Restoring global eco balance can be accomplished if enough people participate. Increasing participation sufficiently can predictably be achieved if it is easy enough, affordable enough, and demonstrated as attractive enough for mainstream involvement. An open source evolution of sustainability that combines physical sustainability with emotional sustainability to create a better way of living is the most viable and efficient path we see for global implementation and we are creating it 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 March 6th, 2015 edition (#105) of our weekly progress update detailing the previous week’s development and accomplishments:

Restoring Global Eco Balance
One Community Weekly Progress Update #105

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

RESTORING GLOBAL ECO BALANCE INTRO @1:04

RESTORING GLOBAL ECO BALANCE HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION @2:01

• Finished final 30% of the Technology and Innovation Molecule graphic (see below)
• Researched and added a new section to the open source and free-shared on-line education resources archive (see below)
• Paige Allison Donatelli finished the first 20% of the image creation for the lesson plan with the central theme of “Civilization” (see below)

RESTORING GLOBAL ECO BALANCE HIGHEST GOOD FOOD: @3:47

• Researched and added the final major component (recipes) to open source carrots hub (see below)
• Researched and added the final major component (recipes) to open source beets hub (see below)
• Sandra Sellani made a new Lentil Artichoke Stew recipe and took photo (see below)

RESTORING GLOBAL ECO BALANCE HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING: @4:59

• Behind the scenes: continued laying out the specifics for the Open Source Murphy bed furniture assembly details behind (45% complete – see below)
• Behind the scenes: finished final 10% of the earthdome window and door framing (see below)
• Added final work and calculation details from Samuel Soroaster to eco-bathroom and shower open source hub (75% complete – see below)
• Scott Thomas and his Shadow Ridge team began putting together the Earthbag Village shared accommodation 3 and 6-dome cluster designs (see below)

RESTORING GLOBAL ECO BALANCE DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER: @6:57

• Added new details on the specific systems for the sustainable water heating resource page. This is sharing the excellent work of Ron Payne (see below)
• Aravind Batra and his team at P2S Engineering produced mechanical zoning plans (see below)

RESTORING GLOBAL ECO BALANCE HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY: @8:10

• Completely redesigned our Solutions that Create Solutions page (see below)
• Created a new manual submission page for our partner interest form (see below)
• Finished first 50% of the webpage design for the Science for Sustainable Development chapter of our People’s Agenda 21 website that is a rewrite of Agenda 21 (see below)
• Featured work of Paige Allison Donatelli as our new social media image for our Open Source page (see below)

RESTORING GLOBAL ECO BALANCE SUMMARY: @9:31

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RESTORING GLOBAL ECO BALANCE: HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

One Community is restoring 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 last week the core team finished another 30% of the Technology and Innovation Molecule graphic, which you can see here. This brings us to 100% complete with this image and Subject that covers the greatest minds, inventions, and creations of all time, learning strategies, test-taking strategies, technology implementation, systems theory and analysis, and more:

Restoring global eco balance – Technology and Innovation Molecule -100% Complete

We also researched and added this new section to the open source and free-shared on-line education resources archive. This new section includes 28 free-textbook and other free book resources, continuing to maintain this page as the largest source of free education resources in the world:

Restoring global eco balance – On-line Education Resources Archive – New Textbook SectioN

Paige Allison Donatelli (Graphic Designer and Owner Operator of Namaste Living in a Material World) also finished the first 20% of the image creation for the lesson plan we’re working on with the central theme of “Civilization.” When complete on the site, this lesson plan will teach all subjects, to all learning levels, in any learning environment using the central theme of “Civilization.”

Restoring global eco balance – Civilization Mindmap – in Progress – Click to Visit Page

RESTORING GLOBAL ECO BALANCE: HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

One Community is restoring 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 last week the core team researched and added the final major component to open source carrots hub: RECIPES! You can see these new additions here:

Restoring global eco balance – Added the Carrot Recipes – Click to Visit Open Source Carrots Hub

We also did this for the open source beets hub. These first recipe lists will grow as our food experts continue the process of designing the Food Self-sufficiency Transition Plan.

Restoring global eco-balance – Added the Beet Recipes – Click to Visit Open Source Beets Hub

In addition to this, Sandra Sellani (Vegan Chef and author of What’s Your QB?) helped us with this new Lentil Artichoke Stew recipe, complete with making the recipe and taking the picture you see here. You can find these details on the vegan section of the Food Self-sufficiency Transition Plan and added to the beans and alliums pages too.

New Lentil and Artichoke Stew Recipe Added to Food Self-sufficiency Transition Plan Page

RESTORING GLOBAL ECO BALANCE: HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

One Community is restoring 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 the core team continued laying out the specifics for the Open Source Murphy bed furniture assembly details behind the scenes. These are part of the Earthbag Village and the crowdfunding campaign plan and new updates included cutting lumber and labeling pieces for the two nightstands. What you see here is all this behind-the-scenes work-in-progress. We estimate we are now 45% complete with what is needed for the website.

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

Also behind the scenes we finished the final 10% of the earthdome window and door framing. Here are pictures of all this behind-the-scenes formatting, writing, and image creation needed before we could start moving these specifics to the website – which is the next step:

Earthdome Window and Door Framing Complete – Behind-the-Scenes – Click to Visit

In addition to this, we added the rest of the amazing work and calculation details from Samuel Soroaster (Permaculturalist and sustainable designer from Green New World) to the eco-bathroom and shower open source hub. The new sections you see here are sections 5-7 including Dry Urinals, Sewage system/Biodigester calculations, and initial Energy Consumption calculations. This brings us to what we’d say is about 75% complete with the foundational design of this system.

Eco-Bathroom Additions Added to Eco-Bathroom and Shower Open Source Hub – Click to Visit

Scott Thomas and his Shadow Ridge Signature Architecture Program team also began putting together the Earthbag Village shared accommodation 3-dome cluster designs you see here, complete with furniture layouts showing two couple’s domes and a children’s dome:

Restoring global eco balance – Earthbag Village 3 Dome Cluster Design – Click to Visit Page

They also did this for the 6-dome clusters that you can see here. These works in progress consist mostly of Murphy bed dome designs with a shared student’s dome and a children’s dome:

Restoring global eco balance – Earthbag Village 6 Dome Cluster Design – Click to Visit Page

Restoring global eco balance – Earthbag Village 6 Dome Cluster Design – Click to Visit Page

RESTORING GLOBAL ECO BALANCE: DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

One Community is restoring 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 last week the core team added new details on the specific systems for the sustainable water heating resource page. This is sharing the excellent work of Ron Payne (Mechanical Engineer and HVAC / Thermal Designer).

New Details on Specific Systems added to Sustainable Water Heating Resource Page – Click to Visit

Aravind Batra and his team at P2S Engineering also produced these mechanical zoning plans. These would be the areas that we’re seeking a mechanical contractor to zone out individually (with individual control) for the radiant flooring systems.

Restoring global eco balance – Mechanical Zoning Plans – Click to Enlarge

RESTORING GLOBAL ECO BALANCE: HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS

One Community is restoring 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 last week the core team completely redesigned our Solutions that Create Solutions page to explain in much more detail how a self-replicating model like One Community has the potential to create a completely sustainable planet and positively impact every living person and thing within 30 years. You can see this redesign here:

Restoring global eco balance – Solutions That Create Solutions Page Redesigned – Click to Visit Page

We also created this new manual submission page for our partner interest form to help anyone who has problems with our digital submission page:

Restoring global eco balance – Manual Submission Page for our Partner Interest Form – Click to Visit

And we finished the first 50% of the webpage design for the Science for Sustainable Development chapter of our People’s Agenda 21 website that is a rewrite of Agenda 21. This rewrite removes government involvement and instead focuses on sharing open source resources to promote and facilitate the individual and community-based actions that can be taken to help create a more sustainable world for everyone.

Science for Sustainable Development Chapter of PA21 – 50% Complete – Click to Visit Page

Last but not least, we were happy to feature the beautiful work of Paige Allison Donatelli (Graphic Designer and Owner Operator of Namaste Living in a Material World) as our new social media image for our Open Source page.

Restoring global eco balance – New Social Media Image for Open Source Page – Click to Visit

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WHY ONE COMMUNITY IS CREATING THIS

The One Community self-replicating model is capable of creating a sustainable planet within 30 years. We will achieve this by establishing successful teacher/demonstration hubs on every continent restoring global eco balance. 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.

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.

COMPREHENSIVE SOLUTION TO HUMANITY’S NEEDS

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

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

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OVERVIEW       ●       LOCATION       ●       FUNDING

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Transformational and sustainable change will happen if enough people participate. We’re addressing the “transformational change” component with a self-replicating model capable of affecting the entire planet. We are addressing the “sustainable change” component with an evolution of sustainability that combines physical sustainability with emotional sustainability to create a more holistic and desirable approach to how people live. We are open source sharing it all 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 implementing the Transformational and sustainable change . This is the February 27th, 2015 edition (#104) of our weekly progress update detailing the previous week’s development and accomplishments:

Transformational and Sustainable Change
One Community Weekly Progress Update #104

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

TRANSFORMATIONAL AND SUSTAINABLE CHANGE INTRO @1:00

TRANSFORMATIONAL AND SUSTAINABLE CHANGE: HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION @2:17

• Finished another 30% of the Technology and Innovation Molecule graphic (70% complete – see below)
• Behind the scenes: finished brainstorming bullet points for the final 50% of the Technology and Innovation section of violet
• Finished second 50% of the “Human Body” themed lesson plan webpage (see below)
• Behind the scenes: finished next 20% of the lesson plan with the central theme of “Civilization” (75% complete)

TRANSFORMATIONAL AND SUSTAINABLE CHANGE: HIGHEST GOOD FOOD: @3:44

• Added the first complete recipe from Benjamin Sessions to the Food Self-sufficiency Transition Plan (see below)
• Researched and added two resources sections to the open source turnips hub (see below)
• Researched and added two resources sections to the open source oca hub (see below)
• Researched and added two resources sections to the open source mashua hub (see below)
• Added a new vegan Fiber Smoothie recipe from Sandra Sellani to the Food Self-sufficiency Transition Plan (see below)

TRANSFORMATIONAL AND SUSTAINABLE CHANGE: HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING: @4:57

• Behind the scenes: continued laying out the specifics for the Open Source Murphy bed furniture assembly
  details (45% complete – see below)
• Behind the scenes: finished another 15% of the earthdome window and door framing reformatting (90% complete)
• Updated all the headers for the crowdfunding campaign open source details pages (see below)
• Updated the material-cost details on the Earthbag Village Materials page and added the Furniture cost details (see below)
• Redesigned the eco-bathroom and shower open source hub (see below)
• Added another 20% of Samuel Soroaster’s work onto the eco-bathroom and shower open source hub (30% complete – see below)
• Scott Thomas finished putting the Earthbag Village shared accommodation student dome designs into CAD (see below)
• Scott Thomas finished putting the Earthbag Village shared accommodation children’s dome designs into CAD (see below)

TRANSFORMATIONAL AND SUSTAINABLE CHANGE: DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER: @7:13

• Completed the first 15% of the thermostatic shower valve and heat lamp energy and water savings open source page with the work of Ron Payne (see below)

TRANSFORMATIONAL AND SUSTAINABLE CHANGE: HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY: @8:21

• Shared our Thrive interview with the founders of The New Earth Nation and the Ingenuity Innovation Center (see below)
• Redesigned the One Community Pledge page and added Paige Allison Donatelli’s work (see below)
• Paige Allison Donatelli helped create a header for our People’s Agenda 21: Protecting Human Health page (see below)
• Behind the scenes: Jin Hua helped us setup individual page editing on our site and created the initial outline for a video tutorial (see below)

TRANSFORMATIONAL AND SUSTAINABLE CHANGE SUMMARY: @9:43

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TRANSFORMATIONAL AND SUSTAINABLE CHANGE: HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

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

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

This last week the core team finished another 30% of the Technology and Innovation Molecule graphic, which you can see here. This brings us to 70% complete with this image.

Technology and Innovation Molecule – 70% Complete – Click to Visit Page

Behind the scenes we also finished brainstorming the bullet points for the final 50% of the Technology and Innovation section of violet.

In addition to this we finished the second 50% of the “Human Body” themed lesson plan webpage. This lesson plan is now done and can be used to teach all subjects, to any learning level, in any learning environment using the central theme of “The Human Body.”

Transformational and Sustainable Change – Human Body Lesson Plan – Final 50% – Click to Visit Page

Behind the scenes, we finished the next 20% of the next lesson plan we’re working on with the central theme of “Civilization.” This bring us to 75% complete with this lesson plan.

TRANSFORMATIONAL AND SUSTAINABLE CHANGE: HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

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

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

This last week the core team added the first complete recipe from Benjamin Sessions to the Food Self-sufficiency Transition Plan. You can see this recipe and photo here where we’ve also created a separate section for omnivore meals that can be made vegan, versus the section below that is vegan meals that can be made omnivore.

First Complete Omnivore recipe Added to Food Self-Sufficiency Transition Page – Click to Visit

We also researched and added two resources sections to the open source turnips hub, the open source oca hub, and the open source mashua hub:

Click for Turnips Page

Click for Oca Page

Click for Mashua Page

In addition to this, Sandra Sellani (Vegan Chef and author of What’s Your QB?) created this new Fiber Smoothie recipe that we also added to the vegan section of the Food Self-sufficiency Transition Plan:

New Fiber Smoothie Recipe Added to Food Self-sufficiency Transition Plan Page – Click to Visit

TRANSFORMATIONAL AND SUSTAINABLE CHANGE: HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

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

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

This last week the core team continued laying out the specifics for the Open Source Murphy bed furniture assembly details behind the scenes. These are part of the Earthbag Village and the crowdfunding campaign plan and new updates included cutting lumber and labeling pieces for the smaller shelf and ladder and assembling the smaller shelf and ladder. What you see here is all this behind-the-scenes work-in-progress. We estimate we are now 45% complete with what is needed for the website.

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

Also behind the scenes we finished another 15% of the earthdome window and door framing reformatting details needed before moving these specifics to the website. This brings us to 90% complete with this work.

We also updated all the headers for the crowdfunding campaign open source details pages. Here’s collage of all these newly designed headers:

Headers Updated for the Crowdfunding Campaign Pages – Click to Visit

And we updated the material-cost details on the Earthbag Village Materials page and added the Furniture cost details, which you can see here:

Material-Cost Details Updated on Earthbag Village Materials Page – Click to Visit

In addition to this, we redesigned the eco-bathroom and shower open source hub. Here is a picture of the new additions there:

Eco-bathroom and Shower Open Source Hub Redesigned – Click to Visit Page

And we added another 20% of And we the amazing work and calculation details from Samuel Soroaster (Permaculturalist and sustainable designer from Green New World). The new sections you see here are sections 2-4 including Primary Plumbing details, Hot Water System details, and the details of the Greywater Recycling for UHET Flush Toilets. We’d say we are now about 30% complete with adding the ongoing work Samuel has been doing over the past couple of months working with us.

Eco-Bathroom Additions Added to Eco-Bathroom and Shower Open Source Hub – Click to Visit

Scott Thomas and his Shadow Ridge Signature Architecture Program team also finished putting the Earthbag Village shared accommodation student dome design into CAD that you see here:

Transformational and Sustainable Change – Earthbag Village Student Dome Design into CAD

And the children’s dome CAD design you see here. Both domes feature double beds and and open floor plans for maximum central space availability.

Transformational and Sustainable Change – Earthbag Village Studen Dome Design in CAD

TRANSFORMATIONAL AND SUSTAINABLE CHANGE: DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

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

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

This last week the core team completed the first 15% of the thermostatic shower valve and heat lamp energy and water savings open source page. This was using the research and work of Ron Payne (Mechanical Engineer and HVAC / Thermal Designer) and included creating the header, basic layout, and the What and Why sections of the page. These systems will be used for both the Duplicable City Center and the Earthbag Village.

Thermostatic Shower Valve and Heat lamp Energy and Water Savings Page – 15% Complete

TRANSFORMATIONAL AND SUSTAINABLE CHANGE: HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS

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

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

This last week the core team created this new Terms and Conditions page that outlines the Terms and Conditions of using One Community’s site and the open source content we are constantly creating:

Transformational and Sustainable Change – New Terms and Conditions Page – Click to Visit

One Community was also featured on Thrive this past week, hosted by Foster Gamble. We shared the interview with the founders of The New Earth Nation and the Ingenuity Innovation Center and you can watch the whole overview video on our written blog:

And we added the beautiful work of Paige Allison Donatelli (Graphic Designer and Owner Operator of Namaste Living in a Material World) to the One Community Pledge page, including a redesign of this page and a plan to feature it next week:

Updated the One Community Pledge Page with New Social Media Imagery – Click to Visit

Paige also helped create this header for our People’s Agenda 21: Protecting Human Health page:

New Header for People’s Agenda 21: Protecting Human Health Page – Click to Visit

Behind the scenes, Jin Hua (Internet Marketing Expert and Web Developer) also helped us setup individual page editing on our site and created the initial outline for a video tutorial to teach people from other countries with no web design experience how to help us translate the different pages of our site.

Transformational and Sustainable Change – Translation Video Tutorial – In Progress

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.

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.

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

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

 

INVESTOR PAGES

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One Community welcomes Paige Allison Donatelli to the Graphics Design Team!

Paige Allison Donatelli – Graphic Design Artist and Champion for Positive Change on Social Media. In 2014, Paige created a social media platform to spread positive change called Namaste Living in a Material World. Through this platform she shares positive change content and creates artful images with inspirational quotes utilizing her self-taught graphic design skills. Paige is passionate about spreading the Highest Good for All mentality and sharing resources to help individuals live with compassion for themselves, their fellow sentient beings, and their planet. As a One Community partner, Paige is helping with graphics throughout One Community’s websites and for social media. Follow Paige’s work and Namaste Living in a Material world on Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr, or visit her site at www.namasteliving.org. 

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Widespread and lasting living-style reform can be created through open source infrastructure. Addressing the complete living experience with open source and Highest Good economic models, fulfilled living models, and models for taking care of our shared planet can create this as an evolution of sustainability that provides more of the living style people want while also regenerating our planet and teaching others how to live this way too.

• 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 through widespread and lasting living-style reform. This is the February 20th, 2015 edition (#103) of our weekly progress update detailing the previous week’s development and accomplishments:

Widespread and lasting living-style reform

One Community Weekly Progress Update #103

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

WIDESPREAD AND LASTING LIVING-STYLE REFORM INTRO @1:00

WIDESPREAD AND LASTING LIVING-STYLE REFORM HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION @2:05

• Finished the complete yellow ring of Technology and Innovation Molecule graphic (see below)
• Behind the scenes: finished brainstorming bullet points for Technology and Innovation sections of green, yellow, and about 50% of violet
• Finished the first 50% of “Human Body” themed lesson plan webpage (see below)
• Behind the scenes: finished the next 45% of the lesson plan with the central theme of “Civilization”

WIDESPREAD AND LASTING LIVING-STYLE REFORM HIGHEST GOOD FOOD: @3:37

• Researched and added two resources sections to the open source melons hub (see below)
• Researched and added two resources sections to the open source parsnips hub (see below)
• Researched and added two resources sections to the open source parsley hub (see below)
• Behind the scenes: Sandra Sellani outlined the first draft of 5 weeks of menus (see below)

WIDESPREAD AND LASTING LIVING-STYLE REFORM HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING: @4:41

• Created the Cob Village open source hub featuring the designs of Douglas Stenhouse (see below)
• Updated the Highest Good housing hub overview image and description for the Cob Village section (see below)
• Behind the scenes: continued laying out the specifics for the Open Source Murphy bed furniture assembly details (40% complete – see below)
• Behind the scenes: finished another 30% of the earthdome window and door framing reformatting details (75% complete)
• Updated all images on the crowdfunding campaign overview page (see below)
• Started moving Samuel Soroaster’s work onto the eco-bathroom and shower open source hub (10% complete – see below)
• Dave Walen completed additions to the Straw Bale Village (Pod 2) central social space design (see below)

WIDESPREAD AND LASTING LIVING-STYLE REFORM DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER: @6:56

• Updated the open source pool and spa page with details from Jennifer Engelmeier and Rick Ruggles (see below)

WIDESPREAD AND LASTING LIVING-STYLE REFORM HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY: @7:59

• Created new social media imagery and updated and featured our Communication page (see below)
• Created new social media imagery and updated and featured our Dreams Lesson Plan page (see below)
• Created new social media imagery and updated and featured our Sovereignism page (see below)
• Added a list to the page we’re developing to promote Tsu (see below)
• Updated our consensus page (see below)

WIDESPREAD AND LASTING LIVING-STYLE REFORM SUMMARY: @9:22

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WIDESPREAD AND LASTING LIVING-STYLE REFORM: HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

One Community is forwarding widespread and lasting living-style reform 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 finished the complete yellow ring of the Technology and Innovation Molecule graphic, which you can see here. This brings us to 40% complete with this image.

Widespread and Lasting Living-Style Reform – Technology and Innovation Molecule – 40% Complete

Behind the scenes we also finished brainstorming the bullet points for the Technology and Innovation sections of green, yellow, and about 50% of violet.

In addition to this we finished the first 50% of the “Human Body” themed lesson plan webpage. You can see this here showing the first half of the associated lessons that teach all subjects, to any learning level, in any learning environment using the central theme of “The Human Body.”

Widespread and Lasting Living-Style Reform – Human Body Lesson Plan – 50% Complete

Behind the scenes, we finished the next 45% of the next lesson plan we’re working on with the central theme of “Civilization.” This bring us to 55% complete with this lesson plan.

WIDESPREAD AND LASTING LIVING-STYLE REFORM: HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

One Community is forwarding widespread and lasting living-style reform 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 researched and added two resources sections to the open source melons hub, the open source parsnips hub, and the open source parsley hub:

Click for Melons Page

Click for Parsnips Page

Click for Parsley Page

In addition to this, and behind the scenes, Sandra Sellani (Vegan Chef and author of What’s Your QB?) outlined the first draft you can see here of 5 weeks of the menus she is designing for the Food Self-sufficiency Transition Plan showing widespread and lasting living-style reform that is also part of the upcoming crowdfunding campaign:

6 Week Menu Developing Behind-the-scenes – Click for the Food Self-sufficiency Transition Plan Page

WIDESPREAD AND LASTING LIVING-STYLE REFORM: HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

One Community is forwarding widespread and lasting living-style reform 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 Cob Village open source hub featuring the beautiful concept designs of Architect and Water Color Artist, Douglas Simms Stenhouse! You can see this new page and all of Doug’s amazing designs here:

Widespread and Lasting Living-Style Reform – Cob Village O.S. Hub Created – Click to Visit Page

We also updated the Highest Good housing hub overview image and description for the Cob Village section:

Widespread and Lasting Living-Style Reform – Updated Highest Good Housing Cob Overview

For the Earthbag Village, we continued laying out the specifics for the Open Source Murphy bed furniture assembly details behind the scenes promoting widespread and lasting living-style reform. This included cutting lumber and labeling pieces for the under-loft top, and assembling the top under-loft part and attaching it to the frame. What you see here is all this behind-the-scenes work-in-progress. We estimate we are now 40% complete with what is needed for the website.

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

Also behind the scenes we finished another 30% of the earthdome window and door framing reformatting details needed before moving these specifics to the website. This brings us to 75% complete with this work.

We also updated all the images on the crowdfunding campaign overview page. You can see these updates here including the header, bathroom designs, and Murphy bed design images in both 3-D and CAD:

Images Updated on the Crowdfunding Campaign Overview Page – Click to Visit

In addition to this, we started moving the amazing work and calculation details from Samuel Soroaster (Permaculturalist and sustainable designer from Green New World) based on widespread and lasting living-style reform onto the eco-bathroom and shower open source hub. You can see these new details here that we’d say encompass about 10% of the immense body of work and detail Samuel has completed over the past couple of months working with us:

Eco-bathroom and Shower Open Source Hub In Progress – Click to Visit Page

Dave Walen (Architectural Drafter & Designer and owner of Dave Philip Walen Design) also completed these additions to the Straw Bale Village (Pod 2) central social space design that includes adjustments to the layouts, increased used of straw bales for this part of the construction, and a new roof design:

Widespread and Lasting Living-Style Reform – Straw Bale Village Additions – Click to Visit

Widespread and Lasting Living-Style Reform – Straw Bale Village Additions – Click to Visit Page

WIDESPREAD AND LASTING LIVING-STYLE REFORM: DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

One Community is forwarding widespread and lasting living-style reform through a Duplicable and Sustainable City Center that is LEED Platinum certified/Sustainable, can feed 200 people at a time, provide laundry for over 300 people, is beautiful, spacious, and saves resources, money, and space:

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

This last week the core team updated the open source pool and spa page with all the additional details here from Jennifer Engelmeier, (Eco-pool and Spa Specialist and founder of www.LoveYourNaturalPool.com) and Rick Ruggles, Swimming Pool Equipment and Health Consultant with Hayward Pool Products:

Widespread and Lasting Living-Style Reform – Open Source Natural Pool and Spa Page Updated

WIDESPREAD AND LASTING LIVING-STYLE REFORM: HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS

One Community is forwarding widespread and lasting living-style reform through a Highest Good society approach to living that is founded on fulfilled living, the study of meeting human needs, Community, and making a difference in the world:

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

This last week the core team created new social media imagery and updated and featured our Communication page that teaches how we use this value in our decision making process and global change approach. We also did this for our Dreams Lesson Plan page that provides a structure for teaching all subjects, to all learning levels, in any environment, using the central theme of dreams. And we did this for our Sovereignism page that discusses our idea of a political and social structure designed to encourage widespread and lasting living-style reform and support the self-creation and sustainability of liberty and freedom for all people individually, governmentally, economically, and culturally.

Click for Communication Page

Click for Dreams Lesson Plan Page

Click for Soveriegnism Page

In addition to these, we also added the list you see here to the page we’re developing to promote Tsu. This list features forward-thinking and progressive pages we’ve run across on Tsu, our favorite new social media network.

Forward-thinking and Progressive Pages List Added to our Tsu Page – Click to Visit

And, last but not least, we updated our consensus page to include a two-step provision addressing the possibility when a very small minority (less than 10%) may choose to block the much larger consensus of the group. Read the page to see how we did this while maintaining our commitment to full consensus and the complete consensus process.

Consensus Page Update to Include a Two-Step Provision – Click to Visit

COMPREHENSIVE SOLUTION TO HUMANITY’S NEEDS

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

As we address and open source share these areas we will establish a living example of the first teacher/demonstration village purposed to teach others. To maximally facilitate duplication, One Community will provide seven duplicable examples and function indefinitely as a place people can visit and a non-profit and open source think tank continuing to further evolve and share solutions in all of the above areas and more implementing widespread and lasting living-style reform. 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.

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.

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.

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Holistic resource allocation combines physical sustainability with emotional sustainability. This is an evolution of sustainability that we feel is necessary if we are to live as the ultimate expressions of healthy and happy people that also sustainably support the planet we all share. We are creating open source blueprints, tools, tutorials, resources and a physical location people can visit to share this approach to 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 implementing Holistic Resource Allocation. This is the February 13th, 2015 edition (#102) of our weekly progress update detailing the previous week’s development and accomplishments:

Holistic Resource Allocation
One Community Weekly Progress Update #102

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

HOLISTIC RESOURCE ALLOCATION INTRO @1:00

HOLISTIC RESOURCE ALLOCATION HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION @2:02

• Finished another 15% of Technology and Innovation Molecule graphic (see below)
• Behind the scenes: finished brainstorming the rest of the Innovation Half of this molecule
• Behind the scenes: finished first 10% of lesson plan with the central theme of “Civilization”

HOLISTIC RESOURCE ALLOCATION HIGHEST GOOD FOOD: @3:05

• Added another round of images and minor edits to the new Food Self-sufficiency Transition Plan sharing the work of Benjamin Sessions (see below)
• Researched and added two resources sections to the open source tomatoes hub (see below)
• Researched and added two resources sections to the open source radishes hub (see below)
• Researched and added two resources sections to the open source peppers hub (see below)
• Added the first three amazing vegan recipes from Sandra Sellani (see below)

HOLISTIC RESOURCE ALLOCATION HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING: @4:33

• Behind the scenes: continued laying out the specifics for the Open Source Murphy bed furniture
  assembly details (35% complete – see below)
• Behind the scenes: finished another 10% of the earthdome window and door framing reformatting (45% complete – see below)
• Created updated renders of the bathroom and kitchenette design for the 150′ diameter dome for the upcoming crowdfunding campaign (see below)
• Samuel Soroaster created this schematic of the proposed rainwater catchment plans for updating 2 of the 4 toilet domes in the Earthbag Village (see below)
• Scott Thomas and his Shadow Ridge Signature Architecture Program team also finished putting a concept design into CAD for the upcoming crowdfunding campaign Murphy bed dome (see below)
• Douglas Simms Stenhouse produced updated drawings for Pod 3 that will be cob and rammed earth (see below)

HOLISTIC RESOURCE ALLOCATION DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER: @7:22

• Rob Gjerde created two plumbing designs for the indoor/outdoor natural pool and eco spa (see below)

HOLISTIC RESOURCE ALLOCATION HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY: @8:26

• Created new social media imagery and updated and featured our Phases of Community Building page (see below)
• Created new social media imagery and updated and featured our open source Sustainable Water Heating page (see below)
• Completed another round of updates and additions to our open source tax filing page to share our for-profit and nonprofit tax filing process (see below)
• Updated our “One Community and Helping Create the Venus Project” video and updated our page discussing this topic (see below)

HOLISTIC RESOURCE ALLOCATION SUMMARY: @9:30

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

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Holistic Resource Allocation

ONE COMMUNITY WEEKLY UPDATE DETAILS

HOLISTIC RESOURCE ALLOCATION: HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

One Community is forwarding holistic resource allocation 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 finished another 15% of the Technology and Innovation Molecule graphic, which you can see here:

Holistic Resource Allocation – Technology and Innovation Molecule – 30% Complete

Behind the scenes we also finished brainstorming the rest of the Innovation Half of this molecule.

Also behind the scenes, we finished the first 10% of the lesson plan with the central theme of “Civilization.”

HOLISTIC RESOURCE ALLOCATION: HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

One Community is forwarding holistic resource allocation 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 added another round of images and minor edits to the new Food Self-sufficiency Transition Plan sharing the work of Benjamin Sessions. You can see this here. Visit the page for the open source details of remote kitchen construction and food preparation for groups of 20+ people.

Holistic Resource Allocation – Images and Edits to New Food Self-sufficiency Transition Plan Page

We also researched and added two resources sections to the open source tomatoes hub, the open source radishes hub, and the open source peppers hub:

Click for Tomatoes Page

Click for Radishes Page

Click for Peppers Page

In addition to this, we added the first three amazing vegan recipes from Sandra Sellani (Vegan Chef and author of What’s Your QB?). These are now on the Food Self-sufficiency Transition Plan, including pictures of the meals as Sandra has been making them along with writing the recipes. What you see here is just the beginning of what will develop into complete weekly vegan menus covering all meals and scalable for feeding groups of people as large as needed:

First Three Vegan Recipes Added to the Food Self-sufficiency Transition Plan – Click to Visit Page

HOLISTIC RESOURCE ALLOCATION: HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

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

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

This last week the core team continued laying out the specifics for the Open Source Murphy bed furniture assembly details behind the scenes. This included assembling the different front frame sections, attaching the left and right parts to the front section, and attaching the back frame sides to the wall frame. What you see here is all this behind-the-scenes work-in-progress. We estimate we are now 35% complete with what is needed for the website.

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

Also behind the scenes we finished another 10% of the earthdome window and door framing reformatting details needed before moving these specifics to the website. This brings us to 45% complete with this work.

Earthdome Window and Door Framing Reformatting Details – In Progress – Click to Visit Page

We also created these updated renders of the bathroom and kitchenette design for the 150′ diameter dome for the upcoming crowdfunding campaign:

Updated 150′ Diameter Bathroom and Kitchenette Renders – Click to Visit Crowdfunding Page

In addition to this, Samuel Soroaster (Permaculturalist and sustainable designer from Green New World), created this schematic of the proposed rainwater catchment plans for updating 2 of the 4 toilet domes in the Earthbag Village. The central tank you see here will use rainwater for washing hands, then reuse the hand-washing greywater to flush the toilets:

Proposed Rainwater Catchment Plans for Earthbag Village Toilet Domes – Click to Visit Page

Scott Thomas and his Shadow Ridge Signature Architecture Program team also finished putting this concept design into CAD for the upcoming crowdfunding campaign Murphy bed dome that features a fold-down bed, his and hers closet area, and loft:

Holistic Resource Allocation – Murphy Bed Dome Concept Design – Click to Visit Page

Douglas Simms Stenhouse (Architect and Water Color Artist) also produced these updated drawings for Pod 3 that will be cob and rammed earth. This is the ground floor featuring a men’s and women’s bathroom, shared kitchenette and large social area and central fireplace:

Pod 3 Cob and Rammed Earth Ground Floor Conceptual Drawing – Click To Visit Page

Here is the bedroom level with 6 rooms that overlook the social area below and share the double bathrooms and showers on this level:

Pod 3 Cob and Rammed 2nd Floor Conceptual Drawing – Click for Highest Good Housing Page

Here is a front view showing the maximum use of passive solar and building to conform to the 15% grade:

Pod 3 Cob and Rammed Earth Front View Conceptual Drawing – Click for Highest Good Housing Page

And this is the cross section where you can specifically see the grade and how the structure is built into it to offer beautiful views from the rooms and shared social space, plus the option for a living roof:

Pod 3 Cob and Rammed Earth Cross Section View Conceptual Drawing – Click To Visit Page

Last but not least, here is the site plan showing how multiple units like this could be built diagonally on a grade like this so they would all maintain their views while maintaining easy path access from the front and road access from the back:

Pod 3 Cob and Rammed Earth Site Plan Conceptual Drawing – Click for Highest Good Housing Page

HOLISTIC RESOURCE ALLOCATION: DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

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

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

This last week Rob Gjerde (Pool Design & Construction Expert and owner of Sorico Design and Consulting) created these two plumbing designs for the indoor/outdoor natural pool and eco spa. We’ve got what looks like one more round of edits and revisions to these and then we’ll add the final versions to the open source pool and spa hub.

Plumbing Designs for the Duplicable City Center Indoor/Outdoor Natural Pool – Click for Page

Holistic Resource Allocation – Plumbing Designs for the Duplicable City Center Natural Spa

HOLISTIC RESOURCE ALLOCATION: HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS

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

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

This last week the core team created new social media imagery and updated and featured our Phases of Community Building page that teaches the 4 phases of community building from Dr. M. Scott Peck’s book “The Different Drum: Community Making and Peace.”

Holistic Resource Allocation – Click for Stages of Community Building Page

We also did this for our open source Sustainable Water Heating page that shares all our research into comparing the different options for water heating in remote off-grid situations:

Holistic Resource Allocation – Click for Sustainable Water Heating Page

We additionally did another round of updates and additions to our open source tax filing page to share our for-profit and nonprofit tax filing process. You can see these additions here bringing this page to what we’d say is about 30% complete:

Holistic Resource Allocation – Updates and Additions to Open Source Tax Filing Page – Click to Visit

And we updated our “One Community and Helping Create the Venus Project” video:

…and updated our page discussing this topic:

Updated the “One Community and Helping Create the Venus Project” Page – Click to Visit

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 through Holistic Resource Allocation. 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.

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 through Holistic Resource Allocation. 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.

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We see new-paradigm philanthropy as philanthropy that meets the needs of the world while also meeting the needs of the individual. More specifically, combining sustainable food, energy, housing, education, economics, fulfilled living, and earth stewardship practices into open source sustainable and fulfilled living environments. These environments will better meet the needs of the individual while also helping creating a better planet and helping others to live this way too. We call this living and creating for The Highest Good of All:

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

OUR MAIN OPEN SOURCE HUBS

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

One Community’s physical location will forward this movement as the first of many self-replicating teacher/demonstration communities, villages, and cities to be built around the world looking to implement new-paradigm philanthropy. This is the February 6th, 2015 edition (#101) of our weekly progress update detailing the previous week’s development and accomplishments:

New-Paradigm Philanthropy
One Community Weekly Progress Update #101

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

NEW-PARADIGM PHILANTHROPY INTRO @1:00

NEW-PARADIGM PHILANTHROPY: HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION @2:02

• Finished first 15% of Technology and Innovation Molecule graphic (see below)
• Behind the scenes: finished brainstorming blue circles of the Innovation Half of this molecule
• Added the huge video resource section to the Science Molecule page (see below)
• Added our first complete lesson plan example to the Lesson Plans How-to tutorial page (now 65% complete – see below)

NEW-PARADIGM PHILANTHROPY: HIGHEST GOOD FOOD: @3:30

• Researched and added two resources sections to the open source squash hub (see below)
• Researched and added two resources sections to the open source peas hub (see below)
• Researched and added two resources sections to the open source potatoes hub (see below)
• Created an initial template and tutorial for all the recipes we’ll be adding to the Food Self-sufficiency Transition Plan page with the help of Sandra Sellani (see below)

NEW-PARADIGM PHILANTHROPY: HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING: @4:27

• Continued laying out the specifics for the Open Source Murphy bed furniture assembly details (25% complete – see below)
• Behind the scenes: finished another 10% of the earthdome window and door framing reformatting (35% complete)
• Created two layouts for the bathroom and kitchenette design for the 150′ diameter dome for the upcoming crowdfunding campaign (see below)
• Samuel Soroaster created next design evolution for updating 2 of the 4 toilet domes in the Earthbag Village (see below)
• Scott Thomas and his Shadow Ridge Signature Architecture Program team finished putting a concept design into CAD for the upcoming crowdfunding campaign studio dome (see below) and completed design for 200 square foot bathroom dome (see below)
• Douglas Simms Stenhouse produced conceptual drawings for Pod 3 that will be cob and rammed earth (see below)

NEW-PARADIGM PHILANTHROPY: DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER: @6:37

• Completed final 50% of thermostatic shower valve and heat lamp energy and water savings calculations (see below)

NEW-PARADIGM PHILANTHROPY: HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY: @7:41

• Created new social media imagery and updated and featured our Highest Good Housing page (see below)
• Created new social media imagery and updated and featured our Love and Connection (see below)
• Created version 2.0 of the page we’re developing to promote Tsu and our reasons for supporting this new social network (see below)
• Created the beginnings of our open source tax filing page to share our for-profit and nonprofit tax filing process (see below)
• Added One Community to Amazon Smile (see below)
• Redid Sustainability Nonprofit website homepage to match our main site, then we redid all menus to simplify it (see below)
• Added a collection of over 50 different do-it-yourself Highest Good living resources to the Highest Good lifestyle considerations page (see below)

NEW-PARADIGM PHILANTHROPY:  SUMMARY: @9:07

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NEW-PARADIGM PHILANTHROPY: HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

One Community is forwarding new-paradigm philanthropy 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 finished the first 15% of the Technology and Innovation Molecule graphic an important part of the new-paradigm philanthropy, which you can see here:

New-Paradigm Philanthropy – Technology and Innovation Molecule – 15% Complete

Behind the scenes we also finished brainstorming the blue circles of the Innovation Half of this molecule.

We also added the huge video resource section you see here to the Science Molecule page covering the complete subject of science:

New-Paradigm Philanthropy – New Science Video Resource Section – Click to Visit Page

Last but not least, we added our first complete lesson plan example to the Lesson Plans How-to tutorial page. You can see this here, individualized as an example for a young learner that loves and is strong in Math and English, challenged in Social Sciences, and average in all other subjects. This brings the Lesson Plans How-to page to about 65% complete.

New-Paradigm Philanthropy – First Complete Lesson Plan Example Added to How-to Page

NEW-PARADIGM PHILANTHROPY: HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

One Community is forwarding new-paradigm philanthropy 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 researched and added two resources sections to the open source squash hub, the open source peas hub, and the open source potatoes hub:

Click for Squash Page

Click for Peas Page

Click for Potatoes Page

Also, with the help of Sandra Sellani (Vegan Chef and author of What’s Your BQ?), we created this initial template and tutorial for all the recipes we’ll be adding to the Food Self-sufficiency Transition Plan page.

New-Paradigm Philanthropy – Initial Recipe Template and Tutorial – Click to Visit Page

NEW-PARADIGM PHILANTHROPY: HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

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

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

This last week the core team continued laying out the specifics for the Open Source Murphy bed furniture assembly details. Specifically instructions for cutting lumber and labeling for wall front sections and assembling the wall frame. You can see this behind-the-scenes work-in-progress here. We estimate we are now 25% complete with what is needed for the website.

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

Also behind the scenes we finished another 10% of the earthdome window and door framing reformatting details needed before moving these specifics to the website. This brings us to 35% complete with this work.

We additionally created two layouts and decided on this second one for the bathroom and kitchenette design for the 150′ diameter dome for the upcoming crowdfunding campaign.

Bathroom and Kitchenette Design for the 150′ Diameter Dome – Click for Crowdfunding Page

Choosing this Bathroom and Kitchenette Design for the 150′ Diameter Dome – Click To Visit Page

In addition to this, Samuel Soroaster (Permaculturalist and sustainable designer from Green New World), created this next evolution for updating 2 of the 4 toilet domes promoting new-paradigm philanthropy in the Earthbag Village. This updated design still incorporates increased water collection and reuse of greywater to flush the toilets. In addition to this though, it now uses space more efficiently while allowing all bathrooms to be ADA complaint.

Next Evolution for Updating Toilet Domes in the Earthbag Village – Click for Page

Scott Thomas and his Shadow Ridge Signature Architecture Program team also finished putting this concept design into CAD for the upcoming crowdfunding campaign studio dome.

New-Paradigm Philanthropy – Studio Dome Concept Design – Click for Crowdfunding Page

…and this design for a 200 square foot bathroom dome.

200 Square Foot Bathroom Dome Design – Click for Crowdfunding Page

Douglas Simms Stenhouse (Architect and Water Color Artist) also produced these conceptual drawings for Pod 3 that will be cob and rammed earth. These designs feature 6 living spaces that share a common social area, bathrooms, and kitchen. They also feature maximization of passive solar, a central fireplace, and designs for construction on a slope.

Pod 3 Cob and Rammed Earth Front-view Conceptual Drawings – Click for Highest Good Housing Page

Pod 3 Cob and Rammed Earth Top-down view Conceptual Drawings – Click To Visit Page

Pod 3 Cob and Rammed Earth Side-section Conceptual Drawings – Click To Visit Page

NEW-PARADIGM PHILANTHROPY: DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

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

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

This last week the core team completed the second 50% of the thermostatic shower valve and heat lamp energy and water savings calculations implementing new-paradigm philanthropy. Here is a picture of this work completed behind the scenes before we format it for the website. What you see here will be used for both the Duplicable City Center and the Earthbag Village.

Thermostatic Shower Valve and Heat Lamp Energy and Water Savings Calculations – Click To Visit

NEW-PARADIGM PHILANTHROPY: HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS

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

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

This last week the core team created new social media imagery and updated and featured our Highest Good Housing overview page that outlines the 7 different village models we will build based on new-paradigm philanthropy. We also did this for our Love and Connection as a core value page sharing how we use this value in our decision making process and strategy for global change promoting a new-paradigm philanthropy.

Click for Highest Good Housing Page

Click for Love and Connection Page

We also created version 2.0 of the page we’re developing to promote Tsu and our reasons for supporting this new social network.

Version 2.0 of the Page We’ll be Using to Promote Tsū – Click to Visit

And we created the beginnings of our open source tax filing page to share our for-profit and nonprofit tax filing process.

New-Paradigm Philanthropy – Open Source Tax Filing Page – Click to Visit

We also added One Community to Amazon Smile.

One Community now on Amazon Smile – Click for Page to Sign up

We also redid the Sustainability Nonprofit website homepage to match our main site.

New-Paradigm Philanthropy – Sustainability Non Profit Homepage – Click to Visit

We also added a collection of over 50 different do-it-yourself Highest Good living resources promoting new-paradigm philanthropy to the Highest Good lifestyle considerations page. These new resources cover everything from DIY baby wipes, to household cleaners, how to make your own makeup, butter, salad dressing, syrup and more.

50 Do-it-Yourself Highest Good Living Resources on Highest Good Lifestyle Page – Click to Visit

WHY ONE COMMUNITY IS CREATING THIS

The One Community self-replicating model is capable of creating a sustainable planet incorporating new-paradigm philanthropy 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 through new-paradigm philanthropy 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.

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 through new-paradigm philanthropy. 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 promoting a new-paradigm philanthropy. 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.

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

One Community welcomes Sandra Sellani to the Food Design Team!

Sandra Sellani – Business Author, Speaker, Consultant, and Vegan Chef: Sandra is a business author, speaker, strategist and consultant with more than 20 years experience in branding and marketing. She is the author of “What’s Your BQ? (Brand Quotient®)” and creator of the BQ Test, a 40-question diagnostic tool that helps business leaders determine their brand strengths and weaknesses quickly and accurately. Her goal is to simplify and demystify branding by teaching methods that work with any company in any market. She has an Executive MBA from Pepperdine University, Malibu, CA and a Bachelor’s Degree in Music from Misericordia University, Dallas, Pennsylvania. With a passion for animal welfare that began as a child, Sandra has also been a vegetarian for 29 years, and a vegan for the last four. She is a passionate advocate for animal rights and plant-based living. Now trained as a vegan Chef, Sandra has certifications in both Basic and Advanced Raw Cuisine from the Matthew Kenney Culinary Academy in Santa Monica, CA, and a certification in Plant-Based Nutrition from the T. Colin Campbell Center for Nutrition Studies. As a One Community Partner, Sandra is helping create delicious vegan menus as part of the open source Highest Good food and food transition to sustainability plan. 

WELCOME TO THE TEAM SANDRA!

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

INVESTOR PAGES

OVERVIEW       ●       LOCATION       ●       FUNDING

GET INVOLVED

CONSULTANTS     ●     WAYS ANYONE CAN HELP     ●     MEMBERSHIP

100 years of healing and regeneration starts somewhere. We believe the most successful strategy will include specific and Highest Good of All approaches to food, energy, housing, education, economics, fulfilled living, and earth stewardship components. With this in mind, we are creating open source tools, tutorials, resources, and blueprints covering all of these areas.

• 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 January 30th, 2015 edition (#100) of our weekly progress update detailing the previous week’s development and accomplishments:

100 Years of Healing and Regeneration

One Community Weekly Progress Update #100

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

100 YEARS OF HEALING AND REGENERATION INTRO @1:00

100 YEARS OF HEALING AND REGENERATION HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION @2:21

• Finished image research and remaining 50% of the “Human Body” lesson plan (see below)
• Behind the scenes completed another 40% of the “Human Body” lesson plan design itself (now 100% complete)
• Behind the scenes finished brainstorming and design of the green and yellow sections of the upcoming Technology and Innovation Molecule (now 60% complete)

100 YEARS OF HEALING AND REGENERATION HIGHEST GOOD FOOD: @3:35

• Researched and added two resources sections to the open source eggplants hub (see below)
• Researched and added two resources sections to the open source alliums hub (see below)
• Researched and added two resources sections to the open source cucumbers hub (see below)

100 YEARS OF HEALING AND REGENERATION HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING: @4:19

• Continued laying out the specifics for the Open Source Murphy bed furniture assembly details (20% done – see below)
• Behind the scenes: finished another 15% of the earthdome window and door framing reformatting (25% complete)
• Completed website addition of the total video outline specifics for the Earthbag and Aircrete Dome Finishing, Water Proofing, and Interior Finish (see below)
• Samuel Soroaster created design evolutions for updating 2 of the 4 toilet domes in the Earthbag Village (see below)

100 YEARS OF HEALING AND REGENERATION DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER: @5:58

• Completed 50% of the thermostatic shower valve and heat lamp energy and water savings calculations (see below)

100 YEARS OF REGENERATION HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY: @6:59

• Created new social media imagery and updated and featured our Teaching Strategies page (see below)
• Created new social media imagery and updated and featured our Freedom as a core value page (see below)
• Created new social media imagery and updated and featured our New Life in a New World page (see below)
• Created version 1.0 of the page we’ll be using to promote Tsu and our reasons for supporting this new social network (see below)
• Created version 1.0 of the page promoting GoodShop (see below)
• Behind the scenes, Irfan Saeed helped us with research into the specifics of the legal landscape for open sourcing sustainable building methods

100 YEARS OF HEALING AND REGENERATION SUMMARY: @8:13

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

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100 Years of Healing and Regeneration

ONE COMMUNITY WEEKLY UPDATE DETAILS

100 YEARS OF HEALING AND REGENERATION HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

One Community is building the foundation for 100 years of healing and regeneration 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 finished all the image research and remaining 50% of the “Human Body” lesson plan mindmap you see here:

100 Years of Healing and Regeneration – Human Body Mindmap – Click to Visit Page

Behind the scenes we also completed another 40% of the “Human Body” lesson plan design itself – bringing us to 90% complete there.

Behind the scenes we also finished brainstorming and design of the green and yellow sections of the upcoming Technology and Innovation Molecule – this brings us to 60% complete there.

100 YEARS OF HEALING AND REGENERATION HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

One Community is building the foundation for 100 years of healing and regeneration 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 researched and added two resources sections to the open source eggplant hub, the open source alliums hub, and the open source cucumbers hub.

Click for Eggplants Page

Click for Alliums Page

Click for Cucumbers Page

100 YEARS OF HEALING AND REGENERATION HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

One Community is building the foundation for 100 years of healing and regeneration through Highest Good housing that is artistic and beautiful, more affordable, more space efficient, lasts longer, DIY buildable, and constructed with healthy and sustainable materials:

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

This last week the core team continued laying out the specifics for the Open Source Murphy bed furniture assembly details. You can see the most recent behind-the-scenes image of this work in progress here. We estimate we are now 20% complete with what is needed for the website.

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

Also behind the scenes we finished another 15% of the earthdome window and door framing reformatting details needed before moving these specifics to the website. This brings us to 25% complete with this work. Both the Murphy bed furniture and earthdome window and door framing details are part of the upcoming crowdfunding campaign.

Earthdome Window and Door Framing Reformatting Details – In Progress – Click to Visit Page

Also for that campaign, we completed website addition of the total video outline specifics for the Earthbag and Aircrete Dome Finishing, Water Proofing, and Interior Finish section of the site.

Video Specifics Earthbag, Aircrete Dome Finishing, Water Proofing, and Interior Finish – Click to Visit

In addition to this, Samuel Soroaster (Permaculturalist and sustainable designer from Green New World), created these design evolutions for updating 2 of the 4 toilet domes in the Earthbag Village. These updated designs incorporate increased water collection, reuse of greywater to flush the toilets, and provide an alternative to the vermiculture design we’ll use for the other two bathrooms.

100 Years of Healing and Regeneration – Toilet Dome Updated Draft Designs – Click to Visit Page

100 YEARS OF HEALING AND REGENERATION DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

One Community is building the foundation for 100 years of healing and regeneration through a Duplicable and Sustainable City Center that is LEED Platinum certified/Sustainable, can feed 200 people at a time, provide laundry for over 300 people, is beautiful, spacious, and saves resources, money, and space:

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

This last week the core team completed 50% of the thermostatic shower valve and heat lamp energy and water savings calculations. Here is a picture of this work developing behind the scenes. What you see here will be used for both the Duplicable City Center and the Earthbag Village.

Thermostatic Shower Valve, Heat Lamp Energy and Water Savings Calculations – Click for Page

100 YEARS OF HEALING AND REGENERATION HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS

One Community is building the foundation for 100 years of healing and regeneration through a Highest Good society approach to living that is founded on fulfilled living, the study of meeting human needs, Community, and making a difference in the world:

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

This last week the core team created new social media imagery and updated and featured our Teaching Strategies page that is an open source education resource of strategies drawn from Montessori, Waldorf, Orff, Reggio, Multi-Intelligences, and more. We also did this for our Freedom as a core value page sharing how we use this value in our decision making process and strategy for global change. And we did this for our New Life in a New World page that presents a succinct overview of our global transformation approach.

Click for Teaching Strategies Page

Click for Freedom Page

Click for New Life in a New World Page

We also created version 1.0 of the page we’ll be using to promote Tsū and our reasons for supporting this new social network.

100 Years of Healing and Regeneration – Version 1.0 Page – Using to Promote Tsū – Click to Visit

And we created version 1.0 of the page promoting GoodShop and how people can use their usual shopping and internet search habits to raise money for our non-profit (and others) at no cost to them.

100 Years of Healing and Regeneration – Version 1.0 – Using to Promote GoodShop – Click to Visit

Behind the scenes, Irfan Saeed helped us with research into the specifics of the legal landscape for open sourcing sustainable building methods.

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.

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 through 100 years of healing and regeneration. 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.) through 100 years of healing and regeneration. We see these areas as interdependent and requiring a comprehensive solution if humanity is to move ecologically, socially, economically, and permanently towards a truly sustainable future for everyone.

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

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

COMPREHENSIVE SOLUTION TO HUMANITY’S NEEDS

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

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

SUMMARY

One Community sees the issues of the world as interdependent and interconnected. To address them simultaneously, we are open-source blueprinting a more advanced standard of living by designing holistic, environmentally-regenerative, self-sustaining, adaptable solutions for all areas of sustainability supporting 100 Years of healing and regeneration . We will model these within a comprehensive “village/city” which will be built in the southwestern U.S. This teacher/demonstration hub will be a place people can experience a new way of living and then replicate it with our open source blueprints: creating a model solution that creates additional solution-creating models.

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

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INVESTOR PAGES

OVERVIEW       ●       LOCATION       ●       FUNDING

GET INVOLVED

CONSULTANTS     ●     WAYS ANYONE CAN HELP     ●     MEMBERSHIP

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If making a positive difference is presented as easy enough, affordable enough, and attractive enough, it will predictably gain mainstream support and spread on its own. One Community is creating open source food, energy, housing, education, economic, fulfilled living, and earth stewardship components and combining them as a replicable Highest Good society model for people interested in making a positive difference with how they live. We are designing these to be built as a complete and globally-replicable Highest Good of All teacher/demonstration hubs.

• 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 January 23th, 2015 edition (#99) of our weekly progress update detailing the previous week’s development and accomplishments:

Making a Positive Difference
One Community Weekly Progress Update #99

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

MAKING A POSITIVE DIFFERENCE INTRO @1:00

MAKING A POSITIVE DIFFERENCE: HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION @1:58

• Finished image research and first 50% of the “Human Body” lesson plan (see below)
• Behind the scenes completed another 30% of the “Human Body” lesson plan itself (now 60% complete)
• Added the complete explanations for the Lesson Plans How-to tutorial page sections (see below)

MAKING A POSITIVE DIFFERENCE: HIGHEST GOOD FOOD: @3:19

• Researched and added two resources sections to the open source beans hub (see below)
• Researched and added two resources sections to the open source beets hub (see below)
• Researched and added two resources sections to the open source celery hub (see below)
• Researched and added two resources sections to the open source lettuce hub (see below)
• Researched and added two resources sections to the open source corn hub (see below)
• Benjamin Sessions helped us begin adding images to the Food Self-sufficiency Transition Plan page (now about 20% done – see below)

MAKING A POSITIVE DIFFERENCE: HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING: @4:17

• Finished another 5% of the Open Source Murphy bed furniture assembly details behind the scenes (10% done – see below)
• Behind the scenes: finished the first 10% of the earthdome window and door framing reformatting
• Completed website addition of video outline specifics for the Site Clearing, Preparation, and Maintenance (see below)
• Samuel Soroaster created the initial draft of our updated bathroom design (see below)

MAKING A POSITIVE DIFFERENCE: DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER: @5:51

• Jennifer Engelmeier helped us add another 50% to hardware components of the open source eco-pool design page (see below)

MAKING A POSITIVE DIFFERENCE: HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY: @6:54

• Created new social media imagery and updated and featured our Lesson Plans for Life page (see below)
• Created new social media imagery and updated and featured our our Honesty and Integrity page (see below)
• Added new icon links to our website making it easier to volunteer, donate, shop, and find these updates (see below)

MAKING A POSITIVE DIFFERENCE SUMMARY: @7:40

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

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ONE COMMUNITY WEEKLY UPDATE DETAILS

HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

One Community is making a positive difference 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 finished all the image research and initial design work for the first 50% of the “Human Body” lesson plan mindmap you see here:

Human Body Mindmap – 50% Complete – Click for Page

Behind the scenes we also completed another 30% of the “Human Body” lesson plan design itself – bringing us to 60% complete there.

This last week we also added the complete explanations you see here for the Lesson Plans How-to tutorial page. These descriptions go with the image we created the week before to teach people all the components of the lesson plan pages. This brings the Lesson Plans How-to page to about 50% complete. Next will be providing several complete and detailed lesson plan examples and an FAQ.

Explanations Added to How-to Lesson Plan Tutorial Page – Click to Visit

HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

One Community is making a positive difference 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 researched and added two resources sections to the open source beans hub, the open source beets hub, the open source celery hub, the open source lettuce hub, and the open source corn hub:

Click for Beans Page

Click for Beets Page

Click for Celery Page

Click for Lettuce Page

Click for Corn Page

We also began adding images to the excellent work Benjamin Sessions has been doing for the Food Self-sufficiency Transition Plan that is now about 20% done on the website:

Images Added to Food Self-sufficiency Transition Plan Page – Click to Visit

HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

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

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

This last week the core team continued laying out the specifics for the Open Source Murphy bed furniture assembly details. You can see a behind-the-scenes image of this work in progress here. We estimate we are now 10% complete with what is needed for the website:

Open Source Murphy Bed Furniture Assembly Details Developing Behind-the-scenes

Also behind the scenes, we finished the first 10% of the earthdome window and door framing reformatting details needed before moving these specifics to the website. Both the Murphy bed furniture and earthdome window and door framing details are part of the upcoming crowdfunding campaign.

Also for that campaign, we completed website addition of the total video outline specifics for the Site Clearing, Preparation, and Maintenance section of the site:

Dome Home Site Clearing Preparation – Click to Visit Page

In addition to this, Samuel Soroaster (Permaculturalist and sustainable designer from Green New World), created this initial draft of our updated bathroom design for 2 of the 4 toilet domes in the Earthbag Village. This design will incorporate increased water collection, reuse of greywater to flush the toilets, and provide an alternative to the vermiculture design we’ll use for the other two bathrooms:

Toilet Dome Updated Draft Design – Click to Visit Page

DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

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

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

This last week the core team added another 50% to hardware components of the open source eco-pool design page thanks to the information and specifics provided by Jennifer Engelmeier, our Eco-pool and Spa Specialist and founder of www.LoveYourNaturalPool.com

Eco-Pool Hardware Components Added to Page – Click to Visit

HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS

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

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

This last week the core team created new social media imagery and updated and featured our Lesson Plans for Life page that shares the 12 lesson plans we’ve completed and the additional 30 we’re still working on. We also added social media imagery for our Honesty and Integrity core values page sharing how we use this value in our decision making process and strategy for global change.

Click for Lesson Plans for Life Page

Click for Honesty and Integrity Page

We also added new icon links to our website making it easier to volunteer, donate, shop, and find these updates. Here’s what these new icons look like:

New Icon Links Added to Website – Click to Visit Homepage

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.

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.

COMPREHENSIVE SOLUTION TO HUMANITY’S NEEDS

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

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

GLOBALLY IMPLEMENTABLE REPLICATION MODEL

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

Igniting a renaissance of new ideas can be accomplished through open source sustainability and Highest Good living components. One Community is creating these to be combined as teacher/demonstration hubs to be built around the world:

• 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 January 16th, 2015 edition (#98) of our weekly progress update detailing the previous week’s development and accomplishments:

Igniting a Renaissance of New Ideas
One Community Weekly Progress Update #98

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

IGNITING A RENAISSANCE OF NEW IDEAS INTRO @1:00

IGNITING A RENAISSANCE OF NEW IDEAS: HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION @2:04

• Created this explanatory image for the Lesson Plans How-to tutorial page (see below)
• Behind the scenes we finished brainstorming the red and orange sections of the upcoming Technology and Innovation Molecule
• Behind the scenes we also finished 30% of design work for the written lesson plan with the central theme of “Human Body”

IGNITING A RENAISSANCE OF NEW IDEAS: HIGHEST GOOD FOOD: @3:25

• Researched and added two resources sections to the open source carrots hub (see below)
• We also researched and added two resources sections to the open source cole-crops hub (see below)
• Behind the scenes Benjamin Sessions researched images and costs for the temporary kitchen we’ll be open sourcing as part of the Food Self-sufficiency Transition Plan and upcoming crowdfunding campaign

IGNITING A RENAISSANCE OF NEW IDEAS: HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING: @4:20

• Began laying out the specifics for the Open Source Murphy bed furniture assembly (see below)
• Behind the scenes, we finished the final 30% of the video production outline for all the components of the upcoming crowdfunding campaign
• Completed website addition of the total video outline specifics for the Earthbag 200-Square-foot Dome and Loft Construction (see below)
• We created the same details for the Aircrete 200-Square-foot Dome and Loft Construction
• Behind the scenes we finished the final 25% of the earthdome window and door framing descriptions Draft A. This brings us to 100% complete there and we’ve now ready to begin formatting in preparation for adding this to the website.
• Scott Thomas and his Shadow Ridge Signature Architecture Program added the updated shower and toilet domes for the Earthbag Village into the complete CAD village layout (see below)

IGNITING A RENAISSANCE OF NEW IDEAS: DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER: @5:44

• This week the core team created Rev B of the Duplicable City Center hydronic piping diagram (see below)
• James Nance laid out the preliminary plumbing details for CAD (see below)
• Samuel Soroaster also began the behind-the-scenes redesign of our sustainable water systems and sewage systems design (see below)

IGNITING A RENAISSANCE OF NEW IDEAS: HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY: @7:00

• Created new social media imagery and updated and featured our Hoop Houses Open Source Hub (see below)
• Created new social media imagery and updated and featured our Culture of Personal Growth page (see below)
• Created new social media imagery and updated and featured our True Community page (see below)
• Completely rebuilt and simplified our Partner and Consultant Interest page (see below)
• Behind the scenes, Irfan Saeed, the newest member of our legal team, also helped us research copyright issues related to internet image use and sharing

IGNITING A RENAISSANCE OF NEW IDEAS SUMMARY: @8:03

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

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

YOU CAN ALSO JOIN US THROUGH SOCIAL MEDIA

 

ONE COMMUNITY WEEKLY UPDATE DETAILS

HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

One Community is igniting a renaissance of new ideas 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 created this explanatory image for the Lesson Plans How-to tutorial page. This image teaches people all the components of the lesson plan pages and the full page, which we’d say is now about 30% done, will show how to use the lesson plans by providing several complete and detailed examples and an FAQ.

Explanatory Image for Lesson Plans How-to Tutorial Page – Click to Visit

Behind the scenes we finished brainstorming and design of the red and orange sections of the upcoming Technology and Innovation Molecule

Behind the scenes we also finished 30% of design work for the written lesson plan with the central theme of “Human Body”

HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

One Community is igniting a renaissance of new ideas 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 researched and added two resources sections to the open source carrots hub:

New Resources Sections Added to Open Source Carrots Hub – Click to Visit Page

We also researched and added two resources sections to the open source cole-crops hub:

New Resources Sections Added to Open Source Cole-Crops Hub – Click to Visit Page

Behind the scenes Benjamin Sessions researched images and costs for the temporary kitchen we’ll be open sourcing as part of the Food Self-sufficiency Transition Plan and upcoming crowdfunding campaign

HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

One Community is igniting a renaissance of new ideas 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 began laying out the specifics for the Open Source Murphy bed furniture assembly details. You can see a behind-the-scenes image of this work here. We are about 10% done:

Murphy Bed Furniture Assembly Details in Progress – Click to Visit Page

Behind the scenes, we finished the final 30% of the video production outline for all the components of the upcoming crowdfunding campaign

Then we completed website addition of the total video outline specifics for the Earthbag 200-Square-foot Dome and Loft Construction that you can see here. We created the same details for the Aircrete 200-Square-foot Dome and Loft Construction. Here are the Earthbag 200-Square-foot Dome and Loft Construction details:

Earthbag 200-Square-foot Dome and Loft Construction Video Overview Added – Click to Visit Page

Behind the scenes we finished the final 25% of the earthdome window and door framing descriptions Draft A. This brings us to 100% complete there and we’ve now ready to begin formatting in preparation for adding this to the website.

In addition to this, Scott Thomas and his Shadow Ridge Signature Architecture Program added the updated shower and toilet domes for the Earthbag Village into the complete CAD village layout:

Shower and Toilet Domes for the Earthbag Village Added into CAD – Click to Visit Page

DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

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

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

This last week the core team created Rev B of the Duplicable City Center hydronic piping diagram you can see here:

Duplicable City Center Hydronic Piping Diagram – Rev B – Click to Visit Page

James Nance (Mechanical Engineer and Project Manager) also laid out the preliminary plumbing details so we can begin our search for a CAD drafter with plumbing experience.

Preliminary Plumbing Details – Click to Visit Page

Behind the scenes, Samuel Soroaster (Permaculturalist and sustainable designer from Green New World) also began the redesign of our sustainable water systems and sewage systems design. What you see here is a snapshot of this work in progress.

Water Systems and Sewage Systems Redesign in Progress- Click to Visit Page

HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS

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

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

This last week the core team created new social media imagery and updated and featured our Hoop Houses Open Source Hub sharing how to build hoop houses, our Culture of Personal Growth page sharing how this is a core value for us in creating global transformation, and our True Community page that is also a core value.

Click for Hoop House Page

Click for Personal Growth Page

Click for True Community Page

We also completely rebuilt our Partner and Consultant Interest page. You can see this here where it now features a cleaner and more streamlined look and an online data entry form that replaces the need for someone to copy and paste content into an email.

Updated Partner and Consultant Interest Page – Click to Visit

Behind the scenes Irfan Saeed, the newest member of our legal team, also helped us research copyright issues related to internet image use and sharing.

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

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WHAT ONE COMMUNITY IS CREATING

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

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

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

BUILDING THE FIRST OF MANY

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

WHY ONE COMMUNITY IS CREATING THIS

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

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

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

INSPIRING SUSTAINABILITY WITH OPEN SOURCE

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

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

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

COMPREHENSIVE SOLUTION TO HUMANITY’S NEEDS

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

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