Open source and do-it-yourself replicable sustainability components make creating sustainable patterns and living sustainably easier and more affordable. We think they can also be designed to be more attractive than most traditional designs. One Community is creating them to cover food, energy, housing, education, for-profit and non-profit economic design, social architecture, fulfilled living, global stewardship practices, and more as a replicable path to global sustainability.

• 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 creating sustainable patterns movement as the first of many self-replicating teacher/demonstration communities, villages, and cities to be built around the world. This is the July 1, 2018 edition (#275) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments:

Creating Sustainable Patterns
One Community Progress Update #275

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

CREATING SUSTAINABLE PATTERNS INTRO: @0:34

CREATING SUSTAINABLE PATTERNS – HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING: @6:44

CREATING SUSTAINABLE PATTERNS – DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER: @7:51

• Dipti Dhondarkar and the core team continued developing the lighting specifics for the City Center (see below)
• Haoxuan “Hayes” Lei continued work on the City Center structural engineering (see below)
• David Olivero completed his 24th week helping with the HVAC Designs for the Duplicable City Center (see below)
• Anvita Kumari Pandey completed her 11th week helping with the Duplicable City Center Materials and Costs (see below)
• Dehua Feng completed his 9th week working on the fire suppression and safety systems designs for the City Center (see below)

CREATING SUSTAINABLE PATTERNS – HIGHEST GOOD FOOD: @10:16

• Continued writing the behind-the-scenes narrative and detailed food rollout plan for the various stages of development (see below)

CREATING SUSTAINABLE PATTERNS – HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION: @10:54

• Began rebuilding and adding all the missing content for the Collaborative Team Roles and Training page so it will be as complete and comprehensive as all the other pages of the Evaluation and Evolution component of the Learning for Life program (see below)

CREATING SUSTAINABLE PATTERNS – HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY: @11:29

• Jin Hua and the core team began collaborating on a new online marketing strategy (see below)

CREATING SUSTAINABLE PATTERNS SUMMARY: @12:03

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HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

One Community is creating sustainable patterns 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 finished another big round of edits and additions to the 7-villages book we’re developing, plus related updates to the website. You can see some of the book edits here.

Finished Round of Edits and Additions to the 7-Villages Book We’re Developing, – Click for Page

The core team additionally added the completed work of Michael Hagler (Senior Graphic Designer and Artist) to the Recycled Materials Village (Pod 6) page, which you can see here.

Added Completed Work to Recycled Materials Village Page – Click to Visit

Also, Shadi Kennedy (Artist and Graphic Designer) completed his 13th week leading the development of the Murphy bed instructions, contributing to creating sustainable patterns. This week Shadi created the initial 5 pages shown here for assembling the back storage area component.

Continued Leading the Development of the Murphy Bed Instructions ” Click for Page

Dean Scholz (Architectural Designer) continued with the Cob Village (Pod 3) render updates also. Here is update 120 of Dean’s work showing more test renders for the developing section view of one of the Cob Village living units.

Continued Cob Village Render Updates ” Click for Page

DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

One Community is creating sustainable patterns 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 updating the bedroom renders in the Duplicable City Center to test the new lighting and color schemes. This resulted in this final bedroom render.

Continued Updating the Bedroom Renders in the Duplicable City Center ” Click for Page

Worked on the City Center Boiler Room and Basement in SketchUp – Click for Page

The core team working with Dipti Dhondarkar (Electrical Engineer) also continued developing the lighting specifics for the City Center, dedicated to creating sustainable patterns. This is Dipti’s 83rd week volunteering on this task and the focus this week was finishing placement and testing of the Living Dome bathroom lights and creating and adding this related graphic to the website.

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

Haoxuan “Hayes” Lei (Structural Engineer) continued work on the City Center structural engineering by creating the beam layout and labeling system you see here along with an initial proposal for improving it.

Updated the City Center Structural Engineering Beam Layout – Click for Page

David Olivero (Mechanical Engineer & Data Scientist) completed his 24th week helping with the HVAC Designs for the Duplicable City Center. This week’s focus was adding the zone colors, layers, legend, ERV ducting, diffusers, and minisplit refrigerant lines in AutoCAD and updating the master template to match. You can see some of this work here.

Continued Helping with HVAC Designs for the Duplicable City Center ” Click for Page

Anvita Kumari Pandey (Civil Engineer) completed her 11th week helping with the Duplicable City Center Materials and Costs. This week’s focus was more research on the Dining, Living, and Social Dome patio and cupola furnitures cost analysis, dining & swimming pool area furniture modifications in AutoCad, and adding images for everything researched so far. You can see some of this work here.

Continued Helping with the Duplicable City Center Materials and Costs ” Click for Page

Last but not least, Dehua Feng (Civil Engineer) completed his 9th week working on the fire suppression and safety systems designs for the City Center. This week he focused on adding the mezzanine and column details into AutoCAD 3D, labeling all the sprinkler and pipe components and then doing the pressure calculations for the basement and dining area, and creating the necessary matching spreadsheet details. Some examples of this work are shown here.

Continued Work on Fire Suppression and Safety Systems Design for the City Center ” Click for Page

HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

One Community is creating sustainable patterns 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 writing the behind-the-scenes narrative and detailed food rollout plan for the various stages of development. This week we met with the Back to the Mother project who shares many of our goals. We also researched for integration additional greenhouse and hoop house coverage options, companion planting, and fertilizer strategies.

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

HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

One Community is creating sustainable patterns 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 began rebuilding and adding all the missing content for the Collaborative Team Roles and Training page so it will be as complete and comprehensive as all the other pages of the Evaluation and Evolution component of the Learning for Life program. You can some of this work here and we’d say we’re about 50% complete with this task.

Rebuilt and Added Missing Content for the Collaborative Team Roles and Training Page – Click to Visit

HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS

One Community is creating sustainable patterns 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

The core team working with Jin Hua (Web and Graphic Designer) began collaborating on a new online marketing strategy. This week’s focus was initial keyword organization and ad writing, some of which you can see here.

Created Initial Keyword Plan for Online Marketing Strategy – Click for Page

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WHAT ONE COMMUNITY IS CREATING

One Community is creating a place to grow together and change the world together. 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, committed to creating sustainable patterns. We do this by harmoniously respecting each other, nature, and the rest of our one shared planet.

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

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

WHY ONE COMMUNITY IS CREATING THIS

The One Community self-replicating model is capable of creating a sustainable planet within 30 years through the creating sustainable patterns. 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, further promoting the ideals of the creating sustainable patterns. These hubs will collaborate with one another, share ideas, resources, and work together as a network to heal the planet. They will also transform the global lifestyle to a more enjoyable, fulfilling, healthy, and sustainable one.

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

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

INSPIRING SUSTAINABILITY WITH OPEN SOURCE

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

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, all in pursuit of creating sustainable patterns. 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, all contributing to creating sustainable patterns.

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 the principles of creating sustainable patterns. 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.

ONE COMMUNITY’S 4-PHASE STRATEGY

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

Phase I: Creating Sustainable Patterns by Demonstrating a Better Way

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

Phase II: Creating Sustainable Patterns with Open Source Project-Launch Blueprinting

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

Phase III: Creating Sustainable Patterns by Inviting the World to Participate

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

Phase IV: Creating Sustainable Patterns with 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.

WHY OPEN SOURCE

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

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

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

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

OPEN SOURCE SHARING STRATEGY SPECIFICS

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

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

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

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

SUMMARY

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

We hear about life hacks all the time. Biohacking planet earth is the same idea, but with the goal of using permaculture, open source sustainable infrastructure, collaborative living, and regenerative and holistic design models to create a sustainable planet that will benefit all people and all 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 biohacking planet earth movement as the first of many self-replicating teacher/demonstration communities, villages, and cities to be built around the world. This is the June 24, 2018 edition (#274) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments:

Biohacking Planet Earth
One Community Progress Update #274

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

BIOHACKING PLANET EARTH INTRO: @0:34

BIOHACKING PLANET EARTH – HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING: @7:13

• Finished reassembling the Murphy bed night stand in 3D (see below)
• Hemanth Kotaru completed his 14th week helping with the structural engineering research and calculations for the Earthbag Village (see below)
• Shadi Kennedy completed his 12th week leading the development of the Murphy bed instructions (see below)
• Michael Hagler finished another round of edits and updates for the 7-villages book we’re developing (see below)
• Dean Scholz continued with the Cob Village render updates (see below)
• Mihaela “Michelle” Pinzaru completed her 18th week working on the Tree House Village residential renders (see below)

BIOHACKING PLANET EARTH – DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER: @9:03

• Continued updating the bedroom renders in the Duplicable City Center to test the new lighting and color schemes (see below)
• Double checked and updated the parts lists and graphics for the open source City Center Pipe Furniture webpage and added a cost analysis section for each of the designs (see below)
• Dipti Dhondarkar continued developing the lighting specifics for the City Center (see below)
• Haoxuan “Hayes” Lei continued work on the City Center structural engineering (see below)
• Yun Lin completed his 11th week helping with the beam design and calculation spreadsheet creation for the City Center structural engineering (see below)
• David Olivero completed his 23rd week helping with the HVAC Designs for the Duplicable City Center (see below)
• Anvita Kumari Pandey completed her 10th week helping with the Duplicable City Center Materials and Costs (see below)
• Dehua Feng completed his 8th week working on the fire suppression and safety systems designs for the City Center (see below)

BIOHACKING PLANET EARTH – HIGHEST GOOD FOOD: @11:29

BIOHACKING PLANET EARTH – HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION: @12:21

• Rebuilt the Feedback Format page to match all the other pages of the Evaluation and Evolution component of the Learning for Life program (see below)

BIOHACKING PLANET EARTH – HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY: @12:53

• Sowmya Manohar, Shubhra Mittal, and Swathy Jayaseelan continued work on the Highest Good Network software (see below)

BIOHACKING PLANET EARTH SUMMARY: @13:41

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HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

One Community is biohacking planet earth 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 finished reassembling the Murphy bed night stand in 3D to double check our parts changes, test the newest assembly instructions, and produce the renders you see here.

Finished Reassembling the Murphy Bed Night Stand in 3D – Click for Page

Hemanth Kotaru (Structural Engineer) completed his 14th week helping with the structural engineering research and calculations for the Earthbag Village (Pod 1), contributing to biohacking planet earth. This week he completed the preliminary seismic analysis to check shear resistance of the earthbag structures using Equivalent Lateral Force.

Continued on Structural Engineering Research and Calculations for Earthbag Village – Click to Visit

Also, Shadi Kennedy (Artist and Graphic Designer) completed his 12th week leading the development of the Murphy bed instructions. This week Shadi created the introduction page for the nightstand component and started parts creation and layout design for the storage area component, some of which you can see here.

Continued Leading the Development of the Murphy Bed Instructions – Click for Page

Michael Hagler (Senior Graphic Designer and Artist) also finished another round of edits and updates for the 7-villages book we’re developing, in pursuit of biohacking planet earth. You can see some of these here, including the finished first and last spreads for the Recycled Materials Village (Pod 6).

Continued Edits and Updates to the 7-Villages Book ” Click for Highest Good Housing

Dean Scholz (Architectural Designer) continued with the Cob Village (Pod 3) render updates also. Here is update 119 of Dean’s work showing more test renders for the developing section view of one of the Cob Village living units.

Continued with the Cob Village Render Updates ” Click for Page

Mihaela “Michelle” Pinzaru (Interior Designer and Architectural Drafter) also completed her 18th week working on the Tree House Village (Pod 7) residential renders. This week she finished additions and edits and produced these two final renders of the student housing designs, which can now also be found in the related section of the website.

Tree House Village 2nd Floor Hostel Layout – View 1 Concept Render – Click for Page

Tree House Village 2nd Floor Hostel Layout – View 2 Concept Render – Click for Page

DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

One Community is biohacking planet earth 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 updating the bedroom renders in the Duplicable City Center to test the new lighting and color schemes, contributing to biohacking planet earth. We designed the ceiling lights and updated the other lighting details, as shown here.

Continued Updating the Bedroom Renders in the Duplicable City Center – Click for Page

The core team also double checked and updated the parts lists and graphics for the open source City Center Pipe Furniture webpage and added a cost analysis section for each of the designs.

Updated the Parts Lists and Graphics for City Center Pipe Furniture Page – Click to Visit

Dipti Dhondarkar (Electrical Engineer) also continued developing the lighting specifics for the City Center. This is Dipti’s 82nd week volunteering on this task and the focus this week was finishing testing what the full-spectrum colored LEDs will look like in the bedrooms so we could create (and add to the website) the graphic shown here.

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

Haoxuan “Hayes” Lei (Structural Engineer) continued work on the City Center structural engineering by checking the wind load calculation for the Living Dome roof and started marking beam members with notation numbers, contributing to biohacking planet earth.

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

Yun Lin (Bridge Design Engineer) also completed his 11th week helping with the beam design and calculation spreadsheet creation for the City Center structural engineering, dedicated to biohacking planet earth. This week he reviewed and updated the snow load calc sheet with his comments on snow drift load.

Beam Design and Calculation Spreadsheet Creation for City Center Structural Engineering

David Olivero (Mechanical Engineer & Data Scientist) completed his 23rd week helping with the HVAC Designs for the Duplicable City Center. This week’s focus was initial hardware placement and zone outlines in AutoCAD and updating the details on the HVAC Zonal spreadsheet to match. You can see some of this work here.

Continued Helping with HVAC Designs for the Duplicable City Center – Click for Page

Anvita Kumari Pandey (Civil Engineer) completed her 10th week helping with the Duplicable City Center Materials and Costs, contributing to biohacking planet earth. This week’s focus was another round of research and updates to the patio furniture, pipe furniture, and dining area furniture costs, some of which you can see here.

Continued Helping with the Duplicable City Center Materials and Costs ” Click for Page

Last but not least, Dehua Feng (Civil Engineer) completed his 8th week working on the fire suppression and safety systems designs for the City Center. This week he focused on adding into AutoCAD the 3D dome, finishing version 1 of the sprinkler-pipe layout, and started working on the related system calculations. Some examples of this work are shown here.

Continued Work on Fire Suppression and Safety Systems Design for the City Center ” Click for Page

HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

One Community is biohacking planet earth 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

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

The core team also continued researching and creating the Apiary parts and cost analysis list. This week we set up the apiary instructions and researched and started creating construction details for the beehive, as shown here.

Continued Researching and Creating the Apiary Parts and Cost Analysis List – Click for Page

HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

One Community is biohacking planet earth 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 rebuilt the Feedback Format page to match all the other pages of the Evaluation and Evolution component of the Learning for Life program. You can some of this work and the new page here.

Rebuilt the Feedback Format Page – Learning for Life Program – Click to Visit

HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS

One Community is biohacking planet earth 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 Highest Good Network software team consisting of Sowmya Manohar (Software Engineer, Web Developer & Net Application Developer), Shubhra Mittal (Software Delivery Manager), and Swathy Jayaseelan (Software Developer) continued their work on the software. This week they added the ability to track policy infringements, functionality for labeling and editing them, added seconds to the timelog timer, and fixed an issue with reports not refreshing the page properly.

Continued Working on Highest Good Network Software ” Click for Page

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WHAT ONE COMMUNITY IS CREATING

One Community is creating a place to grow together and change the world together. 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, committed to biohacking planet earth. We do this by harmoniously respecting each other, nature, and the rest of our one shared planet.

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

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

WHY ONE COMMUNITY IS CREATING THIS

The One Community self-replicating model is capable of creating a sustainable planet within 30 years through the biohacking planet earth. 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, further promoting the ideals of the biohacking planet earth. These hubs will collaborate with one another, share ideas, resources, and work together as a network to heal the planet. They will also transform the global lifestyle to a more enjoyable, fulfilling, healthy, and sustainable one.

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

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

INSPIRING SUSTAINABILITY WITH OPEN SOURCE

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

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, all in pursuit of biohacking planet earth. 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, all contributing to biohacking planet earth.

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 the principles of biohacking planet earth. 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.

ONE COMMUNITY’S 4-PHASE STRATEGY

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

Phase I: Biohacking Planet Earth by Demonstrating a Better Way

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

Phase II: Biohacking Planet Earth with Open Source Project-Launch Blueprinting

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

Phase III: Biohacking Planet Earth by Inviting the World to Participate

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

Phase IV: Biohacking Planet Earth with 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.

WHY OPEN SOURCE

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

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

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

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

OPEN SOURCE SHARING STRATEGY SPECIFICS

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

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

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

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

SUMMARY

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

One Community welcomes Dehua Feng to the Engineering Team as our newest Volunteer/Consultant!

Dehua received his Bachelor in Civil Engineering from the Liaoning Technical University in China. He worked for a half year as a Civil Structural Design Engineer for a civil design firm called Shenyang Civil Design and Research Institute Co., Ltd in China. Seeking higher education overseas, he then traveled to the U.S. and studied at the University of Akron with a specialty in traffic engineering. After one and half years of study, Dehua completed his MS and filed for a patent (serial number USPTO: 62/591,827) for his thesis work, “Determining Intersection Turning Movements with Detection Errors.” After graduation, Dehua passed the FE exam and started his engineer career working in the Greater DC area. Believing people should start to think about sustainability and world change now rather than later, Dehua brought his passion and expertise to the One Community team and is using his research and AutoCAD background to help design the fire suppression systems and related lighting for the Duplicable City Center.

WELCOME TO THE TEAM DEHUA!

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Co-systemic change models are models that work together to create large-scale change. One Community is creating these models to include sustainable and open source approaches to food, energy, housing, education, for-profit and non-profit economic design, social architecture, fulfilled living, global stewardship practices, and more. We call this living and creating for The Highest Good of All and our goal is global sustainability.

• 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 17, 2018 edition (#273) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments:

Co-Systemic Change Models
One Community Progress Update #273

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

CO-SYSTEMIC CHANGE MODELS INTRO: @0:34

HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING: @7:22

DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER: @8:57

HIGHEST GOOD FOOD: @10:55

• Continued writing the behind-the-scenes narrative and detailed food rollout plan for the various stages of development (see below)

HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION: @11:45

• Finished work on the Learning for Life – Transference of Knowledge resource by writing the rest of the needed content and creating and adding the final graphics (see below)
• Updated our Carl Orff Schulwerk Method page with new content and an added resource section (see below)

HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY: @12:27

• Sowmya Manohar, Shubhra Mittal, and Swathy Jayaseelan continued work on the Highest Good Network software (see below)

CO-SYSTEMIC CHANGE MODELS SUMMARY: @13:34

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

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HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

One Community is creating co-systemic change models 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 updated and reassembled the Murphy bed night stand in 3D to double check our parts changes and test the newest assembly instructions to produce what you see here.

Updated and Reassembled the Murphy bed Night stand in 3D ” Click for Page

Mike Kowalski (Game Developer) finished his 11th week helping update our renders that are too big for anything but a gaming computer. This week Mike started working on the Earthbag Village (Pod 1).

Began Working on the Earthbag Village Renders – Click for Page

Michael Hagler (Senior Graphic Designer and Artist) also finished another round of edits and updates for the Cob Village (Pod 3) and the Recycled Materials Village (Pod 6)  pages of the 7-villages book we’re developing, which you can see here:

Made Edits to Several Housing Pages & Integrated into Site – Click for Highest Good Housing

He also finished another round of final edits to finish this Tree House Village (Pod 7)  page that is now live on the open source hub too.

Tree House Village Overview Spread 1 ” Click for Page

Dean Scholz (Architectural Designer) continued with the Cob Village (Pod 3) render updates also. Here is update 118 of Dean’s work showing two test renders and a merged version test for the section view of one of the units.

Continued with the Cob Village Render Updates ” Click for Page

Mihaela “Michelle” Pinzaru (Interior Designer and Architectural Drafter) also completed her 17th week working on the Tree House Village (Pod 7) residential renders. This week she redesigned the furniture, added lights, and produced these test renders.

Continued Working on Tree House Village Residential Renders ” Click for Page

DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

One Community is creating co-systemic change models 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 updating the bedroom renders in the Duplicable City Center to test the new lighting and color schemes. We moved and added furniture to match the updated AutoCAD CAD image, updated the floor to bamboo to match our update materials plan, and added in the control systems details, all shown here.

Continued Updating the Bedroom Renders in the Duplicable City Center ” Click for Page

Dipti Dhondarkar (Electrical Engineer) also continued developing the lighting specifics for the City Center. This is Dipti’s 81st week volunteering on this task and the focus this week was testing what the full-spectrum colored LEDs will look like in the bedrooms.

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

Haoxuan “Hayes” Lei (Structural Engineer) continued work on the City Center structural engineering by updating the secondary beam spacing in the drawing according to the calculation for second floor and cupola on the fourth floor, as shown here.

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

Yun Lin (Bridge Design Engineer) also completed his 10th week helping with the beam design and calculation spreadsheet creation for the City Center structural engineering. This week he added last week’s hand calculations to Joist Design spreadsheet, which you can see here.

Helped with Beam Design and Calculation Spreadsheet Creation for City Center Structural Engineering

Anvita Kumari Pandey (Civil Engineer) completed her 9th week helping with the Duplicable City Center Materials and Costs. This week’s focus was further research and updates to the pipe furniture, kitchen equipment, and dining area furniture costs, some of which you can see here.

Continued Helping with the Duplicable City Center Materials and Costs – Click for Page

Last but not least, Dehua Feng (Civil Engineer) completed his 7th week working on the fire suppression and safety systems designs for the City Center. This week he focused on adding, labelling, and testing his designs in AutoCAD 3D, some of which you can see here.

Continued Work on Fire Suppression and Safety Systems Design for the City Center ” Click for Page

HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

One Community is creating co-systemic change models 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 writing the behind-the-scenes narrative and detailed food rollout plan for the various stages of development. We continued research related to mulching and worms which confirmed our desire to continue with mulch rather than tilling. Also, based on our research, we are choosing to use a combination of worm towers and direct composting into our gardens. The worms compost faster and more effectively resulting in the castings going directly into the soil even without the towers. You can see some of this work here.

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

HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

One Community is creating co-systemic change models 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 finished work on the Learning for Life – Transference of Knowledge resource by writing the rest of the needed content and creating and adding the final graphics. You can see some of this finished work here. This work helps One Community’s mission of co-systemic change models and to create large-scale change.

Finished Learning for Life ” Transference of Knowledge Resource Page ” Click to Visit

We also updated our Carl Orff Schulwerk Method page with new content and an added resource section with the best of the Orff information and evaluation resources we researched and found. This work helps One Community’s mission of co-systemic change models and to create large-scale change.

Updated our Carl Orff Schulwerk Method Page with New Content – Click to Visit

HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS

One Community is creating co-systemic change models 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 Highest Good Network software team consisting of Sowmya Manohar (Software Engineer, Web Developer & Net Application Developer), Shubhra Mittal (Software Delivery Manager), and Swathy Jayaseelan (Software Developer) continued their work on the software.

This week they changed the reports layout to center everything in the page, worked on the logic to give data to the bar and pie charts, integrated HGN app with CircleCI to enable automated deployment on Surge, implemented web services and UI logic to enable profile pic image size and types limitation, and added a functional timer that automatically fills the clocked time when a user is creating their time entries. This work helps One Community’s mission of co-systemic change models and to create large-scale change.

Continued Working on Highest Good Network Software ” Click for Page

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WHAT ONE COMMUNITY IS CREATING

One Community is creating a place to grow together and change the world together. 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, committed to co-systemic change models. We do this by harmoniously respecting each other, nature, and the rest of our one shared planet.

Our goal is to demonstrate what we feel is the most sustainable, healthy, and fun environment we can create. A place based on compassion, kindness, and collaboration. This replicable community will serve as an example for what is possible in terms of co-systemic change models. This work helps One Community’s mission of co-systemic change models and to create large-scale change.

Throughout our design process we are open sourcing and free-sharing everything needed for construction and replication. This includes what we call “Highest Good” approaches to food, energy, housing, education, for-profit and non-profit economics design, social architecture, fulfilled living, stewardship practices and more, all aimed at co-systemic change models. 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 for the co-systemic change models. This work helps One Community’s mission of co-systemic change models and to create large-scale change.

WHY ONE COMMUNITY IS CREATING THIS

The One Community self-replicating model is capable of creating a sustainable planet within 30 years through the co-systemic change models. 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, further promoting the ideals of the co-systemic change models.

These hubs will collaborate with one another, share ideas, resources, and work together as a network to heal the planet. They will also transform the global lifestyle to a more enjoyable, fulfilling, healthy, and sustainable one.

The specifics of how One Community is accomplishing this can be found on the One Community Solution Model to Create Solution-creating Models Page. Research supporting and showing the benefits of a model like this can be found on our Research and Resources Articles Archive, furthering the cause of the co-systemic change models. This work helps One Community’s mission of co-systemic change models and to create large-scale change.

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

INSPIRING SUSTAINABILITY WITH OPEN SOURCE

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

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. This work helps One Community’s mission of co-systemic change models and to create large-scale change.

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, all in pursuit of co-systemic change models. 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, all contributing to co-systemic change models. This work helps One Community’s mission of co-systemic change models and to create large-scale change.

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 the principles of co-systemic change models. 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. This work helps One Community’s mission of co-systemic change models and to create large-scale change.

One Community welcomes Anvita Kumari Pandey to the Design Team as our newest Volunteer/Consultant!

Anvita received her Bachelors in Civil Engineering from the University of Pune in India. After graduation she worked for 2+ years as a Cost Analysis and Estimation Engineer for a variety of commercial and residential projects through a construction firm in Pune called B&M Infra Private Limited. Looking to expand her domain expertise, she then worked at Meta Arch Private Limited and took on more responsibility with a customer-based role. After that, Anvita moved to the US to join her husband who works full-time here and brought her expertise to the One Community team helping with cost analysis for the Duplicable City Center.

WELCOME TO THE TEAM ANVITA!

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Cultivating global sustainability will be most successful if it is replicable and engaged by diverse nations and skill sets. One Community is facilitating this process through open source and free-shared tools, tutorials, and resources covering all aspects of sustainability and the creation of sustainability teacher/demonstration communities, villages, cities, and hubs.

• 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 cultivating global sustainability movement as the first of many self-replicating teacher/demonstration communities, villages, and cities to be built around the world. This is the June 10, 2018 edition (#272) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments:

Cultivating Global Sustainability
One Community Progress Update #272

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

CULTIVATING GLOBAL SUSTAINABILITY INTRO: @0:34

CULTIVATING GLOBAL SUSTAINABILITY – HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING: @7:17

• Assembled the Murphy bed night stand in 3D using the assembly instructions and created a list of suggested improvements (see below)
• Michael Hagler worked with the core team to finish another round of edit requests for the Cob Village, and the Recycled Materials Village and integrated work for the Shipping Container Village into the website for the 7-villages book we’re developing (see below)
• Shadi Kennedy completed his 11th week leading the development of the Murphy bed instructions (see below)
• Dean Scholz continued with the Cob Village render updates (see below)
• Mike Kowalski finished his 10th week helping update our Recycled Materials Village renders that are too big for anything but a gaming computer (see below)
• Mihaela “Michelle” Pinzaru completed her 16th week working on the Tree House Village residential renders (see below)

CULTIVATING GLOBAL SUSTAINABILITY – DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER: @9:06

• Began updating the bedroom renders in the Duplicable City Center to test the new lighting and color schemes (see below)
• Working with Dipti Dhondarkar, the core team continued developing the lighting specifics for the City Center (see below)
• Haoxuan “Hayes” Lei continued work on the City Center structural engineering (see below)
• Yun Lin completed his 9th week helping with the beam design and calculation spreadsheet creation for the City Center structural engineering (see below)
• Dehua Feng completed his 6th week working on the fire suppression and safety systems designs for the City Center (see below)

CULTIVATING GLOBAL SUSTAINABILITY – HIGHEST GOOD FOOD: @10:45

• Continued writing the behind-the-scenes narrative and detailed food rollout plan for the various stages of development (see below)

CULTIVATING GLOBAL SUSTAINABILITY – HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION: @11:32

• Began work on the Learning for Life – Transference of Knowledge resource by formatting the page, writing content, and adding graphics (see below)

CULTIVATING GLOBAL SUSTAINABILITY – HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY: @12:04

• Sowmya Manohar, Shubhra Mittal, and Swathy Jayaseelan continued work on the Highest Good Network software (see below)

CULTIVATING GLOBAL SUSTAINABILITY SUMMARY: @13:12

• Sowmya Manohar, Shubhra Mittal, and Swathy Jayaseelan continued work on the Highest Good Network software (see below)

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HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

One Community is cultivating global 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

Assembled the Murphy bed Night Stand in 3D – Click for Page

And, the core team working with Michael Hagler (Senior Graphic Designer and Artist) also finished another round of edit requests for the Cob Village (Pod 3), for the Recycled Materials Village (Pod 6), and integrated Michael’s completed work for the Shipping Container Village (Pod 5) into the website, contibuting to cultivating global sustainability. This is also all part of the 7-villages book we’re developing.

Made Edits to Cob Village, Recycled Materials Village, and Shipping Container Village  – Click for Page

Also, Shadi Kennedy (Artist and Graphic Designer) completed his 11th week leading the development of the Murphy bed instructions. This week Shadi renumbered all the parts to make referencing them easier and updated all the related steps, the cutting plan, and parts layouts.

Continued Leading the Development of the Murphy bed Instructions ” Click for Page

Dean Scholz (Architectural Designer) continued with the Cob Village (Pod 3) render updates too. Here is update 117 of Dean’s work and this new render he’s working on that will show a section view of one of the units.

Continued with the Cob Village Render Updates – Click for Page

Mike Kowalski (Game Developer) finished his 10th week helping update our Recycled Materials Village (Pod 6) renders that are too big for anything but a gaming computer, in pursuit of cultivating global sustainability. This week Mike finished re-rendering the main render of the complete village, then we updated it across the entire website.

Continued Updating our Recycled Materials Village Renders – Click for Page

Mihaela “Michelle” Pinzaru (Interior Designer and Architectural Drafter) also completed her 16th week working on the Tree House Village (Pod 7) residential renders. This week she redesigned the stair access to the loft bed and added test furniture for the upstairs hostel living area. You can see this work-in-progress here.

Continued Working on Tree House Village Residential Renders – Click for Page

DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

One Community is cultivating global 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 started updating the bedroom renders in the Duplicable City Center to test the new lighting and color schemes. We updated the furniture, checked all walls, doors, and windows, and added the correct lights.

Started Updating the Bedroom Renders in the Duplicable City Center – Click for Page

And, the core team working with Dipti Dhondarkar (Electrical Engineer) also continued developing the lighting specifics for the City Center. This is Dipti’s 80th week volunteering on this task and the focus this week was applying everything we tested with the different lighting fixture types and layouts so we could create (and add to the website) this final “1st-Floor Final Bedroom Lighting Distribution” graphic.

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

Haoxuan “Hayes” Lei (Structural Engineer) continued work on the City Center structural engineering by creating the price estimates for the TJI beams and reviewing the joist design, some of which you can see here.

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

Yun Lin (Bridge Design Engineer) also completed his 9th week helping with the beam design and calculation spreadsheet creation for the City Center structural engineering, dedicated to cultivating global sustainability. This week he finished the wind load calculations for the roof.

Helped with Beam Design and Calculation Spreadsheet Creation for City Center Structural Engineering

Last but not least, Dehua Feng (Civil Engineer) completed his 6th week working on the fire suppression and safety systems designs for the City Center. This week he further researched horizontal sprinkler options, sensor and other options for triggering these systems, and further developed the AutoCAD sprinkler layouts for these and the in-ceiling sprinklers.

Continued Work on Fire Suppression and Safety Systems Design for the City Center ” Click for Page

HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

One Community is cultivating global 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 continued writing the behind-the-scenes narrative and detailed food rollout plan for the various stages of development, contributing to cultivating global sustainability. We researched nitrogen fixers and worm digestion and added orchard grass and hay mulch benefits with accompanying articles. In addition, we incorporated hay vs. straw and the Ruth Stout mulching methods into the plan. Next, we organized and gave a final proofread to the assorted articles for the Garden Establishment section on pages 7-13, some of this you can see here.

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

HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

One Community is cultivating global 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 began work on the Learning for Life – Transference of Knowledge resource by formatting the page, writing content, and adding graphics. We’d say we are now 50% complete with this new page.

Began Work on the Learning for Life – Transference of Knowledge Resource – Click for Page

HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS

One Community is cultivating global 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, the Highest Good Network software team consisting of Sowmya Manohar (Software Engineer, Web Developer & Net Application Developer), Shubhra Mittal (Software Delivery Manager), and Swathy Jayaseelan (Software Developer) continued their work on the software. This week they added an Admin reset password option, checkbox-classification of users by active and inactive, made roles selectable and editable by dropdown, fixed user’s timelog header bar, fixed team and project hyperlinks, made ‘current week’ as the default selection for reports and ‘choose a range’ as a popup, removed past week data from charts other than the current week, changed the page layout in the charts page to match the mockup, and started working on the individual reports.

Continued Working on Highest Good Network Software ” Click for Page

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WHAT ONE COMMUNITY IS CREATING

One Community is creating a place to grow together and change the world together. 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, committed to cultivating global sustainability. We do this by harmoniously respecting each other, nature, and the rest of our one shared planet.

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

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

WHY ONE COMMUNITY IS CREATING THIS

The One Community self-replicating model is capable of creating a sustainable planet within 30 years through the cultivating global 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, further promoting the ideals of the cultivating global sustainability. These hubs will collaborate with one another, share ideas, resources, and work together as a network to heal the planet. They will also transform the global lifestyle to a more enjoyable, fulfilling, healthy, and sustainable one.

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

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

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, all in pursuit of cultivating global 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, all contributing to cultivating global sustainability.

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 the principles of cultivating global 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.

ONE COMMUNITY’S 4-PHASE STRATEGY

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

Phase I: Cultivating Global Sustainability by Demonstrating a Better Way

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

Phase II: Cultivating Global Sustainability with Open Source Project-Launch Blueprinting

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

Phase III: Cultivating Global Sustainability by Inviting the World to Participate

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

Phase IV: Cultivating Global Sustainability with 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.

WHY OPEN SOURCE

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

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

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

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

OPEN SOURCE SHARING STRATEGY SPECIFICS

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

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

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

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

SUMMARY

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

Sustainable community models are needed if we are to create a sustainable world. Open source and free-shared models for constructing and sharing them will facilitate the process. One Community is creating these for “The Highest Good of All people and life.“

• 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, focusing on constructing sustainable community models. This is the June 3, 2018 edition (#271) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments:

Sustainable Community Models
One Community Progress Update #271

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

SUSTAINABLE COMMUNITY MODELS INTRO: @0:34

SUSTAINABLE COMMUNITY MODELS – HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING: @6:40 

SUSTAINABLE COMMUNITY MODELS – DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER: @8:18

SUSTAINABLE COMMUNITY MODELS – HIGHEST GOOD FOOD: @9:34

SUSTAINABLE COMMUNITY MODELS – HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION: @10:16

• Finished work on the Learning for Life ” Ongoing Growth Strategies resource page (see below)
• Updated our open source Waldorf resource page with new content and an added resource section (see below)

SUSTAINABLE COMMUNITY MODELS – HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY: @11:02

• Sowmya Manohar, Shubhra Mittal, and Swathy Jayaseelan continued work on the Highest Good Network software (see below)

SUSTAINABLE COMMUNITY MODELS SUMMARY: @12:00

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HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

One Community is building sustainable community models 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 finished creating and organizing the Murphy bed materials list for the backside redesign.

Created and Organized the Murphy Bed Materials List for the Backside Redesign ” Click for Page

The core team also tested and identified any errors in the Murphy bed nightstand assembly instructions by building them in 3D while using the new instructions.

Continued Working on the Murphy Bed Assembly Instructions ” Click to Visit Page

Also, Shadi Kennedy (Artist and Graphic Designer) completed his 10th week leading the development of these Murphy bed instructions, contributing to building sustainable community models. This week Shadi started creating the style guide shown here:

Continued Leading the Development of the Murphy bed Instructions – Click for Page

Shadi also created version 1 of the cutting instructions and updated the rest of the instructions with parts graphics that are proportionate to the actual pieces.

Continued Working on the Murphy Bed Instructions – Click for Page

Michael Hagler (Senior Graphic Designer and Artist) also updated the two spreads you see here with new content and imagery, dedicated to sustainable community models. These are all part of the 7-villages book we’re developing.

Updated the 7-villages Book we’re Developing with New Content and Imagery – Click for Housing Page

Dean Scholz (Architectural Designer) continued with the Cob Village (Pod 3) render updates too. Here is update 116 of Dean’s work, what you see is the finished render for the “Dining Hall View from the 2nd Floor.” This render is now on the site also.

Finished Render for “Dining Hall View from the 2nd Floor” – Click for Cob Village Page

Mike Kowalski (Game Developer) finished his 9th week helping update our Recycled Materials Village (Pod 6) renders that are too big for anything but a gaming computer, contributing to our sustainable community models. This week Mike finished rendering the final art and outdoor library areas you can see here. These are all now integrated into the website too.

Outdoor Art Area Looking Northeast Concept Render – Click for Recycled Materials Village

Outdoor Art and Library Areas Looking Northeast ” Click for Recycled Materials Village

Outdoor Art and Library Areas Looking Northwest ” Click for Recycled Materials Village

Outdoor Art and Library Areas Looking Southeast ” Click for Recycled Materials Village

Outdoor Library Area Looking North ” Click for Recycled Materials Village

Outdoor Library Area Looking Northwest ” Click for Recycled Materials Village

Outdoor Library Area Looking West ” Click for Recycled Materials Village

DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

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

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

The core team working with Dipti Dhondarkar (Electrical Engineer) also continued developing the lighting specifics for the City Center, as a part of our sustainable community models. This is Dipti’s 79th week volunteering on this task and the focus this week was testing different lighting fixture types and layouts for the rental rooms and bathrooms and creating (and adding to the website) the final “Bedroom Light Fixture and Initial Placement Tests” graphic. 

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

Anvita Kumari Pandey (Civil Engineer) completed her 8th week helping with the Duplicable City Center Materials and Costs. This week’s focus was the initial research for the cost analysis for the dining room and other tables we’ll be building.

Continued Helping with the Duplicable City Center Materials and Costs ” Click for Page

Last but not least, Dehua Feng (Civil Engineer) completed his 5th week working on the fire suppression and safety systems designs for the City Center. This week he further researched horizontal sprinkler options, sensor and other options for triggering these systems, and further developed the AutoCAD sprinkler layouts for these and the in-ceiling sprinklers.

Continued Work on Fire Suppression and Safety Systems Design for the City Center ” Click for Page

HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

One Community is building sustainable community models 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

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

HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

One Community is building sustainable community models 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 finished work on the Learning for Life ” Ongoing Growth Strategies resource by adding the final graphics and completing the sections for High School/Secondary Schooling, Post-secondary Schooling, Summary and FAQ.

Finished Work on the Learning for Life ” Ongoing Growth Strategies Resource – Click for Page

We also updated our open source Waldorf resource page with new content and an added resource section with the best of the Waldorf information and evaluation resources we researched and found.

Updated our Open Source Waldorf Resource Page with New Content – Click for Page

HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS

One Community is building sustainable community models 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 Highest Good Network software team consisting of Sowmya Manohar (Software Engineer, Web Developer & Net Application Developer), Shubhra Mittal (Software Delivery Manager), and Swathy Jayaseelan (Software Developer) continued their work on the software. This week they added an Autoclose function to the Projects Management page, changed the reset password to a component, created mockups for appearance upgrades, moved confidential hardcoded data to a new secure location, updated the reports page UI to match the mockup, added a scroll box and changed the size of charts, and made the week selection option appear when generating reports.

Continued Working on Highest Good Network Software ” Click for Page

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WHAT ONE COMMUNITY IS CREATING

One Community is creating a place to grow together and change the world together. 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, committed to sustainable community models. We do this by harmoniously respecting each other, nature, and the rest of our one shared planet.

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

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

WHY ONE COMMUNITY IS CREATING THIS

The One Community self-replicating model is capable of creating a sustainable planet within 30 years through the sustainable community models. 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, further promoting the ideals of the sustainable community models. These hubs will collaborate with one another, share ideas, resources, and work together as a network to heal the planet. They will also transform the global lifestyle to a more enjoyable, fulfilling, healthy, and sustainable one.

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

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

INSPIRING SUSTAINABILITY WITH OPEN SOURCE

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

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, all in pursuit of sustainable community models. 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, all contributing to sustainable community models.

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 the principles of sustainable community models. 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.

ONE COMMUNITY’S 4-PHASE STRATEGY

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

Phase I: Sustainable Community Models by Demonstrating a Better Way

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

Phase II: Sustainable Community Models with Open Source Project-Launch Blueprinting

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

Phase III: Sustainable Community Models by Inviting the World to Participate

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

Phase IV: Sustainable Community Models with 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.

WHY OPEN SOURCE

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

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

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

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

OPEN SOURCE SHARING STRATEGY SPECIFICS

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

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

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

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

SUMMARY

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

One Community is a nonprofit and 100% volunteer organization developing open source and free-shared designs for a global community cooperative of sustainable villages. These designs cover Â food, energy, housing, education, economics, 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 May 27, 2018 edition (#270) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments:

Global Community Cooperative
One Community Progress Update #270

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

GLOBAL COMMUNITY COOPERATIVE INTRO: @0:34

GLOBAL COMMUNITY COOPERATIVE – HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING: @6:39

GLOBAL COMMUNITY COOPERATIVE – DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER: @8:38

GLOBAL COMMUNITY COOPERATIVE – HIGHEST GOOD FOOD: @10:55

• Continued writing the behind-the-scenes narrative and detailed food rollout plan for the various stages of development (see below)

GLOBAL COMMUNITY COOPERATIVE – HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION: @11:36

• Continued work on the Learning for Life ” Ongoing Growth Strategies resource and finished the sections for Elementary and Intermediate students (see below)
• Updated our open source Montessori resource page with the best of the Montessori Evaluation resources we researched and found ” shown here in purple (see below)

GLOBAL COMMUNITY COOPERATIVE – HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY: @12:22

• Sowmya Manohar, Shubhra Mittal, and Swathy Jayaseelan continued work on the Highest Good Network software (see below)
• Jin Hua returned to volunteering and helped fix a variety of Google indexing issues for our website and sitemap (see below)

GLOBAL COMMUNITY COOPERATIVE SUMMARY: @11:

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HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

One Community is designing a global community 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

This week the core team began creating and organizing the Murphy bed materials list, as shown here.

Began Creating and Organizing the Murphy Bed Materials List – Click for Page

And, Shadi Kennedy (Artist and Graphic Designer) completed his 9th week leading the development of the Murphy bed instructions. This week Shadi finished component updates, simplifying the instructions, and finalizing them so we can now test construction in 3D using them as our guide.

Continued Working on the Murphy Bed Instructions ” Click to Visit Page

Michael Hagler (Senior Graphic Designer and Artist) also created this new layout for the introduction to the Cob Village (Pod 3) aspect of the 7-villages book we’re developing for a global community cooperative of sustainable villages.

Created New Layout for Introduction to Cob Village Aspect of the 7-Villages Book – Click for Page

Dean Scholz (Architectural Designer) continued with the Cob Village (Pod 3) render updates too. Here is update 115 of Dean’s work, continuing with the final lighting and texture edits and the test renderings of “Dining Hall View from the 2nd Floor.”

Continued with the Cob Village Render Updates ” Click for Page

Dan Alleck (Designer and Illustrator) completed his 21st week working on the Compressed Earth Block Village render additions. This week he finished this render of the Game Room Looking South. You can now see this on the website also.

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

Mike Kowalski (Game Developer) finished his 8th week helping update our Recycled Materials Village (Pod 6) renders that are too big for anything but a gaming computer, developing designs for a global community cooperative of sustainable villages. This week Mike finished rendering the final game and exercise areas you can see here….

Recycled Materials Village | Concept Render ” Playground Looking Northeast ” Click for Page

Recycled Materials Village | Concept Render ” Outdoor Exercise Area from Above ” Click for Page

Recycled Materials Village | Concept Render ” Outdoor Game and Exercise Area ” Click for Page

…..and this top-down render of the entire village. These are all now integrated into the website too.

Recycled Materials Village | Concept Render ” Outdoor Recreation Spaces ” Click for Page

Mihaela “Michelle” Pinzaru(Interior Designer and Architectural Drafter) also completed her 15th week working on the Tree House Village (Pod 7) residential renders, contributing to global community cooperative. This week she designed and tested new layouts for the upstairs hostel living area. You can see this work-in-progress here.

Continued Working on Tree House Village (Residential Renders) – Click for Page

DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

One Community is designing a global community 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 updated the parts lists and instructions for the open source City Center Pipe Furniture designs shown here, contributing to the global community cooperative.

Updated Parts Lists and Instructions for Open Source City Center Pipe Furniture Design – Click to Visit

And the core team working with Dipti Dhondarkar (Electrical Engineer), continued developing the lighting specifics for the City Center for a global community cooperative of sustainable villages. This is Dipti’s 78th week volunteering on this task and the focus this week was testing lighting and creating (and adding to the website) the final comparison of the different direct sconce lighting fixture types. Here you can see this and all the other lighting comparisons we’ve finished.

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

Haoxuan “Hayes” Lei (Structural Engineer) continued work on the City Center structural engineering by generating the beam layout spreadsheet, investigating the cost estimate of TJI beams, and further reviewing and revising the snow load on the living dome platform, some of which you can see here.

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

Yun Lin (Bridge Design Engineer) also completed his 8th week helping with the beam design and calculation spreadsheet creation for the City Center structural engineering, in pursuit of building a global community cooperative of sustainable villages. This week he completed checking the snow load calculations, as shown here.

Beam Design and Calculation Spreadsheet for City Center Structural Engineering ” Click for Page

David Olivero (Mechanical Engineer & Data Scientist) completed his 20th week helping with the HVAC Designs for the Duplicable City Center. This week’s focus was more hardware research, matching zonal information to hardware selections, using previous preliminary analysis of radiant floor layouts for boiler sizing estimates, and adding these details to the HVAC  Zonal spreadsheet.

Continued Helping with HVAC Designs for the Duplicable City Center – Click for Page

Anvita Kumari Pandey (Civil Engineer) completed her 7th week helping with the Duplicable City Center Materials and Costs. This week’s focus was working on the pipe furniture cost analysis by researching and comparing materials, updating some parts, and also working on the pallet furniture and outdoor furniture cost analysis details.

Continued Helping with the Duplicable City Center Materials and Costs ” Click for Page

Last but not least, Dehua Feng (Civil Engineer) completed his 4th week working on the fire suppression and safety systems designs for the City Center. This week he modified the fire zones and started creating the AutoCAD sprinkler layouts, as shown here.

Continued Work on Fire Suppression and Safety Systems Design for the City Center ” Click for Page

HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

One Community is designing a global community 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 continued writing the behind-the-scenes narrative and detailed food rollout plan for the various stages of development, contributing to global community cooperative. This past week we researched hay vs. straw as a mulch option, researched and removed the use of cardboard and paper as a weed blocker, mulch, and carbon source due to chemicals added in the creation of these products, and made further updates to the garden rollout and trial bed strategy.  

Continued Writing the Behind-the-Scenes Narrative and Detailed Food Rollout Plan – Click for Page

HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

One Community is designing a global community 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 work on the Learning for Life ” Ongoing Growth Strategies resource and finished the sections for Elementary and Intermediate students, dedicated to a global community cooperative of sustainable villages. You can see some of this last week’s work here and we’d say we’re about 60% done with the page update and redesign.

Continued Learning for Life Growth Strategies Resource – Click for Page

We also updated our open source Montessori resource page with the best of the Montessori Evaluation resources we researched and found ” shown here in purple.

Updated Open Source Montessori Resource Page – Click to Visit

HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS

One Community is designing a global community 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 Highest Good Network software team consisting of Sowmya Manohar(Software Engineer, Web Developer & Net Application Developer), Shubhra Mittal(Software Delivery Manager), and Swathy Jayaseelan(Software Developer) continued their work on the software. This week they implemented a route to specific user profiles from the user management page, added alphabetization functionality, added a delete functionality in the user management page, worked on resolving deployment issues with the Azure support team, fixed tangible status in timelog entry form bugs,  changed ‘weeks’ to date ranges in the chart, reorganized the reports page to include the filter on the top, added the selected week range option on the reports, and removed past-week data for options other than the current week.

Continued Working on Highest Good Network Software ” Click for Page

Jin Hua (Web and Graphic Designer) also returned to volunteering and helped fix a variety of Google indexing issues for our website and sitemap. You can see some of this work here.

Helped Fix a Variety of Google Indexing Issues for our Website and Sitemap – Click to Visit Page

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WHAT ONE COMMUNITY IS CREATING

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

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

WHY ONE COMMUNITY IS CREATING THIS

The One Community self-replicating model is capable of creating a sustainable planet within 30 years through the global community 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, further promoting the ideals of the global community cooperative. These hubs will collaborate with one another, share ideas, resources, and work together as a network to heal the planet. They will also transform the global lifestyle to a more enjoyable, fulfilling, healthy, and sustainable one.

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

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

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, all in pursuit of global community 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, all contributing to global community cooperative.

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 the principles of global community 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.

ONE COMMUNITY’S 4-PHASE STRATEGY

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

Phase I: Global Community Cooperative by Demonstrating a Better Way

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

Phase II: Global Community Cooperative with Open Source Project-Launch Blueprinting

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

Phase III: Global Community Cooperative by Inviting the World to Participate

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

Phase IV: Global Community Cooperative with 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.

WHY OPEN SOURCE

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

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

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

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

OPEN SOURCE SHARING STRATEGY SPECIFICS

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

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

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

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

SUMMARY

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

Eco-permanence is ecologically sustainable living. Creating eco-permanence globally can be accomplished if enough people want it. We see the path to creating this as making global stewardship practices easy enough, affordable enough and attractive enough to become self-replicating. Open source and free-shared sustainability components covering food, energy, housing, education, economics, and more can make this possible by improving accessibility, lowering costs, and being combined to provide a higher quality of living.

• 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 May 20, 2018 edition (#269) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments:

Creating Eco-Permanence
One Community Progress Update #269

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

CREATING ECO-PERMANENCE INTRO: @0:34

HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING: @6:06

• Shadi Kennedy completed his 8th week leading the development of the Murphy bed instructions (see below)
• Dean Scholz continued with the Cob Village render updates (see below)
• Dan Alleck completed his 20th week working on the Compressed Earth Block Village render additions (see below)
• Mike Kowalski finished his 7th week helping update our Recycled Materials Village renders that are too big for anything but a gaming computer (see below)
• Mihaela “Michelle” Pinzaru completed her 14th week working on the Tree House Village residential renders (see below)

DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER: @7:56

HIGHEST GOOD FOOD: @9:58

• Continued writing the behind-the-scenes narrative and detailed food rollout plan for the various stages of development (see below)
• Researched and began creating the Apiary parts and cost analysis list (see below)

HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION: @10:51

• Began the process of finishing the Learning for Life ” Ongoing Growth Strategies resource (see below)

HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY: @11:23

• Sowmya Manohar, Shubhra Mittal, and Swathy Jayaseelan continued work on the Highest Good Network software (see below)

CREATING ECO-PERMANENCE SUMMARY: @12:17

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HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

One Community is creating eco-permanence 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 Shadi Kennedy (Artist and Graphic Designer) completed his 8th week leading the development of the Murphy bed instructions. This week Shadi continued instituting changes removing pieces and simplifying the design and calculating new parts sizes. This included removal of the base, redesign of drawers, redesign of sliding mechanism, and removal of custom curved corner pieces.

Creating Eco-Permanence – Continued Working on the Murphy Bed Instructions ” Click to Visit Page

Dean Scholz (Architectural Designer) continued with the Cob Village (Pod 3) render updates. Here is update 114 of Dean’s work. This week Dean focused on more edits and test rendering the “Dining Hall View from the 2nd Floor.”

Creating Eco-Permanence – Continued with the Cob Village Render Updates – Click for Page

Dan Alleck (Designer and Illustrator) completed his 20th week working on the Compressed Earth Block Village render additions. This week he finished one final round of edits adding missing shadows to this render. This render is now updated on the website also.

Creating Eco-Permanence – Compressed Earth Block Village Render Additions – Click for Page

Mike Kowalski (Game Developer) finished his 7th week helping update our Recycled Materials Village (Pod 6) renders that are too big for anything but a gaming computer. This week Mike finished rendering the huge amount of renders you see here, which are also now integrated into the website.

Creating Eco-Permanence – Recycled Materials Village Render Looking Northeast – Click for Page

Creating Eco-Permanence – Recycled Materials VillageRender – Top-down View – Click to enlarge

Creating Eco-Permanence – Recycled Materials Village | Render – Playground Collage of Features

Creating Eco-Permanence – Recycled Materials Village Render – Outdoor Game Area Looking North

Recycled Materials Village | Concept Render –  Obstacle Course Looking Northeast – Click to enlarge

Creating Eco-Permanence – Recycled Materials Village – Render – Obstacle Course Looking Southeast

Creating Eco-Permanence – Recycled Materials Village | Render – Outdoor Game Area Obstacle Course

Creating Eco-Permanence – Recycled Materials Village | Render – Volleyball, Basketball, Soccer Areas

Creating Eco-Permanence – Recycled Materials Village | Render – Skate Park View from Above

Creating Eco-Permanence – Recycled Materials Village | Concept Render – Outdoor Yoga Area – Click

Creating Eco-Permanence – Recycled Materials Village Render – Outdoor Exercise Area Closeups – Click

Mihaela “Michelle” Pinzaru (Interior Designer and Architectural Drafter) also completed her 14th week working on the Tree House Village (Pod 7) residential renders. This week she finished the renders shown here for the downstairs hostel living area, which can now also be seen on the website.

Creating Eco-Permanence – Tree House Village | 1st Floor Hostel Layout – Render – Click for page

Creating Eco-Permanence –  Tree House Village | 1st Floor Hostel Layout – Concept Render – Click

DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

One Community is creating eco-permanence 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 bathroom designs for the City Center, further testing our designs in 3D. This week we worked with the adjustment of the lights, as shown here.

Creating Eco-Permanence – Continued Work – Bathroom Design for the City Center ” Click for Page

And the core team working with Dipti Dhondarkar (Electrical Engineer), continued developing the lighting specifics for the City Center. This is Dipti’s 75th week volunteering on this task and the focus this week was testing lighting and creating (and adding to the website) this comparison of the different diffused sconce lighting fixture types that meet our LEED sustainability criteria.

Creating Eco-Permanence – Lighting Specifics for the City Center ” Click for Page

Haoxuan “Hayes” Lei (Structural Engineer) continued work on the City Center structural engineering by finishing the snow load calculation spreadsheet for the roof of the Living Dome, which you can see here.

Creating Eco-Permanence- Continued Work – City Center Structural Engineering ” Click to Visit

Yun Lin (Bridge Design Engineer) also completed his 7th week helping with the beam design and calculation spreadsheet creation for the City Center structural engineering. This week he worked on joist design for the cupola on the 4th floor and began research for seismic load and design.

Creating Eco-Permanence – Beam Design, Calculation Spreadsheet for City Center ” Click for Page

Anvita Kumari Pandey (Civil Engineer) completed her 6th week helping with the Duplicable City Center Materials and Costs. This week’s focus was initial research and updating of material quantities and costs for the DIY furniture components of this structure, finishing updates to the basement layout in AutoCAD, and developing new area and perimeter sections for the AutoCAD Master File.

Creating Eco-Permanence – Duplicable City Center Materials and Costs ” Click for Page

Last but not least, Dehua Feng (Civil Engineer) completed his 3rd week working on the fire suppression and safety systems designs for the City Center. This week he split the residential zones in AutoCAD, calculated the required sprinkler head and system demands, and updated all the related tutorial details.

Creating Eco-Permanence – Fire Suppression, Safety Systems Design for City Center ” Click for Page

HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

One Community is creating eco-permanence 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 writing the behind-the-scenes narrative and detailed food rollout plan for the various stages of development. This past week we designated time frames for when we will initiate setup of the apiary, water lab, and acquisition of farm animals, all based on having the manpower & knowledge with our 20-50 on-site Pioneers and Volunteers. We also added clarifying information to our garden establishment section and researched worm towers.

Creating Eco-Permanence –  Detailed Food Rollout Plan for the Various Stages of Development ” Click

The core team also researched and began creating the Apiary parts and cost analysis list, adding images and descriptions to the Google doc, as shown here.

Creating Eco-Permanence – Research, Creating the Apiary Parts and Cost Analysis List – Click for Page

HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

One Community is creating eco-permanence 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 began the process of finishing the Learning for Life ” Ongoing Growth Strategies resource. You can see some of this last week’s work here and we’d say we’re about 30% done with the page update and redesign.

Creating Eco-Permanence – Learning for Life ” Ongoing Growth Strategies Resource – Click for Page

HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS

One Community is creating eco-permanence 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 Highest Good Network software team consisting of Sowmya Manohar (Software Engineer, Web Developer & Net Application Developer), Shubhra Mittal (Software Delivery Manager), and Swathy Jayaseelan (Software Developer) continued their work on the software. This week they set up the ability for the software to send emails, created password reset functionality, alphabetized projects and teams, fixed leaderboard time bugs and bugs to reset the projects list when admins create time entry for others, implemented weekly trend analysis charts using actual data, and added active/inactive filter options.

Creating Eco-Permanence – Continued Working on Highest Good Network Software ” Click for Page

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WHAT ONE COMMUNITY IS CREATING

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

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

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

BUILDING THE FIRST OF MANY

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

WHY ONE COMMUNITY IS CREATING THIS

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

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

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

WHY OPEN SOURCE

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

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

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

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

SUMMARY

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

One Community welcomes Michael Kowalski to the One Community Design Team as our newest Volunteer/Consultant!

Software Engineering Professional: Michael has spent his whole life taking everything imaginable apart and discovering how they work. This has ranged from doorknobs and electronics, engines, instruments, to computer software. Over time, computer programming became his specialty and profession, including completion of a BS degree with honors as a game developer. Choosing to study game development because he believes it’s applicable and growing in every industry including aerospace, chemical, medical, training, military, entertainment, automobiles, etc., he currently works through IBM as a contractor to companies such as the US Army, TSA, Sprint, Electrolux, DTE Energy, Boing, and more. In his free time, Michael enjoys maintaining Ubuntu servers and writing bash scripts to help simplify every day development. As a One Community volunteer, he is helping apply his 3D modeling and rendering skills to produce improved real-to-life renders of the Recycled Materials Village (Pod 6).

WELCOME TO THE TEAM MICHAEL!

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