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WHAT ONE COMMUNITY IS CREATING

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

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

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

BUILDING THE FIRST OF MANY

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

WHY ONE COMMUNITY IS CREATING THIS

The One Community self-replicating model is capable of creating a sustainable planet within 30 years. We will achieve this by establishing successful teacher/demonstration hubs, abundant natural systems 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.

WHY OPEN SOURCE

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

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

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

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

SUMMARY

One Community sees the issues of the world as interdependent and interconnected. To facilitate Abundant Natural Systems and address them simultaneously, we are open-source blueprinting a more advanced standard of living by designing holistic, environmentally-regenerative, self-sustaining, adaptable solutions for all areas of sustainability. 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 Yun Lin to the Engineering Team!

Posted on April 22, 2018 by One Community

One Community welcomes Yun Lin to the One Community Engineering Team as our newest Volunteer/Consultant!

Yun Lin – Ph.D., P.E.: Yun holds a Ph.D. degree in Civil Engineering from West Virginia University and a Master’s Degree in Civil Engineering from Pennsylvania State University. He has published a total of six papers in refereed journals and conferences based on research related to mass concrete, reinforced concrete, and thermal barrier coating. Yun is currently an experienced bridge structural engineer. Yun’s expertise includes bridge design, bridge inspection, bridge load rating, finite element analysis and programming. Yun is registered as a PE in the State of Louisiana and a Certified Bridge Inspection Team Leader Nationwide. As a One Community team member, Yun is applying his engineering skills helping with the structural details of the Duplicable City Center.

WELCOME TO THE TEAM YUN!

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Highest Good Decision Making – One Community Weekly Progress Update #265

Posted on April 22, 2018 by One Community

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Imagine a world where Highest Good decision making is the norm. It seems reasonable to think that one way to get there could be by providing for people’s needs through a replicable lifestyle of abundance built on thinking, creating, and acting on ideas that are already for The Highest Good. The knowledge and technology already exist to help all people and life on our shared planet while taking into account the short term and longterm impacts of our decisions. The path to achieving this has never been clearer and One Community is designing and open sourcing all the steps and components we see as helpful.

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 April 22nd, 2018 edition (#265) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments:

Highest Good Decision Making
One Community Progress Update #265

Highest Good Decision Making - One Community Weekly Progress Update #265

Watch this video on YouTube

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

HIGHEST GOOD DECISION MAKING INTRO: @0:34

HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING: @5:42

Began updating the 3D aspects of the Murphy bed drawers and changing areas (see below)
Michael Hagler and the core team continued working together creating and testing the different layout options for the Compressed Earth Block Village parts of the 7-villages book (see below)
Shadi Kennedy completed his 4th week leading the development of the Murphy bed instructions
Dean Scholz continued with the Cob Village render updates (see below)
Dan Alleck completed his 19th week working on the Compressed Earth Block Village render additions (see below)
Mike Kowalski finished his 5th week helping update our Recycled Materials Village renders that are too big for anything but a gaming computer (see below)
Mihaela “Michelle” Pinzaru completed her 12th week working on the Tree House Village residential renders (see below)

DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER: @7:40

Working with Jin Yu, the core team completed a thorough review and update of the behind-the-scenes development of the City Center excavation and construction of the footer and foundation tutorial work from last week (see below)
Dipti Dhondarkar continued developing the lighting specifics for the City Center (see below)
David Olivero completed his 18th week helping with the HVAC Designs for the Duplicable City Center (see below)
Anvita Kumari Pandey completed her 2nd week helping with the Duplicable City Enter Materials and Costs (see below)

HIGHEST GOOD FOOD: @9:29

Continued working on the Garden Tools list by adding even more tools, images, and prices (see below)
The core team began writing the behind-the-scenes narrative and detailed food rollout plan for the second landing party group of 20 people (see below)

HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION: @9:47

Finished the second 50% of review, formatting, editing, and content, resources, and imagery additions to the Learning for Life Assessment Format page (see below)

HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY: @10:22

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

HIGHEST GOOD DECISION MAKING SUMMARY: @11:12

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HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

One Community is facilitating highest good decision making through Highest Good housing that is artistic and beautiful, more affordable, more space efficient, lasts longer, DIY buildable, and constructed with healthy and sustainable materials:

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

This week the core team began updating the 3D aspects of the Murphy bed drawers and changing areas.

Highest Good Decision Making – 3D Aspects of Murphy Bed Drawers, Changing Areas – Click for Page

The core team working with Michael Hagler (Senior Graphic Designer and Artist), also completed another round of editing and testing different layout options shown here for the Compressed Earth Block Village parts of the 7-villages book we’re developing.

Highest Good Decision Making. The core team working with Michael Hagler (Senior Graphic Designer and Artist), also completed another round of editing and testing different layout options shown here for the Compressed Earth Block Village parts of the 7-villages book we're developing.

Highest Good Decision Making – Layout Options for Earth Block Village Parts ” Click for Page

Shadi Kennedy (Artist and Graphic Designer) completed his 4th week leading the development of the Murphy bed instructions. This week’s focus was simplifying the materials lists and further developing the drawers and nightstand frame pages, as shown here.

Highest Good Decision Making, Shadi Kennedy (Artist and Graphic Designer) completed his 4th week leading the development of the Murphy bed instructions. This week's focus was simplifying the materials lists and further developing the drawers and nightstand frame pages, as shown here.

Highest Good Decision Making – Continued Work – Murphy Bed Instructions ” Click to Visit

Dean Scholz (Architectural Designer) continued with the Cob Village (Pod 3) render updates. Here is update 110 of Dean’s work. This week Dean finished the main render for the Dining Hall View from the Front Door, which you can see here.

Highest Good Decision Making, Cob Village Central Dining and Stage Area, View from Front Doors, One Community, blog 265

Highest Good Decision Making – Continued with Cob Village AutoCAD Layout Updates ” Click for Page

Dan Alleck (Designer and Illustrator) completed his 19th week working on the Compressed Earth Block Village render additions. This week he finished updating this render of one of the massage rooms. This render is now updated on the website also.

Highest Good Decision Making - Compressed Earth Block Village Massage Room Looking south with People, Dan Alleck, One Community, blog 265

Highest Good Decision Making – Massage Room – South (w)People Final Render ” Click for Page

Mike Kowalski (Game Developer) finished his 5th week helping update our Recycled Materials Village (Pod 6) renders that are too big for anything but a gaming computer. What you see here are two updated renders from before and a new and final render of the West Outdoor Dining Area. These are now updated on the website also.

Highest Good Decision Making, Mike Kowalski (Game Developer) finished his 5th week helping update our Recycled Materials Village (Pod 6) renders that are too big for anything but a gaming computer. What you see here are two updated renders from before and a new and final render of the West Outdoor Dining Area. These are now updated on the website also.

Highest Good Decision Making – Materials Village Outdoor Dining Area Final Renders ” Click for Page

Mihaela “Michelle” Pinzaru (Interior Designer and Architectural Drafter) also completed her 12th week working on the Tree House Village (Pod 7) residential renders. This week she started working on the textures and other design details needed to produce final external renders.

Highest Good Decision Making – Tree House Village Residential Renders – Click for Page

DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

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

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

This week the core team working with Jin Yu (Structural Engineering Designer) completed a thorough review and update of the behind-the-scenes development of the City Center excavation and construction of the footer and foundation tutorial work from last week. You can see some of this work-in-progress here.

Highest Good Decision Making, This week the core team working with Jin Yu (Structural Engineering Designer) completed a thorough review and update of the behind-the-scenes development of the City Center excavation and construction of the footer and foundation tutorial work from last week. You can see some of this work-in-progress here.

Highest Good Decision Making-City Center Excavation,Construction Footer,Foundation -Click for Page

Dipti Dhondarkar, (Electrical Engineer), continued developing the lighting specifics for the City Center. This is Dipti’s 71st week volunteering on this task and the focus this week was choosing and comparing a variety of different fixture types that meet the LEED criteria for diffuse lighting.

Highest Good Decision Making, This week Dipti Dhondarkar, (Electrical Engineer), continued developing the lighting specifics for the City Center. This is Dipti's 71st week volunteering on this task and the focus this week was choosing and comparing a variety of different fixture types that meet the LEED criteria for diffuse lighting.

Highest Good Decision Making – Lighting Specifics for the City Center ” Click for Page

David Olivero (Mechanical Engineer & Data Scientist) completed his 18th week helping with the HVAC Designs for the Duplicable City Center. This week’s focus was more additions and development of the HVAC zonal document and working on the Makeup Air Unit and electric boiler sizing challenges.

Highest Good Decision Making - David Olivero (Mechanical Engineer & Data Scientist) completed his 18th week helping with the HVAC Designs for the Duplicable City Center. This week's focus was more additions and development of the HVAC zonal document and working on the Makeup Air Unit and electric boiler sizing challenges.

Highest Good Decision Making – HVAC Designs for the Duplicable City Center ” Click for Page

Anvita Kumari Pandey (Civil Engineer) also completed her 2nd week helping with the Duplicable City Center Materials and Costs. This week’s focus was summarizing construction materials for interior equipment, taking all the dimensions from the floor plans and calculating materials as well as interior quantities for the 1st floor, and starting the same for the 2nd floor.

Highest Good Decision Making, Anvita Kumari Pandey (Civil Engineer) also completed her 2nd week helping with the Duplicable City Enter Materials and Costs. This week's focus was summarizing construction materials for interior equipment, taking all the dimensions from the floor plans and calculating materials as well as interior quantities for the 1st floor, and starting the same for the 2nd floor.

Highest Good Decision Making – Duplicable City Center Materials and Costs – Click for Page

HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

One Community is facilitating highest good decision making 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 working on the Garden Tools list by adding even more tools, images, and prices. You can see some of this work here.

Highest Good Decision Making, This week, the core team continued working on the Garden Tools list by adding even more tools, images, and prices. You can see some of this work here.

Highest Good Decision Making – Continued Work – Garden Tools List ” Click for Page

The core team also began writing the behind-the-scenes narrative and detailed food rollout plan for the second landing party group of 20 people. You can see some of this work-in-progress here.

Highest Good Decision Making, The core team also began writing the behind-the-scenes narrative and detailed food rollout plan for the second landing party group of 20 people. You can see some of this work-in-progress here.

Highest Good Decision Making – Narrative and Detailed Food Rollout Plan – Click for Page

HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

One Community is facilitating highest good decision making 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 the second 50% of review, formatting, editing, and content, resources, and imagery additions to the Learning for Life Assessment Format page. You can see some of this last week’s work here and the page is now complete.

Highest Good Decision Making, This week, the core team finished the second 50% of review, formatting, editing, and content, resources, and imagery additions to the Learning for Life Assessment Format page. You can see some of this last week's work here and the page is now complete.

Highest Good Decision Making -Second 50% of the Learning for Life Assessment Format- Click for Page

HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS

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

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

This week, the Highest Good Network software team consisting of Sowmya Manohar (Software Engineer, Web Developer & Net Application Developer), Shubhra Mittal (Software Delivery Manager), Priyanka Singh (Software Developer ), and Swathy Jayaseelan (Software Developer) continued their work on the software. This week they added new sorting functionality to the user management table, made the administrative and social links on the user profile page clickable, tested new designs for the weekly effort gauge in the header, and added a dropdown that lists the members contributing to projects and produces a bar chart showing the total hours spent by a person every day in the current week.

Highest Good Decision Making – Highest Good Network Software ” Click for Page

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WHAT ONE COMMUNITY IS CREATING

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

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

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

BUILDING THE FIRST OF MANY

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

WHY ONE COMMUNITY IS CREATING THIS

The One Community self-replicating model is capable of creating a sustainable planet within 30 years. We will achieve this by establishing successful teacher/demonstration hubs, highest good decision making 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.

WHY OPEN SOURCE

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

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

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

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

SUMMARY

One Community sees the issues of the world as interdependent and interconnected. To facilitate Highest Good Decision Making and address them simultaneously, we are open-source blueprinting a more advanced standard of living by designing holistic, environmentally-regenerative, self-sustaining, adaptable solutions for all areas of sustainability. 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.

Ethical Community Science – One Community Weekly Progress Update #264

Posted on April 17, 2018 by One Community

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

Applied ethical community science approaches to global sustainability could regenerate our world and simultaneously address the greatest challenges of our generation. One Community is supporting this by creating open source and free-shared blueprints, tools, tutorials, and DIY instructions for all aspects of community creation and sustainability.

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

OUR MAIN OPEN SOURCE HUBS

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

One Community’s physical location will forward this movement as the first of many self-replicating teacher/demonstration communities, villages, and cities to be built around the world. This is the April 15th, 2018 edition (#264) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments:

Ethical Community Science
One Community Progress Update #264

Ethical Community Science - One Community Weekly Progress Update #264

Watch this video on YouTube

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

ETHICAL COMMUNITY SCIENCE INTRO: @0:34

HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING: @6:20

Michael Hagler and the core team continued working together creating and testing the different layout options for the Compressed Earth Block Village parts of the 7-villages book (see below)
Shadi Kennedy completed his 3rd week leading the development of the Murphy bed instructions
Dean Scholz continued with the Cob Village render updates (see below)
Dan Alleck completed his 18th week working on the Compressed Earth Block Village render additions (see below)
Mike Kowalski finished his 4th week helping update our Recycled Materials Village renders that are too big for anything but a gaming computer (see below)
Anvita Kumari Pandey joined the team and completed her 1st week helping with the Duplicable City Enter Materials and Costs (see below)

DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER: @8:01

Dipti Dhondarkar and the core team continued developing the lighting specifics for the City Center (see below)
Jin Yu continued her work with behind-the-scenes development of the City Center excavation and construction of the footer and foundation tutorial (see below)
David Olivero completed his 17th week helping with the HVAC Designs for the Duplicable City Center (see below)
Yun Lin completed his 3rd week helping with the beam design and calculation aspects of the City Center structural engineering (see below)

HIGHEST GOOD FOOD: @10:00

Continued working on the Garden Tools list (see below)
Finished, edited, and formatted the behind-the-scenes narrative and detailed food rollout plan for the initial 3-person survey team (see below)

HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION: @10:35

Finished first 50% of review, formatting, editing, and content, resources, and imagery additions to the Learning for Life Assessment Format page (see below)

HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY: @11:10

Worked on beta testing the Highest Good Network software (see below)
Sowmya Manohar, Shubhra Mittal, Priyanka Singh, and Swathy Jayaseelan continued work on the Highest Good Network software (see below)

ETHICAL COMMUNITY SCIENCE SUMMARY: @12:15

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HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

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

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

This week the core team working with Michael Hagler (Senior Graphic Designer and Artist) continued working together creating and testing the different layout options shown here for the Compressed Earth Block Village parts of the 7-villages book we’re developing.

Ethical Community Science, This week the core team working with Michael Hagler (Senior Graphic Designer and Artist) continued working together creating and testing the different layout options shown here for the Compressed Earth Block Village parts of the 7-villages book we're developing.

Ethical Community Science – Layout Options for Compressed Earth Block Village – Click for Page

Shadi Kennedy (Artist and Graphic Designer) completed his 3rd week leading the development of the Murphy bed instructions. This week’s focus was building elements for the drawers pages 6.5.1 and 6.5.2 for the nightstands, as shown here.

Ethical Community Science, Shadi Kennedy (Artist and Graphic Designer) completed his 3rd week leading the development of the Murphy bed instructions. This week's focus was building elements for the drawers pages 6.5.1 and 6.5.2 for the nightstands, as shown here.

Ethical Community Science – Continued Working on the Murphy Bed Instructions ” Click to Visit Page

Dean Scholz (Architectural Designer) continued with the Cob Village (Pod 3) render updates. Here is update 109 of Dean’s work focused this week on trying to fix lighting reflection challenges caused by the stainless steel in the kitchen area.

Ethical Community Science, Dean Scholz (Architectural Designer) continued with the Cob Village (Pod 3) render updates. Here is update 109 of Dean's work focused this week on trying to fix lighting reflection challenges caused by the stainless steel in the kitchen area.

Ethical Community Science – Continued with Cob Village AutoCAD Layout Updates ” Click for Page

Dan Alleck (Designer and Illustrator) completed his 18th week working on the Compressed Earth Block Village render additions. This week he finished the two renders you see here focusing on the central Zone 17 play and relaxation area. These renders are now updated on the website also.

Ethical Community Science, Compressed Earth Block Village, Zone 17, Final Render with people, One Community, Dan Alleck

Compressed Earth Block Village, Zone 17, Final Render with people, One Community, Dan Alleck Ethical Community Science – Zone 17 Play Relaxation Area Render – Click for Earth Block Village

Mike Kowalski (Game Developer) finished his 4th week helping update our Recycled Materials Village (Pod 6) renders that are too big for anything but a gaming computer. What you see here are the four renders he finished creating this week. Three of these are now on the site and this 4th one showing a skate park will be added later as part of a collage of related images.

Ethical Community Science, Recycled Materials Village Landscaping, outdoor library area, outdoor dining area, outdoor art area, outdoor game area, outdoor exercise area, recycled art area, recycled games area, recycled reading area, recycled dining area, recycled exercise area, recycled materials, building with tires, building with pallets, construction with recycled materials

Ethical Community Science – Recycled Materials Village Outdoor Dining Area Render – Click for Page

Ethical Community Science – Recycled Materials Village Outdoor Exercise Area Render – Click for Page

Anvita Kumari Pandey (Civil Engineer) also joined the team and completed her 1st week helping with the Duplicable City Center Materials and Costs. This week’s focus was developing the initial City Center basement and first floor estimation spreadsheet format and line items, some of which you can see here.

Ethical Community Science, Anvita Kumari Pandey (Civil Engineer) also joined the team and completed her 1st week helping with the Duplicable City Enter Materials and Costs. This week's focus was developing the initial City Center basement and first floor estimation spreadsheet format and line items, some of which you can see here.

Ethical Community Science – Help with the Duplicable City Center Materials and Costs – Click for Page

DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

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

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

This week the core team and Dipti Dhondarkar, (Electrical Engineer), continued developing the lighting specifics for the City Center. This is Dipti’s 70th week volunteering on this task and the focus this week was round 3 of updating the lighting designs and modeling for the ground floor bedrooms, testing different lighting colors and fixture types, and creating a detailed LEED criteria set so we can finish these rooms to LEED Platinum standards.

Ethical Community Science, This week the core team and Dipti Dhondarkar, (Electrical Engineer), continued developing the lighting specifics for the City Center. This is Dipti's 70th week volunteering on this task and the focus this week was round 3 of updating the lighting designs and modeling for the ground floor bedrooms, testing different lighting colors and fixture types, and creating a detailed LEED criteria set so we can finish these rooms to LEED Platinum standards.

Ethical Community Science – Continued Work on Lighting Specifics for the City Center ” Click for Page

Jin Yu (Structural Engineering Designer) continued with her work with the behind-the-scenes development of the City Center excavation and construction of the footer and foundation tutorial. This week’s focus was finishing the moisture control section of the tutorial. You can see some of this work-in-progress here.

Ethical Community Science, Jin Yu (Structural Engineering Designer) continued with her work with the behind-the-scenes development of the City Center excavation and construction of the footer and foundation tutorial. This week's focus was finishing the moisture control section of the tutorial. You can see some of this work-in-progress here.

Ethical Community Science – City Center Excavation, Construction Footer, Foundation ” Click for Page

David Olivero (Mechanical Engineer & Data Scientist) completed his 17th week helping with the HVAC Designs for the Duplicable City Center. This week’s focus was filling out all our HVAC choices in the zone spreadsheet and reviewing the heat recovery vs. makeup air unit strategy for the kitchen.

Ethical Community Science – Continued Help-HVAC Designs for Duplicable City Center – Click for Page

Yun Lin (Bridge Design Engineer) also completed his 3rd week helping with the beam design and calculation aspects of the City Center structural engineering. This week he created version 2.0 of the timber beam design spreadsheet. Now a person can use dropdown menus to choose from industry standard materials lists and the spreadsheet will check to see if the results fall within desired safety standards.

Ethical Community Science, Yun Lin (Bridge Design Engineer) also completed his 3rd week helping with the beam design and calculation aspects of the City Center structural engineering. This week he created version 2.0 of the timber beam design spreadsheet. Now a person can use dropdown menus to choose from industry standard materials lists and the spreadsheet will check to see if the results fall within desired safety standards.

Ethical Community Science – Beam Design, Calculation of City Center Engineering ” Click for Page

HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

One Community is facilitating ethical community science 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 working on the Garden Tools list by adding even more tools, images, and prices. You can see some of this work here

Ethical Community Science, This week, the core team continued working on the Garden Tools list by adding even more tools, images, and prices. You can see some of this work here

Ethical Community Science – Continued Working on the Garden Tools List ” Click for Page

The core team also finished, edited, and formatted the behind-the-scenes narrative and detailed food rollout plan for the initial 3-person survey team.

Ethical Community Science, The core team also finished, edited, and formatted the behind-the-scenes narrative and detailed food rollout plan for the initial 3-person survey team.

Ethical Community Science – Detailed Food Rollout Plan – Initial 3-Person Survey Team – Click for Page

HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

One Community is facilitating ethical community science 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 the first 50% of review, formatting and editing content, resources, and imagery additions to the Learning for Life Assessment Format page. You can see some of this work here.

Ethical Community Science, This week, the core team finished the first 50% of review, formatting, editing, and content, resources, and imagery additions to the Learning for Life Assessment Format page. You can see some of this work here.

Ethical Community Science – First 50% of Learning for Life Assessment Format Page – Click for Page

HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS

One Community is facilitating ethical community science 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 worked on beta testing the Highest Good Network software. You can see some of this work here.

Ethical Community Science – Beta Testing the Highest Good Network Software – Click for Page

The Highest Good Network software team consists of Sowmya Manohar (Software Engineer, Web Developer & Net Application Developer), Shubhra Mittal (Software Delivery Manager), Priyanka Singh (Software Developer ), and Swathy Jayaseelan (Software Developer). This week the team made the ember model table work with the user management details, added profile pic guidelines and autoresizing, added a link to that profile page that takes a person to that person’s time log, changed relationships of Teams and Projects to be separate from each other, modified the reports bar charts to show both current week and previous weeks data in the same chart, and added options for custom time range functionality.

Ethical Community Science – Continued Working on Highest Good Network Software ” Click for Page

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WHAT ONE COMMUNITY IS CREATING

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

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

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

BUILDING THE FIRST OF MANY

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

WHY ONE COMMUNITY IS CREATING THIS

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

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

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

INSPIRING SUSTAINABILITY WITH OPEN SOURCE

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

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

It is this approach we see uniting the world and leading to a new Ethical Community Science. 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.

WHY OPEN SOURCE

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

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

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

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

SUMMARY

One Community sees the issues of the world as interdependent and interconnected. To facilitate Ethical Community Science and address them simultaneously, we are open-source blueprinting a more advanced standard of living by designing holistic, environmentally-regenerative, self-sustaining, adaptable solutions for all areas of sustainability. 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.

Earth-Care Teacher Demonstration Hubs – One Community Weekly Progress Update #263

Posted on April 8, 2018 by One Community

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

Now more than ever the planet could benefit from earth-care teacher demonstration hubs. One Community is an all-volunteer nonprofit building a global collaboration to create them for what we call “The Highest Good” of all people and life on our planet. We are doing this through open source and free-shared do-it-yourself sustainability components that include food, energy, and housing, education, for-profit and non-profit economic design, social architecture, fulfilled living, and global stewardship practices.

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 earth-care teacher demonstration communities, villages, and cities to be built around the world. One Community is focusing towards earth-care teacher demonstration hubs. This is the April 8th, 2018 edition (#263) of our weekly progress update of detailing our team’s development and accomplishments:

Earth-Care Teacher/Demonstration Hubs
One Community Progress Update #263

Earth Care Teacher Demonstration Hubs - One Community Weekly Progress Update #263

Watch this video on YouTube

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

EARTH-CARE TEACHER DEMONSTRATION HUBS INTRO: @0:34

HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING: @6:33

Updated the Shipping Container Village open source hub with the newly finished overview images shown here (see below)
Updated the Tree House Village open source hub with new floor plans, images and descriptions (see below)
Shadi Kennedy completed his 2nd week leading the development of the Murphy bed instructions (see below)
Dean Scholz continued with the Cob Village AutoCAD layout updates (see below)
Mike Kowalski finished his third week helping update our Recycled Materials Village renders that are too big for anything but a gaming computer (see below)
Mihaela “Michelle” Pinzaru completed her 12th week working on the Tree House Village residential renders (see below)

DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER: @8:02

Updated the lighting page with the new spreadsheet and basement layout details (see below)
Jin Yu continued with the behind-the-scenes development of the City Center excavation and construction of the footer and foundation tutorial (see below)
Yun Lin completed his 2nd week helping with the beam design and calculation aspects of the City Center structural engineering (see below)
Dipti Dhondarkar continued with her 69th week of work on the lighting specifics for the City Center (see below)

HIGHEST GOOD FOOD: @9:06

Continued working on the Garden Tools list (see below)
Researched pollinator attracting and native plants for our area (see below)
Continued research and development of the open source Permaculture Design for the property (see below)

HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION: @9:55

Finished developing the Lesson Plans How-to tutorial page (see below)

HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY: @10:26

Rebuilt our search menus and updated the search page (see below)
Updated Policies and Procedures page and related administrative documents with new guidelines for core team members (see below)
Sowmya Manohar, Shubhra Mittal, Priyanka Singh, Asha Tadimari, and Swathy Jayaseelan continued work on the Highest Good Network software (see below)

EARTH-CARE TEACHER/DEMONSTRATION HUBS SUMMARY: @11:41

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ONE COMMUNITY WEEKLY UPDATE DETAILS

HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

One Community is creating earth-care teacher demonstration hubs through Highest Good housing that is artistic and beautiful, more affordable, more space efficient, lasts longer, DIY buildable, and constructed with healthy and sustainable materials. Highest Good Housing is important for One Community’s earth-care teacher demonstration hubs.

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

This week the core team updated the Shipping Container Village open source hub with the newly finished overview images shown here.

Earth-Care Teacher Demonstration Hubs, This week the core team updated the Shipping Container Village open source hub with the newly finished overview images shown here.

Earth-Care Teacher Demonstration Hubs – Shipping Container Village Open Source Hub – Click for Page

The core team also updated the Tree House Village (Pod 7) open source hub with new floor plans, images and descriptions. You can see some of these new additions here.

Earth-Care Teacher Demonstration Hubs, The core team also updated the Tree House Village (Pod 7) open source hub with new floor plans, images and descriptions. You can see some of these new additions here.

Earth-Care Teacher Demonstration Hubs – Tree House – Floor Plans, Images, Descriptions – Click for Page

Shadi Kennedy (Artist and Graphic Designer) completed his 2nd week leading the development of the Murphy bed instructions. This week’s focus was working on the parts and lumber organization and presentation pages, plus the assembly pages for the nightstands. Highest Good Food is important for One Community’s earth-care teacher demonstration hubs.

Earth-Care Teacher Demonstration Hubs, Shadi Kennedy (Artist and Graphic Designer) completed his 2nd week leading the development of the Murphy bed instructions. This week's focus was working on the parts and lumber organization and presentation pages, plus the assembly pages for the nightstands.

Earth-Care Teacher Demonstration Hubs – Continued Work – Murphy Bed Instructions – Click to Visit

Dean Scholz (Architectural Designer) continued with the Cob Village (Pod 3) AutoCAD layout updates. Here is update 108 of Dean’s work, returning to lighting and texturing fine tuning for the central dining area.

Earth-Care Teacher Demonstration Hubs, Dean Scholz (Architectural Designer) continued with the Cob Village (Pod 3) AutoCAD layout updates. Here is update 108 of Dean's work, returning to lighting and texturing fine tuning for the central dining area.

Earth-Care Teacher Demonstration Hubs – Cob Village AutoCAD Layout Updates ” Click for Page

Mike Kowalski (Game Developer) finished his third week helping update our Recycled Materials Village (Pod 6) renders that are too big for anything but a gaming computer. What you see here are his first three finished renders.

Earth-Care Teacher Demonstration Hubs - Mike Kowalski (Game Developer) finished his third week helping update our Recycled Materials Village (Pod 6) renders that are too big for anything but a gaming computer. What you see here are his first three finished renders.

Earth-Care Teacher Demonstration Hubs – Recycled Materials Village Renders – Click for Page

Mihaela “Michelle” Pinzaru (Interior Designer and Architectural Drafter) also completed her 12th week working on the Tree House Village (Pod 7) residential renders. This week she created the updated central-area renders shown here.

Earth-Care Teacher Demonstration Hubs, Mihaela

Earth-Care Teacher Demonstration Hubs – Tree House Village Residential Renders – Click for Page

DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

One Community is creating earth-care teacher demonstration hubs through a Duplicable and Sustainable City Center that is LEED Platinum certified/Sustainable, can feed 200 people at a time, provide laundry for over 300 people, is beautiful, spacious, and saves resources, money, and space. Duplicate City Center is important for One Community’s earth-care teacher demonstration hubs.

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

This week the core team updated the lighting page with the new spreadsheet and basement layout details you see here.

Earth-Care Teacher Demonstration Hubs, This week the core team updated the lighting page with the new spreadsheet and basement layout details you see here.

Earth-Care Teacher Demonstration Hubs – Lighting Page Spreadsheet, Basement Details – Click for Page

Jin Yu (Structural Engineering Designer) continued with her work with the behind-the-scenes development of the City Center excavation and construction of the footer and foundation tutorial. This week’s focus was finishing the retaining wall calculations shown here.

Earth-Care Teacher Demonstration Hubs, Jin Yu (Structural Engineering Designer) continued with her work with the behind-the-scenes development of the City Center excavation and construction of the footer and foundation tutorial. This week's focus was finishing the retaining wall calculations shown here.

Earth-Care Teacher Demonstration Hubs – City Center Excavation, Footer,Foundation ” Click for Page

Yun Lin (Bridge Design Engineer) also completed his 2nd week helping with the beam design and calculation aspects of the City Center structural engineering. This week he created version 1 of the timber beam design spreadsheet you see here.

Earth-Care Teacher Demonstration Hubs, Yun Lin (Bridge Design Engineer) also completed his 2nd week helping with the beam design and calculation aspects of the City Center structural engineering. This week he created version 1 of the timber beam design spreadsheet you see here.

Earth-Care Teacher Demonstration Hubs – Beam Design, Calculation Aspects – Click for Page

Dipti Dhondarkar, (Electrical Engineer) continued with her 69th week of work on the lighting specifics for the City Center. This week’s focus was round 2 of updating the lighting design and modeling for the ground floor bedrooms shown here.

Earth-Care Teacher Demonstration Hubs, Dipti Dhondarkar, (Electrical Engineer) continued with her 69th week of work on the lighting specifics for the City Center. This week's focus was round 2 of updating the lighting design and modeling for the ground floor bedrooms shown here.

Earth-Care Teacher Demonstration Hubs – Lighting Specifics for the City Center ” Click for Page

HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

One Community is creating earth-care teacher/demonstration hubs through Highest Good food that is more diverse, more nutritious, locally grown and sustainable, and part of our open source botanical garden model to support and share bio-diversity. Highest Good Food is important for One Community’s earth-care teacher demonstration hubs.

- - 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 working on the Garden Tools list. We revised the tools list, transferred the info from Excel into Google Excel, and added more tools, images, and prices, as shown here.

Earth-Care Teacher Demonstration Hubs, This week, the core team continued working on the Garden Tools list. We revised the tools list, transferred the info from Excel into Google Excel, and added more tools, images, and prices, as shown here.

Earth-Care Teacher Demonstration Hubs – Continued Working on Garden Tools List ” Click for Page

The core team also researched pollinator attracting and native plants for our area, as shown here.

Earth-Care Teacher Demonstration Hubs – Pollinator Attracting Native Plants – Click to Visit

In addition, the core team continued research and development of the open source Permaculture Design for the property. This week we finished the Phase 1 zonal planning narrative and graphic updates, as shown here.

Earth-Care Teacher Demonstration Hubs, In addition, the core team continued research and development of the open source Permaculture Design for the property. This week we finished the Phase 1 zonal planning narrative and graphic updates, as shown here.

Earth-Care Teacher Demonstration Hubs – Open Source Permaculture Design Property ” Click to Visit

HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

One Community is creating earth-care teacher/demonstration hubs through Highest Good education that is for all ages, applicable in any environment, adaptable to individual needs, far exceeds traditional education standards, and more fun for both the teachers and the students:

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

This week, the core team finished developing the Lesson Plans How-to tutorial page with the final 70% of the section giving examples of how to use each other component with the lesson plans component.

Earth-Care Teacher Demonstration Hubs, This week, the core team finished developing the Lesson Plans How-to tutorial page with the final 70% of the section giving examples of how to use each other component with the lesson plans component.

Earth-Care Teacher Demonstration Hubs – Lesson Plans How-to tutorial Page ” Click to Visit

HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS

One Community is creating earth-care teacher/demonstration hubs through a Highest Good society approach to living that is founded on fulfilled living, the study of meeting human needs, Community, and making a difference in the world:

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

This week the core team rebuilt our search menus and updated the search page, some of which you can see here.

Earth-Care Teacher Demonstration Hubs – Rebuilt Search Menus, Updated Search Page – Click to Visit

We also updated our Policies and Procedures page and related administrative documents with new guidelines for core team members.

Earth-Care Teacher Demonstration Hubs, We also updated our Policies and Procedures page and related administrative documents with new guidelines for core team members.

Earth-Care Teacher Demonstration Hubs – Updated our Policies and Procedures Page – Click to Visit

The Highest Good Network software team consists of Sowmya Manohar (Software Engineer, Web Developer & Net Application Developer), Shubhra Mittal (Software Delivery Manager), Priyanka Singh (Software Developer ), Asha Tadimari (Software Engineer), and Swathy Jayaseelan (Software Developer). This week the team added links to respective profile pages for admins, made all hyperlinks automatically active when entering work descriptions, updated hour and minute inputs to accept zero as an answer, updated the action item section such that only the user for whom time log is being viewed shows up in the select user dropdown, implemented an “add new team” feature to the new project page and the project-detail page, and created several test report options while integrating Google Charts.

Earth-Care Teacher Demonstration Hubs – Highest Good Network Software ” Click for Page

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

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

INVESTOR PAGES

GET INVOLVED

WHY ONE COMMUNITY IS CREATING THIS

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

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

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

INSPIRING SUSTAINABILITY WITH OPEN SOURCE

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

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

It is this approach we see uniting the world 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.

WHY OPEN SOURCE

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

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

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

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

SUMMARY

One Community sees the issues of the world as interdependent and interconnected. To facilitate earth-care teacher demonstration Hubs and address them simultaneously, we are open-source blueprinting a more advanced standard of living by designing holistic, environmentally-regenerative, self-sustaining, adaptable solutions for all areas of sustainability. 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.

Bio-Social Progress – One Community Weekly Progress Update #262

Posted on April 1, 2018 by One Community

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

Bio-social progress is sustainable progress built on a foundation of cooperative social and ecological consciousness. If enough of us participate, humanity can pass the tipping point necessary to establish ourselves as a sustainable civilization. This will benefit all life on our shared planet and One Community is open sourcing the resources we feel are most needed and helpful in achieving this.

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 April 1st, 2018 edition (#262) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments:

Bio-Social Progress
One Community Progress Update #262

Bio-social Progress - One Community Weekly Progress Update #262

Watch this video on YouTube

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

BIO-SOCIAL PROGRESS INTRO: @0:34

HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING: @5:37

Shadi Kennedy rejoined the team and took over development of the Murphy bed instructions (see below)
Dean Scholz continued with the Cob Village AutoCAD layout updates (see below)
Dan Alleck completed his 17th week working on the Compressed Earth Block Village render additions (see below)
Michael Hagler completed these three layouts for the Shipping Container Village layout within the 7-villages book (see below)
Mihaela “Michelle” Pinzaru completed her 11th week working on the Tree House Village residential renders (see below)

DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER: @7:12

Jin Yu continued behind-the-scenes development of the City Center excavation and construction of the footer and foundation tutorial (see below)
Yun Lin began helping with the beam design and calculation aspects of the City Center structural engineering (see below)
David Olivero completed his 16th week helping with the HVAC Designs for the Duplicable City Center (see below)
Dipti Dhondarkar continued with her 68th week of work on the lighting specifics for the City Center (see below)

HIGHEST GOOD FOOD: @8:28

Continued work on the complete Highest Good food rollout plan and cost analysis (see below)
Continued working on the Garden Tools list (see below)
Continued research and development of the open source Permaculture Design for the property (see below)

HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION: @9:40

Continued developing the Lesson Plans How-to tutorial page (see below)

HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY: @9:53

Ashwin Patil finished updating our search engine usability on mobile devices (see below)
Sowmya Manohar, Shubhra Mittal, Priyanka Singh, Asha Tadimari, and Swathy Jayaseelan continued work on the Highest Good Network software (see below)

BIO-SOCIAL PROGRESS SUMMARY: @10:50

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ONE COMMUNITY WEEKLY UPDATE DETAILS

HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

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

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

This last week Shadi Kennedy (Artist and Graphic Designer) rejoined the team and took over development of the Murphy bed instructions. What you see here is his first week helping with this and focusing on developing the parts and component overview pages.

Bio-Social Progress, This last week Shadi Kennedy (Artist and Graphic Designer) rejoined the team and took over development of the Murphy bed instructions. What you see here is his first week helping with this and focusing on developing the parts and component overview pages.

Bio-Social Progress – Development of the Murphy Bed Instructions – Click for Page

Dean Scholz (Architectural Designer) continued with the Cob Village (Pod 3) AutoCAD layout updates. Here is update 107 of Dean’s work. This week he finished development of the landscaping and other details for the floor plan you see here that is also now on the website.

Bio-Social Progress, Dean Scholz (Architectural Designer) continued with the Cob Village (Pod 3) AutoCAD layout updates. Here is update 107 of Dean's work. This week he finished development of the landscaping and other details for the floor plan you see here that is also now on the website.

Bio-Social Progress – Continued with Cob Village AutoCAD Layout Updates ” Click for Page

Dan Alleck (Designer and Illustrator) completed his 17th week working on the Compressed Earth Block Village render additions. This week he focused on adding people and additional door and window details and edits to the two renders shown here.

Bio-Social Progress, Dan Alleck (Designer and Illustrator) completed his 17th week working on the Compressed Earth Block Village render additions. This week he focused on adding people and additional door and window details and edits to the two renders shown here.

Bio-Social Progress – Continued Work – Earth Block Village Render Additions – Click for Page

Michael Hagler (Senior Graphic Designer and Artist) also completed these three layouts for the Shipping Container Village layout within the 7-villages book we’re developing.

Bio-Social Progress - Michael Hagler (Senior Graphic Designer and Artist) also completed these three layouts for the Shipping Container Village layout within the 7-villages book we're developing.

Bio-Social Progress – Layouts – Shipping Container Village layout Within 7Villages Book – Click for Page

Mihaela “Michelle” Pinzaru (Interior Designer and Architectural Drafter) also completed her 11th week working on the Tree House Village (Pod 7) residential renders. This week she created the 8 final renders you see here covering all aspects of the main living spaces, upstairs loft area, central shared space, and central loft area.

Bio-Social Progress – Resident’s Downstairs Render – Click for Tree House Village Page

Bio-Social Progress - Tree House Village Residents Main Floor, Final 640, One Community

Bio-Social Progress – New Resident’s Main Floor Render – Click for Tree House Village Page

Bio-Social Progress - Tree House Village Residents upstairs 1, Final 640, One Community, Mihaela

Bio-Social Progress – Resident’s Upstairs 1 Render – Click for Tree House Village Page

Bio-Social Progress - Tree House Village Residents upstairs 2, Final, One Community, Mihaela

Bio-Social Progress – Resident’s Upstairs 2 Render – Click for Tree House Village Page

Bio-Social Progress - Tree House Village Residents, Central Detail, Final, One Community

Bio-Social Progress – Resident’s Central Detail – Click for Tree House Village Page

DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

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

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

Jin Yu (Structural Engineering Designer) continued with her work with the behind-the-scenes development of the City Center excavation and construction of the footer and foundation tutorial. This week’s focus was the retaining wall details shown here.

Bio-Social Progress - Jin Yu (Structural Engineering Designer) continued with her work with the behind-the-scenes development of the City Center excavation and construction of the footer and foundation tutorial. This week's focus was the retaining wall details shown here.

Bio-Social Progress – City Center Excavation – Construction Footer, Foundation Tutorial – Click for Page

Yun Lin (Bridge Design Engineer) also began helping with the beam design and calculation aspects of the City Center structural engineering. The spreadsheet shown here is some of this work.

Bio-Social Progress - Yun Lin (Bridge Design Engineer) also began helping with the beam design and calculation aspects of the City Center structural engineering. The spreadsheet shown here is some of this work.

Bio-Social Progress – Beam Design,Calculation Aspects City Center Structural Engineering – Click to Visit

David Olivero (Mechanical Engineer & Data Scientist) completed his 16th week helping with the HVAC Designs for the Duplicable City Center. This week’s focus was running new calculations for the kitchen HVAC loads using a conservative approach and an ultra-sustainable approach, both of which can be seen here.

Bio-Social Progress - David Olivero (Mechanical Engineer & Data Scientist) completed his 16th week helping with the HVAC Designs for the Duplicable City Center. This week's focus was running new calculations for the kitchen HVAC loads using a conservative approach and an ultra-sustainable approach, both of which can be seen here.

Bio-Social Progress – Continued Help HVAC Designs for Duplicable City Center ” Click for Page

Dipti Dhondarkar, (Electrical Engineer) continued with her 68th week of work on the lighting specifics for the City Center. This week’s focus was testing more approaches and finalizing the lighting strategy for the basement, which you can see here.

Bio-Social Progress, Dipti Dhondarkar, (Electrical Engineer) continued with her 68th week of work on the lighting specifics for the City Center. This week's focus was testing more approaches and finalizing the lighting strategy for the basement, which you can see here.

Bio-Social Progress – Continued Working on Lighting Specifics for the City Center ” Click for Page

HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

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

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

This week, the core team continued work on the complete Highest Good food rollout plan and cost analysis. We continued adding items and links to the details list for 20-50 people, as shown here.

Bio-Social Progress, Continued Work on the Complete Highest Good Food Rollout Plan and Cost Analysis

Bio-Social Progress – Complete Highest Good Food Rollout Plan and Cost Analysis ” Click for Page

The core team also continued working on the Garden Tools list, adding descriptions and images to the Excel chart, as shown here.

Bio-Social Progress – Continued Working on the Garden Tools List – Click for Page

In addition, the core team continued research and development of the open source Permaculture Design for the property. This week we finished the graphics for the Section Analysis, Zone Overview, Water-Structure-Access Overview, and the Detailed Design ” all shown here.

Bio-Social Progress, In addition, the core team continued research and development of the open source Permaculture Design for the property. This week we finished the graphics for the Section Analysis, Zone Overview, Water-Structure-Access Overview, and the Detailed Design

Bio-Social Progress – Design of the Open Source Permaculture Design for the Property ” Click to Visit

HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

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

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

This week, the core team continued developing the Lesson Plans How-to tutorial page. This week we finished the first 30% of the section giving examples of how to use each other component with the lesson plans component.

Bio-Social Progress, This week, the core team continued developing the Lesson Plans How-to tutorial page. This week we finished the first 30% of the section giving examples of how to use each other component with the lesson plans component.

Bio-Social Progress – Continued Developing the Lesson Plans How-to tutorial Page ” Click to Visit

HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS

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

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

This last week Ashwin Patil (Web Developer) finished updating our search engine usability on mobile devices. What you see here are the new mobile layouts.

Bio-Social Progress, This last week Ashwin Patil (Web Developer) finished updating our search engine usability on mobile devices. What you see here are the new mobile layouts.

Bio-Social Progress – Finished Search Engine Usability on Mobile Devices ” Click for Home Page

The Highest Good Network software team consisting of Sowmya Manohar (Software Engineer, Web Developer & Net Application Developer), Shubhra Mittal (Software Delivery Manager), Priyanka Singh (Software Developer ), Asha Tadimari (Software Engineer), and Swathy Jayaseelan (Software Developer). This week the team updated the timer to round to minutes, increased the size of the leaderboard, created a new api method to handle deletion of project related tasks, implemented project name validation, and added a toggle function for displayed teams.

Bio-Social Progress, The Highest Good Network software team consisting of Sowmya Manohar (Software Engineer, Web Developer & Net Application Developer), Shubhra Mittal (Software Delivery Manager), Priyanka Singh (Software Developer), Asha Tadimari (Software Engineer), and Swathy Jayaseelan (Software Developer). This week the team updated the timer to round to minutes, increased the size of the leaderboard, created a new api method to handle deletion of project related tasks, implemented project name validation, and added a toggle function for displayed teams.

Bio-Social Progress – Continued Working on Highest Good Network Software ” Click for Page

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WHAT ONE COMMUNITY IS CREATING

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

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

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

BUILDING THE FIRST OF MANY

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

WHY ONE COMMUNITY IS CREATING THIS

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

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

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

INSPIRING SUSTAINABILITY WITH OPEN SOURCE

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

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

It is this approach we see uniting the world 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.

WHY OPEN SOURCE

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

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

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

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

SUMMARY

One Community sees the issues of the world as interdependent and interconnected. To facilitate facilitating Human Eco-Synthesis and address them simultaneously, we are open-source blueprinting a more advanced standard of living by designing holistic, environmentally-regenerative, self-sustaining, adaptable solutions for all areas of sustainability. 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.

Human Eco-Synthesis – One Community Weekly Progress Update #261

Posted on March 25, 2018 by One Community

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It’s time for a human eco-synthesis capable of regenerating our planet through intelligent and conscientious stewardship. One Community is forwarding this process through open source and sustainable approaches to all aspects of living. A global cooperative of teacher/demonstration communities, villages, and cities are purposed to lead the human eco-synthesis and regenerative process.

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 March 25th, 2018 edition (#261) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments:

Human Eco-Synthesis
One Community Progress Update #261

Human Eco-synthesis - One Community Weekly Progress Update #261

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

HUMAN ECO-SYNTHESIS INTRO: @0:34

HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING: @6:44

Finished the rest of the Cob Village Cost Analysis Page (see below)
Developed the next steps the rest of the Shipping Container Village layout within the 7-villages book (see below)
Dean Scholz continued with the Cob Village AutoCAD layout updates (see below)
Aparna Tandon continued her work on the Compressed Earth Block Village external elements (see below)
Mihaela “Michelle” Pinzaru completed her 10th week working on the Tree House Village residential renders (see below)

DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER: @7:58

Haoxuan “Hayes” Lei continued work on the City Center structural engineering (see below)
David Olivero completed his 14th week helping with the HVAC Designs for the Duplicable City Center (see below)
Dipti Dhondarkar continued with her 66th week of work on the lighting specifics for the City Center (see below)

HIGHEST GOOD FOOD: @9:11

Continued work on the complete Highest Good food rollout plan and cost analysis (see below)
Continued research and design of the open source Permaculture Design for the property (see below)

HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION: @10:01

Continued developing the Lesson Plans How-to tutorial page (see below)

HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY: @10:36

Ashwin Patil tested approaches to improve our search engine usability on mobile devices (see below)
Sowmya Manohar, Shubhra Mittal, Priyanka Singh, and Asha Tadimari continued work on the Highest Good Network software (see below)

HUMAN ECO-SYNTHESIS SUMMARY: @11:46

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ONE COMMUNITY WEEKLY UPDATE DETAILS

HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

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

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

This week the core team finished the rest of the Cob Village Cost Analysis Page, some of which you can see here.

Human Eco-Synthesis – Finished the Cob Village Cost Analysis Page – Click to Visit

The core team also developed the next steps for the rest of the Shipping Container Village layout within the 7-villages book we’re developing.

Human Eco-Synthesis - The core team also developed the next steps for the rest of the Shipping Container Village layout within the 7-villages book we're developing.

Human Eco-Synthesis – Shipping Container Village Layout within 7-Villages Book – Click to Visit

Dean Scholz (Architectural Designer) continued with the Cob Village (Pod 3) AutoCAD layout updates. Here is update 106 of Dean’s work. This week he continued development of the landscaping details, added the playground equipment, and roads.

Human Eco-Synthesis, Dean Scholz (Architectural Designer) continued with the Cob Village (Pod 3) AutoCAD layout updates. Here is update 106 of Dean's work. This week he continued development of the landscaping details, added the playground equipment, and roads.

Human Eco-Synthesis – Continued with Cob Village AutoCAD Layout Updates ” Click for Page

Aparna Tandon (Architect) continued her work on the Compressed Earth Block Village external elements. What you see here is her 48th week of work that created this version 1.0 of Zones 6 and 19.

Human Eco-Synthesis -Aparna Tandon (Architect) continued her work on the Compressed Earth Block Village external elements. What you see here is her 48th week of work that created this version 1.0 of Zones 6 and 19.

Human Eco-Synthesis – Compressed Earth Block Village External Elements – Click to Visit

Mihaela “Michelle” Pinzaru (Interior Designer and Architectural Drafter) also completed her 10th week working on the Tree House Village (Pod 7) residential renders. This week she created the three final renders you see here. These renders are now live on the website also.

Human Eco-Synthesis – Created New Tree House Village Residents Render – Click for Page

DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

One Community is facilitating human eco-synthesis 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

Haoxuan “Hayes” Lei (Structural Engineer) continued work on the City Center structural engineering by addressing the areas identified by the core team. This included creating a dead load calculation table for the restroom on first floor, adding functional area figures for second and third floor, revising the beam design chapter of the live load and dead load report, and adding a beam layout sketch to the appendix.

Human Eco-Synthesis – Continued Work on the City Center Structural Engineering – Click for Page

David Olivero (Mechanical Engineer & Data Scientist) completed his 15th week helping with the HVAC Designs for the Duplicable City Center. This week’s focus was further research into minisplit application and beginning the AutoCAD design process, as shown here.

Human Eco-Synthesis, David Olivero (Mechanical Engineer & Data Scientist) completed his 15th week helping with the HVAC Designs for the Duplicable City Center. This week's focus was further research into minisplit application and beginning the AutoCAD design process, as shown here.

Human Eco-Synthesis – Continued Help – HVAC Designs for the Duplicable City Center – Click for Page

Dipti Dhondarkar, (Electrical Engineer) continued with her 67th week of work on the lighting specifics for the City Center. This week’s focus was finishing fixing errors and filling in the final details on the lighting spreadsheet and beginning testing different lighting strategies for the basement.

Human Eco-Synthesis, Dipti Dhondarkar, (Electrical Engineer) continued with her 67th week of work on the lighting specifics for the City Center. This week's focus was finishing fixing errors and filling in the final details on the lighting spreadsheet and beginning testing different lighting strategies for the basement.

Human Eco-Synthesis – Continued Working on Lighting Specifics for the City Center ” Click for Page

HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

One Community is facilitating human eco-synthesis 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 work on the complete Highest Good food rollout plan and cost analysis. We began writing detailed information of activities for the initial 3 people, and added items and links to the details list for 20-50 people, as shown here.

Human Eco-Synthesis, This week, the core team continued work on the complete Highest Good food rollout plan and cost analysis. We began writing detailed information of activities for the initial 3 people, and added items and links to the details list for 20-50 people, as shown here.

Human Eco-Synthesis – Complete Highest Good Food Rollout Plan and Cost Analysis ” Click for Page

In addition, the core team continued research and development of the open source Permaculture Design for the property. This week we started evolving our zone plan by further exploring property elevations, water flow, road access, and structure placement.

Human Eco-Synthesis, In addition, the core team continued research and development of the open source Permaculture Design for the property. This week we started evolving our zone plan by further exploring property elevations, water flow, road access, and structure placement.

Human Eco-Synthesis – Research & Design of Open Source Permaculture Design Click to Visit

HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

One Community is facilitating human eco-synthesis 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 developing the Lesson Plans How-to tutorial page. This week we wrote the final example lesson plan called the “Advanced Learners – Reserved” example. You can see some of this new content here.

Human Eco-Synthesis, This week, the core team continued developing the Lesson Plans How-to tutorial page. This week we wrote the final example lesson plan called the "Advanced Learners - Reserved" example. You can see some of this new content here.

Human Eco-Synthesis – Continued Developing the Lesson Plans How-to tutorial Page ” Click to Visit

HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS

One Community is facilitating human eco-synthesis 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

Ashwin Patil (Web Developer) tested approaches to improve our search engine usability on mobile devices. What you see on the left of this picture is the new mobile presentation. On the right of the picture is the desktop version.

Human Eco-Synthesis, Ashwin Patil (Web Developer) tested approaches to improve our search engine usability on mobile devices. What you see on the left of this picture is the new mobile presentation. On the right of the picture is the desktop version.

Human Eco-Synthesis – Improved Search Engine Usability on Mobile Devices – Click for Page

The Highest Good Network software team consisting of Sowmya Manohar (Software Engineer, Web Developer & Net Application Developer), Shubhra Mittal (Software Delivery Manager), Priyanka Singh (Software Developer ), and Asha Tadimari (Software Engineer). This week the team created the time log screen, upgraded Ember CLI version from 2.17 to 3.0, fixed the errors in the radio buttons showing the active/inactive status of the project, implemented the functionalities of canceling tasks, fields editable by admins only, tooltip hover and transition back to the projects page once the project is created/saved…. and we launched beta version 1.0 of the software for initial testing!

Human Eco-Synthesis, The Highest Good Network software team consisting of Sowmya Manohar (Software Engineer, Web Developer & Net Application Developer), Shubhra Mittal (Software Delivery Manager), Priyanka Singh (Software Developer), and Asha Tadimari (Software Engineer). This week the team created the time log screen, upgraded Ember CLI version from 2.17 to 3.0, fixed the errors in the radio buttons showing the active/inactive status of the project, implemented the functionalities of canceling tasks, fields editable by admins only, tooltip hover and transition back to the projects page once the project is created/saved.... and we launched beta version 1.0 of the software for initial testing!

Human Eco-Synthesis – Continued Work on Highest Good Network Software ” Click for Page

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

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

INVESTOR PAGES

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WHAT ONE COMMUNITY IS CREATING

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

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

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

BUILDING THE FIRST OF MANY

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

WHY ONE COMMUNITY IS CREATING THIS

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

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

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

INSPIRING SUSTAINABILITY WITH OPEN SOURCE

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

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

It is this approach we see uniting the world 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.

WHY OPEN SOURCE

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

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

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

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

SUMMARY

One Community sees the issues of the world as interdependent and interconnected. To facilitate Human Eco-Synthesis and address them simultaneously, we are open-source blueprinting a more advanced standard of living by designing holistic, environmentally-regenerative, self-sustaining, adaptable solutions for all areas of sustainability. 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.

Living Simply as a Key to Happiness – One Community Weekly Progress Update #260

Posted on March 18, 2018 by One Community

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

Living simply as a key to happiness, it it possible? We think it is worth finding out and we’re creating open source and free-shared designs to help others who agree. They are DIY replicable, sustainable, and 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 and living simply as a key to happiness. This is the March 18th, 2018 edition (#260) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments:

Living Simply as A Key to Happiness
One Community Progress Update #260

Living Simply - A Key to Happiness - One Community Weekly Progress Update #260

Watch this video on YouTube

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

LIVING SIMPLY – A KEY TO HAPPINESS INTRO: @0:34

HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING: @8:24

Created the first 30% of the Cob Village Cost Analysis Page (see below)
Finished the rest of the Tree House Village Cost Analysis page (see below)
Mike Kowalski finished his second week helping update our Recycled Materials Village renders that are too big for anything but a gaming computer (see below)
Dean Scholz continued with the Cob Village AutoCAD layout updates (see below)
Dan Alleck completed his 16th week working on the Compressed Earth Block Village render additions (see below)
Mihaela “Michelle” Pinzaru completed her 9th week working on the Tree House Village residential designs and renders (see below)

DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER: @9:32

Haoxuan “Hayes” Lei continued work on the City Center structural engineering (see below)
David Olivero completed his 14th week helping with the HVAC Designs for the Duplicable City Center (see below)
Dipti Dhondarkar continued with her 66th week of work on the lighting specifics for the City Center (see below)

HIGHEST GOOD FOOD: @10:30

Continued work on the complete Highest Good food rollout plan and cost analysis (see below)
Researched soil lab equipment needs and costs, determining that the expense make external testing a better option for food rollout plans like ours (see below)
Continued research and design of the open source Permaculture Design for the property (see below)

HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION: @11:20

Continued developing the Lesson Plans How-to tutorial page (see below)

HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY: @11:57

Vivian Rodrigues finished translating the Methodology page in Portuguese (see below)
Sowmya Manohar, Shubhra Mittal, Priyanka Singh, and Asha Tadimari continued work on the Highest Good Network software (see below)

LIVING SIMPLY – A KEY TO HAPPINESS SUMMARY: @12:59

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ONE COMMUNITY WEEKLY UPDATE DETAILS

HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

One Community is creating open source blueprints for living simply as a key to happiness through Highest Good housing that is artistic and beautiful, more affordable, more space efficient, lasts longer, DIY buildable, and constructed with healthy and sustainable materials:

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

This week the core team created the first 30% of the Cob Village Cost Analysis Page, some of which you can see here.

Living Simply as a Key to Happiness, This week the core team also created the first 30% of the Cob Village Cost Analysis Page, some of which you can see here.

Living Simply as a Key to Happiness – First 30% of the Cob Village Cost Analysis Page – Click to Visit

The core team also finished the rest of the Tree House Village (Pod 7) Cost Analysis page, some of which you can see here.

Living Simply as a Key to Happiness, The core team also finished the rest of the Tree House Village (Pod 7) Cost Analysis page, some of which you can see here.

Living Simply as a Key to Happiness – Tree House Village Cost Analysis Page – Click to Visit

Mike Kowalski (Game Developer) finished his second week helping update our Recycled Materials Village (Pod 6) renders that are too big for anything but a gaming computer. What you see here are some of Mike’s second round of corrections within the model.

Living Simply as a Key to Happiness, Mike Kowalski (Game Developer) finished his second week helping update our Recycled Materials Village (Pod 6) renders that are too big for anything but a gaming computer. What you see here are some of Mike's second round of corrections within the model.

Living Simply as a Key to Happiness – Recycled Materials Village Renders ” Click for Page

Dean Scholz (Architectural Designer) continued with the Cob Village (Pod 3) AutoCAD layout updates. Here is update 105 of Dean’s work. This week he created the rooftop plan to match his 3D designs and continued development of the landscaping details. Â

Living Simply as a Key to Happiness, Dean Scholz(Architectural Designer) continued with the Cob Village (Pod 3) AutoCAD layout updates. Here is update 105 of Dean's work. This week he created the rooftop plan to match his 3D designs and continued development of the landscaping details. Â

Living Simply as a Key to Happiness – Cob Village AutoCAD Layout Updates – Click for Page

Dan Alleck (Designer and Illustrator) completed his 16th week working on the Compressed Earth Block Village render additions. This week he focused on adding water details to the two renders shown here.

Living Simply as a Key to Happiness, Dan Alleck (Designer and Illustrator) completed his 16th week working on the Compressed Earth Block Village render additions. This week he focused on adding water details to the two renders shown here.

Living Simply as a Key to Happiness – Compressed Earth Block Village Render Additions – Click to Visit

Mihaela “Michelle” Pinzaru (Interior Designer and Architectural Drafter) also completed her 9th week working on the Tree House Village (Pod 7) residential designs and renders. This week she continued finalizing the final texturing and lighting details for the complete interior, as shown here.

Living Simply as a Key to Happiness, Mihaela

Living Simply as a Key to Happiness – Tree House Village Residential Designs ” Click to Visit

DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

One Community is creating open source blueprints for living simply as a key to happiness through a Duplicable and Sustainable City Center that is LEED Platinum certified/Sustainable, can feed 200 people at a time, provide laundry for over 300 people, is beautiful, spacious, and saves resources, money, and space:

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

This week Haoxuan “Hayes” Lei (Structural Engineer) continued work on the City Center structural engineering by addressing the areas identified by the core team. You can see some of this work here.

Living Simply as a Key to Happiness, Haoxuan

Living Simply as a Key to Happiness – City Center Structural Engineering – Click for Page

David Olivero (Mechanical Engineer & Data Scientist) completed his 14th week helping with the HVAC Designs for the Duplicable City Center. This week’s focus was more research, starting to create the HVAC zonal details, and initial HVAC layout sketches.

Living Simply as a Key to Happiness, David Olivero (Mechanical Engineer & Data Scientist) completed his 14th week helping with the HVAC Designs for the Duplicable City Center. This week's focus was more research, starting to create the HVAC zonal details, and initial HVAC layout sketches.

Living Simply as a Key to Happiness – HVAC Designs for the Duplicable City Center ” Click to Visit

Dipti Dhondarkar, (Electrical Engineer) continued with her 66th week of work on the lighting specifics for the City Center. This week’s focus was correcting errors and doing additional calculations on the lighting spreadsheet shown here.

Living Simply as a Key to Happiness, Dipti Dhondarkar, (Electrical Engineer) continued with her 66th week of work on the lighting specifics for the City Center. This week's focus was correcting errors and doing additional calculations on the lighting spreadsheet shown here.

Living Simply as a Key to Happiness – Lighting Specifics for the City Center – Click for Page

HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

One Community is creating open source blueprints for living simply as a key to happiness 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 work on the complete Highest Good food rollout plan and cost analysis. We created the initial 2-3 person due-diligence food rollout plan and action list and continued to develop the implementation details for 10-20 people, as shown here.

Living Simply as a Key to Happiness – Highest Good Food Rollout Plan, Cost Analysis – Click for Page

The, the core team also researched soil lab equipment needs and costs, as shown here, determining that the costs make external testing a better option for food rollout plans like ours.

Living Simply as a Key to Happiness – Researched Soil Lab Equipment Needs and Costs – Click for Page

In addition, the core team continued research and design of the open source Permaculture Design for the property. What you see here is our first sharing of some of the data we are gathering for the design.

Living Simply as a Key to Happiness, This week, the core team continued research and design of the open source Permaculture Design for the property. What you see here is our first sharing of some of the data we are gathering for the design.

Living Simply as a Key to Happiness – Research, Design of Open Source Permaculture – Click to Visit

HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

One Community is creating open source blueprints for living simply as a key to happiness 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 developing the Lesson Plans How-to tutorial page. We created new imagery explaining the most complex steps of the design process and finished the second 50% of the “Intermediate Learners” example and all of the “Advanced Learners – Accelerated” example.

Living Simply as a Key to Happiness, This week, the core team continued developing the Lesson Plans How-to tutorial page. We created new imagery explaining the most complex steps of the design process and finished the second 50% of the "Intermediate Learners" example and all of the "Advanced Learners - Accelerated" example.

Living Simply as a Key to Happiness – Lesson Plans How-to tutorial Page – Click to Visit

HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS

One Community is creating open source blueprints for living simply as a key to happiness 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

Vivian Rodrigues (Translator) continued helping translate our overview pages. This week she finished the Methodology page, as shown here in Portuguese.

Living Simply as a Key to Happiness, Vivian Rodrigues (Translator) continued helping translate our overview pages. This week she finished the Methodology page, as shown here in Portuguese.

Living Simply as a Key to Happiness – Translating the Methodology Page in Portuguese – Click to Visit

The Highest Good Network software team consisting of Sowmya Manohar (Software Engineer, Web Developer & Net Application Developer), Shubhra Mittal (Software Delivery Manager), Priyanka Singh (Software Developer), and Asha Tadimari (Software Engineer). This week the team made changes to the user profile to support read-only mode when a non-administrator user views a colleague’s profile, made Timelog changes to remove the ability to edit action items and notifications when not viewing own profile, updated the code to bring up bigger badge images with new description details, and completed the leaderboard development and presentation – which you can see here.

Living Simply as a Key to Happiness – Highest Good Network Software ” Click for Page

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

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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. We will achieve this by establishing successful teacher/demonstration hubs on every continent and living simply as a key to happiness. Villages include designs appropriate for each of the five main types of climates. They also include options for even the most challenged economies. These hubs will collaborate with one another, share ideas, resources, and work together as a network to heal the planet. They will also transform the global lifestyle to a more enjoyable, fulfilling, healthy, and sustainable one.

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

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

INSPIRING SUSTAINABILITY WITH OPEN SOURCE

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

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

It is this approach we see uniting the world, leading to a new Golden Age for humanity and living simply as a key to happiness. 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.

WHY OPEN SOURCE

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

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

SUMMARY

One Community sees the issues of the world as interdependent and interconnected. To facilitate earth-care teacher demonstration Hubs and address them simultaneously, we are open-source blueprinting a more advanced standard of living by designing holistic, environmentally-regenerative, self-sustaining, adaptable solutions for all areas of sustainability and living simply as a key to happiness. 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 Priyanka Singh to the Design Team!

Posted on March 17, 2018 by One Community

One Community welcomes Priyanka Singh to the One Community Software Design Team as our newest Volunteer/Consultant!

Priyanka is an experienced software developer passionate about developing and supporting applications for mobile, web, and desktop users. She is proud to be a part of One Community as she believes that a sustainable living and conserving resources is the only way to save the earth for our future generations. As a member of the Highest Good Network development team, Priyanka is applying her skills to develop the Highest Good Network Software which will provide opportunities to many more people who want to be a part of One Community and make a difference in the world.

WELCOME TO THE TEAM PRIYANKA!

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Sustainable Civilization Strategies – One Community Weekly Progress Update #259

Posted on March 11, 2018 by One Community

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

Sustainable civilization strategies are needed if we are to achieve a sustainable planet. One Community is creating them as open source and free-shared and covering food, energy, housing, education, for-profit and non-profit economic design, social architecture, fulfilled living, global stewardship practices, and more. When combined in to a complete model, we call it 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, carrying out sustainable civilization strategies. This is the March 11th, 2018 edition (#259) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments:

Sustainable Civilization Strategies
One Community Progress Update #259

Sustainable Civilization Strategies - One Community Weekly Progress Update #259

Watch this video on YouTube

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

SUSTAINABLE CIVILIZATION STRATEGIES INTRO: @0:34

SUSTAINABLE CIVILIZATION STRATEGIES – HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING: @6:48

Continued working on the 7 villages online book (see below)
Continued working on the Murphy bed instructions (see below)
Created the first 30% of the Tree House Village (Pod 7) Cost Analysis page (see below)
Mike Kowalski joined the team to help with updating our Recycled Materials Village renders that are too big for anything but a gaming computer (see below)
Dean Scholz continued with the Cob Village AutoCAD layout updates (see below)
Dan Alleck completed his 15th week working on the Compressed Earth Block Village render additions (see below)
Jagannathan Shankar Mahadevan finished all the calculations for the Cob Village Cost Analysis Page (see below)
Jagannathan also then wrote the entire narrative for the page, some of which is shown here (see below)
Mihaela “Michelle” Pinzaru completed her 8th week working on the Tree House Village residential designs (see below)

SUSTAINABLE CIVILIZATION STRATEGIES – DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER: @8:48

Completed a thorough review of the 2nd half of the City Center structural engineering dead and live load report (see below)
David Olivero completed his 13th week helping with the HVAC Designs for the Duplicable City Center (see below)

SUSTAINABLE CIVILIZATION STRATEGIES – HIGHEST GOOD FOOD: @9:29

Continued research and design of the open source climate battery designs (see below)

SUSTAINABLE CIVILIZATION STRATEGIES – HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION: @10:00

Continued developing the Lesson Plans How-to tutorial page (see below)

SUSTAINABLE CIVILIZATION STRATEGIES – HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY: @10:37

Sowmya Manohar, Shubhra Mittal, Priyanka Singh, and Asha Tadimari continued work on the Highest Good Network software (see below)

SUSTAINABLE CIVILIZATION STRATEGIES SUMMARY: @11:29

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ONE COMMUNITY WEEKLY UPDATE DETAILS

HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

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

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

This week the core team continued working on the 7 villages online book, contributing to sustainable civilization strategies. This week we continued updating the formatting and imagery for pages 44-47, as shown here.

Continued Working on the 7 Villages Online Book – Click for Housing Page

And the core team continued working on the Murphy bed instructions by creating and adding the stain page to the book, as shown here.

Continued Working on the Murphy Bed Instructions – Click for Page

The core team also created the first 30% of the Tree House Village (Pod 7) Cost Analysis page, dedicated to sustainable civilization strategies, some of which you can see here.

Sustainable Civilization Strategies, The core team also created the first 30% of the Tree House Village (Pod 7) Cost Analysis page, some of which you can see here.

Created First 30% of the Tree House Village Cost Analysis Page – Click to Visit

Mike Kowalski (Game Developer) joined the team to help with updating our Recycled Materials Village (Pod 6) renders that are too big for anything but a gaming computer. You can see the beginnings of Mike’s review process here.

Sustainable Civilization Strategies, Mike Kowalski (Game Developer) joined the team to help with updating our Recycled Materials Village (Pod 6) renders that are too big for anything but a gaming computer. You can see the beginnings of Mike's review process here. Â

Joined the Team to Help with Recycled Materials Village Renders – Click for Page

Dean Scholz (Architectural Designer) continued with the Cob Village (Pod 3) AutoCAD layout updates, contributing to sustainable civilization strategies. Here is update 104 of Dean’s work. This week he added new windows and doors, furniture to the social spaces, and started adding landscaping elements. Â

Sustainable Civilization Strategies, Dean Scholz (Architectural Designer) continued with the Cob Village (Pod 3) AutoCAD layout updates. Here is update 104 of Dean's work. This week he added new windows and doors, furniture to the social spaces, and started adding landscaping elements. Â

Continued with the Cob Village AutoCAD Layout Updates – Click for Page

Dan Alleck (Designer and Illustrator) completed his 15th week working on the Compressed Earth Block Village render additions. This week he finished work on this Massage Room Looking Northwest. This image is on the site now too.

Sustainable Civilization Strategies, Dan Alleck (Designer and Illustrator) completed his 15th week working on the Compressed Earth Block Village render additions. This week he finished work on this Massage Room Looking Northwest. This image is on the site now too.

Completed Compressed Earth Block Village Massage Room Looking Northwest – Click for Page

And Jagannathan Shankar Mahadevan (Mechanical Engineer) completed his 18th week volunteering and finished all the calculations for the Cob Village Cost Analysis Page, in pursuit of creating effective sustainable civilization strategies. What you see here is a sample of this work that includes the materials, equipment, furniture, etc.

Sustainable Civilization Strategies, And Jagannathan Shankar Mahadevan (Mechanical Engineer) completed his 18th week volunteering and finished all the calculations for the Cob Village Cost Analysis Page. What you see here is a sample of this work that includes the materials, equipment, furniture, etc.

Finished all Calculations for the Cob Village Cost Analysis Page – Click for Page

Jagannathan also then wrote the entire narrative for the page, some of which is shown here.

Wrote the Entire Narrative for the Cob Village Materials Costs Page – Click to Visit

Mihaela “Michelle” Pinzaru (Interior Designer and Architectural Drafter) also completed her 8th week working on the Tree House Village (Pod 7) residential designs, contributing to creating sustainable civilization strategies. This week she continued working on the final texturing and lighting details for the interior. You can see some of this work here.

Sustainable Civilization Strategies, Mihaela

Continued Working on Tree House Village Residential Designs ” Click to Visit

DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

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

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

This week the core team completed a thorough review of the 2nd half of the City Center structural engineering dead and live load report shown here.

Sustainable Civilization Strategies, This week the core team also completed a thorough review of the 2nd half of the City Center structural engineering dead and live load report shown here.

Reviewed half of City Center Structural Engineering Dead and Live Load Report ” Click for Page

David Olivero (Mechanical Engineer & Data Scientist) completed his 13th week helping with the HVAC Designs for the Duplicable City Center. This week’s focus was researching and further developing the related equipment plan. You can see some of this work here.

Sustainable Civilization Strategies, David Olivero (Mechanical Engineer & Data Scientist) completed his 13th week helping with the HVAC Designs for the Duplicable City Center. This week's focus was researching and further developing the related equipment plan. You can see some of this work here.

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

HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

One Community is creating sustainable civilization strategies 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 research and design of the open source climate battery designs. What you see here is the continued process of integrating climate batteries into the Phase 2 food plans that include the Aquapinis and Walipinis.

Continued Research and Design of Open Source Climate Battery Designs ” Click for Page

HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

One Community is creating sustainable civilization strategies 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 developing the Lesson Plans How-to tutorial page. We added a new “How to Create Your Individualized Lesson Plans” section, doubled the details in the “Beginning Learners” example, and finished the first 50% of the “Intermediate Learners” example.

Sustainable Civilization Strategies, This week, the core team continued developing the Lesson Plans How-to tutorial page. We added a new

Continued Developing the Lesson Plans How-to Tutorial Page ” Click to Visit

HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS

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

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

The Highest Good Network software team consisting of Sowmya Manohar (Software Engineer, Web Developer & Net Application Developer), Shubhra Mittal (Software Delivery Manager), Priyanka Singh (Software Developer), and Asha Tadimari (Software Engineer). This week the team continued working on making the badges dynamic and also updated the profile form so a user can edit their personal information, so an Administrator can edit personal/administrative information, and so any individual can see anybody else’s information in a read-only mode. They also worked on the projects page to display the project’s details.

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