One Community welcomes Aparna Tandon to the Design Team as our newest Volunteer/Consultant!

Architect: Aparna has a bachelor’s degree in architecture from one of India’s most reputed institutes and has been engaged in a range of landscape and commercial projects ever since. As an independent architect she has provided design and landscape services to a variety of clients. Aparna is passionate about sustainable architecture and believes in planning for all. She hopes to contribute to society by addressing issues that lead towards sustainable urban environments. She is also an avid photographer and blogs about her travel experiences. Recently relocated to Seattle, WA, Aparna continues to work as an independent architect and chronicles her experiences through photography. As a One Community volunteer, Aparna is helping with landscape design and details for the Compressed Earth Block and Recycled Materials villages.

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One Community welcomes Ashwin Patil to the Web Design Team as our newest Volunteer/Consultant!

Web Developer and Tech Enthusiast: Ashwin has a Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Engineering and is now pursuing his Masters in Computer Science from California State University, Chico. He is passionate about web designing and loves to create new websites. Ashwin has experience in designing and developing web applications and also has excellent knowledge of a broad diversity of other web technologies including HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript, Bootstrap, and AngularJs. He is committed to learning, which ensures that he is up-to-date with functionalities of the latest and greatest technologies in his field. Recreationally, Ashwin loves photography, travel, new foods, and combining all three. With a desire to make this world a better place for everyone, and as a member of the One Community team, Ashwin is applying his skills and knowledge helping to create the new One Community search engine, improved aesthetics for all our Open Source Tutorials, and a new Homepage design.

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One Community is an all-volunteer nonprofit purposed for helping people build communities and all aspects of community and sustainable living. This includes open source and free-shared tools, tutorials and resources for 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 November 13th, 2016 edition (#190) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments:

Helping People Build Communities
One Community Progress Update #190

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

HELPING PEOPLE BUILD COMMUNITIES INTRO: @1:03

HELPING PEOPLE BUILD COMMUNITIES HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION: @1:56

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

HELPING PEOPLE BUILD COMMUNITIES HIGHEST GOOD FOOD: @2:50

• Worked on renaming our recipe pages and adding SEO descriptions on our Transition Kitchen pages (see below)

HELPING PEOPLE BUILD COMMUNITIES HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING: @3:17

• Continued with layers of revisions for the upcoming 7 villages online book (see below)
• Updated all the icons for the Straw Bale Village open source hub and all the pages connected to that hub (see below)
• Dean Scholz further developed what’s necessary for us to create quality Cob Village (Pod 3) renders (see below)
• Hamilton Mateca finished his 16th week helping evolve the Compressed Earth Block Village (see below)
• Guy Grossfeld continued with 3D earth block outdoor furniture construction for the Compressed Earth Block Village (see below)
• Aparna Tandon continued her work on the Compressed Earth Block Village external elements (see below)
• Jiming Chen continued helping develop the Tree House Village (see below)
• Yee-Cheng Ho finished her 8th week of helping with the Shipping Container Village renders for the living units (see below)
• Zachary Melin continued developing the Tree House Village book (see below)

HELPING PEOPLE BUILD COMMUNITIES DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER: @6:06

• Continued render creation for the central pool area (see below)
• Iris Hsu continued her work on the recycled pipe shelving for the Duplicable City Center library (see below)
• Haoxuan “Hayes” Lei and Shuna Ni continued their work on the City Center structural engineering (see below)
• Jinxi Feng continued her research helping us create an in-depth laundry and dryer machine sustainability analysis (see below)
• Jennifer Zhou outlined the layout for the open source pipe furniture page (see below)
• Ramya Vudi continued her work on the solar sizing plan as well as her collaboration with Mike Hogan designing the Control and Automation systems (see below)

HELPING PEOPLE BUILD COMMUNITIES HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY: @8:20

• Ashwin Patil completed his 6th week of helping with the new site-design details (see below)
• Luke Williamson helped create the second Highest Good education rough-video intro (see below)
• Yuri Witte completed his 1st week of helping create the music that will accompany the new overview video we are exploring (see below)

HELPING PEOPLE BUILD COMMUNITIES SUMMARY: @9:19

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HELPING PEOPLE BUILD COMMUNITIES HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

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

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

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

Transferred First 25% of Consciousness Lesson Plan to Site ” Click to Visit Page

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

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

Personal Growth Mindmap ” Complete ” Click to Visit Page

HELPING PEOPLE BUILD COMMUNITIES HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

One Community is helping people build communities 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 worked on renaming our recipe pages and adding SEO descriptions on our Transition Kitchen pages. You can see that work here:

Worked on Renaming our Recipe Pages and Adding SEO Descriptions – Click to Visit Page

HELPING PEOPLE BUILD COMMUNITIES HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

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

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

This week the core team continued with layers of revisions for the upcoming 7 villages online book. This week’s focus was page 1 of the Straw Bale Village (Pod 2) layout focusing on more updates to the renders and the new floor plan presentation shown here.

The core team also updated all the icons for the Straw Bale Village (Pod 2) open source hub and all the pages connected to that hub. You can see all the new icons here:

Updated Icons for the Straw Bale Village Open Source Hub and Connected Pages – Click to Visit

Dean Scholz (Architectural Designer), further developed what’s necessary for us to create quality Cob Village (Pod 3) renders. Here is update 43 of his work continuing to evolve the external details…

Continued to Evolve the Cob Village External Details – Click to Visit Page

…and finishing with this final render of the Back View Looking Southeast:

Finished Final Render of the Back View Looking Southeast – Click to Visit Page

Hamilton Mateca (AutoCAD and Revit Drafter and Designer) also finished his 16th week helping evolve the Compressed Earth Block Village (Pod 4). This week’s focus was adding a North exit and patio area to the North living-space layouts and beginning modeling the large-scale bathroom details in Revit:

Continued Evolving the Compressed Earth Block Village ” Click to Visit Page

Guy Grossfeld (Graphic Designer) continued with 3D earth block outdoor furniture construction for the Compressed Earth Block Village (Pod 4). What you see here is his 11th week of this work that focused on clarifying all the measurements for the compressed earth brick bench and beginning the layout of the earth brick labyrinth.

Continued w/ 3D Earth Block Outdoor Furniture Construction – Click for Compressed Earth Block

Continued Work on Compressed Earth Block Village External Elements ” Click to Visit Page

Jiming Chen (Designer with his Master’s in Architecture and BA in Engineering) also continued helping develop the Tree House Village (Pod 7). What you see here is his 5th week of this work focusing on adding laundry facilities, doorway and floor plan updates, seating, and other revisions to the stand-alone bathroom and shower structure.

Continued Helping Develop the Tree House Village – Click to Visit Page

Yee-Cheng Ho (Interior Designer) also finished her 8th week of helping with the Shipping Container Village (Pod 5) renders for the living units. This week’s focus was on creating this first iteration of a maximally space efficient design that we hope to adapt to fit into 1 container.

Continued Working on the Shipping Container Village Concept Renders – Click to Visit Page

Zachary Melin (Graphic Designer) also continued developing the Tree House Village (Pod 7) book. What you see here is week 14 of this work that continued with updates to the pages that will feature Jiming’s new floor plans and designs once they are complete.

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

HELPING PEOPLE BUILD COMMUNITIES DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

One Community is helping people build communities 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 render creation for the Duplicable City Center. This included rendering this image for the central pool area (north view) where we updated the waterfall texture and water shape, added more plants to the living wall around the waterfall, and placed additional lights.

Continued Render Creation for the Duplicable City Center ” Click to Visit Page

Iris Hsu, (Industrial Designer), also continued her work on the recycled pipe shelving for the Duplicable City Center library. This week’s focus was these 2nd generation renders of the complete room and furniture, including multiple examples of different applied lighting options.

Continued Working on Recycled Pipe Shelving for Duplicable City Center Library – Click to Visit Page

Haoxuan “Hayes” Lei (Structural Engineer) and Shuna Ni (Masters of Mechanical Engineering and Civil Engineering PhD) also continued their work on the City Center structural engineering. This week’s work focused on continuing to standardize the steel frame pieces of the dome and researching the best approach for attaching the secondary timber beams to the steel truss girders.

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

Jinxi Feng (Environmental Consultant) also continued her research helping us create an in-depth laundry and dryer machine sustainability analysis. What you see here is her 10th week of behind-the-scenes work on this area. This week’s focus was continuing the research and writing process for the “What” and “Why” sections. You can see some pictures of this work-in-progress here:

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

Also, Jennifer Zhou (Web Designer), finished her 13th week of volunteering with us. Through her help, we were able to learn how we could avoid building a completely new site and now Jennifer is helping us with individual pages. You can see the beginning of this work here as she has outlined the layout for the open source pipe furniture page.

Outlined Layout for Open Source Pipe Furniture Page – Click to Visit

Ramya Vudi (Electrical Engineer) also continued her work on the solar sizing plan as well as her collaboration with Mike Hogan (Automation Systems Developer and Business Systems Consultant) designing the Control and Automation systems. What you see here is her 3rd week of work on both of these tasks.

Continued Working on Solar Sizing Plan and Control and Automation Systems ” Click to Visit Page

HELPING PEOPLE BUILD  COMMUNITIES HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS

One Community is helping people build communities 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

Ashwin Patil (Web Developer) completed his 6th week of helping with the new site-design details. This week’s focus was additional adjustments to the Highest Good food links and icons, researching and testing a new slider plugin we’ll be adding to the tops of our open source tutorial pages and creating a tutorial for how to edit, add to, and update the search engine he’s helped build for us:

Continued Helping with the New Web Design ” Click to Visit Home Page

Created a Tutorial for How to Edit, Add to, and Update the Search Engine ” Click to Visit Home Page

Luke Williamson (Graphic Designer) also helped create this second Highest Good education rough-video intro. This helped us decide that icons probably aren’t going to work like we’d hoped in our videos.

And Yuri Witte (pronounced “Veetay” (Music Composer and Sound Designer)” completed his 1st week of helping create the music that will accompany the new overview video we are exploring too. You can hear a clip of the 5th iteration of this music here:

….and visit Yuri’s SoundCloud for all the previous versions:

Creating Music that Will Accompany the New Overview Video – Click for Yuri’s Soundcloud

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WHAT ONE COMMUNITY IS CREATING

One Community is creating a place to grow together and change the world together. We are creating a space that helps each other live in integrity with each other and the planet as we strive to be the greatest versions of ourselves, we are doing this by helping people build communities. 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. One community is helping people build communities, and these communities are places based on compassion, kindness, and collaboration. This replicable community will serve as an example for what is possible.

Throughout our design process of helping people build communities, 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 growth for helping people build communities.

 BUILDING THE FIRST OF MANY

One Community will be the first teacher/demonstration hub for learning and helping people build communities. 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 and also work together towards helping people build communities. They will also transform the global lifestyle to a more enjoyable, fulfilling, healthy, and sustainable one.

The specifics of how One Community is accomplishing their vocation of helping people build communities 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 by helping people build communities, a self-replicating teacher/demonstration model like this will take a relatively short period of time to positively affect millions while inspiring millions more.  For One Community residents (the Pioneer Team), the idea of creating and sharing the social and recreational experience with visitors is also fun, exciting, fulfilling, and an additional reason why we are creating this.

INSPIRING SUSTAINABILITY WITH OPEN SOURCE

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

Our open source model and blueprints engage and inspire people while simultaneously making sustainable living more affordable and easy to replicate and thus helping people build communities. 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 of helping people build communities that we see uniting the world and leading to a new Golden Age for humanity. While we understand that not everyone believes this is even possible, we are nonetheless bringing together all those that do see this as possible as the non-profit think tank of forward-thinking individuals willing to design, build, and open source project-launch blueprint and free-share it for The Highest Good of All.

COMPREHENSIVE SOLUTION TO HUMANITY’S NEEDS

One Community is open source sharing an evolution of sustainable living of helping people build communities 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 about helping people build communities. 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 of helping people build communities. 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 helping people build communities model to help the world. Its purpose is to facilitate more engagement of the sustainability industry, produce the absolute best possible consumer value, and the most convenient delivery of goods and methodologies for building sustainable living communities and sustainable living components.

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

As the demand for the model of helping people build communities 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.

WHY OPEN SOURCE

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

Every aspect of this model supports itself and contributes to its success, from the sustainable food, energy, and homes, to the social architecture, One Community Education Program, and open source sharing model itself. Each piece of the model of helping people build communities can be accessed, evolved, and even re-birthed as something completely new. It can be duplicated by itself or with other modules, with applications as diverse as the people who want and need them. The constantly expanding total model will additionally be able to be used in its entirety as the open source project-launch blueprint for a variety of duplicate teacher/demonstration communities, villages, and cities capable of being built virtually anywhere.

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

OPEN SOURCE SHARING STRATEGY SPECIFICS

One Community’s open source strategy will evolve 5 primary types of open source content purposed to reach and service as broad an audience as possible to spread word about helping people build communities. This includes the following mediums of sharing that are being developed to function as standalone resources or in combination with each other:

• Video tutorials
• Audio tutorials
• Live streaming video
• Direct/live interaction
• Written content and downloadable PDFs

Maximum exposure of helping people build communities model is accomplished through simultaneous implementation of the following strategies:

• Free-shared audio, visual, and PDF downloads
• Scholarship and intern programs for direct learning
• Videoing or live-streaming almost all classes and activities
• Tourism option for involvement in almost all aspects of One Community
• Dedicated and search engine optimized sections of our website for each key area
• Our established infrastructure that simultaneously posts to over 20 social networks

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 with the aim of helping people build communities. 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.

Jump starting global community building is a process of making it easy enough, affordable enough, and demonstrating it as attractive enough. A community model that combines food, energy, housing, education, for-profit and non-profit economic design, social architecture, fulfilled living practices, and global stewardship practices is capable of doing this.

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

OUR MAIN OPEN SOURCE HUBS

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

One Community’s physical location will forward the movement of jump starting global community building as the first of many self-replicating teacher/demonstration communities, villages, and cities to be built around the world. This is the November 6th, 2016 edition (#189) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments:

Jump Starting Global Community Building
One Community Progress Update #189

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

JUMP STARTING GLOBAL COMMUNITY BUILDING INTRO: @1:03

JUMP STARTING GLOBAL COMMUNITY BUILDING HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION: @1:57

• Transferred final 25% of the written content for the Individuality Lesson Plan to the website (see below)
• Behind the scenes: wrote first 25% of the written part of the Consciousness Lesson Plan (see below)
• Completed the third 25% of the mindmap for the Personal Growth Lesson Plan (see below)

JUMP STARTING GLOBAL COMMUNITY BUILDING HIGHEST GOOD FOOD: @2:53

• Repaired the item description chart on our Transition Kitchen page, and finished resizing the remaining 50% of the images on it (see below)

JUMP STARTING GLOBAL COMMUNITY BUILDING HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING: @3:23

• Continued with layers of revisions for the upcoming 7 villages online book (see below)
• Fernando Remolina continued with his 4th week of managing the Vermiculture Bathroom development (see below)
• Dean Scholz further developed what’s necessary for us to create quality Cob Village renders (see below)
• Hamilton Mateca finished his 15th week helping evolve the Compressed Earth Block Village (see below)
• Guy Grossfeld continued with 3D earth block outdoor furniture construction for the Compressed Earth Block Village (see below)
• Aparna Tandon continued her work on the Compressed Earth Block Village external elements (see below)
• Yee-Cheng Ho finished her 7th week of helping with the Shipping Container Village renders for the living units (see below)
• Zachary Melin continued developing the Tree House Village book (see below)

JUMP STARTING GLOBAL COMMUNITY BUILDING DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER: @6:09

• Continued with layers of revisions for the upcoming 7 villages online book (see below)
• Iris Hsu continued her work on the recycled pipe shelving for the Duplicable City Center library
• Haoxuan “Hayes” Lei and Shuna Ni continued their work on the City Center column placement and calculations
• Jinxi Feng continued her research helping us create an in-depth laundry and dryer machine sustainability analysis
• Ramya Vudi joined the team and began working on the solar sizing plan and joined Mike Hogan to continue the process of designing the Control and Automation systems

JUMP STARTING GLOBAL COMMUNITY BUILDING HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY: @8:18

• Ashwin Patil completed his 5th week of helping with the new site-design details (see below)
• Vassili Biserov finished translating our Solution Models to Create Additional Solution-creating Models page into Russian (see below)
• Luke Williamson joined the team to help create new video intros to each section of our project (see below)

JUMP STARTING GLOBAL COMMUNITY BUILDING SUMMARY: @8:55

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

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JUMP STARTING GLOBAL COMMUNITY BUILDING HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

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

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

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

Jump Starting Global Community Building – Transferred Final 25% of Individuality Lesson Plan to Site

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

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

Jump Starting Global Community Building – Personal Growth Mindmap ” 75% Complete

JUMP STARTING GLOBAL COMMUNITY BUILDING HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

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

• • • 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 repaired the item description chart on our Transition Kitchen page, and finished resizing the remaining 50% of the images on it. You can see that work here:

Jump Starting Global Community Building – Continued Working on Our Transition Kitchen Page

JUMP STARTING GLOBAL COMMUNITY BUILDING HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

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

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

This week the core team continued with layers of revisions for the upcoming 7 villages online book. This week’s focus was this new Straw Bale Village (Pod 2) layout focused on the many social spaces within this village.

Jump Starting Global Community Building – Continued Revisions of Upcoming 7 Villages Online Book

Fernando Remolina (Industrial Engineer specializing in Project Management) continued with his 4th week of managing the Vermiculture Bathroom development. This week’s focus was updating the Work Breakdown Structure for the complete project, interviewing two people for his team, and creating the structure you see here for what will be his bi-weekly team Project Status Report.

Jump Starting Global Community Building – Managing the Vermiculture Bathroom Development

Dean Scholz (Architectural Designer), further developed what’s necessary for us to create quality Cob Village (Pod 3) renders. Here is update 42 of his work continuing to evolve the external details and providing this final render of  the Center View Looking Northwest:

Final Render of Center View Looking Northwest” Click to Visit Cob Village

… some more texture adjustments and then these test renders:

Adjusted Textures and Created Test Renders – Click for Cob Village

….which led up to this final render of the Back View Looking Southwest:

Final Render of Back View Looking Southwest ” Click to Visit Cob Village

Hamilton Mateca (AutoCAD and Revit Drafter and Designer) also finished his 15th week helping evolve the Compressed Earth Block Village (Pod 4). This week’s focus was integrating last week’s updates so all living-space layouts matched each other and updating the East half of the building to allow for a 3′ width increase for the South roadway entry.

Continued Evolving the Compressed Earth Block Village ” Click to Visit Page

Guy Grossfeld (Graphic Designer) continued with 3D earth block outdoor furniture construction for the Compressed Earth Block Village (Pod 4). What you see here is his 10th week of this work that focused on creating and testing different textures to fill in the empty spaces on top of the compressed earth bricks.

Continued with 3D Earth Block Outdoor Furniture Construction ” Click to Visit the Page

Continued Work on Compressed Earth Block Village External Elements ” Click to Visit Page

Yee-Cheng Ho (Interior Designer) also finished her 7th week of helping with the Shipping Container Village (Pod 5) renders for the living units. These final renders show how we’ll open source how to convert the unit design from the complete village into two 2-bedroom designs for do-it-yourself home construction by individuals and families.

Shipping Container Village Concept Render ” Unit 2 ” Click for Page

Shipping Container Village Concept Render ” Unit 2 Conversion ” Click for Page

Shipping Container Village Concept Render ” Unit 2 Converted ” Click for Page

Zachary Melin (Graphic Designer) also continued developing the Tree House Village (Pod 7) book. What you see here is week 13 of this work that continued updating all the page colors to match the new color palette and creation of the color palette page itself.

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

JUMP STARTING GLOBAL COMMUNITY BUILDING DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

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

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

This week the core team continued with layers of revisions for the upcoming 7 villages online book. This week’s focus was this new Straw Bale Village (Pod 2) layout focused on the many social spaces within this village:

Continued Render Creation for the Duplicable City Center ” Click to Visit Page

Iris Hsu, (Industrial Designer), also continued her work on the recycled pipe shelving for the Duplicable City Center library. This week’s focus was finalizing the assembly instructions for the table/chair, couch, and large table, all of which we added to the website. What you see here are the results of a full year of volunteering with us.

Finalized Pipe Furniture Table/Chair Assembly Instructions – Click to Visit Page

Jump Starting Global Community Building – Finalized Pipe Furniture Couch Assembly Instructions

Jump Starting Global Community Building – Finalized Pipe Furniture Table Assembly Instructions

Haoxuan “Hayes” Lei (Structural Engineer) and Shuna Ni (Masters of Mechanical Engineering and Civil Engineering PhD) also continued their work on the City Center column placement and calculations. This week’s work focused on another round of review and revisions for column placement and further detailing the floor construction details.

Jump Starting Global Community Building – Work on the Column Placement and Calculations

Jinxi Feng (Environmental Consultant) also continued her research helping us create an in-depth laundry and dryer machine sustainability analysis. What you see here is her 9th week of behind-the-scenes research into this area. This week’s focus was continuing with model calculations and research and beginning the process of writing the tutorial for this component. You can see some pictures of this work here:

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

Ramya Vudi (Electrical Engineer) also joined the team and began working on the solar sizing plan and joined Mike Hogan (Automation Systems Developer and Business Systems Consultant) to continue the process of designing the Control and Automation systems. What you see here are notes from her first 2 weeks of work on both of these tasks.

Began working on Solar Sizing Plan & Continued Process of Designing Control & Automation Systems

JUMP STARTING GLOBAL COMMUNITY BUILDING HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS

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

• • • 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, Ashwin Patil (Web Developer) completed his 5th week of helping with the new site-design details. This week’s focus was adding the rest of the Highest Good food links and icons and beginning to work on the Highest Good economics links and icons.

Jump Starting Global Community Building – Continued Helping with the New Web Design

Vassili Biserov (Writer, Poet and Translator) also finished translating our Solution Models to Create Additional Solution-creating Models page into Russian.

Translated Our Solutions That Create Solutions Page into Russian – Click to Visit

Luke Williamson (Graphic Designer) also joined the team to help create new video intros to each section of our project. His focus for his first 3 weeks has been music research and creating this test video.

Working on Creating New Video Intros to Each Section of our Project – Click to Visit Home Page

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. 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.

JUMP STARTING GLOBAL COMMUNITY BUILDING 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.

An open source whole-systems approach to eco-living has the potential to improve people’s quality of life while also creating a sustainable world.

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

OUR MAIN OPEN SOURCE HUBS

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

One Community’s physical location will forward the movement of whole-systems approach as the first of many self-replicating teacher/demonstration communities, villages, and cities to be built around the world. This is the October 30th, 2016 edition (#188) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments:

Whole-Systems Approach to Eco-Living
One Community Progress Update #188

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

WHOLE-SYSTEMS APPROACH TO ECO-LIVING INTRO: @1:03

WHOLE-SYSTEMS APPROACH TO ECO-LIVING HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION: @1:57

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

WHOLE-SYSTEMS APPROACH TO ECO-LIVING HIGHEST GOOD FOOD: @2:55

• Created an action plan and images for our Transition Kitchen page (see below)

WHOLE SYSTEMS APPROACH TO ECO-LIVING HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING: @3:20

• Continued with layers of revisions for the upcoming 7 villages online book (see below)
• Shilcy Augustine continued her 4th week of helping us update and merge all our Earthbag Village files (see below)
• Fernando Remolina continued with his 3rd week of managing the Vermiculture Bathroom development (see below)
• Dean Scholz further developed what’s necessary for us to create quality Cob Village (Pod 3) renders (see below)
• Hamilton Mateca finished his 14th week helping evolve the Compressed Earth Block Village (see below)
• Guy Grossfeld continued with 3D earth block outdoor furniture construction for the Compressed Earth Block Village (see below)
• Aparna Tandon continued her work on the Compressed Earth Block Village external elements (see below)
• Yee-Cheng Ho finished her 6th week of helping with the Shipping Container Village renders for the living units (see below)
• Jiming Chen continued helping develop the Tree House Village (see below)
• Zachary Melin continued updating the Tree House Village book created by last year’s intern Team (see below)

WHOLE-SYSTEMS APPROACH TO ECO-LIVING DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER: @6:58

• Continued render creation for the Duplicable City Center (see below)
• Iris Hsu continued her work on the recycled pipe shelving for the Duplicable City Center library (see below)
• Haoxuan “Hayes” Lei and Shuna Ni continued their work on the City Center column placement and calculations (see below)
• Neha Verma helped create our 3rd-generation wall-section detail drawings (see below)
• Jinxi Feng continued her research helping us create an in-depth laundry and dryer machine sustainability analysis (see below)

WHOLE-SYSTEMS APPROACH TO ECO-LIVING HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY: @8:51

• Ashwin Patil completed his 4th week of helping with the new site-design details (see below)

WHOLE-SYSTEMS APPROACH TO ECO-LIVING SUMMARY: @9:10

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WHOLE-SYSTEMS APPROACH TO ECO-LIVING HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

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

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

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

Whole-Systems Approach to Eco-Living – Transferred 3rd 25% of Individuality Lesson Plan to Site

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

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

Whole-Systems Approach to Eco-Living – Personal Growth Mindmap ” 50% Complete

WHOLE-SYSTEMS APPROACH TO ECO-LIVING HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

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

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

This last week the core team created an action plan and images for our Transition Kitchen page. You can see images of that work here:

Whole-Systems Approach to Eco-Living – Created an Action Plan for our Transition Kitchen Page

Whole-Systems Approach to Eco-Living – Created Images for our Transition Kitchen Page

WHOLE-SYSTEMS APPROACH TO ECO-LIVING HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

One Community is creating a whole-systems approach to eco-living through Highest Good housing that is artistic and beautiful, more affordable, more space efficient, lasts longer, DIY buildable, and constructed with healthy and sustainable materials:

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

This last week the core team continued with layers of revisions for the upcoming 7 villages online book. This week’s focus was refining these two Straw Bale Village (Pod 2) layouts…

Whole-Systems Approach to Eco-Living – Continued Revisions of Upcoming 7 Villages Online Book

…and then updating the book and website after final revisions and additions to these renders of the open chimney, kitchen, bathroom exterior, gym, outdoor patio area, bbq area and outdoor fire pit:

Whole-Systems Approach to Eco-Living – Straw Bale Village | Concept Render – Open Chimney

Whole-Systems Approach to Eco-Living – Straw Bale Village | Concept Render – Kitchen

Whole-Systems Approach to Eco-Living – Straw Bale Village | Concept Render – Bathroom Exterior

Whole-Systems Approach to Eco-Living – Straw Bale Village | Concept Render – Gym

Whole-Systems Approach to Eco-Living – Straw Bale Village | Concept Render – Outdoor Patio Area

Whole-Systems Approach to Eco-Living – Straw Bale Village | Concept Render – BBQ Area

Whole-Systems Approach to Eco-Living – Straw Bale Village | Concept Render – Outdoor Fire Pit

Continued Updating and Merging Our Earthbag Village Files ” Click for Page

Fernando Remolina (Industrial Engineer specializing in Project Management) continued with his 3rd week of managing the Vermiculture Bathroom development. This week’s focus was finalizing this Work Breakdown Structure for the complete project:

Continued Managing the Vermiculture Bathroom Development – Click to Enlarge

Dean Scholz (Architectural Designer), further developed what’s necessary for us to create quality Cob Village (Pod 3) renders. Here is update 41 of his work continuing to work on external details and providing this final render of the Center View Looking Northeast:

Final Render of Center View Looking Northeast ” Click to Visit Cob Village

…and these test renders leading up to that final render and including a new central perspective:

Test Renders Leading up to the Final Render – Click to Visit Cob Village

Hamilton Mateca (AutoCAD and Revit Drafter and Designer) also finished his 14th week helping evolve the Compressed Earth Block Village (Pod 4). This week’s focus was more updates to the living-space layouts, designing and improving the appearance of the stairways in Revit 3D, and adding more details to the residences.

Continued Evolving the Compressed Earth Block Village ” Click to Visit Page

Guy Grossfeld (Graphic Designer) also continued with 3D earth block outdoor furniture construction for the Compressed Earth Block Village (Pod 4). What you see here is his 9th week of this work that is now focusing on texture selection.

Continued with 3D Earth Block Outdoor Furniture Construction – Click to Visit the Page

Continued Work on Compressed Earth Block Village External Elements ” Click to Visit Page

Yee-Cheng Ho (Interior Designer) also finished her 6th week of helping with the Shipping Container Village (Pod 5) renders for the living units. These final renders show how we’ll open source how to convert the unit design from the complete village into two 2-bedroom designs for do-it-yourself home construction by individuals and families.

Shipping Container Village Concept Render ” Units 3 and 4 – Click for Page

Shipping Container Village Concept Render ” Units 3 and 4 Conversion – Click to Enlarge

Shipping Container Village Concept Render ” Unit 3 Conversion – Click to Visit Page

Shipping Container Village Concept Render ” Unit 4 Conversion – Click to Visit Page

Jiming Chen (Designer with his Master’s in Architecture and BA in Engineering) also continued helping develop the Tree House Village (Pod 7). What you see here is his 4th week of this work focusing on the new design for the stand-alone bathroom and shower structure. This week’s updates included adding seating details, switching the the showers to the 3rd floor, adding an ADA bathroom there, and adding in the elevator.

Continued Developing the Tree House Village ” Click to Visit Page

Zachary Melin (Graphic Designer) also continued updating the Tree House Village (Pod 7) book created by last year’s intern Team. What you see here is week 12 of this work that continued updating all the page colors to match the new color palette:

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

WHOLE-SYSTEMS APPROACH TO ECO-LIVING DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

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

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

This week the core team continued render creation for the Duplicable City Center. This included creating this final render of the root cellar storage area:

Created Final Render of the Root Cellar Storage Area – Click to Visit Page

We also created this final render of the sunrise roof-top patio, and these two work-in-progress renders of the central pool area:

Continued Render Creation for the Duplicable City Center – Click to Visit Page

Iris Hsu, (Industrial Designer), also continued her work on the recycled pipe shelving for the Duplicable City Center library. What you see here is round #23 of her work where she added people to the render here:

Continued Work on the Recycled Pipe Shelving – Click to Visit Page

….and started creating what is needed for the assembly instructions, as seen here:

Started Creating What is Needed for Assembly Instructions – Click for Pipe Furniture Page

Haoxuan “Hayes” Lei (Structural Engineer) and Shuna Ni (Masters of Mechanical Engineering and Civil Engineering PhD) also continued their work on the City Center column placement and calculations. This week’s work focused on researching the specifics for the radiant floor heating and surfacing.

Continued Work on the City Center Column Placement and Calculations ” Click to Visit Page

Neha Verma (Construction Project Manager and Bachelor’s of Architecture), also helped create our 3rd-generation wall-section detail drawings. You can see the outline here showing what code considers roof versus wall for a dome, and the specifics of where we are so far in the wall design details.

Created 3rd-Generation Wall-Section Detail Drawings – Click to Visit City Center

Jinxi Feng (Environmental Consultant) also continued her research helping us create an in-depth laundry and dryer machine sustainability analysis. What you see here is her 8th week of behind-the-scenes research into this area, this week’s focus was creating the outline for the complete report and continuing with model calculations.

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

WHOLE-SYSTEMS APPROACH TO ECO-LIVING HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS

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

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

This week, Ashwin Patil (Web Developer) completed his 4th week of helping with the new site-design details. This week’s focus was migrating the new search tool to our active site, testing it and getting it working, and then adding more Highest Good food links and icons as seen here:

Continued Helping with the New Web Design ” Click to Visit Home Page

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

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INVESTOR PAGES

OVERVIEW | LOCATION | FUNDING

GET INVOLVED

CONSULTANTS | WAYS ANYONE CAN HELP | MEMBERSHIP

CLICK HERE FOR ALL PAST UPDATES

WHAT ONE COMMUNITY IS CREATING

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

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.

WHOLE-SYSTEMS APPROACH TO ECO-LIVING BUILDING THE FIRST OF MANY

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

One Community welcomes Jinxi Feng to the Design Team as our newest Volunteer/Consultant!

Environmental Consultant ” Jinxi has a Masters of Environmental Management from Duke University and a B.S in Physics from Peking University, China. Her passion for renewable energy and sustainability development dates back to a trip to Tibet where she was shocked by the contrast of nature and an industrialized city, setting her on a career path of engineering the world towards its sustainable future. Jinxi specializes in energy modeling and quantitative analysis (Stata, R) and enjoys applying these skills to various renewable energy projects. As a member of the One Community team, Jinxi is leading the research into an open source tutorial for choosing the most sustainable laundry options and helping to develop her work and research as a template for similar detailed tutorials for all aspects of sustainable lifestyles.

WELCOME TO THE TEAM JINXI!

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One Community welcomes Ashwini Ramesh to the Management Team as our newest Volunteer/Consultant!

Civil Engineer and Project Manager: A Civil Engineer by Profession, Ashwini has her BE in Civil Engineering, Master’s Degree in Water Resources Engineering, Post Graduate Diploma in Business Administration, and Higher Diploma in Software Engineering from India. She is also pursuing certification in Construction Project Management from San Diego University. In addition to her extensive education, Ashwini also has over 5 years professional experience in construction planning, scheduling, and monitoring of diverse projects. This has included experience in costing, estimation, project management, ISO quality management implementation and more. An articulate communicator and facilitator, Ashwini takes pride in her ability to assure the smooth progress of any project she engages. She is also a Mom (of her first child born in 2014) and passionate about making our shared Earth a better and more sustainable place to live by reducing the impacts we humans are having here. Keeping with this philosophy and applying her outstanding knowledge and experience as a member of the One Community Team, Ashwini is helping as the overall Project Management of the Earthbag Village (Pod 1).

WELCOME TO THE TEAM ASHWINI!

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One Community is an all-volunteer nonprofit open sourcing sustainable villages. These village designs combine physical sustainability components (food, energy, and housing) with emotional sustainability components (education, for-profit and non-profit economic design, social architecture, fulfilled living, and global stewardship practices) as a model for living and creating 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 the movement of open sourcing sustainable villages as the first of many self-replicating teacher/demonstration communities, villages, and cities to be built around the world. This is the October 23rd, 2016 edition (#187) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments:

Open Sourcing Sustainable Villages
One Community Progress Update #187

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

OPEN SOURCING SUSTAINABLE VILLAGES INTRO: @1:03

OPEN SOURCING SUSTAINABLE VILLAGES HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION: @2:00

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

OPEN SOURCING SUSTAINABLE VILLAGES HIGHEST GOOD FOOD: @2:51

• Completed correcting the formatting on the Transition Kitchen page (see below)

OPEN SOURCING SUSTAINABLE VILLAGES HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING: @3:16

• Continued with layers of revisions for the upcoming 7 villages online book (see below)
• Ashwini Ramesh and the core team put another combined total of 20 hours into the behind-the-scenes revision for the Footers, Foundations and Flooring page for the crowdfunding campaign we are developing (see below)
• Shilcy Augustine continued her 3rd week of helping us merge all our Earthbag Village files (see below)
• Dean Scholz further developed what’s necessary for us to create quality Cob Village renders (see below)
• Hamilton Mateca finished his 13th week helping evolve the Compressed Earth Block Village (see below)
• Guy Grossfeld finished 3D creation of the specific blocks that will be used for the Compressed Earth Block Village (see below)
• Aparna Tandon continued her work on the Compressed Earth Block Village external elements (see below)
• Yee-Cheng Ho finished her 5th week of helping by creating these new 1st-generation views of the Shipping Container Village (see below)
• Jiming Chen continued helping develop the Tree House Village (see below)
• Zachary Melin continued updating the Tree House Village book created by last year’s intern Team (see below)

OPEN SOURCING SUSTAINABLE VILLAGES DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER: @6:37

• Began a new round of renders creation for the Duplicable City Center file (see below)
• Continued developing the aesthetic details around the natural pool in the Social Dome (see below)
• Iris Hsu finished render-testing the recycled pipe shelving for the Duplicable City Center library (see below)
• Haoxuan “Hayes” Lei and Shuna Ni continued their work on the City Center column placement and calculations (see below)
• Neha Verma helped create our 2nd-generation wall-section detail drawings (see below)
• Dipti Dhondarkar continued with her 18th week of work on the lighting zones (see below)
• Jinxi Feng continued her research helping us create an in-depth laundry and dryer machine sustainability analysis (see below)

OPEN SOURCING SUSTAINABLE VILLAGES HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY: @8:48

• Ashwin Patil completed his 3rd week of helping with the new site-design details (see below)

OPEN SOURCING SUSTAINABLE VILLAGES SUMMARY: @9:05

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OPEN SOURCING SUSTAINABLE VILLAGES HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

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

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

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

Open Sourcing Sustainable Villages – Transferred 2nd 25% of Individuality Lesson Plan to Site

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

We also completed the first 25% of the mindmap for the Personal Growth Lesson Plan, which you see here:

Open Sourcing Sustainable Villages – Personal Growth Mindmap ” 25% Complete ” Click to Visit

OPEN SOURCING SUSTAINABLE VILLAGES HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

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

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

This last week the core team completed correcting the formatting on the Transition Kitchen page. You can see images of that work here:

Open Sourcing Sustainable Villages – Completed the Formatting on the Transition Kitchen Page

OPEN SOURCING SUSTAINABLE VILLAGES HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

One Community is open sourcing sustainable villages 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

Open Sourcing Sustainable Villages – Continued Revisions of Upcoming 7 Villages Online Book

Working on the Footers, Foundations & Flooring Page for the Crowdfunding Campaign Developing

Shilcy Augustine (Architect) continued her 3rd week of helping us merge all our Earthbag Village files. This week’s focus was updates to all the images you see here with a black background and completely redrawing all the images on the white background. She also helped us create the title blocks we’ll be using:

Open Sourcing Sustainable Villages – Continued Merging Our Earthbag Village Files

Dean Scholz (Architectural Designer), further developed what’s necessary for us to create quality Cob Village (Pod 3) renders. Here is update 40 of his work continuing to work on external details and providing this final render of the front view looking Northwest…

Open Sourcing Sustainable Villages – Final Render of Front View Looking Northwest ” Click to Visit

…and this initial render of the children’s play area and central view looking Southwest:

Created Initial Render of Children’s Play Area and Central View Looking Southwest

Hamilton Mateca (AutoCAD and Revit Drafter and Designer) also finished his 13th week helping evolve the Compressed Earth Block Village (Pod 4). This week’s focus was more updates to the living-space layouts and adding new details to the Revit-3D plans for the Southwest-residences:

Continued Evolving the Compressed Earth Block Village ” Click to Visit Page

Guy Grossfeld (Graphic Designer) also finished 3D creation of the specific blocks that will be used for the Compressed Earth Block Village (Pod 4). What you see here is his 8th week of this work that also included finishing the designs for the first 3D earth block bench:

Finished 3D Creation of the Specific Blocks for Compressed Earth Block Village – Click for Page

Aparna Tandon (Architect) additionally continued her work on the Compressed Earth Block Village external elements. What you see here is her 3rd week of work, continuing to visualize the specifics of the North area of this village:

Continued Work on Compressed Earth Block Village External Elements ” Click to Visit Page

Yee-Cheng Ho (Interior Designer) also finished her 5th week of helping by creating these new 1st-generation views of the Shipping Container Village (Pod 5) Unit Types 1 as they are planned for in the village (left) and unit types 3 and 4 as they are planned for in the village (right):

Created New 1st-Generation Views of the Shipping Container Village ” Click to Visit Page

Jiming Chen (Designer with his Master’s in Architecture and BA in Engineering) also continued helping develop the Tree House Village (Pod 7). What you see here is his 3rd week of this work focusing on developing a new design for the stand-alone bathroom and shower structure. As shown here, this new design matches the look and layout of the rest of the village structures:

Continued Developing the Tree House Village ” Click to Visit Page

Zachary Melin (Graphic Designer) also continued updating the Tree House Village (Pod 7) book created by last year’s intern Team. What you see here is week 11 of this work that was round one of updating all the page colors to match the new color palette:

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

OPEN SOURCING SUSTAINABLE VILLAGES DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

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

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

This week the core team began a new round of renders creation for the Duplicable City Center file. The perspectives created for consideration here include the root cellar and sunrise patio.

Began New Round of Renders Creation for the Duplicable City Center File – Click for Page

We also continued developing the aesthetic details around the natural pool in the Social Dome. This week we placed more lights and plants around the indoor part of the pool.

Continued Working on Aesthetics for Natural Pool in the Social Dome ” Click for Page

Iris Hsu, (Industrial Designer), also finished render-testing the recycled pipe shelving for the Duplicable City Center library. What you see here is round #22 of her work producing this diversity of final renders and perspectives for what the library will look like incorporating all of her shelving, table, couch and chair designs.

Finished Render-Testing the Recycled Pipe Shelving for the Duplicable City Center Library – Click to Visit Page

Haoxuan “Hayes” Lei (Structural Engineer) and Shuna Ni (Masters of Mechanical Engineering and Civil Engineering PhD) continued their work on the City Center column placement and calculations. What you see here are detailed summaries of their structural calculation and design work to this point, including rationales for their decisions so we could get a second review before moving forward.

Continued Work on the City Center Column Placement and Calculations ” Click to Visit Page

Continued Work on the City Center Column Placement and Calculations ” Click to Visit Page

Neha Verma (Construction Project Manager and Bachelor’s of Architecture), also helped create our 2nd-generation wall-section detail drawings. You can see some of the work-in-progress drawings here:

Created 2nd-Generation Wall-Section Details Drawings ” Click to Visit City Center

And Dipti Dhondarkar, (Electrical Engineer) also continued with her 18th week of work on the lighting zones, completing new calculations to include room area details in square feet and wattage per square foot calculations:

Continued Working on the Lighting Zones – Click to Visit Page

Jinxi Feng (Environmental Consultant) also continued her research helping us create an in-depth laundry and dryer machine sustainability analysis. What you see here is her 7th week of behind-the-scenes research into this area, this week’s focus was identifying the top 10 water efficient and energy efficient Energy-star personal washers and dryers and comparing their efficiency to traditional washers and dryers.

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

OPEN SOURCING SUSTAINABLE VILLAGES HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS

One Community is open sourcing sustainable villages 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, Ashwin Patil (Web Developer) completed his 3rd week of helping with the new site-design details. This week’s focus was updating the layout of the new site search tool to be horizontal, and starting to add in all the links and pages for the food section:

Continued Helping with the New Web Design ” Click to Visit Home Page

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WHAT ONE COMMUNITY IS CREATING

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

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

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

OPEN SOURCING SUSTAINABLE VILLAGES BUILDING THE FIRST OF MANY

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

One Community is an all-volunteer nonprofit creating effective sustainable and open source solutions for 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 October 16th, 2016 edition (#186) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments on creating effective sustainable and open source solutions:

Effective Sustainable and Open Source Solutions
One Community Progress Update #186

Here is the bullet-point list of this last week’s design and progress discussed in detail in the video above focused on advancing our goals in creating effective sustainable and open source solutions:

EFFECTIVE  SUSTAINABLE AND OPEN SOURCE SOLUTIONS INTRO: @1:03

EFFECTIVE SUSTAINABLE AND OPEN SOURCE SOLUTIONS HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION: @1:58

• Transferred final 25% of written content for Personal Growth Lesson Plan to website (see below)
• Behind the scenes: wrote second 25% of the written part of the Individuality Lesson Plan.
• Completed final 25% of the mindmap for the Beliefs Lesson Plan (see below)

EFFECTIVE SUSTAINABLE AND OPEN SOURCE SOLUTIONS HIGHEST GOOD FOOD: @2:54

• Created templates for images linking to downloadable files and specific images for our Transition Kitchen page (see below)

EFFECTIVE SUSTAINABLE AND OPEN SOURCE SOLUTIONS HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING: @3:21

• Continued with layers of revisions for the upcoming 7 villages online book (see below)
• Shilcy Augustine continued her 2nd week of helping us merge all our Earthbag Village files (see below)
• Fernando Remolina assumed management of the Vermiculture Bathroom development (see below)
• Brianna Johnson finished her work on the Straw Bale Village (see below)
• Dean Scholz further developed what’s necessary for us to create quality Cob Village renders (see below)
• Hamilton Mateca finished his 12th week helping evolve the Compressed Earth Block Village (see below)
• Guy Grossfeld continued 3D creation of the specific blocks that will be used for the Compressed Earth Block Village (see below)
• Aparna Tandon continued her work on the Compressed Earth Block Village external elements (see below)
• Yee-Cheng Ho finished her 4th week of helping by creating new 1st-generation views of the Shipping Container Village (see below)
• Jiming Chen continued helping develop the Tree House Village (see below)
• Zachary Melin continued updating the Tree House Village book created by last year’s intern Team (see below)

EFFECTIVE SUSTAINABLE AND OPEN SOURCE SOLUTIONS DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER: @6:49

• Finished 3D layout updates for the Restroom in the Dining Dome of theDuplicable City Center (see below)
• Continued developing the aesthetic details around the natural pool in the Social Dome (see below)
• Iris Hsu continued render-testing the recycled pipe shelving for the Duplicable City Center library (see below)
• Haoxuan “Hayes” Lei and Shuna Ni continued their work on the City Center column placement and calculations (see below)
• Neha Verma helped create these first-generation wall-section details drawings (see below)
• Jinxi Feng continued her research helping us create an in-depth laundry and dryer machine sustainability analysis (see below)
• Ricardo Carrillo helped provide these first-generation wall component and construction details (see below)

EFFECTIVE SUSTAINABLE AND OPEN SOURCE SOLUTIONS HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY: @8:54

• Ashwin Patil completed his 2nd week of helping with the new web design (see below)
• Sergiy Chernyshov helped us by proofreading and editing the One Community open source page written in Russian (see below)

EFFECTIVE  SUSTAINABLE AND OPEN SOURCE SOLUTIONS SUMMARY: @9:26

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Effective Sustainable and Open Source Solutions

EFFECTIVE SUSTAINABLE AND OPEN SOURCE SOLUTIONS HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

One Community is creating effective sustainable and open source solutions 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
      

As part of creating effective sustainable and open source solutions this last week the core team transferred the final 25% of the written content for the Personal Growth Lesson Plan to the website, as you see here. This lesson plan purposed to teach all subjects, to all learning levels, in any learning environment, using the central theme of “Personal Growth” is now 100% completed on our website:

Effective Sustainable and Open Source Solutions – Personal Growth Lesson Plan ” Complete

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

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

Effective Sustainable and Open Source Solutions – Beliefs Mindmap ” Complete ” Click to Visit Page

EFFECTIVE SUSTAINABLE AND OPEN SOURCE SOLUTIONS HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

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

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

As part of creating effective sustainable and open source solutions this week, the core team created templates for images linking to downloadable files and specific images for our Transition Kitchen page. You can see images of that work here:

Created Templates for Images Linking to Downloadable Files – Click for Transition Kitchen Page

EFFECTIVE SUSTAINABLE AND OPEN SOURCE SOLUTIONS HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

One Community is creating effective sustainable and open source solutions 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

Effective Sustainable and Open Source Solutions – Continued Revisions of Upcoming 7 Villages Online

Shilcy Augustine (Architect) continued her 2nd week of helping us merge all our Earthbag Village files. This week’s focus was on altering the dimensions and text scales so that they can be readable in the sheet format and bringing the dimensions into one layer.

Effective Sustainable and Open Source Solutions – Continued Merging Our Earthbag Village Files

Also working on the Earthbag Village, Fernando Remolina (Industrial Engineer specializing in Project Management) assumed management of the Vermiculture Bathroom development. What you see here are his first two weeks of outlining the project and all steps for completion.

Assumed Management of Vermiculture Bathroom Development – Click for Page

Straw Bale Village Renders for the Central Fireplace with a Chimney – Click to Visit Page

Dean Scholz (Architectural Designer), further developed what’s necessary for us to create quality Cob Village (Pod 3) renders. Here is update 39 of his work continuing to work on external details:

Further Developed What’s Necessary to Create Quality Cob Village Renders ” Click to Visit Page

…and providing this final render of the external view looking East:

Effective Sustainable and Open Source Solutions – Final Render of the External View Looking East

… and this final view of the front of the village:

Effective Sustainable and Open Source Solutions – Final Render of Front View – Click to Visit

Hamilton Mateca (AutoCAD and Revit Drafter and Designer) also finished his 12th week helping evolve the Compressed Earth Block Village (Pod 4). This week’s focus was developing the Southwest-residence layout, elevation, and 3D details in Revit, as you can see here.

Continued Evolving the Compressed Earth Block Village ” Click to Visit Page

Guy Grossfeld (Graphic Designer) also continued 3D creation of the specific blocks that will be used for the Compressed Earth Block Village (Pod 4). What you see here is his 7th week of this work that included continued revisions for his first 3D earth block bench:

Continued Creation of Blocks in 3D for Compressed Earth Block Village ” Click to Visit Page

Continued Work on Compressed Earth Block Village External Elements – Click to Visit Page

Yee-Cheng Ho (Interior Designer) also finished her 4th week of helping by creating these new 1st-generation views of the Shipping Container Village (Pod 5) Unit Type 2 as they are planned for in the village (left), and this view of how these will be able to be open sourced as a 2-bedroom home option too (right).

Created New 1st-Generation Views of the Shipping Container Village – Click to Visit Page

Jiming Chen (Designer with his Master’s in Architecture and BA in Engineering) also continued helping develop the Tree House Village (Pod 7). What you see here is his 2nd week of this work focusing on developing the complete layout of this village to better determine the walkway layouts and where the fire escapes should best be placed.

Effective Sustainable and Open Source Solutions – Continued Developing the Tree House Village

Zachary Melin (Graphic Designer) also continued updating the Tree House Village (Pod 7) book created by last year’s intern Team. What you see here is week 10 of this work including 2 updated pages and the before-and-after graphics created for one of them.

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

EFFECTIVE SUSTAINABLE AND OPEN SOURCE SOLUTIONS DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

One Community is creating effective sustainable and open source solutions 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

As part of creating effective sustainable and open source solutions this week the core team finished 3D layout updates for the Restroom in the Dining Dome of the Duplicable City Center, moving the urinal, towel holder, and trashcan as we adjusted for better plumbing positions.

Continued Working on Restroom in Dining Dome ” Click for Duplicable City Center

We also continued developing the aesthetic details around the natural pool in the Social Dome. We added a waterfall to each side of the pool with adjacent sitting spaces, lighting adjustments to highlight the waterfalls, and added plants between the rocks.

Continued Working on Aesthetics for Natural Pool in the Social Dome ” Click for Page

Iris Hsu, (Industrial Designer), continued render-testing the recycled pipe shelving for the Duplicable City Center library. What you see here is round #21 of her work. This week’s focus was color and texture render-testing the floor and beginning final renders with people added to them:

Continued Render-Testing the Recycled Pipe Shelving for Duplicable City Center Library

Here is the final color set that we chose:

Final Color Set Chosen in Render-Testing the Recycled Pipe Shelving – Click to Visit Page

Haoxuan “Hayes” Lei (Structural Engineer) and Shuna Ni (Masters of Mechanical Engineering and Civil Engineering PhD) continued their work on the City Center column placement and calculations. What you see here are updated beam layouts for all the floors and some images showing most current steel pipe sizing details for the domes themselves.

Continued Work on the City Center Column Placement and Calculations ” Click to Visit Page

Neha Verma (Construction Project Manager and Bachelor’s of Architecture), also helped create these first-generation wall-section details drawings.

Created First-Generation Wall-Section Details Drawings – Click to Visit City Center

Jinxi Feng (Environmental Consultant) also continued her research helping us create an in-depth laundry and dryer machine sustainability analysis. What you see here is her 6th week of behind-the-scenes research into this area, along with the spreadsheets she is using to organize her data for professional presentation.

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

Ricardo Carrillo (Design Consultant and Principal of Acumen Industries) also helped provide these first-generation wall component and construction details:

Helped Provide First-Generation Wall Component and Construction Details – Click to Visit

EFFECTIVE SUSTAINABLE AND OPEN SOURCE SOLUTIONS HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS

One Community is creating effective sustainable and open source solutions 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

As part of effective creating sustainable and open source solutions this week, Ashwin Patil (Web Developer) completed his 2nd week of helping with the new web design. This week’s focus was adding all the Earthbag Village links, icons, and a new mouseover affect to the filter that will allow for easy navigation from any page to any other page within the new site.

Effective Sustainable and Open Source Solutions – Continued Helping with the New Web Design

Sergiy Chernyshov, (Founder of Enebra.org) and a native of Russia, also helped us by proofreading and editing the One Community open source page written in Russian. You can see some of this work here:

Proofread and Edited Open Source Page Written in Russian – Click to Visit Page

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WHY OPEN SOURCE

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

Every aspect of this model supports itself and contributes to its success, from the sustainable food, energy, and homes, to the social architecture, One Community Education Program, and open source sharing model itself. Each piece can be accessed, evolved, and even re-birthed as something completely new. It can be duplicated by itself or with other modules, with applications as diverse as the people who want and need them. The constantly expanding total model will additionally be able to be used in its entirety as the open source project-launch blueprint for a variety of duplicate teacher/demonstration communities, villages, and cities capable of being built virtually anywhere.

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

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

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. We will model these within a comprehensive “village/city” which will be built in the southwestern U.S. This teacher/demonstration hub will be a place people can experience a new way of living and then replicate it with our open source blueprints: creating a model solution that creates additional solution-creating models.

One Community is an all-volunteer nonprofit building a global collaboration for The Highest Good of all people and life on our planet through 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.

• Here’s our project overview
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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 October 9th, 2016 edition (#185) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments  on building a global collaboration:

Building a Global Collaboration
One Community Progress Update #185

Here is the bullet-point list of this last week’s design and progress discussed in detail in the video above focused on advancing our goals in building a global collaboration:

BUILDING A GLOBAL COLLABORATION INTRO:@1:03

BUILDING A GLOBAL COLLABORATION HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION: @1:58

• Transferred the first 25% of written content for the Individuality Lesson Plan to the website (see below)
• Behind the scenes, we wrote the final 25% of the written part of the Personal Growth Lesson Plan.
• Completed third 25% of the mindmap for Beliefs Lesson Plan, bringing it to 75% complete (see below)

BUILDING A GLOBAL COLLABORATION HIGHEST GOOD FOOD: @2:51

• Added links to download files for the Transition Kitchen and finished correcting the centering and code issues on the page (see below)

BUILDING A GLOBAL COLLABORATION HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING: @3:17

• Continued with layers of revisions for the upcoming 7 villages online book (see below)
• Merged all of our most current Earthbag Village files and created a list of revisions needed for Shilcy Augustine to help us with (see below)
• Dean Scholz further developed what’s necessary for us to create quality Cob Village renders (see below)
• Hamilton Mateca finished his 11th week helping evolve the Compressed Earth Block Village in AutoCAD and Revit (see below)
• Guy Grossfeld continued 3D creation of the specific blocks that will be used for the Compressed Earth Block Village (see below)
• Aparna Tandon joined the team working on the Compressed Earth Block Village (see below)
• Yee-Cheng Ho finished creating the new exploded views for Recycled Materials Village and Shipping Container Village (see below)

BUILDING A  GLOBAL COLLABORATION DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER: @5:22

• Continued working on the Dining Dome of the Duplicable City Center (see below)
• Continued developing the aesthetic details around the natural pool in the Social Dome (see below)
• Iris Hsu continued render-testing the recycled pipe shelving for the Duplicable City Center library (see below)
• Haoxuan “Hayes” Lei and Shuna Ni continued work on the City Center column placement and calculations (see below)
• Jinxi Feng continued research helping us create an in-depth laundry and dryer machine sustainability analysis (see below)

BUILDING A  GLOBAL COLLABORATION HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY: @6:57

• Ashwin Patil joined the team and began helping with what will be our new web design (see below)
• Vassili Biserov helped us translate our Solution Model to Create Solution Models page into Italian (see below)

BUILDING A  GLOBAL COLLABORATION SUMMARY: @7:22

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BUILDING A  GLOBAL COLLABORATION HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

One Community is building a global collaboration 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
      

As part of building a global collaboration this last week the core team transferred the first 25% of the written content for the Individuality Lesson Plan to the website, as you see here. This lesson plan is purposed to teach all subjects, to all learning levels, in any learning environment, using the central theme of “Individuality”.

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

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

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

Beliefs Mindmap ” 75% Complete ” Click to Visit Page

BUILDING A  GLOBAL COLLABORATION HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

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

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

As part of building a global collaboration this week, the core team added links to download files for the Transition Kitchen and finished correcting the centering and code issues on the page. You can see images of that work here:

Added Links to Download Files for the Transition Kitchen – Click to Visit Page

BUILDING A  GLOBAL COLLABORATION HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

One Community is building a global collaboration 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

Continued Revisions of Upcoming 7 Villages Online Book ” Click to Visit Page

The core team also merged all of our most current Earthbag Village files and created a list of revisions needed for Shilcy Augustine (Architect) to help us with. You can see some of this work here:

Merged Current Earthbag Village Files and Created a List of Revisions Needed – Click to Visit Page

Dean Scholz (Architectural Designer), further developed what’s necessary for us to create quality Cob Village (Pod 3) renders. Here is update 38 of his work that provided the final full-quality render for this Village so we could update the site with all the images you see here:

Further Developed What’s Necessary to Create Quality Cob Village Renders ” Click to Visit Page

Hamilton Mateca (AutoCAD and Revit Drafter and Designer) also finished his 11th week helping evolve the Compressed Earth Block Village (Pod 4) in AutoCAD and Revit. This week’s focus in AutoCAD was finishing the roof and dining area furniture details and final elevator-related revisions. In Revit the focus was on 3D external details and the internal stairways.

Continued Evolving the Compressed Earth Block Village ” Click to Visit Page

Guy Grossfeld (Graphic Designer) also continued 3D creation of the specific blocks that will be used for the Compressed Earth Block Village (Pod 4). What you see here is his 6th week of this work that also included building our first 3D earth block bench:

Continued Creation of Blocks in 3D for Compressed Earth Block Village ” Click to Visit Page

Began Outlining Landscaping and Earth Block External Spaces – Click to Visit Page

And finally, Yee-Cheng Ho (Interior Designer) finished creating the new exploded views shown here for the Recycled Materials Village (Pod 6):

Finished Creating Recycled Materials Village Exploded Views – Click to Visit Page

…..and the Shipping Container Village (Pod 5):

Finished Creating Shipping Container Village Exploded Views – Click to Visit Page

BUILDING A  GLOBAL COLLABORATION DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

One Community is building a global collaboration 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

As part of building a global collaboration this week the core team continued working on the Dining Dome of the Duplicable City Center. We made additional changes to the walls of the dry storage and restroom that are located above the basement staircase.

Continued Working on Dining Dome of the Duplicable City Center – Click to Visit Page

And we also continued developing the aesthetic details around the natural pool in the Social Dome, including updating the walls of the pool with natural rocks, and placing benches around the trees.

Continued Working on Aesthetics for Natural Pool in the Social Dome – Click for Page

Iris Hsu, (Industrial Designer), continued render-testing the recycled pipe shelving for the Duplicable City Center library. What you see here is round #20 of her work. This week’s focus was colorization of the book elements and testing different art and floor color options.

Continued Render-Testing Recycled Pipe Shelving for D.C.C Library ” Click for the Pipe Furniture Page

Haoxuan “Hayes” Lei (Structural Engineer) and Shuna Ni (Masters of Mechanical Engineering and Civil Engineering PhD) continued their work on the City Center column placement and calculations. What you see here are completed beam calculations for the 2nd floor and the results of assessing what beams we need to strengthen in the domes to support the 4th floor cupola walkways:

Continued Work on the City Center Column Placement and Calculations ” Click to Visit Page

Jinxi Feng (Environmental Consultant) also continued her research helping us create an in-depth laundry and dryer machine sustainability analysis. What you see here is her 5th week of behind-the-scenes research into this area.

Continued Research for in-Depth Laundry and Dryer Machine Sustainability Analysis ” Click for Page

BUILDING A GLOBAL COLLABORATION HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS

One Community is building a global collaboration 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

Ashwin Patil (Web Developer) joined the team and began helping with what will be our new web design. Here is his first week’s contribution, the beginnings of a filter design for more easily finding information on the new site:

Began Helping with Our New Web Design ” Click for Our Homepage

Vassili Biserov (Writer, Poet, and Professional Translator) also helped us translate our Solution Model to Create Solution Models page into Italian, as you can see here:

Translated our Solution Model to Create Solution Models Page into Italian – 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. 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 OPEN SOURCE

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

Every aspect of this model supports itself and contributes to its success, from the sustainable food, energy, and homes, to the social architecture, One Community Education Program, and open source sharing model itself. Each piece can be accessed, evolved, and even re-birthed as something completely new. It can be duplicated by itself or with other modules, with applications as diverse as the people who want and need them. The constantly expanding total model will additionally be able to be used in its entirety as the open source project-launch blueprint for a variety of duplicate teacher/demonstration communities, villages, and cities capable of being built virtually anywhere.

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

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

SUMMARY – BUILDING A GLOBAL COLLABORATION

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