A better quality of living for all people, everywhere, is possible. It can be sustainable, environmentally regenerative, provide more free time, more things to do with that time and help others to live a higher quality of life too. We are creating this open source 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

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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 April 26th, 2015 edition (#112) of our weekly progress update detailing the previous week’s development and accomplishments:

A Better Living Quality for All
One Community Weekly Progress Update #112

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

A BETTER LIVING QUALITY FOR ALL – INTRO @1:00

A BETTER LIVING QUALITY FOR ALL – HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION @1:58

• Transferred next 50% of the written section and images for the “Open Source” lesson plan to the website (see below)
• Behind the scenes: Wrote final 25% of “Open Source” lesson plan (see below)
• Behind the scenes: Wrote final 25% of ” Nature” lesson plan (see below)
• Behind the scenes: Worked on a comprehensive evaluation/assessment and mutual feedback model for students and their teachers (see below)
• Paige Allison Donatelli finished the next 25% of image creation for the Nature lesson mindmap (see below)
• Featured new “Love” lesson plan image across social media that Paige helped us create (see below)

A BETTER LIVING QUALITY FOR ALL – HIGHEST GOOD FOOD: @3:52

• Finished final social media imagery and featured our food forest root crop plantings hub (see below)
• Researched and added three additional recipes to the Alliums open source hub (see below)
• Added another yummy recipe from Benjamin Sessions to the omnivore section of our Food Self-sufficiency Transition Plan (see below)
• Added three new wonderful recipes to the vegan section from Sandra Sellani to the Food Self-sufficiency Transition Plan (see below)

A BETTER LIVING QUALITY FOR ALL – HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING: @5:18

• Behind the scenes: continued laying out the specifics for the Open Source Murphy bed furniture assembly details (73% complete – see below)
• Added and edited additional work of Matheus Manfredini (the Earthbag Village water collection specifics) to the website (60% complete)
• Diogo Rozada completed the first draft of putting the Earthbag Village Tropical Atrium into AutoCAD (see below)
• Sheng Xu finished his 5th round of SolidWorks design specifics for the 3-dome cluster of the upcoming crowdfunding campaign (see below)
• Nelli Levental created a new design for the shipping container village (Pod 5) (see below)

A BETTER LIVING QUALITY FOR ALL – DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER: @7:08

• Ricardo Carrillo began working on the structural engineering specifics for the Duplicable City Center cupola (see below)

A BETTER LIVING QUALITY FOR ALL – HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY: @7:42

• Completed the social media image for the People’s Agenda 21 Ocean Preservation resource and featured the page (see below)
• Recreated the People’s Agenda 21 submission form for easier feedback and resource contribution (see below)

A BETTER LIVING QUALITY FOR ALL – SUMMARY: @8:14

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A BETTER LIVING QUALITY FOR ALL – HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

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

• Learn about the components: 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 next 50% of the written section and images for the “Open Source” lesson plan to the website, bringing this page to 100% complete.

Open Source Lesson Plan – 75% Complete – Click to Visit Page

Behind the scenes we also wrote the final 25% of the “Open Source” lesson plan, bringing the writing to 100% complete.

Also behind the scenes, we wrote the final 25% of our lesson plan with the central theme of ” Nature” -which brings that to 75% written completion.

Here you can see the embodiment and goals section of another behind the scenes component we worked on this week, the comprehensive evaluation/assessment and mutual feedback model for students and their teachers:

Comprehensive Evaluation/Assessment & Mutual Feedback Model – Click to Visit Page

Paige Allison Donatelli (Graphic Designer and Owner Operator of Namaste Living in a Material World) finished the next 25% of the image creation for the Nature lesson mindmap, which you can see here. That brings this mindmap to 50% complete:

Mindmap for “Nature” Lesson Plan – 50% Complete – Click to Visit Page

Paige also helped us create this new image for the “Love” lesson plan, which we featured this week across our social media channels:

“Love” Lesson Plan Featured – Click to Visit Page

A BETTER LIVING QUALITY FOR ALL – HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

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

• Learn about the structures: 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 the final social media imagery and featured our food forest root crop plantings hub:

Featured our Food Forest Root Crop Plantings Page with New Social Media Imagery – Click to Visit

We researched and added three additional recipes to the Alliums open source hub, which you can see here. These recipe lists will keep growing as our food experts continue adding to our Food Self-sufficiency Transition Plan:

Added 3 Alliums Recipes – Click to Visit the Open Source Alliums Hub

In addition to this we added another yummy recipe from Benjamin Sessions to the omnivore section of our Food Self-sufficiency Transition Plan: Wild rice with Cod and Chilean Pebre. You can see this recipe and photo here:

Wild Rice with Cod and Chilean Pebre Added to Food Self-sufficiency Transition Plan Page

In addition to this, we added three new wonderful recipes to the vegan section from Sandra Sellani (Vegan Chef and author of What’s Your BQ?) to the Food Self-sufficiency Transition Plan, which are: ManGoji Citrus Smoothies, ‘Cream’ of Cauliflower Soup, and Garbanzo & Brown Rice Burgers:

3 Vegan Recipes Added to Food Self-sufficiency Transition Plan Page – Click to Visit

A BETTER LIVING QUALITY FOR ALL – HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

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

• Learn about: Our Upcoming Crowdfunding Campaign
• Learn about 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 continued progress on the assembly specifics for the Open Source Murphy bed furniture. This work is happening behind the scenes and what you see here will be part of the Earthbag Village and the upcoming crowdfunding campaign. This week we finished the redesign of the two back shelves and assembly instructions. We estimate we are now 73% complete with this behind-the-scenes work:

Murphy Bed Furniture Assembly Details Developing Behind-the-scenes – Click to Visit Page

The Core Team also added and edited additional Earthbag Village water collection specifics to the website for sizing the water storage pond. This is the work of Matheus Manfredini (Civil Engineering Student specializing in Urban Design) and we’d say the complete design details are now about 60% done:

Earthbag Village Water Collection Specifics Added to the Website – Click to Visit Page

Diogo Rozada (Civil Engineering Student specializing in Hydraulics) also completed the first draft of putting the Earthbag Village Tropical Atrium into AutoCAD:

Earthbag Village Tropical Atrium into AutoCAD – 1st Draft – Click to Visit Page

Sheng Xu (Mechanical Design Engineer) also finished his 5th round of SolidWorks design specifics for the 3-dome cluster of the upcoming crowdfunding campaign. This work included adding the staircase you see here and exploring different roof-covering options:

3-Dome Cluster into Solidworks (5th Round) – Click for Upcoming Crowdfunding Campaign Page

Nelli Levental (Graphic Designer and College Professor) also created this new design for the shipping container village (Pod 5) featuring maximum passive solar:

New Design for Shipping Container Village (Pod 5) – Click to Visit Highest Good Housing Page

…and a 3-level stacked design that will be able to be built on or off a sloped grade:

Shipping Container (Pod 5) 3-Level Stacked Design – Click to Visit Highest Good Housing Page

A BETTER LIVING QUALITY FOR ALL DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

One Community is facilitating a better quality of life for all through a Duplicable and Sustainable City Center that is LEED Platinum certified/Sustainable, can feed 200 people at a time, provides laundry for over 300 people, is beautiful, spacious, and saves resources, money, and space:

• Learn about this building and its function: Duplicable City Center Open Source Hub

This last week Ricardo Carrillo (Design Consultant and Principal of Acumen Industries) began working on the structural engineering specifics for the Duplicable City Center cupola. You can see his initial exploration and designs here:

Initial Structural Calculations for City Center Cupula – Click to Visit Page

A BETTER LIVING QUALITY FOR ALL HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS

One Community is facilitating a better quality of life for all through a Highest Good society approach to living that is founded on fulfilled living, the study of meeting human needs, Community, and making a difference in the world:

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

This last week the core team completed this social media image for the People’s Agenda 21 Ocean Preservation resource. We then featured the page.

Social Media Image Created for the Ocean Preservation Page – Click to Visit

We also recreated the People’s Agenda 21 submission form for easier feedback and resource contribution. You can see this new input page here:

Sustainable Ideas Submission Form – Click to Visit Page

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WHY ONE COMMUNITY IS CREATING THIS

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

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

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

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.), thereby achieving a better living quality for all. We see these areas as interdependent and requiring a comprehensive solution if humanity is to move ecologically, socially, economically, and permanently towards a truly sustainable future for everyone.

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

It is this approach we see uniting the world and leading to a better living quality for all. 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. To maximally facilitate duplication, One Community will provide seven duplicable examples and function indefinitely as a place people can visit and a non-profit and open source think tank continuing to further evolve and share solutions in all of the above areas and more. We will also provide hands-on experience and training. Most importantly, growing upon our sustainable foundation, we will endlessly make this comprehensive solution even more widely known and globally accessible, understandable and diversely duplicable, and inspiring and desirable as a model worth duplicating.

GLOBALLY IMPLEMENTABLE REPLICATION MODEL

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

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

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

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

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

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

One Community welcomes Ricardo Carrillo to the Engineering Team as our newest Partner/Consultant!

Ricardo is a Design Consultant and Principal of Acumen Industries. His focus is Mechanical and Structural Engineering specializing in shell, spaceframe, dome and structural glazing elements for building enclosures, overhead structures, and building envelope solutions. As a Principal Consultant at Acumen Industries, Ricardo brings his 20 years of experience from a variety of construction fields, including Petroleum, Water Processing, Industrial Storage, and Architectural. His work includes experience in consulting, manufacturing, construction, engineering, design, testing, sales development, and on-site supervision. Project types include refineries, material processing facilities, airports, museums, private residential, public facilities, stadia, and custom structural systems. Ricardo’s expertise includes the design of aluminum structures, modular structural systems, and the analysis of performance-based systems including fabric, cable systems and shell structures. His interests also include the practice of health giving methods, education, and independent living strategies. As a One Community partner, Ricardo is helping with the structural design calculations and details of the Duplicable City Center.

“Bringing lightweight modular structural systems to areas without heavy industrial or infrastructure systems provides more people the opportunity to develop better living environments from which to grow as a community. Having facilities that provide a level of stability to everyday living provides a platform for the enrichment of the people through time for education and supporting each other. It is our intent as a company to improve the living environments that people come to rely upon through proper design and long-term development strategies.”

WELCOME TO THE TEAM RICARDO!

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One Community Welcomes Tribe of Awakening Sovereignty to the Highest Good Collaboration Team.

The Tribe of Awakening Sovereignty is a nonprofit organization dedicated to spreading Unconditional Love, Healing, Abundance, and Justice into all places that desire their loving presence. Their mission is to create change by building, connecting, and supporting Open, Co-Governed, Beyond Sustainable, Sovereign Communities. They help build homes for those that don’t have them. They grow permaculture food forests to rejuvenate the environment and provide biodynamic food. They offer a multitude of free educational programs and they create clean sustainable energy systems. In short, they are here to support their members and their communities in every way they are able. One Community and The Tribe of Awakening Sovereignty are partnered because we share goals of global transformation, Highest Good Living and Creation, and complete sustainability.

WELCOME TO THE HIGHEST GOOD COLLABORATION TEAM!

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One Community welcomes Diogo Augusto Rodrigues Rozada to the Engineering Team as our newest member of Team Brazil!

4th-year Civil Engineering Student and Hydraulics Team Lead: Diogo is a Civil Engineering student from Brazil with a focus on hydraulic/electrical design and sustainable development. Diogo shares One Community’s values of sustainability, people over profit and communication around the world. Diogo wants to create a better environment for all and is collaborating with dedication and enthusiasm to increase his knowledge and networking and also improve himself as an engineer for when he returns to Brazil. As a One Community Partner, Diogo is leading the Hydraulics Team with a focus on the Tropical Atrium heat and water recycling, the Duplicable City Center, and 7 Sustainable Village Models.

WELCOME TO THE TEAM DIOGO!

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One Community welcomes Lucas Silva to the Design Team as our newest member of Team Brazil!

4th-year Computer Engineering Student: Lucas is an undergraduate Computer Engineering student at the Federal University of Mato Grosso do Sul, in Brazil. He is currently studying at Portland State University as a grantee of the Brazil Scientific Mobility Program. Lucas has taken many courses that were focused on embedded systems and has developed practical projects in which he could work with both high-level and low-level programming for this type of application. He also worked on a research project developing a sensor node for a wireless sensor network to monitor a farm field. Lucas also has experience with programming and assembling robots. For example, in 2012, he was part of the team from his university that won an award for third place in the Latin American Robotics Competition (the IEEE Standard Educational Kits category). Moreover, he has a strong background with programming and algorithms and a passion for programming challenges. Since the beginning of his undergraduate program, he has been participating in programming contests at his university and, in 2013, he got an opportunity to participate in the ACM-ICPC (South America Brazil Region) Brazil Finals. Lucas believes that computer systems are here to make life easier, optimize our tasks, and an important piece in helping us build a better world. As a member of the One Community team, Lucas brings his experience to help implement the control systems component of the Duplicable City Center and each of the seven village models.

WELCOME TO THE TEAM LUCAS!

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Creating objective and measurable global transformation through open source sustainability will positively affect us all. Open source solutions are affordable solutions, and adding the foundations of making these easy enough and demonstrating them as attractive enough will predictably spread these solutions. Approaching this with a philosophy of living and creating for The Highest Good of All adds to the necessary global perspective, to achieve objective and measurable global transformation:

• Here’s ourproject overview related to objective and measurable global transformation
• 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 April 19th, 2015 edition (#111) of our weekly progress update detailing the previous week’s development and accomplishments:

One Community Weekly Progress Update #111

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

CREATING OBJECTIVE AND MEASURABLE GLOBAL TRANSFORMATION INTRO @1:04

CREATING OBJECTIVE AND MEASURABLE GLOBAL TRANSFORMATION HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION @1:59

• Transferred first 25% of the written section and images for the “Nature” lesson plan to the website (see below)
• Behind the scenes: Wrote another 25% of “Nature” lesson plan
• Behind the scenes: Wrote next 25% of “Open Source” lesson plan
• Behind the scenes: Worked on a comprehensive evaluation/assessment and mutual feedback model for students and their teachers (see below)
• Paige Allison Donatelli finished first 25% of the image creation for the Nature lesson mindmap (see below)
• Paige also helped us create a new image for the “Harmony” lesson plan (see below)

CREATING OBJECTIVE AND MEASURABLE GLOBAL TRANSFORMATION HIGHEST GOOD FOOD: @3:42

• Finished final social media imagery and featured our open source cucumbers hub and our food forest groundcover plantings hub (see below)
• Researched and added the recipes to the open source sweet potatoes hub (see below)
• Added two new delicious recipes from Sandra Sellani to the Food Self-sufficiency Transition Plan (see below)

CREATING OBJECTIVE AND MEASURABLE GLOBAL TRANSFORMATION HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING: @4:58

• Behind the scenes: continued laying out the specifics for the Open Source Murphy bed furniture assembly details (68% complete – see below)
• Behind the scenes: finished another 5% of the earthdome loft construction tutorial specifics which included work from Antonio Zambianco (65% complete – see below)
• Moved the work of Matheus Manfredini (the Earthbag Village water collection specifics) to the website (50% complete)
• Scott Thomas and his Shadow Ridge Signature Architecture Program team continued their work putting the complete Earthbag Village components together in AutoCAD (see below)
• Sheng Xu finished his fourth round of SolidWorks design specifics for the 3-dome cluster of the upcoming crowdfunding campaign (see below)
• Nelli Levental created the first concept sketches for the shipping container village (Pod 5) (see below)

CREATING OBJECTIVE AND MEASURABLE GLOBAL TRANSFORMATION DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER: @7:14

• Da Feng modeled the initial structure of the Duplicable City Center domes in SolidWorks this week (see below)

CREATING OBJECTIVE AND MEASURABLE GLOBAL TRANSFORMATION HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY: @7:50

• Paige Allison Donatelli created a new image for the One Community Consensus Page (see below)

CREATING OBJECTIVE AND MEASURABLE GLOBAL TRANSFORMATION SUMMARY: @8:17

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GREETING OBJECTIVE AND MEASURABLE GLOBAL TRANSFORMATION HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

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

• Learn about the components: 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 section and images for the “Nature” lesson plan to the website – which you can see here:

Nature Lesson Plan – 25% Complete – Click to Visit Page

Behind the scenes we also wrote another 25% of “Nature” lesson plan, bringing it to 50% written completion.

Also behind the scenes, we wrote the next 25% of our lesson plan with the central theme of “Open Source”, bringing that to 75% complete. These lesson plans are purposed to teach all subjects, to all learning levels, in any learning environment using the central theme.

Another behind the scenes component we worked on is the development of a comprehensive evaluation/assessment and mutual feedback model for students and their teachers. Here you can see the outline for task-based assessments:

Comprehensive Evaluation/Assessment & Mutual Feedback Model – Click to Visit Page

Paige Allison Donatelli (Graphic Designer and Owner Operator of Namaste Living in a Material World) finished the first 25% of the image creation for the Nature lesson mindmap, which you can see here.

Mindmap for “Nature” Lesson Plan – 25% Complete – Click to Visit Page

Paige also helped us create this new image for the “Harmony” lesson plan, which we featured this week across our social media channels:

Harmony Lesson Plan Featured – Click to Visit Page

GREETING OBJECTIVE AND MEASURABLE GLOBAL TRANSFORMATION HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

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

• Learn about the structures: 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 the final social media imagery and featured our open source cucumbers hub:

Featured our Cucumber Page with New Social Media Imagery – Click to Visit

And we did this for our food forest groundcover plantings hub too:

Featured our Food Forest Groundcover Plantings Page with New Social Media Imagery – Click to Visit

We also researched and added the final major component to the open source sweet potatoes hub: RECIPES! You can see these new additions here. These first recipe lists will grow as our food experts continue the process of designing the Food Self-sufficiency Transition Plan for remote village construction.

Added the Sweet Potato Recipes – Click to Visit the Open Source Sweet Potato Hub

In addition to this, we added two new delicious recipes from Sandra Sellani (Vegan Chef and author of What’s Your BQ?) to the Food Self-sufficiency Transition Plan: White Bean and Fennel Chili, and Mashed Sweet Potato Tacos… both with rice and Macadamia Sour Cream:

White Bean and Fennel Chili Added to Food Self-sufficiency Transition Plan Page – Click to Visit

Mashed Sweet Potato Tacos Added to Food Self-sufficiency Transition Plan Page – Click to Visit

GREETING OBJECTIVE AND MEASURABLE GLOBAL TRANSFORMATION HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

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

• Learn about: Our Upcoming Crowdfunding Campaign
• Learn about 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 continued progress on the assembly specifics for the Open Source Murphy bed furniture. This work is happening behind the scenes and what you see here will be part of the Earthbag Village and the upcoming crowdfunding campaign. This week we redesigned the two back shelves for the his and hers storage and closet spaces and updated and relabeled all the associated images. We estimate we are now 68% complete with this behind-the-scenes work.

Murphy Bed Furniture Assembly Details Developing Behind-the-scenes – Click to Visit Furniture Page

Also, behind the scenes, we finished another 5% of the earthdome loft construction tutorial specifics. This work included redesigning the insulatory hatch you see here for the loft storage as well as a week of work on the load calculations for appropriate sizing of the loft joists with Antonio Zambianco (Civil Engineering Student and Structural Lead for Team Brazil). We’re now 65% complete with this behind-the-scenes work.

Earthdome Loft Tutorial Developing Behind-the-scenes – Click to Visit Page

The Core Team also moved the Earthbag Village water collection specifics to the website. This is the work of Matheus Manfredini (Civil Engineering Student specializing in Urban Design) and we’d say these details are about 50% complete:

Earthbag Village Water Collection Specifics Added to the Website – Click to Visit Page

Scott Thomas and his Shadow Ridge Signature Architecture Program team continued their work putting the complete Earthbag Village components together in AutoCAD by adding in the paths, roads, and walkways:

Complete Earthbag Village in AutoCAD – Click to Visit Page

Sheng Xu (Mechanical Design Engineer) also finished his fourth round of SolidWorks design specifics for the 3-dome cluster of the upcoming crowdfunding campaign. This work included Sheng exploring the ladder, roof sitting space, and roof window portals you see here:

3-Dome Cluster into Solidworks (4th Round) – Click for Upcoming Crowdfunding Campaign Page

Nelli Levental (Graphic Designer and College Professor) also created these first concept sketches for the shipping container village (Pod 5) featuring two stacked designs… Then a more circular design. We’re now modifying these into a completely south-facing design to maximize passive solar.

First Concept Sketches and Designs for Shipping Container Village (Pod 5)

GREETING OBJECTIVE AND MEASURABLE GLOBAL TRANSFORMATION DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

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

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

This last week Da Feng (Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering Student) modeled the initial structure of the Duplicable City Center domes in SolidWorks this week. When complete, this modeling will allow us to run complex structural calculations.

Duplicable City Center Domes Modeled in SolidWorks – Click to Visit Page

GREETING OBJECTIVE AND MEASURABLE GLOBAL TRANSFORMATION HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS

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

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

This last week Paige Allison Donatelli (Graphic Designer and Owner Operator of Namaste Living in a Material World) created this new image for the One Community Consensus Page. We used this image to promoted the page this last week through social media.

New Image Created for the Consensus Page – Click to Visit

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WHAT ONE COMMUNITY IS CREATING

One Community is creating objective and measurable global transformation 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, creating objective and measurable global transformation.

Throughout our design process of creating objective and measurable global transformation, 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 to create objective and measurable global transformation. It will function as an experiential-learning model that facilitates mass participation to address humanity’s most pressing challenges through: A replicable model for expansion, building seven self-sufficient village/city prototypes, becoming the world leader in open-source sustainability solutions, and evolving and expanding ALL aspects of sustainable living.

WHY ONE COMMUNITY IS CREATING THIS

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

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

Even if we don’t achieve our ultimate goal of objective and measurable 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 about the objective and measurable global transformation that creates 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, and ultimately creating objective and measurable global transformation. By free-sharing the step-by-step plans people need for duplication, inviting people to participate, and demonstrating sustainable teacher/demonstration hubs as a more desirable way of living, the model will predictably expand on its own.

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

COMPREHENSIVE SOLUTION TO HUMANITY’S NEEDS

One Community is open source sharing an evolution of sustainable living and creating objective and measurable global transformation 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. To maximally facilitate duplication and accelerate objective and measurable global transformation, One Community will provide seven duplicable examples and function indefinitely as a place people can visit and a non-profit and open source think tank continuing to further evolve and share solutions in all of the above areas and more. We will also provide hands-on experience and training. Most importantly, growing upon our sustainable foundation, we will endlessly make this comprehensive solution even more widely known and globally accessible, understandable and diversely duplicable, and inspiring and desirable as a model worth duplicating.

GLOBALLY IMPLEMENTABLE REPLICATION MODEL

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 global transformation process:

Creating Objective and Measurable Global Transformation 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.

Creating Objective and Measurable Global Transformation 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.

Creating Objective and Measurable Global Transformation 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, work crews, and tourism will be foundations of One Community once we have sufficient infrastructure in place to support these options.

Creating Objective and Measurable Global Transformation 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 objective and measurable global transformation.

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 and the foundation of objective and measurable global transformation 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 and objective and measurable global transformation as possible. This includes the following mediums of sharing that are being developed to function as standalone resources or in combination with each other:

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

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

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

SUMMARY

One Community sees the issues of the world as interdependent and interconnected. To address them simultaneously, we are open-source blueprinting a more advanced standard of living by designing holistic, environmentally regenerative, self-sustaining, adaptable solutions for all areas of sustainability, creating objective and measurable global transformation. 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 where people can experience a new way of living and then replicate it with our open source blueprints: creating a model solution that creates additional solution-creating models.

One Community welcomes Da Feng to the Highest Good Engineering Team as our newest Partner/Consultant!

Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering Student: After receiving his bachelor’s degree in Automotive Engineering from Beijing Institute of Technology, Da began working on his MS degree at USC. He has experience from multiple mechanical projects ranging from mechanical devices to industrial robots. Growing up with encyclopedias as his most loved books, Da learned about nature and how beautiful it is around the world and has been motivated and driven by a love of nature ever since. Respecting the variation of ecosystems, Da wants to find an adaptable plan for different ones and is contributing his skill and knowledge in both 3D modeling and finite element analysis to the Duplicable City Center to help achieve this goal as part of the One Community team.

WELCOME TO THE TEAM DA!

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One Community welcomes Antonio Zambianco to the Highest Good Engineering Team as our newest member of Team Brazil!

4th-year Civil Engineering Student, Structural Team Lead: Antonio speaks three languages, including Portuguese (native), English (fluent) and Spanish (advanced) and presents a spirit of leadership, ease in communication (and teamwork), and knowledge of essential design and calculation software like Ftool, AutoCAD, Revit and SAP2000. Always very religious, Antonio grew up with the desire to help people and now sees One Community as an opportunity to further apply this desire. As a member of the One Community Intern Team, Antonio brings his knowledge of Structural Engineering, an area in which he has given specific emphasis and completed important related research, and his will to make the world a better place through eco-sustainability. Primary areas of focus include structural calculations and design assistance for both the Duplicable City Center and the Earthbag Village structures.

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One Community welcomes Mandy Leetch to the Highest Good Education Team as our newest Partner / Consultant!

Developmental Psychology, Eco-Psychology, Family Systems Theory and Sustainability Education Specialist: With ten years of early childhood teaching experience working with children and families, Mandy is particularly interested in finding ways to help society to support the healthy functioning of children and families. She has her BA in developmental psychology from Lesley University and is currently pursuing advanced degrees in counseling psychology and sustainability education from Prescott College. She believes that appropriate developmental practices including psycho-education and ecological holism help all people develop the necessary skills for interacting with others in a way that is compassionate and respectful of their developmental needs. Her areas of interest and research include the lifelong ontogenic process of living a happy life, the harmonious re-connection of the human species with the Earth, as well as child and family centered life philosophies to raise resilient and creative children. When she’s not researching, she’s working in local food justice and urban farming, trying her hand at homesteading, or making art dolls. As a One Community Consultant, Mandy is lending her extensive knowledge and experience to develop a comprehensive evaluation/assessment and mutual feedback model for students and their teachers who use the One Community open source education program.

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One Community welcomes Vassili Biserov to the Translation Team as our newest Partner/Consultant!

Writer, Poet and Translator: First and foremost a poet, Vassili took part in the last two editions of 100 Thousands Poets for Change that have taken place in Bologna. Vibra, one of Vas’ poems in a different language, was judged as worthy of mention in a poetry competition called ‘Attraverso l’Italia’. Vas first started translating by translating a French songwriter, Leo Ferré, into Italian when he was in high school. After that he translated the entire phonographic testament of him, he began to translate a Russian songwriter, Vladimir Vyzotskij, whom he translated more than 400 songs into Italian. Vas has organized and led a Poetic Literary Circle, a group purposed to perform readings in houses, parks and squares and taken part in ‘La Gabotte,’ a group of poets with whom he produced a CD with 13 tracks, one for each poet. He is also a reiki practitioner with the 2nd level of Karuna reiki. As a One Community Partner, Vas is helping to translate the pages of the One Community site that he finds most helpful and inspirational into Italian. Here’s just one example: https://www.onecommunityglobal.org/case-a-cerchio-portale-open-source/

WELCOME TO THE TEAM VASSILI!

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