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

Our goal is to demonstrate what we feel is the most sustainable, healthy, and fun environment we can create. 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.

SUMMARY

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

Creating a Better World – One Community Weekly Progress Update #230

Posted on August 20, 2017 by One Community

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Creating a better world is possible if enough people want it. In many ways it is already happening, in other areas much work remains. Open source and free-shared sustainability components that include food, energy, and housing, education, for-profit and non-profit economic design, social architecture, fulfilled living, and global stewardship practices are one approach for global improvement. One Community is an all-volunteer nonprofit developing all of these in support of a global collaboration for The Highest Good of 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 this movement as the first of many self-replicating teacher/demonstration communities, villages, and cities to be built around the world. This is the August 20th, 2017 edition (#230) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments:

Creating a Better World
One Community Progress Update #230

Creating a Better World - One Community Weekly Progress Update #230

Watch this video on YouTube

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

CREATING A BETTER WORLD INTRO: @0:34

HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING: @7:40

Finished the heat exchanger video that shows our initial testing and results for the heat exchangers that will be used in the Earthbag Village Communal Eco-shower Designs (see below)
Added heat exchanger video to the Communal Eco-shower page and updated the page with a parts list, testing descriptions, and other details (see below)
Remastered and added the final 18 images to the Communal Eco-shower page (see below)
Continued working in Sketchup on the open source outdoor areas of the Recycled Materials Village (see below)
Created Initial Render of View from Inside the Tree House Village (see below)
Hemanth Kotaru completed his 3rd week with us by conducting additional Earthbag Village construction research (see below)
Christian Ojeda completed his 23rd week helping with the heat-recycling Communal Eco-shower and Vermiculture Bathroom designs (see below)
Continued working in Sketchup on the open source outdoor areas of the Recycled Materials Village (see below)
Guy Grossfeld continued helping with the Tree House Village renders (see below)
Samantha Robinson completed her 3rd week working on the interior design for the living structure of the Tree House Village (see below)
Rufino Lagundaon completed his 2nd week working on the Tree House Village internal renders for the dining structure and started updating the AutoCAD layout to reflect the new layout details (see below)

DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER: @10:36

Haoxuan “Hayes” Lei continued work on the City Center structural engineering tutorial (see below)
Dipti Dhondarkar continued with her 46th week of work on the lighting specifics for the City Center (see below)
Aravind Vasudevan continued his work on the City Center basement heating and cooling details (see below)
Vamsi Pulugurtha completed updated heat loss into the ground report as part of the City Center Heating and Cooling open source hub (see below)

HIGHEST GOOD FOOD: @12:11

Streamlined the Food Bars page and created the long term and short term strategy sections on the new Food Procurement and Storage Plan page (see below)

HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION: @12:43

Continued the process of a final proofreading and editing of all 52 lesson plans (see below)
Researched additional content and resources to expand our Reggio, Waldorf, and Orff web pages (see below)
Added all our related lesson plans to each of our key values pages linked to from our One Community World-change Pledge page (see below)

HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY: @13:38

Finished the Open Source AutoCAD Template page and tutorial (see below)
Invested several more hours developing the graphic showing where all our collaborators and volunteers are from (see below)
Sowmya Manohar, working on the Highest Good Network software, fixed the known issues in the modals and provided a solution for an addon error that made installing the software problematic
Priti Kothari completed her first week helping with the Highest Good Network software by taking over development of the Leaderboard element (see below)
Neha Verma joined the team and began work on the Highest Good Network time logging component (see below)

CREATING A BETTER WORLD SUMMARY: @14:59

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

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ONE COMMUNITY WEEKLY UPDATE DETAILS

HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

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

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

This last week the core team finished the heat exchanger video that shows our initial testing and results for the heat exchangers that will be used in the Earthbag Village Communal Eco-shower Designs. Once we finished this video, we also added it to the Communal Eco-shower page and updated the page with a parts list, testing descriptions, and other details, as shown here.

Creating a Better World, Once we finished this video, we also added it to the Communal Eco-shower page and updated the page with a parts list, testing descriptions, and other details, as shown here.

Creating a Better World – Communal Eco-Shower Page – Parts List and Other Details – Click to Visit

…And we remastered and added the final 18 images:

Creating a Better World, Remastered and added the final 18 images to the Â Communal Eco-shower page

Creating a Better World – Added Final 18 images to Communal Eco-Shower Page – Click to Visit

The core team also continued working in Sketchup on the open source outdoor areas of the Recycled Materials Village (Pod 6). We checked and replaced all repetitive items with easier to render components, created a bench with back support and tires (see top right pic that inspired the idea), and began designing a bench with roof and bookshelves.

Creating a Better World, The core team also continued working in Sketchup on the open source outdoor areas of the Recycled Materials Village (Pod 6). We checked and replaced all repetitive items with easier to render components, created a bench with back support and tires (see top right pic that inspired the idea), and began designing a bench with roof and bookshelves.

Creating a Better World – Sketchup work on the Recycled Materials Village ” Click for Page

In addition to this, the core team created this initial render of this view from inside the Tree House Village (Pod 7). You can see the before and after here with notes showing we’ll be updating the trees next.

Creating a Better World, In addition to this, the core team created this initial render of this view from inside the Tree House Village (Pod 7). You can see the before and after here with notes showing we'll be updating the trees next.

Creating a Better World – Initial Render of View From Inside the Tree House Village – Click for Page

Hemanth Kotaru (Structural Engineering Masters Student) completed his 3rd week with us by conducting additional Earthbag Village construction research. This week’s focus was buttressing and doorways and you can see a summary of the findings so far here.

Creating a Better World, Hemanth Kotaru (Structural Engineering Masters Student) completed his 3rd week with us by conducting additional Earthbag Village construction research. This week's focus was buttressing and doorways and you can see a summary of the findings so far here.

Creating a Better World – Continued with Earthbag Village Construction Research – Click to Visit Page

And Christian Ojeda (Mechatronic Engineer) completed his 23rd week helping with the heat-recycling Communal Eco-shower and Vermiculture Bathroom designs. This week’s focus was an updated plumbing layout that placed the plumbing side-by-side and added in overflow safety pipes for the Net-zero Communal Bathroom Designs.

Creating a Better World, And Christian Ojeda (Mechatronic Engineer) completed his 23rd week helping with the heat-recycling Communal Eco-shower and Vermiculture Bathroom designs. This week's focus was an updated plumbing layout that placed the plumbing side-by-side and added in overflow safety pipes for the Net-zero Communal Bathroom Designs.

Creating a Better World – Heat-Recycling Communal Eco-Shower – Vermiculture Bathroom – Click to Visit

Guy Grossfeld (Graphic Designer) continued helping with the Tree House Village (Pod 7) renders. This week he ran final high-quality renders for all the different side views and the first new test render for the complete village, all of which you can see here.

Samantha Robinson (3D Designer) completed her 3rd week working on the interior design for the living structure of the Tree House Village (Pod 7). This week’s focus, as shown here, was fixing the custom end table designs to not conflict with the under-bed shelving, new clock, lamp, and shelving details, and beginning work on the staircase.

Continued Working on Tree House Village Interior Design for the Living Structure ” Click for Page

Rufino Lagundaon (3D Designer) also completed his 2nd week working on the Tree House Village internal renders for the dining structure. Here is the most recent kitchen render.

Creating a Better World, Rufino Lagundaon (3D Designer) also completed his 2nd week working on the Tree House Village internal renders for the dining structure. Here is the most recent kitchen render.

Creating a Better World – Tree House Village Internal Renders for the Dining Structure ” Click for Page

Rufino also started updating the AutoCAD layout to reflect the new layout details, as shown here.

Creating a Better World – Updating AutoCAD Layout to Reflect the New Layout Details – Click for Page

DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

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

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

This last week Haoxuan “Hayes” Lei (Structural Engineer) continued work on the City Center structural engineering tutorial. What you see here is his 3rd week of writing content. This week’s content focus was live loads and wind loads.

Creating a Better World, This last week Haoxuan

Creating a Better World – Continued Work – City Center Structural Engineering Tutorial – Click for Page

Dipti Dhondarkar, (Electrical Engineer) continued with her 46th week of work on the lighting specifics for the City Center. This week’s focus was fixing last week’s program errors, finishing updating the tables and chairs, testing 2 more lighting layouts for the wall, and adding the loft overhang where we’ll be placing additional accent lights.

Creating a Better World, Dipti Dhondarkar, (Electrical Engineer) continued with her 46th week of work on the lighting specifics for the City Center. This week's focus was fixing last week's program errors, finishing updating the tables and chairs, testing 2 more lighting layouts for the wall, and adding the loft overhang where we'll be placing additional accent lights.

Creating a Better World – Continued Work – Lighting Specifics for the City Center ” Click for Page

Aravind Vasudevan (Mechanical Engineer) also continued his work on the City Center basement heating and cooling details. This week’s focus was completing version 2.0 of the climate battery calculations spreadsheet that we’ll be linking to from the City Center Heating and Cooling open source hub. You can see this work here.

Creating a Better World, Aravind Vasudevan: (Mechanical Engineer) also continued his work on the City Center basement heating and cooling details. This week's focus was completing version 2.0 of the climate battery calculations spreadsheet that we'll be linking to from the City Center Heating and Cooling open source hub. You can see this work here.

Creating a Better World – Continued Work – City Center Basement Heating, Cooling – Click for Page

Vamsi Pulugurtha (Mechanical Engineer) also completed this updated heat loss into the ground report as part of the City Center Heating and Cooling open source hub. This updated report now includes cross sections showing how the heat from the building decreases as you get deeper into the ground and how heat dissipates differently inside the basement based on the temperature of the surrounding earth.

Creating a Better World, Vamsi Pulugurtha (Mechanical Engineer) also completed this updated heat loss into the ground report as part of the City Center Heating and Cooling open source hub. This updated report now includes cross sections showing how the heat from the building decreases as you get deeper into the ground and how heat dissipates differently inside the basement based on the temperature of the surrounding earth.

Creating a Better World – Completed Updated Heat Loss into the Ground Report – Click for Page

HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

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

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

This week, the core team continued editing the Food Self-sufficiency Transition Plan pages. We streamlined the Food Bars page and created the long term and short term strategy sections on the new Food Procurement and Storage Plan page, as you see here.

Creating a Better World, This week, the core team continued editing the Food Self-sufficiency Transition Plan pages. We streamlined the Food Bars page and created the long term and short term strategy sections on the new Food Procurement and Storage Plan page, as you see here.

Creating a Better World – Continued Edit – Food Self-Sufficiency Transition Plan Pages – Click to Visit

HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

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

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

This week, the core team continued the process of a final proofreading and editing of all 52 lesson plans. This week we completed the Play Lesson Plan and the Sharing Lesson Plan . This brings us to 46 of 52 finished, which is 88.5% completion.

Creating a Better World, This week, the core team continued the process of a final proofreading and editing of all 52 lesson plans. This week we completed the Play Lesson Plan and the Sharing Lesson Plan. This brings us to 46 of 52 finished, which is 88.5% completion.

Creating a Better World – Continued Process Editing – 52 Lesson Plans ” Click for Lesson Plans for Life

The core team also researched additional content and resources to expand our Reggio, Waldorf, and Orff web pages. You can see some of this behind-the-scenes work here.

Creating a Better World, The core team also researched additional content and resources to expand our Reggio, Waldorf, and Orff web pages. You can see some of this behind-the-scenes work here.

Creating a Better World – Additional Research to Expand Reggio, Waldorf, Orff Pages- Click to Visit

We also added all our related lesson plans to each of our key values pages linked to from our One Community World-change Pledge page. You can see some of these here.

Creating a Better World ,Added All Our Related Lesson Plans to Each of Our Key Values Pages, Click to Visit O.C. Pledge Page

Creating a Better World – Added Related Lesson Plans to Each of Our Key Values Pages – Click to Visit

HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS

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

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

This week the core team finished the Open Source AutoCAD Template page and tutorial. This included updated menus, images, formatting, added resources, and more. You can see some of this work here.

Creating a Better World , This week the core team finished the Open Source AutoCAD Template page and tutorial. This included updated menus, images, formatting, added resources, and more

Creating a Better World – Finished Open Source AutoCAD Template Page and Tutorial – Click to Visit

The core team also invested several more hours developing the graphic showing where all our collaborators and volunteers are from. This information will be featured in our overview video and on the Team page.

Creating a Better World , The core team also invested several more hours developing the graphic showing where all our collaborators and volunteers are from. This information will be featured in our overview video and on the Team page.

Creating a Better World – Graphic showcasing collaborators and volunteers locations – Click for Team

In addition to this, Sowmya Manohar (Software Engineer, Web Developer & Net Application Developer) working on the Highest Good Network software fixed the known issues in the modals and provided a solution for an addon error that made installing the software problematic. Priti Kothari (Information Technology Enthusiast) also completed her first week helping with this part of the project by taking over development of the Leaderboard element, and Neha Verma (Software Development Manager) joined the team and began work on the time logging component.

Creating a Better World, In addition to this, Sowmya Manohar (Software Engineer, Web Developer & Net Application Developer) working on the Highest Good Network software fixed the known issues in the modals and provided a solution for an addon error that made installing the software problematic. Priti Kothari (Information Technology Enthusiast) also completed her first week helping with this part of the project by taking over development of the Leaderboard element, and Neha Verma (Software Development Manager) joined the team and began work on the time logging component.

Creating a Better World – Continued Working on the Highest Good Network Software – Click for Page

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Making Utopia a Reality – One Community Weekly Progress Update #229

Posted on August 13, 2017 by One Community

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It is interesting to observe the stigma against mentioning utopia, or making utopia a reality on Earth, when war, destruction, and the newest multi-billion dollar casino are accepted as part of our current reality. The fact is, however, that amazing things are being created and for any utopian vision to happen, all it needs is to be something that is accessible to everyone and accomplishable with resources available to average people. A viable society or civilization such as this should address human needs from a perspective of fulfilled living as well as sustainable food, energy, and construction practices to combine internal/emotional needs with external/survival needs and provide sustainability for the complete human experience structured for The Highest Good of All.

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

Making Utopia a Reality, One Community Weekly Progress Update #229

OUR MAIN OPEN SOURCE HUBS

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

One Community’s physical location will forward this movement as the first of many self-replicating teacher/demonstration communities, villages, and cities to be built around the world. This is the August 13th, 2017 edition (#229) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments:

Making Utopia a Reality
One Community Progress Update #229

Making Utopia a Reality - One Community Weekly Progress Update #229

Watch this video on YouTube

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

MAKING UTOPIA A REALITY INTRO: @0:34

MAKING UTOPIA A REALITY: HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING: @5:54

Updated the header and other website graphics related to the Compressed Earth Block Village master render (see below)
Continued working in Sketchup on the open source outdoor areas of the Recycled Materials Village (see below)
Updated the Enviroartistic Design page with the new graphic and others, plus new content (see below)
Hemanth Kotaru conducted additional Earthbag Village construction research for the foundation, french drain design, and waterproofing
Hamilton Mateca worked on the high-quality render details for the East-wing office spaces of the Compressed Earth Block Village design (see below)
Guy Grossfeld ran final high-quality renders of the Tree House Village for all the internal village perspectives (see below)
Samantha Robinson worked on the interior design for the living structure of the Tree House Village (see below)
Rufino Lagundaon joined the team and began working on the Tree House Village internal renders for the dining structure (see below)

MAKING UTOPIA A REALITY: DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER: @8:11

Completed the final round of revisions for the DIY Pipe Furniture page (see below)
Finished adding the rest of the text to the PV Solar micro-grid tutorial (see below)
Dipti Dhondarkar continued with her 45th week of work on the lighting specifics for the City Center (see below)
Vamsi Pulugurtha completed initial heat loss into the ground report as part of the City Center Heating and Cooling open source hub (see below)

MAKING UTOPIA A REALITY: HIGHEST GOOD FOOD: @9:27

Continued editing the Food Self-sufficiency Transition Plan pages, and created the new Food Procurement and Storage Plan page (see below)

MAKING UTOPIA A REALITY: HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION: @9:56

Continued the process of a final proofreading and editing of all 52 lesson plans (see below)
Added our research from last week to the Montessori page and updated all that page’s formatting (see below)

MAKING UTOPIA A REALITY: HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY: @10:43

Updated and expanded our social media reach by setting up and including another 8 networks in our list of those we post to each week (see below)
Invested several more hours finishing developing the spreadsheet showing where all our collaborators and volunteers are from (see below)
Updated our profile and other details necessary to gain Platinum status on GuideStar and added a footer GuideStar link that will take you to our profile there (see below)
Sowmya Manohar working on the Highest Good Network software began adding Ember views on the My Account page for displaying Details and Edit modes (see below)
Vivian Rodrigues finished translating the Open Source page in Portuguese (see below)

MAKING UTOPIA A REALITY SUMMARY: @12:09

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ONE COMMUNITY WEEKLY UPDATE DETAILS

MAKING UTOPIA A REALITY: HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

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

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

This last week the core team updated the header and other website graphics related to the Compressed Earth Block Village master render from last week.

Making Utopia a Reality, This last week the core team updated the header and other website graphics related to the Compressed Earth Block Village master render from last week.

Updated Compressed Earth Block Village Header and Other Website Graphics – Click for Page

Here’s what this looks like as part of the 7 villages online book we’re developing.

Making Utopia a Reality, Compressed Earth Block Village, One Community blog 229

Created Compressed Earth Block Village Image for 7 Villages Online Book – Click for Page

The core team also continued working in Sketchup on the open source outdoor areas of the Recycled Materials Village (Pod 6). We added plants, a playground, and created and added three-legged tire planters. We also updated the walking path and added sitting areas around it.

Making Utopia a Reality, The core team also continued working in Sketchup on the open source outdoor areas of the Recycled Materials Village (Pod 6). We added plants, a playground, and created and added three-legged tire planters. We also updated the walking path and added sitting areas around it.

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

And the core team updated the Enviroartistic Design page with the new graphic and others, plus new content, as shown here.

Making Utopia a Reality, The core team also updated the Enviroartistic Design page with the new graphic and others, plus new content

Updated the Enviroartistic Design Page with New Graphics -Click to Visit

Hemanth Kotaru (Structural Engineering Masters Student) completed his 2nd week with us by conducting additional Earthbag Village construction research for the foundation, french drain design, and waterproofing. You can see some of his initial report here:

Making Utopia a Reality, Hemanth Kotaru (Structural Engineering Masters Student) completed his 2nd week with us by conducting additional Earthbag Village construction research for the foundation, french drain design, and waterproofing. You can see some of his initial report here:

Researched Earthbag Village Foundation, French Drain Design, and Waterproofing ” Click to Visit

Hamilton Mateca (AutoCAD and Revit Drafter and Designer) also finished his 51st week helping with the Compressed Earth Block Village design and render details. This week’s focus was working on the high-quality render details for the East-wing office spaces. You can see some of this work-in-progress here.

Making Utopia a Reality, Hamilton Mateca (AutoCAD and Revit Drafter and Designer) also finished his 51st week helping with the Compressed Earth Block Village design and render details. This week's focus was working on the high-quality render details for the East-wing office spaces. You can see some of this work-in-progress here.

Continued Working on Compressed Earth Block Village Design and Render Details – Click for Page

Guy Grossfeld (Graphic Designer) continued helping with the Tree House Village (Pod 7) renders. This week he ran final high-quality renders for all the internal village perspectives, as shown here.

Making Utopia a Reality, Guy Grossfeld (Graphic Designer) continued helping with the Tree House Village (Pod 7) renders. This week he ran final high-quality renders for all the internal village perspectives, as shown here.

Continued Working on Tree House Village Renders ” Click for Page

Samantha Robinson (3D Designer) completed her 2nd week working on the interior design for the living structure of the Tree House Village (Pod 7). This week’s focus, as shown here, was adding shelving under the bed design and beginning work on the loft shelving.

Making Utopia a Reality, Samantha Robinson (3D Designer) completed her 2nd week working on the interior design for the living structure of the Tree House Village (Pod 7). This week's focus, as shown here, was adding shelving under the bed design and beginning work on the loft shelving.

Continued Working on Tree House Village Interior Design for the Living Structure ” Click for Page

Rufino Lagundaon (3D Designer) also joined the team and began working on the Tree House Village internal renders for the dining structure, as shown here.

Making Utopia a Reality, Rufino Lagundaon (3D Designer) also joined the team and began working on the Tree House Village internal renders for the dining structure, as shown here.

Began Working on Tree House Village Internal Renders for the Dining Structure – Click for Page

MAKING UTOPIA A REALITY: DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

One Community is making utopia a reality 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 completed the final round of revisions for the DIY Pipe Furniture page. These included reorganizing the order of the sections and many of the images, adding the open source files to the open source folders, updating the table of contents links, and beginning the creation process for the final header and social media images.

Making Utopia a Reality, This week, the core team completed the final round of revisions for the DIY Pipe Furniture page. These included reorganizing the order of the sections and many of the images, adding the open source files to the open source folders, updating the table of contents links, and beginning the creation process for the final header and social media images.

Completed Final Round of Revisions for the DIY Pipe Furniture Page – Click to Visit

The core team also finished adding the rest of the text to the PV Solar micro-grid tutorial. You can see some of the final additions here.

Making Utopia a Reality, The core team also finished adding the rest of the text to the PV Solar micro-grid tutorial.

Finished Adding Text to the PV Solar Micro-Grid Tutorial – Click for Page

Dipti Dhondarkar, (Electrical Engineer) continued with her 45th week of work on the lighting specifics for the City Center. This week’s focus was adding additional chair and table details to the Social Dome. These extra details created program errors and so we’re exploring lesser approaches.

Making Utopia a Reality, Dipti Dhondarkar, (Electrical Engineer) continued with her 45th week of work on the lighting specifics for the City Center. This week's focus was adding additional chair and table details to the Social Dome. These caused program errors and so we're exploring lesser approaches.

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

Vamsi Pulugurtha (Mechanical Engineer) also completed this initial heat loss into the ground report as part of the City Center Heating and Cooling open source hub.

Making Utopia a Reality, Vamsi Pulugurtha (Mechanical Engineer) also completed this initial heat loss into the ground report as part of the City Center Heating and Cooling open source hub.

Completed Initial Heat Loss Into the Ground Report for City Center Heating and Cooling Hub

MAKING UTOPIA A REALITY: HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

One Community is making utopia a reality 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 continued editing the Food Self-sufficiency Transition Plan pages, and created the new Food Procurement and Storage Plan page, as you see here.

Making Utopia a Reality, This week, the core team continued editing the Food Self-sufficiency Transition Plan pages, and created the new Food Procurement and Storage Plan page, as you see here.

Created New Food Procurement and Storage Plan Page ” Click to Visit

MAKING UTOPIA A REALITY: HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

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

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

This week, the core team continued the process of a final proofreading and editing of all 52 lesson plans. This week we completed the Cognition Lesson Plan and the Cosmos Lesson Plan . This brings us to 44 of 52 finished, which is 84.6% completion.

Making Utopia a Reality, This week, the core team continued the process of a final proofreading and editing of all 52 lesson plans. This week we completed the Cognition Lesson Plan and the Cosmos Lesson Plan.

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

The core team also added our research from last week to the Montessori page and updated all that page’s formatting, you can see some of that work here.

Making Utopia a Reality, The core team also added our research from last week to the Montessori page and updated all that page's formatting, you can see some of that work here.

Added Our Research from Last Week to the Montessori Page – Click to Visit

MAKING UTOPIA A REALITY: HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS

One Community is making utopia a reality 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 updated and expanded our social media reach by setting up and including another 8 networks in our list of those we post to each week. You can see the complete list here.

Making Utopia a Reality, This week the core team updated and expanded our social media reach by setting up and including another 8 networks in our list of those we post to each week. You can see the complete list here.

Included Another 8 Networks in Our Social Media List – Click for Homepage

The core team also invested several more hours finishing developing the spreadsheet showing where all our collaborators and volunteers are from. This information is needed for the new graphic and video we’re creating to highlight the global nature of our team.

Making Utopia a Reality, The core team also invested several more hours finishing developing the spreadsheet showing where all our collaborators and volunteers are from. This information is needed for the new graphic and video we're creating to highlight the global nature of our team.

Finished Developing the Spreadsheet Showing Where Our Team Members are From for a Future Video

And we updated our profile and other details necessary to gain Platinum status on GuideStar and added a footer GuideStar link that will take you to our profile there.

Updated Our Profile and Other Necessary Details to Gain Platinum Status on GuideStar

In addition to this, Sowmya Manohar (Software Engineer, Web Developer & Net Application Developer) working on the Highest Good Network software began adding Ember views on the My Account page for displaying Details and Edit modes. You can see some of this work here.

Making Utopia a Reality, In addition to this, Sowmya Manohar (Software Engineer, Web Developer & Net Application Developer) working on the Highest Good Network software began adding Ember views on the My Account page for displaying Details and Edit modes. You can see some of this work here.

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

And Vivian Rodrigues (Translator) also continued helping translate our overview pages. This week she finished the Open Source page as shown here in Portuguese.

Making Utopia a Reality, And Vivian Rodrigues (Translator) also continued helping translate our overview pages. This week she finished the Open Source page as shown here in Portuguese.

Finished Translating the Open Source Page to Portuguese – Click for New Page

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

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WHAT ONE COMMUNITY IS CREATING

One Community is dedicated to making utopia a reality by 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, making utopia a reality. A place based on compassion, kindness, and collaboration. This replicable community will serve as an example of what is possible.

Throughout our design process of making utopia a reality, 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, making utopia a reality. 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 making utopia a reality by creating a sustainable planet within 30 years. We will achieve this by establishing successful teacher/demonstration hubs on every continent. Villages include designs appropriate for each of the five main types of climates. They also include options for even the most challenged economies. These hubs will collaborate with one another, share ideas, and resources, and work together as a network to heal the planet. They will also transform the global lifestyle into a more enjoyable, fulfilling, healthy, and sustainable one.

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

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

As we address and open source share these areas we will establish a living example of the first teacher/demonstration village purposed to teach others, making utopia a reality. 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, making utopia a reality. 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, making utopia a reality. This is also part of this model to help the world. Its purpose is to facilitate more engagement in the sustainability industry, produce the absolute best possible consumer value, and the most convenient delivery of goods and methodologies for building sustainable living communities and sustainable living components.

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

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, making utopia a reality.

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

ONE COMMUNITY’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:

Making Utopia a Reality 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.

Making Utopia a Reality 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.

Making Utopia a Reality 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.

Making Utopia a Reality 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.

Sustainable Civilization Engineering – One Community Weekly Progress Update #228

Posted on August 6, 2017 by One Community

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The technology and know-how exist now for sustainable civilization engineering. We can create a completely sustainable world that meets the needs of all people if we want to. We can solve starvation, homelessness, lack of energy infrastructure, pollution, and more through sustainable food, energy, and housing. We can further address crime, poverty, social injustice and inequality, and war if we include sustainable and open source economic and education models. One Community is developing tools, tutorials, and open source resources for all these sustainable civilization foundations because we believe now is the time to create the sustainable planet we know is possible.

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

OUR MAIN OPEN SOURCE HUBS

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

One Community’s physical location will forward this movement as the first of many self-replicating teacher/demonstration communities, villages, and cities to be built around the world. This is the August 6th, 2017 edition (#228) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments:

Sustainable Civilization Engineering
One Community Progress Update #228

Sustainable Civilization Engineering - One Community Weekly Progress Update #228

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

SUSTAINABLE CIVILIZATION ENGINEERING INTRO: @0:34

SUSTAINABLE CIVILIZATION ENGINEERING: HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING: @7:47

Added mountains, clouds, and other graphic design elements to the Compressed Earth Block Village render from last week (see below)
Continued working in Sketchup on the open source outdoor areas of the Recycled Materials Village (see below)
Dijimba “Joss” Ilunga completed his 3rd week working on the electrical design details for the Vermiculture Bathrooms (see below)
Christian Ojeda completed his 22nd week helping with the heat-recycling Communal Eco-shower and Vermiculture Bathroom designs (see below)
Hemanth Kotaru joined the team and completed his 1st week with us by researching ideal bag thicknesses for the Earthbag Village (see below)
Dean Scholz continued helping us create quality Cob Village (see below)
Guy Grossfeld continued helping with the Tree House Village renders (see below)
Samantha Robinson joined the team and completed her first week working on the interior design for the living structure of the Tree House Village (see below)

SUSTAINABLE CIVILIZATION ENGINEERING: DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER: @10:05

Completed another round of revisions for the DIY Pipe Furniture page (see below)
Ashwin Patil finished integrating the final edits to the Highest Good energy search engine (see below)
Dipti Dhondarkar continued with her 44th week of work on the lighting specifics for the City Center (see below)
Ramya Vudi researched videos to add additional clarity to the PV Solar micro-grid tutorial (see below)

SUSTAINABLE CIVILIZATION ENGINEERING: HIGHEST GOOD FOOD: @11:17

Continued editing the Food Self-sufficiency Transition Plan hub page and the Food Bars page (see below)

SUSTAINABLE CIVILIZATION ENGINEERING: HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION: @11:47

Continued the process of a final proofreading and editing of all 52 lesson plans (see below)
Finished our behind-the-scenes research and summary of additional educational materials for the Montessori page, and started research for materials to be added to our Reggio Emelia web page (see below)
Working with Sangam Stanczak we started developing the documentation for the Evaluation and Evolution component (see below)

SUSTAINABLE CIVILIZATION ENGINEERING: HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY: @12:45

As part of working on the Highest Good society search engine, we updated several pages with current formatting and icons (see below)
Continued researching and developing a spreadsheet showing where all our collaborators and volunteers are from for the new graphic and video we’re creating (see below)
Jin Hua working on the backend of our website also helped us recover all our social media likes that were lost from our upgrade to using the new sitewide SSL security certificate and protocols (see below)
Sowmya Manohar working on the Highest Good Network software developed the program so that it is now successfully able to add and retrieve the user information from the backend database (see below)

SUSTAINABLE CIVILIZATION ENGINEERING SUMMARY: @14:00

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SUSTAINABLE CIVILIZATION ENGINEERING: HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

One Community is creating sustainable civilization engineering 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 added mountains, clouds, and other graphic design elements to the Compressed Earth Block Village render from last week. We also created the modified header and social media versions and added them to the page.

Sustainable Civilization Engineering, Compressed Earth Block Village Final Render, One Community, The core team added mountains, clouds, and other graphic design elements to the Compressed Earth Block Village render from last week. We also created the modified header and social media versions and added them to the page.

Created a Modified New Final Render of the Compressed Earth Block Village and Added to the Page

This last week the core team also continued working in Sketchup on the open source outdoor areas of the Recycled Materials Village (Pod 6). We updated and added walking paths for the whole village and more plants, benches, and landscaping for the art area.

Sustainable Civilization Engineering, This last week the core team also continued working in Sketchup on the open source outdoor areas of the Recycled Materials Village (Pod 6). We updated and added walking paths for the whole village and more plants, benches, and landscaping for the art area.

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

Dijimba “Joss” Ilunga (Electrical Engineer) completed his 3rd week working on the electrical design details for the Vermiculture Bathrooms. This week’s focus was version 1.0 of the breaker panel and updating the master file to include section views.

Sustainable Civilization Engineering, Dijimba

Continued Working on Electrical Design Details for Vermiculture Bathrooms ” Click to Visit

Christian Ojeda (Mechatronic Engineer) completed his 22nd week helping with the heat-recycling Communal Eco-shower and Vermiculture Bathroom designs. This week’s focus was designing the connection specifics for last week’s plumbing designs so they connect properly with the shower and vermiculture structures.

Sustainable Civilization Engineering, Christian Ojeda (Mechatronic Engineer) completed his 22nd week helping with the heat-recycling Communal Eco-shower and Vermiculture Bathroom designs. This week's focus was designing the connection specifics for last week's plumbing designs so they connect properly with the shower and vermiculture structures.

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

Hemanth Kotaru (Structural Engineering Masters Student) also joined the team and completed his 1st week with us by researching ideal bag thicknesses for the Earthbag Village. You can see some of this research and his initial report here.

Sustainable Civilization Engineering, Hemanth Kotaru (Structural Engineering Masters Student) also joined the team and completed his 1st week with us by researching ideal bag thicknesses for the Earthbag Village. You can see some of this research and his initial report here.

Researched Ideal Bag Thicknesses for the Earthbag Village – Click to Visit Page

Dean Scholz (Architectural Designer) continued helping us create quality Cob Village (Pod 3) renders. Here is update 80 of Dean’s work, testing a new lighting plugin and reflections on a glass table in the main room with several objects on it.

Sustainable Civilization Engineering, Dean Scholz (Architectural Designer) continued helping us create quality Cob Village (Pod 3) renders. Here is update 80 of Dean's work, testing a new lighting plugin and reflections on a glass table in the main room with several objects on it.

Continued Creating Cob Village Renders ” Click for Page

And Guy Grossfeld (Graphic Designer) continued helping with the Tree House Village (Pod 7) renders. This week he ran the initial test renders for all the perspectives we’ll be showing from within the village.

Sustainable Civilization Engineering, Guy Grossfeld (Graphic Designer) continued helping with the Tree House Village (Pod 7) renders. This week he ran the initial test renders for all the perspectives we'll be showing from within the village.

Continued Working on Tree House Village Renders ” Click for Page

Samantha Robinson (3D Designer) also joined the team and completed her first week beginning work on the interior design for the living structure of the Tree House Village (Pod 7). This week’s focus, as shown here, was modeling a custom bed design.

Sustainable Civilization Engineering, Samantha Robinson (3D Designer) also joined the team and completed her first week beginning work on the interior design for the living structure of the Tree House Village (Pod 7). This week's focus, as shown here, was modeling a custom bed design.

Began Work on Tree House Village Interior Design for the Living Structure – Click for Page

SUSTAINABLE CIVILIZATION ENGINEERING: DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

One Community is creating sustainable civilization engineering 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 completed another round of revisions for the DIY Pipe Furniture page. These included adding the new header image and 4 quick-link images to jump straight to the 4 main sections on the page. The team also re-organized the sections and added more words to the Instructions & Diagrams sections.

Sustainable Civilization Engineering, This week, the core team completed another round of revisions for the DIY Pipe Furniture page. These included adding the new header image and 4 quick-link images to jump straight to the 4 main sections on the page. The team also re-organized the sections and added more words to the Instructions & Diagrams sections.

Completed Another Round of Revisions for the DIY Pipe Furniture Page – Click to Visit

Ashwin Patil (Web Developer) finished integrating the final edits to the Highest Good energy search engine. You can see some of this work here.

Sustainable Civilization Engineering, Ashwin Patil (Web Developer) finished integrating the final edits to the Highest Good energy search engine. You can see some of this work here.

Finished Integrating Final Edits to the Highest Good Energy Search Engine – Click for Page

Dipti Dhondarkar, (Electrical Engineer) continued with her 44th week of work on the lighting specifics for the City Center. This week’s focus was further developing the best of last week’s Social Dome lighting layout by adding more lights and additional room details.

Sustainable Civilization Engineering, Dipti Dhondarkar, (Electrical Engineer) continued with her 44th week of work on the lighting specifics for the City Center. This week's focus was further developing the best of last week's Social Dome lighting layout by adding more lights and additional room details.

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

Ramya Vudi (Electrical Engineer) also researched videos to add additional clarity to the PV Solar micro-grid tutorial. We added her work to the webpage and also updated the header graphic, as shown here.

Sustainable Civilization Engineering, Ramya Vudi (Electrical Engineer) also researched videos to add additional clarity to the PV Solar micro-grid tutorial. We added her work to the webpage and also updated the header graphic, as shown here.

Researched Videos to Add Clarity to the PV Solar Micro-Grid Tutorial – Click for Solar Energy Page

SUSTAINABLE CIVILIZATION ENGINEERING: HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

One Community is creating sustainable civilization engineering 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 continued editing the Food Self-sufficiency Transition Plan hub page and the Food Bars page, and calculated the storage space needed for root vegetables, as you see here.

Sustainable Civilization Engineering, This week, the core team continued editing the Food Self-sufficiency Transition Plan hub page and the Food Bars page, and calculated the storage space needed for root vegetables, as you see here.

Continued Editing the Food Self-Sufficiency Transition Plan Hub Page and Food Bars Page

SUSTAINABLE CIVILIZATION ENGINEERING: HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

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

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

This week, the core team continued the process of a final proofreading and editing of all 52 lesson plans. This week we completed the Individuality Lesson Plan and the Consciousness Lesson Plan. This brings us to 42 of 52 finished, which is 80.7% completion.

Sustainable Civilization Engineering, This week, the core team continued the process of a final proofreading and editing of all 52 lesson plans. This week we completed the Individuality Lesson Plan and the Consciousness Lesson Plan. This brings us to 42 of 52 finished, which is 80.7% completion.

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

The core team also finished our behind-the-scenes research and summary of additional educational materials for the Montessori page. We also started the research for materials to be added to our Reggio Emelia web page.

Sustainable Civilization Engineering, The core team also finished our behind-the-scenes research and summary of additional educational materials for the Montessori page. We also started the research for materials to be added to our Reggio Emelia web page.

Finished Research for Montessori Page and Started Working on Reggio Emelia Page – Click to Visit

Working with Sangam Stanczak (Ph.D. and P.E.), we also started developing the documentation for the Evaluation and Evolution component….

Sustainable Civilization Engineering, Working with Sangam Stanczak (Ph.D. and P.E.), we also started developing the documentation for the Evaluation and Evolution component....

Started Developing the Documentation for the Evaluation and Evolution Component – Click for Page

…Sangam also created a flow chart for the evaluation process:

Created Flow Chart for the Evaluation Process – Click for Page

SUSTAINABLE CIVILIZATION ENGINEERING: HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS

One Community is creating sustainable civilization engineering 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, as part of working on the Highest Good society search engine, updated all the pages shown here with current formatting and icons.

Sustainable Civilization Engineering, This week the core team, as part of working on the Highest Good society search engine, updated all the pages shown here with current formatting and icons.

Updated Highest Good Society Pages with Current Formatting and Icons – Click for Page

The core team also invested several more hours researching and developing a spreadsheet showing where all our collaborators and volunteers are from. This information is needed for the new graphic and video we’re creating to highlight the global nature of our team.

Sustainable Civilization Engineering, The core team also invested several more hours researching and developing a spreadsheet showing where all our collaborators and volunteers are from. This information is needed for the new graphic and video we're creating to highlight the global nature of our team.

Researching and Developing the Spreadsheet Showing Where Our Team Members are From

Jin Hua (Web and Graphic Designer) working on the backend of our website also helped us recover all our social media likes that were lost from our upgrade to using the new sitewide SSL security certificate and protocols.

Sustainable Civilization Engineering, Jin Hua (Web and Graphic Designer) working on the backend of our website also helped us recover all our social media likes that were lost from our upgrade to using the new sitewide SSL security certificate and protocols.

Helped Recover All Our Social Media Likes that Were Lost From Our Upgrade – Click for Homepage

And Sowmya Manohar (Software Engineer, Web Developer & Net Application Developer) working on the Highest Good Network software developed the program so that it is now successfully able to add and retrieve the user information from the backend database. You can see some of the behind the scenes work here.

Sustainable Civilization Engineering, And Sowmya Manohar (Software Engineer, Web Developer & Net Application Developer) working on the Highest Good Network software developed the program so that it is now successfully able to add and retrieve the user information from the backend database. You can see some of the behind the scenes work here.

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

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

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

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WHAT ONE COMMUNITY IS CREATING

One Community is creating a place to grow together and change the world together through sustainable civilization engineering. 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 through sustainable civilization engineering what we feel is the most sustainable, healthy, and fun environment we can create. A place based on compassion, kindness, and collaboration. This replicable community will serve as an example of what is possible.

Throughout our design process, we are engaging in sustainable civilization engineering by 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, serving as a pioneering example of sustainable civilization engineering. 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 through sustainable civilization engineering. We will achieve this by establishing successful teacher/demonstration hubs on every continent. Villages include designs appropriate for each of the five main types of climates. They also include options for even the most challenged economies. These hubs will collaborate with one another, share ideas, and resources, and work together as a network to heal the planet. They will also transform the global lifestyle into a more enjoyable, fulfilling, healthy, and sustainable one.

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

Even if we don’t achieve our ultimate goal of global transformation, a self-replicating teacher/demonstration model like this, rooted in sustainable civilization engineering, 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 embodies the principles of sustainable civilization engineering. It 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, reflecting the principles of sustainable civilization engineering. 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 through sustainable civilization engineering. 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 engaged in sustainable civilization engineering by open source sharing an evolution of sustainable living that addresses the complete human experience. We are doing this because we see the solutions for global food, housing, energy, education, social inequality, ethical business practices, earth regenerative practices, and a desire for a more fulfilling living experience as inseparably interconnected. As a comprehensive solution, we are addressing all these areas simultaneously and open source free-sharing everything needed for individual duplication and/or duplication as complete self-replicating teacher/demonstration communities, villages, and cities to be built around the world.

As we address and open source share these areas we will establish a living example of the first teacher/demonstration village, embodying sustainable civilization engineering, 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, thereby advancing sustainable civilization engineering. 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, as part of our sustainable civilization engineering approach. This is also part of this model to help the world. Its purpose is to facilitate more engagement in the sustainability industry, produce the absolute best possible consumer value, and the most convenient delivery of goods and methodologies for building sustainable living communities and sustainable living components.

As demand increases, so too will the ways to participate in sustainable civilization engineering. 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.

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

Strategic Open Source World Creation – One Community Weekly Progress Update #227

Posted on July 30, 2017 by One Community

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Strategic open source world creation is simultaneously addressing the foundations of what is necessary to live sustainably and happily. Through global thinking and goals, open source and sustainable approaches to food, energy, housing, education, for-profit and non-profit economic design, social architecture, fulfilled living, and global stewardship practices can be combined to create a way of living that is better than most people are living now. If this way of living is also demonstrated as easy enough and affordable enough, it will predictably spread on its own and this is how One Community sees creating positive and permanent global change as possible.

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

Strategic Open Source World Creation, One Community Weekly Progress Update #227

OUR MAIN OPEN SOURCE HUBS

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

One Community’s physical location will forward this movement as the first of many self-replicating teacher/demonstration communities, villages, and cities to be built around the world. This is the July 30th, 2017 edition (#227) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments:

Strategic Open Source World Creation
One Community Progress Update #227

Strategic Open Source World Creation - One Community Weekly Progress Update #227

Watch this video on YouTube

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

STRATEGIC OPEN SOURCE WORLD CREATION INTRO: @0:34

STRATEGIC OPEN SOURCE WORLD CREATION: HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING: @7:10

Created new Cob Village and Straw Bale Village layouts for the 7 villages online book (see below)
Continued working in Sketchup on the open source outdoor areas of the Recycled Materials Village (see below)
Dijimba “Joss” Ilunga completed his 2nd week working on the electrical design details for the Vermiculture Bathrooms (see below)
Christian Ojeda completed his 21st week helping with the heat-recycling Communal Eco-shower and Vermiculture Bathroom designs (see below)
Dean Scholz continued helping us create quality Cob Village renders (see below)
Hamilton Mateca finished his 50th week helping with the Compressed Earth Block Village design and render details (see below)
Guy Grossfeld continued helping with the Tree House Village renders (see below)

STRATEGIC OPEN SOURCE WORLD CREATION: DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER: @9:14

Finished working on the final sections of the DIY Pipe Furniture tutorial page; the Resources, Summary, and FAQ are now complete (see below)
Transferred, formatted, and edited the first 70% of the content for the PV Solar micro-grid tutorial (see below)
Created 3 header variations for the Wind Energy Setup and Maintenance Page (see below)
Haoxuan “Hayes” Lei continued work on the City Center structural engineering tutorial
Dipti Dhondarkar continued with her 43rd week of work on the lighting specifics for the City Center (see below)
Vamsi Pulugurtha completed another round of additions and revisions for the thermal lag report and tutorial for the City Center Heating and Cooling open source hub (see below)

STRATEGIC OPEN SOURCE WORLD CREATION: HIGHEST GOOD FOOD: @10:51

Continued editing the Food Self-sufficiency Transition Plan hub page and the Food Bars page, and researched the procurement space needed for root vegetables (see below)

STRATEGIC OPEN SOURCE WORLD CREATION: HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION: @11:19

Continued the process of a final proofreading and editing of all 52 lesson plans (see below)
Started researching to expand our Montessori page (see below)

STRATEGIC OPEN SOURCE WORLD CREATION: HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY: @12:06

The core team working with Ashwin Patil finished the Highest Good economics and Highest Good energy search engines and added them to the website (see below)
Vivian Rodrigues continued helping translate our overview pages (see below)

STRATEGIC OPEN SOURCE WORLD CREATION SUMMARY: @12:53

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STRATEGIC OPEN SOURCE WORLD CREATION: HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

One Community is facilitating strategic open source world 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 the core team created new Cob Village and Straw Bale Village layouts for the 7 villages online book we are developing behind-the-scenes. You can see those images here:

Strategic Open Source World Creation, This last week the core team created new Cob Village and Straw Bale Village layouts for the 7 villages online book we are developing behind-the-scenes.

Created New Layouts for 7 Villages Online Book – Click to Visit Housing Page

The core team also continued working in Sketchup on the open source outdoor areas of the Recycled Materials Village (Pod 6). We added planter-barrels, trees, potted plants, an easel, a walking path, and an art display around the tree, as shown here.

Strategic Open Source World Creation, The core team also continued working in Sketchup on the open source outdoor areas of the Recycled Materials Village (Pod 6). We added planter-barrels, trees, potted plants, an easel, a walking path, and an art display around the tree, as shown here.

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

Dijimba “Joss” Ilunga (Electrical Engineer) completed his 2nd week working on the electrical design details for the Vermiculture Bathrooms. You can see version 2.0 of his designs here.

Strategic Open Source World Creation, VermicultuDijimba "Joss" Ilunga (Electrical Engineer) completed his 2nd week working on the electrical design details for the Vermiculture Bathrooms.

Continued Working on Electrical Design Details for Vermiculture Bathrooms ” Click to Visit

Christian Ojeda (Mechatronic Engineer) completed his 21st week helping with the heat-recycling Communal Eco-shower and Vermiculture Bathroom designs. This week’s focus was another round of revisions to the piping layouts for both freshwater and rainwater supplies to the spigots, toilets, and drinking fountains, as shown here.

Strategic Open Source World Creation, Christian Ojeda (Mechatronic Engineer) completed his 21st week helping with the heat-recycling Communal Eco-shower and Vermiculture Bathroom designs. This week's focus was another round of revisions to the piping layouts for both freshwater and rainwater supplies to the spigots, toilets, and drinking fountains, as shown here.

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

Dean Scholz (Architectural Designer) continued helping us create quality Cob Village (Pod 3) renders. Here is update 79 of Dean’s work, continuing with lighting details for the central dining and presentation area.

Strategic Open Source World Creation, Dean Scholz (Architectural Designer) continued helping us create quality Cob Village (Pod 3) renders. Here is update 79 of Dean's work, continuing with lighting details for the central dining and presentation area.

Continued Creating Cob Village Renders ” Click for Page

Hamilton Mateca (AutoCAD and Revit Drafter and Designer) also finished his 50th week helping with the Compressed Earth Block Village design and render details. This week’s focus was producing this high-quality render of the complete village.

Strategic Open Source World Creation, Hamilton Mateca (AutoCAD and Revit Drafter and Designer) also finished his 50th week helping with the Compressed Earth Block Village design and render details. This week's focus was producing this high-quality render of the complete village.

Continued Working on the Compressed Earth Block Village Design and Render Details ” Click to Visit

And Guy Grossfeld (Graphic Designer) continued helping with the Tree House Village (Pod 7) renders. This week he finished the final ramp connections and changes and started test rendering top-down views and planning all the other perspectives we’ll render.

Strategic Open Source World Creation, And Guy Grossfeld (Graphic Designer) continued helping with the Tree House Village (Pod 7) renders. This week he finished the final ramp connections and changes and started test rendering top-down views and planning all the other perspectives we'll render.

Continued Working on Tree House Village Renders ” Click for Page

STRATEGIC OPEN SOURCE WORLD CREATION: DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

One Community is facilitating strategic open source world 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 finished working on the final sections of the DIY Pipe Furniture tutorial page; the Resources, Summary, and FAQ are now complete. The team checked the entire page in-depth and corrected mistakes. We also updated the formatting and improved the content for the Open Source AutoCAD Template page, which we’d say is now about 90% complete.

Strategic Open Source World Creation, This week, the core team finished working on the final sections of the DIY Pipe Furniture tutorial page; the Resources, Summary, and FAQ are now complete. The team checked the entire page in-depth and corrected mistakes. We also updated the formatting and improved the content for the Open Source AutoCAD Template page, which we'd say is now about 90% complete.

Finished Working on the DIY Pipe Furniture Tutorial Page ” Click for Page

The core team also transferred, formatted, and edited the first 70% of the content for the PV Solar micro-grid tutorial, you can see some of this work here.

Strategic Open Source World Creation, The core team also transferred, formatted, and edited the first 70% of the content for the PV Solar micro-grid tutorial, you can see some of this work here.

Transferred, Formatted, and Edited Content for PV Solar Micro-Grid Tutorial – Click for Page

In addition, the core team created 3 header variations for the Wind Energy Setup and Maintenance Page,and chose the one on the right to add the page.

Strategic Open Source World Creation, In addition, the core team created 3 header variations for the Wind Energy Setup and Maintenance Page,and chose the one on the right to add the page.

Created 3 Header Variations for Wind Energy Setup and Maintenance Page – Click to Visit

Haoxuan “Hayes” Lei (Structural Engineer) continued work on the City Center structural engineering tutorial. What you see here is some of his 2nd week of work writing the content.

Strategic Open Source World Creation, Haoxuan

Continued Work on City Center Structural Engineering Tutorial ” Click to Visit Page

Dipti Dhondarkar, (Electrical Engineer) continued with her 43rd week of work on the lighting specifics for the City Center. This week’s focus was 3 more placement and layout tests for the smaller lights within the Social Dome, as shown here.

Strategic Open Source World Creation, Dipti Dhondarkar, (Electrical Engineer) continued with her 43rd week of work on the lighting specifics for the City Center. This week's focus was 3 more placement and layout tests for the smaller lights within the Social Dome, as shown here.

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

Vamsi Pulugurtha (Mechanical Engineer) also completed another round of additions and revisions for the thermal lag report and tutorial for the City Center Heating and Cooling open source hub. You can see some of this work here.

Strategic Open Source World Creation, Vamsi Pulugurtha (Mechanical Engineer) also completed another round of additions and revisions for the thermal lag report and tutorial for the City Center Heating and Cooling open source hub. You can see some of this work here.

Continued Working on Thermal Lage Report and Tutorial for City Center Heating and Cooling Page

STRATEGIC OPEN SOURCE WORLD CREATION: HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

One Community is facilitating strategic open source world 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 continued editing the Food Self-sufficiency Transition Plan hub page and the Food Bars page, and researched procurement for root vegetables, as you see here.

Strategic Open Source World Creation, This week, the core team continued editing the Food Self-sufficiency Transition Plan hub page and the Food Bars page, and researched procurement for root vegetables, as you see here.

Continued Editing the Food Self-Sufficiency Transition Plan Hub Page and Food Bars Page

STRATEGIC OPEN SOURCE WORLD CREATION: HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

One Community is facilitating strategic open source world 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 week, the core team continued the process of a final proofreading and editing of all 52 lesson plans. This week we completed the Sustainability Lesson Plan and the Personal Growth Lesson Plan. This brings us to 40 of 52 finished, which is 76.9% completion.

Strategic Open Source World Creation, This week, the core team continued the process of a final proofreading and editing of all 52 lesson plans. This week we completed the Sustainability Lesson Plan and the Personal Growth Lesson Plan. This brings us to 40 of 52 finished, which is 76.9% completion.

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

Additionally, the core team started researching to expand our Montessori page. Here you can see some of this behind-the-scenes work and the associated resources.

Strategic Open Source World Creation, Additionally, the core team started researching to expand our Montessori page. Here you can see some of this behind-the-scenes work and the associated resources.

Started Researching to Expand our Montessori Page – Click to Visit

STRATEGIC OPEN SOURCE WORLD CREATION: HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS

One Community is facilitating strategic open source world 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

This week the core team working with Ashwin Patil (Web Developer) finished the Highest Good economics and Highest Good energy search engines and added them to the website. Ashwin also started creating the Highest Good society search engine.

Strategic Open Source World Creation, This week the core team working with Ashwin Patil (Web Developer) finished the Highest Good economics and Highest Good energy search engines and added them to the website. Ashwin also started creating the Highest Good society search engine.

Finished Highest Good Economics and Highest Good Energy Search Engines – Click for Page

Vivian Rodrigues (Translator) also continued helping translate our overview pages. This week she finished the final 20% of the Highest Good of All page, as shown here in Portuguese.

Strategic Open Source World Creation, Vivian Rodrigues (Translator) also continued helping translate our overview pages. This week she finished the final 20% of the Highest Good of All page, as shown here in Portuguese.

Finished Translating Highest Good of All Page in Portuguese ” Click to Visit Page

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WHAT ONE COMMUNITY IS CREATING

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

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

Throughout our design process, we are engaging in strategic open source world creation by 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, serving as a cornerstone of strategic open source world creation. It will function as an experiential-learning model that facilitates mass participation to address humanity’s most pressing challenges through: A replicable model for expansion, building seven self-sufficient village/city prototypes, becoming the world leader in open-source sustainability solutions, and evolving and expanding ALL aspects of sustainable living.

WHY ONE COMMUNITY IS CREATING THIS

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

The specifics of how One Community is accomplishing this can be found on the One Community Solution Model to Create Solution-creating Models Page, which serves as a hub for strategic open source world creation. Research supporting and showing the benefits of a model like this can be found in our Research and Resources Articles Archive.

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

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

GLOBALLY IMPLEMENTABLE REPLICATION MODEL

The more people that are inspired and desiring for themselves what it is that One Community creates, the more demand there will be for spreading the One Community model, thereby contributing to strategic open source world creation. 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, as part of our strategic open source world creation initiative. This is also part of this model to help the world. Its purpose is to facilitate more engagement in the sustainability industry, produce the absolute best possible consumer value, and the most convenient delivery of goods and methodologies for building sustainable living communities and sustainable living components.

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

New-World Human Progress – One Community Weekly Progress Update #226

Posted on July 23, 2017 by One Community

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To create a sustainable planet, new-world human progress models are needed to teach average people with average means how to build and live sustainably. Open source sharing these models and designing them to go beyond food, energy, and housing to also include education, for-profit and non-profit economic design, social architecture, fulfilled living, and global stewardship practices is a process One Community calls living and creating for The Highest Good of All.

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

New-World Human Progress, One Community Weekly Progress Update #226

OUR MAIN OPEN SOURCE HUBS

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

One Community’s physical location will forward this movement as the first of many self-replicating teacher/demonstration communities, villages, and cities to be built around the world. This is the July 23rd, 2017 edition (#226) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments:

New-World Human Progress
One Community Progress Update #226

New-world Human Progress - One Community Weekly Progress Update #226

Watch this video on YouTube

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

NEW-WORLD HUMAN PROGRESS INTRO: @0:35

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

Created the Earthbag Village Net-zero bathroom header and Facebook graphic (see below)
Continued working in Sketchup on the open source outdoor areas of the Recycled Materials Village (see below)
Dijimba “Joss” Ilunga joined the team and completed his first week working on the electrical design details for the Vermiculture Bathrooms (see below)
Christian Ojeda completed his 20th week helping with the heat-recycling Communal Eco-shower and Vermiculture Bathroom designs (see below)
Dean Scholz continued helping us create quality Cob Village renders (see below)
Hamilton Mateca finished his 48th week helping with the Compressed Earth Block Village design and render details (see below)
Guy Grossfeld continued helping with the Tree House Village renders (see below)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

NEW-WORLD HUMAN PROGRESS SUMMARY: @13:42

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NEW-WORLD HUMAN PROGRESS: HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

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

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

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

New-World Human Progress, This week the core team, which includes the Pioneer Members, plus those helping who don't wish to be individually acknowledged, The core team created the Earthbag Village Net-zero bathroom header and Facebook graphic, and a new render which we added to the page. You can see those images here:

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

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

New-World Human Progress, Recycled Materials Village, blog 226

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Continued Creating Cob Village Renders ” Click for Page

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

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

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

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

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

Continued Working on Tree House Village Renders ” Click for Page

NEW-WORLD HUMAN PROGRESS: DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

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

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

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

New-World Human Progress, One Community pipe furniture, blog 226, This week, the core team continued work on the DIY Pipe Furniture tutorial page. This week we created two Materials images for the Pipe Shelving section and the Shelving Downloads button image. We also merged the Pipe Shelving and the Pipe Lighting into one section and created a new Pipe Lighting collage and added it to the page. Additionally, we added 3 more images to the Pipe Shelving & Lighting Diagrams section.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

NEW-WORLD HUMAN PROGRESS: HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

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

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

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

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

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

New-World Human Progress, Continued Working on the Crowdfunding Campaign We are Developing

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

NEW-WORLD HUMAN PROGRESS: HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

NEW-WORLD HUMAN PROGRESS: HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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WHAT ONE COMMUNITY IS CREATING

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

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

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

BUILDING THE FIRST OF MANY

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

WHY ONE COMMUNITY IS CREATING THIS

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

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

INSPIRING SUSTAINABILITY WITH OPEN SOURCE

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

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

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

COMPREHENSIVE SOLUTION TO HUMANITY’S NEEDS

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

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

GLOBALLY IMPLEMENTABLE REPLICATION MODEL

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

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

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

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

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

Facilitating a Global Sustainability Cooperative – One Community Weekly Progress Update #225

Posted on July 16, 2017 by One Community

FACILITATING A GLOBAL SUSTAINABILITY COOPERATIVE INTRO: @:34

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

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

OUR MAIN OPEN SOURCE HUBS

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

One Community’s physical location will forward this movement as the first of many self-replicating teacher/demonstration communities, villages, and cities to be built around the world. This is the July 16th, 2017 edition (#225) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments:

Facilitating a Global Sustainability Cooperative
One Community Progress Update #225

Facilitating a Global Sustainability Cooperative - One Community Weekly Progress Update #225

Watch this video on YouTube

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

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

Continued building the Recycled Materials Village in Sketchup (see below)
Updated again all the perspectives for the Tree House Village external views (see below)
Christian Ojeda completed his 19th week helping with the heat-recycling Communal Eco-shower and Vermiculture Bathroom designs (see below)
Dean Scholz continued helping us create quality Cob Village renders (see below)
Guy Grossfeld continued helping with the Tree House Village renders (see below)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

FACILITATING A GLOBAL SUSTAINABILITY COOPERATIVE SUMMARY: @12:11

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FACILITATING A GLOBAL SUSTAINABILITY COOPERATIVE: HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

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

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

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

Facilitating a Global Sustainability Cooperative, Recycled Materials Village, blog 225, The core team continued working in Sketchup on the outside of the Recycled Materials Village (Pod 6). We updated the railing on the second floor, added windows and doors, and started adding details to the outside area close to the Art Studio section. Recycled material such as pallets, tires, and barrels will be used to design this area.

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

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

Facilitating a Global Sustainability Cooperative, The core team also updated again all the perspectives for the Tree House Village (Pod 7) external perspectives, as shown here.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Continued Creating Cob Village Renders ” Click for Page

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

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

Continued Working on Tree House Village Renders ” Click for Page

FACILITATING A GLOBAL SUSTAINABILITY COOPERATIVE: DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

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

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

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

Facilitating a Global Sustainability Cooperative, This week, the core team continued work on the DIY Pipe Furniture tutorial page. This week we added 13 images to the Pipe Shelving Diagrams section with click to enlarge options and captions. We also added anchor links to the Pipe Shelving and Pipe Lighting sections and created the Pipe Lighting section outline. In addition, the team created a Pipe Shelving Instructions collage and added it to the page with a click to enlarge option.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

FACILITATING A GLOBAL SUSTAINABILITY COOPERATIVE: HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

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

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

This week, the core team recalculated the space needed for all of the bulk goods on the Food Self-sufficiency Transition Plan page to account for ceiling height, and recreated and added the image and calculations to the page, as you see here.

Facilitating a Global Sustainability Cooperative, This week, the core team recalculated the space needed for all of the bulk goods on the Food Self-sufficiency Transition Plan page to account for ceiling height, and recreated and added the image and calculations to the page, as you see here

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

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

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

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

FACILITATING A GLOBAL SUSTAINABILITY COOPERATIVE: HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

FACILITATING A GLOBAL SUSTAINABILITY COOPERATIVE: HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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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, facilitating a global sustainability cooperative. We do this by harmoniously respecting each other, nature, and the rest of our one shared planet.

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

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

BUILDING THE FIRST OF MANY

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

WHY ONE COMMUNITY IS CREATING THIS

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

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

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

INSPIRING SUSTAINABILITY WITH OPEN SOURCE

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

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

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

COMPREHENSIVE SOLUTION TO HUMANITY’S NEEDS

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

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

GLOBALLY IMPLEMENTABLE REPLICATION MODEL

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

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

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

Facilitating Global Eco-Balance – One Community Weekly Progress Update #224

Posted on July 9, 2017 by One Community

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

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

OUR MAIN OPEN SOURCE HUBS

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

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

Facilitating Global Eco-Balance
One Community Progress Update #224

Facilitating Global Eco-balance - One Community Weekly Progress Update #224

Watch this video on YouTube

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

FACILITATING GLOBAL ECO-BALANCE INTRO: @0:34

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

FACILITATING GLOBAL ECO-BALANCE SUMMARY: @13:30

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FACILITATING GLOBAL ECO-BALANCE: HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

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

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

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

Facilitating Global Eco-Balance, One Community Net Zero Bathroom blog 224, The core team continued building the Sketchup 3D version of the Net-zero bathroom for the Earthbag Village. This last week we updated the perspectives and added last-needed details for the final rendering and rendered images with the Earthbag Village in the background.

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

The core team additionally began building the Recycled Materials Village (Pod 6) in Sketchup so we can use it as a backdrop for the external open source elements we’ll include with this village.

Facilitating Global Eco-Balance, The core team additionally began building the Recycled Materials Village (Pod 6) in Sketchup so we can use it as a backdrop for the external open source elements we'll include with this village.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Continued Creating Cob Village Renders ” Click for Page

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

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

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

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

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

Continued Working on Tree House Village Renders ” Click for Page

FACILITATING GLOBAL ECO-BALANCE: DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

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

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

This week, the core team continued work on the DIY Pipe Furniture tutorial page. This week we added anchor links to both the Pipe Table section and Pipe Couch sections, added the instruction image parts list, created a new Pipe Table Materials image and Pipe Couch Materials image, and created a Diagrams collage and an extra Diagram image for the Diagrams section of the Pipe Table section.

Facilitating Global Eco-Balance, This week, the core team continued work on the DIY Pipe Furniture tutorial page. This week we added anchor links to both the Pipe Table section and Pipe Couch sections, added the instruction image parts list, created a new Pipe Table Materials image and Pipe Couch Materials image, and created a Diagrams collage and an extra Diagram image for the Diagrams section of the Pipe Table section.

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

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

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

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

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

Facilitating Global Eco-Balance, Haoxuan

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

FACILITATING GLOBAL ECO-BALANCE: HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

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

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

This week, the core team did the calculations and created an image for the storage details for all of the bulk goods on the Food Self-sufficiency Transition Plan page, as you see here.

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

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

Facilitating Global Eco-Balance, hexayurt research blog 224

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

FACILITATING GLOBAL ECO-BALANCE: HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

FACILITATING GLOBAL ECO-BALANCE: HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS

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

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

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

Facilitating Global Eco-Balance, This week the core team completed all but the FAQ section of the content and formatting for the open source and replicable annual social media strategy.

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

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

Facilitating Global Eco-Balance, We also began testing video approaches for sharing where all our collaborators and volunteers are from. When complete, this will be a part of the introduction video and also a static image at the top of our Team and Collaborator's pages:

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

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

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WHAT ONE COMMUNITY IS CREATING

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

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

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

BUILDING THE FIRST OF MANY

WHY ONE COMMUNITY IS CREATING THIS

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

INSPIRING SUSTAINABILITY WITH OPEN SOURCE

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

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

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

COMPREHENSIVE SOLUTION TO HUMANITY’S NEEDS

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

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

GLOBALLY IMPLEMENTABLE REPLICATION MODEL

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

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

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

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

One Community Welcomes Vamsi Pulugurtha to the Engineering Team

Posted on July 8, 2017 by One Community

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

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

WELCOME TO THE TEAM VAMSI!

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One Community Welcomes Aravind Vasudevan to the Engineering Team

Posted on July 8, 2017 by One Community

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

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

WELCOME TO THE TEAM ARAVIND!

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