Posted on January 18, 2018 by One Community
One Community welcomes David Olivero to the Engineering Team as our newest Volunteer/Consultant!
Mechanical Engineer & Data Scientist: David holds a BS in Mechanical Engineering from Penn State University, and an MS in Mechanical Engineering from Colorado State University. He is a licensed Professional Engineer in the state of Colorado, and a Certified Solidworks Professional. His graduate studies centered on design with advanced composite materials, including bicycle frames, SAE formula one vehicle chassis, and EMI shielding for spacecraft. As a design engineer and manager for Seagate Technology, he has extensive experience with component design and manufacturability, and project management. David uses Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) programs like Fluent, CFX, and FloTherm to model and find solutions to airflow and heat transfer challenges. David and his wife and step-daughter live in the stunning San Juan mountains of Colorado. He is an avid homesteader and gardener, and serves on the Board of Directors for the Living Systems Institute in Denver, where he co-created the “food cell” concept, centered on a novel climate battery greenhouse design. As a One Community Volunteer, he is assisting with the design of the HVAC and ventilation systems for the Duplicable City Center component.
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Posted on January 17, 2018 by One Community
One Community welcomes Shubhra Mittal to the Software Development Team as our newest Volunteer/Consultant!
Software Delivery Manager: Shubhra has over ten years of professional software development and testing experience. She has worked extensively in .NET technologies and is now helping lead the open source Highest Good Network development. Shubhra believes that all resources must be developed with sustainability as the guiding principles to ensure future generations can inherit the legacy of a green and clean planet. Outside of work she enjoys cooking, nature walks, and reading.
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Posted on January 14, 2018 by One Community
Systems for global conservation are needed if we are to create a sustainable planet. Replicable and open source and free-sharing cooperatives are one way to establish the needed infrastructure for such systems.
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, contributing to building systems for global conservation. This is the January 14th, 2018 edition (#251) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments:
Here is the bullet-point list of this last week’s design and progress discussed in detail in the video above:
SYSTEMS FOR GLOBAL CONSERVATION INTRO: @0:34
SYSTEMS FOR GLOBAL CONSERVATION – HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING: @7:10
SYSTEMS FOR GLOBAL CONSERVATION – DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER: @9:32
SYSTEMS FOR GLOBAL CONSERVATION – HIGHEST GOOD FOOD: @10:34
SYSTEMS FOR GLOBAL CONSERVATION – HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION: @11:05
SYSTEMS FOR GLOBAL CONSERVATION – HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY: @11:37
SYSTEMS FOR GLOBAL CONSERVATION SUMMARY: @12:47
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One Community is creating systems for global conservation 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:
The core team continued Sketchup design for the open source outdoor areas of the Recycled Materials Village (Pod 6), dedicating to systems for global conservation. This week we continued working on the outdoor gym, where we designed the central equipment features of the main area.
The core team also continued working on the Murphy bed instructions. This week we set up page 7.1.3, revised page 7.1.1, and created page 7.1.1f, and 1.1.2, as shown here.
And the core team continued working on the Water Recycling Net Zero Bathroom Design page, in pursit of building systems for global conservation. This week’s focus was adding the final text and images to the page. We’d say we’re now about 40% complete with the page.
Dean Scholz (Architectural Designer) continued helping us create quality Cob Village (Pod 3) renders. Here is update 96 of Dean’s work, this week’s focus was continuing designing the door seen here that will be for the freezer when complete.
Dan Alleck (Designer and Illustrator) completed his 12th week working on the Compressed Earth Block Village render additions. This week he made additional updates to the trees, people, and textures in this final render of the front access way, showcasing his vision for systems for global conservation. This image is now updated on the site also.
Aparna Tandon (Architect) continued her work on the Compressed Earth Block Village external elements. What you see here is her 44th week of work that created this initial presentation for the entire landscaped area.
Mihaela “Michelle” Pinzaru (Interior Designer and Architectural Drafter) also completed her 3rd week taking over development of the Tree House Village (Pod 7) residential design, helping to develop systems for global conservation. This week she updated the windows, added a small office space under the stairs, added a pull-down ladder to the central 2nd floor, and made all the central seating fold-up seats.
And Jagannathan Shankar Mahadevan (Mechanical Engineer) completed his 12th week volunteering in pursuit of the development of systems for global conservation. This week’s focus was beginning work on the Shipping Container Village Materials Costs by completing all the initial cost calculations for materials, plumbing, electrical, furniture, etc. as shown here.
One Community is creating systems for global conservation 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:
Haoxuan “Hayes” Lei (Structural Engineer) continued work on the City Center structural engineering. What you see here are his next generation of updated calculations and tutorial content for the live and dead loads, as the basis of systems for global conservation.
David Olivero (Mechanical Engineer & Data Scientist) completed his 8th week helping with the HVAC Designs for the Duplicable City Center. This week’s focus was running calculations to compare a square structure of the same volume to the current dome designs. You can see the initial results here.
Dipti Dhondarkar, (Electrical Engineer) continued with her 65th week of work on the lighting specifics for the City Center. This week’s focus was finishing the modeling of the mezzanine area, 3rd floor sunrise patio, and 4th floor cupola, as shown here.
One Community is creating systems for global conservation 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:
This week, the core team continued work on the data for the food calculations on the Food Self-sufficiency Transition Plan pages, and began creating daily eating plans using the updated guidelines, as you see here contributing to systems for global conservation.
One Community is creating systems for global conservation 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:
This week, the core team began researching images to add to the education Evaluation and Evolution process open source pages and tutorials. This week we found 9 images for the Assessment Format page, as you can see here.
One Community is creating systems for global conservation 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:
Now that it’s the new year, the core team scheduled our first two months of social media posts. Did you know our whole social media strategy is open source too? The pictures here show some of this and you can visit the site for the rest.
Ashwin Patil (Web Developer) continued working on the search engines for the website. This week he created version 3.0 of the Highest Good of All search engine. You can see some of this work-in-progress here.
The Highest Good Network software team consists of Sowmya Manohar (Software Engineer, Web Developer & Net Application Developer), Priti Kothari (Information Technology Enthusiast), Shubhra Mittal (Software Delivery Manager), and Priyanka Singh (Software Developer). This week the team implemented user login that is mandatory for all routes. Created a basic form for user to view and edit his profile and created the admin route and implemented login authentication and the UI page.
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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, committed to empowering systems for global conservation. 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 in terms of systems for global conservation.
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, in pursit of systems for global conservation. 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.
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 for systems for global conservation.
The One Community self-replicating model is capable of creating a sustainable planet within 30 years through building systems for global conservation. 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 and t empower systems for global conservation. 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 systems for global conservation 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, contributing to create a systems for global conservation. 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.
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, ultimately aiming for systems for global conservation.
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 and an achievable way for systems for global conservation, 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 to build a systems for global conservation and to achieve the goal of highest good of all, 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.
One Community is open source sharing an evolution of sustainable living that addresses the complete human experience, in pursuit of systems for global conservation. We are doing this because we see the solutions for global food, housing, energy, education, social inequality, ethical business practices, earth regenerative practices, and a desire for a more fulfilling living experience as inseparably interconnected. As a comprehensive solution, we are addressing all these areas simultaneously and open source free-sharing everything needed for individual duplication and/or duplication as complete self-replicating teacher/demonstration communities, villages, and cities to be built around the world, contributing to systems for global conservation.
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 the principles of systems for global conservation. 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.
One Community is building solution-creating models designed to create additional solution-creating models to specifically facilitate exponential and sustainable global teacher/demonstration village growth. The following four phases of the strategy we are applying are designed to support each other and accelerate the process globally:
Phase I: Systems for Global Conservation by Demonstrating a Better Way
We are designing One Community to demonstrate an experience of living that we believe most people will consider to be better because it will be more enjoyable and fulfilling. We also think most people will consider it better because it is made possible specifically through a foundation of sustainable sustainability and a philosophy that is for The Highest Good of All.
Phase II: Systems for Global Conservation with Open Source Project-Launch Blueprinting
Everything we do we are open source project-launch blueprinting and free-sharing to make it as easy and affordable as possible to duplicate, adapt, and evolve in the manner that suits each individual and/or group’s needs. Free-sharing information like this is our aggressive-exposure engine and an aspect of One Community that will accelerate indefinitely as we continue to build our team, move onto the property, and continuously build and evolve everything that is One Community.
Phase III: Systems for Global Conservation by Inviting the World to Participate
Everything we are open source project-launch blueprinting is designed to invite the world to participate by duplicating it as either individual components or complete teacher/demonstration communities, villages, and cities that will be able to be built almost anywhere in the world. Additionally, people can join One Community as members, consultants and/or partners, or use the suggestions links on our open source project-launch blueprinting hubs to help with the design, implementation, and evolution process. Scholarships, weekend learning and work crews, and tourism will be foundations of One Community once we have sufficient infrastructure in place to support these options.
Phase IV: Systems for Global Conservation with Universal Appeal and Global Expansion
As One Community continues evolving and establishing ourselves, everything we create and promote will serve as the engine to inspire people to align with the concept of open source and sustainable living for The Highest Good of All. We are doing this to create mainstream appeal and our path to achieving this appeal is demonstrating a happier, more affordable, and ecologically friendly model of living that can be built anywhere in the world.
Open source project-launch blueprinting it all is how we believe the model will spread and, possibly most importantly, that it will predictably spread even faster in the areas where it is needed most because building restrictions, the cost of land, and materials costs are in most cases lower in these areas.
We are creating everything One Community does as open source and free-shared blueprints because we see this as the path to a new Golden Age of creativity, innovation, cooperation, and collaboration for all of humanity. Our model is a solution model that creates additional solution creating models enabling people to live and collaborate globally for The Highest Good of All. The easier we make everything we do, the faster we see the world transitioning the faster we see the world transitioning towards systems for global conservation.
Every aspect of this model supports itself and contributes to its success, from the sustainable food, energy, and homes, to the social architecture, One Community Education Program, and open source sharing model itself. Each piece can be accessed, evolved, and even re-birthed as something completely new. It can be duplicated by itself or with other modules, with applications as diverse as the people who want and need them. The constantly expanding total model will additionally be able to be used in its entirety as the open source project-launch blueprint for a variety of duplicate teacher/demonstration communities, villages, and cities capable of being built virtually anywhere.
The most profound part is: the more we open source share, the more we help move everyone forward, the more people know about what we are doing and can participate, and the more successful and capable we are of project-launch blueprinting and sharing even more still. This is all supported and made possible because:
One Community’s open source strategy for systems for global conservation will evolve 5 primary types of open source content purposed to reach and service as broad an audience as possible. This includes the following mediums of sharing that are being developed to function as standalone resources or in combination with each other:
Maximum exposure is accomplished through simultaneous implementation of the following strategies:
One Community sees the issues of the world as interdependent and interconnected. To address them simultaneously, we are open-source blueprinting a more advanced standard of living by designing holistic, environmentally-regenerative, self-sustaining, adaptable solutions for all areas of sustainability. We will model these within a comprehensive “village/city” which will be built in the southwestern U.S. This teacher/demonstration hub will be a place people can experience a new way of living and then replicate it with our open source blueprints: creating a model solution that creates additional solution-creating models all aimed at systems for global conservation.
Posted on January 7, 2018 by One Community
Localized ecology is sustainability practices and management on the local level. Putting the power of intelligently and sustainably managing our shared environments in the hands of those people who live in them. One Community calls this living and creating for The Highest Good of All and we’re open source and free-sharing tools, resources, and DIY instructions for all aspects of creating teacher/demonstration communities, villages, and cities capable of accomplishing this.
Click on each icon to be taken to the corresponding Highest Good hub page.
One Community’s physical location will forward this localized ecology movement as the first of many self-replicating teacher/demonstration communities, villages, and cities to be built around the world. This is the January 7th, 2018 edition (#250) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments:
Here is the bullet-point list of this last week’s localized ecology design and progress discussed in detail in the video above:
LOCALIZED ECOLOGY INTRO: @0:34
LOCALIZED ECOLOGY – HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING: @7:55
LOCALIZED ECOLOGY – DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER: @10:10
LOCALIZED ECOLOGY – HIGHEST GOOD FOOD: @10:57
LOCALIZED ECOLOGY – HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION: @11:29
LOCALIZED ECOLOGY – HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY: @12:01
LOCALIZED ECOLOGY SUMMARY: @12:35
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One Community is supporting Localized Ecology 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:
The core team continued Sketchup design for the open source outdoor areas of the Recycled Materials Village (Pod 6), contributing to localized ecology. This week we finished designing the fitness stations, updated the benches in the yoga area, and continued working on the main equipment area.
The core team also continued working on the Murphy bed instructions. This week we finished page 7.1.1, as shown here.
And core team finished the formatting, image updates, and text additions for the Vermiculture section of the Earthbag Village electrical design page.
The core team also continued adding our final design content to the Water Recycling Net Zero Bathroom Design page. This week’s focus was new formatting, adding additional calculation details, and finishing the written content for the first 3rd of the tutorial. We’d say we’re now about 30% complete with the page.
Dean Scholz (Architectural Designer) continued helping us create quality Cob Village (Pod 3) renders. Here is update 95 of Dean’s work, this week’s focus was designing the cabinet door and hinge details you see here.
Dan Alleck (Designer and Illustrator) completed his 11th week working on the Compressed Earth Block Village render additions. This week he added additional people to the East Rooftop View and created this new final render of the front access way. Both of these images are now live on the site also, showcasing his vision for localized ecology:
Aparna Tandon (Architect) continued her work on the Compressed Earth Block Village external elements, contributing to building a more localized ecology. What you see here is her 43rd week of work that created this presentation for the Mediation Labyrinth and Amphitheater that make up Zones 1-5. These images are now on the website too.
One Community is supporting Localized Ecology 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:
Renan Dantas (Mechanical Engineer) continued with his 21st week working on the Duplicable City Center AutoCAD updates. This week’s focus was updating the 3D file to match the updated dome rotations completed in 2D.
Dipti Dhondarkar, (Electrical Engineer) continued with her 64th week of work on the lighting specifics for the City Center. This week’s focus was continuing the modeling of the mezzanine area, 3rd floor sunrise patio, and 4th floor cupola, as shown here.
One Community is supporting Localized Ecology 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:
This week, the core team continued work on the formulas and data for the food calculations on the Food Self-sufficiency Transition Plan pages, and began creating updated images to match the new calculations, as you see here.
One Community is supporting Localized Ecology 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:
This week, the core team continued adding to the education Evaluation and Evolution process open source pages and tutorials. This week we added additional content to the Collaborative Team Roles and Training page, as you can see here.
One Community is supporting Localized Ecology 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:
This week, the core team continued developing our Instagram page by adding new images with optimized descriptions. You can see some of these here.
We also created a new Instagram icon and added that throughout our website.
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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, committed to empowering localized ecology. 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 in terms of localized ecology.
Throughout our design process we are open sourcing and free-sharing everything needed for construction and replication. This includes what we call “Highest Good” approaches to food, energy, housing, education, for-profit and non-profit economics design, social architecture, fulfilled living, stewardship practices and more, all in pursuit of localized ecology. 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.
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 for localized ecology.
The One Community self-replicating model is capable of creating a sustainable planet within 30 years through building localized ecology. 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 and t empower localized ecology. 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 localized ecology 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, contributing to create a localized ecology. 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.
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, ultimately aiming for localized ecology.
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 and an achievable way for localized ecology, 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 to build a localized ecology and to achieve the goal of highest good of all, 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.
One Community is open source sharing an evolution of sustainable living that addresses the complete human experience, all in pursuit of localized ecology. 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, all contributing to localized ecology.
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 the principles of localized ecology. 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, dedicating to empowering localized ecology. 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.
One Community is building solution-creating models designed to create additional solution-creating models to specifically facilitate exponential and sustainable global teacher/demonstration village growth. The following four phases of the strategy we are applying are designed to support each other and accelerate the process globally:
Phase I: Localized Ecology by Demonstrating a Better Way
We are designing One Community to demonstrate an experience of living that we believe most people will consider to be better because it will be more enjoyable and fulfilling. We also think most people will consider it better because it is made possible specifically through a foundation of sustainable sustainability and a philosophy that is for The Highest Good of All.
Phase II: Localized Ecology with Open Source Project-Launch Blueprinting
Everything we do we are open source project-launch blueprinting and free-sharing to make it as easy and affordable as possible to duplicate, adapt, and evolve in the manner that suits each individual and/or group’s needs. Free-sharing information like this is our aggressive-exposure engine and an aspect of One Community that will accelerate indefinitely as we continue to build our team, move onto the property, and continuously build and evolve everything that is One Community.
Phase III: Localized Ecology by Inviting the World to Participate
Everything we are open source project-launch blueprinting is designed to invite the world to participate by duplicating it as either individual components or complete teacher/demonstration communities, villages, and cities that will be able to be built almost anywhere in the world. Additionally, people can join One Community as members, consultants and/or partners, or use the suggestions links on our open source project-launch blueprinting hubs to help with the design, implementation, and evolution process. Scholarships, weekend learning and work crews, and tourism will be foundations of One Community once we have sufficient infrastructure in place to support these options.
Phase IV: Localized Ecology with Universal Appeal and Global Expansion
As One Community continues evolving and establishing ourselves, everything we create and promote will serve as the engine to inspire people to align with the concept of open source and sustainable living for The Highest Good of All. We are doing this to create mainstream appeal and our path to achieving this appeal is demonstrating a happier, more affordable, and ecologically friendly model of living that can be built anywhere in the world.
Open source project-launch blueprinting it all is how we believe the model will spread and, possibly most importantly, that it will predictably spread even faster in the areas where it is needed most because building restrictions, the cost of land, and materials costs are in most cases lower in these areas.
One Community sees the issues of the world as interdependent and interconnected. To address them simultaneously, we are open-source blueprinting a more advanced standard of living by designing holistic, environmentally-regenerative, self-sustaining, adaptable solutions for all areas of sustainability. We will model these within a comprehensive “village/city” which will be built in the southwestern U.S. This teacher/demonstration hub will be a place people can experience a new way of living and then replicate it with our open source blueprints: creating a model solution that creates additional solution-creating models all aimed at localized ecology.
Posted on December 31, 2017 by One Community
Sustainable change is positive change that can address the sustainability challenges of our generation with enough adaptability to address the sustainability challenges of future generations too. Open source, DIY, and modular solutions are foundations One Community is developing to support this.
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 December 31st, 2017 edition (#249) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments:
Here is the bullet-point list of this last week’s design and progress discussed in detail in the video above:
SUSTAINABLE CHANGE INTRO: @0:34
SUSTAINABLE CHANGE HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING: @6:57
SUSTAINABLE CHANGE DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER: @9:10
SUSTAINABLE CHANGE HIGHEST GOOD FOOD: @10:11
SUSTAINABLE CHANGE HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION: @10:42
SUSTAINABLE CHANGE HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY: @11:15
SUSTAINABLE CHANGE SUSTAINABLE CHANGE SUMMARY: @12:15
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One Community is creating 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:
The core team continued Sketchup design for the open source outdoor areas of the Recycled Materials Village (Pod 6). This week we began designing the fitness station (inspired by top right images here), and continued designing the outdoor Gym for sustainable change.
The core team also continued working on the Murphy bed instructions by adding new parts, materials, tools, page numbers, and other details. The collage shown here shares these most recent updates.
And the core team began adding our final design details to the Water Recycling Net Zero Bathroom Design page. This initial work included converting our GooglePresentation images to web images and formatting and editing the related text for sustainable change. You can see some of this work here.
Christian Ojeda (Mechatronic Engineer) completed his 32nd week volunteering with our team. This week’s focus was further developing the Vermiculture toilet chamber designs by adding more support to the bottom of the container and developing a new method for securing it to the main chamber.
Dean Scholz (Architectural Designer) continued helping us create quality Cob Village (Pod 3) renders. Here is update 94 of Dean’s work, this week’s focus was continued lighting and texture updates to produce this newest test renter of the central dining and stage area.
Dan Alleck (Designer and Illustrator) completed his 10th week working on the Compressed Earth Block Village render additions. This week he finished adding people and other aesthetic elements to this final render of the East Rooftop area. This image is now live on the site also.
Aparna Tandon(Architect) continued her work on the Compressed Earth Block Village external elements. What you see here is her 42nd week of work, 3D modeling the central labyrinth area.
Mihaela “Michelle” Pinzaru (Interior Designer and Architectural Drafter) also completed her 2nd week taking over development of the Tree House Village (Pod 7) residential designs. This week she updated the roof and gutters, added coverings for the patios, designed a new common entryway, and started redesigning the central common space.
One Community is creating 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:
Haoxuan “Hayes” Lei (Structural Engineer) continued work on the City Center structural engineering. What you see here are his updated calculations for the wind loads applied to the triangles that make up the domes themselves.
David Olivero (Mechanical Engineer & Data Scientist) completed his 7th week helping with the HVAC Designs for the Duplicable City Center. This week’s focus was researching LEED details for maximizing sustainability points related HVAC design. What you see here are are some of the initial results of this research.
Dipti Dhondarkar, (Electrical Engineer) continued with her 63rd week of work on the lighting specifics for the City Center. This week’s focus was continuing the modeling of the mezzanine areas in the central area of the City Center, as shown here.
One Community is creating 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:
This week, the core team continued work on the formulas and data for the food calculations on the Food Self-sufficiency Transition Plan pages, adding additional micro-nutrient information to the food plan based on staple foods we can store in bulk, as you see here.
One Community is creating 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:
This week, the core team continued adding to the education Evaluation and Evolution process open source pages and tutorials. This week we added additional content and resources to the Surpassing Education Standards page, as you can see here.
One Community is creating 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:
Aravind Vasudevan (BA Mechanical Engineering) continued working on the climate battery designs and research. This week’s focus was additional drawings to help the 3D team and calculations for the fans that will be needed for the climate batteries supporting the aquapini and walipini structures and Tropical Atrium contributing to the sustainable change.
The Highest Good Network software team consists of Sowmya Manohar (Software Engineer, Web Developer & Net Application Developer), Priti Kothari (Information Technology Enthusiast), Shubhra Mittal (Software Delivery Manager), and Priyanka Singh (Software Developer). This week the team fixed several database errors and completed development of the leaderboard rest service. They also implemented password hashing for security at-rest data and returning the token on user login.
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One Community is creating a place to grow together and change the world together, contributing to sustainable change. We are creating a space that helps each other live in integrity with each other and the planet as we strive to be the greatest versions of ourselves. We do this by harmoniously respecting each other, nature, and the rest of our one shared planet.
Our goal is to demonstrate what we feel is the most sustainable, healthy, and fun environment we can create, fostering the science of sustainable ecology. 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, contributing to sustainable change. 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.
One Community will be the first teacher/demonstration hub, spearheading sustainable change. 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.
The One Community self-replicating model is capable of creating a sustainable planet within 30 years with the help of the science of sustainable ecology. 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, contributing to the science of sustainable ecology. 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.
One Community’s four-phase strategy for the creation of solution models that create solution creating models uses open source blueprints for duplication that simultaneously address all aspects of the human experience (food, energy, housing, education, social inequality and injustice, fulfilled living, etc.), contributing to the science of sustainable ecology. We see these areas as interdependent and requiring a comprehensive solution if humanity is to move ecologically, socially, economically, and permanently towards a truly sustainable future for everyone.
Our open source model and blueprints engage and inspire people while simultaneously making sustainable living more affordable and easy to replicate, contributing to the science of sustainable ecology. 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, contributing to the science of sustainable ecology. 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.
One Community is open source sharing an evolution of sustainable living that addresses the complete human experience, contributing to the science of sustainable ecology. We are doing this because we see the solutions for global food, housing, energy, education, social inequality, ethical business practices, earth regenerative practices, and a desire for a more fulfilling living experience as inseparably interconnected. As a comprehensive solution, we are addressing all these areas simultaneously and open source free-sharing everything needed for individual duplication and/or duplication as complete self-replicating teacher/demonstration communities, villages, and cities to be built around the world.
As we address and open source share these areas we will establish a living example of the first teacher/demonstration village purposed to teach others about the science of sustainable ecology. 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.
One Community sees the issues of the world as interdependent and interconnected. To address them simultaneously, we are open-source blueprinting a more advanced standard of living by designing holistic, environmentally-regenerative, self-sustaining, adaptable solutions for all areas of sustainability. We will model these within a comprehensive “village/city” which will be built in the southwestern U.S. This teacher/demonstration hub will be a place people can experience a new way of living and then replicate it with our open source blueprints: creating a model solution that creates additional solution-creating models.
Posted on December 24, 2017 by One Community
One Community is creating an ecological outreach program based on open source sustainability solutions. These solutions include food, energy, housing, education, for-profit and non-profit economic design, social architecture, fulfilled living, and global stewardship practices. They are designed to be implemented as individual components or complete teacher/demonstration hubs, communities, villages, or even cities.
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 December 24th, 2017 edition (#248) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments:
Here is the bullet-point list of this last week’s design and progress discussed in detail in the video above:
ECOLOGICAL OUTREACH INTRO: @0:34
ECOLOGICAL OUTREACH HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING: @6:27
ECOLOGICAL OUTREACH DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER: @8:53
ECOLOGICAL OUTREACH HIGHEST GOOD FOOD: @10:34
ECOLOGICAL OUTREACH HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION: @11:06
ECOLOGICAL OUTREACH HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY: @11:44
ECOLOGICAL OUTREACH ECOLOGICAL OUTREACH SUMMARY: @12:58
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One Community is leading ecological outreach 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:
The core team continued Sketchup design for the open source outdoor areas of the Recycled Materials Village (Pod 6). This week we researched exercise equipment ideas for the Gym, and continued the racetrack road design, as shown here.
The core team also continued working on the Murphy bed instructions, finishing the first 10% of page 6.8.8 ” table trim cutting, shown here.
The core team also finished the complete Compressed Earth Block Village Materials Cost Analysis webpage. This included adding and editing all the content, images, menus, and more. You can see some of this work here and the rest is live on the website, complete with links to all the open source spreadsheets used for our calculations.
And the core team finished creating the thermal lag page by creating the header image and adding the final updates and edits to the main content.
Hemanth Kotaru (Structural Engineering Masters Student) completed his 14th week with us doing research and running calculations for the Earthbag Village. This week’s focus was an extensive review of existing thermal lag and earthbag construction resources, helping us rename them all, and then we added them all to the website.
Hamilton Mateca (AutoCAD and Revit Drafter and Designer) also finished his 67th week helping with the Compressed Earth Block Village design and render details. This week’s focus was this new render perspective for Zone 17.
Aparna Tandon(Architect) continued her work on the Compressed Earth Block Village external elements. What you see here is her 41st week of work, finishing the design overview image for Zones 12 and 18. This content is now live on the site also.
Mihaela “Michelle” Pinzaru (Interior Designer and Architectural Drafter) also joined the team and completed her 1st week taking over development of the Tree House Village (Pod 7) residential designs. This week she updated the AutoCAD layout and fixed the walls and roofs to match the new floor plan.
One Community is leading ecological outreach 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:
The core team finished the first 30% of the LEED lighting tutorial details for the lighting design of the City Center and all other One Community structures. You can see some of this work here and the rest is on the site.
Haoxuan “Hayes” Lei (Structural Engineer) continued work on the City Center structural engineering. What you see here are his calculations for the materials’ dead loads for the triangles that make up the domes themselves.
David Olivero (Mechanical Engineer & Data Scientist) completed his 6th week helping with the HVAC Designs for the Duplicable City Center. This week’s focus was completing the second two of the 3 analyses for the indoor/outdoor Natural Pool impacts on the Social Dome. You can see some of this work here.
Oruba Rabie (Ph.D, PE, and Civil Engineer) also continued working on the City Center structural engineering. This week’s focus was importing and beginning the process of applying loads to the dome structures.
Dipti Dhondarkar, (Electrical Engineer) continued with her 62nd week of work on the lighting specifics for the City Center. This week’s focus was continuing the modeling of the mezzanine areas in the central area of the City Center, as shown here.
Satish Ravindran (Senior Mechanical and Industrial Engineer) also completed his 5th week helping with the LEED lighting specifics for the City Center. This week’s focus was double checking the bulb count, lumen, and wattage details on our spreadsheet for the entire City Center, as shown here.
One Community is leading ecological outreach 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:
This week, the core team continued work on the formulas and data for the food calculations on the Food Self-sufficiency Transition Plan pages, bringing it to approximately 95% completion, as you see here.
One Community is leading ecological outreach 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:
This week, the core team continued adding to the education Evaluation and Evolution process open source pages and tutorials. This week we created the formatting and began entering the content for the Information Maintenance and Sharing page, which is about taking records of your learnings with you beyond the education program, as you can see here.
One Community is leading ecological outreach 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:
This week, the core team continued the process of launching One Community’s Instagram page by adding 27 new images to the account, as shown here.
Ashwin Patil (Web Developer) continued working on the search engines for the website. This week we created version 2.0 of the Highest Good of All search engine. You can see some of this work-in-progress here
The Highest Good Network software team consists of Sowmya Manohar (Software Engineer, Web Developer & Net Application Developer), Priti Kothari (Information Technology Enthusiast), Shubhra Mittal (Software Delivery Manager), and Priyanka Singh (Software Developer). This week the team implemented model, controller, and routes for ‘Project’ and ‘Team’ entities and performed unit test using Postman. They also created the query structure for dashboard/leaderboard data using promises framework, completed the setup of the GitHub from Atom, and investigated role-based access and authentication.
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One Community is creating a place to grow together and change the world together, contributing to the science of sustainable ecology. We are creating a space that helps each other live in integrity with each other and the planet as we strive to be the greatest versions of ourselves. We do this by harmoniously respecting each other, nature, and the rest of our one shared planet.
Our goal is to demonstrate what we feel is the most sustainable, healthy, and fun environment we can create, fostering the science of sustainable ecology. 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, contributing to the science of sustainable ecology. 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.
One Community will be the first teacher/demonstration hub, spearheading the science of sustainable ecology. 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.
The One Community self-replicating model is capable of creating a sustainable planet within 30 years with the help of the science of sustainable ecology. 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, contributing to the science of sustainable ecology. 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.
One Community sees the issues of the world as interdependent and interconnected. To address them simultaneously, we are open-source blueprinting a more advanced standard of living by designing holistic, environmentally-regenerative, self-sustaining, adaptable solutions for all areas of sustainability. We will model these within a comprehensive “village/city” which will be built in the southwestern U.S. This teacher/demonstration hub will be a place people can experience a new way of living and then replicate it with our open source blueprints: creating a model solution that creates additional solution-creating models.
Posted on December 17, 2017 by One Community
Establishing global eco-flow and function would mean creating a sustainable planet that would benefit all life. We can do this if we work together, open source solutions, and create new ways to motivate the average person to participate.
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 December 17th, 2017 edition (#247) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments:
Here is the bullet-point list of this last week’s design and progress discussed in detail in the video above:
ECO-FLOW AND FUNCTION INTRO: @0:34
ECO-FLOW AND FUNCTION HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING: @7:11
ECO-FLOW AND FUNCTION DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER: @9:51
ECO-FLOW AND FUNCTION HIGHEST GOOD FOOD: @11:07
ECO-FLOW AND FUNCTION HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION: @11:37
ECO-FLOW AND FUNCTION HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY: @12:11
ECO-FLOW AND FUNCTION ECO-FLOW AND FUNCTION SUMMARY: @13:11
CLICK HERE IF YOU’D LIKE TO RECEIVE AN EMAIL EACH WEEK WHEN WE RELEASE A NEW UPDATE
One Community is creating eco-flow and function 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:
The core team continued Sketchup design for the open source outdoor areas of the Recycled Materials Village (Pod 6). This week we added the racetrack road design, as shown here.
And the core team continued working on the Murphy bed instructions, worked on page 6.3.1, and made revisions to page 6.3.2 (wall frame panels) assembly page, as shown here.
The core team also finished the second half of updating the complete Tree House Village (Pod 7) open source hub. This included new formatting, updated content, and new and updated images for all the sections related to the design and planning specifics to establish global eco-flow and function. You can see some of this work here.
We also started the final review process for the 60+ page Tree House Village online book we’ve been developing. You can see some of the review notes here.
Christian Ojeda (Mechatronic Engineer) completed his 31st week volunteering with our team. This week’s focus was further developing the Vermiculture toilet chamber designs by improving the bottom of the container so that it can be bolted together and constructed without welding while also having an easier mechanism for using pins to secure it to the pallet jack to establish global eco-flow and function.
Dean Scholz (Architectural Designer) continued helping us create quality Cob Village (Pod 3) renders. Here is update 93 of Dean’s work, this week’s focus was continued work on the stage areas and lights that will illuminate the stages.
Sangam Stanczak (Ph.D. and P.E.) continued researching and contacting companies for the hardware we’ll be using to sterilize the greywater from the Communal Eco-showers. She also created the updated design schematic shown here for the complete system.
Hamilton Mateca (AutoCAD and Revit Drafter and Designer) also finished his 66th week helping with the Compressed Earth Block Village design and render details. This week’s focus was the work leading to this additional final render of the Zone 17 Central Play and Recreation Area to establish global eco-flow and function, which can also now be viewed on the website.
Jagannathan Shankar Mahadevan (Mechanical Engineer) completed his 12th week volunteering. This week’s focus was finishing work on the Compressed Earth Block Village Materials Cost Analysis content and associated graphics, as shown here.
One Community is creating eco-flow and function 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:
David Olivero (Mechanical Engineer & Data Scientist) completed his 5th week helping with the HVAC Designs for the Duplicable City Center. This week’s focus was completing the first of 3 analyses for the indoor/outdoor Natural Pool impacts on the Social Dome. You can see some of this work here.
Dipti Dhondarkar, (Electrical Engineer) continued with her 61st week of work on the lighting specifics for the City Center. This week’s focus was finishing updates to the lighting zones spreadsheet to match all the zone updates made in AutoCAD. You can see some of this work here.
Satish Ravindran (Senior Mechanical and Industrial Engineer) also completed his 4th week helping with the LEED lighting specifics for the City Center. This week’s focus was writing all the pages of content shown here for the LEED recommendations tutorial.
Ricardo Carrillo (Principal Consultant at Acumen Industries) also helped create the updated City Center wall detail you see here.
One Community is creating eco-flow and function 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:
This week, the core team continued work on the formulas and data for the food calculations on the Food Self-sufficiency Transition Plan pages, bringing it to approximately 90% completion, as you see here.
Formulas and Data for Food Calculations on the Food Self-Sufficiency Transition Plan ” Click to Visit
One Community is creating eco-flow and function 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:
This week, the core team continued adding to the education Evaluation and Evolution process open source pages and tutorials. This week we created the formatting and began entering the content for the Surpassing Education Standards page, as you can see here.
One Community is creating eco-flow and function 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:
This week, the core team continued the process of launching One Community’s Instagram page. We downloaded additional images, created a new Instagram spreadsheet to keep track of hashtags, and added the first 9 images to the account.
The Highest Good Network software team consists of Sowmya Manohar (Software Engineer, Web Developer & Net Application Developer), Priti Kothari (Information Technology Enthusiast), Shubhra Mittal (Software Delivery Manager), and Priyanka Singh (Software Developer). This week they finalized the application schema, merged the time entry updates, researched front-end role-based functionality options, and tried both collection and separate-collection approaches as a test. What you see here are some of this work along with pictures from our weekly collaborative call.
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One Community is creating a place to grow together and change the world together, contributing to establish global eco-flow and function. 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, to establish global eco-flow and function. 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, contributing to establish global eco-flow and function. 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.
One Community will be the first teacher/demonstration hub, spearheading the science of sustainable ecology to establish global eco-flow and function. 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.
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, contributing to the science of sustainable ecology. 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.
One Community’s four-phase strategy for the creation of solution models that create solution creating models uses open source blueprints for duplication that simultaneously address all aspects of the human experience (food, energy, housing, education, social inequality and injustice, fulfilled living, etc.), contributing to the science of sustainable ecology. We see these areas as interdependent and requiring a comprehensive solution if humanity is to move ecologically, socially, economically, and permanently towards a truly sustainable future for everyone.
Our open source model and blueprints engage and inspire people while simultaneously making sustainable living more affordable and easy to replicate, contributing to the science of sustainable ecology. 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, contributing to the science of sustainable ecology. 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.
One Community sees the issues of the world as interdependent and interconnected. To address them simultaneously, we are open-source blueprinting a more advanced standard of living by designing holistic, environmentally-regenerative, self-sustaining, adaptable solutions for all areas of sustainability. We will model these within a comprehensive “village/city” which will be built in the southwestern U.S. This teacher/demonstration hub will be a place people can experience a new way of living and then replicate it with our open source blueprints: creating a model solution that creates additional solution-creating models.
Posted on December 10, 2017 by One Community
Open source systems for sustainable community creation are one path to creating a sustainable world for everyone. One Community is creating these systems with that as our goal.
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 December 10th, 2017 edition (#246) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments:
Here is the bullet-point list of this last week’s design and progress discussed in detail in the video above:
SYSTEMS FOR SUSTAINABLE COMMUNITY CREATION INTRO: @0:34
SYSTEMS FOR SUSTAINABLE COMMUNITY CREATION HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING: @6:35
SYSTEMS FOR SUSTAINABLE COMMUNITY CREATION DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER: @9:10
SYSTEMS FOR SUSTAINABLE COMMUNITY CREATION HIGHEST GOOD FOOD: @11:15
SYSTEMS FOR SUSTAINABLE COMMUNITY CREATION HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION: @11:46
SYSTEMS FOR SUSTAINABLE COMMUNITY CREATION HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY: @12:19
SYSTEMS FOR SUSTAINABLE COMMUNITY CREATION SYSTEMS FOR SUSTAINABLE COMMUNITY CREATION SUMMARY: @13:17
CLICK HERE IF YOU’D LIKE TO RECEIVE AN EMAIL EACH WEEK WHEN WE RELEASE A NEW UPDATE
One Community is implementing systems for sustainable community creation 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:
The core team continued Sketchup design for the open source outdoor areas of the Recycled Materials Village (Pod 6). This week we designed all the equipment for the kids’ playground for open source systems for sustainable community creation, as shown here.
Additionally, the core team finished revisions to the Straw Bale Village pages of the online book we are creating and added the finished pages to the website as clic-to-enlarge images contributing to open source systems for sustainable community creation. You can see these new additions here.
And the core team continued working on the Murphy bed instructions, working on page 6.3.2 (wall frame panels) assembly page to match the other pages, as shown here.
The core team also finished the first half of updating the complete Tree House Village (Pod 7) open source hub. This included all new menus, formatting, and updated content covering the What, Why, and description sections for every structure within this village for open source systems for sustainable community creation, as shown here.
Sangam Stanczak (Ph.D. and P.E.) continued researching and contacting companies for the hardware we’ll be using to sterilize the greywater from the Communal Eco-showers. You can see some of the newest related notes and details here.
Hemanth Kotaru (Structural Engineering Masters Student) completed his 13th week with us doing research and running calculations for the Earthbag Village. This week’s focus was flooring construction details and beginning the research needed for structural engineering analysis of the domes themselves.
Ashwini Ramesh (Civil Engineer and Project Manager) helped write additional descriptions and updated the cost analysis spreadsheets for the Earthbag Village equipment and materials.
Hamilton Mateca (AutoCAD and Revit Drafter and Designer) also finished his 65th week helping with the Compressed Earth Block Village design and render details. This week’s focus was the work leading to this final render of the Zone 17 Central Play and Recreation Area, which can also now be viewed on the website.
Jagannathan Shankar Mahadevan (Mechanical Engineer) completed his 11th week volunteering. This week’s focus was continuing work on the Compressed Earth Block Village Materials Cost Analysis by completing version 1.0 of the cost analysis and the associated narrative and pie charts shown here.
One Community is implementing systems for sustainable community creation 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:
Haoxuan “Hayes” Lei (Structural Engineer) continued work on the City Center structural engineering. What you see here are his edits and updates to his live and dead load tutorial as it’s being reviewed with another engineer.
David Olivero (Mechanical Engineer & Data Scientist) completed his 4th week helping with the HVAC Designs for the Duplicable City Center. This week’s focus was examining the cooling tonnage per sq ft from previous analysis, reviewing the cooling load calculation procedure, and researching and choosing coolcalc.com as our online heat load calculator for open source systems for sustainable community creation.
Oruba Rabie (Ph.D, PE, and Civil Engineer) also continued working on the City Center structural engineering. This week’s focus was finishing review of the wind and seismic load data, some of which you can see here.
Falgun Patel (Mechanical Engineer) completed his 14th week volunteering with the team. This week’s focus was continuing the analysis process for updating the Highest Good energy page with more additions to the City Center Kitchen equipment list and version 2.0 of the complete details for the Earthbag Village, both of which you can see here.
Dipti Dhondarkar, (Electrical Engineer) continued with her 60th week of work on the lighting specifics for the City Center. This week’s focus was finishing updates to the lighting zones in AutoCAD, which we now have added to the website.
Satish Ravindran (Senior Mechanical and Industrial Engineer) also completed his 3rd week helping with the LEED lighting specifics for the City Center. This week’s focus was double checking and updating the lighting zone details. The green columns in the image shown here are Satish’s new work and calculations.
One Community is implementing systems for sustainable community creation 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:
This week, the core team continued work on the formulas and data for the food calculations on the Food Self-sufficiency Transition Plan pages, bringing it to approximately 75% completion, as you see here.
Formulas and Data for Food Calculations on the Food Self-Sufficiency Transition Plan – Click to Visit
One Community is implementing systems for sustainable community creation 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:
This week, the core team continued adding to the education Evaluation and Evolution process open source pages and tutorials. This week we created the formatting and began entering the content for the Objective Data and Analysis page, as you can see here.
One Community is implementing systems for sustainable community creation 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:
This week, the core team began the process of officially launching One Community’s Instagram page. We downloaded all the best images from our website and created our initial strategy for uploading.
The Highest Good Network software team consists of Sowmya Manohar (Software Engineer, Web Developer & Net Application Developer), Priti Kothari (Information Technology Enthusiast), Shubhra Mittal (Software Delivery Manager), and Priyanka Singh (Software Developer). This week they developed schema version 2.0, got Priyanka up to speed on the basics of the app, and updated aggregate queries in mongo.db to reflect changes in the model from timelog to timeentry. The pictures shown here are from our weekly call discussing all this.
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One Community is creating a place to grow together and change the world together, contributing for open source systems for sustainable community creation. We are creating a space that helps each other live in integrity with each other and the planet as we strive to be the greatest versions of ourselves. We do this by harmoniously respecting each other, nature, and the rest of our one shared planet.
Our goal is to demonstrate what we feel is the most sustainable, healthy, and fun environment we can create, fostering open source systems for sustainable community creation. 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, contributing to the science of sustainable ecology. 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.
One Community will be the first teacher/demonstration hub, spearheading open source systems for sustainable community creation. 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.
The One Community self-replicating model is capable of creating a sustainable planet within 30 years with the help of open source systems for sustainable community creation. 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, contributing to the science of sustainable ecology. 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.
One Community sees the issues of the world as interdependent and interconnected. To address them simultaneously, we are open-source blueprinting a more advanced standard of living by designing holistic, environmentally-regenerative, self-sustaining, adaptable solutions for all areas of sustainability. We will model these within a comprehensive “village/city” which will be built in the southwestern U.S. This teacher/demonstration hub will be a place people can experience a new way of living and then replicate it with our open source blueprints: creating a model solution that creates additional solution-creating models.
Posted on December 3, 2017 by One Community
The time has come for biohacking humanity’s future! Working together as a species has never been easier and the needed technology exists. We can co-create a sustainable planet if we want to. One Community is open sourcing all the components as a starting point and prototype set including sustainable food, energy, housing, education, for-profit and non-profit economic design, social architecture, fulfilled living, global stewardship practices, and more.
Click on each icon to be taken to the corresponding Highest Good hub page.
One Community’s physical location will forward this movement for biohacking humanity’s future as the first of many self-replicating teacher/demonstration communities, villages, and cities to be built around the world. This is the December 3rd, 2017 edition (#245) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments:
Here is the bullet-point list of this last week’s design and progress discussed in detail in the video above:
BIOHACKING HUMANITY’S FUTURE INTRO: @0:34
BIOHACKING HUMANITY’S FUTURE: HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING: @6:17
BIOHACKING HUMANITY’S FUTURE: DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER: @9:19
BIOHACKING HUMANITY’S FUTURE: HIGHEST GOOD FOOD: @10:36
BIOHACKING HUMANITY’S FUTURE: HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION: @11:06
BIOHACKING HUMANITY’S FUTURE: HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY: @11:40
BIOHACKING HUMANITY’S FUTURE: BIOHACKING HUMANITY’S FUTURE SUMMARY: @12:11
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One Community is biohacking humanity’s future 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:
The core team continued Sketchup design for the open source outdoor areas of the Recycled Materials Village (Pod 6). This week we updated the storage rack and added a border to the Scrabble game, designed a Four-In-a-Row Yard Game, a ping pong table, and began designing the children’s playground for biohacking humanity’s future. You can see all of these shown here.
And the core team continued working on the thermal lag page. This week redid the formatting and organization of the page, updated the menus and jump-to links, and added about 30% more content to help with readability and clarity contributing to biohacking humanity’s future. We’d say the page is now 95% complete.
And the core team continued working on the Murphy bed instructions, revising the nightstand assembly page to match the format of the other pages, as shown here.
Christian Ojeda (Mechatronic Engineer) completed his 30th week volunteering with our team. This week’s focus was further developing the Vermiculture toilet chamber designs, continuing to improve last week’s designs for the emptying the chamber with pulleys and a winch. The latest progress is shown here.
Dean Scholz (Architectural Designer) continued helping us create quality Cob Village (Pod 3) renders. Here is update 92 of Dean’s work, this week’s focus was continued work on the stage areas and lights that will illuminate the stages.
The core team also finished and added this video to the site that shares a progression of Dean’s many steps necessary to create the lighting in a real-to-life renders.
Hamilton Mateca (AutoCAD and Revit Drafter and Designer) also finished his 64th week helping with the Compressed Earth Block Village design and render details. This week’s focus was beginning to 3-D model in Revit the central play and recreation area shown here.
Dan Alleck (Designer and Illustrator) completed his 9th week working on the Compressed Earth Block Village render additions. This week he finished adding people and other aesthetic elements to this final render of the Waiting Area. This image is now live on the site also.
Aparna Tandon(Architect) continued her work on the Compressed Earth Block Village external elements. What you see here is her 40th week of work focusing on further developing the images to share the specifics of Zone 13.
One Community is biohacking humanity’s future 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:
Haoxuan “Hayes” Lei (Structural Engineer) continued work on the City Center structural engineering tutorial. What you see here is his 9th week of writing content. This week’s content focus was continuing to add more details to the snow load section, as seen here.
David Olivero (Mechanical Engineer & Data Scientist) completed his 3rd week helping with the HVAC Designs for the Duplicable City Center. This week’s focus, as shown here, was finishing the thermal mass calculations for the structure and researching how the indoor/outdoor pool will affect the environment.
Oruba Rabie (Ph.D, PE, and Civil Engineer) also continued working on the City Center structural engineering. This week’s focus was finishing review of the snow load data for the cupola and doing all the calculations for the domes, which you can see here.
Dipti Dhondarkar, (Electrical Engineer) continued with her 59th week of work on the lighting specifics for the City Center. This week’s focus was 3 more rounds of updates to the lighting zones in AutoCAD for biohacking humanity’s future. We’d say the zonal update process is now 98% complete.
One Community is biohacking humanity’s future 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:
This week, the core team continued work on the Food Self-sufficiency Transition Plan pages, including checking the formulas and data for the food calculations, bringing it to approximately 50% completion as you see here.
One Community is biohacking humanity’s future 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:
This week, the core team continued adding to the education Evaluation and Evolution process open source pages and tutorials. This week we created the formatting and began entering the content for the Collaborative Team Roles and Training page, as you can see here.
One Community is biohacking humanity’s future 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:
Ashwin Patil (Web Developer) continued working on the search engines for the website. This week we created version 1.0 of the Highest Good of All search engine. You can see some of this work-in-progress here.
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One Community is creating a place to grow together and change the world together contributing for biohacking humanity’s future. 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.
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.
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.
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.
One Community sees the issues of the world as interdependent and interconnected. To address them simultaneously, we are open-source blueprinting a more advanced standard of living by designing holistic, environmentally-regenerative, self-sustaining, adaptable solutions for all areas of sustainability. We will model these within a comprehensive “village/city” which will be built in the southwestern U.S. This teacher/demonstration hub will be a place people can experience a new way of living and then replicate it with our open source blueprints: creating a model solution that creates additional solution-creating models.
Posted on November 26, 2017 by One Community
Cooperative community building is one path to spreading and evolving sustainability. We think the ultimate expression of this is cooperative communities that incorporate, open-source share, and invite people to participate in sustainable approaches to the foundations of food, energy, and housing while also including sustainable and open source approaches to education, economics, social architecture, fulfilled living, and global stewardship practices too. With the goal for a positive and permanent shift to global sustainability, One Community calls this living and creating for The Highest Good of All.
Click on each icon to be taken to the corresponding Highest Good hub page.
One Community’s physical location will forward this movement for cooperative community building as the first of many self-replicating teacher/demonstration communities, villages, and cities to be built around the world. This is the November 26th, 2017 edition (#244) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments:
Here is the bullet-point list of this last week’s design and progress discussed in detail in the video above:
COOPERATIVE COMMUNITY BUILDING INTRO: @0:34
COOPERATIVE COMMUNITY BUILDING HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING: @6:40
COOPERATIVE COMMUNITY BUILDING DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER: @9:18
COOPERATIVE COMMUNITY BUILDING HIGHEST GOOD FOOD: @11:19
COOPERATIVE COMMUNITY BUILDING HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION: @11:49
COOPERATIVE COMMUNITY BUILDING HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY: @12:23
COOPERATIVE COMMUNITY BUILDING COOPERATIVE COMMUNITY BUILDING SUMMARY: @13:10
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One Community is creating cooperative community building 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:
The core team continued Sketchup design for the open source outdoor areas of the Recycled Materials Village (Pod 6). This week we lowered the Horse Shoe game send box, designed the Scrabble game, and completed the Kerplunk game. You can see all of these shown here.
Related to this, we also we added the outdoor resources we found to the Recycled Materials Village (Pod 6) resources section.
The core team also started working on the Earthbag Village Materials & Cost Analysis page. The 1 dome, 3-dome cluster, the Murphy bed, and the vermiculture toilet and accessories have all been imported into the new Google spreadsheet contributing towards cooperative community building. The prices were checked for accuracy and the links were updated and checked as well.
In addition, the core team continued work on the Tree House Village (Pod 7) web graphics, creating these final graphics with the correct locations of the various buildings.
Sangam Stanczak (Ph.D. and P.E.) researched and contacted companies for the hardware we’ll be using to sterilize the greywater from the Communal Eco-showers. You can see some of the related notes and details here.
Christian Ojeda (Mechatronic Engineer) completed his 29th week volunteering with our team. This week’s focus was further developing the Vermiculture toilet chamber designs, continuing to improve last week’s designs for the emptying the chamber with pulleys and a winch contributing towards cooperative community building.
Dean Scholz (Architectural Designer) continued helping us create quality Cob Village (Pod 3) renders. Here is update 91 of Dean’s work, this week’s focus was working on the stage areas and lights that will illuminate the stages.
Jagannathan Shankar Mahadevan (Mechanical Engineer) completed his 10th week volunteering. This week’s focus was continuing work on the Compressed Earth Block Village Materials Cost Analysis by creating the spreadsheet you see here that calculates how many earth blocks we’ll need.
Dan Alleck (Designer and Illustrator) completed his 8th week working on the Compressed Earth Block Village render additions. This week he finished adding people and other nature elements to this rooftop render looking East.
Samantha Robinson (Graphic Designer) completed her 16th week working on the interior renders for the living structures in the Tree House Village (Pod 7). This week’s focus, as shown here, was final unwrapping and texturing of the lamps, clock, and rug.
One Community is creating cooperative community building 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:
Haoxuan “Hayes” Lei (Structural Engineer) continued work on the City Center structural engineering tutorial. What you see here is his 8th week of writing content. This week’s content focus was adding more details to the snow load section for cooperative community building, as seen here.
David Olivero (Mechanical Engineer & Data Scientist) completed his 2nd week helping with the HVAC Designs for the Duplicable City Center. This week’s focus, as shown here, was Rough estimates of thermal mass in the structure, without accounting for insulation and adding the heat capacity data to the FEA basement spreadsheet.
Falgun Patel (Mechanical Engineer) completed his 13th week volunteering with the team. This week’s focus was continuing the analysis process for updating the Highest Good energy page with more additions to the City Center Kitchen equipment list and beginning complete details for the Earthbag Village, both of which you can see here.
Dipti Dhondarkar, (Electrical Engineer) continued with her 58th week of work on the lighting specifics for the City Center. This week’s focus was continuing the process of modeling the 2nd floor mezzanine level in Dialux and more updates to the lighting zones in AutoCAD.
Satish Ravindran (Senior Mechanical and Industrial Engineer) also completed his 2nd week helping with the LEED lighting specifics for the City Center. This week’s focus was researching and writing the LEED content shown here.
Aravind Vasudevan (Mechanical Engineer) continued his calculations and research for climate battery component of the City Center Heating and Cooling open source hub. This week’s focus was 4th-generation edits to the Climate Battery Cost Analysis contributing for cooperative community building. You can see here some of the edited and updated pages.
One Community is creating cooperative community building 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:
This week, the core team continued work on the Food Self-sufficiency Transition Plan pages, including preparing the macronutrient ratio data for the food calculations, as you see here.
One Community is creating cooperative community building 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:
This last week the core team continued adding to the education Evaluation and Evolution process open source pages and tutorials. This week we created the formatting and began entering the content for the Transference of Knowledge page, as you can see here.
One Community is creating cooperative community building 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:
This last week the core team and Ashwin Patil (Web Developer) continued working on the search engines for the website. This week we created a video tutorial for teaching people how to edit the search engines. You can see screenshots here from the video.
Jagannathan Shankar Mahadevan (Mechanical Engineer) also continued working on the climate battery designs and research. What you see here is the updated spreadsheet he’s creating to calculate how much heat is stored in the battery at any time we wish to analyze during the year contributing for cooperative community building.
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One Community is creating a place to grow together and change the world together by contributing towards cooperative community building. 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 for cooperative community building. 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.
One Community will be the first teacher/demonstration hub for cooperative community building. 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.
The One Community self-replicating model is capable of creating a sustainable planet within 30 years by contributing towards cooperative community building. 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.
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.
One Community sees the issues of the world as interdependent and interconnected. To address them simultaneously, we are open-source blueprinting a more advanced standard of living by designing holistic, environmentally-regenerative, self-sustaining, adaptable solutions for all areas of sustainability. We will model these within a comprehensive “village/city” which will be built in the southwestern U.S. This teacher/demonstration hub will be a place people can experience a new way of living and then replicate it with our open source blueprints: creating a model solution that creates additional solution-creating models.
"In order to change an existing paradigm you do not struggle to try and change the problematic model.
You create a new model and make the old one obsolete. That, in essence, is the higher service to which we are all being called."
~ Buckminster Fuller ~
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