An ecological paradigm is possible if enough people want it. One nonprofit and non-governmental approach to achieving this is open source and free-shared approaches to sustainable food, energy, housing, education, for-profit and non-profit economic design, social architecture, fulfilled living, and global stewardship practices. We call this living and creating for The Highest Good of All.

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

OUR MAIN OPEN SOURCE HUBS

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

One Community’s physical location will forward the movement to create an ecological paradigm as the first of many self-replicating teacher/demonstration communities, villages, and cities to be built around the world. This is the January 29th, 2017 edition (#201) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments:

Ecological Paradigm
One Community Progress Update #201

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

ECOLOGICAL PARADIGM INTRO: @1:03

ECOLOGICAL PARADIGM HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION: @2:00

• Transferred all written content for Caring and Kindness Lesson Plan to the website (see below)
• Behind the scenes: completed 100% of the written part of the Diversity Lesson Plan
• Completed second 50% of the mindmap for the Cognition Lesson Plan (see below)
• Recolored all the Highest Good education icons to match the master icon and for video use, and then updated the site (see below)

ECOLOGICAL PARADIGM HIGHEST GOOD FOOD: @2:59

• Edited and added information to the “What Is” and “Overview ” sections of the Food Bars page (see below)

ECOLOGICAL PARADIGM HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING: @3:28

• Ashwini Ramesh and core team put another combined total of 15 hours into the crowdfunding campaign we are developing (see below)
• Created/revised the structural engineering icons in 8 colors for Highest Good housing (see below)
• Created two new Communal Eco-shower Structure renders for the Earthbag Village (see below)
• Adrienne Gould-Choquette finished her 6th week helping create the standardized AutoCAD layers and line-weights template (see below)
• Dean Scholz continued helping us create quality Cob Village renders (see below)
• Adding details to Dean’s previous work, Guy Grossfeld added people and nature elements to create 4 new final renders of the Cob Village (see below)
• Jiming Chen also continued helping develop the Tree House Village (see below)
• Hamilton Mateca finished his 29th week helping with the Compressed Earth Block Village design details (see below)

ECOLOGICAL PARADIGM DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER: @6:06

• Started working on 3D-visualizing the structural support updates for the Cupola that tops the Duplicable City Center (see below)
• Made additional formatting and image changes to the Duplicable City Center component of the 7 villages online book (see below)
• Jinxi Feng continued her research helping us create an in-depth washing machine sustainability analysis (see below)
• Haoxuan “Hayes” Lei and Shuna Ni continued their work on the City Center structural engineering (see below)
• Shubham Agrawal continued his work on the electrical and Control and Automation systems designs for the City Center (see below)
• Jin Yu completed her 2nd week working on the concrete foundation design and tutorial details for the Duplicable City Center (see below)
• Renan Dantas continued with his 6th week working on creating our next generation of Duplicable City Center sections, layout organization, layer updates, and color updates (see below)

ECOLOGICAL PARADIGM HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY: @8:28

• Finished the One Community aspect of our open source and replicable annual social media strategy (see below)
• Hannah Gibbs completed her 3rd week of helping develop the Taxes and Sustainable Community Building page (see below)
• Ashwin Patil continued with his 15th week developing the new Search Engines for our site (see below)

ECOLOGICAL PARADIGM SUMMARY: @9:08

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ECOLOGICAL PARADIGM HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

One Community is facilitating a new ecological-paradigm 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 last week the core team transferred all of the written content for the Caring and Kindness Lesson Plan to the website, as you see here. This lesson plan is purposed to teach all subjects, to all learning levels, in any learning environment, using the central theme of “Caring and Kindness”

Ecological Paradigm – Transferred 100% of Caring and Kindness Lesson Plan to Site ” Click to Visit

Behind the scenes, we completed 100% of the written part of the Diversity Lesson Plan.

We also completed the second 50% of the mindmap for the Cognition Lesson Plan, bringing it to 100% complete, which you see here:

Ecological Paradigm – Cognition Mindmap ” Complete ” Click to Visit Page

And we recolored all the Highest Good education icons to match the master icon and for video use, and then updated the site with them.

Ecological Paradigm – Recolored Highest Good Education Icons and Updated on the Site

ECOLOGICAL PARADIGM HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

One Community is facilitating a new ecological-paradigm 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 edited and added information to the “What Is” and “Overview ” sections of the Food Bars page, as you see here, bringing the page to approximately 18% completion.

Ecological Paradigm – Worked on the “What Is” and “Overview ” Sections of the Food Bars Page

ECOLOGICAL PARADIGM HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

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

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

The core team working with Ashwini Ramesh (Civil Engineer and Project Manager) put another combined total of 15 hours into the crowdfunding campaign we are developing. This week’s focus was behind-the-scenes review and continued writing and editing of the Sustainable Site Selection, Planning and Preparation GoogleDoc that also contains the Site Clearing, Preparation, and Maintenance details. You can see some of this work here.

Continued Writing & Editing the Sustainable Site Selection, Planning and Preparation GoogleDoc

The core team also created/revised the structural engineering icons in 8 colors for Highest Good housing.

Ecological Paradigm – Created Two New Communal Eco-Shower Structure Renders

And we created two new Communal Eco-shower Structure renders for the Earthbag Village (Pod 1). Next, we will merge these to create the final render.

Ecological Paradigm – Created Two New Communal Eco-Shower Structure Renders – Click for Page

Adrienne Gould-Choquette (Mechanical Engineer) also finished her 6th week helping create the standardized AutoCAD layers and line-weights template. This week’s focus was several rounds of integrating the feedback and suggestions from all the other disciplines on our team.

Ecological Paradigm – Continued Creation of Standardized AutoCAD Layers & Line Weights Template

And Dean Scholz (Architectural Designer), continued helping us create quality Cob Village (Pod 3) renders. Here is update 53 of Dean’s work developing renders for the living spaces. This week’s focus was on sections and renders for the 2nd floor sleeping areas of the Southwest wing.

Ecological Paradigm – Continued Creating Quality Cob Village Renders ” Click to Visit Page

Adding details to Dean’s previous work, Guy Grossfeld (Graphic Designer) added people and nature elements to create this new final render of the Cob Village Front View:

Ecological Paradigm – Cob Village Final Render of Front View – Click to Visit Page

… and this Front View Looking Northwest:

Ecological Paradigm – Cob Village Final Render of Front View Looking Northwest – Click to Visit

… this Back View Looking East:

Ecological Paradigm – Cob Village Final Render of Back View Looking East – Click to Visit Page

… and this Center View Looking Northeast:

Ecological Paradigm – Cob Village Final Render of Center View Looking Northeast- Click to Visit

Jiming Chen (Designer with his Master’s in Architecture and BA in Engineering) also continued helping develop the Tree House Village (Pod 7). What you see here is his 11th week of this work focusing on test rendering the entire village you see here with columns as tree placeholders:

Ecological Paradigm – Continued Helping Develop the Tree House Village -Click to Visit Page

…and finishing the plans and running test renders as seen here for the shower and bathroom stand-alone tower structures.

Ecological Paradigm – Shower and Bathroom Tower Structures – Click for Tree House Village

Hamilton Mateca (AutoCAD and Revit Drafter and Designer) also finished his 29th week helping with the Compressed Earth Block Village (Pod 4) design details. This week’s focus was updates to the kitchen renders, creation of accurate outdoor earth block benches, and simplifying the AutoCAD colors and layers.

Ecological Paradigm – Continued Evolving the Compressed Earth Block Village ” Click to Visit Page

ECOLOGICAL PARADIGM DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

One Community is facilitating a new ecological-paradigm 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 working on 3D-visualizing the structural support updates for the Cupola that tops the Duplicable City Center. You can see the beginnings of this work here.

Worked on 3D-Visualizing Structural Support Updates for Cupola – Click for Duplicable City Center

We also made additional formatting and image changes to the Duplicable City Center component of the 7 villages online book.

Made Changes to DCC Component of the 7 Villages Online Book – Click to Visit Page

And Jinxi Feng (Environmental Consultant) continued her research helping us create an in-depth washing machine sustainability analysis in route of creating an ecological paradigm. What you see here is her 19th week of behind-the-scenes work on this area of the project. This week’s focus was writing the data analysis content and creating info graphics explaining what’s possible when maximizing sustainability in this area.

Continued Research for in-Depth Laundry and Dryer Machine Sustainability Analysis ” Click to Visit

Haoxuan “Hayes” Lei (Structural Engineer) and Shuna Ni (Masters of Mechanical Engineering and Civil Engineering PhD) also continued their work on the City Center structural engineering. This week’s focus was roof engineering, fixing stairway conflicts with existing beams, and beginning the process of updating the structural calculations based on commonly available steel members.

Continued Working on City Center Structural Engineering ” Click for Page

Shubham Agrawal (Electrical Engineer) continued his work on the electrical and Control and Automation systems designs for the City Center. What you see here are a couple photos from the weekly collaborative call with Mike Hogan (Automation Systems Developer and Business Systems Consultant) and the new tool Shubham created for calculating solar and battery sizing and needs.

Continued Working on Electrical and Control and Automation Systems Designs ” Click for Page

Jin Yu (Structural Engineering Designer) also completed her 2nd week working on the concrete foundation design and tutorial details for the Duplicable City Center. This week’s focus was on the wall footings and basement design details.

Continued Working on the Concrete Foundation Design and Tutorial Details – Click for Page

And Renan Dantas (Mechanical Engineer) continued with his 6th week working on creating our next generation of Duplicable City Center sections, layout organization, layer updates, and color updates. This week’s focus was modeling the the new dome geometry at each floor level and then applying this to the floor plans.

Continued Creating our Next Generation of Duplicable City Center Section Drawings ” Click to Visit

ECOLOGICAL PARADIGM HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS

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

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

This week the core team finished the One Community aspect of our open source and replicable annual social media strategy. You can see a small snapshot of this work here.

Finished the One Community Aspect of Open Source Annual Social Media Strategy – Click to Visit

Hannah Gibbs (Web Developer) also completed her 3rd week of helping develop the Taxes and Sustainable Community Building page. What you see here are the second round of custom images she’s created that will link to the tax codes for each state.

Continued Helping Develop the Taxes and Sustainable Community Building Page ” Click to Visit Page

Ashwin Patil (Web Developer) continued with his 15th week developing the new Search Engines for our site. This week’s work included another round of revisions and updates for the the Highest Good education component and completing version 1.0 of the complete Straw Bale Village search engine.

Continued Work on Search Engine for the Highest Good Education Component & Highest Good Housing ” Click to Visit

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WHAT ONE COMMUNITY IS CREATING

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

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

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

BUILDING THE FIRST OF MANY

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

WHY ONE COMMUNITY IS CREATING THIS

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

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

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

INSPIRING SUSTAINABILITY WITH OPEN SOURCE

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

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

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

As we address and open source share these areas we will establish a living example of the first teacher/demonstration village purposed to teach others and create an ecological paradigm. 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 is an all-volunteer nonprofit open sourcing sustainability hubs for all aspects of community and sustainable living. This includes open source and free-shared tools, tutorials and resources for food, energy, housing, education, for-profit and non-profit economic design, social architecture, fulfilled living, global stewardship practices, and more. We see this as a path to a truly sustainable planet.

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

OUR MAIN OPEN SOURCE HUBS

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

One Community’s physical location will forward the movement of open sourcing sustainability hubs as the first of many self-replicating teacher/demonstration communities, villages, and cities to be built around the world. This is the January 22nd, 2017 edition (#200) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments:

Open Sourcing Sustainability Hubs
One Community Progress Update #200

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

OPEN SOURCING SUSTAINABILITY HUBS INTRO: @1:03

OPEN SOURCING SUSTAINABILITY HUBS HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION: @1:

• Transferred all the written content for the Sharing Lesson Plan to the website (see below)
• Behind the scene: completed 100% of the written part of the Caring Lesson Plan
• Completed the second 25% of the mindmap for the Cognition Lesson Plan (see below)

OPEN SOURCING SUSTAINABILITY HUBS HIGHEST GOOD FOOD: @2:

• Added Dr. Matt Marturano’s food bar information to the Food Bars page and organized it into sections (see below)

OPEN SOURCING SUSTAINABILITY HUBS HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING: @3:

• Created/revised several new icons for Highest Good housing (see below)
• Tested various platforms for hosting the 7 villages online book (see below)
• Continued working on the renders for the Communal Eco-shower Structures that are part of the Earthbag Village (see below)
• Adrienne Gould-Choquette finished her 5th week helping create the standardized AutoCAD layers and line weights template and started researching additional HVAC options for the Earthbag Village and Duplicable City Center (see below)
• Shilcy Augustine started updating the layers and color details for the Straw Bale Village (see below)
• Dean Scholz continued helping us create quality Cob Village renders (see below)
• Adding details to Dean’s previous work, Guy Grossfeld (Graphic Designer) added people and nature elements to create two new final renders of the Cob Village (see below)
• Hamilton Mateca finished his 28th week helping with the Compressed Earth Block Village (Pod 4) design details (see below)

OPEN SOURCING SUSTAINABILITY HUBS DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER: @6:

• Jinxi Feng continued her research helping us create an in-depth laundry and dryer machine sustainability analysis (see below)
• Guy Grossfeld developed final version of the City Center root cellar where large-scale food storage will be maintained (see below)
• Haoxuan “Hayes” Lei and Shuna Ni continued their work on the City Center structural engineering (see below)
• Shubham Agrawal continued his work on the energy infrastructure for the City Center (see below)
• Lucas Tsutsui da Silva finished integrating last week’s basement and Dining Dome equipment updates for the Control and Automation systems layout (see below)

OPEN SOURCING SUSTAINABILITY HUBS HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY: @8:

• Continued exploration of a video effect that we’ll share on our website and in our new introduction video the locations of everyone who has volunteered with our organization (see below)
• Hannah Gibbs completed her 2nd week of helping develop the Taxes and Sustainable Community Building page (see below)
• Ashwin Patil and Jennifer Zhou completed another round of edits to Search Engine for the Highest Good education component and Highest Good housing villages (see below)

OPEN SOURCING SUSTAINABILITY HUBS SUMMARY: @8:

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OPEN SOURCING SUSTAINABILITY HUBS HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

One Community is open sourcing sustainability hubs 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 last week the core team transferred all of the written content for the Sharing Lesson Plan to the website, as you see here. This lesson plan purposed to teach all subjects, to all learning levels, in any learning environment, using the central theme of “Sharing”, is now 100% completely written on our website, along with our initiative of open sourcing sustainability hubs:

Transferred 100% of Sharing Lesson Plan to Site ” Click to Visit Page

Behind the scenes, we completed 100% of the written part of the Caring and Kindness Lesson Plan.

We also completed the second 25% of the mindmap for the Cognition Lesson Plan, bringing it to 50% complete, which you see here:

Cognition Mindmap ” 50% Complete ” Click to Visit Page

OPEN SOURCING SUSTAINABILITY HUBS HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

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

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

This last week the core team added Dr. Matt Marturano’s food bar information to the Food Bars page (currently behind the scenes) and organized it into sections, bringing the page to approximately 15% complete, alongside our ongoing efforts in open sourcing sustainability hubs:

Added and Organized Food Bar Information to the Food Bars Page

OPEN SOURCING SUSTAINABILITY HUBS HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

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

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

This last week the core team created/revised several new icons for Highest Good housing:

Created New Icons for Highest Good Housing – Click to Visit Page

And we tested various platforms for hosting the 7 villages online book. You can see some of this work and the related testing notes here:

Tested Various Platforms for Hosting the 7 Villages Online Book – Click for Housing Page

In addition to this, the core team continued working on the renders for the Communal Eco-shower Structures that are part of the Earthbag Village (Pod 1). This week we updated the texture of the floor, adjusted the lighting, and added internal walls and appliances.

Continued Working on Renders for Communal Eco-shower Structures in the Earthbag Village

Adrienne Gould-Choquette (Mechanical Engineer) also finished her 5th week helping create the standardized AutoCAD layers and line weights template and she started researching additional HVAC options for the Earthbag Village (Pod 1) and Duplicable City Center, in alignment with our open sourcing sustainability hubs initiative. What you see here is a collage of her work on both of these areas:

Continued Creation of Standardized AutoCAD Layers and Line Weights Template ” Click for Page

Shilcy Augustine (Architect) started updating the layers and color details for the Straw Bale Village (Pod 2), as shown here.

Started Updating Layers and Color Details for Straw Bale Village – Click for Page

And Dean Scholz (Architectural Designer), continued helping us create quality Cob Village (Pod 3) renders. Here is update 52 of his work that continues focusing on lighting, texture and other aesthetic details inside the homes. In the video portion of the blog you can see the progression of a series of 72 test renders showing this development and wrapping up with his final 3 newest ones:

Continued Creating Quality Cob Village Renders ” Click to Visit Page

….and finishing with this final render of what this living space will look like:

Created Cob Village Final Render of Southwest Living Space Looking South – Click for Page

Lighting complete, Dean then created this final perspective looking the other direction too.

Cob Village Final Render of Southwest Living Space Looking North – Click for Page

Adding details to Dean’s previous work, Guy Grossfeld (Graphic Designer) added people and nature elements to create this new final render of the Cob Village Center View Looking Northwest:

Created Final Render of Cob Village Center View Looking Northwest – Click for Page

… and this Back View Looking Southeast:

Back View Looking Southeast Cob Village Final Render – Click to Visit Page

Hamilton Mateca (AutoCAD and Revit Drafter and Designer) also finished his 28th week helping with the Compressed Earth Block Village (Pod 4) design details. This week’s focus was continued development of the furniture, plants, textures, and layer colors for the different scenes shown here:

Continued Evolving the Compressed Earth Block Village ” Click to Visit Page

Continued Evolving the Compressed Earth Block Village ” Click to Visit Page

OPEN SOURCING SUSTAINABILITY HUBS DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

One Community is open sourcing sustainability hubs 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, Jinxi Feng (Environmental Consultant) continued her research helping us create an in-depth laundry and dryer machine sustainability analysis as part of our open sourcing sustainability hubs initiative. What you see here is her 18th week of behind-the-scenes work on this area of the project. This week’s focus was finalizing the data needed for the website and graphics creation and creating open source spreadsheets so others can duplicate this work too.

Continued Research for in-Depth Laundry and Dryer Machine Sustainability Analysis ” Click to Visit

Guy Grossfeld (Graphic Designer) also developed this final version of the City Center root cellar where large-scale food storage will be maintained as part of our open sourcing sustainability hubs initiative.

Developed Final Version of the Root Cellar – Click for City Center Kitchen Page

Haoxuan “Hayes” Lei (Structural Engineer) and Shuna Ni (Masters of Mechanical Engineering and Civil Engineering PhD) also continued their work on the City Center structural engineering. What you see here are the newest calculations for wind and snow loads.

Continued Working on City Center Structural Engineering – Click for Page

Shubham Agrawal (Electrical Engineer) continued his work on the energy infrastructure for the City Center, as part of our open sourcing sustainability hubs initiative. This week’s work focus was beginning the development of a spreadsheet and tool outlined here for calculating battery and solar array size and cost comparisons for grid versus non-grid setups.

Open Sourcing Sustainability Hubs, Continued Working on Energy Infrastructure for the City Center – Click for Page

Lucas Tsutsui da Silva (4th-year Computer Engineering Student) also finished integrating last week’s basement and Dining Dome equipment updates for the Control and Automation systems layout, as shown here.

Integrated Basement and Dining Dome Equipment Updates for Control & Automation Systems Layout

OPEN SOURCING SUSTAINABILITY HUBS HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS

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

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

This week the core team continued exploration of this video effect that we’ll share on our website and in our new introduction video the locations of everyone who has volunteered with our organization as part of our open sourcing sustainability hubs initiative.

Hannah Gibbs (Web Developer) also completed her 2nd week of helping develop the Taxes and Sustainable Community Building page, in line with our open sourcing sustainability hubs initiative. What you see here are the first round of images she’s created that will link to the tax codes for each state.

Continued Helping Develop the Taxes and Sustainable Community Building Page – Click to Visit Page

Ashwin Patil (Web Developer) and Jennifer Zhou (Web Designer) also completed another round of edits to Search Engine for the Highest Good education component and Highest Good housing villages, as part of our open sourcing sustainability hubs initiative. This included modifying existing links and adding new links to live search engines and sets of code developing behind the scenes, as seen here.

Continued Work on Search Engine for the Highest Good Education Component & Highest Good Housing

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OVERVIEW | LOCATION | FUNDING

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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 of creating open sourcing sustainability hubs globally:

Phase I: Demonstrating a Better Way

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

Phase II: Open Source Project-Launch Blueprinting

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

Phase III: Inviting the World to Participate

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

Phase IV: Universal Appeal and Global Expansion

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

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

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. As One Community we strive to be open sourcing sustainability hubs for all aspects of community and sustainable living

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
• 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 will evolve 5 primary types of open source content purposed to reach and service as broad an audience as possible and develop multiple open sourcing sustainability hubs. 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.

Regenerative sustainability creation is one way we as a species can begin to consciously steward our planet. Designing an open source and free-shared model for this will make it easier and more affordable. Combining the components of food, energy, and housing with sustainable and Highest Good approaches to education, for-profit and non-profit economic design, social architecture, fulfilled living, and global stewardship practices can also make it a better way of living than the way most people are living now.

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

OUR MAIN OPEN SOURCE HUBS

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

One Community’s physical location will forward this movement as the first of many self-replicating teacher/demonstration communities, villages, and cities to be built around the world. This is the January 15th, 2017 edition (#199) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments:

Regenerative Sustainability Creation
One Community Progress Update #199

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

REGENERATIVE SUSTAINABILITY CREATION INTRO: @1:03

REGENERATIVE SUSTAINABILITY CREATION HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION: @2:02

• Transferred all written content for the Play Lesson Plan to the website (see below)
• Behind the scenes: completed 100% of the written part of the Sharing Lesson Plan
• Completed the first 25% of the mindmap for the Cognition Lesson Plan (see below)

REGENERATIVE SUSTAINABILITY CREATION HIGHEST GOOD FOOD: @2:56

• Finished updating the anchor links and formatting the Food Bars page (see below)

REGENERATIVE SUSTAINABILITY CREATION HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING: @3:22

• Working with Ashwini Ramesh, we put another combined total of 15 hours into the crowdfunding campaign we are developing (see below)
• Further evolved last week’s main render from Guy Grossfeld for the Shipping Container Village (see below)
• Updated all associated web pages and 7 villages online book with the new version (see below)
• Continued working on the renders for the Communal Eco-shower Structures that are part of the Earthbag Village (see below)
• Adrienne Gould-Choquette finished her 4th week helping create the standardized AutoCAD layers and line weights template (see below)
• Dean Scholz continued helping us create quality Cob Village renders (see below)
• Guy Grossfeld created a new final render of the Front External View Looking East for the Cob Village (see below)
• Jiming Chen continued helping develop the Tree House Village (see below)
• Hamilton Mateca finished his 27th week helping with the Compressed Earth Block Village design details (see below)
• Zachary Melin continued developing the Tree House Village book (see below)

REGENERATIVE SUSTAINABILITY CREATION DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER: @6:18

• Made final edits to the render for the Duplicable City Center outside portion of the natural pool (see below)
• Continued developing the lighting and textures for the render perspective for the natural pool area inside the Duplicable City Center Social Dome.
• Dipti Dhondarkar continued with her 25th week of work on the lighting specifics for the City Center (see below)
• Jinxi Feng continued her research helping us create an in-depth laundry and dryer machine sustainability analysis (see below)
• Guy Grossfeld further developed the render for the City Center root cellar (see below)
• Haoxuan “Hayes” Lei and Shuna Ni continued their work on the City Center brace details (see below)
• Ramya Vudi and Shubham Agrawal continued their work on the energy infrastructure for the City Center (see below)
• Mike Hogan and Lucas Tsutsui da Silva began a new round of development of the Control and Automation systems layout (see below)
• Jin Yu joined the team and completed her first week working on the concrete foundation design and tutorial details for the Duplicable City Center (see below)

REGENERATIVE SUSTAINABILITY CREATION HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY: @9:03

• Created a detailed list of next steps for developing the Highest Good Network (see below)
• Working with Ashwin Patil and Jennifer Zhou we completed another round of edits and launched the search engine for the Highest Good education component. We also continued development of the code needed for the Highest Good housing search engines for each village (see below)

REGENERATIVE SUSTAINABILITY CREATION SUMMARY: @9:28

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REGENERATIVE SUSTAINABILITY CREATION HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

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

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

This last week the core team transferred all of the written content for the Play Lesson Plan to the website, as you see here. This lesson plan purposed to teach all subjects, to all learning levels, in any learning environment, using the central theme of “Play” is now 100% completely written on our website.

Regenerative Sustainability Creation – Transferred 100% of Play Lesson Plan to Site ” Click to Visit

Behind the scenes, we completed 100% of the written part of the Sharing Lesson Plan.

We also completed the first 25% of the mindmap for the Cognition Lesson Plan, bringing it to 25% complete, which you see here:

Regenerative Sustainability Creation – Cognition Mindmap ” 25% Complete ” Click to Visit Page

REGENERATIVE SUSTAINABILITY CREATION HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

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

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

This last week the core team finished updating the anchor links and formatting the Food Bars page, bringing the page to ~10% completion:

Finished Updating the Anchor Links and Formatting the Food Bars Page – Click to Visit

REGENERATIVE SUSTAINABILITY CREATION HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

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

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

The core team working with Ashwini Ramesh (Civil Engineer and Project Manager) put another combined total of 15 hours into the crowdfunding campaign we are developing. This week’s focus was behind-the-scenes review and continued development of AutoCAD drawings and continued writing and editing of the Sustainable Site Selection, Planning and Preparation GoogleDoc that also contains the Site Clearing, Preparation, and Maintenance details. You can see some of this work here:

Worked Behind-the-Scenes Writing and Editing the Site Planning and Preparation Google Doc

The core team also further evolved last week’s main render from Guy Grossfeld (Graphic Designer) for the Shipping Container Village.

Regenerative Sustainability Creation – Further Evolved the Shipping Container Village Render

We then updated all associated web pages and 7 villages online book with the new version:

Updated Webpages and 7 Villages Online Book with the New Version – Click for Shipping Container

In addition to this, the core team continued working on the renders for the Communal Eco-shower Structures that are part of the Earthbag Village (Pod 1). This week we updated the central sink area with additional under sink storage units and we updated the shape/texture of the mirrors over the sinks.

Continued Working on Renders for Communal Eco-shower Structures in the Earthbag Village

Adrienne Gould-Choquette (Mechanical Engineer) also finished her 4th week helping create the standardized AutoCAD layers and line weights template. This week’s focus was further applying it to the Shipping Container Village (Pod 5) and adding what is needed to gather input from other disciplines.

Continued Creation of Standardized AutoCAD Layers and Line Weights Template ” Click for Page

Dean Scholz (Architectural Designer), continued helping us create quality Cob Village (Pod 3) renders. Here is update 51 of his work that continues focusing on lighting, texture and other aesthetic details inside the homes. In the Video portion of the blog you can see the progression of a series of 70 renders showing this development and finishing with his final 3 newest ones:

Regenerative Sustainability Creation – Continued Creating Quality Cob Village Renders ” Click to Visit

Adding details to Dean’s previous work, Guy Grossfeld (Graphic Designer) added people and nature elements to create this new final render of the Front External View Looking East for the Cob Village.

Final Render of the Front External View Looking East – Click to Visit Page

Jiming Chen (Designer with his Master’s in Architecture and BA in Engineering) also continued helping develop the Tree House Village (Pod 7). What you see here is his 10th week of this work focusing on test rendering a variety of different perspectives within the village.

Regenerative Sustainability Creation – Continued Helping Develop the Tree House Village

Regenerative Sustainability Creation – Tree House Village – Click for Page

Hamilton Mateca (AutoCAD and Revit Drafter and Designer) also finished his 27th week helping with the Compressed Earth Block Village (Pod 4) design details. This week’s focus was continued lighting details and further development of the external village specifics.

Regenerative Sustainability Creation – Continued Evolving the Compressed Earth Block Village

Zachary Melin (Graphic Designer) also continued developing the Tree House Village (Pod 7) book. What you see here is week 20 of this work that produced these two custom made 3D sections for page 56. 

Continued Developing the Tree House Village Book ” Click to Visit Page

REGENERATIVE SUSTAINABILITY CREATION DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

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

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

This week the core team made final edits to this render for the Duplicable City Center outside portion of the natural pool.

Made Final Edits to Render for Duplicable City Center Outside Portion of the Natural Pool

And we continued developing the lighting and textures for the render perspective for the natural pool area inside the Duplicable City Center Social Dome.

Continued Working on the Natural Pool Area Inside the Duplicable City Center Social Dome

And Dipti Dhondarkar, (Electrical Engineer) continued with her 25th week of work on the lighting specifics for the City Center. This week’s focus was finishing adding and updating the type of bulb details, watts per zone, and minimum lumens and lights details to the zone spreadsheet, as seen here.

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

Jinxi Feng (Environmental Consultant) also continued her research helping us create an in-depth laundry and dryer machine sustainability analysis. What you see here is her 17th week of behind-the-scenes work on this area of the project. This week’s focus was continued development of the data for the tutorial and adding details to the open source tool to help people understand how we came to our conclusions for comparing water and energy savings with different washers and dryers.

Continued Research for in-Depth Laundry and Dryer Machine Sustainability Analysis ” Click to Visit

Guy Grossfeld (Graphic Designer) further developed the City Center root cellar render:

Further Developed the City Center Root Cellar Render ” Click to Visit Page

Haoxuan “Hayes” Lei (Structural Engineer) and Shuna Ni (Masters of Mechanical Engineering and Civil Engineering PhD) also continued their work on the City Center brace details. What you see here are the design specifics and completed calculation and measurement details necessary for us to now model this in 3D.

Regenerative Sustainability Creation – Continued Working on the City Center Brace Details

Ramya Vudi (Electrical Engineer) and Shubham Agrawal (Electrical Engineer) continued their work on the energy infrastructure for the City Center. This week’s work focused on an initial lifestyle schedule and evaluating different solar scenarios and the associated effects on battery and solar panel array sizing.

Continued Working on Electrical and Control and Automation Systems Designs ” Click for Page

Mike Hogan (Automation Systems Developer and Business Systems Consultant) and Lucas Tsutsui da Silva (4th-year Computer Engineering Student) also began a new round of development of the Control and Automation systems layout. Here are pictures from the weekly development call where we focused on the root cellar, boiler room, and 1st floor details.

Began a New Round of Development of the Control and Automation Systems Layout – Click for Page

Jin Yu (Structural Engineering Designer) also joined the team and completed her first week working on the concrete foundation design and tutorial details for the Duplicable City Center. You can see a collage of some of this work here.

Worked on Concrete Foundation Design and Tutorial Details for Duplicable City Center – Click for Page

REGENERATIVE SUSTAINABILITY CREATION HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS

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

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

This week the core team created a detailed list of next steps for developing the Highest Good Network, as seen here:

Create a Detailed List of Next Steps for Developing the Highest Good Network – Click for Page

And, working with Ashwin Patil (Web Developer) and Jennifer Zhou (Web Designer), we completed another round of edits and launched the search engine for the Highest Good education component. We also continued development of the code needed for the Highest Good housing search engines for each village.

Continued Working on the Search Engine for Education and Developed Code for Housing Search

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WHAT ONE COMMUNITY IS CREATING

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

Our goal is to demonstrate what we feel is the most sustainable, healthy, and fun environment we can create. 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 regenerative sustainability creation.

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.

Open source and free-shared designs are one approach for jump starting global eco-communities. Designs like this can cover all aspects of eco-community establishment and maintenance while also providing templates for stand-alone implementation by individuals too. Comprehensively providing models like this has the potential to influence and stimulate the entire sustainability industry, moving us closer to global sustainability and Highest Good living models for all.

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

OUR MAIN OPEN SOURCE HUBS

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

One Community’s physical location will forward this movement as the first of many self-replicating teacher/demonstration communities, villages, and cities to be built around the world. This is the January 8th, 2017 edition (#198) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments:

Jump Starting Global Eco-Communities
One Community Progress Update #198

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

JUMP STARTING GLOBAL ECO-COMMUNITIES INTRO: @1:03

JUMP STARTING GLOBAL ECO-COMMUNITIES HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION: @2:01

• Transferred all the written content for the Cosmos Lesson Plan to the website (see below)
• Behind the scenes: completed 100% of the written part of the Play Lesson Plan (see below)
• Completed the final 25% of the mindmap for the Consciousness Lesson Plan (see below)

JUMP STARTING GLOBAL ECO-COMMUNITIES HIGHEST GOOD FOOD: @2:57

• Finished updating the anchor links on all of the new food pages (see below)

JUMP STARTING GLOBAL ECO-COMMUNITIES HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING: @3:38

• Put another combined total of 20 hours into the crowdfunding campaign we are developing along with Ashwini Ramesh (see below)
• Created 20 new pages of the web infrastructure for sustainable villages #’s 3-7 (see below)
• Created 5 new layout outlines for the 7 villages online book (see below)
• Created and added to the book and website two final renders of the Recycled Materials Village Dance Studio and Music Room (see below)
• Continued working on the renders for the Communal Eco-shower Structures that are part of the Earthbag Village (see below)
• Adrienne Gould-Choquette continued working on standardized AutoCAD layers and line weights template (see below)
• Lianyi Zhao continued working on Net-zero Communal Bathroom modeling (see below)
• Dean Scholz continued helping us create quality Cob Village renders Â (see below)
• Hamilton Mateca continued helping with Compressed Earth Block Village design details (see below)
• Aparna Tandon continued working on Compressed Earth Block Village external elements (see below)
• Guy Grossfeld created the new and final main Shipping Container Village render (see below)
• Zachary Melin continued developing the Tree House Village book (see below)

JUMP STARTING GLOBAL ECO-COMMUNITIES DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER: @7:06

• Continued render and book layout creation for the Duplicable City Center (see below)
• Created a new render for the natural pool area inside the Duplicable City Center Social Dome (see below)
• Guy Grossfeld began working on adding food and people to render of City Center root cellar (see below)
• Haoxuan “Hayes” Lei and Shuna Ni continued their work on City Center structural engineering (see below)
• Ramya Vudi and Shubham Agrawal continued their work on the electrical and Control and Automation systems designs for the City Center with Mike Hogan (see below)

JUMP STARTING GLOBAL ECO-COMMUNITIES HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY: @8:35

• Dakota Kaiser began developing a new open source and replicable annual social media strategy (see below)
• Ashwin Patil completed the search engine functionality for the Highest Good education component (see below)
• Jennifer Zhou continued working on setting up the search engine icons and code for Highest Good housing village #3-7 (see below)

JUMP STARTING GLOBAL ECO-COMMUNITIES SUMMARY: @9:10

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JUMP STARTING GLOBAL ECO-COMMUNITIES HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

One Community is jump starting global eco-communities 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 last week the core team transferred all of the written content for the Cosmos Lesson Plan to the website, as you see here. This lesson plan purposed to teach all subjects, to all learning levels, in any learning environment, using the central theme of “Cosmos” is now 100% completely written on our website.

Jump Starting Global Eco-Communities – Transferred 100% of Cosmos Lesson Plan to Site

Behind the scenes, we completed 100% of the written part of the Play Lesson Plan.

We also completed the final 25% of the mindmap for the Consciousness Lesson Plan, bringing it to 100% complete, which you see here:

Jump Starting Global Eco-Communities – Consciousness Mindmap ” 100% Complete ” Click to Visit

JUMP STARTING GLOBAL ECO-COMMUNITIES HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

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

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

This week, the core team finished updating the anchor links on all of the new food pages; Vegan Rice Recipes & Omnivore Rice Recipes, Vegan Potato Recipes & Omnivore Potato Recipes, Vegan Sweet Potato Recipes & Omnivore Sweet Potato Recipes, and the Vegan Pasta Recipes & Omnivore Pasta Recipes pages, bringing all of the pages to ~60% completion:

Finished Updating the Anchor Links on All of New Food Pages – Click for Vegan Rice Recipes Page

JUMP STARTING GLOBAL ECO-COMMUNITIES HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

One Community is jump starting global eco-communities through Highest Good housing that is artistic and beautiful, more affordable, more space efficient, lasts longer, DIY buildable, and constructed with healthy and sustainable materials:

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

This last week the core team working with Ashwini Ramesh (Civil Engineer and Project Manager) put another combined total of 20 hours into the crowdfunding campaign we are developing. This week’s focus was behind-the-scenes writing and editing of the Sustainable Site Selection, Planning and Preparation GoogleDoc that also contains the Site Clearing, Preparation, and Maintenance details. You can see some of this work here:

Worked Behind-the-Scenes Writing and Editing the Site Planning and Preparation Google Doc

The core team also created 20 new pages of the web infrastructure for sustainable villages #’s 3-7. You can see a collage of this work here and access them all through the site map.

Created 20 New Pages of the Web Infrastructure for Sustainable Village #’s 3-7 – Click for Housing Page

And we created these 5 new layout outlines for the 7 villages online book:

Created 5 New Layout Outlines for 7 Villages Online Book – Click for Housing Page

The core team also created, and added to the book and website these two final renders of the Recycled Materials Village (Pod 6) Dance Studio and Music Room.

Jump Starting Global Eco-Communities – Recycled Materials Village Dance Studio Final Render

Jump Starting Global Eco-Communities – Recycled Materials Village Music Room Final Render

In addition to this, the core team continued working on the renders for the Communal Eco-shower Structures that are part of the Earthbag Village (Pod 1). This week we updated the texture of the walls, adjusted the lighting, and added internal details.

Continued Working on Renders for Communal Eco-shower Structures in the Earthbag Village

Earthbag Village Communal Shower and Net-Zero Bathroom Concept Render – Click for Page

Adrienne Gould-Choquette (Mechanical Engineer) also finished her 3rd week with the team, helping work on the standardized AutoCAD layers and line weights template we are creating. This week’s focus was adding a line weight index and updating and testing the tutorial by beginning to apply it to the Shipping Container Village (Pod 5), as shown here.

Continued Creation of Standardized AutoCAD Layers and Line Weights Template ” Click for Page

Lianyi Zhao (Mechanical Engineer) completed his 3rd week of working on the Net-zero Communal Bathroom modeling. This week’s focus was continued modeling of the structure and internal details for the shower structure and Net-zero bathrooms in the Earthbag Village (Pod 1).

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

Dean Scholz (Architectural Designer), continued helping us create quality Cob Village (Pod 3) renders. Here is update 50 of his work that continues focusing on internal home views. What you are seeing is a series of 66 renders (the final 7 are new) showing the testing and development of the lighting in one of these units.

Jump Starting Global Eco-Communities – Continued Creating Quality Cob Village Renders

Hamilton Mateca (AutoCAD and Revit Drafter and Designer) also finished his 25th week helping with the Compressed Earth Block Village (Pod 4) design details. This week’s focus was window and front entryway design and updates, as shown here.

Continued Evolving the Compressed Earth Block Village ” Click to Visit Page

Continued Work on Compressed Earth Block Village External Elements ” Click to Visit Page

Guy Grossfeld (Graphic Designer) also created this new and final main Shipping Container Village (Pod 5) render, fixing several alignment issues and external elements.

Created Main Shipping Container Village Final Render ” Click to Visit Page

Zachary Melin (Graphic Designer) also continued developing the Tree House Village (Pod 7) book. What you see here is week 19 of this work that produced new versions of pages 54 and 55, as shown here!

Continued Developing the Tree House Village Book – Click to Visit Page

JUMP STARTING GLOBAL ECO-COMMUNITIES DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

One Community is jump starting global eco-communities 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 render and book layout creation for the Duplicable City Center. This included adding people to this render of the outside portion of the natural pool and this new layout for the page of the book that will feature the pool and the library.

Continued Render and Book Layout Creation for the Duplicable City Center – Click to Visit Page

The core team also created a new render for the natural pool area inside the Duplicable City Center Social Dome. We removed a few plants to open up the area and added additional lighting and other aesthetic details.

Created New Render for Natural Pool Area Inside the City Center Social Dome – Click for Page

Guy Grossfeld (Graphic Designer) began working on adding food and people to this render of the City Center root cellar.

Added Food and People to City Center Root Cellar Render – Click to Visit Page

Haoxuan “Hayes” Lei (Structural Engineer) and Shuna Ni (Masters of Mechanical Engineering and Civil Engineering PhD) also continued their work on the City Center structural engineering. This week’s work was initial section drawings for the braces, as show here.

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

Ramya Vudi (Electrical Engineer) and Shubham Agrawal (Electrical Engineer) continued their work on the electrical and Control and Automation systems designs for the City Center with Mike Hogan (Automation Systems Developer and Business Systems Consultant). Here are pictures of this week’s collaborative call and the results of last week’s work calculating the updated battery and solar panel array sizing.

Continued Working on Electrical and Control and Automation Systems Designs ” Click for Page

JUMP STARTING GLOBAL ECO-COMMUNITIES HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS

One Community is jump starting global eco-communities through a Highest Good society approach to living that is founded on fulfilled living, the study of meeting human needs, Community, and making a difference in the world:

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

This week the core team, working with Dakota Kaiser (Ambassador of The Tribe of Awakening Sovereignty), began developing a new open source and replicable annual social media strategy.

Jump Starting Global Eco-Communities, Developing a new open source & annual Social Media Strategy

Ashwin Patil (Web Developer) also completed the search engine functionality for the Highest Good education component. You can see a collage of this new functionality here.

Completed Search Engine Functionality for Highest Good Education Component – Click for Page

And Jennifer Zhou (Web Designer) continued working on setting up the search engine icons and code for all the open source components of Highest Good housing village numbers three through seven.

Jump Starting Global Eco-Communities – Working on the Icons for Insertion into the Search Engine

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

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

 

INVESTOR PAGES

OVERVIEW | LOCATION | FUNDING

GET INVOLVED

CONSULTANTS | WAYS ANYONE CAN HELP | MEMBERSHIP

CLICK HERE FOR ALL PAST UPDATES

WHAT ONE COMMUNITY IS CREATING

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

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

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

Creating a cooperative future is possible if enough people want it. We can change the societal norms of competition to norms of collaboration if we choose to. One way to achieve sufficient engagement and participation in this idea is to create an open source and free-shared model that demonstrates this on a small-scale while providing a better way of living than the way most people are living now. Such a model, if demonstrated as easy enough and affordable enough, will predictably spread and expand on its own. We are designing this as what we call living and creating for The Highest Good of All.

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

OUR MAIN OPEN SOURCE HUBS

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

One Community’s physical location will forward this movement of creating a cooperative future as the first of many self-replicating teacher/demonstration communities, villages, and cities to be built around the world. This is the January 1st, 2017 edition (#197) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments:

Creating a Cooperative Future
One Community Progress Update #197

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

CREATING A COOPERATIVE FUTURE INTRO: @1:03

CREATING A COOPERATIVE FUTURE HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION: @2:04

• Transferred the final 25% of the written content for the Cognition Lesson Plan to the website (see below)
• Behind the scenes: wrote the final 75% section of the written part of the Cosmos Lesson Plan
• Completed the third 25% of the mindmap for the Consciousness Lesson Plan (see below)

CREATING A COOPERATIVE FUTURE HIGHEST GOOD FOOD: @3:01

• Finished reformatting and adding sections to the Vegan Sweet Potato Recipes & Omnivore Sweet Potato Recipes pages (see below)

CREATING A COOPERATIVE FUTURE HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING: @3:34

• Finished final 15% of the Earthbag Municipal/County Involvement and Permitting page (see below)
• Updated the Recycled Materials Village floor plans, added them to the site, and worked some more on updating the related details for the 7 villages online book (see below)
• Worked on renders for the Earthbag Village bathroom and shower structures (see below)
• Adrienne Gould-Choquette helped work on the standardized AutoCAD layers and line weights template we are creating (see below)
• Fernando Remolina continued managing the Vermiculture Bathroom development with help from Lin Xu and Jianyu “Lucas” Liang (see below)
• Lianyi Zhao completed his 2nd week of working on the Net-zero Communal Bathroom modeling (see below)
• Dean Scholz continued helping us create quality Cob Village renders (see below)
• Hamilton Mateca finished his 24th week helping with the Compressed Earth Block Village design details (see below)
• Aparna Tandon continued her work on the Compressed Earth Block Village external elements (see below)
• Guy Grossfeld created this 1st generation update of the main Shipping Container Village render (see below)

CREATING A COOPERATIVE FUTURE DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER: @6:55

• Continued render creation for the Duplicable City Center which included more work on the natural pool area (see below)
• Created a new render for the Duplicable City Center Dining Dome (see below)
• Oruba Rabie joined the team and helped double check all structural engineering details for the City Center (see below)
• Dipti Dhondarkar continued with her 24th week of work on the lighting specifics for the City Center (see below)
• Jinxi Feng continued her research helping us create an in-depth laundry and dryer machine sustainability analysis (see below)
• Ramya Vudi and Shubham Agrawal continued their work on the electrical and Control and Automation systems designs for the City Center (see below)
• Lucas Tsutsui da Silva finished updating the Control and Automation systems layout to reflect the most recent design changes (see below)
• Mike Hogan continued work on the hardware designs for the Control and Automation systems (see below)

CREATING A COOPERATIVE FUTURE HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY: @9:39

• Began exploring and testing new options and looks for the video introduction we use for the project (see below)
• Ashwin Patil completed a new image code page and template for easier insertion and formatting of images throughout the site (see below)
• Jennifer Zhou continued working on setting up the icons for insertion into the search engine she and Ashwin are building (see below)

CREATING A COOPERATIVE FUTURE SUMMARY: @10:12

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CREATING A COOPERATIVE FUTURE HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

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

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

This last week the core team transferred the final 25% of the written content for the Cognition Lesson Plan to the website, as you see here. This lesson plan purposed to teach all subjects, to all learning levels, in any learning environment, using the central theme of “Cognition” is now 100% completed on our website.

Creating a Cooperative Future – Transferred Final 25% of Cognition Lesson Plan to Site ” Click to Visit

Behind the scenes, we wrote the final 75% section of the written part of the Cosmos Lesson Plan.

We also completed the third 25% of the mindmap for the Consciousness Lesson Plan, bringing it to 75% complete, which you see here:

Creating a Cooperative Future – Consciousness Mindmap ” 75% Complete ” Click to Visit

CREATING A COOPERATIVE FUTURE HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

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

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

This last week the core team finished reformatting and adding sections to the Vegan Sweet Potato Recipes & Omnivore Sweet Potato Recipes pages, bringing both of the pages to 60% completion. You can see a sample of that work here, on the vegan sweet potato recipe page:

Reformatted and Added Sections to the Vegan Sweet Potato Recipes Page ” Click to Visit

CREATING A COOPERATIVE FUTURE HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

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

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

The core team also finished the final 15% of the Earthbag Municipal/County Involvement and Permitting page. The page is now complete and you can see some of the final details completed this week here:

Finished Final 15% of Earthbag Municipal/County Involvement and Permitting Page – Click to Visit

The core team also updated the Recycled Materials Village (Pod 6) floor plans, added them to the site…

Creating a Cooperative Future – Updated the Recycled Materials Village Floor Plans – Click for Page

….and we worked some more on updating the related details for the 7 villages online book:

Updated the Recycled Village Related Details for the 7 Villages Online Book – Click for Housing Page

In addition to this, the core team worked on these renders for the Earthbag Village (Pod 1) bathroom and shower structures. We added textures to the water in the pool, updated the roof details for the Net-zero Communal Bathroom, Communal Eco-shower Structures, and Vermiculture Toilet structures, updated the texture and color of the walkways, and adjusted the shadows.

Earthbag Village Communal Shower and Net-Zero Bathroom Concept Render View Looking Northeast

Earthbag Village Communal Shower and Net-Zero Bathroom Concept Render View Looking East

Earthbag Village Communal Shower and Net-Zero Bathroom Concept Render View Looking South

Earthbag Village Vermiculture Toilets View Looking Southwest – Click for Vermiculture Page

Adrienne Gould-Choquette (Mechanical Engineer) also finished her 2nd week with the team, helping work on the standardized AutoCAD layers and line weights template we are creating. Here are screenshots of our collaborative call discussing this work:

Continued Creation of Standardized AutoCAD Layers and Line Weights Template ” Click for Page

Fernando Remolina (Industrial Engineer specializing in Project Management) continued with his 11th week of managing the Vermiculture Bathroom development with the 6th week of help from Lin Xu (Mechanical Engineering Student) and Jianyu “Lucas” Liang (Mechanical Engineer). This week’s focus, as shown here, was exploration and design evolutions for the connection of the toilets to the main unit and the emptying and removal chamber:

Creating a Cooperative Future – Continued Work on the Vermiculture Bathroom ” Click for Page

Lianyi Zhao (Mechanical Engineer) completed his 2nd week of working on the Net-zero Communal Bathroom modeling. This week he created a section view in AutoCAD and continued designing the shower structure and Net-zero bathrooms in SolidWorks, adding details for the surrounding area in the Earthbag Village (Pod 1), as shown here.

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

Dean Scholz (Architectural Designer), continued helping us create quality Cob Village (Pod 3) renders. Here is update 49 of his work that is now focusing on internal home views. What you are seeing is a series of 59 renders (the final 11 are new) showing the testing and development of the lighting in one of these units.

Creating a Cooperative Future – Continued Creating Quality Cob Village Renders ” Click to Visit

Hamilton Mateca (AutoCAD and Revit Drafter and Designer) also finished his 24th week helping with the Compressed Earth Block Village (Pod 4) design details. This week’s focus was updating the window plan for the main meeting and events hall, adding another meeting room, adding missing column support for the 2nd floor, and continuing to develop different lighting, texture, and furniture details.

Creating a Cooperative Future – Continued Evolving the Compressed Earth Block Village ” Click to Visit

Continued Work on Compressed Earth Block Village External Elements ” Click to Visit Page

Guy Grossfeld (Graphic Designer) also created this 1st generation update of the main Shipping Container Village (Pod 5) render with a new background to match all the other shipping container renders Guy helped finalize.

Created the 1st Generation Update of Main Shipping Container Village – Click to Visit Page

CREATING A COOPERATIVE FUTURE DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

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

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

This week the core team continued render creation for the Duplicable City Center. This included finalizing the 3D design and placement work for these three natural pool area renders. Next step will be adding details using PhotoShop.

Natural Pool Concept Render – Outside View Looking Southeast – Click to Visit Page

Natural Pool Concept Render – Outside View Looking Northeast – Click to Visit Page

Natural Pool Concept Render – Outside View Looking Down – Click to Visit Page

The core team also created a new render for the Duplicable City Center Dining Dome. This render was created to reflect color changes to the inside of the dome and also included a slight shift in perspective and updates to the people within the structure:

Updated Render for the Duplicable City Center Dining Dome – Click for Page

Oruba Rabie (Ph.D, PE, and Civil Engineer) joined the team and completed her first week of helping double check all the structural engineering details for the City Center. Here you see her notes for the beginning of the dome snow and wind loads:

Helped Double Check all Structural Engineering Details for the City Center – Click to Visit Page

And Dipti Dhondarkar, (Electrical Engineer) continued with her 24th week of work on the lighting specifics for the City Center. This week’s focus was finishing the calculations for how many bulbs will be needed in each zone (now that we’ve chosen them), as shown by the new “Lamps” column in the spreadsheet here.

Creating a Cooperative Future – Continued Working on the Lighting Specifics for the City Center

Jinxi Feng (Environmental Consultant) also continued her research helping us create an in-depth laundry and dryer machine sustainability analysis. What you see here is her 16th week of behind-the-scenes work on this area of the project. This week’s focus was continued development of the formatting and structure of the open source tool to compare water and energy savings with different washers and dryers.

Continued Research for in-Depth Laundry and Dryer Machine Sustainability Analysis ” Click to Visit

Ramya Vudi (Electrical Engineer) and Shubham Agrawal (Electrical Engineer) continued their work on the electrical and Control and Automation systems designs for the City Center. What you see here are a couple photos from the weekly collaborative call with Mike Hogan (Automation Systems Developer and Business Systems Consultant) and some of their notes from this week’s work researching conductors, categorizing electrical components, and sizing conduit.

Continued Working on Electrical and Control and Automation Systems Designs – Click for Page

Lucas Tsutsui da Silva (4th-year Computer Engineering Student) also finished updating the Control and Automation systems layout to reflect the most recent design changes for the building. You can see this work here and on the site in a version you can click to enlarge.

Finished Updating the Control and Automation Systems Layout – Click to Enlarge

Mike Hogan (Automation Systems Developer and Business Systems Consultant) also continued work on the hardware designs for the Control and Automation systems. You can see him here, holding a version he’s testing on his farm in Canada.

Continued Work on Hardware Designs for Control and Automation Systems – Click to Visit Page

CREATING A COOPERATIVE FUTURE HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS

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

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

This week the core team began exploring and testing new options and looks for the video introduction we use for the project. This collage shows some of the team’s work in this area.

Began Exploring and Testing New Options for the Video Introduction – Click for Home Page

Ashwin Patil (Web Developer) also completed this new image code page and template for easier insertion and formatting of images throughout the site.

Creating a Cooperative Future – Completed this New Image Code Page and Template – Click to Visit

And Jennifer Zhou (Web Designer) continued working on setting up the icons for insertion into the search engine she and Ashwin are building. You can see some examples of these icons and the partial code here.

Continued Working on the Icons for Insertion into the Search Engine – Click for Home Page

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

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

 

INVESTOR PAGES

OVERVIEW | LOCATION | FUNDING

GET INVOLVED

CONSULTANTS | WAYS ANYONE CAN HELP | MEMBERSHIP

CLICK HERE FOR ALL PAST UPDATES

The time has come for solutioneering communities to rise to the task of creating a global cooperative capable of creating a sustainable world for all. Open source and free-shared tools, tutorials anstructural engineering detailed resources for food, energy, housing, education, Highest Good economic design, social architecture, fulfilled living, global stewardship practices, and more are already under development to support such a cooperative. Through this open source foundation, we hope to shift global thinking and living to models of cooperation instead of competition and, for the first time in human history, a sustainable world for The Highest Good of all 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. This is the December 25th, 2016 edition (#196) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments:

Solutioneering Communities
One Community Progress Update #196

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

SOLUTIONEERING COMMUNITIES INTRO: @1:03

SOLUTIONEERING COMMUNITIES HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION: @2:01

• Transferred the third 25% of the written content for the Cognition Lesson Plan to the website (see below)
• Behind the scenes: wrote the first 25% section of the written part of the Cosmos Lesson Plan
• Completed the second 25% of the mindmap for the Consciousness Lesson Plan (see below)
• Finished updating the icons across all the Lesson Plan pages  (see below)

SOLUTIONEERING COMMUNITIES HIGHEST GOOD FOOD: @3:08

• Finished reformatting and adding sections to the Vegan Pasta Recipes & Omnivore Pasta Recipes pages (see below)
• Created another update for the appearance of the Highest Good food icons and updated them on all pages (see below)

SOLUTIONEERING COMMUNITIES HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING: @3:47

• Put another combined total of 20 hours into the crowdfunding campaign we are developing along with Ashwini Ramesh (see below)
• Continued developing the Earthbag Municipal/County Involvement and Permitting page (see below)
• Reorganized all images for the Recycled Materials Village into their respective floors and added initial descriptions for each one (see below)
• Completed final edits to Tropical Atrium renders and added them to Earthbag Village page along with the versions without people to Tropical Atrium (see below)
• Incorporated the new Tropical Atrium into the 7 villages online book along with updates to the front spread and final render of the Game Room for the Recycled Materials Village (see below)
• Created new earthbag village water saving net-zero communal toilet page featuring the designs of Samuel Soroaster (see below)
• Adrienne Gould-Choquette joined the team and took over creation of the standardized AutoCAD layers and line weights template we are creating (see below)
• Fernando Remolina continued with his 10th week of managing the Vermiculture Bathroom development with the 5th week of help from Lin Xu and Jianyu “Lucas” Liang (see below)
• Lianyi Zhao joined the team and began his 1st week of working on the Net-zero Communal Bathroom Designs (see below)
• Dean Scholz continued helping us create quality Cob Village renders (see below)
• Hamilton Mateca finished his 23rd week helping with the Compressed Earth Block Village design details (see below)
• Aparna Tandon continued her work on the Compressed Earth Block Village external elements (see below)
• Guy Grossfeld helped with some additional 3DSMax visualization testing of another of the zones for the Compressed Earth Block Village (see below)
• Zachary Melin continued developing the Tree House Village book (see below)

SOLUTIONEERING COMMUNITIES DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER: @7:34

• Continued render creation for the Duplicable City Center which included more work on the natural pool area
• Haoxuan “Hayes” Lei and Shuna Ni continued their work on the City Center structural engineering
• Dipti Dhondarkar continued with her 23rd week of work on the lighting specifics for the City Center
• Jinxi Feng continued her research helping us create an in-depth laundry and dryer machine sustainability analysis
• Renan Dantas continued with his 5th week working on creating our next generation of Duplicable City Center sections, layout organization, layer updates, and color updates

SOLUTIONEERING COMMUNITIES HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY: @9:29

• Yuri Witte completed his 8th week of helping create the music that will accompany our new overview video (see below)
• Ashwin Patil completed more development of the new search engine (see below)

SOLUTIONEERING COMMUNITIES SUMMARY: @10:02

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SOLUTIONERRING COMMUNITIES HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

One Community is solutioneering communities 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 last week the core team transferred the third 25% of the written content for the Cognition Lesson Plan to the website, as you see here. This lesson plan purposed to teach all subjects, to all learning levels, in any learning environment, using the central theme of “Cognition” is now 75% completed on our website.

Transferred Third 25% of Cognition Lesson Plan to Site ” Click to Visit Page

Behind the scenes, we wrote the first 25% section of the written part of the Cosmos Lesson Plan.

We also completed the second 25% of the mindmap for the Consciousness Lesson Plan, bringing it to 50% complete, which you see here:

Solutioneering Communities – Consciousness Mindmap ” 50% Complete ” Click to Visit Page

And we finished updating the icons across all the Lesson Plan pages, here’s an example and we are now 90% done with the total icon update for the Highest Good Education component.

Solutioneering Communities – Updated the Icons Across All the Lesson Plan Pages – Click to Visit

SOLUTIONEERING COMMUNITIES HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

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

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

This week, the core team finished reformatting and adding sections to the Vegan Pasta Recipes & Omnivore Pasta Recipes pages, bringing both of the pages to 60% completion. You can see a sample of that work here, on the vegan pasta recipe page:

Solutioneering Communities – Reformatted and Added Sections to the Vegan Pasta Recipes Page

We also did another update for the appearance of the Highest Good food icons and then updated them on all pages of the website, here’s a picture of the new icons:

Updated Appearance of the Food Icons and Updated on all the Pages – Click to Visit the Page

SOLUTIONEERING COMMUNITIES HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

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

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

The core team working with Ashwini Ramesh (Civil Engineer and Project Manager) put another combined total of 20 hours into the crowdfunding campaign we are developing. This week’s focus was more AutoCAD image creation….

Worked on AutoCAD Image Creation for Crowdfunding Campaign – Click for Page

….and developing the second half of the Earthbag Municipal/County Involvement and Permitting page:

Developing the 2nd Half of Earthbag Municipal/County Involvement and Permitting Page

The core team also reorganized all the images for the Recycled Materials Village (Pod 6) into their respective floors and added initial descriptions for each one. You can see a sample of that work here:

Reorganized all Images for the Recycled Materials Village into their Respective Floors – Click for Page

We also added these three new renders of the living spaces:

Recycled Materials Village Final Render of Kitchen Dining Area – Click to Visit Page

Recycled Materials Village Final Render of Large Bedroom – Click to Visit Page

Recycled Materials Village Final Render of Bedroom Perspective – Click to Visit Page

Then we completed final edits to the three Tropical Atrium renders shown here and added them to the Earthbag Village (Pod 1) page…

Solutioneering Communities – Tropical Atrium Final Render ” View Looking Northeast

Solutioneering Communities – Tropical Atrium Final Render ” View Looking South

Solutioneering Communities – Tropical Atrium Final Render ” View Looking West

along with the versions without people to the Tropical Atrium page….

Solutioneering Communities – Tropical Atrium Final Render ” Plan View – Click for Page

Tropical Atrium Final Render ” Before and After Planting Plan – Click for Page

Solutioneering Communities – Tropical Atrium Final Render ” View Looking Southwest – Click for Page

….and incorporated them into the 7 villages online book along with updates to the front spread:

Incorporated Tropical Atrium Images into 7 Villages Online Book – Click To Visit Page

….and final render of the Game Room for the Recycled Materials Village (Pod 6) :

Solutioneering Communities – Recycled Materials Village Game Room Final Render – Click for Page

In addition to this, we created this new earthbag village water saving net-zero communal toilet page featuring the designs of Samuel Soroaster, Permaculturalist, Sustainable Builder, PhD, and founder of Green New World.

Created New Earthbag Village Water Saving Net-zero Communal Toilet Page – Click to Visit

Adrienne Gould-Choquette (Mechanical Engineer) joined the team and finished her first week by taking over creation of the standardized AutoCAD layers and line weights template we are creating. You can see some of how this is developing with these images of the work-in-progress here.

Took Over Creation of Standardized AutoCAD Layers and Line Weights Template – Click for Page

Fernando Remolina (Industrial Engineer specializing in Project Management) continued with his 10th week of managing the Vermiculture Bathroom development with the 5th week of help from Lin Xu (Mechanical Engineering Student) and Jianyu “Lucas” Liang (Mechanical Engineer). This week’s focus, as shown here, was drain design and exploring different ways to connect the main unit to the toilets above.

Solutioneering Communities – Continued Work on the Vermiculture Bathroom – Click for Page

Lianyi Zhao (Mechanical Engineer) joined the team and began his 1st week of working on the Net-zero Communal Bathroom Designs. This week he began remodeling the designs to better match the AutoCAD drawing and adding SolidWorks model details for the surrounding area in the Earthbag Village (Pod 1).

Began Working on the Net-zero Communal Bathroom Designs – Click to Visit Page

Solutioneering Communities – Continued Creating Quality Cob Village Renders ” Click to Visit Page

Hamilton Mateca (AutoCAD and Revit Drafter and Designer) also finished his 23rd week helping with the Compressed Earth Block Village (Pod 4) design details. This week’s focus was on developing the front and back perspectives, internal views of the hallways and some of the rooms, roof textures, and other details shown here.

Continued Evolving the Compressed Earth Block Village ” Click to Visit Page

Aparna Tandon (Architect) additionally continued her work on the Compressed Earth Block Village external elements. What you see here is her 13th week of work, focusing on exploring new elements for meditation labyrinth and surrounding areas, adding amphitheater seating, a walking path, and other planting-plan details, as shown here.

Continued Work on Compressed Earth Block Village External Elements ” Click to Visit Page

Working off of Aparna’s work, Guy Grossfeld (Graphic Designer) helped with some additional 3DSMax visualization testing of another of the zones for the Compressed Earth Block Village (Pod 4), as shown here.

Helped with DSMax Visualization Testing for the Compressed Earth Block Village – Click for Page

Zachary Melin (Graphic Designer) also continued developing the Tree House Village (Pod 7) book. What you see here is week 18 of this work that continued with another update to page 51 and newly update pages 52 and 53.

Solutioneering Communities – Continued Developing the Tree House Village Book – Click to Visit

SOLUTIONEERING COMMUNITIES DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

One Community is solutioneering communities 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 render creation for the Duplicable City Center. This included more work on the natural pool area where added pond water and bottom-of-the-pond textures, water plants and lilies, and bike racks and bikes…

Continued Working on the Natural Pool Area Renders ” Click for Page

…plus updating this dining dome render with the new internal color scheme.

Updated Dining Dome Render with New Internal Color Scheme – Click for Duplicable City Center

Haoxuan “Hayes” Lei (Structural Engineer) and Shuna Ni (Masters of Mechanical Engineering and Civil Engineering PhD) also continued their work on the City Center structural engineering. This week’s work was continued calculations for the braces and columns and merging and updating all the AutoCAD files to confirm consistency.

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

And Dipti Dhondarkar, (Electrical Engineer) continued with her 23rd week of work on the lighting specifics for the City Center. This week’s focus was beginning the calculations for how many bulbs will be needed in each zone (now that we’ve chosen them) and beginning to update the spreadsheet, as shown here.

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

Jinxi Feng (Environmental Consultant) also continued her research helping us create an in-depth laundry and dryer machine sustainability analysis. What you see here is her 16th week of behind-the-scenes work on this area of the project. This week’s focus was beginning creation of an open source tool to compare water and energy savings with different washers and dryers. You can see screenshots of this amazing tool here:

Continued Research for in-Depth Laundry and Dryer Machine Sustainability Analysis ” Click to Visit

And Renan Dantas (Mechanical Engineer) continued with his 5th week working on creating our next generation of Duplicable City Center sections, layout organization, layer updates, and color updates. You can see the most recent colors, formatting, and updates here.

Continued Creating our Next Generation of Duplicable City Center Section Drawings ” Click to Visit

SOLUTIONEERING COMMUNITIES HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS

One Community is solutioneering communities 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 Yuri Witte (Music Composer and Sound Designer)” completed his 8th week of helping create the music that will accompany the new overview video we are planning. This week’s focus was writing a new audio for the background of these blogs. You can hear this here and you can visit Yuri’s SoundCloud to hear his other work with us.

Continued Creating Music that Will Accompany the New Overview Video ” Click for Yuri’s Soundcloud

Ashwin Patil (Web Developer) also completed more development of the new search engine beginning to integrate a decision to create multiple smaller engines and successfully testing 3 huge demo engines on one page.

Continued Working on the New Search Engine – Click to Visit Home Page

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One Community welcomes Jiming Chen to the Design Team as our newest Volunteer/Consultant!

Designer and Aspiring Architect and Fabricator: Jiming Chen finished a 5-year architecture major and received a Bachelor of Engineering with distinction and excellent academic standing from Guangxi University in China. He gained professional practice experience at ADEPT, in Guangzhou, where he participated in the Hengyang City Design International Competition and was awarded 1st prize. He received his Master of Architecture degree from the University of Michigan, where he participated in multiple experimental seminars and design studios. His works range from materials study, architectural representation, graphic design, digital fabrication, residential innovation, to world-making and utopian project design. He is passionate about exploring the mediation between imagination and physical environment with spatial narrative and materials of varied forms. As a One Community Volunteer, Jiming is helping with the open source and sustainable Tree House Village designs and visualizations.

WELCOME TO THE TEAM JIMING!

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One Community welcomes Shuna Ni to the Engineering Team as our newest Volunteer/Consultant!

Structural Engineer: Shuna earned her BS in Civil Engineering from Central South University, China, her MS in Structural Engineering from Tongji University, China, and her PhD in Civil Engineering from Texas A&M University, Texas. Passionate about learning, Shuna also has over 7 years experience working a diversity of intern positions helping as a research assistant, teaching assistant, and now a volunteer with One Community. She is skilled in structural analysis using SAP 2000, ETABS, RISA-3D, PERFORM 3D, et al. The projects she has participated in during her previous professional experiences range from timber structures to steel structures. Born and growing up on an island, Shuna has witnessed rapid environmental changes and an increasing frequency and severity of natural disasters impacting densely populated areas. This has driven her to learn and apply engineering principles and building-design tools to help produce economical, low-impact, and durable building systems. As a volunteer on the One Community Team, Shuna is applying all her experience and knowledge by helping with the structural engineering details for the Duplicable City Center.

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One Community is an all-volunteer nonprofit creating plans for building global sustainability hubs to teach all aspects of community and sustainable living. These plans include open source and free-shared tools, tutorials and resources for food, energy, housing, education, Highest Good economic design, social architecture, fulfilled living, global stewardship practices, and more. We see this as a path to a truly sustainable planet.

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

OUR MAIN OPEN SOURCE HUBS

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

One Community’s physical location will forward this movement as the first of many self-replicating teacher/demonstration communities, villages, and cities to be built around the world. This is the December 18th, 2016 edition (#195) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments:

Building Global Sustainability Hubs
One Community Progress Update #195

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

BUILDING GLOBAL SUSTAINABILITY HUBS INTRO: @1:03

BUILDING GLOBAL SUSTAINABILITY HUBS HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION: @2:04

• Transferred second 25% of the written content for the Cognition Lesson Plan to the website (see below)
• Behind the scenes: wrote the final 25% section of the written part of the Cognition Lesson Plan
• Completed the first 25% of the mindmap for the Consciousness Lesson Plan (see below)
• Updated the icons on the Core Curriculum page (see below)
• Added a new resource section to all the education pages, with an example from our Ultimate Classroom page (see below)

BUILDING GLOBAL SUSTAINABILITY HUBS HIGHEST GOOD FOOD: @3:19

• Finished reformatting and adding sections to the Vegan Rice Recipes & Omnivore Rice Recipes pages (see below)
• Created the new Recipes Shortcode which can be seen at the bottom of every recipes page (see below)

BUILDING GLOBAL SUSTAINABILITY HUBS HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING: @3:56

• Ashwini Ramesh and the core team put another combined total of 20 hours into the crowdfunding campaign we are developing (see below)
• Reorganized all the images for the Shipping Container Village (see below)
• Created 30 housing icons each for Villages 3 thru 6 and updated the color of the Highest Good food icons (see below)
• Shadi Kennedy created 3 renders of the Tropical Atrium with people in them (see below)
• Dean Scholz continued helping us create quality Cob Village renders (see below)
• Hamilton Mateca continued helping with the Compressed Earth Block Village design details (see below)
• Aparna Tandon continued work on the Compressed Earth Block Village external elements (see below)
• Guy Grossfeld began 3D creation of Aparna’s work of the Compressed Earth Block Village using 3DSMax (see below)
• Jiming Chen continued helping develop the Tree House Village (see below)
• Zachary Melin continued developing the Tree House Village book (see below)

BUILDING GLOBAL SUSTAINABILITY HUBS DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER: @7:00

• Continued render creation for the Duplicable City Center (see below)
• Created final render of thenatural pool area central view looking northwest (see below)
• Iris Hsu continued her work on the recycled pipe shelving for the Duplicable City Center library (see below)
• Haoxuan “Hayes” Lei and Shuna Ni continued their work on the City Center structural engineering (see below)
• Neha Verma researched the most sustainable options for the exterior of the City Center (see below)
• Dipti Dhondarkar continued working on the lighting specifics for the City Center (see below)
• Jinxi Feng continued her research helping us create an in-depth laundry and dryer machine sustainability analysis (see below)
• Ramya Vudi, Shubham Agrawal , and Mike Hogan continued working on the Control and Automation systems electrical design (see below)
• Lucas Tsutsui da Silva finished first update of Control and Automation systems layout to reflect the most recent design changes (see below)
• Renan Dantas continued creating our next generation of Duplicable City Center section drawings (see below)

BUILDING GLOBAL SUSTAINABILITY HUBS HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY: @10:16

• Created new icons and updated them on the Copyrights, Trademarks, Patents and Using them to Support Open Source and Free-sharing page (see below)
• Yuri Witte continued helping create the music that will accompany the new overview video we are planning (see below)

BUILDING GLOBAL SUSTAINABILITY HUBS SUMMARY: @10:52

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BUILDING GLOBAL SUSTAINABILITY HUBS HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

One Community is creating plans for building global sustainability hubs 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 last week the core team transferred the second 25% of the written content for the Cognition Lesson Plan to the website, as you see here. This lesson plan purposed to teach all subjects, to all learning levels, in any learning environment, using the central theme of “Cognition” is now 50% completed on our website.

Transferred Second 25% of Cognition Lesson Plan to Site ” Click to Visit Page

Behind the scenes, we wrote the final 25% section of the written part of the Cognition Lesson Plan.

We also completed the first 25% of the mindmap for the Consciousness Lesson Plan, bringing it to 25% complete, which you see here:

Building Global Sustainability Hubs -Consciousness Mindmap ” 25% Complete ” Click to Visit Page

And we finished updating the icons across another 40% of the Education pages, bringing us to 80% complete there. What you see here is the Core Curriculum page, one of the most dramatically different looking pages after this update.

Continued Updating the Icons Across another 40% of the Education pages – Click for Core Curriculum

We also added a new resource section to all the education pages. Here’s an example of what this looks like from our Ultimate Classroom page.

Added a New Resource Section to All the Education Pages – Click to Visit the Ultimate Classroom Page

BUILDING GLOBAL SUSTAINABILITY HUBS HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

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

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

This week, the core team finished reformatting and adding sections to the Vegan Rice Recipes & Omnivore Rice Recipes. You can see a sample of that work here, on the vegan rice recipe page.

Reformatted and Added Sections to the Vegan Rice Recipes Page – Click to Visit

The core team also created the new recipes shortcode which can be seen at the bottom of every recipes page. You can see a picture of those icons here:

Created New Recipes Shortcode for New Icons – Click for Omnivore Rice Recipes Page

BUILDING GLOBAL SUSTAINABILITY HUBS HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

One Community is creating plans for building global sustainability hubs through Highest Good housing that is artistic and beautiful, more affordable, more space efficient, lasts longer, DIY buildable, and constructed with healthy and sustainable materials:

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

The core team working with Ashwini Ramesh (Civil Engineer and Project Manager) put another combined total of 20 hours into the crowdfunding campaign we are developing. This week’s focus was more AutoCAD image creation and creating the first 50% of the Earthbag Municipal/County Involvement and Permitting page you see here.

Created the First 50% of the Earthbag Municipal/County Involvement and Permitting Page

The core team also reorganized all the images for the Shipping Container Village (Pod 5) into their respective floors and added detailed descriptions for each one. You can see some of this work here:

Reorganized All the Images for the Shipping Container Village – Click for Page

We also created 30 housing icons each for Villages 3 thru 6, with the new icons from the Recycled Materials Village (Pod 6) shown here:

Created 30 Housing Icons Each for Villages 3 thru 6 – Click to Visit the Recycled Materials Village Page

…and we updated the color of the Highest Good food icons, which you can see here.

Building Global Sustainability Hubs -Updated the Color of the Highest Good Food Icons – Click to Visit

Shadi Kennedy (Artist and Graphic Designer) created these 3 renders of the Tropical Atrium with people in them. These now go to the core team for final review and edits.

Building Global Sustainability Hubs -Created 3 Renders of the Tropical Atrium with People Added

Dean Scholz (Architectural Designer), continued helping us create quality Cob Village (Pod 3) renders. Here is update 47 of his work that is now focusing on internal home views. What you are seeing is a sample of the series of 23 renders testing and developing the lighting in one of these units:

Building Global Sustainability Hubs -Continued Creating Quality Cob Village Renders ” Click to Visit

Hamilton Mateca (AutoCAD and Revit Drafter and Designer) also finished his 22nd week helping with the Compressed Earth Block Village (Pod 4) design details. This week’s focus was on kitchen visualizations as shown here:

Building Global Sustainability Hubs -Continued Evolving the Compressed Earth Block Village

Continued Work on Compressed Earth Block Village External Elements ” Click to Visit Page

Working off of Aparna’s work, Guy Grossfeld (Graphic Designer) began 3D creation of the same area of the Compressed Earth Block Village (Pod 4) using 3DSMax. This is so he can help with development of what this area will look like:

Began 3D Creation of Aparna’s Work of Compressed Earth Block Village – Click to Visit Page

Building Global Sustainability Hubs -Continued Helping Develop the Tree House Village

Continued Developing the Tree House Village Book- Click to Visit Page

BUILDING GLOBAL SUSTAINABILITY HUBS DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

One Community is creating plans for building global sustainability hubs 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 render creation for the Duplicable City Center. This included working on the natural pool area, where we placed sitting rocks around the walkway, added water lilies to the pond, and upgraded the compass for the circular walkway with a new stone/brick texture design.

Building Global Sustainability Hubs -Continued Working on the Natural Pool Area Renders

Also in the natural pool area, we added people and other aesthetic finishing touches to create this final render of the central view looking northwest.

Final Render of Inside Court Looking Northwest – Click to Visit Natural Pool Page

Iris Hsu, (Industrial Designer), also continued her work on the recycled pipe shelving for the Duplicable City Center library. This week’s focus was further development of the instructions by adding more renders, details for the tee joints, and details for the coupling fittings that will house the light socket.

Continued Working on the Recycled Pipe Shelving for the Library – Click for Page

Haoxuan “Hayes” Lei (Structural Engineer) and Shuna Ni (Masters of Mechanical Engineering and Civil Engineering PhD) also continued their work on the City Center structural engineering. This week’s work was additional calculations for the beams in the 2nd, 3rd, and 4th floor…

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

….and column loads for the entire structure:

Building Global Sustainability Hubs – Continued Calculations for City Center Column Loads

Neha Verma (Construction Project Manager and Bachelor’s of Architecture) researched the most sustainable options for the exterior of the City Center so we can start developing a water proofing page for this structure.

Researched Sustainable Options for the Exterior of the City Center – Click for Page

And Dipti Dhondarkar, (Electrical Engineer) continued with her 22nd week of work on the lighting specifics for the City Center. This week’s focus was finalizing the final four bulbs for inside and around the structure.

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

Jinxi Feng (Environmental Consultant) also continued her research helping us create an in-depth laundry and dryer machine sustainability analysis. What you see here is her 15th week of behind-the-scenes work on this area of the project. This week’s focus was further clarification of what a “household is” and calculating residential and commercial washer efficiency and comparing the two using laundry projections for 1, 5, 50, 100, and 500 households, as shown here.

Continued Research for in-Depth Laundry and Dryer Machine Sustainability Analysis ” Click to Visit

Ramya Vudi (Electrical Engineer), Shubham Agrawal (Electrical Engineer), and Mike Hogan (Automation Systems Developer and Business Systems Consultant) continued working on the electrical design for the Control and Automation systems. This week’s focus was research and selection of the conduit and discussions about panel design. What you see here are notes and photos from the weekly collaborative call.

Building Global Sustainability Hubs – Working on Electrical Design for Control & Automation Systems

Lucas Tsutsui da Silva (4th-year Computer Engineering Student) also finished this first update of the Control and Automation systems layout to reflect the most recent design changes for the building. You can see this work here:

Worked on the Control and Automation Systems Layout to Reflect the Most Recent Design Changes

And Renan Dantas (Mechanical Engineer) continued with his 4th week working on creating our next generation of Duplicable City Center section drawings. This week’s focus was reorganizing the complete Master File and further updates to layer organization, colors, and details for all the sections shown here.

Continued Creating our Next Generation of Duplicable City Center Section Drawings ” Click to Visit

BUILDING GLOBAL SUSTAINABILITY HUBS HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS

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

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

This week the core team created the new icons you see here and updated them on the Copyrights, Trademarks, Patents and Using them to Support Open Source and Free-sharing page and the 3 pages associated with this page.

Created New Icons and Updated them on a Few Pages, Including the Copyrights, Trademarks, Patents

Yuri Witte (Music Composer and Sound Designer)” completed his 7th week of helping create the music that will accompany the new overview video we are planning. What you hear in the background are versions 7.7 a, b, and c testing different instrument groups for the intro. You can visit Yuri’s SoundCloud to hear all previous versions.

Building Global Sustainability Hubs – Creating Music that Will Accompany the New Overview Video

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One Community is an all-volunteer nonprofit facilitating global eco-cooperatives through open source and free-shared tools, tutorials and resources for food, energy, housing, education, Highest Good economic design, social architecture, fulfilled living, global stewardship practices, and more. We call this living and creating for The Highest Good of All.

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

OUR MAIN OPEN SOURCE HUBS

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

One Community’s physical location will forward this movement as the first of many self-replicating teacher/demonstration communities, villages, and cities to be built around the world. This is the December 11th, 2016 edition (#194) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments:

Facilitating Global Eco-Cooperatives
One Community Progress Update #194

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

FACILITATING GLOBAL ECO-COOPERATIVES INTRO: @1:03

FACILITATING GLOBAL ECO-COOPERATIVES HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION: @2:00

• Transferred the first 25% of the written content for the Cognition Lesson Plan to the website (see below)
• Behind the scenes: wrote the third 25% section of written part of the Cognition Lesson Plan
• Completed the final 25% of the mindmap for the Individuality Lesson Plan (see below)
• Updated the icons across Education pages and updated the formatting to the Strategies for Leadership, Teaching, and Communicating page (see below)

FACILITATING GLOBAL ECO-COOPERATIVES HIGHEST GOOD FOOD: @3:07

• Continued to reformat and add sections and anchor links to recipe pages for our Transition Kitchen strategy (see below)
• Updated the look of all the Highest Good food icons (see below)

FACILITATING GLOBAL ECO-COOPERATIVES HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING: @3:44

• Ashwini Ramesh and the core team put another combined total of 15 hours into the crowdfunding campaign we are developing (see below)
• Hannah Gibbs joined the team and helped us adding and formatting the text on this Tropical Atrium instructional image from Shadi Kennedy (see below)
• Dean Scholz continued helping us create quality Cob Village renders (see below)
• Hamilton Mateca finished his 21st week helping with the Compressed Earth Block Village design details (see below)
• Aparna Tandon additionally continued her work on the Compressed Earth Block Village external elements (see below)
• Jiming Chen continued helping develop the Tree House Village (see below)
• Zachary Melin continued developing the Tree House Village book (see below)

FACILITATING GLOBAL ECO-COOPERATIVES DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER: @6:10

• Continued render creation for the Duplicable City Center which entailed working on the natural pool area (see below)
• Added people and other details to finalize the render of the natural pool area (see below)
• Iris Hsu continued her work on the recycled pipe shelving for the Duplicable City Center library (see below)
• Shuna Ni continued working on the City Center structural engineering (see below)
• Dipti Dhondarkar continued with her 21st week of work on the lighting specifics for the City Center (see below)
• Jinxi Feng continued research helping us create an in-depth laundry and dryer machine sustainability analysis (see below)
• Ashwin Patil finished his 4th week of collaboratively working on the open source pipe furniture page (see below)
• Ramya Vudi and Shubham Agrawal continued working on the electrical design specifics we’ll be using to add to the Duplicable City Center Electrical Planning and Design Details page (see below)
• Renan Dantas continued with his 3rd week working on creating our next generation of Duplicable City Center section drawings (see below)

FACILITATING GLOBAL ECO-COOPERATIVES HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY: @9:23

• Yuri Witte completed his 6th week of helping create the music that will accompany the new overview video we are planning (see below)

FACILITATING GLOBAL ECO-COOPERATIVES SUMMARY: @8:

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FACILITATING GLOBAL ECO-COOPERATIVES HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

One Community is facilitating global eco-cooperatives 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 last week the core team transferred the first 25% of the written content for the Cognition Lesson Plan to the website, as you see here. This lesson plan purposed to teach all subjects, to all learning levels, in any learning environment, using the central theme of “Cognition” is now 25% completed on our website:

Facilitating Global Eco-Cooperatives – Transferred First 25% of Cognition Lesson Plan to Site

Behind the scenes, we wrote the third 25% section of the written part of the Cognition Lesson Plan.

We also completed the final 25% of the mindmap for the Individuality Lesson Plan, bringing it to 100% complete, which you see here:

Facilitating Global Eco-Cooperatives – Individuality Mindmap ” 100% Complete ” Click to Visit Page

And we updated the icons across 40% of the Education pages and updated the formatting to add a What and Why section to the Strategies for Leadership, Teaching, and Communicating page:

Updated Education Icons and Formatting on Foundations of Leadership Page – Click to Visit

FACILITATING GLOBAL ECO-COOPERATIVES HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

One Community is facilitating global eco-cooperatives 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 to reformat and add sections and anchor links to recipe pages for our Transition Kitchen strategy. You can see a sample of that work here, on the vegan potato recipes page:

Continued Reformatting and Adding Sections to Recipe Pages for our Transition Kitchen Strategy

We also updated the look of all the Highest Good food icons. Here’s what they look like now, but they aren’t final yet:

Facilitating Global Eco-Cooperatives – Updated the Look of all the Highest Good Food Icons

FACILITATING GLOBAL ECO-OPERATIVES HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

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

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

This last week the core team and Ashwini Ramesh (Civil Engineer and Project Manager) put another combined total of 15 hours into the crowdfunding campaign we are developing. This week’s focus was more AutoCAD image creation and finishing the behind-the-scenes content editing for the Earthbag Municipal/County Involvement and Permitting page. You can see a snapshot of this behind-the-scenes work here.

Worked on Behind-the-Scenes Content Editing for the Earthbag Municipal/County Involvement

Hannah Gibbs (Web Developer) also joined the team and helped us adding and formatting the text on this Tropical Atrium instructional image from Shadi Kennedy.

Facilitating Global Eco-Cooperatives – Formatted the Text on the Tropical Atrium Instructional Image

Dean Scholz (Architectural Designer), continued helping us create quality Cob Village (Pod 3) renders. Here is update 46 of his work that focused on starting the internal home views…

Facilitating Global Eco-Cooperatives – Continued Creating Quality Cob Village Renders

….and Dean created this final outdoor Roof View Looking Southwest:

Facilitating Global Eco-Cooperatives – Cob Village Final Render ” Rooftop View Looking Southwest

Hamilton Mateca (AutoCAD and Revit Drafter and Designer) also finished his 21st week helping with the Compressed Earth Block Village (Pod 4) design details. This week’s focus was on testing and updating textures for the roof, roof furniture tests, elevation drawing progress, and dining room floor and ceiling texture and design tests.

Facilitating Global Eco-Cooperatives – Continued Evolving the Compressed Earth Block Village

Aparna Tandon (Architect) additionally continued her work on the Compressed Earth Block Village external elements. What you see here is her 10th week of work, focusing on more updates and improvements to the roundabout entry, central recreation space Zone 6, and relaxation and green spaces Zones 2 and 9.

Continued Work on Compressed Earth Block Village External Elements ” Click to Visit Page

Facilitating Global Eco-Cooperatives – Continued Helping Develop the Tree House Village

Zachary Melin (Graphic Designer) also continued developing the Tree House Village (Pod 7) book. What you see here is week 16 of this work that continued with updates to pages 46, 47, and 48… which you can see here:

Facilitating Global Eco-Cooperatives – Continued Developing the Tree House Village Book

FACILITATING GLOBAL ECO=COOPERATIVES DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

One Community is facilitating global eco-cooperatives 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 render creation for the Duplicable City Center. This included working on the natural pool area, where we added new plants, updated the window texture, placed the initial design of the compass and chose the best shadow position.

Continued Render Creation for the Duplicable City Center Natural Pool Area – Click to Visit Page

We also added people and other details to finalize this render of the natural pool area inside the City Center.

Facilitating Global Eco-Cooperatives – Finalized Render of Natural Pool Area Inside the City Center

Iris Hsu, (Industrial Designer), also continued her work on the recycled pipe shelving for the Duplicable City Center library. This week’s focus was adjustments to the size of all the people in the main library and creating these final three full-perspective renders.

Facilitating Global Eco-Cooperatives – Duplicable City Center Library Final Render – Click for Page

Facilitating Global Eco-Cooperatives – Duplicable City Center Library Final Render – Click for Page

Facilitating Global Eco-Cooperatives – Duplicable City Center Library Final Render – Click for Page

Shuna Ni (Masters of Mechanical Engineering and Civil Engineering PhD) continued working on the City Center structural engineering. This week’s focus was continuing calculations for the braces and columns:

Facilitating Global Eco-Cooperatives – Continued Work on the City Center Structural Engineering

And Dipti Dhondarkar, (Electrical Engineer) continued with her 21st week of work on the lighting specifics for the City Center. This week’s focus was finalizing the 3 primary bulbs we’ll use throughout the structure.

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

Jinxi Feng (Environmental Consultant) also continued her research helping us create an in-depth laundry and dryer machine sustainability analysis. What you see here is her 14th week of behind-the-scenes work on this area of the project. This week’s focus was continued research into residential and commercial washer efficiency and comparing the two using laundry projections for 1, 5, 50, 100, and 500 households.

Continued Research for in-Depth Laundry and Dryer Machine Sustainability Analysis ” Click to Visit

Ashwin Patil (Web Developer) also finished his 4th week of collaboratively working on the open source pipe furniture page. This week’s focus was trying to create a new way for us to present multiple images with clickable labels. Problems making this portable-device-friendly means it is still a work in progress. 

Facilitating Global Eco-Cooperatives – Continued Working on the Pipe Furniture Page ” Click to Visit

Ramya Vudi (Electrical Engineer) and Shubham Agrawal (Electrical Engineer) also continued working on the electrical design specifics we’ll be using to add to the Duplicable City Center Electrical Planning and Design Details page. What you see here is this team’s 6th week of work focusing on breaker panel research, control systems integration, beginning a wind power tutorial, and double checking the power requirements for all of our equipment. You can see snapshots of some of this work here.

Continued on Electrical Design for Control & Automation Systems ” Click for Page

And Renan Dantas (Mechanical Engineer) continued with his 3rd week working on creating our next generation of Duplicable City Center section drawings. This week’s focus was on the updated details of Sections A-D as shown here:

Continued Creating our Next Generation of Duplicable City Center Section Drawings ” Click to Visit

FACILITATING GLOBAL ECO-COOPERATIVES HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS

One Community is facilitating global eco-cooperatives 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

Yuri Witte (Music Composer and Sound Designer)” completed his 6th week of helping create the music that will accompany the new overview video we are planning. What you hear in the background is version 7.6.3, two octaves higher from last week’s and the newest iteration we’re building off of. You can visit Yuri’s SoundCloud to hear all previous versions.

Continued Creating Music that Will Accompany the New Overview Video ” Click for Yuri’s Soundcloud

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

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CONSULTANTS | WAYS ANYONE CAN HELP | MEMBERSHIP

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WHAT ONE COMMUNITY IS CREATING

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

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

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

BUILDING THE FIRST OF MANY

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