One Community welcomes Falgun Patel to the Engineering Team as our newest Volunteer/Consultant!

Mechanical Engineer: Falgun holds a B.Tech in Mechanical Engineering from Sardar Patel College of Engineering in Mumbai, and an MS in Mechanical Engineering & the ‘Leaders in Sustainability’ Graduate Certificate from University of California, Los Angeles. During his undergraduate studies, he participated in and led teams for student vehicle design and fabrication competitions. He is skilled in 3D Modeling (CATIA V5, SolidWorks) and FEA (ANSYS, Abaqus) softwares, with the help of which he has designed various mechanical systems. His interest in electric vehicles, renewable energy and sustainability has driven him to work on projects related to energy storage, energy conservation, smart microgrids and green buildings. As a One Community Volunteer, he has helped update the complete Highest Good Energy rollout details in conjunction with updating the Solar and Wind Energy Microgrid open source guides.

WELCOME TO THE TEAM FALGUN!

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One Community is creating systems for eco-change that combine sustainable and open source and free-shared approaches to food, energy, housing, education, for-profit and non-profit economic design, social architecture, fulfilled living, global stewardship practices, and more. We call this living and creating for The Highest Good of All.

• 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 October 15, 2017 edition (#238) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments:

Systems for Eco-Change
One Community Progress Update #238

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

SYSTEMS FOR ECO-CHANGE INTRO: @0:34

HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING: @5:43

• Continued Sketchup design for the open source outdoor areas of the Recycled Materials Village (see below)
• Continued working on the complete Tree House Village render (see below)
• Continued working on the Murphy bed instructions (see below)
• Sangam Stanczak continued researching the filtration options for the Communal Eco-shower greywater (see below)
• Hemanth Kotaru completed his 11th week doing research and running calculations for the Earthbag Village (see below)
• Jagannathan Shankar Mahadevan completed his 5th week working on the Straw Bale Village cost analysis (see below)
• Dean Scholz continued helping us create quality Cob Village renders (see below)
• Hamilton Mateca finished his 59th week helping with the Compressed Earth Block Village design and render details (see below)
• Dan Alleck completed his 2nd week working on the Compressed Earth Block Village render additions (see below)
• Samantha Robinson completed her 11th week working on the interior design for the living structure of the Tree House Village (see below)

DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER: @8:46

• Falgun Patel completed his 7th week continuing to review, run calculations, and update the specifics of the remote-energy setup plan so we can update the Highest Good energy page (see below)
• Dipti Dhondarkar continued with her 54th week of work on the lighting specifics for the City Center (see below)
• Vamsi Pulugurtha finished his work on the basement details for the City Center Heating and Cooling open source hub (see below)
• Oruba Rabie and Haoxuan “Hayes” Lei continued working on the City Center structural engineering details (see below)

HIGHEST GOOD FOOD: @10:16

• Continued researching and organizing, and made a chart and images of recently found resources for our Food Self-sufficiency Transition Plan and Sustainable Food Nutrition Calculations page (see below)

HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION: @10:50

• Continued building the education Assessment Format open source page and tutorial (see below)

HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY: @11:18

• Added new non-profit tax requirement specifics to the open source Non-profit Portal (see below)
• Oz Czerski helped us write a new tutorial for changing your official information in relation to Trademarks (see below)
• Sowmya Manohar and Priti Kothari continued their work developing the Highest Good Network software (see below)

SYSTEMS FOR ECO-CHANGE SUMMARY: @12:26

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HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

One Community is creating systems for Eco-Change 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 Sketchup design for the open source outdoor areas of the Recycled Materials Village (Pod 6). This week’s focus was continued research and design updates to include outdoor games made with recycled items like marked stones, cans, bottles, and recycled-tire mulch.

Systems for Eco-Change – Open Source Outdoor Areas of Recycled Materials Village ” Click to Visit

The core team also continued working on the complete Tree House Village (Pod 7) render. This week’s focus was creating 3 options for the webpage header, and the final render of the complete village, all of which you can see here:

Systems for Eco-Change – Tree House Village Header Renders, Final Village Render ” Click for Page

And, the core team continued working on the Murphy bed instructions. Here you see the printed assembly instructions with design questions and notes.

Systems for Eco-Change – Continued Working on Murphy Bed Instructions – Click for Page

Sangam Stanczak (Ph.D. and P.E.) continued researching the filtration options for the Communal Eco-shower greywater. This week’s focus was finalizing the design outline, which you can see here.

Systems for Eco-Change – Filtration Options for Communal Eco-Shower Greywater ” Click for Page

Hemanth Kotaru (Structural Engineering Masters Student) completed his 11th week with us doing research and running calculations for the Earthbag Village. This week’s focus was editing and adding more details to these drawing and doing research on rubble foundations.

Systems for Eco-Change – Research and Running Calculations for Earthbag Village ” Click for Page

Jagannathan Shankar Mahadevan (Mechanical Engineer) completed his 5th week working on the Straw Bale Village cost analysis. What you see here is the developing writeup summary discussing the details, sustainability savings, and final estimate. We’d say we’re now about 90% complete with the full cost analysis for this village.

Systems for Eco-Change – Continued Working on the Straw Bale Village Cost Analysis ” Click to Visit

Dean Scholz (Architectural Designer) continued helping us create quality Cob Village (Pod 3) renders. Here is update 85 of Dean’s work, continuing to test and develop the textures and lighting from the skylights and windows for the central dining and presentation hall.

Systems for Eco-Change – Continued Helping us Create Quality Cob Village Renders – Click to Visit

Hamilton Mateca (AutoCAD and Revit Drafter and Designer) also finished his 59th week helping with the Compressed Earth Block Village design and render details. This week’s focus was these two final renders of the 2nd-Floor Event and Meeting Space looking SW and this one of the East-wing classroom spaces that are also purposed for and usable for yoga, tai chi, or other health and wellness classes.

Systems for Eco-Change – 2nd Floor Event and Meeting Space Looking Southwest ” Click to Visit

Systems for Eco-Change – New Classroom Looking West ” Click for Compressed Earth Block Village

Dan Alleck (Designer and Illustrator) completed his 2nd week working on the Compressed Earth Block Village render additions. This week he finished adding people and additional aesthetics to the two kitchen renders you see here and live on the site. 

Systems for Eco-Change – Kitchen Render Looking West with People – Click for Page

Systems for Eco-Change – New Kitchen Render Looking North with People ” Click for Page

Samantha Robinson (Graphic Designer) completed her 11th week working on the interior design for the living structure of the Tree House Village (Pod 7). This week’s focus, as shown here, was creating top parts for the blinds downstairs and upstairs, recoloring the tree shelf, lamp, drawer, and doorknob details, and sculpting and painting the twin bed parts.

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

DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

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

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

Falgun Patel (Mechanical Engineer) completed his 7th week continuing to review, run calculations, and update the specifics of the remote-energy setup plan so we can update the Highest Good energy page. This week’s focus, as shown here, was the calculations and narrative for the 20-50 and 50-100 waves of volunteers.

Systems for Eco-Change – Reviewed the Specifics of Remote-Energy Setup Plan ” Click for Page

Dipti Dhondarkar, (Electrical Engineer) continued with her 54th week of work on the lighting specifics for the City Center. This week’s focus was finalizing the lighting options for the Dining Dome kitchen, which you can see here in this collage that we’ve also added to the website.

Systems for Eco-Change – Continued work – Lighting Specifics for the City Center ” Click for Page

Vamsi Pulugurtha (Mechanical Engineer) also finished his work on the basement details for the City Center Heating and Cooling open source hub. What you see here are some examples of Vamsi’s final work editing, updating graphics so they have matching scales, and presenting his final recommendation for insulating the City Center basement.

Systems for Eco-Change – Basement Details for City Center Open Source Hub – Click to Visit

Oruba Rabie (Ph.D, PE, and Civil Engineer) and Haoxuan “Hayes” Lei (Structural Engineer) also continued working on the City Center structural engineering details. What you see here are some screenshots of their process continuing to find and correct errors and discrepancies between the AutoCAD and SAP2000 models.

Systems for Eco-Change – Continued Work – City Center Structural Engineering Details – Click for Page

HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

One Community is creating systems for Eco-Change 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 researching and organizing, and made this chart and these images of the recently found resources for our Food Self-sufficiency Transition Plan and Sustainable Food Nutrition Calculations page, as you see here.

Systems for Eco-Change – Researched, Organized, Made Chart & Images ” Click to Visit

HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

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

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

This week, the core team continued building the education Assessment Format open source page and tutorial. This week we added details to the Helpful Evaluation Tips and Tools section, as shown here.

Systems for Eco-Change – Education Assessment Format Open Source Tutorial – Click for Page

HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS

One Community is creating systems for Eco-Change 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 added new non-profit tax requirement specifics to the open source Non-profit Portal, you can see some of this work here.

Systems for Eco-Change – Non-Profit Tax Requirement Specifics to Non-Profit Portal – Click for Page

Oz Czerski (Lawyer Specializing in Trademark and Copyright Law) also helped us write a new tutorial for changing your official information in relation to Trademarks. You can see this new content in the FAQ section of the Trademarks page.

Systems for Eco-Change – Changing Official Information in Relation to Trademarks – Click to Visit

Sowmya Manohar (Software Engineer, Web Developer & Net Application Developer) and Priti Kothari (Information Technology Enthusiast) also continued their work developing the Highest Good Network software. This week’s focus was fixing issues with connecting to the database, which you can see here, and completing tutorials on Node and Express js.

Systems for Eco-Change – Continued Working on Highest Good Network Software ” Click to Visit Page

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

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

 

INVESTOR PAGES

OVERVIEW | LOCATION | FUNDING

GET INVOLVED

CONSULTANTS | WAYS ANYONE CAN HELP | MEMBERSHIP

CLICK HERE FOR ALL PAST UPDATES

WHAT ONE COMMUNITY IS CREATING

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

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

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

BUILDING THE FIRST OF MANY

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

WHY ONE COMMUNITY IS CREATING THIS

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

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

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

SUMMARY

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

Humanity is capable of achieving Earth’s ecological potential. One Community thinks the path to accomplishing this is a global cooperative of teacher/demonstration hubs working together to open source, evolve, and share sustainable approaches to all foundational aspects of living. The designs we’re developing cover food, energy, housing, education, for-profit and non-profit economic design, social architecture, fulfilled living, global stewardship practices, and more.

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

OUR MAIN OPEN SOURCE HUBS

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

One Community’s physical location will forward this movement as the first of many self-replicating teacher/demonstration communities, villages, and cities to be built around the world. This is the October 8, 2017 edition (#237) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments:

Achieving Earth’s Ecological Potential
One Community Progress Update #237

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

ACHIEVING EARTH’S ECOLOGICAL POTENTIAL INTRO: @0:34

HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING: @7:36

DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER: @10:19

• Falgun Patel completed his 6th week continuing to review, run calculations, and update the specifics of the remote-energy setup plan so we can update the Highest Good energy page (see below)
• Dipti Dhondarkar continued with her 53rd week of work on the lighting specifics for the City Center (see below)
• Aravind Vasudevan continued his calculations and research for climate battery component of City Center Heating and Cooling open source hub (see below)

HIGHEST GOOD FOOD: @11:38

• Continued researching and organizing, and made images of the recently found resources for our Food Self-sufficiency Transition Plan and Sustainable Food Nutrition Calculations page (see below)

HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION: @12:10

• Began building the education Assessment Format open source page and tutorial (see below)

HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY: @12:44

• Working with Ashwin Patil, the core team finished another round of revisions and added the Search Engine to the Highest Good society page (see below)
• Sowmya Manohar working on the Highest Good Network software, successfully updated the data in MongoDB through Express and completed the PUT operation in Ember (see below)
• Priti Kothari completed her 8th week helping with the Highest Good Network software (see below)

ACHIEVING EARTH’S ECOLOGICAL POTENTIAL SUMMARY: @13:53

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

CLICK HERE IF YOU’D LIKE TO RECEIVE AN EMAIL EACH WEEK WHEN WE RELEASE A NEW UPDATE

YOU CAN ALSO JOIN US THROUGH SOCIAL MEDIA

 

ONE COMMUNITY WEEKLY UPDATE DETAILS

HIGHST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

One Community is working towards achieving earth’s ecological potential through Highest Good housing that is artistic and beautiful, more affordable, more space efficient, lasts longer, DIY buildable, and constructed with healthy and sustainable materials:

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

The core team continued Sketchup design for the open source outdoor areas of the Recycled Materials Village (Pod 6). This week we researched ideas for the outdoor game and exercise areas and designed and modeled the walkways and several outdoor game ideas in Sketchup.

Achieving Earth’s Ecological Potential – Outdoor Areas of Recycled Materials Village ” Click to Visit

Achieving Earth’s Ecological Potential – Tree House Village Render – Click for Page

Sangam Stanczak (Ph.D. and P.E.) continued researching the filtration options for the Communal Eco-shower greywater. You can see a summary of this week’s findings here.

Achieving Earth’s Ecological Potential – Filtration Options Communal Eco-Shower – Click for Page

Hemanth Kotaru (Structural Engineering Masters Student) completed his 10th week with us doing research and running calculations for the Earthbag Village. This week’s focus, as shown here, was continuing researching the effectiveness of nails as an anti-sheer option between earthbags.

Achieving Earth’s Ecological Potential – Running Calculations for Earthbag Village ” Click for Page

Jagannathan Shankar Mahadevan (Mechanical Engineer) completed his 4th week working on the Straw Bale Village cost analysis. What you see here are 3rd-generation cost estimates. We’d say we’re now about 80% complete with the full cost analysis for this village.

Achieving Earth’s Ecological Potential – Continued Straw Bale Village Cost Analysis ” Click to Visit

Dean Scholz (Architectural Designer) continued helping us create quality Cob Village (Pod 3) renders. Here is update 84 of Dean’s work, continuing to test and develop the textures and lighting from the skylights and windows for the central dining and presentation hall.

Achieving Earth’s Ecological Potential – Quality Cob Village Renders – Click to Visit

Hamilton Mateca (AutoCAD and Revit Drafter and Designer) also finished his 58th week helping with the Compressed Earth Block Village design and render details. This week’s focus was these two final renders of the Massage and Treatment Room Looking Northeast and this view of the barbecue and social space on the North side of the 2nd floor looking East.

Achieving Earth’s Ecological Potential – Render – Massage, Treatment Room(Northeast) – Click for Page

Achieving Earth’s Ecological Potential – 2nd Floor Outdoors Looking East – Click for Page

Dan Alleck (Designer and Illustrator) also joined the team and completed this updated Compressed Earth Block Village kitchen render by adding people, food, and other aesthetic details

Achieving Earth’s Ecological Potential – Compressed Earth Block Village Kitchen Render – Click to Visit

Samantha Robinson (Graphic Designer) completed her 10th week working on the interior design for the living structure of the Tree House Village (Pod 7). This week’s focus, as shown here, was finalizing the stair and railing designs, adding in the initial window-blind details, and other minor aesthetic improvements.

Achieving Earth’s Ecological Potential – Tree House Village Interior Design Structure ” Click for Page

DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

One Community is working towards achieving earth’s ecological potential through a Duplicable and Sustainable City Center that is LEED Platinum certified/Sustainable, can feed 200 people at a time, provide laundry for over 300 people, is beautiful, spacious, and saves resources, money, and space:

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

Falgun Patel (Mechanical Engineer) completed his 6th week continuing to review, run calculations, and update the specifics of the remote-energy setup plan so we can update the Highest Good energy page. This week’s focus, as shown here, was the feasibility of including a battery backup and starting the outline for the 2nd phase of adding residents.

Achieving Earth’s Ecological Potential – Specifics of Remote-Energy Setup Plan ” Click for Page

Dipti Dhondarkar, (Electrical Engineer) continued with her 53rd week of work on the lighting specifics for the City Center. This week’s focus was finalizing the lighting options for the Dining Dome column, wall, overhang, and table lights. We then created the image shown here and added it and a summary of our findings to the website.

Achieving Earth’s Ecological Potential – Lighting Specifics for the City Center ” Click for Page

Aravind Vasudevan (Mechanical Engineer) continued his calculations and research for climate battery component of the City Center Heating and Cooling open source hub. This week’s focus was sizing and placement specifics, adding more details to the tutorial, and updating the cost analysis specifics for the fans.

Achieving Earth’s Ecological Potential – Climate Battery Component of City Center – Click for Page

HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

One Community is working towards achieving earth’s ecological potential 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 researching and organizing, and made these images of the recently found resources for our Food Self-sufficiency Transition Plan and Sustainable Food Nutrition Calculations page, as you see here.

Achieving Earth’s Ecological Potential – Research, Organize, Images for Food Pages ” Click to Visit

HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

One Community is working towards achieving earth’s ecological potential through Highest Good education that is for all ages, applicable in any environment, adaptable to individual needs, far exceeds traditional education standards, and more fun for both the teachers and the students:

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

This week, the core team began building the education Assessment Format open source page and tutorial. This week’s focus was the What and Why sections, building the table of contents, and the Helpful Evaluation Tips and Tools sections, as shown here.

Achieving Earth’s Ecological Potential – Education Assessment Open Source Page – Click for Page

HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS

One Community is working towards achieving earth’s ecological potential through a Highest Good society approach to living that is founded on fulfilled living, the study of meeting human needs, Community, and making a difference in the world:

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

This week the core team working with Ashwin Patil (Web Developer) finished another round of revisions and added the Search Engine to the Highest Good society page, bringing this search engine to 95% complete. We also finished final revisions to the Highest Good energy search engine, bringing it to 100% complete.

Achieving Earth’s Ecological Potential – Highest Good Society and Highest Good Energy – Click for Page

Sowmya Manohar (Software Engineer, Web Developer & Net Application Developer) working on the Highest Good Network software successfully updated the data in MongoDB through Express and completed the PUT operation in Ember.

Achieving Earth’s Ecological Potential – Highest Good Network Software ” Click to Visit Page

In addition to this, Priti Kothari (Information Technology Enthusiast) also completed her 8th week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week’s focus was working to resolve database connectivity issues, some of which you can see here.

Achieving Earth’s Ecological Potential – Highest Good Network Software ” Click to Visit

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

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

 

INVESTOR PAGES

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 thereby Creating a Better World and achieving Earth’s Ecological Potential. We are creating a space that helps each other live in integrity with each other and the planet as we strive to be the greatest versions of ourselves. We do this by harmoniously respecting each other, nature, and the rest of our one shared planet.

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

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

BUILDING THE FIRST OF MANY

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

WHY ONE COMMUNITY IS CREATING THIS

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

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

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

SUMMARY

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

One Community welcomes Oruba Rabie to the Engineering Team as our newest Volunteer/Consultant!

Ph.D, PE, Civil Engineer: Oruba attended college in Birzeit, Palestine and received her Bachelor degree in Civil Engineering, she then moved to the US where she received both her Master’s and Doctoral degrees from New Jersey Institute of Technology with an emphasis on structural engineering. Her dissertation title was “Damage Assessment of Reinforced Concrete Columns Subjected to Blast Loads” and she has also published four papers in the same field at the ASCE/SEI, IMECE, and ASME. Oruba is a Certified Professional Engineer in the state of California and is skilled in ANSYS APDL, LS-DYNA, STAAP PRO, SAP2000, and AUTOCAD. Oruba loves volunteering at humanitarian projects and started an initiative in Palestine for rehabilitation of existing houses of needy families, where engineering students and engineers raise funds, build, rehabilitate, and furnish homes of needy families in a timely manner. As a One Community volunteer, Oruba is helping with the development of the structural engineering plans for the Duplicable City Center.

WELCOME TO THE TEAM ORUBA!

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One Community welcomes Priti Kothari to the Software Development Team as our newest Volunteer/Consultant!

Information Technology Enthusiast: Priti has a Masters degree in Computer Science from Wayne State University in Detroit, US and a Bachelor’s degree in Physics from MSU in India. She also has 20+ years of professional experience in the field of Information Technology and has worked at GE, Chrysler, Chrysler Financials, Blue Cross Blue Shield, Delphi, and Ally Financials. Priti is passionate about information technology and how technology advances can be leveraged to improve human life. Her expertise lies in managing projects and programs of large scale, Software Development Life Cycle and methodologies, and programming. Priti is passionate about global change and creating a better world, helping as a member of the One Community team working on the Highest Good Network software.

WELCOME TO THE TEAM PRITI!

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One Community welcomes Hemanth Kotaru to the Engineering Team as our newest Volunteer/Consultant!

Structural Engineer: Hemanth is a Structural Engineer and a research enthusiast pursuing independent research studies. Currently a Master’s Student in Structural and Earthquake Engineering from the University of California at Los Angeles, Hemanth’s fields of interest include FEA, Earthquake Hazard Mitigation, Structural Mechanics, Computational Tools for Civil Engineering, and Alternative Building Methods. Before his Master’s, Hemanth worked as a developer for GIS software and also worked as a research intern during his bachelors. Hemanth’s interest towards Sustainability stems from a concern for nature and inspiration from ancient constructions. Observing the sustainability and performance of several ancient architectural wonders over centuries, he was inspired to explore, understand and improvise the ancient construction procedures to modern requirements. As part of this, Hemanth joined the One Community team as a researcher for the Earthbag Village, helping conduct detailed research and calculations to answer the most challenging questions related to this construction method.

WELCOME TO THE TEAM HEMANTH!

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Eco-community support for Earth’s biosphere is one path to creating global sustainability. In support of this goal, One Community is creating open source and sustainable plans for all aspects of eco-community creation. These plans include food, energy, housing, education, for-profit and non-profit economic design, social architecture, fulfilled living, global stewardship practices, and more.

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

OUR MAIN OPEN SOURCE HUBS

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

One Community’s physical location will forward this movement as the first of many self-replicating teacher/demonstration communities, villages, and cities to be built around the world. This is the October 1, 2017 edition (#236) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments:

Eco-Community Support for Earth’s Biosphere
One Community Progress Update #236

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

ECO-COMMUNITY SUPPORT FOR EARTH’S BIOSPHERE INTRO: @0:34

HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING: @6:34

• Continued Sketchup design for the open source outdoor areas of the Recycled Materials Village (see below)
• Updated the Compressed Earth Block Village open source hub with the new floor plans (see below)
• Sangam Stanczak and the core team updated the Communal Eco-shower page (see below)
• Hemanth Kotaru completed his 9th week doing research and running calculations for the Earthbag Village (see below)
• Jagannathan Shankar Mahadevan completed his 3rd working on the Straw Bale Village cost analysis (see below)
• Hamilton Mateca created the final render of the Compressed Earth Block Village Massage and Treatment Room Looking North (see below)
• Aparna Tandon continued her work on the Compressed Earth Block Village external elements (see below)
• Samantha Robinson completed her 9th week working on the interior design for the living structure of the Tree House Village (see below)

DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER: @9:02

• Falgun Patel completed his 5th week continuing to review, run calculations, and update the specifics of the remote-energy setup plan so we can update the Highest Good energy page (see below)
• Dipti Dhondarkar continued with her 52nd week of work on the lighting specifics for the City Center (see below)
• Vamsi Pulugurtha continued work on basement heat transfer comparisons for the City Center Heating and Cooling open source hub (see below)
• Oruba Rabie officially took over working on the City Center structural engineering details (see below)

HIGHEST GOOD FOOD: @10:36

• Continued researching and organizing recently found resources for our Food Self-sufficiency Transition Plan page and Sustainable Food Nutrition Calculations page (see below)

HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION: @11:07

• Finished rebuilding the education Evaluation and Evolution open source portal to reflect and be able to access the content created over the last few months in collaboration with Sangam Stanczak (see below)

HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY: @11:42

• Continued developing the animation for our video that will feature where all our collaborators and volunteers are from (see below)
• Finished working on the new and standalone state-by-state resource page for the US Departments of Taxation (see below)
• Ashwin Patil continued with creation of the the Highest Good society search engine version 3.0 (see below)
• Sowmya Manohar returned to helping work on the Highest Good Network software (see below)
• Priti Kothari completed her 7th week helping with the Highest Good Network software (see below)

ECO-COMMUNITY SUPPORT FOR EARTH’S BIOSPHERE SUMMARY: @13:28

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 HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

One Community is launching eco-community support for earth’s biosphere 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 Sketchup design for the open source outdoor areas of the Recycled Materials Village (Pod 6). This week we finished designing the outside dining area. We also updated the color of the building and worked on the landscaping.

Eco-Community Support for Earth’s Biosphere – Outdoor Areas of Recycled Materials Village ” Click to Visit

The core team additionally updated the Compressed Earth Block Village open source hub with the new floor plans shown here. These include corrected patios for all three floors of the North residences.

Eco-Community Support for Earth’s Biosphere – Compressed Earth Block Village – Click to Visit

The core team also, with the help of Sangam Stanczak (Ph.D. and P.E.), updated the Communal Eco-shower page with new biocompatible soap details, location and floor plan images, and copper-corrosion research results.

Eco-Community Support for Earth’s Biosphere – Communal Eco-Shower Page – Click to Visit

Hemanth Kotaru (Structural Engineering Masters Student) completed his 9th week with us doing research and running calculations for the Earthbag Village. This week’s focus, as shown here, was on researching the effectiveness of nails as an anti-sheer option between earthbags.

Eco-Community Support for Earth’s Biosphere – Research, Running Calculations ” Click for Page

Jagannathan Shankar Mahadevan (Mechanical Engineer) completed his 3rd working on the Straw Bale Village cost analysis. What you see here are cost estimates for about half of the different areas included in this village.

Eco-Community Support for Earth’s Biosphere – Straw Bale Village Cost Analysis ” Click to Visit

Hamilton Mateca (AutoCAD and Revit Drafter and Designer) also finished his 57th week helping with the Compressed Earth Block Village design and render details. This week’s focus was this final render of the Massage and Treatment Room Looking North.

Eco-Community Support for Earth’s Biosphere – Earth Block Village Massage Room – Click for Page

Aparna Tandon (Architect) continued her work on the Compressed Earth Block Village external elements. What you see here is her 35th week of work, focusing on the final presentation shown here and live on the site for the zone 11, the North Playground and Exercise Space.

Eco-Community Support for Earth’s Biosphere – Earth Block Village External Elements – Click for Page

Samantha Robinson (Graphic Designer) completed her 9th week working on the interior design for the living structure of the Tree House Village (Pod 7). This week’s focus, as shown here, was testing initial texturing for the upstairs shelving and more stair and furniture design details.

Eco-Community Support for Earth’s Biosphere – Tree House Village Interior Design ” Click for Page

DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

One Community is launching eco-community support for earth’s biosphere through a Duplicable and Sustainable City Center that is LEED Platinum certified/Sustainable, can feed 200 people at a time, provide laundry for over 300 people, is beautiful, spacious, and saves resources, money, and space:

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

Falgun Patel (Mechanical Engineer) completed his 5th week continuing to review, run calculations, and update the specifics of the remote-energy setup plan so we can update the Highest Good energy page. This week’s focus, as shown here, was 2nd-generation energy-needs calculations for the initial landing party, sizing the generators, and updating the landing-party-rollout text details.

Eco-Community Support for Earth’s Biosphere – Specifics of Remote-Energy Setup ” Click for Page

Dipti Dhondarkar, (Electrical Engineer) continued with her 52nd week of work on the lighting specifics for the City Center. This week’s focus was adding and testing multiple lighting options for the Dining Dome column, wall, overhang, and table lights.

Eco-Community Support for Earth’s Biosphere – Lighting Specifics for the City Center ” Click for Page

Vamsi Pulugurtha (Mechanical Engineer) also continued work on basement heat transfer comparisons for the City Center Heating and Cooling open source hub. What you see here are Vamsi’s 4th-generation details and conclusions comparing how heat transfers from the basement and boiler room to the outside when built in-ground versus above ground.

Eco-Community Support for Earth’s Biosphere – Heat Transfer Comparisons ” Click for Page

Oruba Rabie (Ph.D, PE, and Civil Engineer) also officially took over working on the City Center structural engineering details. What you see here are some screenshots of her process looking for and correcting errors in the existing model.

Eco-Community Support for Earth’s Biosphere – City Center Structural Engineering – Click to Visit

HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

One Community is launching eco-community support for earth’s biosphere 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 researching and organizing recently found resources for our Food Self-sufficiency Transition Plan and Sustainable Food Nutrition Calculations page, as you see here.

Eco-Community Support for Earth’s Biosphere – Found Resources for Our Food Pages – Click to Visit

HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

One Community is launching eco-community support for earth’s biosphere through Highest Good education that is for all ages, applicable in any environment, adaptable to individual needs, far exceeds traditional education standards, and more fun for both the teachers and the students:

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

This week, the core team finished rebuilding the education Evaluation and Evolution open source portal to reflect and be able to access the content created over the last few months in collaboration with Sangam Stanczak (Ph.D. and P.E.). You can see some of the new sections here.

Eco-Community Support for Earth’s Biosphere – Education Evaluation and Evolution open source portal 

HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS

One Community is launching eco-community support for earth’s biosphere 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 continued developing the animation for our video that will feature where all our collaborators and volunteers are from. The focus was adding the final image movements to bring us to 100% complete.

Eco-Community Support for Earth’s Biosphere – Graphic – Collaborators and Volunteers ” Click for Team

In addition to this we finished working on the new and standalone state-by-state resource page for the US Departments of Taxation, creating a header image, performing final edits, and completing the SEO information and sharing it. You can see this page here.

Eco-Community Support for Earth’s Biosphere – State-by-State Resource Page ” Click to Visit

Ashwin Patil (Web Developer) continued with creation of the the Highest Good society search engine version 3.0, integrating another round of suggested edits and missing pages. You can see some of this work-in-progress here and we’d say this search engine is now 90% complete.

Eco-Community Support for Earth’s Biosphere – Highest Good Society Search Engine – Click to Visit

In addition to this, Sowmya Manohar (Software Engineer, Web Developer & Net Application Developer) returned to helping work on the Highest Good Network software. This week’s focus was continuing her work on the functions for retrieving account information for specific people based on individual IDs and populating the “Profile Page” for the specific person with their respective values.

Eco-Community Support for Earth’s Biosphere – Highest Good Network Software – Click to Visit

In addition to this, Priti Kothari (Information Technology Enthusiast) also completed her 7th week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week’s focus was experimenting with creating the database model design suitable for the application, some of which you can see here.

Eco-Community Support for Earth’s Biosphere – Highest Good Network Software ” Click to Visit

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WHAT ONE COMMUNITY IS CREATING

One Community is creating a place to grow together and change the world together thereby Creating a Better World and creating Eco-Community Support for Earth’s Biosphere.We are creating a space that helps each other live in integrity with each other and the planet as we strive to be the greatest versions of ourselves. We do this by harmoniously respecting each other, nature, and the rest of our one shared planet.

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

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

BUILDING THE FIRST OF MANY

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

WHY ONE COMMUNITY IS CREATING THIS

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

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

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

SUMMARY

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

One Community is focused on cultivation of global sustainability through sustainable and open source food, energy, housing, education, for-profit and non-profit economic design, social architecture, fulfilled living, global stewardship practices, and more. We call this living and creating for The Highest Good of All.

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

OUR MAIN OPEN SOURCE HUBS

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

One Community’s physical location will forward this movement as the first of many self-replicating teacher/demonstration communities, villages, and cities to be built around the world. This is the September 24, 2017 edition (#235) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments:

Cultivation of Global Sustainability
One Community Progress Update #235

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

CULTIVATION OF GLOBAL SUSTAINABILITY INTRO: @0:34

HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING: @6:08

DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER: @8:51

• Falgun Patel completed his 4th week continuing to review, run calculations, and update the specifics of the remote-energy setup plan so we can update the Highest Good energy page (see below)
• Dipti Dhondarkar continued with her 51st week of work on the lighting specifics for the City Center (see below)
• Aravind Vasudevan continued his calculations and research for climate battery component of the City Center Heating and Cooling open source hub (see below)
• Vamsi Pulugurtha continued work on basement heat transfer comparisons for the City Center Heating and Cooling open source hub (see below)

HIGHEST GOOD FOOD: @10:22

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

HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION: @10:58

• Began rebuilding the education Evaluation and Evolution open source portal to reflect and be able to access the content created over the last few months in collaboration with Sangam Stanczak (see below)

HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY: @11:32

• Invested several more hours developing the animation for our video that will feature where all our collaborators and volunteers are from (see below)
• Made the final changes and additions to the taxes page (see below)
• Continued working on the new and standalone state-by-state resource page for the US Departments of Taxation
• Priti Kothari completed her 6th week helping with the Highest Good Network software (see below)

CULTIVATION OF GLOBAL SUSTAINABILITY SUMMARY: @12:50

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HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

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

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

The core team continued Sketchup design for the open source outdoor areas of the Recycled Materials Village (Pod 6). This week we added missing rails, doors and windows to the dining building, and updated the dining area walls with openings for the doors and windows on both floors.

Cultivation of Global Sustainability – Outdoor Areas of Recycled Materials Village ” Click to Visit

The core team also continued working on the complete Tree House Village (Pod 7) village render, which is now approximately 90% complete and shown here as the 25%-smaller bottom version.

Cultivation of Global Sustainability – Tree House Village Village Render ” Click for Page

The core team additionally updated the Compressed Earth Block Village open source hub with new images, descriptions for all the images, formatting, and a new table of contents. You can see examples of the newly updated page and content here.

Cultivation of Global Sustainability – Compressed Earth Block Village Open source Hub – Click for Page

The core team also, with the help of Sangam Stanczak (Ph.D. and P.E.), updated the Communal Eco-shower page, Control and Automation page, and thermostatic mixing valve pages with new water and energy-saving details and strategies. You can see some of this work here.

Cultivation of Global Sustainability – Communal Eco-Shower, Control Automation Pages – Click to Visit

Hemanth Kotaru (Structural Engineering Masters Student) completed his 8th week with us doing research, running calculations, and creating updated AutoCAD drawings for the Earthbag Village specifics. You can see here some of this work along with the behind-the-scenes editing and revisions questions.

Cultivation of Global Sustainability – Research – AutoCAD Drawings – Earthbag Village – Click for Page

Jagannathan Shankar Mahadevan (Mechanical Engineer) completed his 2nd week working on the Straw Bale Village cost analysis. What you see here are outlines of the HVAC system and the beginnings of costing out the specifics for the residential sections of the village.

Cultivation of Global Sustainability – Continued Work – Straw Bale Village Cost Analysis – Click to Visit

Hamilton Mateca (AutoCAD and Revit Drafter and Designer) also finished his 56th week helping with the Compressed Earth Block Village design and render details. This week’s focus was version 2 and 3 of the massage room renders, as seen here.

Cultivation of Global Sustainability – Earth Block Village Design and Render details – Click for Page

Aparna Tandon (Architect) continued her work on the Compressed Earth Block Village external elements. What you see here is her 34th week of work, focusing on the final presentation shown here (and live on the site) for the zone 8 and 9 exercise and recreation areas.

Cultivation of Global Sustainability – Earth Block Village External Elements ” Click for Page

Samantha Robinson (3D Designer) completed her 8th week working on the interior design for the living structure of the Tree House Village (Pod 7). This week’s focus, as shown here, was designing the railing specifics for the stairway.

Cultivation of Global Sustainability – Tree House Village Interior Design Structure ” Click for Page

DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

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

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

Falgun Patel (Mechanical Engineer) completed his 4th week continuing to review, run calculations, and update the specifics of the remote-energy setup plan so we can update the Highest Good energy page. This week’s focus, as shown here, was detailed energy-needs calculations for the initial construction equipment, Transition Kitchen, and Ultimate Classroom.

Cultivation of Global Sustainability – Specifics of Remote-Energy Setup Plan ” Click for Page

Dipti Dhondarkar, (Electrical Engineer) continued with her 51st week of work on the lighting specifics for the City Center. This week’s focus was testing multiple angles and finalizing the Dining Dome flood light placement, as shown here.

Cultivation of Global Sustainability – Continued Work Lighting Specifics for City Center ” Click for Page

Aravind Vasudevan (Mechanical Engineer) continued his calculations and research for climate battery component of the City Center Heating and Cooling open source hub. This week’s focus was creation of the initial presentation structure we’re evolving into the complete design, as shown here.

Cultivation of Global Sustainability – Climate Battery Component of City Center ” Click to Visit Page

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

Cultivation of Global Sustainability – Basement Heat Transfer Comparisons ” Click for Page

HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

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

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

This week, the core team continued editing the food pages. We continued researching details for our food needs to review the details for the Food Self-sufficiency Transition Plan and found 31 additional resources for checking calculations on the Sustainable Food Nutrition Calculations page, as you see here.

Cultivation of Global Sustainability – Continued Editing the Food Pages ” Click for Food Page

HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

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

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

This week, the core team began rebuilding the education Evaluation and Evolution open source portal to reflect and be able to access the content created over the last few months in collaboration with Sangam Stanczak (Ph.D. and P.E.). You can see some of this work-in-progress here.

Cultivation of Global Sustainability – Rebuilding Education, Evaluation, Evolution Portal – Click for Page

HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS

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

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

This week the core team invested several more hours developing the animation for our video that will feature where all our collaborators and volunteers are from. The focus was developing the image movements and we are now approximately 50% complete.

Cultivation of Global Sustainability – Graphic Showing Our Collaborators, Volunteers ” Click for Team

The core team also made the final changes and additions to the taxes page, bringing it to 100% completion.

Cultivation of Global Sustainability – Made Final Changes and Completed the Taxes Page – Click to Visit

In addition to this we continued working on the new and standalone state-by-state resource page for the US Departments of Taxation, creating all the text, fixing all the image links on the page, and adding in SEO information. You can see some of this page-in-progress here.

Cultivation of Global Sustainability – Resource Page of US Departments of Taxation – Click to Visit

In addition to this, Priti Kothari (Information Technology Enthusiast) also completed her 6th week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week’s focus was successfully getting the “D3” software to create the horizontal bar chart in the leaderboard based on the hard coded model data. You can see some of this work here.

Cultivation of Global Sustainability – Continued Work – Highest Good Network Software – Click to Visit

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

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WHAT ONE COMMUNITY IS CREATING

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

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

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

BUILDING THE FIRST OF MANY

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

WHY ONE COMMUNITY IS CREATING THIS

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

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

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

SUMMARY

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

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

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

WELCOME TO THE TEAM SAM!

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

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

OUR MAIN OPEN SOURCE HUBS

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

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

Global Conservation Plan
One Community Progress Update #234

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

GLOBAL CONSERVATION PLAN INTRO: @0:34

HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING: @7:39

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

DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER: @9:40

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

HIGHEST GOOD FOOD: @11:18

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

HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION: @11:52

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

HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY: @12:30

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

GLOBAL CONSERVATION PLAN SUMMARY: @14:13

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

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HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Samantha Robinson (3D Designer) completed her 7th week working on the interior design for the living structure of the Tree House Village (Pod 7). This week’s focus, as shown here, was revisions for the drawers under the bed, adjustments to the floor plan, and working on the stairway railing details.

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

DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Global Conservation Plan – Continued work – Duplicable City Center AutoCAD Updates ” Click for Page

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

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

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

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

HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

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

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

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

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

HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

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

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

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

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

HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

 

INVESTOR PAGES

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 thereby Creating a Better World and setting up the Global Conservation Plan.We are creating a space that helps each other live in integrity with each other and the planet as we strive to be the greatest versions of ourselves. We do this by harmoniously respecting each other, nature, and the rest of our one shared planet.

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

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

BUILDING THE FIRST OF MANY

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

WHY ONE COMMUNITY IS CREATING THIS

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

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

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

SUMMARY

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