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WHAT ONE COMMUNITY IS CREATING

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

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

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

BUILDING THE FIRST OF MANY

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

WHY ONE COMMUNITY IS CREATING THIS

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

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

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

Building Sustainable Villages – One Community Weekly Progress Update #180

Posted on September 4, 2016 by Kishan Sivakumar

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

One Community is an all-volunteer nonprofit open sourcing and free-sharing the complete process of building sustainable villages.

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

OUR MAIN OPEN SOURCE HUBS

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

One Community’s physical location will forward this movement as the first of many self-replicating teacher/demonstration communities, villages, and cities to be built around the world. This is the September 4th, 2016 edition (#180) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments:

Building Sustainable Villages
One Community Progress Update #180

Building Sustainable Villages - One Community Weekly Progress Update #180

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:

BUILDING SUSTAINABLE VILLAGES INTRO: @1:03

BUILDING SUSTAINABLE VILLAGES HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION: @1:56

Transferred third 25% of written content for the Beliefs Lesson Plan to the website (see below)
Behind the scenes, we wrote the first 25% of the written part of the Personal Growth Lesson Plan.
We also completed the third 25% of the mindmap for the Honesty and Integrity Lesson Plan, bringing it to 75% complete, which you see here.

BUILDING SUSTAINABLE VILLAGES HIGHEST GOOD FOOD: @2:49

Added additional images, references, and resources to the behind the scenes version of the Transition Kitchen (see below)

BUILDING SUSTAINABLE VILLAGES HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING: @3:15

Continued updating the formatting of the upcoming 7 villages online book pages (see below)
Created 3 new Earthbag Village icons and integrated into the pages (see below)
Put another 10 hours into the behind-the-scenes revision for the Footers, Foundations and Flooring page for the crowdfunding campaign we are developing (see below)
Dean Scholz further developed what’s necessary for us to create quality Cob Village (see below)
Hamilton Mateca continued evolving the Compressed Earth Block Village (see below)
Guy Grossfeld completed his 1st week of 3D modeling of the Compressed Earth Block Village for quality render creation (see below)

BUILDING SUSTAINABLE VILLAGES DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER: @5:25

Continued working on the Duplicable City Center 3D renders (see below)
Updated the Transition Kitchen designs in Sketchup Â (see below)
Dipti Dhondarkar continued with her 14th week of work on the lighting zones for the City Center (see below)
Haoxuan “Hayes” Lei and Shuna Ni continued work on the structural details for the City Center (see below)
Neha Verma continued developing the City Center Project Brief that will update the City Center Plans Page when complete (see below)

BUILDING SUSTAINABLE VILLAGES HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY: @7:04

Jennifer Zhou completed her 8th week of work developing the new website structure

BUILDING SUSTAINABLE VILLAGES SUMMARY: @7:20

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

YOU CAN ALSO JOIN US THROUGH SOCIAL MEDIA

ONE COMMUNITY WEEKLY UPDATE DETAILS

Building Sustainable Villages

HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

One Community is building sustainable villages 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

As part of building sustainable villages this last week the core team transferred the third 25% of the written content for the Beliefs Lesson Plan to the website, as you see here. This lesson plan purposed to teach all subjects, to all learning levels, in any learning environment, using the central theme of “Beliefs” is now 75% completed on our website.

Building Sustainable Villages - This last week the core team transferred the third 25% of the written content for the Beliefs Lesson Plan to the website, as you see here. This lesson plan purposed to teach all subjects, to all learning levels, in any learning environment, using the central theme of

Beliefs Lesson Plan ” 75% Complete ” Click to Visit Page

Behind the scenes, we wrote the first 25% of the written part of the Personal Growth Lesson Plan.

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

Building Sustainable Villages - Honesty and Integrity lesson plan mindmap, 75% complete

Honesty and Integrity Mindmap ” 75% Complete ” Click to Visit Page

HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

One Community is building sustainable villages 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

As part of building sustainable villages this week the core team added additional images, references, and resources to the behind the scenes version of the Transition Kitchen. You can see images of that work here:

Building Sustainable Villages - This week the core team added additional images, references, and resources to the behind the scenes version of the Transition Kitchen. You can see images of that work here:

Added Additional Images/Descriptions for Transition Kitchen Equipment to Site – Click for Main Page

HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

One Community is building sustainable villages 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

As part of building sustainable villages The core team continued updating the formatting of the upcoming 7 villages online book pages. This week’s work focused on new introduction pages and new images for the Straw Bale Village.

Building Sustainable Villages - village-doc-revisions-b180-640

Continued Formatting of Upcoming 7 Villages Online Book ” Click to Visit Page

We also created 3 new Earthbag Village icons shown here and integrated these into the pages.

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Created 3 New Earthbag Village Icons and Integrated into the Pages – Click to Visit

And we put another 10 hours into the behind-the-scenes revision for the Footers, Foundations and Flooring page for the crowdfunding campaign we are developing. This week we completed a comprehensive review of the FFF doc. on pages 88-150, where we made corrections related to measurements and proofreading grammar and sentence structure. We also added a 6d galvanized finish nail photo and replaced all 16d finish nails throughout the document with 6d galvanized finish nails. We’d say we are now 97% complete with this total update and rewrite behind the scenes.

Building Sustainable Villages - fff blog 180

Continued Work Updating AutoCAD Drawings for Footer and Foundation ” Click to Visit Page

Dean Scholz (Architectural Designer), further developed what’s necessary for us to create quality Cob Village (Pod 3) renders. Here is update 34 of his work that focused on shadows, additional textures, and (thus far unsuccessfully) attempting to overcome computer crash problems during the final render process. What you see here are some successful renders and renders that froze and then crashed Dean’s computer.

Building Sustainable Villages - Dean Scholz (Architectural Designer), further developed what's necessary for us to create quality Cob Village (Pod 3) renders. Here is update 34 of his work that focused on shadows, additional textures, and (thus far unsuccessfully) attempting to overcome computer crash problems during the final render process. What you see here are some successful renders and renders that froze and then crashed Dean's computer.

Further Developed What’s Necessary to Create Quality Cob Village Renders ” Click to Visit Page

And, Hamilton Mateca (AutoCAD Draftsperson and Designer), continued evolving the Compressed Earth Block Village (Pod 4). You can see his 6th week of work here showing aligning the 1st and 2nd floor, seating ideas for the dining area, more roadway and column changes, expansion of the 2nd floor private events space, and a new design for the West recreation space.

Building Sustainable Villages - And, Hamilton Mateca (AutoCAD Draftsperson and Designer), continued evolving the Compressed Earth Block Village (Pod 4). You can see his 6th week of work here showing aligning the 1st and 2nd floor, seating ideas for the dining area, more roadway and column changes, expansion of the 2nd floor private events space, and a new design for the West recreation space.

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

Building on Hamilton’s work, Guy Grossfeld (Graphic Designer), also completed his 1st week of 3D modeling of the Compressed Earth Block Village (Pod 4) for quality render creation. What you see here are the beginnings of the structure taking shape in 3DS Max.

Building Sustainable Villages - Guy Grossfeld (Graphic Designer), also completed his 1st week of 3D modeling of the Compressed Earth Block Village (Pod 4) for quality render creation. What you see here are the beginnings of the structure taking shape in 3DS Max.

Began 3D modeling of the Compressed Earth Block Village – Click to Visit Page

DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

One Community is building sustainable villages 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

As part of building sustainable villages this week the core team continued working on the Duplicable City Center 3D renders. What you see here are the updates to the Dining Dome, where we placed the basement retaining wall and structural columns, and created detailed measurement images for the basement staircase updates we’ll be doing in AutoCAD.

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Continued Working on the Duplicable City Center 3D Renders – Click to Visit Page

We also updated the Transition K itchen designs in Sketchup, replacing a double-compartment sink with a 3-compartment sink and adding a dish-drying shelving unit and a sink for pots and pans.

Building Sustainable Villages - transition-kitchen-180-640

Updated the Transition Kitchen Designs in Sketchup – Click to Visit Page

Dipti Dhondarkar, (Electrical Engineer) also continued with her 14th week of work on the lighting zones. This week’s progress continued with final revisions and defining of the zones as shown here. We’d say we are now 95% complete with this component of the City Center.

Building Sustainable Villages - Dipti Dhondarkar, (Electrical Engineer) also continued with her 14th week of work on the lighting zones. This week's progress continued with final revisions and defining of the zones as shown here. We'd say we are now 95% complete with this component of the City Center.

Continued Work on City Center Lighting Zones ” Click to Visit City Center Lighting Page

Haoxuan “Hayes” Lei (Structural Engineer) and Shuna Ni (Masters of Mechanical Engineering and Civil Engineering PhD) also continued work on the structural details for the City Center. This week’s focus was continued evolution of the structural column and beam placements, discussing structural walls, and how to better design the geometry of the dome.

Continued Work on Structural Details for City Center ” Click to Visit Page

Neha Verma (Construction Project Manager and Bachelor’s of Architecture), also continued developing the City Center Project Brief that will update the City Center Plans Page when complete. This week’s focus was beginning the chart seen here exploring the features of each dome.

Building Sustainable Villages - Neha Verma (Construction Project Manager and Bachelor's of Architecture), also continued developing the City Center Project Brief that will update the City Center Plans Page when complete. This week's focus was beginning the chart seen here exploring the features of each dome.

Continued Developing the City Center Project Brief – Click to Visit the City Center Plans Page

HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS

One Community is building sustainable villages 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

As part of building sustainable villages this week Jennifer Zhou (Web Designer) completed her 8th week of work developing the new website structure, adding more formatting updates, and continuing to test different layouts for the responsive screen-size changes and how to integrate our logo into the different layouts.

Continued Developing the New Website Structure ” Click for Our Homepage

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

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WHAT ONE COMMUNITY IS CREATING

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

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

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

BUILDING THE FIRST OF MANY

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

WHY ONE COMMUNITY IS CREATING THIS

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

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

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

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 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.

Better Living through Sustainability – One Community Weekly Progress Update #179

Posted on August 28, 2016 by Kishan Sivakumar

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

We have the ability to create better living through sustainability. If we open source and free-share a replicable model for this, we can spread the idea and sustainable lifestyle globally. The ultimate goal of doing this would be to create a fully sustainable planet capable of meeting the needs of everyone living here. This is the purpose of the all-volunteer One Community nonprofit organization.

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 August 28th, 2016 edition (#179) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments:

Better Living through Sustainability
One Community Progress Update #179

Better Living through Sustainability - One Community Weekly Progress Update #179

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:

BETTER LIVING THROUGH SUSTAINABILITY INTRO: @1:03

BETTER LIVING THROUGH SUSTAINABILITY HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION: @1:56

Transferred second 25% of the written content for the Beliefs Lesson Plan to the website (see below)
Behind the scenes: wrote the final 25% of the written part of the Beliefs Lesson Plan (see below)
Completed second 25% of mindmap for the Honesty and Integrity Lesson Plan (see below)

BETTER LIVING THROUGH SUSTAINABILITY HIGHEST GOOD FOOD: @2:51

Behind the scenes: updated descriptions for the Transition Kitchen equipment to a staging page on the website (see below)

BETTER LIVING THROUGH SUSTAINABILITY HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING: @3:16

Updated all the images on Highest Good Housing page and all the individual village headers (see below)
Began serious formatting of the upcoming 7 villages online book (see below)
Updated the Earthbag Village page with all new icons and created several new pages that will host all the open source details for electrical, plumbing, window and door framing, and other details (see below)
Put another 10 hours into the behind-the-scenes revision for the Footers, Foundations and Flooring page for the crowdfunding campaign we are developing (see below)
Sal Rubio continued working on creating professional do-it-yourself Earthbag Village Murphy Bed furniture assembly instructions (see below)
Brianna Johnson updated the colors and created these two new overview renders for the Straw Bale Village (see below)
Dean Scholz further developed what’s necessary for us to create quality Cob Village renders (see below)
Hamilton Mateca continued evolving the Compressed Earth Block Village (see below)
Guy Grossfeld completed his photoshop work on the renders for the Shipping Container Village (see below)

BETTER LIVING THROUGH SUSTAINABILITY DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER: @6:53

Continued work on the interior design of the Duplicable City Center Social Dome (see below)
Iris Hsu continued exploring recycled pipe shelving and overhead lighting options for Duplicable City Center library (see below)
Dipti Dhondarkar continued with her 13th week of work on the lighting zones (see below)
Haoxuan “Hayes” Lei and Shuna Ni continued work on the structural details for the City Center (see below)

BETTER LIVING THROUGH SUSTAINABILITY HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY: @8:27

Jennifer Zhou completed her 7th week of work developing the new website structure (see below)

BETTER LIVING THROUGH SUSTAINABILITY SUMMARY: @8:45

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ONE COMMUNITY WEEKLY UPDATE DETAILS

BETTER LIVING THROUGH SUSTAINABILITY HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

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

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

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

Better Living through Sustainability – Beliefs Lesson Plan ” 50% Complete ” Click to Visit Page

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

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

Better Living through Sustainability – Honesty and Integrity Mindmap ” 50% Complete ” Click to Visit

BETTER LIVING THROUGH SUSTAINABILITY HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

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

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

This last week, behind the scenes, the core team updated the descriptions for the Transition Kitchen equipment to a staging page on the website, as you can see here:

This last week, behind the scenes, the core team updated the descriptions for the Transition Kitchen equipment to the website, as you can see here:

Better Living through Sustainability – Updated Descriptions for the Transition Kitchen Equipment

BETTER LIVING THROUGH SUSTAINABILITY HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

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

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

This last week the core team updated all the images on the Highest Good Housing page and all the individual village headers. What you see here is the updated Highest Good Housing page with the new images. The updated individual village pages have similar new header images and identical social media images.

This last week the core team updated all the images on Highest Good Housing page and all the individual village headers. What you see here is the updated Highest Good Housing page with the new images. The updated individual village pages have similar new header images and identical social media images.

Updated all the Images on Highest Good Housing Page and the Individual Village Headers

The core team also began serious formatting of the upcoming 7 villages online book pages 1-22. This work included laying high-resolution covers, and new intro pages, updating the City Center layouts, making inset images and resizing text, and setting up new page numbers, style sheets, and aligning the elements on these pages to a set grid.

Better Living through Sustainability – Began Serious Formatting of Upcoming 7 Villages Online Book

We also updated the Earthbag Village (Pod 1) page with all new icons as seen here. As part of this, we additionally created several new pages that will host all the open source details for electrical, plumbing, window and door framing, and other details.

Better Living through Sustainability – Updated the Earthbag Village Page and Created Several New ones

The core team also put another 10 hours into the behind-the-scenes revision for the Footers, Foundations and Flooring page for the crowdfunding campaign we are developing. This week we completed a comprehensive review of the FFF doc. on pages 58-87, where we made corrections related to measurements and proofreading grammar and sentence structure. We also added new materials to the FFF materials list which included 3/4″ & 1/2″ plywood photos with description of usage along with separate narratives on pages 107 & 108. Additionally, we added 2″ finish nails, which are replacing 3 1/2″ finish nails for the slider. We’d say we are now 96% complete with this total update and rewrite behind the scenes.

Better Living through Sustainability – BTS Revision of the Footers, Foundations and Flooring Info

Sal Rubio (Industrial Designer) continued working on creating professional do-it-yourself Earthbag Village Murphy Bed furniture assembly instructions. What you see here is week 13 of this process that focused on updating the main layouts, intro page for each section, and the symbols page to match the appearance and layout we decided on last week.

Better Living through Sustainability – Working on Creating DIY Furniture Assembly Instructions

Brianna Johnson (Interior Designer), also updated the colors and created these two new overview renders for the Straw Bale Village (Pod 2).

Better Living through Sustainability – Continued Evolving Straw Bale Village Renders

Dean Scholz (Architectural Designer), further developed what’s necessary for us to create quality Cob Village (Pod 3) renders. Here is update 33 of his work that focused on adding foliage around the windows of the central dining and recreation structure and running test renders testing the background tree images.

Cob-Village-Dean-b179-640, Dean Scholz (Architectural Designer), further developed what's necessary for us to create quality Cob Village (Pod 3) renders. Here is update 33 of his work that focused on adding foliage around the windows of the central dining and recreation structure and running test renders testing the background tree images.

Further Developed What’s Necessary to Create Quality Cob Village Renders ” Click to Visit Page

And, Hamilton Mateca (AutoCAD Draftsperson and Designer), continued evolving the Compressed Earth Block Village (Pod 4). You can see his 5th week of work here showing a redesigned central roadway, added ADA units, a redesigned main public restroom area, and test locations for pillars.

Better Living through Sustainability – Continued Evolving the Compressed Earth Block Village

Guy Grossfeld, (Graphic Designer) also completed his photoshop work on the renders for the Shipping Container Village (Pod 5)! This final work included minor updates to the 3rd Floor circulation image you see here:

Better Living through Sustainability – Final Version of Northside Circulation Space – Click to Visit

….finishing this 2nd floor front area looking out:

Shipping Container Village, Floor 2 Front area looking out, Guy Grossfeld, One Community

Better Living through Sustainability – Final Version of Floor 2 Unit Type 2 Front Area Looking Out

….this finalized version of the stairway up to floor 3:

Shipping Container Village, Floor 2 stairs up to floor 3, Guy Grossfeld, One Community

Better Living through Sustainability – Final Version of Floor 2 Stairs Up to Floor 3 – Click to Visit

…and final edits and additions to this front perspective of the stairs up to floor 2:

Shipping Container Village, Floor 1 stairs up to floor 2, Guy Grossfeld, One Community

Better Living through Sustainability – Final Version of Floor 1 Stairs Up to Floor 2 – Click to Visit

BETTER LIVING THROUGH SUSTAINABILITY DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

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

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

This week the core team continued working on the Duplicable City Center 3D renders. What you see here is the continued work on the interior design of the first floor of the Social Dome, where we added new trees to the area next to the pool and placed additional lights above the pool. A couple of different views were chosen for future rendering.

Social-Dome-DCC-renders-b179-640, This week the core team continued working on the Duplicable City Center 3D renders. What you see here is the continued work on the interior design of the first floor of the Social Dome, where we added new trees to the area next to the pool and placed additional lights above the pool. A couple of different views were chosen for future rendering.

Better Living through Sustainability – Continued Work on the Interior Design of Social Dome

And Iris Hsu, (Industrial Designer), continued exploring recycled pipe shelving and overhead lighting options for the Duplicable City Center library. What you see here is round #16 of this work showing beginning integration of our final pipe design for the lighting with the pipe furniture, books on the shelves, and texture tests for the walls and floor.

Better Living through Sustainability – Exploring Recycled Pipe Shelving and Overhead Lighting Options

Dipti Dhondarkar, (Electrical Engineer) also continued with her 13th week of work on the lighting zones. This week’s progress continued adding additional zones to differentiate areas within the kitchen, social dome, and outdoor zones, and updating the spreadsheet with the new calculations this required.

Better Living through Sustainability – Continued Work on City Center Lighting Zones ” Click to Visit

Haoxuan “Hayes” Lei (Structural Engineer) and Shuna Ni (Masters of Mechanical Engineering and Civil Engineering PhD) also continued work on the structural details for the City Center. This week’s focus was continued evolution of the structural column and beam placements.

Better Living through Sustainability – Continued Work on Structural Details for City Center

BETTER LIVING THROUGH SUSTAINABILITY HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS

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

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

This week Jennifer Zhou (Web Designer) completed her 7th week of work developing the new website structure, continuing to focus on making the structure responsive to screen-size changes, upgrading formatting, and working on how to integrate our logo into this format.

Continued Developing the New Website Structure ” Click for Our Homepage

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

ONE COMMUNITY’S 4-PHASE STRATEGY

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

Phase I: Demonstrating a Better Way

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

Phase II: Open Source Project-Launch Blueprinting

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

Phase III: Inviting the World to Participate

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

Phase IV: Universal Appeal and Global Expansion

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

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

Evolving Global Sustainability – One Community Weekly Progress Update #178

Posted on August 21, 2016 by Kishan Sivakumar

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It appears humanity is ready for evolving global sustainability to include approaches to education,economic design, social architecture, fulfilled living, and global stewardship practices. Combining these with sustainable food, energy, and housing infrastructure has the potential to create an experience of living that is far superior to how most people are living now, while also regenerating our shared ecosystem. One Community is open sourcing DIY components for this as a model for living and creating for “The Highest Good of All.”

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

OUR MAIN OPEN SOURCE HUBS

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

One Community’s physical location will forward this movement as the first of many self-replicating teacher/demonstration communities, villages, and cities to be built around the world. This is the August 21st, 2016 edition (#178) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments:

Evolving Global Sustainability
One Community Progress Update #178

Evolving Global Sustainability - One Community Weekly Progress Update #178

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:

EVOLVING GLOBAL SUSTAINABILITY INTRO: @1:03

EVOLVING GLOBAL SUSTAINABILITY HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION: @1:59

Transferred first 25% of the written content for the Beliefs Lesson Plan to the website (see below)
Behind the scenes: wrote the third 25% of the written part of the Beliefs Lesson Plan (see below)
Completed first 25% of the mindmap for the Honesty and Integrity Lesson Plan (see below)

EVOLVING GLOBAL SUSTAINABILITY HIGHEST GOOD FOOD: @2:51

Researched alternative sinks for the Transition Kitchen, and remeasured the blueprints to ensure they would fit (see below)

EVOLVING GLOBAL SUSTAINABILITY HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING: @3:22

Created 24 introduction images for the Highest Good Housing page and all the associated open source hubs (see below)
Put another 10 hours into the behind-the-scenes revision for the Footers, Foundations and Flooring page for the crowdfunding campaign we are developing (see below)
Sal Rubio continued working on creating professional do-it-yourself Earthbag Village Murphy Bed furniture assembly instructions (see below)
Brianna Johnson continued evolving the renders for the Straw Bale Village (see below)
Vidya Patil continued with her 4th week of cost analysis for the Straw Bale Village (see below)
Dean Scholz further developed what’s necessary for us to create quality Cob Village renders (see below)
Hamilton Mateca continued evolving the Compressed Earth Block Village (see below)
Guy Grossfeld continued with his 10th week of photoshop work on the renders for the Shipping Container Village (see below)
Bupesh Seethala completed final Recycled Materials Village renders (see below)

EVOLVING GLOBAL SUSTAINABILITY DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER: @6:38

Continued working on the Duplicable City Center 3D renders (see below)
Worked on the interior design of the first floor of the Social Dome (see below)
Bupesh Seethala converted our 3D work on the basement, stairs and dry storage areas into AutoCAD (see below)
And Iris Hsu continued exploring recycled pipe shelving and overhead lighting options for the Duplicable City Center library (see below)
Dipti Dhondarkar continued with her 12th week of work on the lighting zones (see below)
Haoxuan “Hayes” Lei continued with his 15th week of work on the structural details for the City Center (see below)

EVOLVING GLOBAL SUSTAINABILITY HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY: @8:30

Researched and added resources sections to all 13 of our core values pages (see below)
Jennifer Zhou completed her 6th week of work developing the new website structure (see below)

EVOLVING GLOBAL SUSTAINABILITY SUMMARY: @9:04

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

YOU CAN ALSO JOIN US THROUGH SOCIAL MEDIA

ONE COMMUNITY WEEKLY UPDATE DETAILS

EVOLVING GLOBAL SUSTAINABILITY HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

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

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

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

Evolving Global Sustainability – Beliefs Lesson Plan ” 25% Complete ” Click to Visit Page

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

We also completed the first 25% of the mindmap for the Honesty and Integrity Lesson Plan, which you see here:

Honesty and Integrity mindmap 25% complete, evolving global sustainability

Evolving Global Sustainability – Honesty and Integrity Mindmap ” 25% Complete ” Click to Visit

EVOLVING GLOBAL SUSTAINABILITY HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

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

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

In order to make meal preparation and clean up easier, this week the core team researched alternative sinks for the Transition Kitchen, and remeasured the blueprints to ensure they would fit. You can see the alternatives here:

Evolving Global Sustainability – Researched Alternative Sinks for Transition Kitchen – Click to Visit

EVOLVING GLOBAL SUSTAINABILITY HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

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

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

This last week the core team created 24 introduction images for the Highest Good Housing page and all the associated open source hubs. What you see here is a collage of all these new images:

Evolving Global Sustainability – Created 24 Introduction Images for Highest Good Housing Page

The core team also put another 10 hours into the behind-the-scenes revision for the Footers, Foundations and Flooring page for the crowdfunding campaign we are developing. This week we again updated Section 1: Tools and Materials, making corrections related to measurements and proofreading grammar and sentence structure. We also researched soil stabilization and researched and discussed the best size and use of nails to replace barbed wire. We’d say we are now 95% complete with this total update and rewrite behind the scenes.

Evolving Global Sustainability – BTS Revision of the Footers, Foundations and Flooring Info

Sal Rubio (Industrial Designer) continued working on creating professional do-it-yourself Earthbag Village Murphy Bed furniture assembly instructions. What you see here is week 12 of this process that included exploring a diversity of different header and footer formats.

Evolving Global Sustainability – Working on Creating DIY Furniture Assembly Instructions

Brianna Johnson (Interior Designer), also continued evolving the renders for the Straw Bale Village (Pod 2). What you see here is an exploded view of one section of the living spaces.

Evolving Global Sustainability – Continued Evolving Straw Bale Village Renders ” Click to Visit

Vidya Patil (Quantity surveyor and Civil CAD Drafter) also continued with her 4th week of cost analysis for the Straw Bale Village. This week included updates to all previous room costs and the initial cost research shown here for the public restroom adjacent to the dining area.

Evolving Global Sustainability – Continued Straw Bale Village Cost Analysis ” Click for Page

Dean Scholz, Architectural Designer, further developed what’s necessary for us to create quality Cob Village (Pod 3) renders. Here is update 32 of his work that focused on adding more foliage to the outside of the central dining and recreation structure, running test renders, adding more details to the roof, and creating flat trees for the background.

Further Developed What’s Necessary to Create Quality Cob Village Renders ” Click to Visit Page

And, Hamilton Mateca (AutoCAD Draftsperson and Designer), continued evolving the Compressed Earth Block Village (Pod 4). You can see his 4th week of work here, showing the redesign of left living units and social space, group meeting space in the North, and dining area. He also added easier road access for kitchen delivery.

Hamilton Mateca (AutoCAD Draftsperson and Designer), continued evolving the Compressed Earth Block Village (Pod 4). You can see his 4th week of work here, showing the redesign of left living units and social space, group meeting space in the North, and dining area. He also added easier road access for kitchen delivery., evolving global sustainability

Evolving Global Sustainability – Continued Evolving the Compressed Earth Block Village ” Click to Visit

Guy Grossfeld, (Graphic Designer) also continued with his 10th week of photoshop work on the renders for the Shipping Container Village (Pod 5). This week he finished these renders of the Mezzanine Dining area:

Floor 3 Shipping Container Village, Guy Grossfeld, One Community, evolving global sustainability

Evolving Global Sustainability – Mezzanine Dining Area Final Render – Click to Visit

… Informal Conference Room:

Evolving Global Sustainability – Informal Conference Room Final Render – Click to Visit

… and Game Room:

Floor 1, Game Room, Shipping Container Village, One Community, evolving global sustainability

Evolving Global Sustainability – Game Room Final Render – Click to Visit

… He also created version 1 of this Living Unit render:

FLOOR-2-Unit-Type-2-Front-Area-Looking-Out-Guy-b178-640, evolving global sustainability

Evolving Global Sustainability – Front Area Looking Out – Click to Visit

… and this render of the stairway to floor 2:

FLOOR-1-Stairs-up-to-Floor-2-Guy-B178-640, evolving global sustainability

Evolving Global Sustainability – Stairs Up to Floor 2 – Click to Visit

Bupesh Seethala (Interior Designer and Drafter) also completed these final Recycled Materials Village (Pod 6) renders showing the Music Room:

Music Room Final Render Recycled Materials Village, One Community, evolving global sustainability

Recycled Materials Village – Music Room – Click to Visit Page

… these two showing the Game Room:

Gameroom Final Render Recycled Materials Village, One Community, evolving global sustainability

Recycled Materials Village – Game Room – Click to Visit Page

… these two showing the Yoga and Meditation Room:

Yoga room Final Render Recycled Materials Village, One Community, evolving global sustainability

Recycled Materials Village – Yoga and Meditation Room – Click to Visit Page

Yoga-Room-Out-Recycled-Materials-Village-Final-Render-640-high-res, evolving global sustainability

Recycled Materials Village – Yoga Room – Outside – Click to Visit Page

… and this final update version of the Gym:

Gym Final Render Recycled Materials Village, One Community, evolving global sustainability

Recycled Materials Village – Gym Looking In – Click to Visit Page

EVOLVING GLOBAL SUSTAINABILITY DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

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

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

This week the core team continued working on the Duplicable City Center 3D renders. What you see here are the final render updates for the Dining Dome north view of the kitchen. The updates include the placement of additional lights in the dry storage and refrigerator rooms, updated outdoor views, doorframe corrections, and a floor-color update.

DCC-Dining-dome-b178-640-high-res, This week the core team continued working on the Duplicable City Center 3D renders. What you see here are the final render updates for the Dining Dome north view of the kitchen. The updates include the placement of additional lights in the dry storage and refrigerator rooms, updated outdoor views, doorframe corrections, and a floor-color update., evolving global sustainability

Final Render for the Dining Dome North View of the Kitchen ” Click to Visit Page

DCC-Dining-dome-blog-178-640-high-res, This week the core team continued working on the Duplicable City Center 3D renders. What you see here are the final render updates for the Dining Dome north view of the kitchen. The updates include the placement of additional lights in the dry storage and refrigerator rooms, updated outdoor views, doorframe corrections, and a floor-color update., evolving global sustainability

Final Render for the Dining Dome North View of the Kitchen ” Click to Visit Page

We also worked on the interior design of the first floor of the Social Dome, updating the area next to the pool with plants and lights and testing an artistic butterfly design we will use.

social-dome-b178-640, evolving global sustainability

Worked on the Interior Design of Social Dome – Click to Visit the Duplicable City Center

Bupesh Seethala (Interior Designer and Drafter) also converted our 3D work on the basement, stairs and dry storage areas into AutoCAD.

Converted 3D Work into AutoCAD- Click to Visit the Duplicable City Center

And Iris Hsu, (Industrial Designer), continued exploring recycled pipe shelving and overhead lighting options for the Duplicable City Center library. What you see here is round #15 of this work showing our final 7 choices for ceiling lighting.

Continued Exploring Recycled Pipe Shelving and Overhead Lighting Options ” Click for Pipe Furniture Page

Dipti Dhondarkar, (Electrical Engineer) also continued with her 12th week of work on the lighting zones. This week’s progress included adding several additional zones to differentiate areas within the kitchen, social dome, and outdoor zones, and updating the spreadsheet with the new calculations this required.

Continued Work on City Center Lighting Zones ” Click to Visit City Center Lighting Page

Haoxuan “Hayes” Lei (Structural Engineering Student) also continued with his 15th week of work on the structural details for the City Center. This week’s focus was the plan view for beam layout to limit the space between beams to within 24″.

Continued Work on Structural Details for City Center – Click to Visit Page

EVOLVING GLOBAL SUSTAINABILITY HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS

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

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

This last week the core team researched and added resources sections to all 13 of our core values pages. You can see a collage of these new sections here, including a link on every page for others to suggest resources they feel would improve the pages and, where they are complete, mind maps and links to our related lesson plans from the Highest Good Education program.

Researched & Added Resources Sections to Core Values Pages – Click to Visit the Purpose Mission Page

Jennifer Zhou (Web Designer) additionally completed her 6th week of work developing the new website structure, focusing this week on a responsive header that resizes when the screen is resized. These images show this work in progress:

Evolving Global Sustainability – Continued Developing the New Website Structure

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

ONE COMMUNITY’S 4-PHASE STRATEGY

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

Phase I: Demonstrating a Better Way

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

Phase II: Open Source Project-Launch Blueprinting

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

Phase III: Inviting the World to Participate

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

Phase IV: Universal Appeal and Global Expansion

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

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

WHY OPEN SOURCE

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

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

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

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

OPEN SOURCE SHARING STRATEGY SPECIFICS

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

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

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

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

SUMMARY

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

Creating a Global Solution – One Community Weekly Progress Update #177

Posted on August 14, 2016 by Kishan Sivakumar

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

Creating a global solution that simultaneously addressed humanity’s most pressing challenges is possible if we approach these challenges as both interrelated and interdependent. Open source and free-shared sustainability components that include food, energy, and housing combined with Highest Good approaches to education, for-profit and non-profit economic design, social architecture, fulfilled living, and global stewardship practices is one way to accomplish this. One Community calls this living and creating for The Highest Good of All.

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

OUR MAIN OPEN SOURCE HUBS

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

One Community’s physical location will forward this movement as the first of many self-replicating teacher/demonstration communities, villages, and cities to be built around the world. This is the August 14th, 2016 edition (#177) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments:

Creating a Global Solution
One Community Progress Update #177

Creating a Global Solution - One Community Weekly Progress Update #177

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:

CREATING A GLOBAL SOLUTION INTRO: @1:03

CREATING A GLOBAL SOLUTION HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION: @1:59

Transferred the final 25% of the written content for the Honesty and Integrity Lesson Plan to the website (see below)
Behind the scenes: Wrote second 25% of the written part of the Beliefs Lesson Plan
Completed final 25% of the mindmap for the Information Lesson Plan (see below)

CREATING A GLOBAL SOLUTION HIGHEST GOOD FOOD: @2:52

Began adding data for the Transition Kitchen equipment to a staging page on the website (see below)

CREATING A GLOBAL SOLUTION HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING: @3:19

Put another 10 hours into the behind-the-scenes revision for the Footers, Foundations and Flooring page for the crowdfunding campaign we are developing (see below)
Jessica Zynda continued her work updating the autoCAD drawings for the footer and foundation (see below)
Brianna Johnson continued evolving the renders for the Straw Bale Village (see below)
Vidya Patil continued with her 3rd week of cost analysis for the Straw Bale Village (see below)
Dean Scholz further developed what’s necessary for us to create quality Cob Village (Pod 3) renders (see below)
Jaspreet Sond continued with his 3rd week of designing the wood working maker space for Northwest wing of the Cob Village (see below)
Hamilton Mateca continued evolving the Compressed Earth Block Village (see below)
Guy Grossfeld continued with his 9th week of photoshop work on the renders for the Shipping Container Village (see below)

CREATING A GLOBAL SOLUTION DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER: @6:00

Continued working on the Duplicable City Center 3D renders (see below)
Iris Hsu continued exploring recycled pipe shelving and overhead lighting options for the Duplicable City Center library (see below)
Dipti Dhondarkar continued her work on the lighting zones (see below)

CREATING A GLOBAL SOLUTION HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY: @7:06

Completed Shipping Container Village, Recycled Materials Village, and Earthbag Village color board and made minor revisions to the Tree House Village color board (see below)
Jennifer Zhou completed her 5th week of work developing the new website structure (see below)

CREATING A GLOBAL SOLUTION SUMMARY: @7:42

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

YOU CAN ALSO JOIN US THROUGH SOCIAL MEDIA

ONE COMMUNITY WEEKLY UPDATE DETAILS

CREATING A GLOBAL SOLUTION HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

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

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

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

Honesty and Integrity lesson plan blog 177, This last week the core team transferred the final 25% of the written content for the Honesty and Integrity Lesson Plan to the website, as you see here. This lesson plan purposed to teach all subjects, to all learning levels, in any learning environment, using the central theme of

Creating a Global Solution – Honesty and Integrity Lesson Plan ” Complete ” Click to Visit

Behind the scenes, we wrote the second 25% of the written part of the Beliefs Lesson Plan.

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

information mindmap blog 177, creating a global solution

Creating a Global Solution – Information Mindmap ” Complete ” Click to Visit Page

CREATING A GLOBAL SOLUTION HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

One Community is creating a global solution 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 began adding the data for the Transition Kitchen equipment to a staging page on the website:

Creating a Global Solution – Began Adding Data for Transition Kitchen Equipment to a Staging Page

CREATING A GLOBAL SOLUTION HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

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

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

This last week the core team put another 10 hours into the behind-the-scenes revision for the Footers, Foundations and Flooring page for the crowdfunding campaign we are developing. This week we verified video and other references noted in Section 16: Resources while making corrections on pages 64-161 relating to reference applications, heading color changes, reaffirming measurements, grammar, sentence structure, and adding 2 additional flashing sizes (12″ for french drain gutter and 16″ for footer). We’d say we are now 94% complete with this total update and rewrite behind the scenes.

fff-b177-640, This last week the core team put another 10 hours into the behind-the-scenes revision for the Footers, Foundations and Flooring page for the crowdfunding campaign we are developing. This week we verified video and other references noted in Section 16: Resources while making corrections on pages 64-161 relating to reference applications, heading color changes, reaffirming measurements, grammar, sentence structure, and adding 2 additional flashing sizes (12″ for french drain gutter and 16″ for footer). We'd say we are now 94% complete with this total update and rewrite behind the scenes., creating a global solution

Continued Behind-the-Scenes Revision of the Footers, Foundations and Flooring Info ” Click to Visit

Jessica Zynda (Drafter and Designer) also continued her work updating the autoCAD drawings for the footer and foundation. Here are the newest drawings as they continue to progress and evolve.

Creating a Global Solution – Updating AutoCAD Drawings for Footer and Foundation – Click to Visit

Brianna Johnson (Interior Designer), also continued evolving the renders for the Straw Bale Village (Pod 2). What you see here is a section view of the living areas.

Creating a Global Solution – Continued Evolving Straw Bale Village Renders ” Click to Visit

Vidya Patil (Quantity surveyor and Civil CAD Drafter) also continued with her 3rd week of cost analysis for the Straw Bale Village. What you see here are her initial analysis results for the game room, library, major hall, and outdoor dining area.

Creating a Global Solution – Continued Straw Bale Village Cost Analysis ” Click for Straw Bale Village

Dean Scholz, Architectural Designer, further developed what’s necessary for us to create quality Cob Village (Pod 3) renders. Here is update 31 of his work that focused on beginning to add foliage to the outside of the central dining and recreation structure for this village.

Further Developed What’s Necessary to Create Quality Cob Village Renders ” Click to Visit Page

Jaspreet Sond (Graphic Designer and Computer Engineer) also continued with his 3rd week of designing the wood working maker space for Northwest wing of the Cob Village (Pod 3). What you see here are machines created as part of this layout.

Creating a Global Solution – Continued Designing Wood Working Maker Space – Click to Visit Page

And, Hamilton Mateca (AutoCAD Draftsperson and Designer), continued evolving the Compressed Earth Block Village (Pod 4). You can see his 3rd week of work here, showing the redesign of the laundry area, addition of a 2nd floor group meeting space, and moving all the South bathrooms so they share a plumbing wall.

Also, Hamilton Mateca (AutoCAD Draftsperson and Designer), continued evolving the Compressed Earth Block Village (Pod 4). You can see his 3rd week of work here, showing the redesign of the laundry area, addition of a 2nd floor group meeting space, and moving all the South bathrooms so they share a plumbing wall., creating a global solution

Creating a Global Solution – Continued Evolving the Compressed Earth Block Village ” Click to Visit

Guy Grossfeld, (Graphic Designer) also continued with his 9th week of photoshop work on the renders for the Shipping Container Village (Pod 5). This week’s focus was the initial versions of the 3rd floor dining area:

Creating a Global Solution – Initial Versions of 3rd Floor Dining Area ” Click to Visit

…informal conference room:

Creating a Global Solution – Initial Versions of Informal Conference Room ” Click to Visit

… and this final version of the Yoga and Meditation room.

Shipping Container Village, floor 1, yoga room final render, creating a global solution

Creating a Global Solution – Final Version of Yoga and Meditation Room – Click to Visit

CREATING A GLOBAL SOLUTION DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

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

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

This week the core team continued working on the Duplicable City Center 3D renders. What you see here are the render updates in the dining dome north view of the kitchen where updates to the wall color were made and the texture of the floor was changed from tiles to stained concrete.

Creating a Global Solution – Continued Working on the Duplicable City Center 3D Renders

And Iris Hsu, (Industrial Designer), continued exploring recycled pipe shelving and overhead lighting options for the Duplicable City Center library. What you see here is round #15 of this work showing two more ceiling designs for the lights.

Creating a Global Solution – Exploring Recycled Pipe Shelving and Overhead Lighting Options

Dipti Dhondarkar, (Electrical Engineer) continued her work on the lighting zones by further cleaning up and clarifying on the AutoCAD file where each zone begins and ends. The images you see here are her updated zones drawing and a collection of edits requested by the core team.

DCC-lighting-zones-Dipti-b177-640, Dipti Dhondarkar, (Electrical Engineer) continued her work on the lighting zones by further cleaning up and clarifying on the AutoCAD file where each zone begins and ends. The images you see here are her updated zones drawing and a collection of edits requested by the core team., creating a global solution

Continued Work on City Center Lighting Zones ” Click to Visit City Center Lighting Page

CREATING A GLOBAL SOLUTION HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS

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

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

This last week the core team revised and completed the Shipping Container Village (Pod 5) color board with final color callouts:

SHPPING-CONTAINER-COLORS-640-high-res, creating a global solution

Revised and Completed the Shipping Container Village Color Board ” Click to Visit Page

….and revised and completed the Recycled Materials Village (Pod 6) color board with final color callouts:

RECYCLED-VILLAGE-COLORS-b177-640-high-res, creating a global solution

Revised and Completed the Recycled Materials Village Color Board ” Click to Visit Page

…and revised and completed the Earthbag Village (Pod 1) color board with final color callouts:

Earthbag-village-colors-b177-640, revised and completed the Earthbag Village (Pod 1) color board with final color callouts, creating a global solution

Revised and Completed the Earthbag Village Color Board ” Click to Visit Page

Also this week, we made minor revisions to the Tree House Village (Pod 7) color board, which is now 99% complete:

TREE-VILLAGE-COLORS-b177-640, creating a global solution

Revised and Completed the Tree House Village Color Board ” Click to Visit Page

Jennifer Zhou (Web Designer) additionally completed her 5th week of work developing the new website structure. This week’s focus was on the header and formatting and filter functionality:

Continued Developing the New Website Structure ” Click for Our Homepage

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

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ONE COMMUNITY’S 4-PHASE STRATEGY

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

Phase I: Demonstrating a Better Way

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

Phase II: Open Source Project-Launch Blueprinting

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

Phase III: Inviting the World to Participate

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

Phase IV: Universal Appeal and Global Expansion

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

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

WHY OPEN SOURCE

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

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

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

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

OPEN SOURCE SHARING STRATEGY SPECIFICS

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

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

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

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

SUMMARY

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

One Community Welcomes Dean Scholz to the Design Team

Posted on August 9, 2016 by One Community

One Community welcomes Dean Scholz to the Design Team as our newest Volunteer/Consultant!

Dean Scholz – Architectural Drafter and Designer: Dean has an Associates Degree in Architectural Drafting and Design, Mechanical Drafting and Design, and 3D Modeling and Illustration. He has an additional three years experience in carpentry rough, finish and in cabinetry and furniture construction, and five years of experience in computer game modeling in 3Ds Max and Adobe Photoshop. He also has experience in Adobe Illustrator designing advertising and has been freelance architectural drafting as the owner/operator of Dean Scholz Design and Architecture since 2014. All his life Dean has been naturally artistic with a passion for art, architectural design, sciences, woodwork, mechanical systems, and electronic circuits. This diversity of passions for creating and designing, coupled with being so mechanically inclined and very analytical, has given Dean excellent problem solving skills and a knack for out-of-the-box thinking. Always looking for an opportunity to design and build is what he is passionate about, with his current focus being tiny homes and tiny spaces, taking great pleasure in finding and utilizing space that is normally unused. As a member of the One Community Team, Dean is working on developing the Cob Village (Pod 3) designs and creating beautiful 3-D real-to-life renders of this village.

WELCOME TO THE TEAM DEAN!

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One Community Welcomes Haoxuan “Hayes” Lei to the Design Team

Posted on August 7, 2016 by One Community

One Community welcomes Haoxuan “Hayes” Lei to the Design Team as our newest Volunteer/Consultant!

Haoxuan “Hayes” Lei – Structural Engineer: Having interned in a design office and completed over five years of structural engineering study, Haoxuan is experienced with a diversity of structural engineering areas ranging from foundation to prestressed members and covering concrete to steel. He applies his skills in structural design using both SAP 2000 and AutoCAD. Growing up in a metropolis, Hayes understands how valuable a blue sky and a deep breath in a green forest can be for people surrounded by concrete buildings. It is this understanding that has driven Hayes to contribute his enthusiasm and skills to make a better world as a member of the One Community team working on the Duplicable City Center.

WELCOME TO THE TEAM HAYES!

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Reinventing Sustainability – One Community Weekly Progress Update #176

Posted on August 7, 2016 by Kishan Sivakumar

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Thanks to the internet, reinventing sustainability as a primarily open source and free-shared industry is possible if enough people participate. One Community is working towards this as part of a comprehensive and replicable model for creating a sustainable planet.

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

OUR MAIN OPEN SOURCE HUBS

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

One Community’s physical location will forward this movement as the first of many self-replicating teacher/demonstration communities, villages, and cities to be built around the world. This is the August 7th, 2016 edition (#176) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments:

Reinventing Sustainability
One Community Progress Update #176

Reinventing Sustainability - One Community Weekly Progress Update #176

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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:

REINVENTING SUSTAINABILITY INTRO: @1:03

REINVENTING SUSTAINABILITY HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION: @2:00

Transferred the third 25% of the written content for the Honesty and Integrity Lesson Plan to the website (see below)
Behind the scenes: Wrote first 25% of the written part of the Beliefs Lesson Plan
Completed third 25% of the mindmap for the Information Lesson Plan (see below)

REINVENTING SUSTAINABILITY HIGHEST GOOD FOOD: @2:52

Collated 3 spreadsheets to make one updated, comprehensive, and accurate list for the equipment we will need for the Transition Kitchen (see below)

REINVENTING SUSTAINABILITY HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING: @3:20

Put another 10 hours into the behind-the-scenes revision for the Footers, Foundations and Flooring page for the crowdfunding campaign we are developing (see below)
Created new more-compact and much clearer images to the new page we’re developing to open source the communal Vermiculture Eco-Toilet designs (see below)
Sal Rubio continued working on creating professional do-it-yourself Earthbag Village Murphy Bed furniture assembly instructions (see below)
Brianna Johnson continued evolving the renders for the Straw Bale Village (see below)
Vidya Patil continued with her 2nd week of cost analysis for the Straw Bale Village Â (see below)
Dean Scholz further developed what’s necessary for us to create quality Cob Village renders (see below)
Hamilton Mateca continued evolving the Compressed Earth Block Village (see below)
Guy Grossfeld continued with his 8th week of photoshop work on the renders for the Shipping Container Village and finished adding blue accents to the render for the Compressed Earth Block Village (see below)
Zachary Melin continued updating the Tree House Village book created by last year’s intern Team (see below)

REINVENTING SUSTAINABILITY DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER: @6:30

Continued working on the Duplicable City Center 3D renders Â (see below)
Bupesh Seethala completed this first section drawing for the Dining Dome (see below)
Iris Hsu continued exploring recycled pipe shelving and overhead lighting options for the Duplicable City Center library (see below)
Dipti Dhondarkar continued her work on the lighting zones (see below)

REINVENTING SUSTAINABILITY HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY: @7:37

Completed 1st round of the Shipping Container Village, Recycled Materials Village, and the Tree House Village color board and we revised the Cob Village color board (see below)
Jennifer Zhou continued her work developing the new website structure (see below)

REINVENTING SUSTAINABILITY SUMMARY: @8:22

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ONE COMMUNITY WEEKLY UPDATE DETAILS

REINVENTING SUSTAINABILITY HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

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

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

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

Reinventing Sustainability – Honesty and Integrity Lesson Plan ” 75% Complete ” Click to Visit Page

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

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

Reinventing Sustainability – Information Mindmap ” 75% Complete ” Click to Visit Page

REINVENTING SUSTAINABILITY HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

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

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

This week the core team collated 3 spreadsheets to make one updated, comprehensive, and accurate list for the equipment we will need for the Transition Kitchen, as you can see below:

Reinventing Sustainability – Collated 3 Spreadsheets into One Updated List for Transition Kitchen

REINVENTING SUSTAINABILITY HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

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

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

This last week the core team put another 10 hours into the behind-the-scenes revision for the Footers, Foundations and Flooring page for the crowdfunding campaign we are developing. This week we reviewed all content (video and articles) in Section 16 ” Resources to assure relevancy due to significant narrative changes since inception. We also matched up all videos to coincide with those listed in that section, and then numbered all green step narratives in Sections 4, 5, 7, & 8 to coincide with Step Headings for ease of finding them. EPS and red sealing tape photos and description were also added to the materials list. We’d say we are now 93% complete with this total update and rewrite behind the scenes.

One Community fff blog 176, This last week the core team put another 10 hours into the behind-the-scenes revision for the Footers, Foundations and Flooring page for the crowdfunding campaign we are developing. This week we reviewed all content (video and articles) in Section 16

Reinventing Sustainability – BTS Revision of the Footers, Foundations and Flooring Info

We also created new more-compact and much clearer images to the new page we’re developing to open source the communal Vermiculture Eco-Toilet designs. You can see some of these updated images here:

Reinventing Sustainability – Created New More-Compact and Much Clearer Images – Click to Visit

Sal Rubio (Industrial Designer) continued working on creating professional do-it-yourself Earthbag Village Murphy Bed furniture assembly instructions. What you see here is week 11 of this process that included this update to the Table of Contents format.

Reinventing Sustainability – Working on Creating DIY Furniture Assembly Instructions ” Click to Visit

Brianna Johnson (Interior Designer), continued evolving the renders for the Straw Bale Village (Pod 2). What you see here are her ideas for the layout of all her renders for inclusion in the online book we’re creating that will be an overview of all 7 villages and the Duplicable City Center.

Reinventing Sustainability – Continued Evolving Straw Bale Village Renders ” Click to Visit Page

Vidya Patil (Quantity surveyor and Civil CAD Drafter) also continued with her 2nd week of cost analysis for the Straw Bale Village. What you see here are her initial analysis results for the gym, meeting room, play area, and computer room.

Reinventing Sustainability – Continued Straw Bale Village Cost Analysis ” Click for Straw Bale Village

And Dean Scholz, Architectural Designer, further developed what’s necessary for us to create quality Cob Village (Pod 3) renders. Here is update 30 of his work that focused on final touches and then incorporation of the new rooftop grill and shade structure designs, and then beginning the work of adding greenery we intend to grow on the sides of this village.

Further Developed What’s Necessary to Create Quality Cob Village Renders ” Click to Visit Page

Also, Hamilton Mateca (AutoCAD Draftsperson and Designer) continued evolving the Compressed Earth Block Village (Pod 4). You can see his 2nd week of work here, showing the redesign of the family living units on the North side of the structure so that they share plumbing walls, and the addition of an elevator and 3 more units in the South, and adding individual bathrooms for all of the South units.

Reinventing Sustainability – Continued Evolving the Compressed Earth Block Village ” Click to Visit

Guy Grossfeld, (Graphic Designer) also continued with his 8th week of photoshop work on the renders for the Shipping Container Village (Pod 5) and also finished adding blue accents to the render for the Compressed Earth Block Village (Pod 4), which you see here:

Guy Grossfeld, (Graphic Designer), Compressed Earth Block Village (Pod 4), reinventing sustainability

Finished Adding Blue Accents to the Render for the Compressed Earth Block Village – Click to Visit

For the Shipping Container Village, this week’s focus were the finalized versions of the dining area looking South:

Shipping Container Village – Finalized Versions of the Dining Area Looking South

…this family layout looking out:

For the Shipping Container Village, this week's focus were the finalized versions of the family layout looking out, reinventing sustainability

Shipping Container Village – Finalized Versions of the Family Layout Looking Out

…and this family layout looking in:

For the Shipping Container Village, this week's focus were the finalized versions of the family layout looking in, reinventing sustainability

Shipping Container Village – Finalized Versions of the Family Layout Looking In

Zachary Melin (Graphic Designer) also continued updating the Tree House Village (Pod 7) book created by last year’s intern Team. This week he created the page and image you see here.

Reinventing Sustainability – Continued Updating the Tree House Village Book

REINVENTING SUSTAINABILITY DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

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

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

This week the core team continued working on the Duplicable City Center 3D renders. What you see here are the render updates in the dining dome (north view of the kitchen) where new details were added and the lights and shadows were adjusted. We also did the initial render setup for the root cellar and external views.

city-center-renders-b176-640, reinventing sustainability

Reinventing Sustainability – Continued Working on the Duplicable City Center 3D Renders

Bupesh Seethala (Interior Designer and Drafter) also completed this first section drawing for the Dining Dome:

Bupesh Seethala (Interior Designer and Drafter) also completed this first section drawing for the Duplicable City Center Dining Dome:, reinventing sustainability

Reinventing Sustainability – Completed First Section Drawing for Dining Dome ” Click to Visit

Iris Hsu, (Industrial Designer), continued exploring recycled pipe shelving and overhead lighting options for the Duplicable City Center library. What you see here is round #14 of this work showing another ceiling design for the lights.

Continued Exploring Recycled Pipe Shelving and Overhead Lighting Options ” Click to Visit Page

Dipti Dhondarkar, (Electrical Engineer) continued her work on the lighting zones by further cleaning up and clarifying on the AutoCAD file where each zone begins and ends. The lower image is additional zones that still need to be added.

Reinventing Sustainability – Continued Work on City Center Lighting Zones ” Click to Visit Page

REINVENTING SUSTAINABILITY HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS

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

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

This last week the core team completed the 1st round of the Shipping Container Village (Pod 5) color board:

Shipping-Container-b176-640, reinventing sustainability

Reinventing Sustainability – Completed the 1st Round of Shipping Container Village Color Board

….and the first round of the color board for the Recycled Materials Village (Pod 6):

RECYCLED-VILLAGE-COLORS-b176-640, reinventing sustainability

Reinventing Sustainability – Completed the 1st Round of Recycled Materials Village Color Board

…and the first round of the color board for the Tree House Village (Pod 7), bringing all 3 to about 85% complete:

Tree-house-village-colors-b-176-640, reinventing sustainability

Completed the 1st Round of Tree House Village Color Board – Click for Page

Also this week, we revised the Cob Village (Pod 3) color board, which is now 99% complete:

Cob-Village-colors-b176-640, reinventing sustainability

Revised the Cob Village Color Board – Click to Visit Page

Jennifer Zhou (Web Designer) additionally continued her work developing the new website structure. What you see here is week 4 of her work as she continues with a new Homepage design. This week’s focus is on how to feature different languages, updated image and video placement formatting, and beginning to work on the filter and search system at the bottom.

Continued Developing the New Website Structure ” Click for Our Homepage

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

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ONE COMMUNITY’S 4-PHASE STRATEGY

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

Phase I: Demonstrating a Better Way

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

Phase II: Open Source Project-Launch Blueprinting

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

Phase III: Inviting the World to Participate

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

Phase IV: Universal Appeal and Global Expansion

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

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

WHY OPEN SOURCE

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

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

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

OPEN SOURCE SHARING STRATEGY SPECIFICS

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

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

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

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

SUMMARY

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

Facilitating Ecological Living for All – One Community Weekly Progress Update #175

Posted on July 31, 2016 by Kishan Sivakumar

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Most people would agree that facilitating ecological living for all people, everywhere, is a good idea. We agree and are doing our part through open source and free-shared approaches to eco-living that go beyond sustainable approaches to food, energy, and housing by also including open source and Highest Good approaches to education, for-profit and non-profit economic design, social architecture, fulfilled living, and global stewardship practices. By combining and open sourcing all these areas together, One Community is working towards a world where ecological living will be the standard and foundation from which all living models are evolved.

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

OUR MAIN OPEN SOURCE HUBS

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

One Community’s physical location will forward this movement of facilitating ecological living for all as the first of many self-replicating teacher/demonstration communities, villages, and cities to be built around the world. This is the July 31st, 2016 edition (#175) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments:

Facilitating Ecological Living for All
One Community Progress Update #175

Facilitating Ecological Living for All - One Community Weekly Progress Update #175

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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:

FACILITATING ECOLOGICAL LIVING FOR ALL INTRO: @1:03

FACILITATING ECOLOGICAL LIVING FOR ALL HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION: @2:00

Transferred the second 25% of the written content for the Honesty and Integrity Lesson Plan to the website Â (see below)
Behind the scenes: wrote final 25% of the written part of the Honesty & Integrity Lesson Plan
Completed the second 25% of the mindmap for the Information Lesson Plan (see below)

FACILITATING ECOLOGICAL LIVING FOR ALL HIGHEST GOOD FOOD: @2:54

Added the nutrition corrections that were made by Naturopathic Doctor Matt Marturano to our Sustainable Food Nutrition Calculations page (see below)

FACILITATING ECOLOGICAL LIVING FOR ALL HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING: @3:27

Put another 10 hours into the behind-the-scenes revision for the Footers, Foundations and Flooring page for the crowdfunding campaign we are developing (see below)
Reformatted and updated the remaining 3 village pages: Shipping Container Village, Recycled Materials Village, and the Tree House Village (see below)
Sal Rubio continued working on creating professional do-it-yourself Earthbag Village Murphy Bed furniture assembly instructions (see below)
Brianna Johnson continued evolving the renders for the Straw Bale Village (see below)
Vidya Patil joined the team and completed her 1st week of cost analysis for the Straw Bale Village (see below)
Dean Scholz further developed what’s necessary for us to create quality Cob Village renders (see below)
Hamilton Mateca joined the team and begin evolving the Compressed Earth Block Village (see below)
Guy Grossfeld continued with his 7th week of photoshop work on the renders for the Shipping Container Village and also started working on the main render for the Compressed Earth Block Village (see below)
Zachary Melin continued updating the Tree House Village (Pod 7) book created by last year’s intern Team

FACILITATING ECOLOGICAL LIVING FOR ALL DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER: @6:56

Continued developing the Duplicable City Center in 3D and fixed some structural discrepancies in natural pool and spa area (see below)
Worked with Bupesh Seethala to clarify outline of Sketchup to AutoCAD discrepancies (see below)
Iris Hsu continued exploring recycled pipe shelving and overhead lighting options for the Duplicable City Center library (see below)
Neha Verma continued developing the City Center Project Brief that will update the City Center Plans Page when complete (see below)
Dipti Dhondarkar continued her work on the lighting zones (see below)
Haoxuan “Hayes” Lei continued his work on the live load calculations for the City Center dining dining dome frame (see below)

FACILITATING ECOLOGICAL LIVING FOR ALL HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY: @8:50

Completed 1st round of Cob Village and Compressed Earth Block Village color board (see below)
Revised and completed the Straw Bale Village color board with final color callouts (see below)
Jennifer Zhou continued her work developing the new website structure (see below)

FACILITATING ECOLOGICAL LIVING FOR ALL SUMMARY: @9:24

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FACILITATING ECOLOGICAL LIVING FOR ALL HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

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

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

This last week the core team transferred the second 25% of the written content for the Honesty and Integrity Lesson Plan to the website, as you see here. This lesson plan purposed to teach all subjects, to all learning levels, in any learning environment, using the central theme of “Honesty & Integrity” is now 50% completed on our website.

Facilitating Ecological Living for All – Honesty and Integrity Lesson Plan ” 50% Complete

Behind the scenes, we wrote the final 25% of the written part of the Honesty & Integrity Lesson Plan.

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

We also completed the second 25% of the mindmap for the Information Lesson Plan, bringing it to 50% complete, facilitating ecological living for all

Facilitating Ecological Living for All – Information Mindmap ” 50% Complete

FACILITATING ECOLOGICAL LIVING FOR ALL HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

One Community is facilitating ecological living for all 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

As part of the development of our Food Self-sufficiency Transition Plan, this week, the corrections to our nutrition calculations that Naturopathic Doctor Matt Marturano (creator of the COHERENT model for comprehensive digestive health) made were added to our Sustainable Food Nutrition Calculations page.

Added Nutrition Corrections to our Sustainable Food Nutrition Calculations Page – Click to Visit

FACILITATING ECOLOGICAL LIVING FOR ALL HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

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

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

This last week the core team put another 10 hours into the behind-the-scenes revision for the Footers, Foundations and Flooring page for the crowdfunding campaign we are developing. This week we researched EPS and XPS insulation and wrote up a narrative for the 16-gauge galvanized wire for its use in attaching to e-bag course 9 and to flashing. We also added photos and narratives for 1/2″ black poly tubing, 10″ aluminum flashing, rubber mallet, straw, hacksaw, 16-gauge galvanized wire, sealing tape, and caulking. We’d say we are now 92% complete with this total update and rewrite behind the scenes.

Facilitating Ecological Living for All – BTS Revision of the Footers, Foundations and Flooring Info

The core team also reformatted and updated the remaining 3 village pages: Shipping Container Village (Pod 5), Recycled Materials Village (Pod 6), and the Tree House Village (Pod 7). This included adding new residence and social space details, the new renders that have been completed, imagery from the design process of each village, an index to the top of each page, What and Why sections to each page, as well as new resources and resource sections.

Facilitating Ecological Living for All – Reformatted and Updated the Remaining 3 Village Pages

Sal Rubio (Industrial Designer) also continued working on creating professional do-it-yourself Earthbag Village Murphy Bed furniture assembly instructions. What you see here is week 10 of this process that included this update to the component cutting instructions, the first draft of a Table of Contents, and a call with the core team brainstorming the two sketches as evolutions for the Table of Contents designs.

Continued Working on Creating DIY Furniture Assembly Instructions ” Click for Page

Brianna Johnson (Interior Designer), also continued evolving the renders for the Straw Bale Village (Pod 2). What you see here are two new layouts for the family living spaces with a loft, re-designed to better reflect the sustainability and recreational values of the people who will be living here.

Facilitating Ecological Living for All – Evolving Straw Bale Village Renders – Click to Visit Page

Vidya Patil (Quantity surveyor and Civil CAD Drafter) also joined the team and completed her 1st week of cost analysis for the Straw Bale Village. The beginning of this work focused on the bedroom and bathroom details shown here:

Completed 1st Week of Straw Bale Village Bedroom and Bathroom Cost Analysis – Click to Visit Page

And Dean Scholz, Architectural Designer, further developed what’s necessary for us to create quality Cob Village (Pod 3) renders. Here is update 29 of his work that focused on finishing the rooftop grill designs:

Facilitating Ecological Living for All – Begin Evolving the Compressed Earth Block Village

Also, Hamilton Mateca (AutoCAD Draftsperson and Designer) joined the team and begin evolving the Compressed Earth Block Village (Pod 4). You can see his 1st week of work here, showing the addition of family living units on the North side of the structure.

Facilitating Ecological Living for All – Begin Evolving the Compressed Earth Block Village

Guy Grossfeld, (Graphic Designer) also continued with his 7th week of photoshop work on the renders for the Shipping Container Village (Pod 5) and also started working on the main render for the Compressed Earth Block Village (bottom right) starting the extensive process of adding a blue overlay that will evolve into blue accents. For the Shipping Container Village the focus was on creating a resident’s room with different details and color formats from the visitor’s room and also beginning one of the Dining Hall renders.

Continued Work on Renders for Shipping Container and Compressed Earth Block Village

Zachary Melin (Graphic Designer) also continued updating the Tree House Village (Pod 7) book created by last year’s intern Team. What you see here is week 10 of this work including 2 updated pages and the before-and-after graphics created for one of them.

Facilitating Ecological Living for All – Continued Updating the Tree House Village Book

FACILITATING ECOLOGICAL LIVING FOR ALL DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

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

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

This week the core team continued developing the Duplicable City Center in 3D. What you see here are the updates in the dining dome where we increased the driveway to the cellar to a width of 13 feet and rearranged the cellar shelves and moved the outside boiler room to the corner of the basement where it is now close to the garage door.

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Facilitating Ecological Living for All – Continued Developing the Duplicable City Center in 3D

We also ran test renders for the Kitchen.

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Facilitating Ecological Living for All – Ran Test Renders for the Duplicable City Center Kitchen

And fixed some structural discrepancies in the natural pool and spa area.

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Facilitating Ecological Living for All – Fixed Structural Discrepancies in Natural Pool and Spa Area

We also worked with Bupesh Seethala (Interior Designer and Drafter) to clarify this outline of Sketchup to AutoCAD discrepancies so he could start updating the window and door plan and creating our section drawings.

Worked to Clarify Outline of Sketchup to AutoCAD Discrepancies – Click to Visit

Iris Hsu (Industrial Designer), also continued exploring recycled pipe shelving and overhead lighting options for the Duplicable City Center library. What you see here is round #13 of this work of initial renders to test 2 different art options for the center of the pipe shelving wall.

Continued Exploring Recycled Pipe Shelving and Overhead Lighting Options ” Click to Visit Page

Neha Verma (Construction Project Manager and Bachelor’s of Architecture), also continued developing the City Center Project Brief that will update the City Center Plans Page when complete. This week’s focus was a file naming tutorial we’ll use for all projects and details about why we chose Geodesic Domes.

Continued Developing the City Center Project Brief ” Click to Visit Page

Dipti Dhondarkar, (Electrical Engineer) continued her work on the lighting zones by updating the AutoCAD file and double checking all the zones with a simpler labeling method:

Continued Work on City Center Lighting Zones ” Click to Visit City Center Lighting Page

Haoxuan “Hayes” Lei (Structural Engineering Student) continued his work on the live load calculations for the City Center dining dining dome frame as seen here.

Continued Work on Live Load Calculations for City Center Dining Dome Frame ” Click to Visit Page

FACILITATING ECOLOGICAL LIVING FOR ALL HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS

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

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

This last week the core team completed the 1st round of the Cob Village (Pod 3) color board:

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Completed the 1st Round of Cob Village Color Board – Click to Visit Page

….and the first round of the color board for the Compressed Earth Block Village (Pod 4), bringing both to about 85% complete.

Completed the 1st Round of Compressed Earth Block Village Color Board , facilitating ecological living for all

Completed the 1st Round of Compressed Earth Block Village Color Board – Click to Visit Page

Also this week, we revised and completed the Straw Bale Village color board with final color callouts.

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Revised and Completed the Straw Bale Village Color Board – Click to Visit Page

Jennifer Zhou (Web Designer) additionally continued her work developing the new website structure. What you see here is week 3 of her work as she continues to build the new homepage structure and functionality with a focus on the top sliders and menus.

Continued Developing the New Website Structure ” Click for Our Homepage

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WHAT ONE COMMUNITY IS CREATING

One Community is creating a place to grow together and change the world together by facilitating ecological living for all. 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 by facilitating ecological living for all.

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

FACILITATING ECOLOGICAL LIVING FOR ALL BUILDING THE FIRST OF MANY

One Community will be the first teacher/demonstration hub for facilitating ecological living for all. 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 by facilitating ecological living for all. We will achieve this by establishing successful teacher/demonstration hubs on every continent. Villages include designs appropriate for each of the five main types of climates. They also include options for even the most challenged economies. These hubs will collaborate with one another, share ideas, 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.

COMPREHENSIVE SOLUTION TO HUMANITY’S NEEDS

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

As we address and open source share these areas we will establish a living example of the first teacher/demonstration village purposed to teach others. To maximally facilitate duplication, One Community will provide seven duplicable examples and function indefinitely as a place people can visit and a non-profit and open source think tank continuing to further evolve and share solutions in all of the above areas and more. We will also provide hands-on experience and training. Most importantly, growing upon our sustainable foundation, we will endlessly make this comprehensive solution even more widely known and globally accessible, understandable and diversely duplicable, and inspiring and desirable as a model worth duplicating.

GLOBALLY IMPLEMENTABLE REPLICATION MODEL

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

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

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

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

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

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

One Community Welcomes Guy Grossfeld to the Graphic Design Team

Posted on July 28, 2016 by One Community Hs

One Community welcomes Guy Grossfeld to the Graphic Design Team as our newest Volunteer/Consultant!

Guy Grossfeld – Graphic Designer: Guy has a Bachelor Degree in Visual Art Animation and is now pursing a Bachelor Degree in Simulation Game Design at the Maryland Institute College of Art. Through classes from college and additional classes at an art studio, Guy has experience and expertise with Adobe Flash, Adobe Photoshop, Unity, Autodesk 3DS Max, Adobe Illustrator, graphic design, and drawing. He enjoys animes and is inspired by many animes such as Naruto and One Piece. His passion is also with video games and enjoys many great games such as Final Fantasy, Zelda, and Kingdom Hearts. As a One Community volunteer, Guy is using his outstanding skills to develop our final real-to-life renders for the Highest Good Housing villages with a primary focus on the Shipping Container Village.

WELCOME TO THE TEAM GUY!

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