To create a sustainable planet, new-world human progress models are needed to teach average people with average means how to build and live sustainably. Open source sharing these models and designing them to go beyond food, energy, and housing to also include education, for-profit and non-profit economic design, social architecture, fulfilled living, and global stewardship practices is a process One Community calls 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 July 23rd, 2017 edition (#226) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments:

New-World Human Progress
One Community Progress Update #226

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

NEW-WORLD HUMAN PROGRESS INTRO: @0:35

NEW-WORLD HUMAN PROGRESS: HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING: @7:33

NEW-WORLD HUMAN PROGRESS: DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER: @9:34

• Continued work on the DIY Pipe Furniture tutorial page (see below)
• Built the main page structure and wrote the What and Why sections for the City Center Heating and Cooling Research, Designs, Plans, and Adaptations page (see below)
• Created and added image of main Social Dome lighting tests and results to the City Center lighting page (see below)
• Haoxuan “Hayes” Lei began work on the City Center structural engineering tutorial (see below)
• Dipti Dhondarkar continued with her 42nd week of work on the lighting specifics for the City Center (see below)
• Ramya Vudi wrote the final sections behind the scenes for the PV Solar micro-grid tutorial (see below)
• Aravind Vasudevan continued his work on the City Center Thermal Battery design details (see below)

NEW-WORLD HUMAN PROGRESS: HIGHEST GOOD FOOD: @11:24

• Streamlined the Food Self-sufficiency Transition Plan hub page by moving the details of the temporary food plan to the Food Bars page (see below)
• Put another 5 hours into the crowdfunding campaign we are developing (see below)

NEW-WORLD HUMAN PROGRESS: HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION: @12:05

• Continued the process of a final proofreading and editing of all 52 lesson plans (see below)
• Finished another round of research and editing of the School Licensing and Accreditation tutorial behind-the-scenes (see below)

NEW-WORLD HUMAN PROGRESS: HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY: @12:56

• Ashwin Patil, working with the core team, finished version 2.0 of the Highest Good economics search engine and version 3.0 of the Highest Good energy search engine (see below)
• Vivian Rodrigues finished about 80% of the Highest Good of All page, as shown here in Portuguese (see below)

NEW-WORLD HUMAN PROGRESS SUMMARY: @13:42

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NEW-WORLD HUMAN PROGRESS: HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

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

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

This last week the core team created the Earthbag Village Net-zero bathroom header and Facebook graphic, and a new render which we added to the page. You can see those images here:

Created the Earthbag Village Net-Zero Bathroom Header and Facebook Graphic – Click for Page

The core team also continued working in Sketchup on the open source outdoor areas of the Recycled Materials Village (Pod 6). We created two classrooms next to the Art Studio, and continued developing the barrel furniture designs, planters, and other elements shown here.

Continued Working in Sketchup on the Recycled Materials Village ” Click for Page

Dijimba “Joss” Ilunga (Electrical Engineer) joined the team and completed his first week working on the electrical design details for the Vermiculture Bathrooms. You can see his initial designs here.

Worked on Electrical Design Details for the Vermiculture Bathrooms – Click to Visit

Christian Ojeda (Mechatronic Engineer) completed his 20th week helping with the heat-recycling Communal Eco-shower and Vermiculture Bathroom designs. This week’s focus was continuing to update and revise the piping layouts for both freshwater and rainwater supplies to the spigots, toilets, and drinking fountains, as shown here.

Continued with Communal Eco-Shower and Vermiculture Bathroom Designs ” Click to Visit

Dean Scholz (Architectural Designer) continued helping us create quality Cob Village (Pod 3) renders. Here is update 78 of Dean’s work, this week’s focus was continuing with lighting and more object placement in the dining and presentation area, as shown here.

Continued Creating Cob Village Renders ” Click for Page

Hamilton Mateca (AutoCAD and Revit Drafter and Designer) also finished his 48th week helping with the Compressed Earth Block Village design and render details. This week’s focus was additional pergola placement updates and test rendering the main village view.

Continued Working on the Compressed Earth Block Village Design and Render Details

And Guy Grossfeld (Graphic Designer) continued helping with the Tree House Village (Pod 7) renders. This week created version 3.0 of the village layout and started work on the final ramp connections and changes.

Continued Working on Tree House Village Renders ” Click for Page

NEW-WORLD HUMAN PROGRESS: DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

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

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

This week, the core team continued work on the DIY Pipe Furniture tutorial page. This week we created two Materials images for the Pipe Shelving section and the Shelving Downloads button image. We also merged the Pipe Shelving and the Pipe Lighting into one section and created a new Pipe Lighting collage and added it to the page. Additionally, we added 3 more images to the Pipe Shelving & Lighting Diagrams section.

Continued Work on the DIY Pipe Furniture Tutorial Page ” Click for Page

The core team also built the main page structure and wrote the What and Why sections for the City Center Heating and Cooling Research, Designs, Plans, and Adaptations page.

Wrote What and Why sections for City Center Heating and Cooling Page – Click to Visit

Additionally, the core team created and added this image to the City Center lighting page. What is shows is the main Social Dome lighting tests and results.

Created and Added Image to the City Center Lighting Page -Click to Visit

Haoxuan “Hayes” Lei (Structural Engineer) began work on the City Center structural engineering tutorial. What you see here is his first week of work writing the content for the first two sections.

Began Work on City Center Structural Engineering Tutorial – Click to Visit Page

Dipti Dhondarkar, (Electrical Engineer) continued with her 42nd week of work on the lighting specifics for the City Center. This week’s focus was continuing the testing for the placement of the 60+ smaller lights within the Social Dome, as shown here.

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

Ramya Vudi (Electrical Engineer) also wrote the final sections behind the scenes for the PV Solar micro-grid tutorial, you can see some of this work here.

Wrote Final Sections Behind-the-Scenes for PV Solar Micro-Grid Tutorial – Click to Visit Page

And Aravind Vasudevan (BA Mechanical Engineering) also continued his work on the City Center Thermal Battery design details by beginning the process of modeling the climate battery in AutoCAD.

Continued Work on City Center Thermal Battery Design Details – Click for Page

NEW-WORLD HUMAN PROGRESS: HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

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

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

This week, the core team streamlined the Food Self-sufficiency Transition Plan hub page by moving the details of the temporary food plan to the Food Bars page, as you see here:

Streamlined Food Self-Sufficiency Transition Plan Hub – Click to Visit Food Bars Page

We also put another 5 hours into the crowdfunding campaign we are developing. This week we wrote up the intro and explanation for the wood frame for the hexayurt and entered the additional materials and pricing on the Transition Kitchen spreadsheet. You can see a glimpse of this work here.

Continued Working on the Crowdfunding Campaign We are Developing ” Click to Visit

NEW-WORLD HUMAN PROGRESS: HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

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

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

This week, the core team continued the process of a final proofreading and editing of all 52 lesson plans. This week we completed the Communication Lesson Plan and the Open Source Lesson Plan. This brings us to 38 of 52 finished, which is 73.1% completion.

Continued Process of Editing all 52 Lesson Plans ” Click for Lesson Plans for Life Page

This week we finished another round of research and editing of the School Licensing and Accreditation tutorial behind-the-scenes. We also began adding more detail to the existing Montessori section of the alternative education resource pages.

Continued Research and Editing of the School Licensing and Accreditation Tutorial Behind-the-Scenes

NEW-WORLD HUMAN PROGRESS: HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS

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

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

This week the core team working with Ashwin Patil (Web Developer) finished version 2.0 of the Highest Good economics search engine and version 3.0 of the Highest Good energy search engine. You can see some of this work here.

Finished Economics and Energy Search Engine – Click to Visit Highest Good Economics Page

Vivian Rodrigues (Translator) also continued helping translate our overview pages. This week she finished about 80% of the Highest Good of All page, as shown here in Portuguese.

Worked on Translating Highest Good of All Page in Portuguese – Click to Visit Page

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

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

 

INVESTOR PAGES

OVERVIEW | LOCATION | FUNDING

GET INVOLVED

CONSULTANTS | WAYS ANYONE CAN HELP | MEMBERSHIP

CLICK HERE FOR ALL PAST UPDATES

WHAT ONE COMMUNITY IS CREATING

One Community is creating a place to grow together and change the world together, contributing to new-world human progress. 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, fostering new-world human progress. A place based on compassion, kindness, and collaboration. This replicable community will serve as an example of what is possible.

Throughout our design process, we are open sourcing and free-sharing everything needed for construction and replication, contributing to new-world human progress. 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, spearheading new-world human progress. 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 contributing to new-world human progress by 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, and resources, and work together as a network to heal the planet. They will also transform the global lifestyle into a more enjoyable, fulfilling, healthy, and sustainable one.

The specifics of how One Community is accomplishing 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 in our Research and Resources Articles Archive, contributing to new-world human progress.

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, contributing to new-world human progress. 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.), contributing to new-world human progress. 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, contributing to new-world human progress. 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 humanitycontributing to new-world human progress. 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, contributing to new-world human progress. 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 about new-world human progress. 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, thereby fostering new-world human progress. 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, thereby driving new-world human progress. This is also part of this model to help the world. Its purpose is to facilitate more engagement in the sustainability industry, produce the absolute best possible consumer value, and the most convenient delivery of goods and methodologies for building sustainable living communities and sustainable living components.

This means we not only provide education and increase needed sustainability resources, 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, thereby contributing to new-world human progress.

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

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

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

One Community is facilitating a global sustainability cooperative through open source and free-shared tools, tutorials, resources, and DIY instructions meant to build a collaborative network of teacher/demonstration hubs all over our shared planet and working together for the collective Highest Good of all people and life here.

• 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 July 16th, 2017 edition (#225) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments:

Facilitating a Global Sustainability Cooperative
One Community Progress Update #225

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

FACILITATING A GLOBAL SUSTAINABILITY COOPERATIVE INTRO: @:34

FACILITATING A GLOBAL SUSTAINABILITY COOPERATIVE: HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING: @6:33

FACILITATING A GLOBAL SUSTAINABILITY COOPERATIVE: DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER: @8:15

• Continued work on the DIY Pipe Furniture tutorial page (see below)
• Completed the menus, formatting, addition of videos, and updates to all the pictures for the wind power tutorial (see below)
• Working with Ashwin Patil we finished the first round of revision suggestions for version 2.0 of the Highest Good energy search engine and updated all the search engines to be SSL-security compliant (see below)
• Dipti Dhondarkar continued with her 41st week of work on the lighting specifics for the City Center (see below)

FACILITATING A GLOBAL SUSTAINABILITY COOPERATIVE: HIGHEST GOOD FOOD: @9:40

• Recalculated the space needed for all of the bulk goods on the Food Self-sufficiency Transition Plan page to account for ceiling height, and recreated and added the image and calculations to the page (see below)
• Put another 5 hours into the crowdfunding campaign we are developing (see below)

FACILITATING A GLOBAL SUSTAINABILITY COOPERATIVE: HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION: @10:28

• Continued the process of a final proofreading and editing of all 52 lesson plans (see below)
• Continued the research and initial construction and formatting of the School Licensing and Accreditation tutorial (see below)

FACILITATING A GLOBAL SUSTAINABILITY COOPERATIVE: HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY: @11:20

• Completed the open source and replicable annual social media strategy page and tutorial (see below)
• Continued testing video approaches for sharing where all our collaborators and volunteers are from (see below)
• Ashwin Patil finished version 1.0 of the Highest Good economics search engine (see below)

FACILITATING A GLOBAL SUSTAINABILITY COOPERATIVE SUMMARY: @12:11

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FACILITATING A GLOBAL SUSTAINABILITY COOPERATIVE: HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

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

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

The core team continued working in Sketchup on the outside of the Recycled Materials Village (Pod 6). We updated the railing on the second floor, added windows and doors, and started adding details to the outside area close to the Art Studio section. Recycled material such as pallets, tires, and barrels will be used to design this area.

Continued Working in Sketchup the Recycled Materials Village ” Click for Page

The core team also updated again all the perspectives for the Tree House Village (Pod 7) external views, as shown here.

Updated all Perspectives for Tree House Village External Views – Click to Visit Page

Christian Ojeda (Mechatronic Engineer) completed his 19th week helping with the heat-recycling Communal Eco-shower and Vermiculture Bathroom designs. This week’s focus was updating the piping specifics for both freshwater and rainwater supplies to the spigots, toilets, and water fountains, as shown here.

Continued with Communal Eco-Shower and Vermiculture Bathroom Designs ” Click to Visit

Dean Scholz (Architectural Designer) continued helping us create quality Cob Village (Pod 3) renders. Here is update 77 of Dean’s work, this week’s focus was lighting and more object placement in the dining and presentation area, as shown here.

Continued Creating Cob Village Renders ” Click for Page

And Guy Grossfeld (Graphic Designer) continued helping with the Tree House Village (Pod 7) renders. This week he finished removing unneeded polygons to optimize the structures for rendering the entire village and began work on updating all the village walkways.

Continued Working on Tree House Village Renders ” Click for Page

FACILITATING A GLOBAL SUSTAINABILITY COOPERATIVE: DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

One Community is facilitating a global sustainability cooperative 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 work on the DIY Pipe Furniture tutorial page. This week we added 13 images to the Pipe Shelving Diagrams section with click to enlarge options and captions. We also added anchor links to the Pipe Shelving and Pipe Lighting sections and created the Pipe Lighting section outline. In addition, the team created a Pipe Shelving Instructions collage and added it to the page with a click to enlarge option.

Continued Work on the DIY Pipe Furniture Tutorial Page – Click for Page

The core team also completed the menus, formatting, addition of videos, and updates to all the pictures for the wind power tutorial. You can see some pictures of this work here and visit the website for the complete page.

Completed the Formatting and Pics for the Wind Power Tutorial – Click for Page

Working with Ashwin Patil (Web Developer), we also finished the first round of revision suggestions for version 2.0 of the Highest Good energy search engine and updated all the search engines to be SSL-security compliant. You can see some of this work here.

Finished First Round of Revisions for Highest Good energy Search Engine – Click for Page

Dipti Dhondarkar, (Electrical Engineer) continued with her 41st week of work on the lighting specifics for the City Center. This week’s focus was beginning the testing now for the placement of the 60+ smaller lights within the Social Dome, as shown here.

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

FACILITATING A GLOBAL SUSTAINABILITY COOPERATIVE: HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

One Community is facilitating a global sustainability cooperative 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 recalculated the space needed for all of the bulk goods on the Food Self-sufficiency Transition Plan page to account for ceiling height, and recreated and added the image and calculations to the page, as you see here.

Recalculated Space Needed for Bulk Goods on Food Self-sufficiency Transition Plan Page

We also put another 5 hours into the crowdfunding campaign we are developing. This week we updated the images and files on the Transition Kitchen page and finished our research on the hexayurt construction materials costs and needs.

Continued Working on the Crowdfunding Campaign We are Developing ” Click to Visit

FACILITATING A GLOBAL SUSTAINABILITY COOPERATIVE: HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

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

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

This week, the core team continued the process of a final proofreading and editing of all 52 lesson plans. This week we completed the Honesty and Integrity Lesson Plan and the Love and Connection Lesson Plan. This brings us to 36 of 52 finished, which is 69.2% completion.

Continued Process of Editing all 52 Lesson Plans ” Click for Lesson Plans for Life Page

We also continued the research and initial construction and formatting of the School Licensing and Accreditation tutorial. You can see some of this work here and we’d say we’re about 50% complete with this tutorial now.

Continued Research and Organization of School Licensing and Accreditation Tutorial ” Click for Page

FACILITATING A GLOBAL SUSTAINABILITY COOPERATIVE: HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS

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

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

This week the core team completed the open source and replicable annual social media strategy page and tutorial by adding the FAQ and integrating links to the page into the Highest Good society open source hub.

Completed the Open Source Annual Social Media Strategy Page and Tutorial – Click to Visit

We also continued testing video approaches for sharing where all our collaborators and volunteers are from. What you see here is version 5.0 of this testing.

Ashwin Patil (Web Developer) also finished version 1.0 of the Highest Good economics search engine, which you can see here.

Finished Version 1.0 of Highest Good Economics Search Engine – Click for Page

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

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

 

INVESTOR PAGES

OVERVIEW | LOCATION | FUNDING

GET INVOLVED

CONSULTANTS | WAYS ANYONE CAN HELP | MEMBERSHIP

CLICK HERE FOR ALL PAST UPDATES

WHAT ONE COMMUNITY IS CREATING

One Community is creating a place to grow together and change the world together. We are creating a space that helps each other live in integrity with each other and the planet as we strive to be the greatest versions of ourselves, facilitating a global sustainability cooperative. 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, facilitating a global sustainability cooperative. A place based on compassion, kindness, and collaboration. This replicable community will serve as an example of what is possible.

Throughout our design process, we are open sourcing and free-sharing everything needed for construction and replication, facilitating a global sustainability cooperative. 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, facilitating a global sustainability cooperative. 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, facilitating a global sustainability cooperative. We will achieve this by establishing successful teacher/demonstration hubs on every continent. Villages include designs appropriate for each of the five main types of climates. They also include options for even the most challenged economies. These hubs will collaborate with one another, share ideas, and resources, and work together as a network to heal the planet. They will also transform the global lifestyle into a more enjoyable, fulfilling, healthy, and sustainable one.

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

Even if we don’t achieve our ultimate goal of global transformation, a self-replicating teacher/demonstration model like this will take a relatively short period of time to positively affect millions while inspiring millions more, facilitating a global sustainability cooperative. 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.), facilitating a global sustainability cooperative. 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, facilitating a global sustainability cooperative. 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, facilitating a global sustainability cooperative. 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, facilitating a global sustainability cooperative. 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, facilitating a global sustainability cooperative. 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, facilitating a global sustainability cooperative. This leads to the directing of financial resources and resourceful people where we believe they are needed most: the establishment of additional sustainable communities around the world. We also feel this duplication will specifically happen quickly internationally due to the affordability of overseas land, less restrictive building environments, and the spirit of adventure in many people who really desire to make a difference for those who need it most.

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

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

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

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

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

Facilitating global eco-balance requires mainstream participation if any measurable change is to be expected. Strategies that are globally focused but implementable individually and locally also seem intelligent. To help with all of this, One Community is creating open source, sustainable, and replicable models of all aspects of what we call Highest Good living. These include food, energy, housing, education, for-profit and non-profit economic design, social architecture, fulfilled living, global stewardship practices, and more.

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

OUR MAIN OPEN SOURCE HUBS

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

One Community’s physical location will forward this movement as the first of many self-replicating teacher/demonstration communities, villages, and cities to be built around the world. This is the July 9th, 2017 edition (#224) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments:

Facilitating Global Eco-Balance
One Community Progress Update #224

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

FACILITATING GLOBAL ECO-BALANCE INTRO: @0:34

FACILITATING GLOBAL ECO-BALANCE: HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING: @7:13

• Continued building the Sketchup 3D version of the Net-zero bathroom for the Earthbag Village (see below)
• Began building the Recycled Materials Village in Sketchup (see below)
• Added new menus details, a new Resource section, and new Advantages and Disadvantages sections to the Recycled Materials Village open source hub (see below)
• Alena Thompson completed her 21st week helping with the Net-zero Communal Bathroom Designs (see below)
• Christian Ojeda completed his 18th week helping with the heat-recycling Communal Eco-shower and Vermiculture Bathroom designs (see below)
• Dean Scholz continued helping us create quality Cob Village renders (see below)
• Aparna Tandon continued her work on the Compressed Earth Block Village external elements (see below)
• Guy Grossfeld continued helping with the Tree House Village renders (see below)

FACILITATING GLOBAL ECO-BALANCE: DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER: @9:29

• Continued work on the DIY Pipe Furniture tutorial page (see below)
• Ashwin Patil finished version 1.0 of the Highest Good energy search engine creation behind the scenes (see below)
• Haoxuan “Hayes” Lei continued work on the City Center structural engineering (see below)
• Jennifer Zhou began the first round of content additions and formatting for the wind power tutorial (see below)
• Dipti Dhondarkar continued with her 40th week of work on the lighting specifics for the City Center (see below)
• Vamsi Pulugurtha completed the research and initial content for the soil section of his thermal lag report for the City Center Heating and Cooling open source hub (see below)

FACILITATING GLOBAL ECO-BALANCE: HIGHEST GOOD FOOD: @11:13

• Did the calculations and created an image for the storage details for all the bulk goods on the Food Self-sufficiency Transition Plan page (see below)
• Put another 5 hours into the crowdfunding campaign we are developing (see below)

FACILITATING GLOBAL ECO-BALANCE: HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION: @12:03

• Continued the process of a final proofreading and editing of all 52 lesson plans (see below)
• Began the research and initial organization of the School Licensing and Accreditation tutorial (see below)

FACILITATING GLOBAL ECO-BALANCE: HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY: @12:52

• Completed all but the FAQ section of the content and formatting for the open source and replicable annual social media strategy (see below)
• Began testing video approaches for sharing where all our collaborators and volunteers are from (see below)
• Researched and upgraded our website servers to improve site speed and stability (see below)

FACILITATING GLOBAL ECO-BALANCE SUMMARY: @13:30

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FACILITATING GLOBAL ECO-BALANCE: HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

One Community is facilitating global eco-balance 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 core team continued building the Sketchup 3D version of the Net-zero bathroom for the Earthbag Village. This last week we updated the perspectives and added last-needed details for the final rendering and rendered images with the Earthbag Village in the background.

Continued Building Sketchup 3D Version of Net-Zero Bathroom ” Click for Page

Began Building the Recycled Materials Village in Sketchup – Click for Page

The core team also added new menus details, a new Resource section, and new Advantages and Disadvantages sections to the Recycled Materials Village open source hub:

Added New Sections to the Recycled Materials Village Open Source Hub – Click for Page

Alena Thompson (Mechanical Engineer) completed her 21st week helping with the Net-zero Communal Bathroom Designs. This week’s focus was adding another round of details and imagery to the final presentation. You can see some of this new work here and we’d say we’re about 90% done with the presentation now.

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

Christian Ojeda (Mechatronic Engineer) completed his 18th week helping with the heat-recycling Communal Eco-shower and Vermiculture Bathroom designs. This week’s focus was researching and designing two more water storage layouts, as shown here.

Continued with Communal Eco-Shower and Vermiculture Bathroom Designs ” Click to Visit

Dean Scholz (Architectural Designer) continued helping us create quality Cob Village (Pod 3) renders. Here is update 76 of Dean’s work, this week’s focus was more dining area details and beginning the kitchen design details.

Continued Creating Cob Village Renders ” Click for Page

Aparna Tandon (Architect) continued her work on the Compressed Earth Block Village external elements. What you see here is her 30th week of work, focusing on 3D Sketchup development of the central area between the North and South residential wings.

Continued Working on Compressed Earth Block Village External Elements ” Click for Page

And Guy Grossfeld(Graphic Designer) continued helping with the Tree House Village (Pod 7) renders. What you see here are updated renders of the Game Room structure, Shower Tower structure, and a few screenshots from our weekly collaborative call.

Continued Working on Tree House Village Renders ” Click for Page

FACILITATING GLOBAL ECO-BALANCE: DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

One Community is facilitating global eco-balance 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 work on the DIY Pipe Furniture tutorial page. This week we added anchor links to both the Pipe Table section and Pipe Couch sections, added the instruction image parts list, created a new Pipe Table Materials image and Pipe Couch Materials image, and created a Diagrams collage and an extra Diagram image for the Diagrams section of the Pipe Table section.

Continued Work on DIY Pipe Furniture Tutorial Page ” Click to Visit

Ashwin Patil (Web Developer) finished version 1.0 of the Highest Good energy search engine creation behind the scenes. You can see some of this work here:

Finished Version 1.0 of the Highest Good Energy Search Engine – Click for Page

Haoxuan “Hayes” Lei (Structural Engineer) also continued the work on the City Center structural engineering. This week’s focus was more research and calculations for the various types of connectors we’ll be using, some of which you can see here:

Continued Work on the City Center Structural Engineering – Click for Page

Jennifer Zhou (Web Designer) also began the first round of content additions and formatting for the wind power tutorial. You can see some pictures of this work-in-progress here.

Began First Round of Work for the Wind Power Tutorial – Click for Page

Dipti Dhondarkar, (Electrical Engineer) continued with her 40th week of work on the lighting specifics for the City Center. This week’s focus was lighting testing and modeling for 3 more angles within the Social Dome, as shown here.

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

Vamsi Pulugurtha (Mechanical Engineer) also completed the research and initial content for the soil section of his thermal lag report for the City Center Heating and Cooling open source hub.

Initial Content for Soil Section of Thermal Lag Report for City Center Heating and Cooling Hub

FACILITATING GLOBAL ECO-BALANCE: HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

One Community is facilitating global eco-balance 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 did the calculations and created an image for the storage details for all of the bulk goods on the Food Self-sufficiency Transition Plan page, as you see here.

Calculated Storage Details for Bulk Goods on Food Self-sufficiency Transition Plan Page – Click to Visit

We also put another 5 hours into the crowdfunding campaign we are developing. This week we researched the waterproofing tape and found a post cap hangar for stabilizing the hexayurt walls, and calculated specific post cap quantities and prices. We then began formatting the writeup for the Google doc by gathering photos and placing on the doc, and noting the purpose of the materials.

Continued Working on the Crowdfunding Campaign We are Developing ” Click to Visit

FACILITATING GLOBAL ECO-BALANCE: HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

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

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

This week, the core team continued the process of a final proofreading and editing of all 52 lesson plans. This week we completed the Freedom Lesson Plan and the Highest Good Lesson Plan. This brings us to 34 of 52 finished, which is 65.4% completion.

Continued Process of Editing all 52 Lesson Plans ” Click for Lesson Plans for Life Page

We also began the research and initial organization of the School Licensing and Accreditation tutorial. You can see some of this behind-the-scenes work here.

Began Research and Organization of School Licensing and Accreditation Tutorial – Click for Page

FACILITATING GLOBAL ECO-BALANCE: HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS

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

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

This week the core team completed all but the FAQ section of the content and formatting for the open source and replicable annual social media strategy. You can see some screenshots of this work here.

Worked on Content and Formatting for Open Source and Replicable Annual Social Media Strategy

We also began testing video approaches for sharing where all our collaborators and volunteers are from. When complete, this will be a part of the introduction video and also a static image at the top of our Team and Collaborator’s pages. And we researched and upgraded our website servers to improve site speed and stability.

Began Testing Video Approaches for Sharing Where Our Collaborators and Volunteers are From

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WHAT ONE COMMUNITY IS CREATING

One Community is creating a place to grow together and change the world together, with the aim of facilitating global eco-balance. 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, facilitating global eco-balance. This replicable community will serve as an example of 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, all with the aim of facilitating global eco-balance. 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, with the ultimate goal of facilitating global eco-balance.

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, and resources, and work together as a network to heal the planet, facilitating global eco-balance. They will also transform the global lifestyle into 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 in our Research and Resources Articles Archive.

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

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.), with the overarching goal of facilitating global eco-balance. 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, thus facilitating global eco-balance. 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 facilitating global eco-balance. 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, facilitating global eco-balance, 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, facilitating global eco-balance. We will also provide hands-on experience and training. Most importantly, growing upon our sustainable foundation, we will endlessly make this comprehensive solution even more widely known and globally accessible, understandable and diversely duplicable, and inspiring and desirable as a model worth duplicating.

GLOBALLY IMPLEMENTABLE REPLICATION MODEL

The more people that are inspired and desiring for themselves what it is that One Community creates, the more demand there will be for spreading the One Community model. This leads to the directing of financial resources and resourceful people where we believe they are needed most: the establishment of additional sustainable communities around the world, facilitating global eco-balance. 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, facilitating global eco-balance. This is also part of this model to help the world. Its purpose is to facilitate more engagement in the sustainability industry, produce the absolute best possible consumer value, and the most convenient delivery of goods and methodologies for building sustainable living communities and sustainable living components.

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

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, facilitating global eco-balance. We also have options for people to just follow our progress or participate through internet contribution.

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

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

One Community welcomes Vamsi Pulugurtha to the Engineering Team as our newest Volunteer/Consultant!

Mechanical Engineer: Vamsi works as a CAE Engineer at GM Research and Development. He’s worked with GM since 2014 with the primary aim of his engineering group being weight reduction as a path to increased fuel efficiency while maintaining safety. His work specifically ranges from material-testing and subsequent CAE/FEA correlation to performing full vehicle FMVSS and NCAP crash analysis. When not working, Vamsi loves going on hikes and road trips, enjoying clear blue skies, trees and beaches. Vamsi strongly believes that every single person has a responsibility to care deeply about how their day-to-day activities are impacting our planet in small but significant ways. He’s extremely passionate about clean and sustainable energy generation and storage. Coming from a country like India where almost ~300 million people (equivalent to the entire population is united states) do not have electricity, this passion for sustainability only grew stronger with time and he has always been looking to positively contribute in some way shape or form to the cause. As a One Community team member, Vamsi is applying his knowledge and passion to finite element analysis and HVAC design for the Duplicable City Center and Tropical Atrium.

WELCOME TO THE TEAM VAMSI!

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One Community welcomes Aravind Vasudevan to the Engineering Team as our newest Volunteer/Consultant!

Mechanical Engineer: Aravind earned his Bachelors in Mechanical Engineering from one of the top institutes in India, Dayananda Sagar College of Engineering, Bangalore, and his Master’s degree in Mechanical engineering from The University of Texas at Dallas. He is Passionate about FEA, CAE, solid mechanics, and has a strong background in mechanics and materials, FEA, Solid Mechanics, Computational Mechanics, Structural Analysis, and handling solid mechanics problems using CAE softwares. He has previously worked at Infosys Limited, Bangalore, India as a Mechanical Engineer for 2 years after his undergraduate course, and is currently working as a research student in the Mechanics of Advanced Materials lab under Dr. Dong Qian, at The University of Texas at Dallas. In his free time, Aravind loves to play sports (Volleyball, Table Tennis, Badminton), hike, indulging in scenic photography, and express his passion for soccer as a fan of FC Barcelona. As a One Community Volunteer Engineer, Aravind is helping with the structural engineering and sustainable HVAC systems for the One Community Duplicable City Center.

WELCOME TO THE TEAM ARAVIND!

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Replicable Highest Good sustainability is sustainable design specifically created with the intent for replication and positive benefit for all people and life on this planet. One Community sees this as a worthwhile goal and is creating open source and free-shared designs in support of this. These designs cover sustainable approaches to food, energy, housing, education, for-profit and non-profit economic design, social architecture, fulfilled living, global stewardship practices, and more.

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

OUR MAIN OPEN SOURCE HUBS

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

One Community’s physical location will forward this movement as the first of many self-replicating teacher/demonstration communities, villages, and cities to be built around the world. This is the July 2nd, 2017 edition (#223) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments:

Replicable Highest Good Sustainability
One Community Progress Update #223

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

REPLICABLE HIGHEST GOOD SUSTAINABILITY: INTRO: @0:35

REPLICABLE HIGHEST GOOD SUSTAINABILITY: HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING: @8:01

REPLICABLE HIGHEST GOOD SUSTAINABILITY: DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER: @10:37

• Continued work on the DIY Pipe Furniture tutorial page (see below)
• Dipti Dhondarkar, continued with her 39th week of work on the lighting specifics for the City Center (see below)
• Shubham Agrawal finished his final round of image additions and references research for the wind power tutorials developing behind the scenes (see below)
• Vamsi Pulugurtha completed initial thermal lag report for City Center Heating and Cooling open source hub (see below)

REPLICABLE HIGHEST GOOD SUSTAINABILITY: HIGHEST GOOD FOOD: @11:45

• Made calculations and created images for storage details for two bulk good sections on the Food Self-sufficiency Transition Plan page (see below)
• Put another 10 hours into the crowdfunding campaign we are developing (see below)

REPLICABLE HIGHEST GOOD SUSTAINABILITY: HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION: @12:35

• Continued the process of a final proofreading and editing of all 52 lesson plans (see below)
• Added new projection dome image to the Ultimate Classroom page, built new menus, and updated the formatting for that page (see below)
• Began research and content creation for open source school licensing and accreditation tutorial (see below)

REPLICABLE HIGHEST GOOD SUSTAINABILITY: HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY: @13:29

• Sowmya Manohar implemented the post functionality and resolved a diversity of related errors for the Highest Good Network software we’re developing (see below)
• Vivian Rodrigues joined the team and translated our Solutions that Create Solutions page to create a new and complete page in Portuguese (see below)

REPLICABLE HIGHEST GOOD SUSTAINABILITY SUMMARY: @13:55

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

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REPLICABLE HIGHEST GOOD SUSTAINABILITY: HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

One Community is promoting replicable Highest Good 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 week the core team completed the final review and added the new search engine for the Earthbag Village open source hub:

Completed Final Review and Added New Search Engine for Earthbag Village Hub – See Below

And the core team continued building the Sketchup 3D version of the Net-zero bathroom for the Earthbag Village. This last week we updated the roof support structure, changed the roof from six to eight panels, and made updates to the height of all the inside building walls.

Continued Building Sketchup 3D Version of Net-Zero Bathroom ” Click for Page

In addition, The core team created new Ultimate Classroom and Tree House Village layouts for the 7 villages online book, as you can see here.

Created New Ultimate Classroom and Tree House Village Layouts – Click for Page

Working with Ashwin Patil (Web Developer), we also finished final review and updates to the search engines for villages 1, 3, 4, 5, 6, and 7 that are already live on the site, plus Ashwin added the final missing icons to the Education search engine that is also already live on the site.

Finished Final Review and Updates to Search Engines for Villages 1, 3, 4, 5, 6, and 7 – Click to Visit

Alena Thompson (Mechanical Engineer) completed her 20th week helping with the Net-zero Communal Bathroom Designs. This week’s focus was adding additional details and imagery to the presentation. You can see some of this new work here and we’d say we’re about 80% done with the presentation now.

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

Christian Ojeda (Mechatronic Engineer) completed his 17th week helping with the heat-recycling Communal Eco-shower and Vermiculture Bathroom designs. This week’s focus was another round of updates and revisions to the water storage layouts, as shown here.

Dean Scholz (Architectural Designer) continued helping us create quality Cob Village (Pod 3) renders. Here is update 75 of Dean’s work, this week’s focus was textures, lighting, and column and stairway details.

Continued Creating Cob Village Renders ” Click for Page

Hamilton Mateca (AutoCAD and Revit Drafter and Designer) also finished his 47th week helping with the Compressed Earth Block Village design and render details. This week’s focus was continuing to add pergolas to the layout, as shown here.

Continued Helping with Compressed Earth Block Village Design and Render Details ” Click for Page

Aparna Tandon (Architect) continued her work on the Compressed Earth Block Village external elements. What you see here is her 29th week of work, focusing on more development of the East and West zones as well as the North outdoor dining area. 

Continued Working on Compressed Earth Block Village External Elements ” Click for Page

And Guy Grossfeld (Graphic Designer) continued helping with the Tree House Village (Pod 7) renders. What you see here are initial renders of the Game Room structure and beginning to layout and test render multiple buildings.

Continued Working on Tree House Village Renders ” Click for Page

REPLICABLE HIGHEST GOOD SUSTAINABILITY: DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

One Community is promoting replicable Highest Good 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 work on the DIY Pipe Furniture tutorial page. This week we created seven new images for the Diagrams section, and we created a collage for the Instructions section. The team also created the File Downloads image and worked on adding text to all of the sections.

Continued Work on DIY Pipe Furniture Tutorial Page ” Click to Visit

Dipti Dhondarkar, (Electrical Engineer) continued with her 39th week of work on the lighting specifics for the City Center. This week’s focus was continued lighting testing within the Social Dome, as shown here.

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

Shubham Agrawal (Electrical Engineer) also finished his final round of image additions and references research for the wind power tutorials developing behind the scenes. You can see some pictures of this work here.

Continued Working on the Wind Power Tutorials Developing ” Click for Page

Vamsi Pulugurtha (Mechanical Engineer) also completed this initial thermal lag report for the City Center Heating and Cooling open source hub.

Completed Initial Thermal Lag Report for City Center Heating and Cooling Hub – Click for Page

REPLICABLE HIGHEST GOOD SUSTAINABILITY: HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

One Community is promoting replicable Highest Good 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 did the calculations and created images for the storage details for two bulk goods sections on the Food Self-sufficiency Transition Plan page. We did one section for grains and one for dried fruits, and added the images to the page as you see here:

Made Calculations & Created Images for Bulk Goods Sections on Food Self-sufficiency Transition Plan

We also put another 10 hours into the crowdfunding campaign we are developing. This week’s focus was on the hexayurt framing materials, watershield, coated torque screws, tarp and deck blocks for the Transition Kitchen structure. We also researched the joist hangars, tarps, and LED string lights. 

Continued Working on the Crowdfunding Campaign We are Developing – Click to Visit

REPLICABLE HIGHEST GOOD SUSTAINABILITY: HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

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

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

This week, the core team continued the process of a final proofreading and editing of all 52 lesson plans. This week we completed the Community Lesson Plan and the Cooperation and Collaboration Lesson Plan. This brings us to 32 of 52 finished, which is 61.5% completion.

Continued Process of Editing all 52 Lesson Plans ” Click for Lesson Plans for Life Page

The core team also added the new projection dome image to the Ultimate Classroom page, built new menus, and updated the formatting for that page.

Added New Projection Dome Image and Updated Formatting to Ultimate Classroom Page

And we began the research and content creation for the open source school licensing and accreditation tutorial, as shown in this collage of the work happening behind the scenes.

Began Research and Content Creation for Open Source School Licensing and Accreditation Tutorial

REPLICABLE HIGHEST GOOD SUSTAINABILITY: HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS

One Community is promoting replicable Highest Good 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 Sowmya Manohar (Software Engineer, Web Developer & Net Application Developer) implemented the post functionality and resolved a diversity of related errors for the Highest Good Network software we’re developing. You can see some of the behind the scenes work on this here:

Continued Working on the Highest Good Network Software ” Click for Page

Vivian Rodrigues (Translator) also joined the team and translated our Solutions that Create Solutions page to create a new and complete page in Portuguese, some of which you can see here.

Translated our Solutions that Create Solutions page to Portuguese – Click Here for the New Page

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

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

 

INVESTOR PAGES

OVERVIEW | LOCATION | FUNDING

GET INVOLVED

CONSULTANTS | WAYS ANYONE CAN HELP | MEMBERSHIP

CLICK HERE FOR ALL PAST UPDATES

WHAT ONE COMMUNITY IS CREATING

One Community is creating a place to grow together and change the world together, based on the principles of replicable highest good sustainability. 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 of what is possible.

Throughout our design process, we are open sourcing and free-sharing everything needed for construction and replication, emphasizing the principles of replicable highest good sustainability. 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 focus on replicable highest good sustainability: 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 through a focus on replicable highest good sustainability. We will achieve this by establishing successful teacher/demonstration hubs on every continent. Villages include designs appropriate for each of the five main types of climates. They also include options for even the most challenged economies. These hubs will collaborate with one another, share ideas, and resources, and work together as a network to heal the planet. They will also transform the global lifestyle into a more enjoyable, fulfilling, healthy, and sustainable one.

The specifics of how One Community is accomplishing 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 in our Research and Resources Articles Archive.

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

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, focusing on replicable highest good sustainability. These blueprints 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 the replicable highest good sustainability 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, grounded in the principles of replicable highest good sustainability. 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, emphasizing replicable highest good sustainability. 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 about replicable highest good sustainability. 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, rooted in principles of replicable highest good sustainability. 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, all within the framework of replicable highest good sustainability. This is also part of this model to help the world. Its purpose is to facilitate more engagement in the sustainability industry, produce the absolute best possible consumer value, and the most convenient delivery of goods and methodologies for building sustainable living communities and sustainable living components.

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

As demand increases, so too will the ways to participate, reflecting our commitment to replicable highest good sustainability. 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 focused on replicable highest good sustainability.

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

Thinking beyond sustainability is needed if mainstream implementation is to happen. What this means is going beyond the common sustainability areas like food, energy, housing and also including sustainable and forward-thinking approaches to education, economic design, and social architecture. Putting these together and open sourcing and free-sharing them is One Community’s approach to creating a global collaboration of teacher/demonstration communities and hubs working together to live in and create even more of these hubs 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 June 25th, 2017 edition (#222) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments:

Thinking Beyond Sustainability
One Community Progress Update #222

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

THINKING BEYOND SUSTAINABILITY: INTRO: @1:03

THINKING BEYOND SUSTAINABILITY: HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING: @7:03

THINKING BEYOND SUSTAINABILITY: DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER: @9:41

• Continued work on the DIY Pipe Furniture tutorial page (see below)
• Haoxuan “Hayes” Lei continued the work on the City Center structural engineering (see below)
• Shubham Agrawal finished his final round of content addition and edits for the wind power tutorials developing behind the scenes (see below)

THINKING BEYOND SUSTAINABILITY: HIGHEST GOOD FOOD: @10:40

• Explored Design needs and cost for adding different floor types to the Transition Kitchen (see below)

THINKING BEYOND SUSTAINABILITY: HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION: @11:06

• Continued the process of a final proofreading and editing of all 52 lesson plans (see below)
• Created a new graphic combining and showing the diversity of projection options for the Ultimate Classroom projection-dome (see below)

THINKING BEYOND SUSTAINABILITY: HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY: @11:55

• Sowmya Manohar added authentication to all internal routes to eliminate bypass options for the developing Highest Good Network software (see below)

THINKING BEYOND SUSTAINABILITY SUMMARY: @12:12

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

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THINKING BEYOND SUSTAINABILITY: HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

One Community is thinking beyond 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 the Tropical Atrium open source hub with new sections describing all the main features.

Updated the Tropical Atrium Open Source Hub – Click to Visit

We also created 16 new Tropical Atrium breakout pages for sharing all the different open source components.

Created 16 New Tropical Atrium Breakout Pages – Click for Main Page

Additionally, we created this new Tropical Atrium header and Facebook image.

Created New Tropical Atrium Header and Facebook Image – Click for Page

And the core team continued building the Sketchup 3D version of the Net-zero bathroom for the Earthbag Village. This last week we added in the second level of barrels along with the curved wall and the platforms for support. We also created the opening in the wall and set up the entry door to have access to the water collection area.

Continued Building Sketchup 3D Version of Net-Zero Bathroom – Click for Page

In addition to this, the core team created and added these new feature images to the Tree House Village (Pod 7) page. We’re seeking an interior designer to help us finish the missing images.

Created and Added New Feature Images to Tree House Village – Click to Visit Page

Ashwin Patil (Web Developer) also finished a 4th round of revisions for the Earthbag Village (Pod 1) search engine, as shown here:

Finished 4th Round of Revisions for Earthbag Village Search Engines ” Click to Visit Page

Alena Thompson (Mechanical Engineer) completed her 19th week helping with the Net-zero Communal Bathroom Designs. This week’s focus was load calculations and related tutorial text and imagery.

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

Christian Ojeda (Mechatronic Engineer) completed his 17th week helping with the heat-recycling Communal Eco-shower and Vermiculture Bathroom designs. This week’s focus was updates to the water storage layouts shown here.

Continued with Communal Eco-Shower and Vermiculture Bathroom Designs ” Click for Page

Dean Scholz (Architectural Designer) continued helping us create quality Cob Village (Pod 3) renders. Here is update 74 of Dean’s work, this week’s focus was building table and chair details needed for the central dining and presentation space renders.

Continued Creating Cob Village Renders ” Click for Page

Hamilton Mateca (AutoCAD and Revit Drafter and Designer) also finished his 46th week helping with the Compressed Earth Block Village design and render details. This week’s focus was building and adding pergolas to the layout, as shown here.

Continued Helping with Compressed Earth Block Village Design and Render Details ” Click for Page

Aparna Tandon (Architect) continued her work on the Compressed Earth Block Village external elements. What you see here is her 28th week of work, focusing on more development of Zone 8 and the pergolas needed for around the labyrinth, as shown here.

Continued Working on Compressed Earth Block Village External Elements ” Click for Page

THINKING BEYOND SUSTAINABILITY: DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

One Community is thinking beyond 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 work on the DIY Pipe Furniture tutorial page. This week’s focus included creating and adding new imagery and text to the Pipe Table section and re-organizing the different furniture sections. You can see some of this work here.

Continued Work on DIY Pipe Furniture Tutorial Page – Click to Visit

Haoxuan “Hayes” Lei (Structural Engineer) also continued the work on the City Center structural engineering. This week’s focus was more wind load calculations and roof design updates, some of which you can see here.

Continued Working on the City Center Structural Engineering ” Click for Page

Shubham Agrawal (Electrical Engineer) also finished his final round of content addition and edits for the wind power tutorials developing behind the scenes. You can see some pictures of this work here.

Continued Working on the Wind Power Tutorials Developing ” Click for Page

THINKING BEYOND SUSTAINABILITY: HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

One Community is thinking beyond 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 the core team explored the design needs and cost for adding different floor types to the Transition Kitchen. Here’s an image created for this purpose.

Explored Design Needs and Cost for Adding Different Floor Types to Transition Kitchen – Click for Page

THINKING BEYOND SUSTAINABILITY: HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

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

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

This week, the core team continued the process of a final proofreading and editing of all 52 lesson plans. This week we completed the Humility Lesson Plan and the Form Lesson Plan. This brings us to 30 of 52 finished, which is 57.7% completion.

Continued Process of Editing all 52 Lesson Plans ” Click for Lesson Plans for Life Page

We also created a new graphic combining and showing the diversity of projection options for the Ultimate Classroom projection-dome, as shown here.

Created New Graphic for the Ultimate Classroom Projection-Dome – Click for Page

THINKING BEYOND SUSTAINABILITY: HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS

One Community is thinking beyond 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 Sowmya Manohar (Software Engineer, Web Developer & Net Application Developer) added authentication to all internal routes to eliminate bypass options for the developing Highest Good Network software. You can see some of the behind the scenes work on this here:

Continued Working on the Highest Good Network Software ” Click for Page

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

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

 

INVESTOR PAGES

OVERVIEW | LOCATION | FUNDING

GET INVOLVED

CONSULTANTS | WAYS ANYONE CAN HELP | MEMBERSHIP

CLICK HERE FOR ALL PAST UPDATES

WHAT ONE COMMUNITY IS CREATING

One Community is creating a place to grow together and change the world together, thinking beyond sustainability. 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 of 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, thinking beyond sustainability. 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, while thinking beyond sustainability. We will achieve this by establishing successful teacher/demonstration hubs on every continent. Villages include designs appropriate for each of the five main types of climates. They also include options for even the most challenged economies. These hubs will collaborate with one another, share ideas, and resources, and work together as a network to heal the planet. They will also transform the global lifestyle into a more enjoyable, fulfilling, healthy, and sustainable one.

The specifics of how One Community is accomplishing 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 in our Research and Resources Articles Archive.

Even if we don’t achieve our ultimate goal of global transformation, a self-replicating teacher/demonstration model like this will take a relatively short period of time to positively affect millions while inspiring millions more, while thinking beyond sustainability. 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.) while thinking beyond sustainability. 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, thinking beyond sustainability. We are doing this because we see the solutions for global food, housing, energy, education, social inequality, ethical business practices, earth regenerative practices, and a desire for a more fulfilling living experience as inseparably interconnected. As a comprehensive solution, we are addressing all these areas simultaneously and open source free-sharing everything needed for individual duplication and/or duplication as complete self-replicating teacher/demonstration communities, villages, and cities to be built around the world.

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

GLOBALLY IMPLEMENTABLE REPLICATION MODEL

The more people that are inspired and desiring for themselves what it is that One Community creates, the more demand there will be for spreading the One Community model. This leads to the directing of financial resources and resourceful people where we believe they are needed most: the establishment of additional sustainable communities around the world, thinking beyond sustainability. 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, thinking beyond sustainability. This is also part of this model to help the world. Its purpose is to facilitate more engagement in the sustainability industry, produce the absolute best possible consumer value, and the most convenient delivery of goods and methodologies for building sustainable living communities and sustainable living components.

This means we not only provide education and increase needed sustainability resources, but we also address the underlying roadblocks to a sustainable planet by thinking beyond sustainability ” 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, reflecting our commitment to thinking beyond sustainability. 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, thinking beyond sustainability.

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

Ecological human progress is needed if we desire to achieve some level of sustainable balance with our planet and all life on it. To accomplish this, the main foundations of our living experience should be addressed sustainably. These would include food, energy, housing, education, economic design, and social architecture. If we make the sustainable solutions to all these areas open source and free-shared, we can evolve and expand them faster for the benefit of everyone. One Community is an all-volunteer team working on 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 June 18th, 2017 edition (#221) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments:

Ecological Human Progress
One Community Progress Update #221

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

ECOLOGICAL HUMAN PROGRESS: INTRO: @:35

ECOLOGICAL HUMAN PROGRESS: HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING: @7:58

ECOLOGICAL HUMAN PROGRESS: DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER: @10:21

• Added the new search engine to the City Center open source hub and finalized updating the formatting of that page to match the updated Earthbag Village and Straw Bale Village pages (see below)
• Finished creation of the TableChair portion of the DIY Pipe Furniture tutorial page (see below)
• Ramya Vudi continued with her development of the PV Solar micro-grid tutorial behind the scenes (see below)
• Shubham Agrawal continued his work on the wind power tutorials developing behind the scenes
• Aravind Vasudevan continued his work on the City Center basement heating and cooling details (see below)

ECOLOGICAL HUMAN PROGRESS HIGHEST GOOD FOOD: @11:49

• Created two new sections under bulk goods on the Food Self-sufficiency Transition Plan page and added the images and procurement details (see below)

ECOLOGICAL HUMAN PROGRESS: HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION: @12:23

• Continued the process of a final proofreading and editing of all 52 lesson plans (see below)
• Continued working on the renders for the Ultimate Classroom projection-dome feature
• Finished editing the introduction video that preceded the education section and began research and behind-the-scenes work on the licensing and accreditation tutorial (see below)

ECOLOGICAL HUMAN PROGRESS: HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY: @13:24

• Completed another 25% of the final edits to the open source Taxes and Sustainable Community Building page (see below)
• Jennifer Zhou created and input the first round of images needed for the open source and replicable annual social media strategy (see below)
• Sowmya Manohar and Jono Lewis completed their collective 7th week of work on the The Highest Good Network (see below)

ECOLOGICAL HUMAN PROGRESS: SUMMARY: @14:15

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ECOLOGICAL HUMAN PROGRESS: HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

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

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

This last week the core team created a new icon set and new open source portal section on the Tropical Atrium open source hub. You can see the new icons and web content here.

Created a New Icon Set and New Open Source Portal Section on the Tropical Atrium Page

We also added new resource and Advantages and Disadvantages sections to the Earthbag Village and Straw Bale Village open source hubs.

Added New Resource to Earthbag Village and Straw Bale Village Pages – Click to Visit Page

And we explored adding a 2nd-floor fire-code compliant window to the domes.

Additionally, the core team revised the layout and floor plan for the Compressed Earth Block Village (Pod 4), as shown here.

Working with the core team, Ashwin Patil (Web Developer) also finished version 2.0 of the new search engines for Villages 3-7 and then we added those search engines to the related pages.

Finished Version 2.0 of the New Search Engines for Villages 3-7 – Click to Visit Page

Alena Thompson (Mechanical Engineer) completed her 18th week helping with the Net-zero Communal Bathroom Designs. This week’s focus was creating a second round of renders for the tutorial and outlining the new sections that will include these renders.

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

Dean Scholz (Architectural Designer) continued helping us create quality Cob Village (Pod 3) renders. Here is update 73 of Dean’s work, this week’s focus was beginning work on the renders for the central dining and presentation space.

Continued Creating Cob Village Renders – Click for Page

Hamilton Mateca (AutoCAD and Revit Drafter and Designer) also finished his 45th week helping with the Compressed Earth Block Village (Pod 4) design and render details. This week’s focus was adding additional blue brick details to the labyrinth area and a new round of complete village test renders.

Continued Helping with Compressed Earth Block Village Design and Render Details ” Click for Page

Aparna Tandon(Architect) continued her work on the Compressed Earth Block Village external elements. What you see here is her 27th week of work, focusing on finishing Zone 7 and beginning the Zone 8 designs and visualizations, as shown here.

Continued Working on Compressed Earth Block Village External Elements ” Click for Page

And Guy Grossfeld (Graphic Designer) continued helping with the updates to the Tree House Village (Pod 7) furniture and building textures. What you see here are 4th-generation renders of the kitchen, bathroom and shower structures, library, playroom, and residential structures.

Continued with Updates to Tree House Village Furniture and Building Textures ” Click for Page

ECOLOGICAL HUMAN PROGRESS: DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

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

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

This week the core team added the new search engine to the City Center open source hub and finalized updating the formatting of that page to match the updated Earthbag Village and Straw Bale Village pages.

Added New Search Engine to City Center Open Source Hub – Click for Page

The core team also finished creation of the TableChair portion of the DIY Pipe Furniture tutorial page. You can see pictures of this work here.

Finished Creating the TableChair portion of the DIY Pipe Furniture Tutorial Page – Click to Visit

Ramya Vudi (Electrical Engineer) continued with her development of the PV Solar micro-grid tutorial behind the scenes. This week’s focus was on the battery sizing and maintenance and control sections shown here.

Continued Development of the PV Solar Micro-Grid Tutorials ” Click for Page

Shubham Agrawal (Electrical Engineer) also continued his work on the wind power tutorials developing behind the scenes. This week’s focus was on the Industry Outlook, FAQ, Summary, and Resources sections shown here.

Continued Working on the Wind Power Tutorials Developing – Click for Page

Aravind Vasudevan (BA Mechanical Engineering) also continued his work on the City Center basement heating and cooling details. This week’s focus was further research and starting development of the climate battery explanation and tutorial that we’ll be adding to the City Center Heating and Cooling open source hub. You can see some of this work here.

Continued Working on the City Center Basement Heating and Cooling Details ” Click for Page

ECOLOGICAL HUMAN PROGRESS: HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

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

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

This week, the core team created two new sections under bulk goods on the Food Self-sufficiency Transition Plan page, one section for grains and one for dried fruits, and added the images and procurement details that you see here:

Created New Sections on Food Self-Sufficiency Transition Plan Page ” Click to Visit

ECOLOGICAL HUMAN PROGRESS: HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

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

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

This last week the core team continued the process of a final proofreading and editing of all 52 lesson plans. This week we completed the Happiness Lesson Plan and the Harmony Lesson Plan. This brings us to 28 of 52 finished, which is 53.8% completion.

Continued Process of Editing all 52 Lesson Plans ” Click for Lesson Plans for Life Page

Additionally, we continued working on the renders for the Ultimate Classroom projection-dome feature. This included exploring different fisheye images with the projection tool and adjusted the lighting.

Continued Working on Renders for Ultimate Classroom Projection Dome – Click for Page

This all led to creation of this retouched and final version:

Retouched and Final Version of Ultimate Classroom Projection Dome ” Click for Page

We also finished editing the introduction video that preceded this Education section and began research and behind-the-scenes work on the licensing and accreditation tutorial.

Finished Editing Section of Education Video for the Video Blog and Began Research – Click to Visit

ECOLOGICAL HUMAN PROGRESS: HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS

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

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

This week the core team completed another 25% of the final edits to the open source Taxes and Sustainable Community Building page, this brings us to 75% complete with that page.

Completed Additional 25% of Final Edits to Taxes and Sustainable Community Building Page

Jennifer Zhou (Web Designer) created and input the first round of images needed for the open source and replicable annual social media strategy.

Worked on the Open Source and Replicable Annual Social Media Strategy – Click for Page

And Sowmya Manohar (Software Engineer, Web Developer & Net Application Developer) and Jono Lewis (Software Developer) completed their collective 7th week of work on the The Highest Good Network. This week they connected authentication in the front end of the application to the back end using a new token-based API system and continued development on editing users and time entry.

Continued Working on the Highest Good Network ” Click for Page

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WHAT ONE COMMUNITY IS CREATING

One Community is committed to creating a place to grow together and change the world together, fostering ecological human progress. 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 of what is possible.

Throughout our design process, we are open sourcing and free-sharing everything needed for construction and replication, with a focus on advancing ecological human progress. 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, pioneering ecological human progress. 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, each contributing to ecological human progress. Villages include designs appropriate for each of the five main types of climates. They also include options for even the most challenged economies. These hubs will collaborate with one another, share ideas, and resources, and work together as a network to heal the planet. They will also transform the global lifestyle into a more enjoyable, fulfilling, healthy, and sustainable one.

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

Even if we don’t achieve our ultimate goal of global transformation, a self-replicating teacher/demonstration model like this will take a relatively short period of time to positively affect millions while inspiring millions more, thus advancing ecological human progress. 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.), promoting ecological human progress. 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, thus fostering ecological human progress. 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, driven by ecological human progress. 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 dedicated to fostering ecological human progress through an open-source sharing of the 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, thereby advancing ecological human progress. To maximally facilitate duplication, One Community will provide seven duplicable examples and function indefinitely as a place people can visit and a non-profit and open source think tank continuing to further evolve and share solutions in all of the above areas and more. We will also provide hands-on experience and training. Most importantly, growing upon our sustainable foundation, we will endlessly make this comprehensive solution even more widely known and globally accessible, understandable and diversely duplicable, and inspiring and desirable as a model worth duplicating.

GLOBALLY IMPLEMENTABLE REPLICATION MODEL

The more people that are inspired and desiring for themselves what it is that One Community creates, the more demand there will be for spreading the One Community model. This leads to the directing of financial resources and resourceful people where we believe they are needed most: the establishment of additional sustainable communities around the world.

We also feel this duplication will specifically happen quickly internationally due to the affordability of overseas land, less restrictive building environments, and the spirit of adventure in many people who really desire to make a difference for those who need it most. This collective effort towards establishing sustainable communities globally not only fosters ecological human progress but also contributes to the realization of a more sustainable and equitable future for all.

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

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

As demand increases, so too will the avenues for participation in advancing ecological human progress. 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, thus contributing to ecological human progress.

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

Does prosperity require competition and capitalism? What if we create prosperity built on sustainability and cooperation instead? If we agree this is a worthwhile idea, working together we could easily combine sustainable food, energy, housing, education, economic design, social architecture, and even fulfilled living practices to provide a self-sufficient living model that would eliminate almost all living expenses and provide a better way of living than the way most people are experiencing now.

We could further share this model as an eco-tourism destination to provide revenue for expansion without people having to work traditional jobs; the experience of how they were living would be enjoyable enough that people would want to vacation and visit. This is the foundation of One Community’s model for world change and we’re open sourcing it 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 June 11th, 2017 edition (#220) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments:

Prosperity Built on Sustainability
One Community Progress Update #220

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

PROSPERITY BUILT ON SUSTAINABILITY INTRO: @:35

PROSPERITY BUILT ON SUSTAINABILITY: HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING: @7:19

PROSPERITY BUILT ON SUSTAINABILITY: DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER: @9:20

• Created the styles options image for the Pipe Furniture page and several single-image renders (see below)
• Dipti Dhondarkar continued with her 38th week of work on the lighting specifics for the City Center (see below)
• Ramya Vudi and Shubham Agrawal continued their work on the City Center electrical design and tutorials with Mike Hogan (see below)
• Aravind Vasudevan continued his work on the City Center basement heating and cooling details (see below)
• Jin Yu completed her 16th week working on the City Center Footers, Foundation, and Flooring tutorial (see below)
• Jennifer Zhou helped with her 2nd round of website content for the eco-laundry page (see below)

PROSPERITY BUILT ON SUSTAINABILITY: HIGHEST GOOD FOOD: @11:17

• Created another 3 additional new header images for the Food Self-sufficiency Transition Plan page (see below)

PROSPERITY BUILT ON SUSTAINABILITY: HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION: @11:43

• Continued the process of a final proofreading and editing of all 52 lesson plans (see below)
• Continued working on the renders for the Ultimate Classroom projection-dome feature (see below)

PROSPERITY BUILT ON SUSTAINABILITY: HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY: @12:33

• Completed 50% of the final edits to the open source Taxes and Sustainable Community Building (see below)
• Working with Ashwin Patil, we continued developing the new search engines that will make our site easier to navigate (see below)
• Sowmya Manohar and Jono Lewis completed their collective 6th week of work on the The Highest Good Network (see below)

PROSPERITY BUILT ON SUSTAINABILITY SUMMARY: @13:18

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PROSPERITY BUILT ON SUSTAINABILITY: HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

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

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

The core team continued creating the Open Source Murphy bed furniture step-by-step instructions. As shown here, we revised the layouts, added new pages, new icons, and new photos.

Continued Creating the Open Source Murphy Bed Furniture Step-by-Step Instructions – Click for Page

Also our core team continued building the Sketchup 3D version of the Net-zero bathroom for the Earthbag Village. This last week we added in barrels, the central platform, roof hatch entrance, and the ladder.

Continued Building Sketchup 3D Version of Net-zero Bathroom for Earthbag Village – Click for Page

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

Dean Scholz (Architectural Designer) continued helping us create quality Cob Village (Pod 3) renders. Here is update 72 of Dean’s work, this week’s focus was finishing all 4 of these final render views of the northwest living wing of the village:

Cob Village Concept Render – West Wing Bathroom – Click for Page

Cob Village Concept Render – West Wing Looking Down – Click for Page

Cob Village Concept Render – West Wing Looking Northwest – Click for Page

Cob Village Concept Render – West Wing Looking South – Click for Page

Hamilton Mateca (AutoCAD and Revit Drafter and Designer) also finished his 44th week helping with the Compressed Earth Block Village (Pod 4) design and render details. This week’s focus was new textures for the North landscaping area and beginning final-render-perspective testing.

Continued Helping with Compressed Earth Block Village Design and Render Details ” Click for Page

Aparna Tandon (Architect) continued her work on the Compressed Earth Block Village external elements. What you see here is her 26th week of work, focusing on Zone 7 designs and visualizations, as shown here.

Continued Working on Compressed Earth Block Village External Elements – Click for Page

And Guy Grossfeld (Graphic Designer) continued helping with the updates to the Tree House Village (Pod 7) furniture and building textures. What you see here are a combination of the art structure renders and a few screenshots from the weekly collaborative call.

Continued with Updates to Tree House Village Furniture and Building Textures ” Click for Page

PROSPERITY BUILT ON SUSTAINABILITY: DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

One Community is cultivating prosperity built on 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 created the styles options image for the Pipe Furniture page and several single-image renders. We also added all current images to the web page with text and descriptions, hover text, click to enlarge options, and center formatting.

Created the Styles Options Image for Pipe Furniture Page and Several Single-Image Renders

Dipti Dhondarkar, (Electrical Engineer) continued with her 38th week of work on the lighting specifics for the City Center. This week’s focus was continued modeling and initial lighting testing within the Social Dome.

Continued with the Lighting Specifics for the City Center – Click for Page

Ramya Vudi (Electrical Engineer) and Shubham Agrawal (Electrical Engineer) continued their work on the City Center electrical design and tutorials with Mike Hogan (Automation Systems Developer and Business Systems Consultant. What you see here are pictures of this week’s updated electrical overview and Ramya and Shubham‘s PV Solar micro-grid and wind power tutorials developing behind the scenes.

Continued Working on the City Center Electrical Design and Tutorials ” Click for Page

Aravind Vasudevan (BA Mechanical Engineering) also continued his work on the City Center basement heating and cooling details. This week’s focus was researching how a climate battery works and can be included in our designs. You can version 1.0 of Aravind’s report here.

Continued Working on the City Center Basement Heating and Cooling Details – Click for Page

Jin Yu (Structural Engineering Designer) also completed her 16th week working on the City Center Footers, Foundation, and Flooring tutorial. This week’s focus was writing more content for the moisture control and cinder block wall sections, as shown here.

Continued Working on Concrete Foundation Design and Tutorial Details for the City Center

And Jennifer Zhou (Web Designer) helped with her 2nd round of website content for the eco-laundry page, updating the text formatting, replacing all the images with higher quality ones, and adding click to enlarge options wherever needed.

Helped Create Second Round of Website Content for Eco-Laundry Page ” Click to Visit

PROSPERITY BUILT ON SUSTAINABILITY: HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

One Community is cultivating prosperity built on 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 created another 3 additional new header images for the Food Self-sufficiency Transition Plan page, for the bulk goods sections, as you see here.

Created Additional Images for Food Self-Sufficiency Transition Plan Page – Click to Visit

PROSPERITY BUILT ON SUSTAINABILITY: HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

One Community is cultivating prosperity built on 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 continued the process of a final proofreading and editing of all 52 lesson plans. This week we completed the Creativity Lesson Plan and the Emotional States Lesson Plan. This brings us to 26 of 52 finished, which is 50% completion.

Continued Process of Editing all 52 Lesson Plans ” Click for Lesson Plans for Life Page

We also continued working on the renders for the Ultimate Classroom projection-dome feature. This included using a different view point for rendering, and applying several different projected images, as seen here.

Continued Working on Renders for Ultimate Classroom Projection Dome ” Click for Page

PROSPERITY BUILT ON SUSTAINABILITY: HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS

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

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

This week the core team completed 50% of the final edits to the open source Taxes and Sustainable Community Building page.

Completed 50% of Final Edits to Taxes and Sustainable Community Building Page – Click to Visit

Working with Ashwin Patil (Web Developer) , we also continued developing the new search engines that will make our site easier to navigate. This week we finished the City Center search engine and another round of edits and revisions for the Earthbag Village search engine.

Continued Helping Develop the New Search Engines for Our Site ” Click for City Center

Additionally, Sowmya Manohar (Software Engineer, Web Developer & Net Application Developer) and Jono Lewis (Software Developer) completed their collective 6th week of work on the The Highest Good Network. This week’s focus was continued implementation and coding for the simple authentication model and adding the ability to log time entries.

Continued Working on the Highest Good Network – Click for Page

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

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

 

INVESTOR PAGES

OVERVIEW | LOCATION | FUNDING

GET INVOLVED

CONSULTANTS | WAYS ANYONE CAN HELP | MEMBERSHIP

CLICK HERE FOR ALL PAST UPDATES

WHAT ONE COMMUNITY IS CREATING

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

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 of prosperity built on sustainability, showcasing what is possible.

Throughout our design process of creating prosperity built on sustainability, 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.

PROSPERITY BUILT ON SUSTAINABILITY: 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, promoting prosperity built on sustainability.

WHY ONE COMMUNITY IS CREATING THIS

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

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

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

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.), fostering prosperity built on sustainability. 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, contributing to sustainable civilization building and prosperity built on sustainability.

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, thus contributing to sustainable civilization building and prosperity built on sustainability.

COMPREHENSIVE SOLUTION TO HUMANITY’S NEEDS

One Community is open source sharing an evolution of sustainable living that addresses the complete human experience, fostering prosperity built on sustainability. 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, contributing to sustainable civilization-building.

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 for sustainable civilization building and prosperity built on sustainability.

GLOBALLY IMPLEMENTABLE REPLICATION MODEL

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

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

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

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, all aimed at fostering prosperity built on sustainability.

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

Open source and free-shared sustainable food, energy, and housing infrastructure is one path to maximizing sustainability evolution within our lifetime. Adding education, sustainable economics, and social architecture can further this goal by making sustainability more attractive to the average person. In this way, One Community is building a global all-volunteer team collaborating to create a self-replicating model for positive and permanent global change 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 June 4th, 2017 edition (#219) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments:

Maximizing Sustainability Evolution
One Community Progress Update #219

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

MAXIMIZING SUSTAINABILITY EVOLUTION INTRO: @0:35

MAXIMIZING SUSTAINABILITY EVOLUTION HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING: @8:39

• Created 7 new eco-laundry icons and new eco-laundry header image (see below)
• Updated the Earthbag Village living dome beds render (see below)
• Created new Earthbag Village furniture header (see below)
• Created new Tree House Village layout for the 7 villages online book (see below)
• Integrated a new search engine into the Straw Bale Village open source hub and updated that page (see below)
• Continued updating and revising the Earthbag Village open source AutoCAD files (see below)
• Alena Thompson completed her 16th week helping with the Net-zero Communal Bathroom Designs (see below)
• Christian Ojeda completed his 16th week helping with the heat-recycling Communal Eco-shower and Vermiculture Bathroom designs (see below)
• Dean Scholz continued helping us create quality Cob Village renders (see below)
• Hamilton Mateca finished his 43rd week helping with the Compressed Earth Block Village design and render details (see below)
• Guy Grossfeld continued helping with the updates to the Tree House Village furniture and building textures (see below)

MAXIMIZING SUSTAINABILITY EVOLUTION DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER: @11:03

• Created initial image collages for the City Center DIY Pipe Furniture tutorial (see below)
• Haoxuan “Hayes” Lei, Shuna Ni, and Aravind Vasudevan continued their work on the City Center structural engineering (see below)
• Ramya Vudi and Shubham Agrawal continued their work on the City Center electrical design and tutorials with Mike Hogan (see below)
• Ramya also worked on developing the PV Solar micro-grid tutorial (see below)
• Shubham also worked on developing the wind power tutorial (see below)
• Jin Yu completed her 15th week working on the City Center Footers, Foundation, and Flooring tutorial (see below)
• Jennifer Zhou helped create this first round of website content for the eco-laundry page (see below)

MAXIMIZING SUSTAINABILITY EVOLUTION HIGHEST GOOD FOOD: @12:50

• Created 3 additional new header images for the Food Self-sufficiency Transition Plan page (see below)

MAXIMIZING SUSTAINABILITY EVOLUTION HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION: @13:15

• Continued the process of a final proofreading and editing of all 52 lesson plans (see below)
• Continued working on the renders for the Ultimate Classroom projection-dome feature (see below)

MAXIMIZING SUSTAINABILITY EVOLUTION HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY: @14:05

• Ashwin Patil,working with the core team, continued helping develop the new search engines that will make our site easier to navigate (see below)

MAXIMIZING SUSTAINABILITY EVOLUTION SUMMARY: @14:25

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MAXIMIZING SUSTAINABILITY EVOLUTION HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

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

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

The core team created 7 new eco-laundry icons….

Created 7 New Eco-Laundry Icons – Click for Page

Created New Eco-Laundry Header Image – Click for Page

Updated Earthbag Village Living Dome Beds Render – Click for Page

Created New Earthbag Village Furniture Header – Click for Page

Created New Tree House Village Layout for 7 Villages Online Book – Click for Page

Integrated New Search Engine Into Straw Bale Village Open Source Hub – Click for Page

The core team also continued updating and revising the Earthbag Village open source AutoCAD files, making them clearer and easier to read.

Continued Updating and Revising the Earthbag Village AutoCAD Files ” Click for Page

Alena Thompson (Mechanical Engineer) completed her 16th week helping with the Net-zero Communal Bathroom Designs. This week’s focus was adding more details to the related calculations and beginning the process of final renders for the final presentation.

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

Christian Ojeda (Mechatronic Engineer) completed his 16th week helping with the heat-recycling Communal Eco-shower and Vermiculture Bathroom designs. This week’s focus was the initial layout for the piping that will supply the fountains and spigots.

Continued with Communal Eco-Shower and Vermiculture Bathroom Designs – Click to Visit Page

Dean Scholz (Architectural Designer) continued helping us create quality Cob Village (Pod 3) renders. Here is update 71 of Dean’s work that continued developing the lighting and texture details for renders of the Northwest residential wing, as shown here.

Continued Helping us Create Quality Cob Village ” Click to Visit Page

Hamilton Mateca (AutoCAD and Revit Drafter and Designer) also finished his 43rd week helping with the Compressed Earth Block Village (Pod 4) design and render details. This week’s focus was continued work on the landscaping elevation, textures, and layout details around the meditation labyrinth, as shown here.

Continued Helping with Compressed Earth Block Village Design and Render Details ” Click for Page

And Guy Grossfeld (Graphic Designer) continued helping with the updates to the Tree House Village (Pod 7) furniture and building textures, as shown here.

Continued with Updates to Tree House Village Furniture and Building Textures – Click for Page

MAXIMIZING SUSTAINABILITY EVOLUTION DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

One Community is maximizing sustainability evolution 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 created initial image collages for the City Center DIY Pipe Furniture tutorial.

Created Initial Image Collages for the City Center DIY Pipe Furniture – Click to Visit Page

Haoxuan “Hayes” Lei (Structural Engineer), Shuna Ni (Masters of Mechanical Engineering and Civil Engineering PhD), and Aravind Vasudevan (BA Mechanical Engineering) also continued their work on the City Center structural engineering. This week’s focus was more wind load calculations, roof design updates, and exploring wood connections and a wood frame option to replace our original plan for steel.

Continued Working on the City Center Structural Engineering ” Click for Page

Ramya Vudi (Electrical Engineer) and Shubham Agrawal (Electrical Engineer) continued their work on the City Center electrical design and tutorials with Mike Hogan (Automation Systems Developer and Business Systems Consultant. Here are pictures from our weekly collaborative call continuing to discuss and refine the overall layout:

Continued Working on the City Center Electrical Design and Tutorials ” Click for Page

Here are pictures of Ramya‘s work this week developing the PV Solar micro-grid tutorial behind the scenes.

In Process Developing the Photovoltaic Solar Micro-Grid Tutorial – Click for Page

Here are pictures of Shubham‘s work this week developing the wind power tutorial behind the scenes.

Worked on Developing the Wind Power Tutorial Behind the Scenes – Click for Page

Jin Yu (Structural Engineering Designer) also completed her 15th week working on the City Center Footers, Foundation, and Flooring tutorial. This week’s focus was writing more content for the water proofing and workflow sections, some of which you can see in these behind-the-scenes screenshots.

Continued Working on Concrete Foundation Design and Tutorial Details for the City Center

And Jennifer Zhou (Web Designer) helped create this first round of website content for the eco-laundry page.

Helped Create First Round of Website Content for Eco-Laundry Page – Click to Visit

MAXIMIZING SUSTAINABILITY EVOLUTION HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

One Community is maximizing sustainability evolution 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 created 3 additional new header images for the Food Self-sufficiency Transition Plan page, as you see here:

Created Additional Images for the Food Self-Sufficiency Transition Plan Page ” Click to Visit

MAXIMIZING SUSTAINABILITY EVOLUTION HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

One Community is maximizing sustainability evolution 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 continued the process of a final proofreading and editing of all 52 lesson plans. This week we completed the Civilization Lesson Plan and the Courage Lesson Plan. This brings us to 24 of 52 finished, which is 46.1% completion.

Continued Process of Editing all 52 Lesson Plans ” Click for Lesson Plans for Life Page

We also continued working on the renders for the Ultimate Classroom projection-dome feature. This included using the projector option of the lights tool of Twilight Render to generate a couple of renders with different projected images, as shown here.

Continued Working on Renders for Ultimate Classroom Projection Dome ” Click for Page

MAXIMIZING SUSTAINABILITY EVOLUTION HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS

One Community is maximizing sustainability evolution 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

Working with the core team, Ashwin Patil (Web Developer) also continued helping develop the new search engines that will make our site easier to navigate. This week we finished the Straw Bale Village search engine and another round of review, edits, and updates to the City Center and Earthbag Village search engines. You can see some of this work in progress here.

Continued Helping Develop the New Search Engines for Our Site ” Click for Straw Bale Village

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

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

 

INVESTOR PAGES

OVERVIEW | LOCATION | FUNDING

GET INVOLVED

CONSULTANTS | WAYS ANYONE CAN HELP | MEMBERSHIP

CLICK HERE FOR ALL PAST UPDATES

WHAT ONE COMMUNITY IS CREATING

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

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

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

MAXIMIZING SUSTAINABILITY EVOLUTION BUILDING THE FIRST OF MANY

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

WHY ONE COMMUNITY IS CREATING THIS

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

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

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

INSPIRING SUSTAINABILITY WITH OPEN SOURCE

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

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

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