed another round of revisions for the DIY Pipe Furniture page (see below)
• Ashwin Patil finished integrating the final edits to the Highest Good energy search engine (see below)
• Dipti Dhondarkar continued with her 44th week of work on the lighting specifics for the City Center (see below)
• Ramya Vudi researched videos to add additional clarity to the PV Solar micro-grid tutorial (see below)

SUSTAINABLE CIVILIZATION ENGINEERING: HIGHEST GOOD FOOD: @11:17

• Continued editing the Food Self-sufficiency Transition Plan hub page and the Food Bars page (see below)

SUSTAINABLE CIVILIZATION ENGINEERING: HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION: @11:47

• Continued the process of a final proofreading and editing of all 52 lesson plans (see below)
• Finished our behind-the-scenes research and summary of additional educational materials for the Montessori page, and started research for materials to be added to our Reggio Emelia web page (see below)
• Working with Sangam Stanczak we started developing the documentation for the Evaluation and Evolution component (see below)

SUSTAINABLE CIVILIZATION ENGINEERING: HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY: @12:45

• As part of working on the Highest Good society search engine, we updated several pages with current formatting and icons (see below)
• Continued researching and developing a spreadsheet showing where all our collaborators and volunteers are from for the new graphic and video we’re creating (see below)
• Jin Hua working on the backend of our website also helped us recover all our social media likes that were lost from our upgrade to using the new sitewide SSL security certificate and protocols (see below)
• Sowmya Manohar working on the Highest Good Network software developed the program so that it is now successfully able to add and retrieve the user information from the backend database (see below)

SUSTAINABLE CIVILIZATION ENGINEERING SUMMARY: @14:00

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

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SUSTAINABLE CIVILIZATION ENGINEERING: HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

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

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

The core team added mountains, clouds, and other graphic design elements to the Compressed Earth Block Village render from last week. We also created the modified header and social media versions and added them to the page.

Created a Modified New Final Render of the Compressed Earth Block Village and Added to the Page

This last week the core team also continued working in Sketchup on the open source outdoor areas of the Recycled Materials Village (Pod 6). We updated and added walking paths for the whole village and more plants, benches, and landscaping for the art area.

Continued Working in Sketchup on the Recycled Materials Village ” Click for Page

Dijimba “Joss” Ilunga (Electrical Engineer) completed his 3rd week working on the electrical design details for the Vermiculture Bathrooms. This week’s focus was version 1.0 of the breaker panel and updating the master file to include section views.

Continued Working on Electrical Design Details for Vermiculture Bathrooms ” Click to Visit

Christian Ojeda (Mechatronic Engineer) completed his 22nd week helping with the heat-recycling Communal Eco-shower and Vermiculture Bathroom designs. This week’s focus was designing the connection specifics for last week’s plumbing designs so they connect properly with the shower and vermiculture structures.

Continued with Communal Eco-Shower and Vermiculture Bathroom Designs ” Click for Shower Page

Hemanth Kotaru (Structural Engineering Masters Student) also joined the team and completed his 1st week with us by researching ideal bag thicknesses for the Earthbag Village. You can see some of this research and his initial report here.

Researched Ideal Bag Thicknesses for the Earthbag Village – Click to Visit Page

Dean Scholz (Architectural Designer) continued helping us create quality Cob Village (Pod 3) renders. Here is update 80 of Dean’s work, testing a new lighting plugin and reflections on a glass table in the main room with several objects on it.

Continued Creating Cob Village Renders ” Click for Page

And Guy Grossfeld (Graphic Designer) continued helping with the Tree House Village (Pod 7) renders. This week he ran the initial test renders for all the perspectives we’ll be showing from within the village.

Continued Working on Tree House Village Renders ” Click for Page

Samantha Robinson (3D Designer) also joined the team and completed her first week beginning work on the interior design for the living structure of the Tree House Village (Pod 7). This week’s focus, as shown here, was modeling a custom bed design.

Began Work on Tree House Village Interior Design for the Living Structure – Click for Page

SUSTAINABLE CIVILIZATION ENGINEERING: DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

One Community is creating sustainable civilization engineering 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 completed another round of revisions for the DIY Pipe Furniture page. These included adding the new header image and 4 quick-link images to jump straight to the 4 main sections on the page. The team also re-organized the sections and added more words to the Instructions & Diagrams sections.

Completed Another Round of Revisions for the DIY Pipe Furniture Page – Click to Visit

Ashwin Patil (Web Developer) finished integrating the final edits to the Highest Good energy search engine. You can see some of this work here.

Finished Integrating Final Edits to the Highest Good Energy Search Engine – Click for Page

Dipti Dhondarkar, (Electrical Engineer) continued with her 44th week of work on the lighting specifics for the City Center. This week’s focus was further developing the best of last week’s Social Dome lighting layout by adding more lights and additional room details.

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

Ramya Vudi (Electrical Engineer) also researched videos to add additional clarity to the PV Solar micro-grid tutorial. We added her work to the webpage and also updated the header graphic, as shown here.

Researched Videos to Add Clarity to the PV Solar Micro-Grid Tutorial – Click for Solar Energy Page

SUSTAINABLE CIVILIZATION ENGINEERING: HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

One Community is creating sustainable civilization engineering 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 hub page and the Food Bars page, and calculated the storage space needed for root vegetables, as you see here.

Continued Editing the Food Self-Sufficiency Transition Plan Hub Page and Food Bars Page

SUSTAINABLE CIVILIZATION ENGINEERING: HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

One Community is creating sustainable civilization engineering 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 Individuality Lesson Plan and the Consciousness Lesson Plan. This brings us to 42 of 52 finished, which is 80.7% completion.

Continued Process of Editing all 52 Lesson Plans ” Click for Lesson Plans for Life Page

The core team also finished our behind-the-scenes research and summary of additional educational materials for the Montessori page. We also started the research for materials to be added to our Reggio Emelia web page.

Finished Research for Montessori Page and Started Working on Reggio Emelia Page – Click to Visit

Working with Sangam Stanczak (Ph.D. and P.E.), we also started developing the documentation for the Evaluation and Evolution component….

Started Developing the Documentation for the Evaluation and Evolution Component – Click for Page

…Sangam also created a flow chart for the evaluation process:

Created Flow Chart for the Evaluation Process – Click for Page

SUSTAINABLE CIVILIZATION ENGINEERING: HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS

One Community is creating sustainable civilization engineering 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, as part of working on the Highest Good society search engine, updated all the pages shown here with current formatting and icons.

Updated Highest Good Society Pages with Current Formatting and Icons – Click for Page

The core team also invested several more hours researching and developing a spreadsheet showing where all our collaborators and volunteers are from. This information is needed for the new graphic and video we’re creating to highlight the global nature of our team.

Researching and Developing the Spreadsheet Showing Where Our Team Members are From

Jin Hua (Web and Graphic Designer) working on the backend of our website also helped us recover all our social media likes that were lost from our upgrade to using the new sitewide SSL security certificate and protocols.

Helped Recover All Our Social Media Likes that Were Lost From Our Upgrade – Click for Homepage

And Sowmya Manohar (Software Engineer, Web Developer & Net Application Developer) working on the Highest Good Network software developed the program so that it is now successfully able to add and retrieve the user information from the backend database. You can see some of the behind the scenes work here.

Continued Working on the Highest Good Network Software – Click for Page

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

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

 

INVESTOR PAGES

OVERVIEW | LOCATION | FUNDING

GET INVOLVED

CONSULTANTS | WAYS ANYONE CAN HELP | MEMBERSHIP

CLICK HERE FOR ALL PAST UPDATES

WHAT ONE COMMUNITY IS CREATING

One Community is creating a place to grow together and change the world together through sustainable civilization engineering. 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 through sustainable civilization engineering what we feel is the most sustainable, healthy, and fun environment we can create. A place based on compassion, kindness, and collaboration. This replicable community will serve as an example of what is possible.

Throughout our design process, we are engaging in sustainable civilization engineering by 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, serving as a pioneering example of sustainable civilization engineering. 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 through sustainable civilization engineering. We will achieve this by establishing successful teacher/demonstration hubs on every continent. Villages include designs appropriate for each of the five main types of climates. They also include options for even the most challenged economies. These hubs will collaborate with one another, share ideas, and resources, and work together as a network to heal the planet. They will also transform the global lifestyle into a more enjoyable, fulfilling, healthy, and sustainable one.

The specifics of how One Community is accomplishing this can be found on the One Community Solution Model to Create Solution-creating Models Page which outlines our approach to sustainable civilization engineering. Research supporting and showing the benefits of a model like this can be found in 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, rooted in sustainable civilization engineering, will take a relatively short period of time to positively affect millions while inspiring millions more. For One Community residents (the Pioneer Team), the idea of creating and sharing the social and recreational experience with visitors is also fun, exciting, fulfilling, and an additional reason why we are creating this.

INSPIRING SUSTAINABILITY WITH OPEN SOURCE

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

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

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

COMPREHENSIVE SOLUTION TO HUMANITY’S NEEDS

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

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

GLOBALLY IMPLEMENTABLE REPLICATION MODEL

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

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

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

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

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

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

Strategic open source world creation is simultaneously addressing the foundations of what is necessary to live sustainably and happily. Through global thinking and goals, open source and sustainable approaches to food, energy, housing, education, for-profit and non-profit economic design, social architecture, fulfilled living, and global stewardship practices can be combined to create a way of living that is better than most people are living now. If this way of living is also demonstrated as easy enough and affordable enough, it will predictably spread on its own and this is how One Community sees creating positive and permanent global change as possible.

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

OUR MAIN OPEN SOURCE HUBS

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

One Community’s physical location will forward this movement as the first of many self-replicating teacher/demonstration communities, villages, and cities to be built around the world. This is the July 30th, 2017 edition (#227) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments:

Strategic Open Source World Creation
One Community Progress Update #227

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

STRATEGIC OPEN SOURCE WORLD CREATION INTRO: @0:34

STRATEGIC OPEN SOURCE WORLD CREATION: HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING: @7:10

STRATEGIC OPEN SOURCE WORLD CREATION: DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER: @9:14

• Finished working on the final sections of the DIY Pipe Furniture tutorial page; the Resources, Summary, and FAQ are now complete (see below)
• Transferred, formatted, and edited the first 70% of the content for the PV Solar micro-grid tutorial (see below)
• Created 3 header variations for the Wind Energy Setup and Maintenance Page (see below)
• Haoxuan “Hayes” Lei continued work on the City Center structural engineering tutorial
• Dipti Dhondarkar continued with her 43rd week of work on the lighting specifics for the City Center (see below)
• Vamsi Pulugurtha completed another round of additions and revisions for the thermal lag report and tutorial for the City Center Heating and Cooling open source hub (see below)

STRATEGIC OPEN SOURCE WORLD CREATION: HIGHEST GOOD FOOD: @10:51

• Continued editing the Food Self-sufficiency Transition Plan hub page and the Food Bars page, and researched the procurement space needed for root vegetables (see below)

STRATEGIC OPEN SOURCE WORLD CREATION: HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION: @11:19

• Continued the process of a final proofreading and editing of all 52 lesson plans (see below)
• Started researching to expand our Montessori page (see below)

STRATEGIC OPEN SOURCE WORLD CREATION: HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY: @12:06

• The core team working with Ashwin Patil finished the Highest Good economics and Highest Good energy search engines and added them to the website (see below)
• Vivian Rodrigues continued helping translate our overview pages (see below)

STRATEGIC OPEN SOURCE WORLD CREATION SUMMARY: @12:53

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

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STRATEGIC OPEN SOURCE WORLD CREATION: HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

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

• • • Learn about: Our Upcoming Crowdfunding Campaign
    • Learn about 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 created new Cob Village and Straw Bale Village layouts for the 7 villages online book we are developing behind-the-scenes. You can see those images here:

Created New Layouts for 7 Villages Online Book – Click to Visit Housing Page

The core team also continued working in Sketchup on the open source outdoor areas of the Recycled Materials Village (Pod 6). We added planter-barrels, trees, potted plants, an easel, a walking path, and an art display around the tree, as shown here.

Continued Working in Sketchup on the Recycled Materials Village ” Click for Page

Dijimba “Joss” Ilunga (Electrical Engineer) completed his 2nd week working on the electrical design details for the Vermiculture Bathrooms. You can see version 2.0 of his designs here.

Continued Working on Electrical Design Details for Vermiculture Bathrooms ” Click to Visit

Christian Ojeda (Mechatronic Engineer) completed his 21st week helping with the heat-recycling Communal Eco-shower and Vermiculture Bathroom designs. This week’s focus was another round of revisions to the piping layouts for both freshwater and rainwater supplies to the spigots, toilets, and drinking fountains, as shown here.

Continued with Communal Eco-Shower and Vermiculture Bathroom Designs ” Click for Shower Page

Dean Scholz (Architectural Designer) continued helping us create quality Cob Village (Pod 3) renders. Here is update 79 of Dean’s work, continuing with lighting details for the central dining and presentation area.

Continued Creating Cob Village Renders ” Click for Page

Hamilton Mateca (AutoCAD and Revit Drafter and Designer) also finished his 50th week helping with the Compressed Earth Block Village design and render details. This week’s focus was producing this high-quality render of the complete village.

Continued Working on the Compressed Earth Block Village Design and Render Details ” Click to Visit

And Guy Grossfeld (Graphic Designer) continued helping with the Tree House Village (Pod 7) renders. This week he finished the final ramp connections and changes and started test rendering top-down views and planning all the other perspectives we’ll render.

Continued Working on Tree House Village Renders ” Click for Page

STRATEGIC OPEN SOURCE WORLD CREATION: DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

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

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

This week, the core team finished working on the final sections of the DIY Pipe Furniture tutorial page; the Resources, Summary, and FAQ are now complete. The team checked the entire page in-depth and corrected mistakes. We also updated the formatting and improved the content for the Open Source AutoCAD Template page, which we’d say is now about 90% complete.

Finished Working on the DIY Pipe Furniture Tutorial Page ” Click for Page

The core team also transferred, formatted, and edited the first 70% of the content for the PV Solar micro-grid tutorial, you can see some of this work here.

Transferred, Formatted, and Edited Content for PV Solar Micro-Grid Tutorial – Click for Page

In addition, the core team created 3 header variations for the Wind Energy Setup and Maintenance Page,and chose the one on the right to add the page.

Created 3 Header Variations for Wind Energy Setup and Maintenance Page – Click to Visit

Haoxuan “Hayes” Lei (Structural Engineer) continued work on the City Center structural engineering tutorial. What you see here is some of his 2nd week of work writing the content.

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

Dipti Dhondarkar, (Electrical Engineer) continued with her 43rd week of work on the lighting specifics for the City Center. This week’s focus was 3 more placement and layout tests for the smaller lights within the Social Dome, as shown here.

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

Vamsi Pulugurtha (Mechanical Engineer) also completed another round of additions and revisions for the thermal lag report and tutorial for the City Center Heating and Cooling open source hub. You can see some of this work here.

Continued Working on Thermal Lage Report and Tutorial for City Center Heating and Cooling Page

STRATEGIC OPEN SOURCE WORLD CREATION: HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

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

• • • Learn about the structures: 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 hub page and the Food Bars page, and researched procurement for root vegetables, as you see here.

Continued Editing the Food Self-Sufficiency Transition Plan Hub Page and Food Bars Page

STRATEGIC OPEN SOURCE WORLD CREATION: HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

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

• • • Learn about the components: 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 Sustainability Lesson Plan and the Personal Growth Lesson Plan. This brings us to 40 of 52 finished, which is 76.9% completion.

Continued Process of Editing all 52 Lesson Plans ” Click for Lesson Plans for Life Page

Additionally, the core team started researching to expand our Montessori page. Here you can see some of this behind-the-scenes work and the associated resources.

Started Researching to Expand our Montessori Page – Click to Visit

STRATEGIC OPEN SOURCE WORLD CREATION: HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS

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

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

This week the core team working with Ashwin Patil (Web Developer) finished the Highest Good economics and Highest Good energy search engines and added them to the website. Ashwin also started creating the Highest Good society search engine.

Finished Highest Good Economics and Highest Good Energy Search Engines – Click for Page

Vivian Rodrigues (Translator) also continued helping translate our overview pages. This week she finished the final 20% of the Highest Good of All page, as shown here in Portuguese.

Finished Translating Highest Good of All Page in Portuguese ” Click to Visit Page

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

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

 

INVESTOR PAGES

OVERVIEW | LOCATION | FUNDING

GET INVOLVED

CONSULTANTS | WAYS ANYONE CAN HELP | MEMBERSHIP

CLICK HERE FOR ALL PAST UPDATES

WHAT ONE COMMUNITY IS CREATING

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

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

Throughout our design process, we are engaging in strategic open source world creation by 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, serving as a cornerstone of strategic open source world creation. It will function as an experiential-learning model that facilitates mass participation to address humanity’s most pressing challenges through: A replicable model for expansion, building seven self-sufficient village/city prototypes, becoming the world leader in open-source sustainability solutions, and evolving and expanding ALL aspects of sustainable living.

WHY ONE COMMUNITY IS CREATING THIS

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

The specifics of how One Community is accomplishing this can be found on the One Community Solution Model to Create Solution-creating Models Page, which serves as a hub for strategic open source world creation. Research supporting and showing the benefits of a model like this can be found in 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, as part of our strategic open source world creation initiative. For One Community residents (the Pioneer Team), the idea of creating and sharing the social and recreational experience with visitors is also fun, exciting, fulfilling, and an additional reason why we are creating this.

INSPIRING SUSTAINABILITY WITH OPEN SOURCE

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

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

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

COMPREHENSIVE SOLUTION TO HUMANITY’S NEEDS

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

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

GLOBALLY IMPLEMENTABLE REPLICATION MODEL

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

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

This means we not only provide education and increase needed sustainability resources, but we also address the underlying roadblocks to a sustainable planet by decreasing the cost and simultaneously increasing the demand and generating financial support for global sustainability, philanthropy, and humanitarian movements and organizations, as part of our strategic open source world creation efforts.

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

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

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

To create a sustainable planet, new-world human progress models are needed to teach average people with average means how to build and live sustainably. Open source sharing these models and designing them to go 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 a process One Community calls 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 July 23rd, 2017 edition (#226) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments:

New-World Human Progress
One Community Progress Update #226

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

NEW-WORLD HUMAN PROGRESS INTRO: @0:35

NEW-WORLD HUMAN PROGRESS: HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING: @7:33

NEW-WORLD HUMAN PROGRESS: DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER: @9:34

• Continued work on the DIY Pipe Furniture tutorial page (see below)
• Built the main page structure and wrote the What and Why sections for the City Center Heating and Cooling Research, Designs, Plans, and Adaptations page (see below)
• Created and added image of main Social Dome lighting tests and results to the City Center lighting page (see below)
• Haoxuan “Hayes” Lei began work on the City Center structural engineering tutorial (see below)
• Dipti Dhondarkar continued with her 42nd week of work on the lighting specifics for the City Center (see below)
• Ramya Vudi wrote the final sections behind the scenes for the PV Solar micro-grid tutorial (see below)
• Aravind Vasudevan continued his work on the City Center Thermal Battery design details (see below)

NEW-WORLD HUMAN PROGRESS: HIGHEST GOOD FOOD: @11:24

• Streamlined the Food Self-sufficiency Transition Plan hub page by moving the details of the temporary food plan to the Food Bars page (see below)
• Put another 5 hours into the crowdfunding campaign we are developing (see below)

NEW-WORLD HUMAN PROGRESS: HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION: @12:05

• Continued the process of a final proofreading and editing of all 52 lesson plans (see below)
• Finished another round of research and editing of the School Licensing and Accreditation tutorial behind-the-scenes (see below)

NEW-WORLD HUMAN PROGRESS: HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY: @12:56

• Ashwin Patil, working with the core team, finished version 2.0 of the Highest Good economics search engine and version 3.0 of the Highest Good energy search engine (see below)
• Vivian Rodrigues finished about 80% of the Highest Good of All page, as shown here in Portuguese (see below)

NEW-WORLD HUMAN PROGRESS SUMMARY: @13:42

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NEW-WORLD HUMAN PROGRESS: HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

One Community is facilitating new-world human progress through Highest Good housing that is artistic and beautiful, more affordable, more space efficient, lasts longer, DIY buildable, and constructed with healthy and sustainable materials:

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

This last week the core team created the Earthbag Village Net-zero bathroom header and Facebook graphic, and a new render which we added to the page. You can see those images here:

Created the Earthbag Village Net-Zero Bathroom Header and Facebook Graphic – Click for Page

The core team also continued working in Sketchup on the open source outdoor areas of the Recycled Materials Village (Pod 6). We created two classrooms next to the Art Studio, and continued developing the barrel furniture designs, planters, and other elements shown here.

Continued Working in Sketchup on the Recycled Materials Village ” Click for Page

Dijimba “Joss” Ilunga (Electrical Engineer) joined the team and completed his first week working on the electrical design details for the Vermiculture Bathrooms. You can see his initial designs here.

Worked on Electrical Design Details for the Vermiculture Bathrooms – Click to Visit

Christian Ojeda (Mechatronic Engineer) completed his 20th week helping with the heat-recycling Communal Eco-shower and Vermiculture Bathroom designs. This week’s focus was continuing to update and revise the piping layouts for both freshwater and rainwater supplies to the spigots, toilets, and drinking fountains, as shown here.

Continued with Communal Eco-Shower and Vermiculture Bathroom Designs ” Click to Visit

Dean Scholz (Architectural Designer) continued helping us create quality Cob Village (Pod 3) renders. Here is update 78 of Dean’s work, this week’s focus was continuing with lighting and more object placement in the dining and presentation area, as shown here.

Continued Creating Cob Village Renders ” Click for Page

Hamilton Mateca (AutoCAD and Revit Drafter and Designer) also finished his 48th week helping with the Compressed Earth Block Village design and render details. This week’s focus was additional pergola placement updates and test rendering the main village view.

Continued Working on the Compressed Earth Block Village Design and Render Details

And Guy Grossfeld (Graphic Designer) continued helping with the Tree House Village (Pod 7) renders. This week created version 3.0 of the village layout and started work on the final ramp connections and changes.

Continued Working on Tree House Village Renders ” Click for Page

NEW-WORLD HUMAN PROGRESS: DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

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

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

This week, the core team continued work on the DIY Pipe Furniture tutorial page. This week we created two Materials images for the Pipe Shelving section and the Shelving Downloads button image. We also merged the Pipe Shelving and the Pipe Lighting into one section and created a new Pipe Lighting collage and added it to the page. Additionally, we added 3 more images to the Pipe Shelving & Lighting Diagrams section.

Continued Work on the DIY Pipe Furniture Tutorial Page ” Click for Page

The core team also built the main page structure and wrote the What and Why sections for the City Center Heating and Cooling Research, Designs, Plans, and Adaptations page.

Wrote What and Why sections for City Center Heating and Cooling Page – Click to Visit

Additionally, the core team created and added this image to the City Center lighting page. What is shows is the main Social Dome lighting tests and results.

Created and Added Image to the City Center Lighting Page -Click to Visit

Haoxuan “Hayes” Lei (Structural Engineer) began work on the City Center structural engineering tutorial. What you see here is his first week of work writing the content for the first two sections.

Began Work on City Center Structural Engineering Tutorial – Click to Visit Page

Dipti Dhondarkar, (Electrical Engineer) continued with her 42nd week of work on the lighting specifics for the City Center. This week’s focus was continuing the testing for the placement of the 60+ smaller lights within the Social Dome, as shown here.

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

Ramya Vudi (Electrical Engineer) also wrote the final sections behind the scenes for the PV Solar micro-grid tutorial, you can see some of this work here.

Wrote Final Sections Behind-the-Scenes for PV Solar Micro-Grid Tutorial – Click to Visit Page

And Aravind Vasudevan (BA Mechanical Engineering) also continued his work on the City Center Thermal Battery design details by beginning the process of modeling the climate battery in AutoCAD.

Continued Work on City Center Thermal Battery Design Details – Click for Page

NEW-WORLD HUMAN PROGRESS: HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

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

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

This week, the core team streamlined the Food Self-sufficiency Transition Plan hub page by moving the details of the temporary food plan to the Food Bars page, as you see here:

Streamlined Food Self-Sufficiency Transition Plan Hub – Click to Visit Food Bars Page

We also put another 5 hours into the crowdfunding campaign we are developing. This week we wrote up the intro and explanation for the wood frame for the hexayurt and entered the additional materials and pricing on the Transition Kitchen spreadsheet. You can see a glimpse of this work here.

Continued Working on the Crowdfunding Campaign We are Developing ” Click to Visit

NEW-WORLD HUMAN PROGRESS: HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

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

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

This week, the core team continued the process of a final proofreading and editing of all 52 lesson plans. This week we completed the Communication Lesson Plan and the Open Source Lesson Plan. This brings us to 38 of 52 finished, which is 73.1% completion.

Continued Process of Editing all 52 Lesson Plans ” Click for Lesson Plans for Life Page

This week we finished another round of research and editing of the School Licensing and Accreditation tutorial behind-the-scenes. We also began adding more detail to the existing Montessori section of the alternative education resource pages.

Continued Research and Editing of the School Licensing and Accreditation Tutorial Behind-the-Scenes

NEW-WORLD HUMAN PROGRESS: HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS

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

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

This week the core team working with Ashwin Patil (Web Developer) finished version 2.0 of the Highest Good economics search engine and version 3.0 of the Highest Good energy search engine. You can see some of this work here.

Finished Economics and Energy Search Engine – Click to Visit Highest Good Economics Page

Vivian Rodrigues (Translator) also continued helping translate our overview pages. This week she finished about 80% of the Highest Good of All page, as shown here in Portuguese.

Worked on Translating Highest Good of All Page in Portuguese – Click to Visit Page

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

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

 

INVESTOR PAGES

OVERVIEW | LOCATION | FUNDING

GET INVOLVED

CONSULTANTS | WAYS ANYONE CAN HELP | MEMBERSHIP

CLICK HERE FOR ALL PAST UPDATES

WHAT ONE COMMUNITY IS CREATING

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

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

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

BUILDING THE FIRST OF MANY

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

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

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

INSPIRING SUSTAINABILITY WITH OPEN SOURCE

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

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

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

COMPREHENSIVE SOLUTION TO HUMANITY’S NEEDS

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

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

GLOBALLY IMPLEMENTABLE REPLICATION MODEL

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

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

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

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

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

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

One Community is facilitating a global sustainability cooperative through open source and free-shared tools, tutorials, resources, and DIY instructions meant to build a collaborative network of teacher/demonstration hubs all over our shared planet and working together for the collective Highest Good of all people and life here.

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

OUR MAIN OPEN SOURCE HUBS

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

One Community’s physical location will forward this movement as the first of many self-replicating teacher/demonstration communities, villages, and cities to be built around the world. This is the July 16th, 2017 edition (#225) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments:

Facilitating a Global Sustainability Cooperative
One Community Progress Update #225

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

FACILITATING A GLOBAL SUSTAINABILITY COOPERATIVE INTRO: @:34

FACILITATING A GLOBAL SUSTAINABILITY COOPERATIVE: HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING: @6:33

FACILITATING A GLOBAL SUSTAINABILITY COOPERATIVE: DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER: @8:15

• Continued work on the DIY Pipe Furniture tutorial page (see below)
• Completed the menus, formatting, addition of videos, and updates to all the pictures for the wind power tutorial (see below)
• Working with Ashwin Patil we finished the first round of revision suggestions for version 2.0 of the Highest Good energy search engine and updated all the search engines to be SSL-security compliant (see below)
• Dipti Dhondarkar continued with her 41st week of work on the lighting specifics for the City Center (see below)

FACILITATING A GLOBAL SUSTAINABILITY COOPERATIVE: HIGHEST GOOD FOOD: @9:40

• Recalculated the space needed for all of the bulk goods on the Food Self-sufficiency Transition Plan page to account for ceiling height, and recreated and added the image and calculations to the page (see below)
• Put another 5 hours into the crowdfunding campaign we are developing (see below)

FACILITATING A GLOBAL SUSTAINABILITY COOPERATIVE: HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION: @10:28

• Continued the process of a final proofreading and editing of all 52 lesson plans (see below)
• Continued the research and initial construction and formatting of the School Licensing and Accreditation tutorial (see below)

FACILITATING A GLOBAL SUSTAINABILITY COOPERATIVE: HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY: @11:20

• Completed the open source and replicable annual social media strategy page and tutorial (see below)
• Continued testing video approaches for sharing where all our collaborators and volunteers are from (see below)
• Ashwin Patil finished version 1.0 of the Highest Good economics search engine (see below)

FACILITATING A GLOBAL SUSTAINABILITY COOPERATIVE SUMMARY: @12:11

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FACILITATING A GLOBAL SUSTAINABILITY COOPERATIVE: HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

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

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

The core team continued working in Sketchup on the outside of the Recycled Materials Village (Pod 6). We updated the railing on the second floor, added windows and doors, and started adding details to the outside area close to the Art Studio section. Recycled material such as pallets, tires, and barrels will be used to design this area.

Continued Working in Sketchup the Recycled Materials Village ” Click for Page

The core team also updated again all the perspectives for the Tree House Village (Pod 7) external views, as shown here.

Updated all Perspectives for Tree House Village External Views – Click to Visit Page

Christian Ojeda (Mechatronic Engineer) completed his 19th week helping with the heat-recycling Communal Eco-shower and Vermiculture Bathroom designs. This week’s focus was updating the piping specifics for both freshwater and rainwater supplies to the spigots, toilets, and water fountains, as shown here.

Continued with Communal Eco-Shower and Vermiculture Bathroom Designs ” Click to Visit

Dean Scholz (Architectural Designer) continued helping us create quality Cob Village (Pod 3) renders. Here is update 77 of Dean’s work, this week’s focus was lighting and more object placement in the dining and presentation area, as shown here.

Continued Creating Cob Village Renders ” Click for Page

And Guy Grossfeld (Graphic Designer) continued helping with the Tree House Village (Pod 7) renders. This week he finished removing unneeded polygons to optimize the structures for rendering the entire village and began work on updating all the village walkways.

Continued Working on Tree House Village Renders ” Click for Page

FACILITATING A GLOBAL SUSTAINABILITY COOPERATIVE: DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

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

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

This week, the core team continued work on the DIY Pipe Furniture tutorial page. This week we added 13 images to the Pipe Shelving Diagrams section with click to enlarge options and captions. We also added anchor links to the Pipe Shelving and Pipe Lighting sections and created the Pipe Lighting section outline. In addition, the team created a Pipe Shelving Instructions collage and added it to the page with a click to enlarge option.

Continued Work on the DIY Pipe Furniture Tutorial Page – Click for Page

The core team also completed the menus, formatting, addition of videos, and updates to all the pictures for the wind power tutorial. You can see some pictures of this work here and visit the website for the complete page.

Completed the Formatting and Pics for the Wind Power Tutorial – Click for Page

Working with Ashwin Patil (Web Developer), we also finished the first round of revision suggestions for version 2.0 of the Highest Good energy search engine and updated all the search engines to be SSL-security compliant. You can see some of this work here.

Finished First Round of Revisions for Highest Good energy Search Engine – Click for Page

Dipti Dhondarkar, (Electrical Engineer) continued with her 41st week of work on the lighting specifics for the City Center. This week’s focus was beginning the testing now for the placement of the 60+ smaller lights within the Social Dome, as shown here.

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

FACILITATING A GLOBAL SUSTAINABILITY COOPERATIVE: HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

One Community is facilitating a global sustainability cooperative 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 recalculated the space needed for all of the bulk goods on the Food Self-sufficiency Transition Plan page to account for ceiling height, and recreated and added the image and calculations to the page, as you see here.

Recalculated Space Needed for Bulk Goods on Food Self-sufficiency Transition Plan Page

We also put another 5 hours into the crowdfunding campaign we are developing. This week we updated the images and files on the Transition Kitchen page and finished our research on the hexayurt construction materials costs and needs.

Continued Working on the Crowdfunding Campaign We are Developing ” Click to Visit

FACILITATING A GLOBAL SUSTAINABILITY COOPERATIVE: HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

One Community is facilitating a global sustainability cooperative 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 Honesty and Integrity Lesson Plan and the Love and Connection Lesson Plan. This brings us to 36 of 52 finished, which is 69.2% completion.

Continued Process of Editing all 52 Lesson Plans ” Click for Lesson Plans for Life Page

We also continued the research and initial construction and formatting of the School Licensing and Accreditation tutorial. You can see some of this work here and we’d say we’re about 50% complete with this tutorial now.

Continued Research and Organization of School Licensing and Accreditation Tutorial ” Click for Page

FACILITATING A GLOBAL SUSTAINABILITY COOPERATIVE: HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS

One Community is facilitating a global sustainability cooperative 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 completed the open source and replicable annual social media strategy page and tutorial by adding the FAQ and integrating links to the page into the Highest Good society open source hub.

Completed the Open Source Annual Social Media Strategy Page and Tutorial – Click to Visit

We also continued testing video approaches for sharing where all our collaborators and volunteers are from. What you see here is version 5.0 of this testing.

Ashwin Patil (Web Developer) also finished version 1.0 of the Highest Good economics search engine, which you can see here.

Finished Version 1.0 of Highest Good Economics Search Engine – 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

OVERVIEW | LOCATION | FUNDING

GET INVOLVED

CONSULTANTS | WAYS ANYONE CAN HELP | MEMBERSHIP

CLICK HERE FOR ALL PAST UPDATES

WHAT ONE COMMUNITY IS CREATING

One Community is creating a place to grow together and change the world together. We are creating a space that helps each other live in integrity with each other and the planet as we strive to be the greatest versions of ourselves, facilitating a global sustainability cooperative. 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, facilitating a global sustainability cooperative. A place based on compassion, kindness, and collaboration. This replicable community will serve as an example of what is possible.

Throughout our design process, we are open sourcing and free-sharing everything needed for construction and replication, facilitating a global sustainability cooperative. 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, facilitating a global sustainability cooperative. 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, facilitating a global sustainability cooperative. We will achieve this by establishing successful teacher/demonstration hubs on every continent. Villages include designs appropriate for each of the five main types of climates. They also include options for even the most challenged economies. These hubs will collaborate with one another, share ideas, and resources, and work together as a network to heal the planet. They will also transform the global lifestyle into a more enjoyable, fulfilling, healthy, and sustainable one.

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

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, facilitating a global sustainability cooperative. For One Community residents (the Pioneer Team), the idea of creating and sharing the social and recreational experience with visitors is also fun, exciting, fulfilling, and an additional reason why we are creating this.

INSPIRING SUSTAINABILITY WITH OPEN SOURCE

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

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

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

COMPREHENSIVE SOLUTION TO HUMANITY’S NEEDS

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

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

GLOBALLY IMPLEMENTABLE REPLICATION MODEL

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

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

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

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

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

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

Facilitating global eco-balance requires mainstream participation if any measurable change is to be expected. Strategies that are globally focused but implementable individually and locally also seem intelligent. To help with all of this, One Community is creating open source, sustainable, and replicable models of all aspects of what we call Highest Good living. These include food, energy, housing, education, for-profit and non-profit economic design, social architecture, fulfilled living, global stewardship practices, and more.

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

OUR MAIN OPEN SOURCE HUBS

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

One Community’s physical location will forward this movement as the first of many self-replicating teacher/demonstration communities, villages, and cities to be built around the world. This is the July 9th, 2017 edition (#224) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments:

Facilitating Global Eco-Balance
One Community Progress Update #224

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

FACILITATING GLOBAL ECO-BALANCE INTRO: @0:34

FACILITATING GLOBAL ECO-BALANCE: HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING: @7:13

• Continued building the Sketchup 3D version of the Net-zero bathroom for the Earthbag Village (see below)
• Began building the Recycled Materials Village in Sketchup (see below)
• Added new menus details, a new Resource section, and new Advantages and Disadvantages sections to the Recycled Materials Village open source hub (see below)
• Alena Thompson completed her 21st week helping with the Net-zero Communal Bathroom Designs (see below)
• Christian Ojeda completed his 18th week helping with the heat-recycling Communal Eco-shower and Vermiculture Bathroom designs (see below)
• Dean Scholz continued helping us create quality Cob Village renders (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)

FACILITATING GLOBAL ECO-BALANCE: DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER: @9:29

• Continued work on the DIY Pipe Furniture tutorial page (see below)
• Ashwin Patil finished version 1.0 of the Highest Good energy search engine creation behind the scenes (see below)
• Haoxuan “Hayes” Lei continued work on the City Center structural engineering (see below)
• Jennifer Zhou began the first round of content additions and formatting for the wind power tutorial (see below)
• Dipti Dhondarkar continued with her 40th week of work on the lighting specifics for the City Center (see below)
• Vamsi Pulugurtha completed the research and initial content for the soil section of his thermal lag report for the City Center Heating and Cooling open source hub (see below)

FACILITATING GLOBAL ECO-BALANCE: HIGHEST GOOD FOOD: @11:13

• Did the calculations and created an image for the storage details for all the bulk goods on the Food Self-sufficiency Transition Plan page (see below)
• Put another 5 hours into the crowdfunding campaign we are developing (see below)

FACILITATING GLOBAL ECO-BALANCE: HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION: @12:03

• Continued the process of a final proofreading and editing of all 52 lesson plans (see below)
• Began the research and initial organization of the School Licensing and Accreditation tutorial (see below)

FACILITATING GLOBAL ECO-BALANCE: HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY: @12:52

• Completed all but the FAQ section of the content and formatting for the open source and replicable annual social media strategy (see below)
• Began testing video approaches for sharing where all our collaborators and volunteers are from (see below)
• Researched and upgraded our website servers to improve site speed and stability (see below)

FACILITATING GLOBAL ECO-BALANCE SUMMARY: @13:30

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FACILITATING GLOBAL ECO-BALANCE: HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

One Community is facilitating global eco-balance 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 core team continued building the Sketchup 3D version of the Net-zero bathroom for the Earthbag Village. This last week we updated the perspectives and added last-needed details for the final rendering and rendered images with the Earthbag Village in the background.

Continued Building Sketchup 3D Version of Net-Zero Bathroom ” Click for Page

Began Building the Recycled Materials Village in Sketchup – Click for Page

The core team also added new menus details, a new Resource section, and new Advantages and Disadvantages sections to the Recycled Materials Village open source hub:

Added New Sections to the Recycled Materials Village Open Source Hub – Click for Page

Alena Thompson (Mechanical Engineer) completed her 21st week helping with the Net-zero Communal Bathroom Designs. This week’s focus was adding another round of details and imagery to the final presentation. You can see some of this new work here and we’d say we’re about 90% done with the presentation now.

Continued Working on Net-zero Communal Bathroom Designs ” Click to Visit Page

Christian Ojeda (Mechatronic Engineer) completed his 18th week helping with the heat-recycling Communal Eco-shower and Vermiculture Bathroom designs. This week’s focus was researching and designing two more water storage layouts, as shown here.

Continued with Communal Eco-Shower and Vermiculture Bathroom Designs ” Click to Visit

Dean Scholz (Architectural Designer) continued helping us create quality Cob Village (Pod 3) renders. Here is update 76 of Dean’s work, this week’s focus was more dining area details and beginning the kitchen design details.

Continued Creating Cob Village Renders ” Click for Page

Aparna Tandon (Architect) continued her work on the Compressed Earth Block Village external elements. What you see here is her 30th week of work, focusing on 3D Sketchup development of the central area between the North and South residential wings.

Continued Working on Compressed Earth Block Village External Elements ” Click for Page

And Guy Grossfeld(Graphic Designer) continued helping with the Tree House Village (Pod 7) renders. What you see here are updated renders of the Game Room structure, Shower Tower structure, and a few screenshots from our weekly collaborative call.

Continued Working on Tree House Village Renders ” Click for Page

FACILITATING GLOBAL ECO-BALANCE: DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

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

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

This week, the core team continued work on the DIY Pipe Furniture tutorial page. This week we added anchor links to both the Pipe Table section and Pipe Couch sections, added the instruction image parts list, created a new Pipe Table Materials image and Pipe Couch Materials image, and created a Diagrams collage and an extra Diagram image for the Diagrams section of the Pipe Table section.

Continued Work on DIY Pipe Furniture Tutorial Page ” Click to Visit

Ashwin Patil (Web Developer) finished version 1.0 of the Highest Good energy search engine creation behind the scenes. You can see some of this work here:

Finished Version 1.0 of the Highest Good Energy Search Engine – Click for Page

Haoxuan “Hayes” Lei (Structural Engineer) also continued the work on the City Center structural engineering. This week’s focus was more research and calculations for the various types of connectors we’ll be using, some of which you can see here:

Continued Work on the City Center Structural Engineering – Click for Page

Jennifer Zhou (Web Designer) also began the first round of content additions and formatting for the wind power tutorial. You can see some pictures of this work-in-progress here.

Began First Round of Work for the Wind Power Tutorial – Click for Page

Dipti Dhondarkar, (Electrical Engineer) continued with her 40th week of work on the lighting specifics for the City Center. This week’s focus was lighting testing and modeling for 3 more angles within the Social Dome, as shown here.

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

Vamsi Pulugurtha (Mechanical Engineer) also completed the research and initial content for the soil section of his thermal lag report for the City Center Heating and Cooling open source hub.

Initial Content for Soil Section of Thermal Lag Report for City Center Heating and Cooling Hub

FACILITATING GLOBAL ECO-BALANCE: HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

One Community is facilitating global eco-balance 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 did the calculations and created an image for the storage details for all of the bulk goods on the Food Self-sufficiency Transition Plan page, as you see here.

Calculated Storage Details for Bulk Goods on Food Self-sufficiency Transition Plan Page – Click to Visit

We also put another 5 hours into the crowdfunding campaign we are developing. This week we researched the waterproofing tape and found a post cap hangar for stabilizing the hexayurt walls, and calculated specific post cap quantities and prices. We then began formatting the writeup for the Google doc by gathering photos and placing on the doc, and noting the purpose of the materials.

Continued Working on the Crowdfunding Campaign We are Developing ” Click to Visit

FACILITATING GLOBAL ECO-BALANCE: HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

One Community is facilitating global eco-balance 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 Freedom Lesson Plan and the Highest Good Lesson Plan. This brings us to 34 of 52 finished, which is 65.4% completion.

Continued Process of Editing all 52 Lesson Plans ” Click for Lesson Plans for Life Page

We also began the research and initial organization of the School Licensing and Accreditation tutorial. You can see some of this behind-the-scenes work here.

Began Research and Organization of School Licensing and Accreditation Tutorial – Click for Page

FACILITATING GLOBAL ECO-BALANCE: HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS

One Community is facilitating global eco-balance 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 completed all but the FAQ section of the content and formatting for the open source and replicable annual social media strategy. You can see some screenshots of this work here.

Worked on Content and Formatting for Open Source and Replicable Annual Social Media Strategy

We also began testing video approaches for sharing where all our collaborators and volunteers are from. When complete, this will be a part of the introduction video and also a static image at the top of our Team and Collaborator’s pages. And we researched and upgraded our website servers to improve site speed and stability.

Began Testing Video Approaches for Sharing Where Our Collaborators and Volunteers are From

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WHAT ONE COMMUNITY IS CREATING

One Community is creating a place to grow together and change the world together, with the aim of facilitating global eco-balance. 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, facilitating global eco-balance. This replicable community will serve as an example of what is possible.

Throughout our design process, we are open sourcing and free-sharing everything needed for construction and replication. This includes what we call “Highest Good” approaches to food, energy, housing, education, for-profit and non-profit economics design, social architecture, fulfilled living, stewardship practices, and more, all with the aim of facilitating global eco-balance. 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, with the ultimate goal of facilitating global eco-balance.

WHY ONE COMMUNITY IS CREATING THIS

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

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

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, with the underlying aim of facilitating global eco-balance.

INSPIRING SUSTAINABILITY WITH OPEN SOURCE

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

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

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

COMPREHENSIVE SOLUTION TO HUMANITY’S NEEDS

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

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

GLOBALLY IMPLEMENTABLE REPLICATION MODEL

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

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

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

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

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

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

One Community welcomes Vamsi Pulugurtha to the Engineering Team as our newest Volunteer/Consultant!

Mechanical Engineer: Vamsi works as a CAE Engineer at GM Research and Development. He’s worked with GM since 2014 with the primary aim of his engineering group being weight reduction as a path to increased fuel efficiency while maintaining safety. His work specifically ranges from material-testing and subsequent CAE/FEA correlation to performing full vehicle FMVSS and NCAP crash analysis. When not working, Vamsi loves going on hikes and road trips, enjoying clear blue skies, trees and beaches. Vamsi strongly believes that every single person has a responsibility to care deeply about how their day-to-day activities are impacting our planet in small but significant ways. He’s extremely passionate about clean and sustainable energy generation and storage. Coming from a country like India where almost ~300 million people (equivalent to the entire population is united states) do not have electricity, this passion for sustainability only grew stronger with time and he has always been looking to positively contribute in some way shape or form to the cause. As a One Community team member, Vamsi is applying his knowledge and passion to finite element analysis and HVAC design for the Duplicable City Center and Tropical Atrium.

WELCOME TO THE TEAM VAMSI!

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One Community welcomes Aravind Vasudevan to the Engineering Team as our newest Volunteer/Consultant!

Mechanical Engineer: Aravind earned his Bachelors in Mechanical Engineering from one of the top institutes in India, Dayananda Sagar College of Engineering, Bangalore, and his Master’s degree in Mechanical engineering from The University of Texas at Dallas. He is Passionate about FEA, CAE, solid mechanics, and has a strong background in mechanics and materials, FEA, Solid Mechanics, Computational Mechanics, Structural Analysis, and handling solid mechanics problems using CAE softwares. He has previously worked at Infosys Limited, Bangalore, India as a Mechanical Engineer for 2 years after his undergraduate course, and is currently working as a research student in the Mechanics of Advanced Materials lab under Dr. Dong Qian, at The University of Texas at Dallas. In his free time, Aravind loves to play sports (Volleyball, Table Tennis, Badminton), hike, indulging in scenic photography, and express his passion for soccer as a fan of FC Barcelona. As a One Community Volunteer Engineer, Aravind is helping with the structural engineering and sustainable HVAC systems for the One Community Duplicable City Center.

WELCOME TO THE TEAM ARAVIND!

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Replicable Highest Good sustainability is sustainable design specifically created with the intent for replication and positive benefit for all people and life on this planet. One Community sees this as a worthwhile goal and is creating open source and free-shared designs in support of this. These designs cover sustainable approaches to food, energy, housing, education, for-profit and non-profit economic design, social architecture, fulfilled living, global stewardship practices, and more.

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

OUR MAIN OPEN SOURCE HUBS

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

One Community’s physical location will forward this movement as the first of many self-replicating teacher/demonstration communities, villages, and cities to be built around the world. This is the July 2nd, 2017 edition (#223) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments:

Replicable Highest Good Sustainability
One Community Progress Update #223

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

REPLICABLE HIGHEST GOOD SUSTAINABILITY: INTRO: @0:35

REPLICABLE HIGHEST GOOD SUSTAINABILITY: HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING: @8:01

REPLICABLE HIGHEST GOOD SUSTAINABILITY: DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER: @10:37

• Continued work on the DIY Pipe Furniture tutorial page (see below)
• Dipti Dhondarkar, continued with her 39th week of work on the lighting specifics for the City Center (see below)
• Shubham Agrawal finished his final round of image additions and references research for the wind power tutorials developing behind the scenes (see below)
• Vamsi Pulugurtha completed initial thermal lag report for City Center Heating and Cooling open source hub (see below)

REPLICABLE HIGHEST GOOD SUSTAINABILITY: HIGHEST GOOD FOOD: @11:45

• Made calculations and created images for storage details for two bulk good sections on the Food Self-sufficiency Transition Plan page (see below)
• Put another 10 hours into the crowdfunding campaign we are developing (see below)

REPLICABLE HIGHEST GOOD SUSTAINABILITY: HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION: @12:35

• Continued the process of a final proofreading and editing of all 52 lesson plans (see below)
• Added new projection dome image to the Ultimate Classroom page, built new menus, and updated the formatting for that page (see below)
• Began research and content creation for open source school licensing and accreditation tutorial (see below)

REPLICABLE HIGHEST GOOD SUSTAINABILITY: HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY: @13:29

• Sowmya Manohar implemented the post functionality and resolved a diversity of related errors for the Highest Good Network software we’re developing (see below)
• Vivian Rodrigues joined the team and translated our Solutions that Create Solutions page to create a new and complete page in Portuguese (see below)

REPLICABLE HIGHEST GOOD SUSTAINABILITY SUMMARY: @13:55

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REPLICABLE HIGHEST GOOD SUSTAINABILITY: HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

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

• • • Learn about: Our Upcoming Crowdfunding Campaign
    • Learn about the different village models: 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 completed the final review and added the new search engine for the Earthbag Village open source hub:

Completed Final Review and Added New Search Engine for Earthbag Village Hub – See Below

And the core team continued building the Sketchup 3D version of the Net-zero bathroom for the Earthbag Village. This last week we updated the roof support structure, changed the roof from six to eight panels, and made updates to the height of all the inside building walls.

Continued Building Sketchup 3D Version of Net-Zero Bathroom ” Click for Page

In addition, The core team created new Ultimate Classroom and Tree House Village layouts for the 7 villages online book, as you can see here.

Created New Ultimate Classroom and Tree House Village Layouts – Click for Page

Working with Ashwin Patil (Web Developer), we also finished final review and updates to the search engines for villages 1, 3, 4, 5, 6, and 7 that are already live on the site, plus Ashwin added the final missing icons to the Education search engine that is also already live on the site.

Finished Final Review and Updates to Search Engines for Villages 1, 3, 4, 5, 6, and 7 – Click to Visit

Alena Thompson (Mechanical Engineer) completed her 20th week helping with the Net-zero Communal Bathroom Designs. This week’s focus was adding additional details and imagery to the presentation. You can see some of this new work here and we’d say we’re about 80% done with the presentation now.

Continued Working on Net-zero Communal Bathroom Designs ” Click to Visit Page

Christian Ojeda (Mechatronic Engineer) completed his 17th week helping with the heat-recycling Communal Eco-shower and Vermiculture Bathroom designs. This week’s focus was another round of updates and revisions to the water storage layouts, as shown here.

Dean Scholz (Architectural Designer) continued helping us create quality Cob Village (Pod 3) renders. Here is update 75 of Dean’s work, this week’s focus was textures, lighting, and column and stairway details.

Continued Creating Cob Village Renders ” Click for Page

Hamilton Mateca (AutoCAD and Revit Drafter and Designer) also finished his 47th week helping with the Compressed Earth Block Village design and render details. This week’s focus was continuing to add pergolas to the layout, as shown here.

Continued Helping with Compressed Earth Block Village Design and Render Details ” Click for Page

Aparna Tandon (Architect) continued her work on the Compressed Earth Block Village external elements. What you see here is her 29th week of work, focusing on more development of the East and West zones as well as the North outdoor dining area. 

Continued Working on Compressed Earth Block Village External Elements ” Click for Page

And Guy Grossfeld (Graphic Designer) continued helping with the Tree House Village (Pod 7) renders. What you see here are initial renders of the Game Room structure and beginning to layout and test render multiple buildings.

Continued Working on Tree House Village Renders ” Click for Page

REPLICABLE HIGHEST GOOD SUSTAINABILITY: DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

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

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

This week, the core team continued work on the DIY Pipe Furniture tutorial page. This week we created seven new images for the Diagrams section, and we created a collage for the Instructions section. The team also created the File Downloads image and worked on adding text to all of the sections.

Continued Work on DIY Pipe Furniture Tutorial Page ” Click to Visit

Dipti Dhondarkar, (Electrical Engineer) continued with her 39th week of work on the lighting specifics for the City Center. This week’s focus was continued lighting testing within the Social Dome, as shown here.

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

Shubham Agrawal (Electrical Engineer) also finished his final round of image additions and references research for the wind power tutorials developing behind the scenes. You can see some pictures of this work here.

Continued Working on the Wind Power Tutorials Developing ” Click for Page

Vamsi Pulugurtha (Mechanical Engineer) also completed this initial thermal lag report for the City Center Heating and Cooling open source hub.

Completed Initial Thermal Lag Report for City Center Heating and Cooling Hub – Click for Page

REPLICABLE HIGHEST GOOD SUSTAINABILITY: HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

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

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

This week, the core team did the calculations and created images for the storage details for two bulk goods sections on the Food Self-sufficiency Transition Plan page. We did one section for grains and one for dried fruits, and added the images to the page as you see here:

Made Calculations & Created Images for Bulk Goods Sections on Food Self-sufficiency Transition Plan

We also put another 10 hours into the crowdfunding campaign we are developing. This week’s focus was on the hexayurt framing materials, watershield, coated torque screws, tarp and deck blocks for the Transition Kitchen structure. We also researched the joist hangars, tarps, and LED string lights. 

Continued Working on the Crowdfunding Campaign We are Developing – Click to Visit

REPLICABLE HIGHEST GOOD SUSTAINABILITY: HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

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

• • • 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 Community Lesson Plan and the Cooperation and Collaboration Lesson Plan. This brings us to 32 of 52 finished, which is 61.5% completion.

Continued Process of Editing all 52 Lesson Plans ” Click for Lesson Plans for Life Page

The core team also added the new projection dome image to the Ultimate Classroom page, built new menus, and updated the formatting for that page.

Added New Projection Dome Image and Updated Formatting to Ultimate Classroom Page

And we began the research and content creation for the open source school licensing and accreditation tutorial, as shown in this collage of the work happening behind the scenes.

Began Research and Content Creation for Open Source School Licensing and Accreditation Tutorial

REPLICABLE HIGHEST GOOD SUSTAINABILITY: HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS

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

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

This week Sowmya Manohar (Software Engineer, Web Developer & Net Application Developer) implemented the post functionality and resolved a diversity of related errors for the Highest Good Network software we’re developing. You can see some of the behind the scenes work on this here:

Continued Working on the Highest Good Network Software ” Click for Page

Vivian Rodrigues (Translator) also joined the team and translated our Solutions that Create Solutions page to create a new and complete page in Portuguese, some of which you can see here.

Translated our Solutions that Create Solutions page to Portuguese – Click Here for the New Page

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

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

 

INVESTOR PAGES

OVERVIEW | LOCATION | FUNDING

GET INVOLVED

CONSULTANTS | WAYS ANYONE CAN HELP | MEMBERSHIP

CLICK HERE FOR ALL PAST UPDATES

WHAT ONE COMMUNITY IS CREATING

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

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

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

BUILDING THE FIRST OF MANY

One Community will be the first teacher/demonstration hub. It will function as an experiential-learning model that facilitates mass participation to address humanity’s most pressing challenges through a focus on replicable highest good sustainability: 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 through a focus on replicable highest good sustainability. We will achieve this by establishing successful teacher/demonstration hubs on every continent. Villages include designs appropriate for each of the five main types of climates. They also include options for even the most challenged economies. These hubs will collaborate with one another, share ideas, and resources, and work together as a network to heal the planet. They will also transform the global lifestyle into a more enjoyable, fulfilling, healthy, and sustainable one.

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

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 replicable highest good sustainability.

INSPIRING SUSTAINABILITY WITH OPEN SOURCE

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

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

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

COMPREHENSIVE SOLUTION TO HUMANITY’S NEEDS

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

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

GLOBALLY IMPLEMENTABLE REPLICATION MODEL

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

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

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

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

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

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

Thinking beyond sustainability is needed if mainstream implementation is to happen. What this means is going beyond the common sustainability areas like food, energy, housing and also including sustainable and forward-thinking approaches to education, economic design, and social architecture. Putting these together and open sourcing and free-sharing them is One Community’s approach to creating a global collaboration of teacher/demonstration communities and hubs working together to live in and create even more of these hubs 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 June 25th, 2017 edition (#222) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments:

Thinking Beyond Sustainability
One Community Progress Update #222

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

THINKING BEYOND SUSTAINABILITY: INTRO: @1:03

THINKING BEYOND SUSTAINABILITY: HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING: @7:03

THINKING BEYOND SUSTAINABILITY: DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER: @9:41

• Continued work on the DIY Pipe Furniture tutorial page (see below)
• Haoxuan “Hayes” Lei continued the work on the City Center structural engineering (see below)
• Shubham Agrawal finished his final round of content addition and edits for the wind power tutorials developing behind the scenes (see below)

THINKING BEYOND SUSTAINABILITY: HIGHEST GOOD FOOD: @10:40

• Explored Design needs and cost for adding different floor types to the Transition Kitchen (see below)

THINKING BEYOND SUSTAINABILITY: HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION: @11:06

• Continued the process of a final proofreading and editing of all 52 lesson plans (see below)
• Created a new graphic combining and showing the diversity of projection options for the Ultimate Classroom projection-dome (see below)

THINKING BEYOND SUSTAINABILITY: HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY: @11:55

• Sowmya Manohar added authentication to all internal routes to eliminate bypass options for the developing Highest Good Network software (see below)

THINKING BEYOND SUSTAINABILITY SUMMARY: @12:12

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

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ONE COMMUNITY WEEKLY UPDATE DETAILS

THINKING BEYOND SUSTAINABILITY: HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

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

• • • Learn about: Our Upcoming Crowdfunding Campaign
    • Learn about the different village models: 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 updated the Tropical Atrium open source hub with new sections describing all the main features.

Updated the Tropical Atrium Open Source Hub – Click to Visit

We also created 16 new Tropical Atrium breakout pages for sharing all the different open source components.

Created 16 New Tropical Atrium Breakout Pages – Click for Main Page

Additionally, we created this new Tropical Atrium header and Facebook image.

Created New Tropical Atrium Header and Facebook Image – Click for Page

And the core team continued building the Sketchup 3D version of the Net-zero bathroom for the Earthbag Village. This last week we added in the second level of barrels along with the curved wall and the platforms for support. We also created the opening in the wall and set up the entry door to have access to the water collection area.

Continued Building Sketchup 3D Version of Net-Zero Bathroom – Click for Page

In addition to this, the core team created and added these new feature images to the Tree House Village (Pod 7) page. We’re seeking an interior designer to help us finish the missing images.

Created and Added New Feature Images to Tree House Village – Click to Visit Page

Ashwin Patil (Web Developer) also finished a 4th round of revisions for the Earthbag Village (Pod 1) search engine, as shown here:

Finished 4th Round of Revisions for Earthbag Village Search Engines ” Click to Visit Page

Alena Thompson (Mechanical Engineer) completed her 19th week helping with the Net-zero Communal Bathroom Designs. This week’s focus was load calculations and related tutorial text and imagery.

Continued Working on Net-zero Communal Bathroom Designs ” Click to Visit Page

Christian Ojeda (Mechatronic Engineer) completed his 17th week helping with the heat-recycling Communal Eco-shower and Vermiculture Bathroom designs. This week’s focus was updates to the water storage layouts shown here.

Continued with Communal Eco-Shower and Vermiculture Bathroom Designs ” Click for Page

Dean Scholz (Architectural Designer) continued helping us create quality Cob Village (Pod 3) renders. Here is update 74 of Dean’s work, this week’s focus was building table and chair details needed for the central dining and presentation space renders.

Continued Creating Cob Village Renders ” Click for Page

Hamilton Mateca (AutoCAD and Revit Drafter and Designer) also finished his 46th week helping with the Compressed Earth Block Village design and render details. This week’s focus was building and adding pergolas to the layout, as shown here.

Continued Helping with Compressed Earth Block Village Design and Render Details ” Click for Page

Aparna Tandon (Architect) continued her work on the Compressed Earth Block Village external elements. What you see here is her 28th week of work, focusing on more development of Zone 8 and the pergolas needed for around the labyrinth, as shown here.

Continued Working on Compressed Earth Block Village External Elements ” Click for Page

THINKING BEYOND SUSTAINABILITY: DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

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

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

This week, the core team continued work on the DIY Pipe Furniture tutorial page. This week’s focus included creating and adding new imagery and text to the Pipe Table section and re-organizing the different furniture sections. You can see some of this work here.

Continued Work on DIY Pipe Furniture Tutorial Page – Click to Visit

Haoxuan “Hayes” Lei (Structural Engineer) also continued the work on the City Center structural engineering. This week’s focus was more wind load calculations and roof design updates, some of which you can see here.

Continued Working on the City Center Structural Engineering ” Click for Page

Shubham Agrawal (Electrical Engineer) also finished his final round of content addition and edits for the wind power tutorials developing behind the scenes. You can see some pictures of this work here.

Continued Working on the Wind Power Tutorials Developing ” Click for Page

THINKING BEYOND SUSTAINABILITY: HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

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

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

This last week the core team explored the design needs and cost for adding different floor types to the Transition Kitchen. Here’s an image created for this purpose.

Explored Design Needs and Cost for Adding Different Floor Types to Transition Kitchen – Click for Page

THINKING BEYOND SUSTAINABILITY: HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

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

• • • 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 Humility Lesson Plan and the Form Lesson Plan. This brings us to 30 of 52 finished, which is 57.7% completion.

Continued Process of Editing all 52 Lesson Plans ” Click for Lesson Plans for Life Page

We also created a new graphic combining and showing the diversity of projection options for the Ultimate Classroom projection-dome, as shown here.

Created New Graphic for the Ultimate Classroom Projection-Dome – Click for Page

THINKING BEYOND SUSTAINABILITY: HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS

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

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

This week Sowmya Manohar (Software Engineer, Web Developer & Net Application Developer) added authentication to all internal routes to eliminate bypass options for the developing Highest Good Network software. You can see some of the behind the scenes work on this here:

Continued Working on the Highest Good Network Software ” Click for Page

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

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

 

INVESTOR PAGES

OVERVIEW | LOCATION | FUNDING

GET INVOLVED

CONSULTANTS | WAYS ANYONE CAN HELP | MEMBERSHIP

CLICK HERE FOR ALL PAST UPDATES

WHAT ONE COMMUNITY IS CREATING

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

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

Throughout our design process, we are open sourcing and free-sharing everything needed for construction and replication. This includes what we call “Highest Good” approaches to food, energy, housing, education, for-profit and non-profit economics design, social architecture, fulfilled living, stewardship practices, and more. 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, thinking beyond sustainability. It will function as an experiential-learning model that facilitates mass participation to address humanity’s most pressing challenges through: A replicable model for expansion, building seven self-sufficient village/city prototypes, becoming the world leader in open-source sustainability solutions, and evolving and expanding ALL aspects of sustainable living.

WHY ONE COMMUNITY IS CREATING THIS

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

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

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, while thinking beyond sustainability. For One Community residents (the Pioneer Team), the idea of creating and sharing the social and recreational experience with visitors is also fun, exciting, fulfilling, and an additional reason why we are creating this.

INSPIRING SUSTAINABILITY WITH OPEN SOURCE

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

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

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

COMPREHENSIVE SOLUTION TO HUMANITY’S NEEDS

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

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

GLOBALLY IMPLEMENTABLE REPLICATION MODEL

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

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

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

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

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

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