One Community welcomes Steven Paslawsky to the Graphic Design Team as our newest Volunteer/Consultant!

Graphic Designer: Steven is a graduate of the Graphic Communications program at Northern Alberta Institute of Technology located in Edmonton, Alberta. Art has always been a part of his life, leading to his passion for creating and designing. Other passions include Ice Dancing, a sport Steven has been competitive in on a national level for 15 years, traveling across Canada to compete. Steven believes that the world we live in and the things that we do can be improved on. Motivated by this understanding and a desire to be a part of the change One Community is creating, Steven is using his skills and experience with the Adobe Suite to help us create new and professional icons and presentations used throughout our website.

WELCOME TO THE TEAM STEVEN!

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Through sustainable and open source living models, it is possible to achieve an ecological tipping point for an abundant future for all people and life on our planet. As a species we can adopt Highest Good society and conscious stewardship practices to renew and regenerate our planet in ways that also provide a better quality of living for all who participate. One Community calls this living and creating for The Highest Good of All:

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

OUR MAIN OPEN SOURCE HUBS

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

One Community’s physical location will forward this movement as the first of many self-replicating teacher/demonstration communities, villages, and cities to be built around the world. This is the May 29th, 2016 edition (#166) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments:

Ecological Tipping Point for an Abundant Future
One Community Progress Update #166

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

ECOLOGICAL TIPPING POINT FOR AN ABUNDANT FUTURE INTRO: @1:03

ECOLOGICAL TIPPING POINT FOR AN ABUNDANT FUTURE – HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION: @1:56

• Transferred the first 25% of the written content for the Information Lesson Plan to the website (see below)
• Behind the scenes: wrote the first 25% of the written part of the Humility Lesson Plan
• We also completed the first 25% of the mindmap for the Courage Lesson Plan (see below)

ECOLOGICAL TIPPING POINT FOR AN ABUNDANT FUTURE – HIGHEST GOOD FOOD: @2:52

• Continued working on the renders for the Tropical Atrium that is the center of the Earthbag Village (see below)
• Shadi Kennedy created a composite image from that now includes the rest of the plants and trees from the Tropical Atrium Planting and Harvesting page (see below)
• Shadi finished a new image for the tree aspects of the Tropical Atrium Planting and Harvesting plan (see below)
• Using work from Naturopathic Doctor Matt Marturano we modified the calculations for quantities for our food bars and began adding the food bar plans to our website as part of the development of our Food Self-sufficiency Transition Plan (see below)

ECOLOGICAL TIPPING POINT FOR AN ABUNDANT FUTURE – HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING: @4:16

• Put another 10 hours into the behind-the-scenes revision for the Footers, Foundations and Flooring page for the crowdfunding campaign we are developing (see below)
• Brianna Johnson continued evolving the renders for the Straw Bale Village (see below)
• Zachary Melin continued updating the Tree House Village (Pod 7) book created by last year’s intern Team (see below)
• Jesika Rohrbach worked on the communal bathroom and shower floor plan options for the Tree House Village (see below)
• Dean Scholz further developed what’s necessary for us to create quality Cob Village renders (see below)

ECOLOGICAL TIPPING POINT FOR AN ABUNDANT FUTURE – DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER: @6:14

• Began working on the first renders of the natural pool and spa area (see below)
• Haoxuan “Hayes” Lei began working on load calculations and updating the City Center structural details (see below)
• Dipti Dhondarkar studied the area calculations completed by last year’s Intern Team for room lighting and began calculations for number of lamps for the rooms (see below)
• Iris Hsu continued exploring recycled pipe shelving options for the Duplicable City Center library (see below)
• Behind the scenes: Mike Hogan and Lucas Tsutsui da Silva started testing the Control Systems microcontroller input (see below)

ECOLOGICAL TIPPING POINT FOR AN ABUNDANT FUTURE – HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY: @7:42

• Jonathan DeAscentis finished development of our Highest Good Network logo (see below)
• Steven Paslawsky created version 2 of our open source copyrights, trademarks, and patenting page icons, along with a first set of new icons associated with the food self-sufficiency plan and page (see below)

ECOLOGICAL TIPPING POINT FOR AN ABUNDANT FUTURE SUMMARY: @8:10

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ECOLOGICAL TIPPING POINT FOR AN ABUNDANT FUTURE – HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

One Community is moving towards an ecological tipping point for an abundant 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:

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

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

Information Lesson Plan ” 25% Complete ” Click to Visit Page

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

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

Courage Mindmap ” 25% Complete ” Click to Visit Page

ECOLOGICAL TIPPING POINT FOR AN ABUNDANT FURTURE – HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

One Community is moving towards an ecological tipping point for an abundant 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:

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

This last week the core team continued working on the renders for the Tropical Atrium that is the center of the Earthbag Village (Pod 1). Here you can see an incomplete render looking down and South. We’re still working on the colors and textures for this one.

Continued Working on Renders for the Tropical Atrium ” Click to Visit Page

Shadi Kennedy (Artist and Graphic Designer) also created this composite image from the core team’s renders from last week. This updated render now includes the rest of the plants and trees from the Tropical Atrium Planting and Harvesting page as well as a diversity of outdoor plants, symbolizing our approach towards reaching an ecological point for an abundant future.

Created Updated Render with Additional Plants and Trees – Click to Visit

Shadi then finished this new image for the tree aspects of the Tropical Atrium Planting and Harvesting plan, adding more details to show the layering of these trees and how this has been done to maximize sunlight availability for all of them, all with an aim of reaching an ecological tipping point for an abundant future. Next step is for us to add the content and upload them to the site.

New Image for Tree Aspects of Tropical Atrium Planting and Harvesting plan

As part of the development of our our Food Self-sufficiency Transition Plan, which features contributions from Naturopathic Doctor Matt Marturano (creator of the COHERENT model for comprehensive digestive health), this week the core team modified the calculations for quantities for our food bars and began adding the food bar plans to our website, focused on reaching an ecological point for an abundant future.

Modified Food Bar Calculations and Added to Our Website – Click to Visit

ECOLOGICAL TIPPING POINT FOR AN ABUNDANT FUTURE – HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

One Community is moving towards an ecological tipping point for an abundant 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:

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

This last week the core team put another 10 hours into the behind-the-scenes revision for the Footers, Foundations and Flooring page for the crowdfunding campaign we are developing. This week we did another review of Section 10: Stem Wall and Dome Construction and added narratives along with 3 additional steps due to a change in the 6 & 12 mil Polyethylene extension from atop the 8th earthbag course to atop the 9th earthbag course. This will allow the 9th earthbag course to serve as a backsplash for the french drain gutter from rain off the dome. We’d say we are now 83% complete with this total update and rewrite behind the scenes.

Behind-the-Scenes Revision of the Footers, Foundations and Flooring Info

Brianna Johnson (Interior Designer), also continued evolving the renders for the Straw Bale Village (Pod 2). What you see here is an updated render of the outdoor dining and social space…

Straw Bale Village Render of Outdoor Dining and Social Space ” Click to Visit

… and an updated render of the community gym.

Straw Bale Village Render of Community Gym ” Click to Visit Page

Additionally, Zachary Melin (Graphic Designer) continued updating the Tree House Village (Pod 7) book created by last year’s intern Team. What you see here is Zachary’s process of redoing the Service Design page and all the pages of associated personas.

Continued Updating the Tree House Village Book ” Click to Visit Page

Also working on the Tree House Village (Pod 7), Jesika Rohrbach (Architectural Drafter, Designer, and 3-D Modeler) started designing fire escape options and working on the communal bathroom and shower floor plan options for this village, focusing on reaching an ecological tipping point for an abundant future.

Tree House Fire Escape Options and Bathroom/ Shower Floor Plan Options

Dean Scholz, Architectural Designer, further developed what’s necessary for us to create quality Cob Village (Pod 3) renders. Here is update 21 of this work that continued with what you see here, creating more high-quality render plants and trees like those we’ll be growing on the property. This effort aligns with our vision of creating an ecological tipping point for an abundant future

Further Developed What’s Necessary to Create Quality Cob Village Renders

ECOLOGICAL TIPPING FOR AN ABUNDANT FUTURE – DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

One Community is moving towards an ecological tipping point for an abundant 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:

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

This week the core team began working on the first renders of the natural pool and spa area aspects of the Duplicable City Center. Here are three of the perspectives we are developing:

Began Working on First Renders of Natural Pool and Spa Area – Click to Visit

Haoxuan “Hayes” Lei (Structural Engineering Student), also began working on load calculations and updating the City Center structural details you can see here:

Began Working on Load Calculations and Updating Structural Details

And Dipti Dhondarkar (Electrical Engineer) studied the area calculations completed by last year’s Intern Team for room lighting and began calculations for number of lamps for the rooms as seen here:

Area Calculations Previously done for Room Lighting and Began Calcs for Lamps

Iris Hsu (Industrial Designer), also continued exploring recycled pipe shelving options for the Duplicable City Center library, integrating the concept of an ecological tipping point for an abundant future. What you see here is round #7 of this work appropriately adjusting the shelves to only occupy the lower 7 feet of the 13′ walls in this room, and then exploring more designs along with ways to fill the space above the shelving.

Exploring Recycled Pipe Shelving Options for Duplicable City Center library

Behind the scenes Mike Hogan (Automation Systems Developer and Business Systems Consultant) and Lucas Tsutsui da Silva (4th-year Computer Engineering Student) started testing the Control Systems microcontroller input, incorporating the concept of reaching an ecological tipping point for an abundant future. Here is a picture from the weekly development call.

Started Testing the Control Systems Microcontroller Input – Click to Visit Page

ECOLOGICAL TIPPING POINT FOR AN ABUNDANT FUTURE – HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS

One Community is moving towards an ecological tipping point for an abundant 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:

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

This week in Highest Good society, Jonathan DeAscentis (Graphic Designer and Web Developer) finished development of our Highest Good Network logo as shown here. Next step is trademarking of this logo.

Finished Development of our Highest Good Network Logo ” Click to Visit Page

Steven Paslawsky (Graphic Designer) also created version 2 of our open source copyrights, trademarks, and patenting page icons, along with a first set of new icons associated with the food self-sufficiency plan and page.

Created Version 2 of Copyrights/Trademarks/Patents Icons and New Food Icons

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

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INVESTOR PAGES

OVERVIEW | LOCATION | FUNDING

GET INVOLVED

CONSULTANTS | WAYS ANYONE CAN HELP | MEMBERSHIP

CLICK HERE FOR ALL PAST UPDATES

WHAT ONE COMMUNITY IS CREATING

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

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, embodying the ecological tipping point for an abundant future. 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, all under the concept of ecological tipping point for an abundant future. We are creating these resources for implementation as individual components or complete developments called teacher/demonstration hubs. These hubs, integral to reaching the ecological tipping point for an abundant future, will help launch additional hubs as awareness and knowledge grow.

BUILDING THE FIRST OF MANY

One Community will be the first teacher/demonstration hub, a crucial step towards ecological tipping point for an abundant future. 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, all while focusing on the ecological tipping point for an abundant future.

A sustainable world is possible if enough people want it and are willing to take action to help create it. Demonstrating a sustainable world as easier, more affordable, and a more enjoyable way of living are dependable approaches to increasing both desire and involvement. Open source and free-shared methods for sustainable food, energy, and housing combined with Highest Good approaches to education, for-profit and non-profit economics design, social architecture, fulfilled living, and stewardship practices will help. We call this living and creating for The Highest Good of All:

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

OUR MAIN OPEN SOURCE HUBS

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

One Community’s physical location will forward this movement as the first of many self-replicating teacher/demonstration communities, villages, and cities to be built around the world. This is the May 22nd, 2016 edition (#165) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments:

A Sustainable World is Possible
One Community Progress Update #165

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

A SUSTAINABLE WORLD IS POSSIBLE INTRO @1:03

A SUSTAINABLE WORLD IS POSSIBLE – HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION: @1:57

• Transferred the final 25% of the written content for the Courage Lesson Plan to the website (see below)
• Behind the scenes: wrote the second 25% of the written part of the Information Lesson Plan
• Completed the final 25% of the mindmap for the Summer Lesson Plan (see below)

A SUSTAINABLE WORLD IS POSSIBLE – HIGHEST GOOD FOOD: @2:50

• Continued working on the renders for the Tropical Atrium that is the center of the Earthbag Village (see below)
• Shadi Kennedy began creating images for the tree aspects of the Tropical Atrium Planting and Harvesting plan (see below)
• Doctor Matt Marturano calculated the daily requirements and preparation instructions for root vegetables as part of the development of our Food Self-sufficiency Transition Plan (see below)

A SUSTAINABLE WORLD IS POSSIBLE – HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING: @4:00

• Put another 10 hours into the behind-the-scenes revision for the Footers, Foundations and Flooring page for the crowdfunding campaign we are developing (see below)
• Brianna Johnson continued evolving the renders for the Straw Bale Village (see below)
• Zachary Melin continued updating the Tree House Village (Pod 7) book created by last year’s intern Team (see below)
• Dean Scholz further developed what’s necessary for us to create quality Cob Village renders (see below)

A SUSTAINABLE WORLD IS POSSIBLE – DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER: @5:43

• Shadi Kennedy finished final details for the City Center renders of the cupola (see below)
• Iris Hsu continued exploring recycled pipe shelving options for the Duplicable City Center library (see below)

A SUSTAINABLE WORLD IS POSSIBLE – HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY: @6:43

• Completed updating icons for all the Highest Good Society sections of the website (see below)
• Jonathan DeAscentis continued development of our Highest Good Network logo (see below)
• Steven Paslawsky created new icons options for our social media links as well as icon ideas for our open source copyrights, trademarks, and patenting pages (see below)

A SUSTAINABLE WORLD IS POSSIBLE SUMMARY @7:33

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

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

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ONE COMMUNITY WEEKLY UPDATE DETAILS

A SUSTAINABLE WORLD IS POSSIBLE – HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

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

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

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

A Sustainable World is Possible ” Courage Lesson Plan ” Final 25% Complete ” Click to Visit Page

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

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

A Sustainable World is Possible ” Summer Mindmap ” Now Complete ” Click to Visit Page

A SUSTAINABLE WORLD IS POSSIBLE – HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

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

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

This last week the core team continued working on the renders for the Tropical Atrium that is the center of the Earthbag Village (Pod 1). Here you can see the finished render looking southeast and showing the hand terraces and trees there. Next step here is PhotoShop colors and additions.

Render for the Tropical Atrium Looking Southeast ” Click to Visit Page

We also completed these two renders of this structure:

Render for the Tropical Atrium – Open Front View ” Click to Visit Page

Continued Working on Renders for the Tropical Atrium – Roof Render

Shadi Kennedy (Artist and Graphic Designer) also began creating these images for the tree aspects of the Tropical Atrium Planting and Harvesting plan. The purpose of these is to show the layering of these trees and how this has been done to maximize sunlight availability for all of them.

Images for Tree Aspects of Tropical Atrium Planting and Harvesting plan

As part of the development of our our Food Self-sufficiency Transition Plan, this week Naturopathic Doctor Matt Marturano (creator of the COHERENT model for comprehensive digestive health), calculated and wrote out the daily requirements and preparation instructions for root vegetables for our meal plans with a vision.

Calculated Daily Requirements and Prep. Instructions for Root Vegetables

A SUSTAINABLE WORLD IS POSSIBLE – HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

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

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

This last week the core team put another 10 hours into the behind-the-scenes revision for the Footers, Foundations and Flooring page for the crowdfunding campaign we are developing. This week we organized, wrote new narratives, and included additional info to steps 1-37 of Section 10 Construction of Stem Walls and Dome. Additionally we added scissors, chalkline, and chalk, to Section 1 Tools and Materials list, along with photos of each item and usage explanation. We also edited and added additional info to Section 13: Subterranean Exterior Ground Finish of EPS insulation and Polyethylene Water Barrier for exterior EPS installations. We’d say we are now 82% complete with this total update and rewrite behind the scenes.

Behind-the-Scenes Revision of the Footers, Foundations and Flooring Info

Brianna Johnson (Interior Designer), also continued evolving the renders for the Straw Bale Village (Pod 2). What you see here is her render of the large-scale communal kitchen.

Continued Evolving the Renders for the Straw Bale Village – Click to Visit Page

Zachary Melin (Graphic Designer) also continued updating the Tree House Village (Pod 7) book created by last year’s intern Team. What you see here is Zachary’s process of redoing the Vision page, Master Plan page, some background images and the Sustainable Design intro page.

Continued Updating the Tree House Village Book ” Click to Visit

Dean Scholz, Architectural Designer, further developed what’s necessary for us to create quality Cob Village (Pod 3) renders. Here is update 20 of this work that focused this week on creating more plants and beginning to place them appropriately.

Further Developed What’s Necessary to Create Quality Cob Village Renders

A SUSTAINABLE WORLD IS POSSIBLE – DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

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

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

This week Shadi Kennedy (Artist and Graphic Designer) finished the final details for the City Center renders of the cupola that tops this structure. These renders show this part of the building functioning as a classroom, a multi-media room and a wellness space.

Finished Final details for the City Center renders of the Cupola – Click to Visit

City Center Cupola – Click to Visit Page

City Center Cupola – Functioning as a Classroom – Click to Visit Page

City Center Cupola – Functioning as a Multimedia Room – Click to Visit Page

City Center Cupola – Functioning as a Multimedia Room – Click to Visit Page

City Center Cupola – Functioning as a Yoga Room – Click to Visit Page

Iris Hsu (Industrial Designer), also continued exploring recycled pipe shelving options for the Duplicable City Center library. What you see here is round #6 of this work building more 3-D examples of the corner shelving option we ended up choosing and different approaches for integrating these designs with the shelving the adjacent walls.

Exploring Recycled Pipe Shelving Options for Duplicable City Center library

A SUSTAINABLE WORLD IS POSSIBLE – HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS

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

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

This last week the core team completed updating all the icons for all the Highest Good Society sections of the website. What you see here are these icons added now to the Highest Good Society open source portal and collaborative resource and information hub. All the Highest Good Society pages you see linked here have also been updated.

Updated Icons for Highest Good Society Sections on the Website ” Click to Visit

Jonathan DeAscentis (Graphic Designer and Web Developer) additionally continued development of our Highest Good Network logo as shown here. This week’s changes were exploring different options for the separation of the words from the top and the bottom and finalizing that we want rings.

Continued Development of our Highest Good Network Logo ” Click to Visit

Steven Paslawsky (Graphic Designer) also created these new icons options for our social media links as well as these icon ideas for our open source copyrights, trademarks, and patenting pages, along with a couple others.

Created New Icon Options for Social Media & Several Pages – Click to Visit

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

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

 

INVESTOR PAGES

OVERVIEW | LOCATION | FUNDING

GET INVOLVED

CONSULTANTS | WAYS ANYONE CAN HELP | MEMBERSHIP

CLICK HERE FOR ALL PAST UPDATES

WHAT ONE COMMUNITY IS CREATING

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

Our goal is to demonstrate what we feel is the most sustainable, healthy, and fun environment we can create. A place based on compassion, kindness, and collaboration. This replicable community will serve as an example for what is possible. By showing that a sustainable world is possible, we aim to inspire others to join our mission.

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, further proving that a sustainable world is possible.

BUILDING THE FIRST OF MANY

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

WHY ONE COMMUNITY IS CREATING THIS

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

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. Through these experiences, we show the world that a sustainable world is possible.

We are caretakers of our shared planet. Whether we choose to do so consciously or not, we are each still caretakers. Hasn’t the time come for clear and open source options for those interested in caretaking for The Highest Good of All? We think it has.

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

OUR MAIN OPEN SOURCE HUBS

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

One Community’s physical location will forward this movement as the first of many self-replicating teacher/demonstration communities, villages, and cities to be built around the world. This is the May 15th, 2016 edition (#164) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments:

Caretakers of Our Shared Planet
One Community Progress Update #164

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

CARETAKERS OF OUR SHARED PLANET INTRO: @1:03

CARETAKERS OF OUR SHARED PLANET – HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION: @2:01

• Transferred the third 25% of the written content for the Courage Lesson Plan to the website
• Behind the scenes: wrote the final 25% of the written part of the Courage Lesson Plan
• Completed the third 25% of the mindmap for the Summer Lesson Plan (see below)

CARETAKERS OF OUR SHARED PLANET – HIGHEST GOOD FOOD: @2:54

• Continued working on the renders for the Tropical Atrium that is the center of the Earthbag Village (Pod 1) (see below)
• Calculated and added the nutrition information and daily requirements for greens to our meal plans, which features contributions from Naturopathic Doctor Matt Marturano (see below)
• Shadi Kennedy added fruit trees, flowers, etc. to the Tropical Atrium render (see below)

CARETAKERS OF OUR SHARED PLANET – HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING: @4:03

• Put another 10 hours into the behind-the-scenes revision for the Footers, Foundations and Flooring page for the crowdfunding campaign we are developing (see below)
• Jessica Zynda completed final CAD drawing of the Earthbag Village Dome Excavation, French Drain Gutter, and Footer (see below)
• Zachary Melin took over updating the Tree House Village (Pod 7) book created by last year’s intern Team (see below)
• Dean Scholz further developed what’s necessary for us to create quality Cob Village renders (see below)
• Sal Rubio continued working on creating professional do-it-yourself Earthbag Village Murphy Bed furniture assembly instructions (see below)
• Shilcy Augustine continued developing the Compressed Earth Block Village (Pod 4) massage and treatment room spaces (see below)

CARETAKERS OF OUR SHARED PLANET – DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER: @6:05

• Neha Verma created an initial section plan for the City Center (see below)
• Shadi Kennedy added the final details to City Center render of the large-scale communal Kitchen (see below)
• Iris Hsu continued exploring recycled pipe shelving options for the Duplicable City Center library (see below)

CARETAKERS OF OUR SHARED PLANET – HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY: @7:02

• Completed icons for all the Highest Good of All sections of the website and added to The Highest Good of All Portal and Collaborative resource and information hub (see below)
• Jonathan DeAscentis continued development of our Highest Good Network logo (see below)

CARETAKERS OF OUR SHARED PLANET SUMMARY @7:28

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

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

YOU CAN ALSO JOIN US THROUGH SOCIAL MEDIA

 

ONE COMMUNITY WEEKLY UPDATE DETAILS

CARETAKERS OF OUR SHARED PLANET – HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

One Community is contributing as caretakers of our shared planet through Highest Good education that is for all ages, applicable in any environment, adaptable to individual needs, far exceeds traditional education standards, and more fun for both the teachers and the students:

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

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

Caretakers of Our Shared Planet “Courage Lesson Plan ” 75% Complete ” Click to Visit Page

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

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

Caretakers of Our Shared Planet “Summer Mindmap ” 75% Complete ” Click to Visit Page

CARETAKERS OF OUR SHARED PLANET – HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

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

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

This last week the core team continued working on the renders for the Tropical Atrium that is the center of the Earthbag Village (Pod 1). Here you can see the finished render looking southwest and focusing on the hand terraces and central pond. Next step here is PhotoShop colors and additions.

Continued Working on Renders for the Tropical Atrium – Click to Visit Page

As part of the development of our our Food Self-sufficiency Transition Plan, which features contributions from Naturopathic Doctor Matt Marturano (creator of the COHERENT model for comprehensive digestive health), this week we calculated and added the nutrition information and daily requirements for greens to our meal plans.

Calculated & Nutrition Information & Greens to Meal Plans

Shadi Kennedy (Artist and Graphic Designer) then took the render from the core team and added all the plant details so it now shows the Tropical Atrium flourishing with fruit trees, flowers, and other plants from the Tropical Atrium Planting and Harvesting plan.

Added Plant Details to Tropical Atrium – View Looking Southwest

CARETAKERS OF OUR SHARED PLANET – HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

One Community is contributing as caretakers of our shared planet through Highest Good housing that is artistic and beautiful, more affordable, more space efficient, lasts longer, DIY buildable, and constructed with healthy and sustainable materials:

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

This last week the core team put another 10 hours into the behind-the-scenes revision for the Footers, Foundations and Flooring page for the crowdfunding campaign we are developing. This week’s focus was on creating a sketch and explanatory narrative depicting the layout of expanded polystyrene insulation for the earthbag dome floor and dome subterranean exterior. We also finished the narrative for the 6-millimeter polyethylene over exterior horizontal EPS insulation. We’d say we are now 81% complete with this total update and rewrite behind the scenes.

Behind-the-Scenes Revision of the Footers, Foundations and Flooring Info

Jessica Zynda (Drafter and Designer) also completed this final CAD drawing of the Earthbag Village Dome Excavation, French Drain Gutter, and Footer.

CAD Drawing of Earthbag Village Dome Excavation, French Drain Gutter, Footer

Zachary Melin (Graphic Designer) also took over updating the Tree House Village (Pod 7) book created by last year’s intern Team. What you see here is Zachary’s process of redoing the background image and rebuilding the table of contents and the summary page.

In Process of Updating the Tree House Village Book – Click to Visit

Dean Scholz, Architectural Designer, further developed what’s necessary for us to create quality Cob Village (Pod 3) renders. Here is update 19 of this work that is now focused on what you see here, creating quality render plants and trees like those we’ll be growing on the property.

Further Developed What’s Necessary to Create Quality Cob Village Renders

Sal Rubio (Industrial Designer) also continued working on creating professional do-it-yourself Earthbag Village Murphy Bed furniture assembly instructions. What you see here are week 3 of his process of double checking all our pieces and creating SolidWorks versions of them from the Sketchup pieces we already have.

Creating Professional Do-It-Yourself Earthbag Village Furniture Instructions

Shilcy Augustine (Architect) continued developing the Compressed Earth Block Village (Pod 4) massage and treatment room spaces. You can see this work here where her focus continues with the aesthetic and structural details for the external spaces.

Compressed Earth Block Village Massage & Treatment Room Spaces

CARETAKERS OF OUR SHARED PLANET – DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

One Community is contributing as caretakers of our shared planet through a Duplicable and Sustainable City Center that is LEED Platinum certified/Sustainable, can feed 200 people at a time, provide laundry for over 300 people, is beautiful, spacious, and saves resources, money, and space:

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

This week Neha Verma (Construction Project Manager and Bachelor’s of Architecture) created this initial section plan for the City Center.

Created Initial Section Plan for City Center – Click to Visit Page

And Shadi Kennedy (Artist and Graphic Designer) added the final details to this City Center render of the large-scale communal Kitchen.

Caretakers of Our Shared Planet “Added Final Details to Large-Scale Communal Kitchen Render

Additionally, Iris Hsu (Industrial Designer), also continued exploring recycled pipe shelving options for the Duplicable City Center library. What you see here is round #5 of this work building more 3-D examples of the corner shelving options we liked best and further exploring how they’ll look with different shelving for the adjacent walls.

Exploring Recycled Pipe Shelving Options for Duplicable City Center library

CARETAKERS OF OUR SHARED PLANET – HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS

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

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

This last week the core team completed updating all the icons for all the Highest Good of All sections of the website. What you see here are these icons added now to The Highest Good of All Portal and Collaborative resource and information hub.

Updated Icons for Highest Good Food Sections on the Website ” Click to Visit

Jonathan DeAscentis (Graphic Designer and Web Developer) additionally continued development of our Highest Good Network logo as shown here. This week’s changes were discussing options for the words in the outer ring.

Continued Development of our Highest Good Network Logo ” Click to Visit

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

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

 

INVESTOR PAGES

OVERVIEW | LOCATION | FUNDING

GET INVOLVED

CONSULTANTS | WAYS ANYONE CAN HELP | MEMBERSHIP

CLICK HERE FOR ALL PAST UPDATES

WHAT ONE COMMUNITY IS CREATING

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

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, emphasizing the role of caretakers of our shared planet.

BUILDING THE FIRST OF MANY

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

WHY ONE COMMUNITY IS CREATING THIS

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

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, as devoted caretakers of our shared planet.

INSPIRING SUSTAINABILITY WITH OPEN SOURCE

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

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 as caretakers of our shared planet, 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. By engaging as caretakers of our shared planet, we collectively contribute to this vision.

Forwarding the evolution of sustainability can be accelerated through open source sharing models for self-sufficient eco-villages. For maximum effect, it makes sense to include within these village models approaches for Highest Good food, energy, housing, education, for-profit and non-profit economics design, social architecture, fulfilled living, and stewardship practices and more. We call this living and creating for The Highest Good of All:

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

OUR MAIN OPEN SOURCE HUBS

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

One Community’s physical location will forward this movement as the first of many self-replicating teacher/demonstration communities, villages, and cities to be built around the world. This is the May 8th, 2016 edition (#163) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments:

Forwarding the Evolution of Sustainability
One Community Progress Update #163

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

FORWARDING THE EVOLUTION OF SUSTAINABILITY INTRO: @1:00

FORWARDING THE EVOLUTION OF SUSTAINABILITY – HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION: @1:56

• Transferred the second 25% of the written content for the Courage Lesson Plan to the website (see below)
• Behind the scenes: wrote the third 25% of the written part of the Courage Lesson Plan
• Completed the second 25% of the mindmap for the Summer Lesson Plan, bringing it to 50% complete (see below)

FORWARDING THE EVOLUTION OF SUSTAINABILITY – HIGHEST GOOD FOOD: @2:46

• Continued working on the renders for the Tropical Atrium that is the center of the Earthbag Village (Pod 1) (see below)
• Began laying out the preliminary outline for our nutrition based buffet-style meals, which features contributions from Naturopathic Doctor Matt Marturano (see below)
• Shadi Kennedy created individual planting plan maps for the Tropical Atrium Planting and Harvesting page (see below)
• Shadi added all the plant details to the Core Team’s Tropical Atrium render (see below)

FORWARDING THE EVOLUTION OF SUSTINABILITY – HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING: @3:57

• Put another 10 hours into the behind-the-scenes revision for the Footers, Foundations and Flooring page for the crowdfunding campaign we are developing (see below)
• Dean Scholz further developed what’s necessary for us to create quality Cob Village renders (see below)
• Sal Rubio continued working on creating professional do-it-yourself Earthbag Village Murphy Bed furniture assembly instructions (see below)
• Shilcy Augustine continued developing the Compressed Earth Block Village (Pod 4) massage and treatment room spaces (see below)

FORWARDING THE EVOLUTION OF SUSTAINABLITY – DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER: @5:37

• Shadi Kennedy finalized his work on the updated render scenes for the City Center (see below)
• Behind the scenes: Mike Hogan and Lucas Tsutsui da Silva were joined by Dipti Dhondarkar and Neha Verma on their Control Systems discussion (see below)

FORWARDING THE EVOLUTION OF SUSTAINABLITY – HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY: @6:43

• Completed updating all the icons for all the Highest Good Food sections of the website (see below)
• Added a “how to maintain it” section to both our Open Source and Copyrights page and our Open Source and Trademarks page with the help of Oz Czerski (see below)
• Jonathan DeAscentis continued development of our Highest Good Network logo (see below)

FORWARDING THE EVOLUTION OF SUSTAINABILITY SUMMARY : @7:19

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

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

YOU CAN ALSO JOIN US THROUGH SOCIAL MEDIA

 

ONE COMMUNITY WEEKLY UPDATE DETAILS

FORWARDING THE EVOLUTION OF SUSTAINABILITY – HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

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

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

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

Courage Lesson Plan ” 50% Complete ” Click to Visit Page

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

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

Summer Mindmap ” 50% Complete ” Click to Visit Page

FORWARDING THE EVOLUTION OF SUSTAINABILITY – HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

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

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

This last week the core team continued working on the renders for the Tropical Atrium that is the center of the Earthbag Village (Pod 1). Here you can see the finished initial render looking northwest. Next step here is PhotoShop colors and additions.

Continued Working on Renders for the Tropical Atrium – Click to Visit Page

As part of the development of our our Food Self-sufficiency Transition Plan, which features contributions from Naturopathic Doctor Matt Marturano (creator of the COHERENT model for comprehensive digestive health), this week we began laying out the preliminary outline for our nutrition based buffet-style meals.

Began Laying out Preliminary Outline for Nutrition Based Buffet-Style Meals

Shadi Kennedy (Artist and Graphic Designer) also created these individual planting plan maps for the Tropical Atrium Planting and Harvesting page.

Individual Planting Plan Maps for Tropical Atrium Planting and Harvesting Page

Then Shadi added all the plant details to the Core Team’s render, now it shows the Tropical Atrium flourishing with fruit trees, flowers, and other plants from the Tropical Atrium Planting and Harvesting plan.

Added Plant Details to Tropical Atrium – View Looking Northwest

FORWARDING THE EVOLUTION OF SUSTAINABILITY – HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

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

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

This last week the core team put another 10 hours into the behind-the-scenes revision for the Footers, Foundations and Flooring page for the crowdfunding campaign we are developing. This week’s focus was on continued insertion of backfill steps and steps for raising the poly instruction that are part of Section 10: Construction of Stem Walls and Dome. We also completed further edits of Section 13: Subterranean Exterior Ground Finish of Polyethylene Water Barrier and EPS Insulation. We additionally moved all new green-step headings into the Section 10 doc and inserted newly written narratives. We’d say we are now 80% complete with this total update and rewrite behind the scenes.

Behind-the-Scenes Revision of the Footers, Foundations and Flooring Info

Dean Scholz, Architectural Designer, further developed what’s necessary for us to create quality Cob Village (Pod 3) renders. Here is update 18 of this work that is now focused on what you see here, creating quality-render trees like those native to the area we intend to build in.

Further Developed What’s Necessary to Create Quality Cob Village Renders

Sal Rubio (Industrial Designer) also continued working on creating professional do-it-yourself Earthbag Village Murphy Bed furniture assembly instructions. What you see here are week 2 of his process of double checking all our pieces and creating SolidWorks versions of them from the Sketchup pieces we already have.

Creating Professional Do-It-Yourself Earthbag Village Furniture Instructions

Shilcy Augustine (Architect) continued developing the Compressed Earth Block Village (Pod 4) massage and treatment room spaces. You can see this work here where her focus is now on the external spaces.

Compressed Earth Block Village Massage & Treatment Room Spaces

FORWARDING THE EVOLUTION OF SUSTAINABILITY – DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

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

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

This week working on the City Center, Shadi Kennedy (Artist and Graphic Designer) finalized his work on the updated render scenes for the rental rooms:

Finalized Work on Updated Render Scenes for Rental Rooms – Click to Visit

… the loft in the Social Dome:

Finalized Work on Updated Render Scenes for Loft in Social Dome

Finalized Work on Updated Render Scenes for Loft in Social Dome

… and dining area by the Kitchen:

Finalized Work on Updated Render Scenes for Dining Area in Kitchen

… also these four new images of the rental room and what will be the do-it-yourself pallet furniture:

Finalized Work on Updated Render Scenes for Rental Room

Finalized Work on Updated Render Scenes for Rental Room

Finalized Work on Updated Render Scenes for Rental Room

Finalized Work on Updated Render Scenes for Rental Room

Behind the scenes Mike Hogan (Automation Systems Developer and Business Systems Consultant) and Lucas Tsutsui da Silva (4th-year Computer Engineering Student) were joined by Dipti Dhondarkar (Electrical Engineer) and Neha Verma (Construction Project Manager). The discussion this week was about how Dipti‘s work with lighting and minimum and optimal lumens will integrate with the Control Systems, aimed at forwarding the evolution of sustainability.

Continued Discussion for development of the Control Systems Lighting

FORWARDING THE EVOLUTION OF SUSTAINABILITY – HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS

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

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

This last week the core team completed updating all the icons for all the Highest Good Food sections of the website. What you see here is a collage of some of these icons on a few of the updated pages:

Updated Icons for Highest Good Food Sections on the Website

With the help of Oz Czerski, Lawyer Specializing in Trademark and Copyright Law, we also added a “how to maintain it” section to both our Open Source and Copyrights page and our Open Source and Trademarks page.

“How to Maintain it” Section to Open Source Copyrights and Trademarks Page

Jonathan DeAscentis (Graphic Designer and Web Developer) additionally continued development of our Highest Good Network logo. This week’s changes were finalizing the center tree details:

Continued Development of our Highest Good Network Logo

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

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

 

INVESTOR PAGES

OVERVIEW | LOCATION | FUNDING

GET INVOLVED

CONSULTANTS | WAYS ANYONE CAN HELP | MEMBERSHIP

CLICK HERE FOR ALL PAST UPDATES

WHAT ONE COMMUNITY IS CREATING

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

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

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

BUILDING THE FIRST OF MANY

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

WHY ONE COMMUNITY IS CREATING THIS

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

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, focusing on forwarding the evolution of sustainability.  For One Community residents (the Pioneer Team), the idea of creating and sharing the social and recreational experience with visitors is also fun, exciting, fulfilling, and an additional reason why we are creating this.

INSPIRING SUSTAINABILITY WITH OPEN SOURCE

One Community’s four-phase strategy for the creation of solution models that create solution creating models uses open source blueprints for duplication that simultaneously address all aspects of the human experience (food, energy, housing, education, social inequality and injustice, fulfilled living, etc.). 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 as caretakers of our shared planet.

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 as caretakers of our shared planet, 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. By engaging as caretakers of our shared planet, we collectively contribute to this vision.

Understanding how humanity creates a sustainable world can be achieved by looking at how we’ve created the world we have now. To get to where we are now, humanity has chosen what’s easiest, most affordable, and most attractive. If we make living sustainability and for The Highest Good of All easy enough, affordable enough, and attractive enough, we can create a new and better paradigm the same way we created our current one. One Community’s focus is open sourcing everything needed to accomplish this:

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

OUR MAIN OPEN SOURCE HUBS

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

One Community’s physical location will forward this movement as the first of many self-replicating teacher/demonstration communities, villages, and cities to be built around the world. This is the May 1st, 2016 edition (#162) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments:

How Humanity Creates a Sustainable World
One Community Progress Update #162

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

HOW HUMANITY CREATES A SUSTAINABLE WORLD INTRO: @1:00

HOW HUMANITY CREATES A SUSTAINABLE WORLD – HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION: @1:56

• Transferred the first 25% of the written content for the Courage Lesson Plan to the website (see below)
• Behind the scenes: wrote the second 25% of the written part of the Courage Lesson Plan
• Completed the first 25% of the mindmap for the Summer Lesson Plan (see below)

HOW HUMANITY CREATES A SUSTAINABLE WORLD – HIGHEST GOOD FOOD: @2:51

• Found and added a great video to the Aquapini/Walipini open source hub and the Aquapini and Walipini Planting and Harvesting pages (see below)
• Shadi Kennedy finalized the planting plan specifics image for the Tropical Atrium that is the center of the Earthbag Village. Then the core team added both versions of this image to the website (see below)

HOW HUMANITY CREATES A SUSTAINABLE WORLD – HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING: @3:40

• Put another 10 hours into the behind-the-scenes revision for the Footers, Foundations and Flooring page for the crowdfunding campaign we are developing (see below)
• Jesika Rohrbach continued designing different loft sleeping area options for Tree House Village living structures (see below)
• Dean Scholz further developed what’s necessary for us to create quality Cob Village renders (see below)
• Sal Rubio began working on converting our custom and do-it-yourself Earthbag Village Murphy Bed furniture assembly instructions to professional and simplified instructions made in SolidWorks (see below)

HOW HUMANITY CREATES A SUSTAINABLE WORLD – DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER: @5:21

• Began rendering work for the Tropical Atrium (see below)
• Haoxuan “Hayes” Lei began working on updating the City Center AutoCAD drawings (see below)
• Dipti Dhondarkar began working on switch board placement for lights, fans, sockets, and power outlets (see below)
• Neha Verma created 3rd-generation designs for the basement and root cellar (see below)
• Shadi Kennedy began working on updated render scenes for the City Center rental room, social dome loft, and dining area (see below)
• Behind the scenes: Mike Hogan and Lucas Tsutsui da Silva continued discussion for development of the Control Systems main panel (see below)

HOW HUMANITY CREATES A SUSTAINABLE WORLD – HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY: @7:09

• Completed final round of edits on master plan concept map for the property and added it to our Overview, Methodology, Property, and Highest Good housing pages (see below)
• Jonathan DeAscentis took the work of Mariam Sargsyan and began further development of our Highest Good Network logo as shown here (see below)

HOW HUMANITY CREATES A SUSTAINABLE WORLD SUMMARY: @7:34

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HOW HUMANITY CREATES A SUSTAINABLE WORLD – HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

One Community is building the foundations for how humanity creates a sustainable world through Highest Good education that is for all ages, applicable in any environment, adaptable to individual needs, far exceeds traditional education standards, and more fun for both the teachers and the students:

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

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

How Humanity Creates a Sustainable World – Courage Lesson Plan ” 25% Complete ” Click to Visit

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

We also completed the first 25% of the mindmap for the Summer Lesson Plan, bringing it to one quarter complete, which you see here.

How Humanity Creates a Sustainable World – Summer Mindmap – 25% Complete ” Click to Visit Page

HOW HUMANITY CREATES A SUSTAINABLE WORLD – HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

One Community is building the foundations for how humanity creates a sustainable world through Highest Good food that is more diverse, more nutritious, locally grown and sustainable, and part of our open source botanical garden model to support and share bio-diversity:

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

This last week the core team found and added this great video to the Aquapini/Walipini open source hub and the Aquapini and Walipini Planting and Harvesting pages. It shows a working example of a passive greenhouse in Nebraska demonstrating what will be possible with our open source Aquapini/Walipini designs:

Shadi Kennedy (Artist and Graphic Designer) also finalized the planting plan specifics image for the Tropical Atrium that is the center of the Earthbag Village (Pod 1) , and then the core team added both versions of this image to the webpage.

How Humanity Creates a Sustainable World – Added Planting Plan Specifics Image to Website

HOW HUMANITY CREATES A SUSTAINABLE WORLD – HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

One Community is building the foundations for how humanity creates a sustainable world through Highest Good housing that is artistic and beautiful, more affordable, more space efficient, lasts longer, DIY buildable, and constructed with healthy and sustainable materials:

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

This last week the core team put another 10 hours into the behind-the-scenes revision for the Footers, Foundations and Flooring page for the crowdfunding campaign we are developing. This week’s focus was writing up the narrative for the Section 13 Subterranean Exterior Ground Finish of Polyethylene Water Barrier and EPS Insulation, and creating the narrative for Section 15 Final Backfill. Further steps were also added to Section 10 Stem Wall and Dome Construction. We’d say we are now 79% complete with this total update and rewrite behind the scenes.

Behind-the-Scenes Revision of the Footers, Foundations and Flooring Info

Working on the Tree House Village (Pod 7), Jesika Rohrbach (Architectural Drafter, Designer, and 3-D Modeler) continued designing and exploring different loft sleeping area options for the living structures for this village. This week’s focus was on designs for skylights and shelving behind and below the bed.

Designing/Exploring Loft Sleeping Area Options for Treehouse Family Structures

Dean Scholz, Architectural Designer, further developed what’s necessary for us to create quality Cob Village (Pod 3) renders. Here is update 17 of this work that included placing the natural and do-it-yourself constructed outdoor water feature and beginning work on a cordwood chair design.

Further Developed What’s Necessary to Create Quality Cob Village Renders

Sal Rubio (Industrial Designer) also began working on converting our custom and do-it-yourself Earthbag Village Murphy Bed furniture assembly instructions from the GoogleDoc format we have them in now to professional and simplified instructions made in SolidWorks. What you see here is iteration 1.0 with pictures from the GoogleDoc and the beginnings of his SolidWorks plans.

Murphy Bed Furniture Instructions to Professional Instructions in SolidWorks

HOW HUMANITY CREATES SUSTAINABLE WORLD – DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

One Community is building the foundations for how humanity creates a sustainable world through a Duplicable and Sustainable City Center that is LEED Platinum certified/Sustainable, can feed 200 people at a time, provide laundry for over 300 people, is beautiful, spacious, and saves resources, money, and space:

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

This week the core team began the rendering work for the Tropical Atrium. This rendering preparation process included setting up the shadows and background, and applying the texture material for the trees, water, windows, rock walls and wood panels. You can see the first rendering of this image here:

How Humanity Creates a Sustainable World – Began the Rendering Work for the Tropical Atrium

Haoxuan “Hayes” Lei (Structural Engineering Student), also began working on updating the City Center AutoCAD drawings with column placement specifics shown here:

How Humanity Creates a Sustainable World – Began Working on Updating the City Center Drawings

Dipti Dhondarkar (Electrical Engineer) also began working on switch board placement for lights, fans, sockets, and power outlets.

Switch Board Placement for Lights, Fans, Sockets, and Power Outlets

Neha Verma (Construction Project Manager and Bachelor’s of Architecture) also created these 3rd-generation designs for the basement and root cellar for the City Center:

3rd-Generation Designs for Basement and Root Cellar for the City Center

Shadi Kennedy (Artist and Graphic Designer) also began working on updated render scenes for the City Center rental room, loft in the Social Dome, and dining area by the Kitchen:

Began Working on Updated Render Scenes for City Center Rooms

Behind the scenes Mike Hogan (Automation Systems Developer and Business Systems Consultant) and Lucas Tsutsui da Silva (4th-year Computer Engineering Student) continued discussion for development of the Control Systems main panel. This week’s focus was having Lucas build the same prototype in Brazil to test if it worked the same as Mikes’, results of our ongoing survey from the Control System’s page, and additional edits and updates that both Mike and Lucas helped with for the webpage.

Continued Discussion for development of the Control Systems Main Panel

HOW HUMANITY CREATES SUSTAINABLE WORLD –  HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS

One Community is building the foundations for how humanity creates a sustainable world through a Highest Good society approach to living that is founded on fulfilled living, the study of meeting human needs, Community, and making a difference in the world:

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

This last week the core team completed a final round of edits on our master plan concept map for the property and added this map to our Overview , Methodology, Property, and Highest Good housing pages.

Final Round of Edits on Our Master Plan Map and Added to Several Pages

Jonathan DeAscentis (Graphic Designer and Web Developer) additionally took the work of Mariam Sargsyan (Graphic Designer and Project Manager) and began further development of our Highest Good Network logo as shown here:

Began Further Development of Highest Good Network Logo

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WHAT ONE COMMUNITY IS CREATING

One Community is creating a place to grow together and change the world together focusing on how humanity creates a sustainable world. 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, emphasizing how humanity creates a sustainable world. A place based on compassion, kindness, and collaboration. This replicable community will serve as an example for what is possible in terms of how humanity creates a sustainable world.

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

BUILDING THE FIRST OF MANY

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

WHY ONE COMMUNITY IS CREATING THIS

The One Community self-replicating model is capable of creating a sustainable planet within 30 years, with a strong focus on how humanity creates a sustainable world. 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, highlighting how humanity creates a sustainable world. 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, emphasizing how humanity creates a sustainable world.

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 with a focus on how humanity creates a sustainable world.  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.

Creating an ecological Earth model to regenerate our planet and meet the food, energy, housing and other needs of all people is now possible. One Community is doing our part to facilitate this through sustainable and self-sufficient teacher/demonstration communities, villages, and hubs:

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

OUR MAIN OPEN SOURCE HUBS

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

One Community’s physical location will forward this movement as the first of many self-replicating teacher/demonstration communities, villages, and cities to be built around the world. This is the April 24th, 2016 edition (#161) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments:

Creating an Ecological Earth
One Community Progress Update #161

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

CREATING AN ECOLOGICAL EARTH INTRO: @1:00

CREATING AN ECOLOGICAL EARTH – HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION: @1:57

• Transferred final 25% of written content for Summer Lesson Plan to website (see below)
• Behind the scenes: wrote first 25% of written part of Courage Lesson Plan (see below)
• Completed final 25% of mindmap for Cooperation and Collaboration Lesson Plan (see below)

CREATING AN ECOLOGICAL EARTH – HIGHEST GOOD FOOD: @2:47

• Finalized and are launching our Transition Kitchen page to the public, which features contributions from Naturopathic Doctor Matt Marturano (see below)
• Shadi Kennedy further developed planting plan specifics of  the Tropical Atrium that is the center of the Earthbag Village (see below)

CREATING AN ECOLOGICAL EARTH – HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING: @3:38

• Put another 10 hours into the behind-the-scenes revision for the Footers, Foundations and Flooring page for the crowdfunding campaign we are developing (see below)
• Jesika Rohrbach started designing different loft sleeping area options for Tree House Village living structures (see below)
• Dean Scholz further developed what’s necessary for us to create quality Cob Village renders (see below)

CREATING AN ECOLOGICAL EARTH – DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER: @4:59

• Finished rendering Cupola area of the Duplicable City Center (see below)
• Started work on updates for Duplicable City Center Natural Pool and Spa. The children’s easy-access area was redesigned based on the excellent design work of Bupesh Seethala (see below)
• Iris Hsu continued exploring recycled pipe shelving options for the Duplicable City Center library (see below)
• Added the amazing City Center Control Systems and Electrical Design work from Mike Hogan and Lucas Tsutsui da Silva to the City Center Open Source Hub and Control Systems pages (see below)
• Mike, Lucas, and Jae discussed testing being done to fix an electrical interference problem (see below)
  
• Hoang Bao continued transferring the work of last year’s intern team into the new Duplicable City Center Electrical page (see below)

CREATING AN ECOLOGICAL EARTH – HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY: @7:00

• Completed final edits and reorganization needed for the icons designed by Ivan Manzurov (see below)
• Added the work of Lokesh Gopu to the Highest Good Network software page along with links to the GitHub (see below)
• Jonathan DeAscentis continued development of our Highest Good Network logo (see below)

CREATING AN ECOLOGICAL EARTH SUMMARY: @7:43

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CREATING AN ECOLOGICAL EARTH – HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

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

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

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

Creating an Ecological Earth – Summer Lesson Plan ” Final 25% Complete ” Click to Visit Page

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

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

Creating an Ecological Earth – Cooperation and Collaboration Mindmap Complete ” Click to Visit

CREATING AN ECOLOGICAL EARTH – HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

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

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

This last week the core team finalized and launched our Transition Kitchen page to the public. This work is part of the development of our Food Self-sufficiency Transition Plan, which features contributions from Naturopathic Doctor Matt Marturano (creator of the COHERENT model for comprehensive digestive health).

Finalized and Launched our Transition Kitchen Page to the Public – Click to Visit

Shadi Kennedy (Artist and Graphic Designer) also further developed the planting plan specifics of the Tropical Atrium that is the center of the Earthbag Village (Pod 1). What you see here are version 2.0 of the two different layout options we’ve decided on:

Further Developed the Tropical Atrium Planting Plan Specifics

CREATING AN ECOLOGICAL EARTH – HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

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

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

This last week the core team put another 10 hours into the behind-the-scenes revision for the Footers, Foundations and Flooring page for the crowdfunding campaign we are developing. This week’s focus was reviewing the first three poly installations and re-writing the poly foundation to coincide with the floor construction in Section 12 and providing determinations of how to fit EPS to exterior dome shape and cost estimates for Section 14 Subterranean Exterior Ground Finish of Polyethylene Water Barrier and EPS Insulation. We’d say we are now 78% complete with this total update and rewrite behind the scenes.

Revision of the Footers, Foundations and Flooring Info ” Click to Visit Page

Working on the Tree House Village (Pod 7), Jesika Rohrbach (Architectural Drafter, Designer, and 3-D Modeler) started designing and exploring different loft sleeping area options for the living structures for this village. You can see these here:

Designing/Exploring Loft Sleeping Area Options for Treehouse Family Structures

Dean Scholz, Architectural Designer, further developed what’s necessary for us to create quality Cob Village (Pod 3) renders. Here is update 16 of this work that included finishing the natural and do-it-yourself constructed outdoor water feature.

Further Developed What’s Necessary to Create Quality Cob Village Renders

CREATING AN ECOLOGICAL EARTH – DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

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

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

This week the core team finished rendering the Cupola area of the Duplicable City Center. Here you see 3 most recent rendered scene images for different settings of the Cupola studio.

Finished Rendering the Cupola Area of the Duplicable City Center

We also started to work on updates for the Duplicable City Center Natural Pool and Spa. The children’s easy-access area was redesigned as seen here and based on the excellent design work of Bupesh Seethala (Interior Designer). The new design features safety rails, a separation wall between the children and adult areas of the pool, and an 8″, 16″ and 24″ set of stepped areas for children to enjoy.

Started Work on Updates for Duplicable City Center Natural Pool and Spa

Iris Hsu (Industrial Designer), also continued exploring recycled pipe shelving options for the Duplicable City Center library. What you see here is round #4 of this work building 3-D examples of the corner shelving options we liked best and starting to see how they’ll look with different shelving for the adjacent walls.

Continued Exploring Recycled Pipe Shelving Options for Library

We also added the amazing City Center Control Systems and Electrical Design work from Mike Hogan (Automation Systems Developer and Business Systems Consultant) and Lucas Tsutsui da Silva (4th-year Computer Engineering Student) to the City Center Open Source Hub and Control Systems pages. What you see here are the details of placement for all of the control and automation systems, lights, and electrical for the entire City Center.

Duplicable City Center Control Systems, Lighting, and Electrical Map

In our weekly collaborative call, Mike, Lucas, and Jae discussed testing being done to fix an electrical interference problem happening with long cable runs and wiring Mike is doing to test the control panel design we shared last week. 

Discussed Testing Being Done to Fix an Electrical Interference Problem

Hoang Bao (Software Developer) also continued transferring the work of last year’s intern team into the new Duplicable City Center Electrical page. What you see here is the last 3rd of the complete content live on the new page.

Moving Work of Intern Team into New Duplicable City Center Electrical Page

CREATING AN ECOLOGICAL EARTH – HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS

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

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

This last week the core team completed the final edits and reorganization needed for the icons designed by Graphic Designer, Ivan Manzurov. The final icons we worked on are shown here, these are for the Earthbag Village (Pod 1) open source hub.

Continued Multi-hour Reorganization of the Icons ” Now Complete

We also added the work of Lokesh Gopu (Software Engineer) to the Highest Good Network software page along with links to the GitHub. Once complete, this open source software will streamline project tracking and sustainable community collaboration and data sharing around the world.

Added New Open Source Software to the Highest Good Network Page

Related to this, Jonathan DeAscentis (Graphic Designer and Web Developer) continued development of what will be the Highest Good Network logo. What you see here are his 4th round of evolutions:

Continued Further Development of Highest Good Network Logo

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WHAT ONE COMMUNITY IS CREATING

One Community is creating an ecological earth place to grow together and change the world together. We are 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 focusing on creating an ecological earth.

BUILDING THE FIRST OF MANY

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

WHY ONE COMMUNITY IS CREATING THIS

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

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 an ecological earth.

SUMMARY

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

One Community welcomes Shadi Kennedy to the Graphic Design Team as our newest Volunteer/Consultant!

Artist and Graphic Designer: After graduating with his BA in Art Practice, Shadi Kennedy decided he wanted to create visually engaging work that related to the world around us and engaged and interacted with viewers beyond those who just wandered into an art gallery. With this new goal, Shadi went back to University and earned his MA (with Honors) in Graphic Design. Now an accomplished Designer, Shadi specializes in using visual creativity to produce unique, streamlined, and functional designs that make a positive impact on the world around them. As a One Community Graphic Designer, Shadi is applying his amazing talent creating final real-to-life renders, descriptive imagery, and publication materials for the Earthbag Village, Tropical Atrium, and Duplicable City Center➢.

WELCOME TO THE TEAM SHADI!

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How to regenerate earth: Make sustainability easy enough, affordable enough, and demonstrate it as attractive enough so that it will spread on its own. Creating open source sustainable and self-sufficient teacher/demonstration communities, villages, and hubs are how One Community is doing this:

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

OUR MAIN OPEN SOURCE HUBS

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

One Community’s physical location will forward this movement as the first of many self-replicating teacher/demonstration communities, villages, and cities to be built around the world. This is the April 17th, 2016 edition (#160) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments:

How to Regenerate Earth
One Community Progress Update #160

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

HOW TO REGENERATE EARTH INTRO:  @1:00

HOW TO REGENERATE EARTH – HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION: @1:59

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

HOW TO REGENERATE EARTH – HIGHEST GOOD FOOD: @2:51

• Added the finalized versions of 3d renders to our Transition Kitchen page, which features contributions from Naturopathic Doctor Matt Marturano (see below)
• Shadi Kennedy began exploring new ways to share the planting plan specifics of the Tropical Atrium (see below)

HOW  TO REGENERATE EARTH – HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING: @3:40

• Put another 10 hours into the behind-the-scenes revision for the Footers, Foundations and Flooring page for the crowdfunding campaign we are developing (see below)
• Jesika Rohrbach added updated ramp textures and designs to the Tree House Village external render (see below)
• Dean Scholz further developed what’s necessary for us to create quality Cob Village renders (see below)
• Brianna Johnson continued evolving the renders for the Straw Bale Village (see below)

HOW TO REGENERATE EARTH – DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER: @5:15

• Continued working on the renders for the Cupola that will top the Duplicable City Center (see below)
• Iris Hsu continued exploring lighting and shelving options for the Duplicable City Center library (see below)
• Behind the scenes: Mike Hogan and Lucas Tsutsui da Silva continued discussion for development of the Control Systems main panel (see below)
• Mike Hogan created a tutorial for the Engineer and Licensed Electrician volunteers we’re seeking to help with the next steps of the design (see below)
• Hoang Bao continued transferring the work of last year’s intern team into the new Duplicable City Center Electrical page (see below)

HOW TO REGENERATE EARTH – HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY: @6:50

• Continued final edits and reorganization of the icons that were designed by Ivan Manzurov (see below)
• Lokesh Gopu continued building the new version of One Community’s Highest Good Network software (see below)
• Jonathan DeAscentis took the work of Mariam Sargsyan and began further development of our Highest Good Network logo (see below)

HOW TO REGENERATE EARTH SUMMARY: @7:34

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HOW TO REGENERATE EARTH – HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

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

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

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

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

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

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

Cooperation and Collaboration Mindmap ” 75% Complete ” Click to Visit Page

HOW TO REGENERATE EARTH -HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

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

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

As part of the development of our Food Self-sufficiency Transition Plan, which features contributions from Naturopathic Doctor Matt Marturano (creator of the COHERENT model for comprehensive digestive health), this week the core team added the finalized versions of 3d renders to our Transition Kitchen page, as you can see here:

Added Final Versions of 3D Renders to Transition Kitchen Page – Click to Visit

Shadi Kennedy (Artist and Graphic Designer) also began exploring new ways to share the planting plan specifics of the Tropical Atrium that is the center of the Earthbag Village (Pod 1). What you see here are the two different layout options we’re exploring.

Began Exploring New Ways of Sharing Tropical Atrium Planting Plan Specifics

HOW TO REGENERATE EARTH – HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

One Community is teaching people how to regenerate our Earth through Highest Good housing that is artistic and beautiful, more affordable, more space efficient, lasts longer, DIY buildable, and constructed with healthy and sustainable materials:

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

This last week the core team put another 10 hours into the behind-the-scenes revision for the Footers, Foundations and Flooring page for the crowdfunding campaign we are developing. This week’s focus was on the Section 12 Floor Construction narrative insertion regarding polyethylene use to repel water from upward pressure of ground water. Also, Section 14 Subterranean Exterior Ground Finish, consisting of the creation of horizontal waterproofing below ground and away from the walls to minimize/eliminate additional water penetration from surface level down and toward the subterranean dome walls. We’d say we are now 77% complete with this total update and rewrite behind the scenes.

Behind-the-Scenes Revision of the Footers, Foundations and Flooring Info

Working on the Tree House Village (Pod 7), Jesika Rohrbach (Architectural Drafter, Designer, and 3-D Modeler) added updated ramp textures and designs to the external render (top pic) and also started exploring furniture layouts for the treehouse family structures.

Ramp Textures & External render & Treehouse Family Structures

Dean Scholz, Architectural Designer, further developed what’s necessary for us to create quality Cob Village (Pod 3) renders. Here is update 15 of this work that included the beginnings of designing a representation of what we envision the natural and do-it-yourself constructed outdoor water features will look like.

Further Developed What’s Necessary to Create Quality Cob Village Renders

Brianna Johnson (Interior Designer), also continued evolving the renders for the Straw Bale Village (Pod 2). What you see here is her final render for the Game Room.

Renders for the Straw Bale Village ” Game Rm Render Complete

HOW TO REGENERATE EARTH – DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

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

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

This week the core team continued working on the renders for the Cupola that will top the Duplicable City Center. What you see here is a pull-down projector screen for watching movies and the theater room layout with floor chairs that can be folded and stored under benches.

Renders for the Cupola that will Top the Duplicable City Center – Click to Visit

Iris Hsu (Industrial Designer), continued exploring lighting and shelving options for the Duplicable City Center library. What you see here is round #3 of this research, exploration, and design focusing on artistic and functional options for the odd-angled corners.

Continued Exploring Recycled Pipe Shelving Options for the Library

Behind the scenes Mike Hogan (Automation Systems Developer and Business Systems Consultant) and Lucas Tsutsui da Silva (4th-year Computer Engineering Student) continued discussion for development of the Control Systems main panel. This week’s focus was this collage of pictures showing one of Mike’s automation system’s retrofits….

Continued Discussion for Development of Control Systems Main Panel

….and this tutorial Mike created for the Engineer and Licensed Electrician volunteers we’re seeking to help with the next steps of the design. These steps will include helping with specifications for loads, wire sizes, conduit runs, schematics, panel placements, etc.

Created Tutorial for Engineer and Licensed Electrician Volunteers we’re Seeking

Hoang Bao (Software Developer) also continued transferring the work of last year’s intern team into the new Duplicable City Center Electrical page. What you see here is the second 3rd of the complete content live on the new page.

Moving Work of Intern Team into New Duplicable City Center Electrical Page

HOW TO REGENERATE EARTH – HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS

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

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

This last week the core team continued the final edits and reorganization of the icons designed by Graphic Designer, Ivan Manzurov. The icons we finished and organized this week were the Highest Good Energy icons shown here. We’d say we are now about 80% done with this graphics task.

Continued Multi-hour Reorganization of the Icons ” 80% Complete

Lokesh Gopu (Software Engineer) also continued building the new version of One Community’s Highest Good Network software for project tracking a sustainable community collaboration. Here is his second generation layout showing additional functionality this application will provide.

Building New Version of One Community’s Highest Good Network Software

Jonathan DeAscentis (Graphic Designer and Web Developer) additionally took the work of Mariam Sargsyan (Graphic Designer and Project Manager) and began further development of our Highest Good Network logo as shown here:

Began Further Development of Highest Good Network Logo – Click to Visit Page

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WHAT ONE COMMUNITY IS CREATING

One Community is creating a place to grow together and change the world together, focusing on how to regenerate earth. 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, all while learning how to regenerate earth. We do this by harmoniously respecting each other, nature, and the rest of our one shared planet, understanding the importance of how to regenerate earth.

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

Throughout our design process we are open sourcing and free-sharing everything needed for construction and replication, including approaches on how to regenerate earth. This includes what we call “Highest Good” approaches to food, energy, housing, education, for-profit and non-profit economics design, social architecture, fulfilled living, stewardship practices and more, all with a focus on how to regenerate earth. We are creating these resources for implementation as individual components or complete developments called teacher/demonstration hubs, all aimed at understanding how to regenerate earth.

BUILDING THE FIRST OF MANY

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

WHY ONE COMMUNITY IS CREATING THIS

The One Community self-replicating model is capable of creating a sustainable planet within 30 years, with a focus on how to regenerate earth. 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, centered around how to regenerate earth.

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 focusing on how to regenerate earth will take a relatively short period of time to positively affect millions while inspiring millions more.  For One Community residents (the Pioneer Team), the idea of creating and sharing the social and recreational experience with visitors is also fun, exciting, fulfilling, and an additional reason why we are creating this.

INSPIRING SUSTAINABILITY WITH OPEN SOURCE

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

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

WHY OPEN SOURCE

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

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, focusing on how to regenerate earth. 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, all focused on how to regenerate earth..

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

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

One Community welcomes Brianna Johnson to the Design Team as our newest Volunteer/Consultant!

Interior Architecture Student and Interior Designer: Brianna has been enticed by art and creative pursuits since her high school days, and consequently graduated from UC Riverside in 2011 with a degree in Art History. She then went back to school, and is working toward a Master’s degree in Interior Architecture at UCLA Extension while also working at design firms. Over the past 4 years, she’s gained experience in interior design, architectural drafting, 3D modeling, rendering, and product design. Green design and sustainability have been recently ignited passions of hers and she joined the One Community team as an opportunity to help create designs that help the environment and also promote comprehensive sustainability as a more conceivable reality for the world. Specifically, this includes helping evolve the designs and creating final renders for the Straw Bale Village and helping design the open source pipe furniture shelving for the Library/Game Room in the Duplicable City Center.

WELCOME TO THE TEAM BRIANNA!

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