One Community welcomes Alena Thompson to the Design Team as our newest Volunteer/Consultant!

Mechanical Engineer: Alena graduated from Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University where she received a Master’s Degree in Mechanical Engineering with a focus in Robotics as well as a Bachelor’s Degree in Engineering Physics. She has consistently applied her problem solving abilities in the Aerospace Industry through her work at Lockheed Martin, SpaceX, Sierra Nevada Corporation and the Naval Research Laboratory. Along with her strong desire to explore new frontiers, leading Alena to focus on the exploration of space, she has also remained grounded in her community. After receiving a full scholarship from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, Alena set her sights to help others receive the resources they need to reach their full potential. This desire to aid others extended beyond the microcosm of her University. In 2011, Alena embarked on a trip to Haiti to implement a solar powered water purification system. She now strives to increase her global impact through the One Community team and helping design the net-zero water-saving community bathroom model.

WELCOME TO THE TEAM ALENA!

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Adaptable solutions for green living are needed if our goal is a planet capable of longterm support for the growing human population. If properly created, these solutions can also help humanity become conscientious stewards of our shared planet. We see open source and free-shared models as the fastest, most sustainable, and for The Highest Good of All approach to 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 the movement of adaptable solutions for green living as the first of many self-replicating teacher/demonstration communities, villages, and cities to be built around the world. This is the April 2nd, 2017 edition (#210) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments:

Adaptable Solutions for Green Living
One Community Progress Update #210

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

ADAPTABLE SOLUTIONS FOR GREEN LIVING INTRO: @1:03

ADAPTABLE SOLUTIONS FOR GREEN LIVING HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION: @2:00

• Completed the second 50% of the mindmap for the Diversity Lesson Plan (see below)
• Continued the process of a final proofreading and editing of all 52 lesson plans (see below)
• Continued creation of the renders for The Ultimate Classroom (see below)
• Guy Grossfeld created two final renders of the blue and and indigo rooms for The Ultimate Classroom (see below)
• Jennifer Zhou completed second round of edits for Learning Tools and Toys page (see below)

ADAPTABLE SOLUTIONS FOR GREEN LIVING HIGHEST GOOD FOOD: @3:20

• Edited and created instructions and an example in the “Recipe” section of the Food Bars page (see below)

ADAPTABLE SOLUTIONS FOR GREEN LIVING HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING: @3:50

• Completed another round updating the AutoCAD file for the Earthbag Village to the new standardized format (see below)
• Alena Thompson completed her 8th week helping with the Net-zero Communal Bathroom Designs (see below)
• Christian Ojeda completed his 8th week helping with the heat-recycling Communal Eco-shower and Vermiculture Bathroom designs (see below)
• Fernando Remolina and Lin Xu with their 14th week of work on the Vermiculture Bathroom development (see below)
• Ashwin Patil completed another round of edits and revisions to produce the Straw Bale Village search engine 2.0 and Highest Good Food search engine 4.0 (see below)
• Dean Scholz continued helping us create quality Cob Village renders (see below)
• Hamilton Mateca finished his 36th week helping with the Compressed Earth Block Village design and render details (see below)

ADAPTABLE SOLUTIONS FOR GREEN LIVING DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER: @6:06

• Created a new outside render of the City Center that includes the new structural support details (see below)
• Created new merged render from the updated outside image of the City Center (see below)
• Dipti Dhondarkar continued with her 33rd week of work on the lighting specifics for the City Center (see below)
• Jinxi Feng continued her research helping us create an in-depth washing machine sustainability analysis (see below)
• Ramya Vudi and Shubham Agrawal continued their work on the energy infrastructure for the City Center (see below)
• Renan Dantas continued with his 13th week working on the Duplicable City Center AutoCAD updates (see below)
• Jin Yu continued working on the concrete foundation design and tutorial details for the Duplicable City Center (see below)
• Adrienne Gould-Choquette continued working on the City Center heating and air conditioning load calculations (see below)

ADAPTABLE SOLUTIONS FOR GREEN LIVING HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY: @8:19

• Created final generation of Amazon Smile and GoodShop promotional graphics to use for new open source and replicable annual social media strategy (see below)
• Sowmya Manohar joined the team and completed her first week of work on the The Highest Good Network (see below)

ADAPTABLE SOLUTIONS FOR GREEN LIVING SUMMARY: @8:59

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ADAPTABLE SOLUTIONS FOR GREEN LIVING HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

One Community is creating adaptable solutions for green living 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 completed the second 50% of the mindmap for the Diversity Lesson Plan, bringing it to 100% complete, as you can see here.

Adaptable Solutions for Green Living – Diversity Lesson Plan Complete ” Click for Page

We also continued the process of a final proofreading and editing of all 52 lesson plans. This week we completed the Human Body Lesson Plan and the Information Lesson Plan. This brings us to 5 of 52 finished, which is 10% completion.

Adaptable Solutions for Green Living – Editing all 52 Lesson Plans ” Click for Page

And the core team continued creation of the renders for The Ultimate Classroom, adding subject-related items to the red (Health/Nutrition) room, orange (English) room, yellow (Math) room, and green (Science) room.

Adaptable Solutions for Green Living – Creation of the Renders for The Ultimate Classroom

Guy Grossfeld (Graphic Designer) also continued adding people and elements from the Learning Tools and Toys research we’ve done to create these two final renders of the blue and and indigo rooms from The Ultimate Classroom.

Adaptable Solutions for Green Living – Created Ultimate Classroom Final Render for Blue Room

Adaptable Solutions for Green Living – Created Ultimate Classroom Final Render for Indigo Room

And Jennifer Zhou (Web Designer) completed her second round of edits and image additions and description for the Learning Tools and Toys page, as you can see here.

Adaptable Solutions for Green Living – Continued Working on the Learning Tools and Toys Page

ADAPTABLE SOLUTIONS FOR GREEN LIVING HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

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

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

This week, the core team edited and created instructions and an example in the “Recipe” section of the Food Bars page, as you see here, bringing the page to ~21% completion.

Adaptable Solutions for Green Living – Created Instructions and an Example in the “Recipe” Section

ADAPTABLE SOLUTIONS FOR GREEN LIVING HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

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

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

This week the core team completed another round updating the AutoCAD file for the Earthbag Village (Pod 1) to the new standardized format shown here.

Continued Updating the AutoCAD File for the Earthbag Village – Click for Page

Alena Thompson (Mechanical Engineer) completed her 8th week helping with the Net-zero Communal Bathroom Designs. This week she updated the hatch and ladder, added new piping details, and researched cost and water saving specifics, all shown here.

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

Christian Ojeda (Mechatronic Engineer) completed his 8th week helping with the heat-recycling Communal Eco-shower and Vermiculture Bathroom designs. This week’s focus was autoCAD updates and adding in the urine separating toilet piping details to SolidWorks as shown here.

Continued Working on Heat Recycling Communal Eco-Shower Designs ” Click to Visit Page

Fernando Remolina (Industrial Engineer specializing in Project Management) and Lin Xu (Mechanical Engineering Student) also continued with their 14th week of work on the Vermiculture Bathroom development. This week’s focus, as shown here, was on the pin and hinge systems to secure the emptying chamber to the pallet jack and assist with dumping.

Continued Working on the Vermiculture Bathroom Development ” Click to Visit Page

And Ashwin Patil (Web Developer) completed another round of edits and revisions to produce the Straw Bale Village search engine 2.0 and Highest Good Food search engine 4.0. You can see some of this ongoing work here.

Continued Working on the Straw Bale Village & Highest Good Food Search Engine – Click to Visit

Dean Scholz (Architectural Designer) continued helping us create quality Cob Village (Pod 3) renders. Here is update 62 of Dean’s work. This weeks’ focus was finishing this view inside the Southeast wing looking South:

Cob Village Final Render of Southeast Living Space Looking South – Click for Page

and further development of this loft view looking North:

Continued Helping us Create Quality Cob Village Renders ” Click for Page

Hamilton Mateca (AutoCAD and Revit Drafter and Designer) also finished his 36th week helping with the Compressed Earth Block Village (Pod 4) design and render details. This week’s focus was final placement of the front benches, planters, and brick patterns and beginning the addition of the back landscape details too, as shown here.

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

ADAPTABLE SOLUTIONS FOR GREEN LIVING DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

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

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

This week the core team created a new outside render of the City Center that includes the new structural support details.

Created New Outside Render of the City Center with New Structural Supports – Click for Page

The core team also created this new merged render from the updated outside image of the City Center.

Created New Merged Render from Updated Outside Image of the City Center – Click for Page

Dipti Dhondarkar, (Electrical Engineer) continued with her 33rd week of work on the lighting specifics for the City Center. This week’s focus was completing lighting analysis and placement for the 2nd floor Living Dome bedrooms and bathrooms, as shown here.

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

And Jinxi Feng (Environmental Consultant) continued her research helping us create an in-depth washing machine sustainability analysis. What you see here is her 23rd week of behind-the-scenes work on this area of the project. This week’s focus was researching and contacting industrial laundry machine providers.

Continued Research for in-Depth Laundry & Dryer Machine Sustainability Analysis ” Click to Visit

Ramya Vudi (Electrical Engineer) and Shubham Agrawal (Electrical Engineer) continued their work on the energy infrastructure for the City Center. What you see here are a couple photos from the weekly collaborative calls and this week’s focus of beginning to write the micro-grid design and implementation tutorial.

Continued Working on Energy Infrastructure for the City Center ” Click for Page

Renan Dantas (Mechanical Engineer) continued with his 13th week working on the Duplicable City Center AutoCAD updates. This week’s focus was adding in the library furniture details, basement refrigeration and freezer units, bridge over the pond out front, urinals in all the bathrooms, and other design updates.

Continued Working on the Duplicable City Center AutoCAD Updates – Click for Page

And Jin Yu (Structural Engineering Designer) also completed her 9th week working on the concrete foundation design and tutorial details for the Duplicable City Center. This week’s focus was integration of pages of feedback and updates to the column foundation and baseplate tutorials, as shown here.

Continued Working on Concrete Foundation Design & Tutorial Details for Duplicable City Center

And Adrienne Gould-Choquette (Mechanical Engineer) also finished her 13th week helping. This week’s focus was continuing the City Center heating and air conditioning load calculations by evaluating the City Center room by room with occupancy and use projections.

Continued Working on City Center Heating & Air Conditioning Load Calculations ” Click to Visit

ADAPTABLE SOLUTIONS FOR GREEN LIVING HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS

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

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

This week the core team created the final generation of Amazon Smile and GoodShop promotional graphics. You can see these graphics here, showing a different graphic for each of these nonprofit fundraising options and for each of the times of year we intend to promote for support using the new open source and replicable annual social media strategy.

Created Amazon Smile Cyber Monday Promotion – Click for Page

Created Goodshop Summer Promotion – Click for Page

Created Goodshop Spring Promotion – Click for Page

Created Goodshop Back-to-School Promotion – Click for Page

Created Goodshop Holiday Promotion – Click for Page

Created Goodshop Black Friday Promotion – Click for Page

Created Goodshop Valentines Day Promotion – Click for Page

Created Goodshop General Promotion Image – Click for Page

Sowmya Manohar (Software Engineer, Web Developer & Net Application Developer) joined the team and completed her first week of work on the The Highest Good Network. Her focus this week was learning about the program, outlining her intended development process, and drawing the application workflow.

Joined the Team and Began Working on the Highest Good Network – Click for Page

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WHAT ONE COMMUNITY IS CREATING

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

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

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

ADAPTABLE SOLUTIONS FOR GREEN LIVING 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.

One Community welcomes Jin Yu to the Engineering Team as our newest Volunteer/Consultant!

Structural Engineering Designer: Jin has her M.S. in Structural Engineering from University of Wisconsin-Madison and her B.S. in Petroleum Engineering from Jilin University. During her graduate research project, she worked closely with the Wisconsin Department of Transportation on the analysis and retrofit of existing complex steel bridges using finite-element-modeling techniques. After graduation, she acquired solid industrial experience both in the states and overseas on the design of mix-use high-rise reinforced concrete structures. During her 5 years of practice, she became an high-intermediate user of many structural engineering and plotting softwares including but not limited to: ETABS, SAP2000, CSiBridge, spColumns, MathCad, Revit, AutoCad, Abaques, etc. She is an Engineer-In-Training since 2014 and is looking forward to getting her Professional Engineer license in 2017/2018. Currently looking for an entry-level structural engineer opportunity, Jin seeks broad responsibilities in steel, reinforced and prestressed concrete, and/or wood design of buildings and bridges. Jin’s contribution to One Community has been in the structural design of the Duplicable City Center including all the underground foundation/basement structural design calculations and the related open source tutorial. She is also helping other structural engineer members in the modeling and design of the superstructure above the ground.

WELCOME TO THE TEAM JIN!

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Facilitating global eco-collaboratives is one way to create global cooperation towards a sustainable planet that will benefit us 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 the movement of facilitating global eco-collaboratives as the first of many self-replicating teacher/demonstration communities, villages, and cities to be built around the world. This is the March 26th, 2017 edition (#209) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments:

Facilitating Global Eco-Collaboratives
One Community Progress Update #209

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

FACILITATING GLOBAL ECO-COLLABORATIVES INTRO: @1:03

FACILITATING GLOBAL ECO-COLLABORATIVES HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION: @2:01

• Working with Sangam Stanczak, core team continued with 3rd week of collaborative calls developing the Evaluation and Evolution component of the Highest Good education program (see below)
• Completed first 50% of the mindmap for the Diversity Lesson Plan (see below)
• Continued the process of a final proofreading and editing of all 52 lesson plans (see below)
• Finished the The Ultimate Classroom external render (see below)
• Guy Grossfeld continued adding people and elements from the Learning Tools and Toys research to create three final renders of the red and orange room aspects of The Ultimate Classroom (see below)
• Jennifer Zhou began her first round of adding all the images, cost analysis results, age ranges, and other details to the Learning Tools and Toys page (see below)

FACILITATING GLOBAL ECO-COLLABORATIVES HIGHEST GOOD FOOD: @3:45

• Created one additional image and added all 7 recently created images to the Food Self-sufficiency Transition Plan page (see below)

FACILITATING GLOBAL ECO-COLLABORATIVES HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING: @4:14

• Working with Ashwini Ramesh, the core team put another combined total of 10 hours into the crowdfunding campaign we are developing (see below)
• Alena Thompson completed her 7th week helping with the Net-zero Communal Bathroom Designs (see below)
• Christian Ojeda completed 7th week helping with the heat-recycling Communal Eco-shower and Vermiculture Bathroom designs (see below)
• Fernando Remolina continued with his 13th week of managing the Vermiculture Bathroom development with the 10th week of help from Lin Xu (see below)
• Dean Scholz continued helping us create quality Cob Village renders (see below)
• Hamilton Mateca finished his 35th week helping with the Compressed Earth Block Village design and render details (see below)
• Aparna Tandon continued her work on the Compressed Earth Block Village external elements (see below)

FACILITATING GLOBAL ECO-COLLABORATIVES DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER: @6:31

• Created an updated outside image of the City Center (see below)
• Dipti Dhondarkar continued with her 32nd week of work on the lighting specifics for the City Center Â (see below)
• Haoxuan “Hayes” Lei and Shuna Ni continued their work on the City Center structural engineering Â (see below)
• Ramya Vudi and Shubham Agrawal continued their work on the energy infrastructure for the City Center with Mike Hogan Â (see below)
• Lucas Tsutsui da Silva continued his work helping with the Control Systems layout (see below)
• Adrienne Gould-Choquette finished her 12th week continuing the City Center heating and air conditioning load calculations (see below)

FACILITATING GLOBAL ECO-COLLABORATIVES HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY: @8:38

• Created the first generation of Amazon Smile promotional graphics (see below)

FACILITATING GLOBAL ECO-COLLABORATIVES SUMMARY: @8:50

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FACILITATING GLOBAL ECO-COLLABORATIVES HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

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

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

This week, the core team working with Sangam Stanczak (Ph.D. and P.E.) continued with our 3rd week of collaborative calls developing the Evaluation and Evolution component of the Highest Good education program. What you see here is our first reporting on this 3 weeks of work and research that has happened behind the scenes.

Working on developing the evaluation & Evolution component of the Highest Good Education program

The core team also completed the first 50% of the mindmap for the Diversity Lesson Plan: 

Facilitating Global Eco-Collaboratives – Diversity Lesson Plan – 50% Complete – Click for Page

We also continued the process of a final proofreading and editing of all 52 lesson plans. This week we completed the Energy Lesson Plan and the Fall Lesson Plan. This brings us to 3 of 52 finished, which is 6% completion.

Facilitating Global Eco-Collaboratives, Editing all 52 Lesson plans ” Click for lesson plans for Life Page

Additionally, the core team finished the The Ultimate Classroom external render you see here by adding plants, a surrounding landscape, updating the walls, and choosing the best angle for the render.

Facilitating Global Eco-Collaboratives – Finished the The Ultimate Classroom External Render

Guy Grossfeld (Graphic Designer) also continued adding people and elements from the Learning Tools and Toys research we’ve done to create these three final renders of the red and orange room aspects of The Ultimate Classroom.

Facilitating Global Eco-Collaboratives, Created ultimate classroom final render for Red & Orange Room

Facilitating Global Eco-Collaboratives, Created ultimate classroom final render for Red & Orange Room

Created Ultimate Classroom Final Render for Red Room – Click to Visit Page

And Jennifer Zhou (Web Designer) began her first round of adding all the images, cost analysis results, age ranges, and other details to the Learning Tools and Toys page, as you can see here.

Began Working on the Learning Tools and Toys Page – Click to Visit

FACILITATING GLOBAL ECO-COLLABORATIVES HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

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

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

This week, the core team created one additional image and added all 7 recently created images to the Food Self-sufficiency Transition Plan page, bringing that page to 93% completion, which you can see here:

Created New Image & Added all 7 Recently Created Images to the Food Self-Sufficiency Transition Plan

FACILITATING GLOBAL ECO-COLLABORATIVES HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

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

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

The core team working with Ashwini Ramesh (Civil Engineer and Project Manager) put another combined total of 10 hours into the crowdfunding campaign we are developing. This week we continued editing the Excavation and Construction of an Earthbag Dome GoogleDoc, focusing on floor construction (Section 11). You can see some of this work here.

Continued Working on the Crowdfunding Campaign we are Developing – Click for Page

Alena Thompson (Mechanical Engineer) completed her 7th week helping with the Net-zero Communal Bathroom Designs. This week she built a new funnel center and finished another series of roof and internal revisions that included the hatch and ladder you see here.

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

Christian Ojeda (Mechatronic Engineer) completed his 7th week helping with the heat-recycling Communal Eco-shower and Vermiculture Bathroom designs. This week’s focus was 2nd generation modeling of the vermiculture hot and cold water and septic piping details, as shown here:

Continued Working on Heat Recycling Communal Eco-Shower Designs ” Click to Visit Page

Fernando Remolina (Industrial Engineer specializing in Project Management) also continued with his 13th week of managing the Vermiculture Bathroom development with the 10th week of help from Lin Xu (Mechanical Engineering Student). This week’s focus, as shown here, was on stress testing and a new way to secure the emptying box to the main structure.

Continued Managing the Vermiculture Bathroom Development – Click to Visit Page

Dean Scholz (Architectural Designer) continued helping us create quality Cob Village (Pod 3) renders. Here is update 61 of Dean’s work. This weeks’ focus was further development of the lighting and views through the window of this 2nd perspective from the East wing and looking South.

Continued Helping us Create Quality Cob Village Renders – Click for Page

Hamilton Mateca (AutoCAD and Revit Drafter and Designer) also finished his 35th week helping with the Compressed Earth Block Village (Pod 4) design and render details. This week’s focus was benches, planters, and brick patterns for the front of the building, as shown here.

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

Aparna Tandon (Architect) additionally continued her work on the Compressed Earth Block Village external elements. What you see here is her 20th week of work, focusing on further redesigns to the main entryway that added bike racks and improved circulation for this area.

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

FACILITATING GLOBAL ECO-COLLABORATIVES DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

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

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

This week the core team created an updated outside images of the City Center. To do this we finished adding structural support items, explored the best shadow options and point of view, and made sure it all matched our current render image so we can begin the next step of merging them.

Created an Updated Outside Image of the City Center – Click for Page

Dipti Dhondarkar, (Electrical Engineer) continued with her 32nd week of work on the lighting specifics for the City Center. This week’s focus was another round of light placement and light dispersion testing that allowed us to comfortably eliminate 1 light per bedroom in the whole 1st-floor of the Living Dome, as shown here.

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

Haoxuan “Hayes” Lei (Structural Engineer) and Shuna Ni (Masters of Mechanical Engineering and Civil Engineering PhD) also continued their work on the City Center structural engineering. This week’s focus was finishing the roof design, updating the columns in the basement to be concrete, and beginning to revise the related calculations.

Facilitating Global Eco-Collaboratives – Working on the City Center Structural Engineering

Ramya Vudi (Electrical Engineer) and Shubham Agrawal (Electrical Engineer) continued their work on the energy infrastructure for the City Center. What you see here are a couple photos from the weekly collaborative calls with Mike Hogan (Automation Systems Developer and Business Systems Consultant and this week’s focus of researching rackmounted vs Tower UPSs and backup storage options.

Facilitating Global Eco-Collaboratives – Working on Energy Infrastructure for the City Center

Lucas Tsutsui da Silva (4th-year Computer Engineering Student) also continued his work helping with the Control Systems layout. This week’s focus was creating a spreadsheet to organize by zone and account for all the sensors, locks, cameras, and other details.

Facilitating Global Eco-Collaboratives – Working on the Control Systems Layout – Click to Visit Page

And Adrienne Gould-Choquette (Mechanical Engineer) also finished her 12th week helping. This week’s focus was continuing the City Center heating and air conditioning load calculations you see here.

Facilitating Global Eco-Collaboratives, Working on Heating & Air Conditioning Load Calculations

FACILITATING GLOBAL ECO-COLLABORATIVES HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS

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

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

This week the core team created the first generation of Amazon Smile promotional graphics, which are now 90% complete except for a few additional edits and another needed theme to cover Valentines Day. 

Created the First Generation of Amazon Smile Promotional Graphics – Click for Page

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

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

 

INVESTOR PAGES

OVERVIEW | LOCATION | FUNDING

GET INVOLVED

CONSULTANTS | WAYS ANYONE CAN HELP | MEMBERSHIP

CLICK HERE FOR ALL PAST UPDATES

WHAT ONE COMMUNITY IS CREATING

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

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

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

BUILDING THE FIRST OF MANY

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

WHY ONE COMMUNITY IS CREATING THIS

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

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

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

INSPIRING SUSTAINABILITY WITH OPEN SOURCE

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

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

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

Eco-living paradigm creation can be accomplished through open source and free-shared approaches to sustainable food, energy, housing, education, for-profit and non-profit economic design, social architecture, fulfilled living, and global stewardship practices. Open sourcing all these as a complete model and new way of living has the potential to provide a better way of life for everyone built on a sustainable foundation. One Community calls this living and creating for The Highest Good of All because it benefits all people and life on our planet.

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

OUR MAIN OPEN SOURCE HUBS

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

One Community’s physical location will forward the movement of eco-living paradigm creation as the first of many self-replicating teacher/demonstration communities, villages, and cities to be built around the world. This is the March 19, 2017 edition (#208) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments:

Eco-Living Paradigm Creation
One Community Progress Update #208

Video coming

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

ECO-LIVING PARADIGM CREATION INTRO: @1:03

ECO-LIVING PARADIGM CREATION HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION: @1:59

• Completed final 75% of the mindmap for the Caring and Kindness Lesson Plan (see below)
• Began process of proofreading and editing all 52 lesson plans (see below)
• Created 7 new icons for the Highest Good education program (see below)
• Continued creation of renders for The Ultimate Classroom and created initial render of the entire classroom (see below)
• Guy Grossfeld continued adding people and then researched Learning Tools and Toys for The Ultimate Classroom (see below)

ECO-LIVING PARADIGM CREATION HIGHEST GOOD FOOD: @3:10

• Created 6 new images and charts for the Food Self-sufficiency Transition Plan page (see below)

ECO-LIVING PARADIGM CREATION HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING: @3:36

• Updated the AutoCAD file for the Earthbag Village to the new standardized format (see below)
• Re-illustrated Tropical Atrium sun study and solar heat gain diagram (see below)
• Alena Thompson completed her 6th week helping with the Net-zero Communal Bathroom Designs (see below)
• Christian Ojeda completed his 5th week helping with the heat-recycling Communal Eco-shower designs (see below)
• Dean Scholz continued helping us create quality Cob Village (Pod 3) renders (see below)
• Hamilton Mateca finished his 34th week helping with the Compressed Earth Block Village design and render details (see below)
• Aparna Tandon continued her work on the Compressed Earth Block Village external elements (see below)
• Jiming Chen finished with his help developing the Tree House Village renders and layouts (see below)
• Ashwin Patil completed another round of development of our new search engines (see below)
• Zachary Melin continued updating the Tree House Village book (see below)

ECO-LIVING PARADIGM CREATION DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER: @6:47

• Continued working on 3D placement and added more updates to the structural supports for the City Center cupola (see below)
• Dipti Dhondarkar continued with her 31st week of work on the lighting specifics for the City Center (see below)
• Renan Dantas continued with his 12th week working on the Duplicable City Center AutoCAD updates (see below)
• Jin Yu completed her 8th week working on the concrete foundation design and tutorial details for the Duplicable City Center (see below)

ECO-LIVING PARADIGM CREATION HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY: @7:42

ECO-LIVING PARADIGM CREATION SUMMARY: @8:02

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ECO-LIVING PARADIGM CREATION : HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

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

• • • 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 completed the final 75% of the mindmap for the Caring and Kindness Lesson Plan, bringing it to 100% complete, as you can see here.

Eco-Living Paradigm Creation – Caring Mindmap ” Complete ” Click to Visit Page

We also began the process of a final proofreading and editing of all 52 lesson plans. This week we completed the Dreams Lesson Plan. This brings us to 1 of 52 finished, which is 2% completion.

Eco-Living Paradigm Creation – Began Process of Editing all 52 Lesson Plans – Click for Page

And, we created 7 new icons for the different alternative education philosophies we’ve researched to help make the Highest Good education program the most diverse education program we could.

Created 7 New Icons for the Highest Good Education Program – Click for Page

We also continued creation of renders for The Ultimate Classroom, adding items and updating textures for the purple room, as shown here.

Continued Creation of Renders for the Ultimate Classroom ” Click to Visit Page

….and we created the initial render of the entire classroom:

Eco-Living Paradigm Creation – Created the Initial Render of the Entire Classroom – Click for Page

Guy Grossfeld (Graphic Designer) also continued adding people and then researched Learning Tools and Toys to create these 3rd-generation renders for The Ultimate Classroom.

Researched Learning Tools and Toys to Create Ultimate Classroom Renders – Click for Page

ECO-LIVING PARADIGM CREATION HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

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

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

This week, the core team created 6 new images and charts for the Food Self-sufficiency Transition Plan page, which you can see here:

Eco-Living Paradigm Creation – Food Self-sufficiency Transition Plan Page – Click to Visit

ECO-LIVING PARADIGM CREATION HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

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

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

This last week core team updated the AutoCAD file for the Earthbag Village (Pod 1) to the new standardized format shown here:

Updated the AutoCAD File for the Earthbag Village to New Standardized Format – Click for Page

The core team also re-illustrated the Tropical Atrium sun study and solar heat gain diagram, as shown here:

Re-Illustrated Tropical Atrium Sun Study and Solar Heat Gain Diagram – Click for Page

Alena Thompson (Mechanical Engineer) completed her 6th week helping with the Net-zero Communal Bathroom Designs. This week she researched costs and water savings for the vacuum toilets and developed version 2.0 of a roof catchment design using gutters, as shown here.

Eco-Living Paradigm Creation – Net-zero Communal Bathroom Designs – Click to Visit Page

Christian Ojeda (Mechatronic Engineer) completed his 5th week helping with the heat-recycling Communal Eco-shower designs. This week’s focus was adding more details to shower structures and starting to model the septic piping and placement for the showers and Vermiculture Bathrooms.

Eco-Living Paradigm Creation – Heat Recycling Communal Eco-Shower Designs – Click to Visit Page

Dean Scholz (Architectural Designer) continued helping us create quality Cob Village (Pod 3) renders. Here is update 60 of Dean’s work developing this progression of 46 images for the room furniture and lighting for the Eastside living spaces, leading to this final render.

Eco-Living Paradigm Creation – Cob Village Final Render – Southeast Living Space – Click for Page

Dean also started creating this alternative perspective looking South, exploring what a view from the loft might look like, and provided a quick video that shows testing the placement of the blanket.

Eco-Living Paradigm Creation – Created Alternative Perspectives of Living Spaces – Click for Page

Hamilton Mateca (AutoCAD and Revit Drafter and Designer) also finished his 34th week helping with the Compressed Earth Block Village (Pod 4) design and render details. This week’s focus was several first-generation renders of various common spaces and creating additional bench components for the outside renders, all shown here.

Continued Working on Compressed Earth Block Village Renders – Click to Visit Page

Aparna Tandon (Architect) additionally continued her work on the Compressed Earth Block Village external elements. What you see here is her 19th week of work, focusing on more updates to the landscaping in front of this village and an extensive update to the main entryway.

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

Jiming Chen (Designer with his Master’s in Architecture and BA in Engineering) also finished with his help developing the Tree House Village (Pod 7) renders and layouts…

Tree House Village Technical Drawings – Click for Page

What you see here are Jiming’s 2nd-generation perspective renders:

Tree House Village 2nd-Generation Perspective Renders – Click for Page

… and here are the 4th generation renders for the complete village, all of which have also been added to the Tree House Village open source portal:

Tree House Village Final Render – Arts and Crafts Structure – Click for Page

Tree House Village Final Render – Game Room – Click for Page

Tree House Village Final Render – Kitchen – Click for Page

Tree House Village Final Render – Library – Click for Page

Tree House Village Final Render – Playroom – Click for Page

Tree House Village Final Render – Residential Structures – Click for Page

Tree House Village Final Render – Shower Tower Structures – Click for Page

And Ashwin Patil (Web Developer) completed another round of development of our new search engines. This weeks development was the new separated version of the Highest Good energy search engine.

Continued Developing the New Search Engine for Our Site ” Click for Highest Good Energy

Zachary Melin (Graphic Designer) also continued updating the Tree House Village (Pod 7) book. Here are the two pages he finished updating this week.

Continued Updating the Tree House Village Book ” Click for Page

ECO-LIVING PARADIGM CREATION DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

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

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

This week the core team continued working on 3D placement and added more updates to the structural supports for the City Center cupola.

Eco-Living Paradigm Creation – Structural Supports for City Center Cupola ” Click to Visit Page

Dipti Dhondarkar, (Electrical Engineer) continued with her 31st week of work on the lighting specifics for the City Center. This week’s focus was finishing our light placement and light dispersion testing for the 1st-floor bedrooms and bathrooms of the City Center Living Dome, then adding the bedroom lighting details into AutoCAD.

Eco-Living Paradigm Creation – Lighting Specifics for the City Center – Click to Visit Page

Renan Dantas (Mechanical Engineer) continued with his 12th week working on the Duplicable City Center AutoCAD updates. This week’s focus was finishing continued work on updating the elevations and integration of the new geometry into the basement designs.

Eco-Living Paradigm Creation – Duplicable City Center AutoCAD Updates ” Click for Page

And Jin Yu (Structural Engineering Designer) also completed her 8th week working on the concrete foundation design and tutorial details for the Duplicable City Center. This week’s focus was the wall design tutorial details you can see here.

Eco-Living Paradigm Creation – Duplicable City Center – Click for Page

ECO-LIVING PARADIGM CREATION HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS

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

• • • 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

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

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

 

INVESTOR PAGES

OVERVIEW | LOCATION | FUNDING

GET INVOLVED

CONSULTANTS | WAYS ANYONE CAN HELP | MEMBERSHIP

CLICK HERE FOR ALL PAST UPDATES

WHAT ONE COMMUNITY IS CREATING

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

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

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.

ECO-LIVING PARADIGM CREATION BUILDING THE FIRST OF MANY

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

WHY ONE COMMUNITY IS CREATING THIS

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

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

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

INSPIRING SUSTAINABILITY WITH OPEN SOURCE

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

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

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

COMPREHENSIVE SOLUTION TO HUMANITY’S NEEDS

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

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

GLOBALLY IMPLEMENTABLE REPLICATION MODEL

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

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

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

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

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

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

One Community is advancing ecological living through open source and free-shared approaches to sustainable food, energy, housing, education, for-profit and non-profit economic design, social architecture, fulfilled living, global stewardship practices, and more. The goal is to make these approaches easy enough, affordable enough, and demonstrate them as beneficial enough that they spread on their own.

• 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 the movement of advancing ecological living as the first of many self-replicating teacher/demonstration communities, villages, and cities to be built around the world. This is the March 12, 2017 edition (#207) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments:

 Advancing Ecological Living
One Community Progress Update #207

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

ADVANCING ECOLOGICAL LIVING INTRO: @1:03

ADVANCING ECOLOGICAL LIVING HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION: @1:59

• Transferred all of the written content for the Contribution Lesson Plan to the website (see below)
• We have now completed and transferred to our website 100% of the written part of 52 lesson plans; the list is on the lesson plans for life page (see below)
• Completed the first 25% of the mindmap for the Caring and Kindness Lesson Plan (see below)
• Continued creation of renders for The Ultimate Classroom (see below)
• Guy Grossfeld began adding people and researched Learning Tools and Toys to create these second-generation renders for The Ultimate Classroom (see below)
• Jennifer Zhou helped create images for what will be organized sections on the Learning Tools and Toys page (see below)

ADVANCING ECOLOGICAL LIVING HIGHEST GOOD FOOD: @3:23

• Ashwin Patil (Web Developer) continued with his 21st week developing the new Search Engines for our site (see below)

ADVANCING ECOLOGICAL LIVING HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING: @3:57

• Completed conversion of the Compressed Earth Block Village to the new and simplified color and layer format (see below)
• Made revisions to the Earthbag Village Tropical Atrium Tree and Sunlight Guide (see below)
• Touched up the Tropical Atrium images previously drawn from Douglas Simms Stenhouse (see below)
• Alena Thompson completed her 5th week helping with the Net-zero Communal Bathroom Designs (see below)
• Dean Scholz continued helping us create quality Cob Village (Pod 3) renders (see below)
• Guy Grossfeld created the Final Compressed Earth Block Village Front Area Looking Southeast render (see below)
• Zachary Melin continued updating the Tree House Village book (see below)

ADVANCING ECOLOGICAL LIVING DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER: @5:39

• Continued working on 3D placement and checking of the structural supports for City Center cupola (see below)
• Dipti Dhondarkar continued with her 30th week of work on the lighting specifics for the City Center (see below)
• Ramya Vudi and Shubham Agrawal continued their work on the energy infrastructure for the City Center (see below)
• Renan Dantas continued with his 11th week working on the Duplicable City Center AutoCAD updates (see below)
• Lucas Tsutsui da Silva continued his work on the Control Systems layout (see below)
• Jin Yu completed her 7th week working on the concrete foundation design and tutorial details for the Duplicable City Center (see below)
• Adrienne Gould-Choquette finished her 11th week and began work on the City Center heating and air conditioning load calculations (see below)

ADVANCING ECOLOGICAL LIVING HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY: @7:52

• Finished another round of developing the new Highest Good education video (see below)

ADVANCING ECOLOGICAL LIVING SUMMARY: @8:39

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ADVANCING ECOLOGICAL LIVING HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

One Community is advancing ecological living 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 all of the written content for the Contribution Lesson Plan to the website, as you see here. This lesson plan is purposed to teach all subjects, to all learning levels, in any learning environment, using the central theme of “Contribution”

Transferred 100% of Contribution Lesson Plan to Site ” Click to Visit Page

We have now completed and transferred to our website 100% of the written part of 52 lesson plans, which is one per week for one full year! You can see the full list on our lesson plans for life page.

We also completed the first 25% of the mindmap for the Caring and Kindness Lesson Plan, as you can see here.

Caring Mindmap – 25% Complete ” Click to Visit Page

In addition, the core team continued creation of renders for The Ultimate Classroom. After adding a xylophone to the green room, we created the final render, as you see here.

Continued Creation of Renders for the Ultimate Classroom ” Click to Visit Page

Guy Grossfeld (Graphic Designer) also began adding people and then researched Learning Tools and Toys to create these second-generation renders for The Ultimate Classroom.

Added People and Learning Tools to Ultimate Classroom Render – Click for Page

And Jennifer Zhou (Web Designer) helped create all these images for what will be organized sections on the Learning Tools and Toys page.

Created Images for Learning Tools and Toys Page – Click to Visit Page

ADVANCING ECOLOGICAL LIVING HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

One Community is advancing ecological living 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

Ashwin Patil (Web Developer) continued with his 21st week developing the new Search Engines for our site. This week’s work was integration of the 3rd major round of revisions and edits to the Highest Good Food search engine, and creation of the Earthbag Village (Pod 1) search engine.

Continued Developing the New Search Engine for Our Site ” Click for Highest Good Food

ADVANCING ECOLOGICAL LIVING HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

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

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

This week the core team completed conversion of the Compressed Earth Block Village to the new and simplified color and layer format, as shown here.

Completed Conversion of the Compressed Earth Block Village to the New Format – Click for Page

And the core team made revisions to the Earthbag Village Tropical Atrium Tree and Sunlight Guide and added it to the related web pages, you can see the revised image here:

Revised the Earthbag Village Tropical Atrium Tree Sunlight Guide – Click for Page

The core team touched up the Tropical Atrium images previously drawn from Douglas Simms Stenhouse, Architect and Water Color Artist, and added them to the Earthbag Village page.

Touched up Tropical Atrium Images Previously Drawn from Douglas Simms Stenhouse – Click for Page

Alena Thompson (Mechanical Engineer) completed her 5th week helping with the Net-zero Communal Bathroom Designs. This week she further developed the water storage details and researched and integrated vacuum toilets into the design.

Advancing Ecological Living – Working on Net-zero Communal Bathroom Designs ” Click to Visit

Dean Scholz (Architectural Designer) continued helping us create quality Cob Village (Pod 3) renders. Here is update 59 of Dean’s work developing this progression of 40 images for the room furniture and lighting for the Eastside living spaces. The 3 images here are new from this week:

Continued Working on Renders for Cob Village Eastside Living Spaces ” Click to Visit Page

….and this series of 5 images showing test-placing a blanket on the couch:

Created Series of Images Showing Test-Placing a Blanket on the Couch – Click for Cob Village

Guy Grossfeld (Graphic Designer) created this Final Compressed Earth Block Village Front Area Looking Southeast render.

Created Final Render of Compressed Earth Block Village with People – Click for Page

Zachary Melin (Graphic Designer) also continued updating the Tree House Village (Pod 7) book. Here is the latest updated page talking about insulation.

Advancing Ecological Living – Continued Updating the Tree House Village Book – Click for Page

ADVANCING ECOLOGICAL LIVING DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

One Community is advancing ecological living 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 3D placement and checking of the structural supports for the City Center cupola.

Continued Working on 3D Placement and Checking of the Structural Supports for City Center Cupola

Dipti Dhondarkar, (Electrical Engineer) continued with her 30th week of work on the lighting specifics for the City Center. This week’s focus was modeling and testing different colors in the City Center Social and Living Dome bathrooms and Living Dome bedrooms.

Advancing Ecological Living – Continued Working on the Lighting Specifics for the City Center

Ramya Vudi (Electrical Engineer) and Shubham Agrawal (Electrical Engineer) continued their work on the energy infrastructure for the City Center. What you see here are a couple photos from the weekly collaborative calls with Mike Hogan (Automation Systems Developer and Business Systems Consultant and this week’s focus on initial wiring layouts for the rooms and additional research into the specific electrical components we’ll be using.

Advancing Ecological Living – Continued Working on Energy Infrastructure for the City Center

Renan Dantas (Mechanical Engineer) continued with his 11th week working on the Duplicable City Center AutoCAD updates. This week’s focus was finishing layer and color updates and the majority of integrating the new dome geometry into the Master File, then moving windows, new furniture placement, and beginning to update the elevations. All of which is shown here.

Advancing Ecological Living – Continued Working on the Duplicable City Center AutoCAD Updates

Lucas Tsutsui da Silva (4th-year Computer Engineering Student) also continued his work on the Control Systems layout, reorganizing it as shown here to spread out the symbols, eliminate overlap, and add pointers as need to make it easier to identify what each component is and points to on the plan.

Advancing Ecological Living – Continued Working on the Control Systems Layout – Click for Page

And Jin Yu (Structural Engineering Designer) also completed her 7th week working on the concrete foundation design and tutorial details for the Duplicable City Center. This week’s focus was reviewing the code for concrete floor design and determining the next steps for the basement wall and construction practice tutorial.

Continued Working on Concrete Foundation Design & Tutorial for Duplicable City Center

And Adrienne Gould-Choquette (Mechanical Engineer) also finished her 11th week and began work on the City Center heating and air conditioning load calculations you see here.

Began Work on the City Center Heating and Air Conditioning Load Calculations – Click to Visit Page

ADVANCING ECOLOGICAL LIVING HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS

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

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

This week the core team finished another round of developing the new Highest Good education video:

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

ONE COMMUNITY’S 4-PHASE STRATEGY

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

Phase I: Demonstrating a Better Way

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

Phase II: Open Source Project-Launch Blueprinting

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

Phase III: Inviting the World to Participate

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

Phase IV: Universal Appeal and Global Expansion

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

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

One Community welcomes Lin Xu to the Engineering Team as our newest Volunteer/Consultant!

Mechanical Engineer: Lin Xu received his Master’s Degree in Mechanical Engineering from University of Southern California. Being a good auto engineer is his lifelong goal. To realize his ambition, he has been training himself from various aspects including AutoCAD, 3D modelling with Solidworks, FEA with Abacus and dynamic simulation with Matlab. He is also a member of USC Racing Formula SAE team which designs, constructs, tests, and races high performance race cars. He believes his education background has provided him a solid platform for future engineering practice. Knowing the importance of sustainability and desiring to make a contribution to clean energy and sustainable community, Lin has joined the One Community team working on the Vermiculture Eco-bathroom Designs.

WELCOME TO THE TEAM LIN!

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One Community welcomes Renan Dantas to the Design Team as our newest Volunteer/Consultant!

Mechanical Engineer and Process Piping Drafting Student: Renan has his Bachelor’s of Engineering in Mechanical Engineering from the Universidade Federal Fluminense, Rio de Janeiro Brazil and is currently pursuing a Process Piping Drafting certificate at Southern Alberta Institute of Technology in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. Renan won a scholarship from the Emerging Leaders in the Americas Program (ELAP) to participate in a 4-month exchange program at York University in Toronto, Canada, which motivated him to move to Canada looking for new challenges and personal and professional growth. Renan has over 3 years experience working as Project Engineer/Field Engineer in Brazil and over seven years using AutoCAD software for academic and professional purposes. He is a big fan of outdoor activities, including hiking, biking and surfing, all of which contribute to his interest in the environment and conservation issues. As a Christian, he believes that we must bear fruit and make a positive difference in the world every day and Renan has spent his whole life volunteering for different causes ranging from sorting food donations, to a peer tutoring program designed to assist low-income students, and now as an AutoCAD Designer and Drafter helping One Community with the Duplicable City Center.

WELCOME TO THE TEAM RENAN!

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Building sustainable cities is finally becoming both practical and affordable with the resources and backing of governmental organizations. What is needed now is a way for average people, NGOs, and nonprofits to build them too. Open sourcing and free-sharing everything needed for construction and maintenance can make this easy enough, affordable enough, and provide sufficient diversity and benefit for it to spread and be directed by the private sector. One Community sees this as a Highest Good of All approach to global transformation, individual and small-group freedom and empowerment.

• 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 the movement of building sustainable cities as the first of many self-replicating teacher/demonstration communities, villages, and cities to be built around the world. This is the March 5th, 2017 edition (#206) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments:

Building Sustainable Cities
One Community Progress Update #206

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

BUILDING SUSTAINABLE CITIES INTRO: @1:03

BUILDING SUSTAINABLE CITIES HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION: @2:02

• Transferred all of the written content for the Consensus and Decision Making Lesson Plan to the website (see below)
• Behind the scenes: Completed 100% of the written part of the Contribution Lesson Plan
• Completed final 75% of the mindmap for the Play Lesson Plan (see below)
• Continued creation of renders for The Ultimate Classroom (see below)

BUILDING SUSTAINABLE CITIES HIGHEST GOOD FOOD: @3:05

• Created and added food and recipe images and links to the Food Self-sufficiency Transition Plan page (see below)
• Ashwin Patil continued with his 20th week developing the new Search Engines for our site (see below)

BUILDING SUSTAINABLE CITIES HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING: @3:47

• Ashwini Ramesh and the core team put another combined total of 10 hours into the crowdfunding campaign we are developing (see below)
• Alena Thompson completed her 4th week helping with the Net-zero Communal Bathroom Designs (see below)
• Christian Ojeda completed his 5th week helping with the heat-recycling Communal Eco-shower designs (see below)
• Jennifer Zhou helped create version 1.0 of the standardized AutoCAD layers and line-weights template and tutorial webpage (see below)
• The core team completed conversion of the Straw Bale Village to the new and simplified color and layer format (see below)
• Dean Scholz continued helping us create quality Cob Village renders (see below)
• Hamilton Mateca finished his 33rd week helping with the Compressed Earth Block Village design and render details (see below)
• Guy Grossfeld created a final render of Cob Village West living space loft area and 2nd generation Compressed Earth Block Village Front Area Looking Southeast render (see below)
• Aparna Tandon continued her work on the Compressed Earth Block Village external elements (see below)
• Jiming Chen continued helping develop the Tree House Village (see below)

BUILDING SUSTAINABLE CITIES HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY: @9:01

• Finished another several rounds of developing the new Highest Good education video (see below)
• Hannah Gibbs completed her 6th week of helping develop the Taxes and Sustainable Community Building page (see below)

BUILDING SUSTAINABLE CITIES SUMMARY: @9:54

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BUILDING SUSTAINABLE CITIES HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

One Community is building sustainable cities 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 all of the written content for the Consensus and Decision Making Lesson Plan to the website, as you see here. This lesson plan is purposed to teach all subjects, to all learning levels, in any learning environment, using the central theme of “Consensus”.

Transferred 100% of Consensus and Decision Making Lesson Plan to Site ” Click to Visit Page

Behind the scenes, we completed 100% of the written part of the Contribution Lesson Plan.

We also completed the final 75% of the mindmap for the Play Lesson Plan, bringing it to 100% complete, as you can see here:

Play Mindmap Complete ” Click to Visit Page

In addition, the core team continued creation of renders for The Ultimate Classroom. We added items and updated the windows and textures for the yellow and green rooms.

Continued Creation of Renders for the Ultimate Classroom ” Click to Visit Page

BUILDING SUSTAINABLE CITIES HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

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

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

This week, the core team created and added food and recipe images and links to the Food Self-sufficiency Transition Plan page, bringing that page to 92% completion, which you can see here:

Created and Added Food and Recipe Images and Links to Food Page – Click to Visit

Ashwin Patil (Web Developer) continued with his 20th week developing the new Search Engines for our site. This week’s work was integration of the 2nd major round of revisions and edits to the Highest Good Food search engine.

Continued Working on the Crowdfunding Campaign we are Developing – Click for Page

BUILDING SUSTAINABLE CITIES HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

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

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

The core team working with Ashwini Ramesh (Civil Engineer and Project Manager) put another combined total of 10 hours into the crowdfunding campaign we are developing. This week’s focus was editing the Excavation and Construction of an Earthbag Dome GoogleDoc, focusing on floor construction (Section 11). We also completed the subterranean exterior ground finish of polyethylene water barrier and EPS insulation (Section 13), the French Drain Gutter (Section 14) and the final backfill. You can see some of this work here.

Continued Working on the Crowdfunding Campaign we are Developing – Click for Page

Alena Thompson (Mechanical Engineer) completed her 4th week helping with the Net-zero Communal Bathroom Designs. This week she further developed the water storage, piping, and use details and ran initial catchment calculations.

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

Christian Ojeda (Mechatronic Engineer) completed his 5th week helping with the heat-recycling Communal Eco-shower designs. This week’s focus was adding more details to shower structures and starting to model the septic piping and placement for the showers and Vermiculture Bathrooms.

Continued Working on Heat Recycling Communal Eco-Shower Designs ” Click to Visit Page

And Jennifer Zhou (Web Designer) helped create version 1.0 of the standardized AutoCAD layers and line-weights template and tutorial webpage. You can see screenshots of this work here:

Helped Create Version 1.0 of the Standardized AutoCAD Template Webpage – Click to Visit

Using this tutorial, the core team also completed conversion of the Straw Bale Village (Pod 2) to the new and simplified color and layer format.

Completed Conversion of Straw Bale Village to New & Simplified Color & Layer Format – Click to Visit

And Dean Scholz (Architectural Designer) continued helping us create quality Cob Village (Pod 3) renders. Here is update 58 of Dean’s work developing this progression of 37 images for the room furniture and lighting for the Eastside living spaces. The final 7 images shown here are new from this week:

Continued Working on Renders for Cob Village Eastside Living Spaces ” Click to Visit Page

Hamilton Mateca (AutoCAD and Revit Drafter and Designer) also finished his 33rd week helping with the Compressed Earth Block Village (Pod 4) design and render details. This week’s focus was producing this final Kitchen Render Looking Northwest.

Compressed Earth Block Village Final Render – Kitchen Render Looking Northwest – Click for Page

Adding details to both Dean and Hamilton’s previous work, Guy Grossfeld (Graphic Designer) created this Final Cob Village West living space loft area:

Cob Village Final Render – West Living Space Loft Area – Click for Page

….and this 2nd generation Compressed Earth Block Village Front Area Looking Southeast render:

Compressed Earth Block Village Front Area Looking Southeast 2nd Gen Render – Click for Page

Aparna Tandon (Architect) additionally continued her work on the Compressed Earth Block Village external elements. What you see here is her 18th week of work, focusing on integrating into the front of the West side similar layout and landscaping details as used in the front of the East side.

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

Jiming Chen (Designer with his Master’s in Architecture and BA in Engineering) also continued helping develop the Tree House Village (Pod 7). What you see here is his 14th week of this work focusing on 3rd-generation renderings of each of the different tree house structures shown here…. also this 4th-generation render of half the complete village.

Building Sustainable Cities – Helping Develop the Tree House Village – Click for Page

BUILDING SUSTAINABLE CITIES DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

One Community is building sustainable cities 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 Â Dipti Dhondarkar, (Electrical Engineer) continued with her 29th week of work on the lighting specifics for the City Center. This week’s focus was continuing the process of learning how to use the Dialux software, modeling the City Center Social Dome bathrooms, and continuing lighting testing with different floor and wall colors.

Building Sustainable Cities – Working on the Lighting Specifics for the City Center ” Click to Visit Page

Haoxuan “Hayes” Lei (Structural Engineer) and Shuna Ni (Masters of Mechanical Engineering and Civil Engineering PhD) also continued their work on the City Center structural engineering. This week’s focus was continuing the roof designs, updates to the dome geometry, and continuing to work out the details for the different column-section length and weight specifics.

Building Sustainable Cities – Working on the City Center Structural Engineering ” Click to Visit Page

Ramya Vudi (Electrical Engineer) and Shubham Agrawal (Electrical Engineer) continued their work on the energy infrastructure for the City Center. What you see here are a couple photos from the weekly collaborative calls with Mike Hogan (Automation Systems Developer and Business Systems Consultant and this week’s research into hot water heaters and power supplies.

Building Sustainable Cities – Working on Energy Infrastructure for the City Center ” Click for Page

Renan Dantas (Mechanical Engineer) continued with his 10th week working on the Duplicable City Center AutoCAD updates. This week’s focus was continuing to integrate the new dome geometry into the Master File and 3D modeling the domes to help the structural team with their decision making process for design updates.

Building Sustainable Cities – Working on the Duplicable City Center AutoCAD Updates ” Click for Page

And Jin Yu (Structural Engineering Designer) also completed her 6th week working on the concrete foundation design and tutorial details for the Duplicable City Center. This week’s focus was this behind-the-scenes tutorial explaining the wall strip footing design and 2 new MathCAD tutorials explaining the different calculations necessary for proper foundation design.

Building Sustainable Cities – Working on Concrete Foundation Design & Tutorial

BUILDING SUSTAINABLE CITIES HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS

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

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

This week the core team finished another several rounds of developing the new Highest Good education video. What you see in the background here is the most recently developed and tested video and graphics.

Hannah Gibbs (Web Developer) also completed her 6th week of helping develop the Taxes and Sustainable Community Building page. This week’s focus was creating version 1 of these chart graphics.

Building Sustainable Cities – Developing the Taxes and Sustainable Community Building Page

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ONE COMMUNITY’S 4-PHASE STRATEGY

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

Phase I: Demonstrating a Better Way

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

Phase II: Open Source Project-Launch Blueprinting

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

Phase III: Inviting the World to Participate

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

Phase IV: Universal Appeal and Global Expansion

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

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

One Community welcomes Shubham Agrawal to the Engineering Team as our newest Volunteer/Consultant!

B.E. Electrical Engineering, Power and Energy Systems Graduate Student: Shubham has a Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering from India and is pursuing his Masters in Power and Energy Systems from Virginia Tech. His interest in power and energy systems comes from the “excruciating dearth of electricity” that he faced as a child in his home state of Uttar Pradesh. Motivated by this, Shubham has gained a variety of experience by working on different projects, studying interdisciplinary courses, and interning in different companies both in India and the USA. Shubham has a knack for sustainability and he practices what he preaches. He follows the 3Rs for sustainability: Reduce, Reuse and Recycle. His hobbies include: gardening, cooking, reading, playing cricket, and watching cartoons of the 90s era. As a One Community Volunteer Engineer, his time is dedicated to renewable energy infrastructure calculations and design and the automation of the One Community Duplicable City Center.

WELCOME TO THE TEAM SHUBHAM!

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